Mr. October

by Bethany Weaver

Halloween has come early in this steamy, friends to lovers, teacher/teacher romance filled with secret pining, fun hijinks, and quirky small-town feels.

Sabrina is no stranger to the Halloween pranks played around Grimsby, Indiana in the month of October. In fact, she is the recipient of nearly all of them. Usually, she would laugh it off and spend the rest of month looking over her shoulder anxiously awaiting the next scare. But not this year. She’s ready to fight prank with prank…starting with her best friend and Grimsby High’s favorite history teacher: Mr. October.

Genres: Romance, Halloween, Friends To Lovers, Novella, Holiday, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance

80 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 13, 2022

About the author

Bethany Weaver embarked on her writing journey way too early in life, penning alien smut that would make E.T. blush. Now, she dabbles in both contemporary and paranormal romances, keeping the literary scales perfectly aligned.

When she's not concocting love stories, you can find her being a mom of three, juggling the chaos. But that's not all—she's also the undisputed queen of literary badassery as the head honcho over at Weaver Literary.

Website: www.authorbethanyweaver.com

IG: www.instagram.com/betweave/

Facebook: Bethany Weaver Reader Group

Reviews

[Alana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute but kind of wish it was longer so we could get more cozy Halloween vibes.

[Shannon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sometimes you just want a quick, feel-good snack of a story and this dual POV, small town, teacher/teacher romance completely fit the bill for me. I love a good friends to lovers, mutual pining story. Add in lots of Halloween pranks and a steamy scene and I'm sold. Much thanks to the author for an early digital copy of her new novella. I can't wait to see what's next from this to new to me indie romance author!

[scar! . *. ⋆ (Johnny kavanaghs version) · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5★

I did want to wait for October to start this but it was just staring at me in my kindle library sooooo. I have no regrets. This was so cute and it was such a fun read!! I loved it so much and now I want autumn even more.

[Lex B · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vibe: 🍭🎃👻💀🍂🏫👩🏼‍🏫
Spice: 🌶️/5
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Stop this is so cute. I’m not usually a friends to lover girly but I love this!! Literally from the prologue I was hooked.
So many books market themselves as being cozy fall/halloween but this one actually is and I love it.
For being a very short novella, I feel like this was super well written and such a fun read. Perfect for spooky season. My number one complaint is that it’s not long enough!!

[Erika · Rating 3 out of 5]

Estuvo lindo 🥰

[Bianca Dyer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lectura 2022

3.5⭐️

Fue una lectura entretenida y me gustó lástima que es tan cortita. A pesar de lo poco que se muestra de los personajes me gustaron ambos protagonistas y disfruté la dinámica de Halloween y las bromas.

[Melanie THEE Reader · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was cute and way too short but if my friends and colleagues thought it would be funny to prank me the entire month of October because they enjoyed seeing me scared....Well, the last ten pages of this novella would be me cussing these folks out and I'm not even joking.

[Grecia Robles · Rating 3 out of 5]

Historia cortita friends to lovers ambientada en Halloween, estuvo muy cute.

[Fanny · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mr October era el tipo de lectura que he estado buscando. Ambientada en Halloween de verdad, no como otros libros que he visto, que solo usan la excusa de Halloween para tener un millon de escenas torridas entre los protagonistas.

Esta lectura es graciosa y sin complicaciones, no es nada especial realmente, pero me parecio simpatica. La recomiendo.

2 Estrellas!

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

For being a really short novella, I was quite surprised to actually quite enjoyed it!
I liked the plot and characters, and that last chapter was hot!
My only dislike was how Adam came out with questioning the relationship on the ferris wheel, seemed very juvenile..

[Onna DeRenzo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute short story!!! Wish there was more 😩😍

[Literature with Lindsey 📚✨ · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.75/5⭐️

This was a super quick, feel good read for fall. I just felt like something was missing and that the end wrapped up too quickly. I still thought it was super cute and a great novella option for someone who likes light and fluffy books for fall instead of dark. There’s a tiny bit of spice in the last chapter but nothing too crazy. The chapter art was super cute!

-teacher FMC + MMC
-best friends to lovers
-fall festival
-spooky pranks

[bookswithanna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute Romance mit etwas Halloween Bezug. Richtige Fall Vibes kamen trotzdem nicht wirklich auf.
Beide Charaktere waren eigentlich für eine so kurze Story genau richtig ausgearbeitet und vom Charakter her "tief" genug, ohne, dass es kompliziert wird oder es große Erklärungen brauchte.
Das Ende kam doch sehr plötzlich irgendwie, ich glaube dem buch hätten so 50 Seiten mehr ganz gut getan.

[Dani (Daniiireads) · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 ⭐️

Tropes:
- best friends to lovers
- small town Romance

Mr. October was such a cute little Halloween novella! Super cozy and sweet with a little spice thrown in!

[anita · Rating 3 out of 5]

que conto mais querido!!!! adorei essa vibe de halloween e eles serem amigos desde a infância, tendo acertado muito no quesito de friends to lovers, que é uma das minhas tropes favoritas.

genuinamente muito apaixonada em cada momentos deles e de como os dois sempre tiveram um desejo muito maior do que um amigo poderia nutrir pelo outro, desde quando se conheceram.

eu te amo, adam, e eu também te amo, brina. childhood to friends to lovers + it always been you = adam & sabrina!!! 🥹🩷🧸🎃

3.75, apenas porque queria que tivesse sido ainda maior.

[Valeria · Rating 3 out of 5]

Leí Mr. October, cuando ya pasamos octubre.

Es una lectura rápida, ligera y linda. Son dos amigos que siempre han estado enamorados del otro, pero jamás lo admitieron por miedo a que su amistad se acabe, es decir "La incertidumbre de los FRIENDS TO LOVERS" Aún así, siento que es una romcom para disfrutar, además es en época de Halloween y amo que ambos fueran equipo para hacer bromas.

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you aren’t into the dark romances this Halloween, I highly recommend Mr. October. It’s a fun filled rom com with a tiny bit of spice.

This is a really short novella, but you get so pulled into the story with the pranks, friends to lovers/teacher and teacher relationship and the cozy Halloween vibes it brings.

Not only is the interior formatting so freaking cute! This little prank war that goes on is very entertaining. It’s not something I have personally read before and thought it was unique especially for the Halloween season. I really enjoyed Bethany Weaver’s writing and look forward to reading more from her!

**ARC

[Mia · Rating 3 out of 5]

it was cute, but nothing special

[amy · Rating 2 out of 5]

super quick read (literally less than an hour) i didn’t realize how short this was when i started reading lol. this was a cute friends to lovers rom com but because it’s so short there’s just not much background on the main characters. i thought they were a little bland so i would’ve loved seeing more of them. some cute fall vibes

[valentina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Estuvo muy lindo, una lástima que fuese tan corto 🤧

[『Jackeline 』 · Rating 3 out of 5]

3/5 ⭐

Ta bueno para leerse algo en un ratito así de chill, aunque yo me tardé jadbksb maldito bloqueo

[Rachael · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was short and perfect for October!

💜 Childhood friends to lovers
🎃 Halloween festival
🖤 A lil spicy 🌶️
🍂 Cozy fall vibes

3.5 ⭐️

[Nandita · Rating 1 out of 5]

I think this book probably marks the end of my short books phase? Because yes, it only took me 20 minutes to read, but that was a very very painful 20 minutes
Also my 50th book of the year isn’t that exciting

[Jessi Dollard · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute little Halloween novella!

[Estrella · Rating 2 out of 5]

Una novelita corta qué se desarrolla en Halloween. Good feeling. Friends to lovers.

[Stephanie ☾ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Don't be fooled by the cutesy cover, this one has some steam! 🔥

This was a very cute, wholesome, short story about Adam and Sabrina becoming friends to lovers. They are both teachers at the same school and harbour a crush on each other.
One Halloween in midst of all the prank wars, this crush comes to light and they finally get together. I found myself really enjoying this and the spice was surprisingly quite good!

4 stars ✨

#2 book in my reviewing books slump

[Lopke · Rating 3 out of 5]

Re-read: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Sabrina and Adam are still incredibly adorable, but the pranks are a bit ridonkulous tbh. I'll forever be a sucker for friends to lovers - there's also one smexy scene that did not disappoint.

First Read: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Mr. October is a steamy, friends to lovers, teacher/teacher (short story) romance filled with secret pining, fun pranks, and quirky small-town Halloween vibes!

I rarely rate novella's more than 3 stars but my heart is just a complete sucker for a good friends to lovers romance :')

I just fell inlove with everything about this story! I adored Sabrina and Adam so so much! And their relationship, whether friendly or romantic, was just incredibly well written.
Would i have liked that it was maybe a bit longer?
Definitely.
But their story is perfect just the way it is, and I'm still content, and absolutely still inlove

If the author can provoke these intense feelings from me with a 15k word novella, i simply, and certainly cannot wait to read her future novels!

*𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘤 𝘪𝘯-𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸*

[Courtney JC · Rating 1 out of 5]

I wanted to give this 2 stars. It’s just okay, I didn’t at all care about the characters but I didn’t hate it. But then the amount of grammatical and spelling errors in the end made me feel like the author didn’t even bother reading it over. Very clear mistakes like no space between two different words. Writing “me teeth” instead of “my”, and then the SMALLEST blurb for the acknowledgment wasn’t even edited? “While there will are no stories planned for Grimsby, Indiana, there are plenty of full length novels coming to you in 2023”. It feels sloppy and/or lazy and really bothers me. Hopefully the author realizes this and makes improvements to the full length novels.

1.5 ⭐️

[пустунка · Rating 3 out of 5]

ну, це було мило. маленька гарненька новела. і в цьому поки єдиний плюс.

троп від друзів до коханців, який розтягнутий на довгі роки – мені не витягує. по суті вони могли бути щасливі ще років 10 добрячих назад, але кожен мовчить 🤷🏼‍♀. і тут показали маленьку частинку їхнього знайомства. і це справді було мило, як він її захищав ще маленьким хлопчиком. і показали вже доросле життя. і мені було мало цього, звісно, хотілося б дізнатися більше про героїв. кінець гарний і на тому добре.

3/5

[Lucy Easter · Rating 2 out of 5]

Okay, so that was definitely beyond cheesy. The premise of the novella was solid, and I think it has the bones to become a really good story. But at only about 70 pages, it was obviously rushed and awkward.

Also, and maybe this is just because I’ve never been in this situation, but the idea that they both secretly liked each other for twenty years without either of them realizing it feels pretty unrealistic. I mean, twenty years is a long time…

I was looking for a quick fall read, and technically this was that. But it barely touched on any fall vibes, which was a bit disappointing.