October ScaredyKIT - Tricks, not treats

This month is all about books that trick you in some manner. It could be the way Hansel and Gretel trick the witch or how an author tricks the reader with a surprise ending like The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Who saw that coming?
It could be characters who trick innocent children like It and NOS4A2, creatures like Dracula and other vampires who use ruses to draw you in, or just authors like Stephen King and Gillian Flynn who trick you with every book they write.
Any book, as long as it "tricked" you into finishing it.
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I have decided to read The Suicide Motor Club by Christopher Buehlman for this. Vampire gangs who cause car crashes so they can drink the blood of the victims - sounds like quite the trick!

Ha! Many books trick me into reading them!

Holly Gibney and a harmless nice old couple - only one of the three properties is correct.
The two trick people into their control for their dark purposes.
And the author Stephen King also fits the definition.
As a final trick, I read it back in September.

>4 SirThomas: A Hat trick. Well played.

I read a haunted house story on Kindle Unlimited that would fit this category. The Endless House. A very good quick read of 42 pages.

I think the book I started last night (Another Little Piece) would actually be a perfect fit for this lol, but I don't think I'll still be reading it in October!

So...while at first I was kind of befuddled on how to figure out what to read from my TBR, it then occurred to me that I've been looking forward to getting back to Catriona Ward after reading The Last House on Needless Street, and I've got her other works sitting her waiting. Everything I've heard is that she pulls tricks in her other books like those in Last House--which I adored even though I usually HATE it when I feel like an author has been playing tricks instead of telling a story more naturally, but she just pulled it off so beautifully! So, I'll be reading one of her other works--probably Looking Glass Sound.

>7 whitewavedarling: Ooh, great idea! I have Little Eve here and reviews have said that it is confusing and many readers end up DNFing - but stick with it and it will all come together in a toe curling ending.

I think The Visitors by Catherine Burns fits this theme perfectly. Told by timid, lonely Marion, an unreliable narrator who believes she's good and honest. She tells the reader about her unhappy life sharing her childhood home with her domineering brother. While Marion gains the reader's pity, she also blocks out the screams coming from the cellar.

I finished The Halloween Moon by Joseph Fink. It's a spooky middle grade tale about an endless Halloween night.
I'm unable to post to the wiki. I tried multiple times.

I have completed the vampire story, The Suicide Motor Club by Christopher Buehlman.

>10 VioletBramble: I've given up on wikis. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. I've wasted a lot of time trying.

Not meant to be scary in the usual sense, but this is no treat: The Dead Pass by Colin Bateman
Private detective Dan Starkey has taken on a new case to find the missing son of a political activist. In Northern Ireland, anything political is bound to involve some "tricks" and this one didn't disappoint. Dan risks his well-being when he finds himself searching on the other, unfamiliar side of the fence, as well as being deep in the sex trade. Ribald, and filled with typical Ulster humour. His searching is so inept that at one point police suspect him of murder. I have a hunch that one of the most villainous characters is a parody of a well-known politician who will remain unnamed. Although this is darker than usual for Bateman, I had many laugh-out-loud moments, helped by the excellent audio narration. Not for anyone easily offended.

That sounds very readable, I will keep an eye out for it.
However, I think the touchstone is pointing to the wrong book.

I read The Slither Sisters, book two of the Lovecraft Middle School series. Twin sisters who went missing return, but just of few of the students recognize that they've changed.

>14 SirThomas: Thank you.

Missing You / Harlan Coben
4 stars

Kat is a police officer. 18 years earlier, not only was her (also police officer) father murdered, her fiance, Jeff, dumped her and she hasn’t seen him since. But she is still in love with him. Imagine her surprise when a friend insists on putting her on a dating site and there is Jeff! She is cryptic when she sends a message and the reply makes it seem like he has no idea who she is.

Meanwhile, a teenaged (?) boy comes to Kat; he thinks his mother is missing, and it’s suspicious. Even though his mother told him she was meeting a man she was dating. The other police Brandon had gone to didn’t believe him, so why is he coming to Kat and why does he think she’ll believe him?

There were a lot of different storylines happening in this book, but I found them all interesting. They did all come together at the end. There were times when we followed the POV of “bad guys” and I often find those parts in many books boring, or at least not nearly as interesting as the rest, but that wasn’t the case with this one. Not sure why that was. Maybe the dog helped! :-)