M.M. Hattab is UK-based and writes on books, film and TV: her work has appeared in PopMatters, The Mary Sue, Xenith, and Dark Paradigm, among others.
Got your Halloween party costume sorted yet? Maybe you’ve had something in the works from the end of August. Maybe you’ve had it all planned from the moment over-sweetened PSLs, scarves, turning leaves, and endless memes on the same appear on our horizons and screens.
If not, no excuses for your witch and black-cat basics – here at BookScouter HQ, we’d like to think you can do a little better. Don’t believe us? We come to the rescue with 10 curated and fabulous picks from YA and classic lit:
If haunting from home is more your speed than trick or treating, don’t despair. Halloween chills come in many different shades here at BookScouter HQ: feeling a little gothic, a little sleek, sexy undead, or even some hell-is-other-people horror? There’s a book for that! Here you’ll find our picks to keep you up past the witching hour…
No sooner does July throw on her bikini and head for warmer temperatures do the ‘Beach Read’ lists emerge. Romance and tropical escapes are perfect for suitcase and sun-lounger. But what if you need a little darkness in your seasonal reading? Or a sprinkling of old-Hollywood glamour?
Here is the review of the “Nick and Charlie” book BookTok is currently obsessed with. The book pretends to be the best #BookTok Romance book.
The content is provided by M.M. Hattab, one of the BookScouter blog contributors.
Though Alice Oseman’s latest novella is the very definition of ‘fan-service’ in many ways and may not satisfy non-fans as a stand-alone work, it still has enough weight to get a very much not-teenage and extremely cynical reader invested in its central teenage couple and their future.
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