My October Book of the Month Pick

Book of the Month is a subscription book box that allows you to get hardcover books at a super reasonable price. The books are also usually early releases so you can read them before the general public!

Each month, you get one credit with your subscription to choose one of usually six books that BOTM has curated. They choose several different genres for readers to pick from. Then you also can get up to 2-4 add ons depending on your status. The add on books are only 10.99 for hardcovers!

This month the BOTM choices were Wellness by Nathan Hill, Starling House by Alix E. Harrow, The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok, The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis, When I’m Dead by Hannah Morrissey, and The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young.

My BOTM pick this month was When I’m Dead. I also got The Unmaking of June Farrow as an add on!

When I’m Dead by Hannah Morrissey - 4.05 Goodreads Rating

Summary: One girl murdered. Another one missing. And a medical examiner desperate to uncover the truth in the latest Black Harbor mystery by acclaimed author Hannah Morrissey.

On a bone-chilling October night, Medical Examiner Rowan Winthorp investigates the death of her daughter’s best friend. Hours later, the tragedy hits even closer to home when she makes a devastating discovery—her daughter, Chloe, is gone. But, not without a trace.

A morbid mosaic of clues forces Rowan and her husband to question how deeply they really knew their daughter. As they work closely to peel back the layers of this case, they begin to unearth disturbing details about Chloe and her secret transgressions…details that threaten to tear them apart.

Amidst the noise of navigating her newfound grief and reconciling the sins of her past, an undeniable fact rings true for Rowan: karma has finally come to collect.

The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young - 4.56 Goodreads Rating

Summary: A woman risks everything to end her family’s centuries-old curse, solve her mother’s disappearance, and find love in this mesmerizing novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Spells for Forgetting.

In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm—and the mysterious curse that has plagued their family line. The whole town remembers the madness that led to Susanna Farrow’s disappearance, leaving June to be raised by her grandmother and haunted by rumors.

It’s been a year since June started seeing and hearing things that weren’t there. Faint wind chimes, a voice calling her name, and a mysterious door appearing out of nowhere—the signs of what June always knew was coming. But June is determined to end the curse once and for all, even if she must sacrifice finding love and having a family of her own.

After her grandmother’s death, June discovers a series of cryptic clues regarding her mother’sdecades-old disappearance, except they only lead to more questions. But could the door she once assumed was a hallucination be the answer she’s been searching for? The next time it appears, June realizes she can touch it and walk past the threshold. And when she does, she embarks on a journey that will not only change both the past and the future, but also uncover the lingering mysteries of her small town and entangle her heart in an epic star-crossed love.

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