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Book Review | Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis

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**Disclaimer: I received a free advanced reader’s copy of Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for this opportunity.

Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis is a stand-alone novel. It’s classified as a young adult horror novel and deals with some rather sensitive topics, so readers beware. It’s about a girl named Lola who is learning more about her family history in a rather spooky small town. Harrow Lake, according to NetGalley, is set to be published on August 25th, 2020. I gave it five stars on Goodreads.

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Ashley’s May Wrap Up

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May marked another month of me working from home, so it meant that I listened to a lot of audiobooks again.  However, I also got to read some physical books, and I checked some of the beefier reads off my TBR.  Overall, it was a really good reading month and I felt like I really enjoyed a lot of the things that I read.  Everything that I read can be found below the cut!

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Ashley’s April Wrap Up

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This was a crazy reading month for me.  I felt really slumpy back in March and then had to transition into working from home.  I expected that I wouldn’t really get a lot of reading done this month despite participating in both the OWLs Magical Readathon and our Loyal Book-a-Thon.  I figured I’d read those, and that would be about it.  However, I ended up getting through a lot of books and finished off both readathons pretty early in the month.  Working from home meant that I could listen to audiobooks while working, and it’s made me a lot more efficient reader.  So I’m pretty proud of the fact that in April I read 34 books/novellas.  You’ll find everything I read below the cut. 🙂

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Ashley’s February Wrap Up

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February was a weird reading month for me.  I had several things on my TBR that I really wanted to get to, but I didn’t get to most of it.  Without officially saying it, I kind of threw my TBR out the window.  I finished some things I started in January, but anything physical that I started in February that wasn’t a graphic novel was pretty much a no go.  I was definitely feeling slumpy, despite the fact that I read 19 things.  Most of what I read were audiobooks and graphic novels.  That’s not a bad thing, but it’s not really a great thing either.  I need to work on my physical TBR some more, but that’s probably a next month kind of thing.  However, without further ado, you’ll find everything I read below the cut.

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Ashley’s December Wrap Up

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How is it the end of the year already? I can’t believe we’re about to start a brand new decade. This past month I read 18 books, which is pretty exciting because I officially beat my record of books read this year by reading 235! I also participated in the winter session of the Magical Readathon, which was definitely fun. I have a few books at the beginning of January to finish it up. You’ll find everything I read this month below the cut.

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