Weekend Reads: The Miseducation of Cameron Post & Home Before Dark by Riley Sager.

Hello! 

Do weekends really even matter anymore? 

I woke up yesterday convinced it was Saturday, only to find out it was only Friday. 

Eh.

Life lately..I guess. 

I had a very slow reading month in June, so in July all I want to do is read. 

Reading has been slow all lockdown long, which is sad because I thought all I'd do is read. But I've had a hard time focussing on things, especially books. I am doing better re-reading old favourites or watching films or TV shows. 

I started July with two books that I am so excited to be reading. 

So let's talk about that...

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth: I started reading this on the last day of June, a way to end Pride Month by reading a book about a young girl in Montana, who is sent to a camp specialising in Conversion Therapy. A girl dealing with not just the loss of her parents, but also trying to figure out her sexuality and how she can be true to herself in a world that wants her to be something else. I am a little bit in..like 75 odd pages and I see why people love this book so much and why it comes with such high praise. It's moving, beautiful and important. A book perfect for Pride Month or otherwise. 

Once I finish the book, I am curious to check out the film adaptation too. 

I did however take a break from it because one of my most anticipated books of the year released on July 1st and I absolutely haddddddd to read it. 

Home Before Dark by Riley Sager: Oh my God!!! 

Amityville meets family secrets and ghosts and spooks! 

Hit Me Up! 

I've wanted to read this book since I first heard about it a couple of months ago. 

I have read everything Riley Sager has ever written and 2/3 of his books made me all kinds of happy. 

Final Girls, his first book, wasn't my favourite. It is also one I read last. 

Lock Every Door is brilliant and I remember reading it in one sitting and being utterly unable to put it down. 

I reviewed it HERE. 

The Last Time I Lied was amazing too. Camp, friendships and secrets and good twists. 

Seriously, I cannot recommend them enough. So obviously, I absolutely had to read this book too. 

I reviewed this one too, you can find it HERE. 

Plot Summary: What was it like? Living in that house.

Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity—and skepticism. 

Today, Maggie is a restorer of old homes and too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her father's book. But she also doesn’t believe a word of it. Ghosts, after all, don’t exist. When Maggie inherits Baneberry Hall after her father's death, she returns to renovate the place to prepare it for sale. But her homecoming is anything but warm. People from the past, chronicled in House of Horrors, lurk in the shadows. And locals aren’t thrilled that their small town has been made infamous thanks to Maggie’s father. Even more unnerving is Baneberry Hall itself—a place filled with relics from another era that hint at a history of dark deeds. As Maggie experiences strange occurrences straight out of her father’s book, she starts to believe that what he wrote was more fact than fiction. 

Alternating between Maggie’s uneasy homecoming and chapters from her father’s book, Home Before Dark is the story of a house with long-buried secrets and a woman’s quest to uncover them—even if the truth is far more terrifying than any haunting.

Doesn't it sound amazing?! 

My sister and I are buddy reading it and we are both completely invested in this world and it's people. 

The book is fast paced, scary enough and slips easily between the past and present. 

It is also perfect reading material for this rainy weekend. 

And even though, I am pretty sure I might have guessed the twist in the book..I am still enjoying the ride. 

What are you reading this weekend? 

Happy Reading Guys. 

Hope this weekend is a good one. 

:)