SCAVENGER HUNT picks what i read!🔎 will i find a five star?

Hello friends. Today we are doing a reading vlog slash reading challenge slash fun thing That I've always wanted to do which is scavenger hunt picks what I read. I'm so excited to do this Okay, I've always wanted to do this. I think Kayla from Books on the Isle created this. I've seen her do it a lot I've seen a lot of people do it Where I think Kayla created this list of like scavenger hunt prompts that take you from one book to another And at the end it's gonna pick a book for us to read and i'm nervous Because I have no idea what it's gonna pick obviously, that's the whole nature of the video but i've always been so jealous when i've seen people doing this and they're like Oh, it's so fun. What a fun way to pick books um Apprehensive nervous bit scared also weirdly calm perhaps on the verge of hysteria. That's what we're gonna be doing Shall we just get straight into it? I'm very excited And you know me I like putting my reading fate in everything else's hands, but mine The first prompt is I haven't looked at these pre and advanced But obviously i've seen them before grab your favorite book go to the acknowledgements and the first name You see find a book by an author with the same name. Okay for favorite book I'm gonna go with strange case the alchemist's daughter my favorite series Is the first one my favorite book in the series? I don't know but like I just love this series. Okay acknowledgements God, I feel so nervous guys. Should we like just do you want to go on a date? Should we not do this? That would still be nerve-wracking tell you what they okay i'm feeling weird right now I'm feeling like so weird Julia julia julia julia julia, I know julia Let me show you I should give you the the I first I thought the first name was pruitt and I was like pruitt But I don't know if you can see that julia pruitt brown I saw that before john I saw pruitt first And then it turns out her first name is julia So I know a julia that I know and love the writing retreat by julia bartz. I love it We all know that if you don't you're wrong. What's the next one pick something on the cover? And find another book with that thing in the title Trees trees and the trees crept in there's trees on the cover. I could go with snow But I can't think of a book That has snow in a title. So we'll go with trees and we'll go with and the trees crept in which I have somewhere I could have sworn that book was that where the fuck is on the trees? I'm getting to a point now where I have too many unread books on my tbr and I don't know where anything is Oh, there is a book that I really need to read. It's one of the books I I think you know i'm gonna love the most and I haven't read it's one of those ones That's like a five star that lasts on your tbr for like three years go to page 50 Line 5 pick a word from that line and find a title with that word. Okay Page 50 line 5 1 2 3 4 5 Um, so the the line is you ruined the game nori size then stomps away from so game Game, do I have something? Oh, I have the murder game, which I didn't like so it's hidden away the murder game by tom hindle sadly A uh one star for me this year. Let's not talk about it Sorry tom hindle Um, i'm sorry to this man find a five star read with the same colors on the cover Okay, so we've got blues and greens Doesn't have to have gold. I feel like gold's quite difficult. So anything that's like these blues and greens Um five star. Oh, hang on. Hang on. Hang on how similar Do we think those are? They're blue and gold and it's got the same like gold border I'm gonna go with that. I think that's close enough It's blue, even though this is more like a bluey green, but it's got the same gold border Which I thought would be too difficult. So actually i'm gonna go with that I feel like that's fair mysterious case of angels one of my five one of my few five stars from this year I've turned bitter and spiteful Don't even like myself. I love her if you want mixed media This is a great one to go with and I think it's a kind of janice had it that I could most widely recommend I feel like everyone would have a good time with this find a book with the same number of pages hint goodreads is your friend Okay, this has 413 Let me go get my laptop and screen record Yes, I know you can do this on your phone, but I just prefer how it's laid out on the laptop. Am I like is that very? Millennial i'm not a millennial. I'm a i'm a gen z on I don't know. Okay my books we can just sort all of my books Um, am I recording? Yes, I am settings number of pages And then we gotta sort it And then go to like where's where's what was it? 413. Yeah. Okay 460. There's a lot around this four. Okay. Hang on. Hang on. We we went too far Okay 16 16 16 15 13 the bullet that missed the only one has the same amount of pages the bullet that missed by richard Oh my god, we're having a good pool of books here apart from the murder game We already talked about that but all the books that I either really want to read or five stars again I mean, it's there's another card Okay, what was the next one for this flip over to any page first name you see find a book by an author She has a name. Fuck. It's all old people names. It's like joyce and elizabeth. I don't think I have any right Andrew, I don't think I have an andrew. In fact, i'm pretty sure I don't have a book by an andrew. No Okay, let's try again. I saw katherine next. They're talking about katherine howard Do I have anything by a katherine? I have katherine house by elizabeth thomas, but that's not right Okay, we've got to try again. This is gonna be this is not the book you want for this because it's gonna be joyce Uh donna, I don't have a donna. I don't have anything by a donna next page steven I don't think I have anything by a steven. Is there a single name in the first name? I can't find have an author Oh, wait, I have steven king, but do I own any steven kings? I don't own any. Oh, wait. No steven. Graham jones. I own only good indians. Okay. Okay. Okay, we can do this Everyone calm down. All right, next book the only good indians by steven. Graham jones Oh, what is the next prompt find another title with the same number of letters? Fuck you Right, one two, three, four, five six, seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen 18 letters in the title 18 letters are you tough enough for the job? No, I feel like 18 is a difficult middle This will be too much one two, three four, five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eight Yeah, that's like 24 man. He died one two, three, four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen It's like a difficult middle of the road length song of achilles one two, three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen SEVENTEEN! The Song of the Kidneys is 17! Okay, get a life Chloe Brown! 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18! Get a life Chloe Brown! Oh, my note's falling out of it. We did it! Okay, I'm so proud of us. We're doing really well. Find a book with a similar cover. Okay, I'm just gonna cheat and go take a hint Danny Brown. How many people were scared? Me too. I was really, really scared. It's raining books! Hallelujah, it's raining books! I'm cheating, but, like, it's the same series and they're designed the same. So, we're going to take a hint Danny Brown. Next prompt is, oh, we're getting near the end. Oh, my God, the next book is going to determine. Okay, flip to a ra- No, this is determining it! Oh, shit. Okay, flip to a random page. Okay, point out a word Point out a word and find that word and a book title on your TBR shelf. Okay, it's all come down to this. Jesus. Okie doke. And if we can't- If I don't- If I pick a word and we don't have a word with that on my TBR we'll try again, okay? Partner. I don't think I have a partner. We can check. We can use good old Goodreads. I don't think I have a book with partner. No, I don't have anything with partner. Let's try again. Brushed. No, I don't have anything like that. Next one. Ruin. I've read Ruin and Rising so thank God it can't be that. Anything else with ruin? I'm not counting a sum of Storms and Silence because that's not in the title. Natives, race and class in the Runes of Empire. Okay, no. Ho ho! Mourning. Mourning. I'm so mistrustful. Mourning. I don't think I have anything with mourning. Nope. Nope, nope, nope. Okay. Squeeze. I don't- I don't have anything with squeeze. Try again. Dolphin. I don't have anything with dolphin. Best. I feel like I'm gonna have a best. I feel like there's gonna be a best and I don't think it's gonna be a book I really wanna read. Best. It is a book I really wanna read. Oh my gosh, where is it? Oh my God. Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. Everyone calm down. Everyone calm down. We are gonna be reading My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix. You know what's the most exciting thing about winning? It's when you win. I love that feeling. We have had a great, like, trend of books throughout this. A lot of the books I picked up were five stars and this is a five star prediction. I am so excited. This is a horror where we're following these girlies and one of them gets like, possessed by a ghost and she has to have an exorcism. This is a five star prediction. I recently read Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, which is a 4.5. I feel like this is gonna be a five. I love the vibes of it. I love the cover. I love the back. I just love it. I think it's gonna be a five star. What a great pick. Oh my God, and perfect for this time of year. This is a perfect autumnal read. Okie dokie. Isn't that exciting? Okay, I am gonna go get started on My Best Friend's Exorcism. I'll check in with you when I'm a little bit of the way through, but this is a very exciting choice. Okay, guys. I'm a hundred pages into My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix. I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. I can't put it down. I'm obsessed. It's only taken me, like, an hour, maybe, to read those a hundred pages. I cannot put it down. I love it. I love it. I love it. It's so good. So all you need to know about this is we're following Abby and Gretchen, who are besties. They've been besties since childhood. In fact, the first, like, 40 pages are really going through, like, their friendship together when they're younger. And now they're teens and they're, like, part of a girl group, and they do acid one night. And they all think, like, the acid doesn't work. None of them really experience anything. But then Gretchen experiences, like, flashbacks and, like, visions throughout the next couple days. But only where I'm at, we're, like, two days out from this happening. And, like, weird stuff is happening to her. She's acting in a strange way. I'm not sure yet if, like, she is actually possessed by a ghost or some dark entity or, like, devil. Or if she's just, like, a teenage girl. But I'm loving it. The writing is just absolutely pulling me in. I was just on Patreon reading sprints as well. I'm at my desk. Hello, cats. There's some cats on my bed. I was on Patreon reading sprints and Jesse said that this is the most similar to a Southern Book Club's guide to slaying vampires from Grady Hendrix. Like, if you like one, you'll like the other. And I absolutely agree. That was a 4.5 for me. I think this could be a 5 star. I'm just eating up. There's something already so compelling about these characters and particularly their relationship and their, like, sisterhood that I just can't put it down. The writing is everything I love from Grady Hendrix. It's got that campness. It's got such a vivid picture of this time in history. You've already got really interesting interpersonal dynamics and character dynamics. We haven't even got into really any horror yet. We literally, in the last two pages, there's maybe been, like, an inkling of horror slash devilry to it. Let's just say the devil made me do it. But that's the first moment we've had of it. The rest has really been about their friendship and relationship and it's just read so quickly and I'm really rooting for them. Like, it says on the back, is their friendship power enough to beat the devil? God, I hope so. Because I'm just rooting for their relationship so much. You know, it's really, and I think that's really what the rest of the book is going to be about. It's got you so attached to them as a friendship that you just, like, I can't bear anything bad happening to them. I can't take it. I, like, refuse for that to happen because I just, yeah, I'm just really rooting for them. So I'm loving it. I don't have much to say to you because literally it's only just begun. I thought it, kind of, in those 40 pages, I mean, Grady Hendrix definitely writes women, I think, better than Riley Sager. No, no, no shame. Um. No, no, no shame. I've read so much about girlhood and, like, growing up and, like, weird dynamics that you have growing up and, like, those weird stages you go through as a young girl. It really, like, it really got them. So I'm loving it. What if it's a five star, guys? What if it's a five star? I feel like all of a sudden, like, I'm in abundance with five stars. Like, five stars just can't stop coming my way. And I'm going to keep saying that because of Law of Attraction and that means that it will happen. So I'm going to go carry on reading. I don't know if I'll check in with you again tonight, but I am absolutely loving it. I'm absolutely loving it. I think it's amazing. I am now 220 pages in, I think. Yeah, so I'm nearing the end. I'm still obsessed. It's going to be five stars. What the hell? I wasn't expecting that. What the actual hell is going on? My fate has shifted. I always have the best reading in, like, November and December, I think. I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. This is my kind of horror. Now, I don't want you guys going into this if you pick it up thinking it's all, like, loosey-goosey, you know, where we're having a great time. Like, there's some scenes in this that are horrible, that are vile, that are like, you know, trigger warnings to this before going into it. Because there was a scene with birds in particular that I, oh, I couldn't read it. Here's the thing, I actually prefer reading horror physically than audibly because when it's, like, a horrible scene I can just, like, skim it. Like, I can just read it really fast, get the general gist, but don't have to, like, sit there and hear it all, you know? But for me, Grady Hendrix is my kind of horror. Oh my god, Grady. Like, I am obsessed now. Grady Hendrix is my kind of horror and I'd love more recommendations if anyone has any recs for authors that are similar to Grady Hendrix in their horror. Sorry, I just feel like you're crooked. Like, the image doesn't look crooked, but you look crooked. My tripod's like... Somebody do a death drop or something. He just perfectly blends horror and humour for me. It's funny, there's so much humour to it, but it is great horror as well. We've started implementing these, like, little mixed media elements that are a little bit weird and, like, tell a story. I don't want to spoil anything because I'm quite deep in now, but tell a story without, you know, they show versus tell. No, tell versus, I don't know, whichever. I'm confused. It's showing you more of the characters and the story and the influence and what is happening without actually telling you, you know? It's like, I love when that happens. Like, we've got like a little quiz, like a little quick sets of, like, a kid quiz, you know what I mean? Like, in, like, one of your magazines when you're younger. I just am obsessed. I love it and I think the setting is amazing. I think the pacing... It's taken me about an hour to read every 100 pages, which is pretty quick for me. I just can't put it down. Grady Hendrix. Wow. I'm loving it. So I'm just going to go ahead and finish it. I think it's going to amp up quite a bit in this last section. But I'm just really, really, really, really excited. And, you know what, this came out in 2014. I think it's aged really well. I could have seen this being published today. You know, some books you read... I mean, 2014 isn't that long ago. It's like, what, nine years ago. But you can read some books in 2014 and be like, wow, that's very 2014. Like, that wouldn't have the success that it had today. If it was published today it wouldn't have the same success. Or it wouldn't even be published. You know, it's very, very different trends. But this still feels fresh and new and innovative. I'm just loving it. So I'm going to go ahead and finish it. And I will check with you once I have finished it. But wow, this Scavenger Hunt vlog, I'm definitely going to have to do it again one day because this has gifted me a great read. Guys, five stars. Yes! Yes! I loved it. I'm just so happy the amount of five stars I've been getting lately. Like, it's been... if you saw my last vlog, we are drowning in five stars. And it shows you, it shows you the issue is not me. The problem has not been me in getting five stars. The problem has been the books I've been reading. This, to me, is just everything and more that I want from a horror. It is everything that I want. It ticks all the boxes to me. You know, there's scenes in it that are like, disgusting but also kind of funny. Like, there's a scene with a... I'm just going to say a worm. I don't want to spoil anything. I'm going to say a worm. That is disgusting but it's also kind of like comedic. It's blurring the lines between being like... Not that I've seen any of these but between being like a scream and a scary movie. Do you know what I mean? Sometimes. Not all the time. I'd say it is more serious than it is jokey. But it does have a humour to it and I just absolutely loved it. It's by far my favourite Grady Hendrix I've read so far and this is just what I want from horror. And guys, I almost cried at the end. The ending got me emotional. The way it ends... It's a little bit on the nose. It's a little bit over the top to hit you in the feels but it got me. And you know, this book is really a testament to female friendship and you know, Grady Hendrix you can... I'll give you a whole pass. You're not Riley Sager. The way Riley Sager works for men. Riley... I'm very excited for his first ever male protagonist because we need him to go down that avenue. But yeah, I loved this. I loved the relationship in this and it got me emotional. The ending really got me emotional and I feel like the ending was the perfect ending for everything that this book was and more. You know, it really culminated in the perfect way and in the way that this book deserved. So I absolutely adored it, guys. I loved it so much. I cannot recommend this enough. And what a great pick from The Scavenger Hunt. I mean, listen. It could have picked 200 books on my TBR and it picked a 5 star and one that I've been very excited to read and one that is perfect for this time of year. So I cannot recommend it enough. Go pick this up, guys. I absolutely loved it. Thank you so much for watching this video. If you got to the end of the video, comment an owl emoji if you know you know. Let me know what you thought of this, if you read it. Do you agree with me? Did you love it as well? Did you not like it? Let me know all your thoughts down below and I will see you very soon in another video. Bye!