Something is wrong, however, as Hal’s own grandparents have been dead for twenty years. The Death of Mrs Westaway follows Hal Westaway who receives a letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance upon the death of the elderly Mrs Westaway. As she’s very experienced in reading thrillers in particular and the narrative sounded intriguing I decided that this would be a good place to start. Lala rated The Death of Mrs Westaway four stars and I remember liking the sound of the narrative whilst watching her reading experience in a vlog. However, when I went through my general ‘want to read’ section of Goodreads I found a host recommendation and after reading the blurb I thought it would be perfect. I must admit despite always being willing to read a thriller it was difficult to pick just one out of the blue for the first challenge. To read something you wouldn’t normally read.To read a book with a spooky word in the title.

So, the reading challenges set out in Lala’s video are: Old habits from reading for my degree are dying hard. Some readers choose not to set a strict TBR before the readathon and let their mood take them but the organisational side of my brain just couldn’t resist the idea of lists and sorting out books to be read within the time allowed. In this first blog I’ll be going through my TBR pile and explaining just how they fit the challenges and why I’ve chosen them. I won’t be vlogging the readathon but I will be doing blog posts to review each book or catalogue any thoughts I have but you can find my live and creative thoughts throughout the week over on my Instagram. You can keep up with the content created for Spookathon by using the hashtag on Instagram or by visiting on Twitter. It will be running from the 14th of October to the 20th of October. This is one of the more casual readathons with five reading challenges and maybe some on Instagram but not too many requirements for books to fulfil those challenges. The Spookathon announcement went up earlier today and you can watch it below.

The death of mrs westaway synopsis