reading books set on cruises... on a cruise!

[Music] hey everyone welcome to this video and today's vlog i'm going to be reading books set on a cruise on a cruise ship [Music] hi friends the lighting in here is terrible let's just get that out of the way like i don't even know where i can film just in front of the toilet door so hi i'm on holiday i am on a cruise to the norwegian fields that we're going on i'm so excited it's the first day it's very busy i don't think i'm gonna have time to feel much today we're kind of running around just getting ourselves sorted and unpacked but i thought i would quickly chat to you about the books that i've bought so i've bought books with me set on cruises to read on the cruise talented brilliant incredible amazing show-stopping spectacular i just thought this would be fun to like be in the setting and read the books in the setting that they are so i've bought three books now we've got a lot planned this week it's not going to be just like doing nothing we're going to do activities on the ship and off the ship so i don't know how much reading i'm going to get done i've bought three but if i read one very two or five or three it's fine so the one i definitely want to start with is a new release and that's a fatal crossing by tom hindle this is set in the 1920s and there's a man murdered on this ship and i think like a ship's employee and a scotland yard policeman investigate it together i've heard some pretty good things about this from some of my patrons i love historical settings so i'm really excited it's a new release and i haven't been reading a lot of new releases this year the goodness get yourself sorted out then i thought the second one i would read so hopefully by this time will be like in the fjords is the woman in cabin 10 by ruth ware this is gonna be my fourth ruth ware i'm really really excited to get to it i believe this is set in the norwegian fjords or at least in norway on a cruise i mean come on like it couldn't be any more perfect our main character sees a body thrown overboard from next door cabin but the records show that no one ever checked into that cabin and no passengers are missing on board how exciting i think it's just me perfect to read whilst we're in the setting i'm so excited and i love ruth ware i've given ruth ware five stars five stars and four stars so i have really good luck with her so i feel like this is gonna be like another five star or four star and then the last one which i'm not sure we'll get to is dangerous women by hope adams well this isn't really a cruise either this is like this is we're pushing the limits over here the rules don't apply 180 petty convicts of women are all being transported on this boat to australia but on board our main character makes her duty to redeem them and listing a select few to create an intricate quilt with each stitch they are tied closer together what the [ __ ] but when one woman is murdered her work is threatened are they innocent or are they murderers is this actually the question i don't know if we'll get to that one because it's like you know prisons on a boat you know it's not really a cruise but these two definitely are cruises so they are a priority i'm going to start with a fatal crossing and yeah i got to hurry away we're going we're doing lots of things so i'll probably start the vlog properly tomorrow good morning so it's the first proper day it's very early it's 8 a.m but it's actually 7 a.m because the time changed hang on i'm the lyft story please exit now loads of people are already up having breakfast okay i'm gonna walk through here because i don't think anyone will be in here i'm going to get a facial this morning which i'm so excited for i've never had a facial in my life it was cheaper to do it early in the morning how cute is this place isn't it so cute so i'm getting a facial so i'm not bright and early for that in the spa and we've got massages later in the holiday but i feel like my skin is already stressed out from traveling so i'm excited [Music] [Music] okay i just got back from the facial and it was amazing it was really really good i had a it was so relaxing i feel like i need a facial i need to just get rich and have a facial everyday but my skin feels really really good and we've got the um it's like the formal night tonight so i'm glad i actually had it done today so that my skin looks good tonight but um we're just gonna go ahead for breakfast and then i'm gonna go to a dance class and then we're doing archery so i don't think i'll have time to check in reading wise but that's the plans for this morning up until like lunch time then we'll probably have lunch after that so they're the plans so yeah i'm hungry so let's go to breakfast [Music] [Music] okay it's now much later it's the evening what did we do since i last spoke to you when did i speak to you started again no no no what have we done today we went in the pool went in the hot tub had lunch came back here slept like cute i'm really worried about having to look on camera because i just don't like my mango you guys i'm going home the mirror in there is homophobic i can't tell what my makeup looks like and the lighting in here is terrible i mean this is not vlogging lighting anyways i have been reading my book i have a feeling i'm only gonna read two in this vlog i'm gonna be honest i don't think i'm gonna get around to dangerous women but the two that i really wanted to read with these two started a fatal crossing and i'm about 120 pages in and i'm really enjoying it it's like it's a debut and i think it's a pretty solid debut it has a little bit of i don't know if agatha christie writing is the right word but it's definitely paying do you think so tom i mean i've listened to a couple minutes of it it sounds like people are dying and he said uh and then someone said he didn't want to give up his name it's all about detectives it is about detectives so when i was saying agatha christie i meant in terms of the writing like i can't hear writing can i no but i'm not sure if it quite is but it it's definitely paying homage to her so basically the premise is is that it's set in 1924 there's 2 000 passengers on the ship and a guy is found dead now the captain of the ship just wants to call it an accident because he's like at the bottom of some steps but then a policeman from scotland yard storms in he's like [ __ ] this was a murder and i'm gonna investigate it and the captain's like no you ain't in four days this gets turned over to new york and it's not my problem anymore the police officer's like yeah okay i am going to do it and the captain's like well if you have to this uh what's he a ship's officer one of the ship's officers he has to follow you around and like watch everything you're doing so it's told from the ship of the officer's perspective and he also obviously has some like tragic stuff that's happened to him in the past it seems like he had a partner and a child maybe that like aren't around anymore so it's gonna be like a simultaneously a mystery of this murder mystery of the ship with finding out a bit about his shady past and i'm really enjoying it firstly i will say i'm actually really enjoying reading this on the ship because so many things are like being mentioned and you're like oh my god i know what that looks like or like the other day one of the uh offices of the ship was like oh i'm i'm speaking from the bridge over on the tannoy or whatever and i didn't know what the bridge is i just thought it was like a bridge like a walking bridge but then i learned what it was in the book and it's not just a walking bridge i'd say like the mystery it's like a very classic mystery it's not doing anything crazy it's pretty like old schooly historical i'm enjoying this kind of unlikely duo of these these two guys that don't really like each other and we can't really trust either of them they both have secrets and yeah i think their writing is really really good for a debut i'm really shocked this only has like 300 ratings or something on goodreads like barely anyone's read this yet and so far i'm really enjoying it and i'm just so glad i'm reading it on the ship you like what you heard well that's high praise yeah it sounds it sounded booky sounds like a book it sounded like agatha christie yeah i think it is quite christie-esque like i said in some other videos when i went and looked at the author's goodreads page he reads a lot of non-fiction about agatha christie like he's read one that i have about um the use of poisons and like forensics in her books so i think that shows that he like likes her and wants to kind of emulate her stuff we haven't shown you our room i just realized but there's nothing to see is there it's a box so tonight is formal night on the cruise there's one night where everyone's supposed to like dress up posh so i've done my hair makeup and i'm about to get changed we're going to like a special dinner tonight for that and then yeah we've got our big walk tomorrow tomorrow is our big excursion hyping up hyping up hiking up pulpit rock which is a big rock i'm a bit scared we've had a few nightmares of dying are you tough enough for the job um no but we're getting a coach there so i'll be able to read this on the coach there and back and yeah i think this is a really fun read [Music] first time trying beef wellington oh yeah i like that [Music] good morning today is our first day we're gonna be in norway and tom and i are going on our big walk today so i'm getting my i call them stompers like my hiking boots on um but we need to pop down to the buffet for breakfast but we still need to finish packing everything up but we haven't seen obviously because we're inside cabin we haven't seen what it looks like yet so we might just quickly pop in to thompson's grandma's room she's got a balcony but yeah i'm really really excited we're going up this massive rock and i'll bring you with me i think i'll try and read a bit in the coach on the way there because i think it's about like a 40-minute drive to where we're going um but yeah i'm barely awake but very very excited whoa whoa let's see what's over there look at these little houses [Music] [Music] [Music] hello we're halfway up the hike that is not correct and it's amazing but it's hard isn't it it's like a lot of big stone steps but it's so good it's like unlike anything we've done before isn't it it's wonderful so we're going to carry on give it away oh sorry show them the view that's the sea over there clowned up all the way from so look we just climbed up all this and now there's a swamp a bridge [Music] [Music] uh oh forget it i don't know what to say we made it well kind of show them the actual rock is there but we felt too sick we've got a bit scared but this is amazing it's because it was all cloudy and we couldn't you couldn't see down here i mean look at the clouds moving but now because it's stopped raining so much we can see but i i can't make it to the actual should we may try no way no way i'm going home i can't tell you guys what an amazing walk it's been we haven't filmed as much because we wanted to make it here like by the time we had to um but wow it's amazing it's amazing right morning i can't even hold this up right hi so it's a mess yesterday's i was gonna say walk it wasn't even a walk i mean look at my bag we'll get into it yesterday's hike was one of the hardest things i've ever done we i can't i can't tell you guys enough how it was just like big rocks you were climbing and it was like a five hour walk a little and i'm very tired it was really hard i really struggled on the way down because it was torrential rain right the guide said it was called troll weather because you think the trolls came out it was just torrential rain and um so i was like pouring down these steps that you're having to climb down and it was hard i mean it was one of the most amazing things i've ever done but like we just came back to the ship afterwards and just ate and went to bed like i was falling asleep for dinner and i'm still tired because we've woken up at 4am it's 4 am wow crazy you're crazy girl we're sailing into oldham today my bag is hanging up actually because everything got soaked through but we're okay now i was worried about us getting ill but wait i think we're fine yeah we're selling into odin which is like one of the fjords we kind of sail we sell through fjords to get to and apparently it's amazing so we're up really early still quite tired but i'm actually i'm waking up i'm feeling better so we're gonna go just for the next couple of hours this morning we've got another walk today at half nine but uh we're just gonna go watch the fjords go by so i thought i'd take you with me no book update but i'll probably have one after i've finished getting ready because i still have been i've been reading a bit here and there so i'm definitely only going to read the two i was hoping i'd be on the woman in cabin 10 by now because this is really like the fjords do you know what i mean listen tomorrow is really when we're really in the fjords so i would like maybe i'll try and finish fatal crossing today throughout the day but i don't look like this anyway i'm gonna go first into uh tom's grandma's room she's got the balcony and then we're gonna walk around the promenade deck and watch kind of both sides and we might get in a hot tub this morning and kind of sit and watch everything go by so let's go so so so [Music] do [Music] [Music] do [Music] do [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] okay hello it is wednesday how are you all doing so i feel like this the first part of this vlog um we've been so busy the first two port days to vanguard and olden were like our days where we had excursions booked where we had a lot planned and the second of the holidays is the reading part so we're gonna get a lot of reading done we're definitely gonna read these two books now so to update you all we got woken up at 8 a.m today with an announcement basically today we're supposed to be docking at hell silt and tomorrow helgesonned i forgot then what it was but because of winds they can't docker either of them but we are going to talk tonight at somewhere called allison from like seven o'clock tonight to midday tomorrow so we still get to go ashore again once more but we are missing the other two ports that we were supposed to do but we were only going to walk around all together in hella suit and hauges and we planned to have a spa day anyway because it was cheaper to go do like massages and the spa stuff on a day that we were a poor and we weren't really bothered by how gerson so actually we're not that upset everything's okay but in terms of the book i have been reading quite a bit more i think i'm definitely gonna finish this today because we're just gonna be doing like some quizzes and stuff um i'm on page 256 and i'm still enjoying it i will say it does read like a debut for me you've been very very awesome nice to meet you not much has happened i feel like in the most recent 150 pages compared to the first 100 pages we've just been going around like interviewing all different people but in a way that kind of scrambles my brain like i'm forgetting who is who i feel like a lot of the men or have like er names like fisher turner like i'm just really struggling to understand who is who and there's some people who have multiple names and i'm just really struggling to remember who i feel like what is gonna end up happening with this is it's not gonna be a fair play mystery i feel like if i had to make a prediction now it could be completely wrong but i feel like it's gonna turn a bit more thrillery in the sense that it's not gonna be the reveals aren't gonna be stuff that's been like laid down for us it's gonna be complete shocks it's gonna be complete curveballs and kind of gonna go off in a very different direction that could be completely wrong but that's like my current prediction of what's gonna happen it's good like it's really it's an enjoyable read i feel like i'm going to prefer the ruth where one just because i love roose ware i mean this is still probably like a a four maybe a 3.5 but depending on how it ends i am still really enjoying it it's a very very easy read i think it's a really good debut i'm just getting a bit confused sometimes and i feel like the two main characters the perspective character we're reading from who's the ship's officer i like but the scotland yard policeman who he's like following around is a bit one note for me i feel like he's just a bit like he's not giving me much you know what i mean where's the flavor where's the flavor in this oh i don't know if i mentioned but like art the art world the high art world is a lot to do with this book did i mention this a lot of the the murder and like stuff that's going on is just revolving around a painting that was on board so i'm excited to see how that goes but it feels like there's a lot of different leads like there's a lead with the policeman's pass there's at least lead with the officer's past and then there's the main mystery and actually there's a lot there's like the murder then there's like painting stuff going on i feel like it's a lot that we've got to uncover in the last like 150 pages but anyway we're gonna get some lunch we're gonna pick up some pizza like take away pizza and then we've got a jukebox game oh my god by the way how cute was the sail away in odin yesterday wasn't that so cute like all the people often come out and wait it was really cute that was like a really fun part of the holiday so yeah the second half of this holiday is gonna be more reading than the first half has been because we haven't got as much like crazy stuff planned i've finally recovered from the pulpit rock [Music] i just finished a facial crossing it is what day is it thursday thursday is thursday we popped into allison but i didn't film any of it because it was kind of just like a port stop so i didn't end up feeling any filming any of it but i finished a fatal crossing this book's interesting oh no this has now gone downhill i'm gonna give it a 3.5 there were parts of it i really loved and parts but i didn't the ending has a very interesting i don't want to call it a twist but it's like some interesting stuff happens in the kind of last 30 pages that you really don't expect it does go on a very different route and i do admire that i can see it again kind of harkening back to some classic mysteries i read in the past but the main mystery just didn't didn't like light my world on fire the characters i kept getting confused between them all there's like mr mrs green mr mrs webber like there's all these people and they are all the same like all of our supporting characters bar the ship's officer and the private investigator are like literally the same people so i just felt like i kept getting confused as to who was who and who we were suspecting and like what parts of the plot related to different people i just really i could not remember it and it was a lot of just like going between all of these different people and talking to them now i do enjoy that in some mysteries take for example mud on the old express where a lot of it is him just interviewing prior just interviewing all of the characters but that book is done so well whereas this it just felt a bit meandering and like just not much happened there wasn't much evolution to the story there wasn't much you know you kind of expect like reveals throughout there was kind of just work up to the one big reveal but it wasn't bad you know i would probably give this author another go with whatever mystery they come out with next i think for a debut it was pretty good but my favorite part of it was reading it on the ship and like reading it in reference to what was happening on the ship but anyway now we're gonna go to the spa we're gonna go in this like jacuzzi spa sauna area and then we've got a massage but i'm gonna take the woman in cabin 10 with me i'm gonna finish this on the holiday i'm gonna try i haven't said i didn't end up reading it through the fjords i'm not sure if it is set in the fjords or just in norway i don't know but anyway i'm gonna go start it there and um yeah i'd like to get maybe 100 pages into it today so we'll see how i do oh mentioning agatha christie they're showing death on the nile today in the cinema but i'm not sure if i'm going to go just because of timing but we'll see i'll show you if i do go but yeah i'm going to go to the spa now and i'm going to start the woman in cabin 10. so it is the last day it's our last sea day today and the sun is finally out again oh i'm gonna pop in here because i know i'm gonna hear me speak oh wait people can i have got to the end of part two of the woman in cabin ten so i'm on page 91 and i'm really enjoying it this makes me think that i should give a fatal crossing three stars not 3.5 because the difference feels quite marked i would say okay so basically a protagonist she wakes up and someone's robbing her flat and she's very traumatized from that but she then a couple days later has to go on this work trip to this cruise in the in the norwegian fjords on like one of the pages um there's a picture of the owner of the boat getting married and stavanger to his wife and i thought wow so yeah she's on this luxury cruise there's literally like 20 people on this cruise max so it's not like this one where there's like 4 000 it's like a luxury boat and she's kind of just got on the ship and she earlier in the night had met this girl who's in the room next to her who was quite young very different than a lot of the other guests on the ship who are like rich journalists and stuff like that and then she's just heard a splash that sounds like her body hitting water outside her cabin and that's where part two ends and i don't i'm just really enjoying it i really love ruth ware's writing she's never let me down in terms of her writing the plot is moving fast i feel like we've had a lot of stages in the plot i feel like there's a lot going on i just feel like it's a lot better than the photography i don't know i feel like a facial cross you can just tell it's a debut and roots where i just know i can trust and i'm reading it so much quicker so yeah we're gonna play some like games on board i think and we're gonna have lunch in a bit but i'm gonna carry on reading i'm reading it really quick actually i did get the audio book for this but i'm not loving it so i think i'm just gonna keep reading it physically on my own [Music] [Music] okay um we've ordered the burger that they say is the best burger i've seen so we're gonna put it to the test just realize just frozen [Music] [Music] that is really good yup yup oh i'm a positive [ __ ] you guys yeah it's quite good so i've decided i'm definitely gonna give a fatal crossing oh you can see the mirror um i'm gonna give it three stars the more i read this the more i realize how it feels to really love reading i don't know with a fatal crossing i just thought like i'm really busy with doing so much on holiday because i was like kind of having to make myself pick it up i was like it's still good it's just that i'm busy but with this i literally can't put down ruth ware will never let me down there i'm saying it i'm saying it ruth was never gonna let me down i can just rely on her for like a [ __ ] good thriller you know what i mean it's so good i'm really really enjoying it now just compare it between the two i think the writing is incredible ruth where can write ruth can really write like i i'm really having an awakening after reading a fatal crossing and then reading this i'm like wow this is what it feels like this is what it feels like i love her whereas in that i didn't feel like much happened we've had so many good reveals this is my i feel like this looks strange it's my water bottle by the way in the mirror yeah whereas in facial crossing nothing happened there's been so many great little reveals in this that like change who you're suspecting or change how you're being information and where we've gone to now i'm on page two two i've just listened to a bit more actually two two eight i think it's just getting so good it's just gone down a route that i really wasn't expecting i was thinking about it i've given ruth where two five stars on one four star and i think this might be another five star which would cement ruth ware as one of my favorite authors ever she is just like a great thriller author isn't she she's just like a great standard thriller and you know what this is making me much more excited to read the it girl which is ruth ware's new book coming out this year not that i wasn't excited but i feel like that the synopsis wasn't like my favorite that i was like you know 100 excited for but it's making me a lot more excited i think our main character low who's trying to investigate what's going on the ship she's amazing she's really a really interesting character who i'm really enjoying reading from her perspective there's been a few like mixed media elements very few but like some emails and some uh news articles and some forums which are set after the current events so it's really interesting learning information from that then that makes you more stressed out for the present day events the setting on the boat i was a bit nervous actually because i really enjoyed the big ship in fatal crossing like the big ship i'm on now whereas this is literally 20 people max can be on this ship and i was a bit nervous about that but actually it's better because you kind of know your cast of characters you know the maximum of people that you can suspect so i'm enjoying it in that aspect i'm so excited to find out what's going on it's just gone down a really interesting route i really feel like i can't predict it i'm just really enjoying it ruse where yeah she gets what i want ruth where gets it i'm gonna pretty much just finish this this evening i just i'm flying through it i absolutely cannot put it down this is like up there with well i love what the ruth wears i've read apart from the death of mrs westaway that was a four-star but this is feeling like another five star it's just how does she do it i just really feel like i can rely on her you know some gel authors were up and down but ruth where can write one of the best modern day thriller authors i think the setting of the norwegian fjords having actually i'm glad that i'm reading this having had the whole experience rather than maybe reading this on like the first or second port day i remember thinking i'm about to beat this [ __ ] up i'm glad i'm reading it having been in that setting throughout the week so i really know what she's talking about with the wind and the weather and the location and and all of that and the people you know like i really feel like i have a good grasp on that so i'm just so glad that i'm reading this now god what a good beck what a good book so yeah it's currently uh quarter to six we're gonna have dinner maybe like an hour an hour and a half and then it's just like packing we gotta be at the cabins by eight tomorrow morning and then it's just the car ride home so i think i am probably gonna finish this tonight if not i will finish it in the car ride home tomorrow yeah i can't wait to see where this goes okay so i'm obviously back home now i finished the woman in cabin 10 on that friday night when i last spoke to you but i couldn't film i literally finished it at like midnight and we'd had to pack all our bags and pack everything up and leave it outside the door to be collected and taken away and i loved it i'm giving it five stars i didn't realize i was went and looked on goodreads after the holiday and i didn't realize that a this is her most read book in terms of ratings by quite a lot and it not a lot of people love it it's not like the most popular but i loved it from when i last spoke to you the book goes in a very different direction and i don't want to spoil anything but i will just say it does a great job of keeping suspense and keeping the pace and keeping anticipation going in that situation that's what i'm gonna say i think it's quite difficult to do and i think ruth ware did it so so well the ending i loved like the end like you know climax of the book i was literally like i could not take my eyes off the page like i'm i love reading again you guys i love reading again this isn't life great isn't life great i love reading again i am so ready to just love reading yeah um yeah i'm just ready for it i love my family i love my work i love my life the mixed media elements i mentioned earlier like the newspapers and the forums and stuff the information that was given to them it made me so anxious to the end because it suggests someone things happen at the end and i was like please god no please god no please god no and i actually got emotional there's like a little little twist little just moment right at the end and i almost cried yeah i almost cried i got really attached to the characters in this i got really attached to the mystery i can't believe how much i love this and ruth ware has now gotten three five stars for me which means she's officially a favorite author like top tier favorite authors are the ones you can get three five stars from me reading three books from them like that's top but like ruth ware i mean she's gotten two three five stars and one four star i mean come on now my question to you guys is which of ruth where's backless should i read next obviously the eight girls coming out i should probably pre-order that like straight away i've only got i think the lying game and in a dark dark word left to read from ruth ware in terms of her backlist which one do you think i would prefer let me know because i i want to just read all of everywhere because i've had nothing but good luck i think this book was great now was reading it in the setting did that have something to do with it yes that's the whole point of this video like did that help me enjoy it more you know when they're talking about how for example the fear of going in the water right getting thrown off the ship the water is cold like the place is cold like i think being in that setting helped me understand the stakes a lot more and just enjoy the book more yeah did that help yeah i mean like i said that's the whole point of what we're doing but i really really just loved it and i would recommend it and i think don't listen to people who say it's not great i think it's great i think it's so well written it's just a fun thriller right i don't think this is like groundbreaking do you know what i mean it's not gonna be life-changing but is that what you read thrillers for not necessarily so i loved it i hope you guys enjoyed this vlog following me on holiday on the cruise i had a lot of fun i had a lot of fun on holiday it was a really great holiday such a beautiful place i don't know if the camera really captured some of the settings how incredible they were like how mind-boggling um but yeah i hope you guys enjoyed the video if you got into the end of the video comment the rain emoji i'm still haunted by poppy rock i want you guys to know right in pulpit rock i was i've been into individual i feel like i look like an idiot i feel like i look pathetic we didn't film all the difficult parts we filmed on the easy parts right we're like oh we can walk again i when i was fighting for my life in the trenches trying to climb up this hill i we weren't filming that so i want you guys to know the bits you saw if i was just strolling along in the b-roll that's the easy parts of the walk which are few and far between yeah comment the rain like water emoji if you've got into the end anything like that thank you guys so much for watching 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