SPOOKY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS 👻 gothic thrillers, ghosts and scooby gang vibes!

everyone seems to hate it now everybody's ganging up against me for what what the [ __ ] did i do hi everyone welcome back to my channel i hope you're well today i've tried to dress as spooky well you can't really see that it's like a cobweb you see you see okay i mean dang would you want a scooby snack i've tried to dress as spooky i feel like i need to go like this the whole time so today i'm here to give you all the spooky books that you should be reading this spooky season let me know down below if you've read any of these or any of them on your tbr and let's just get into it so the first book i want to recommend is the turn of the key by ruth ware i love this book so much it's what got me into ruth ware who's now one of my favorite thriller authors it was the first thriller i ever read as well so it really got me into the thriller genre i owe a lot to this book she is the mother i never had she is the sister everybody would want basically in this our main character don't ask me her name because i can never remember people's names she takes a nanny job at this really rich house but it's kind of got like very old parts and very new parts it's the kind of house that has been updated to be like really technology new but it's like originally a very very old house and when she gets there things start freaking her out she starts hearing noises above her bedroom and the question basically is whether it is ghostly or a more human culprit i think it's based on the turn of the screw which am i right saying that is a ghost story or like am i completely wrong in there because i know haunting of blind mana which has just come out which i haven't watched yet don't have a go at me like i'll get there i know that's based on the turnover screw and that's a ghost story so maybe it is i don't know are you dumb dumb are you done are you dumb she is accused of killing one of the children that she looked after and she's saying i didn't kill that kid i didn't kill that kid and she's writing letters to a lawyer and that's how the whole book is told i loved this book so much it was such a brilliant reading experience when i read it for the first time it was really just getting involved in a whole new genre a whole new vibe of reading that i hadn't read before i think i read what i used to read a lot of i don't even know fantasy only maybe i don't know it was just so cool to read a thriller and now throw that is one of my most read genres one of my favorite genres if you want the kind of book that isn't like straight up i'm ghostly but has a hint of it you know like ghosts aren't walking around from the get-go but has the hint of it and the suggestion of it and i i can't tell you whether it is in the end because that would be spoiling it but if you want something that has that suggestion it's kind of like light spook like spook okay the crickets aren't even laughing uh i think this would be a really good option next you know i have to recommend the diviners by libba bray i do have the third one with me but i haven't read it yet i only have books with me that i've only just read or haven't read yet so this is the third one which is before the devil breaks you but the second one is lair of dreams which is my favorite i do prefer love dreams to the diviners so maybe i'll love this one even more but this is a really popular ya fantasy series where our group of friends who are diviners diviners as if you have like a special ability some kind of like supernatural special ability like our main character evie can read minds i think no she can't she can't read mine it was all alive guys it was all alive she lied she can uh touch an object and see its history like see how it's linked to that person and what that person has gone through in relation to that object that's what she can do the scooby gang of friends it is a scooby gang and i love scooby gang vibes they have to fight against the forces of evil devils demons darkness all of this they have to fight against that together and try and defeat it and there's kind of like a villain of the week not a villain of the week but you know how like in a show like buffy the vampire slayer you'd have the villain of each episode and you have an overarching villain for the whole season that's what this has like each book has its villain and then there's suggestions of like an even darker more evil villain throughout so i'm very excited to get to number three hopefully i'm going to be reading this soon and it's just really fun it's set in the 1920s in new york i really love the vibes of it if you haven't picked up the diviners yet i would really really recommend it next i want to recommend a book that i have only just read so i don't want to speak too much about it because i'll be reading it in this weekend's vlog but it is catherine house by elizabeth thomas now this book everyone seems to hate it now everybody's ganging up against me for what what the [ __ ] did i do when you go on goodreads everyone i'm friends with has given it like two stars i'm like guys why it's got like an average of like 3.1 which is so low like usually if i saw that it would scare me off a book but let me tell you catherine house is dope it's so good it's a really weird book we follow our main character inez as she joins catherine house which is this really really prestigious school that's really hard to get into and you know that once you join you are not leaving for three years so it's supposed to make you able to focus more and devote yourself to your studies but this is one of the weirdest books i've ever read it's like you're reading it through binoculars or through a blindfold there's this definitely a mysterious element to it like i knows kind of don't care she kind of don't give a [ __ ] she's kind of like that ain't my problem i'm not getting involved in that but the spooky element of this is that the school is renowned for something called psalm which is kind of like our life energy they're renowned for testing on it and there's some spooky [ __ ] that goes on i loved it inez is dope the story is dope i love how disjointed and fragmented and like it's like you're a dream or a nightmare it's like you're in a dream reading this i just really loved it i will give some more in-depth thoughts on it in this week's vlog i can't wait to read everything elizabeth thomas puts out in the future and if you're looking for something that's unique weird a bit dark academia a bit spooky really you need to go into it knowing it's so weird like it's so weird one of the weirdest books i've ever read but i loved it so i would really really recommend picking it up next i wanted to recommend another ruth ware which is the death of mrs westaway so this is a book i think that came out before the term the key and it's got very similar vibes in the sense there's this like old house that kind of gothic vibe that ruthwear does sometimes both of these books have that this again i wouldn't say is ghostly but it's very spooky and kind of like gothic horror i would say throughout it which is much more just you're on edge throughout and everything is through subtext it's not through jump scares or ghosts and in this our main character she receives a letter saying that she has inherited a large sum of money from um i think it's her aunt or grandma one other one of them some family member dying oh really that sucks she's like well i know who my grandparents are so this isn't it but she's really struck for money and so she's like i'm gonna take it i'm gonna go and pretend to be this person and i'm gonna get a lot of money off of them and when she gets there she realizes that not everything is at its seam she's getting a much higher cut of the money than she thought she would and it's just this very on-age tense gothic mystery thriller set in this really old house and it's just kind of got these very spooky on-edge nervous vibes to it that i think are perfect for this time of year i didn't love it as much as turning the key it's not as much of like a whodunit thriller or like a really high-paced thriller it's a lot slower it's a lot more subtle i really like that element of it so i would really recommend picking it up next is a graphic novel which i speak about occasionally for those of you who maybe want a spooky graphic novel i would recommend the graveyard book by neil gaiman so this is volume 2 which i am hoping i'm going to read soon um and this is basically the story of a young boy whose parents are killed um in their bed stabbed in their sleep he manages to escape he's like a toddler but he just manages to like know that some dark [ __ ] is up and he just calls out of his house and into the graveyard where he is raised by the ghosts and this kind of like supernatural being the lighting right now i can get real dark but we all know and actually i don't think everyone knows the extent of my darkness i ain't getting dark this graphic novel series is just his adventures throughout the graveyard and like the stuff he gets up to living in such a supernatural environment i think it's a lot of fun i really really enjoyed it each little short story at least in the first one i don't know about this one but in the first one they all have different artists which i think is really cool getting to showcase different artists and you i personally enjoyed like some art styles more than others but i think it added like a bit of variety to the graphic novel and yeah i'm really excited to read volume two i think this is also a book i keep saying that i never look it up i could be completely wrong like i don't prepare for this the level of unprofessionalism far too much i think it is a book as well so if you're interested in the story maybe go read that but i really really like the graphic novel version and then the last book that i wanted to recommend is one of my favorite books ever i love it so much and i want to reread it but i don't have it with me and it is ninth house by leigh bardugo listen miss lee bardigo is making us wait to at least 2022 for the second one in this series and i swear she said originally that this was gonna be like a seven book series girl how long are we about to spend i just need it right now like please don't make us wait please i'm waiting i'm waiting this is about alex stern alex said is iconic enough that i remember her name no one else has that but alexan lives in my mind rent-free so she comes from a very difficult kind of criminal past and she gets a second shot at life basically she gets this really good offer to go to yale and to supervise the secret societies there who deal in dark magic ghosts blood magic all these different things they each kind of have different tools they use to like predict things or perform their magic and she goes there and it's kind of a murder mystery a murder occurs on campus and i think she's really trying to push for people to notice that this was probably done by one of the societies that's what she thinks but no one wants to admit that and just the kind of like gothic dark academia vibes ghosts yale lee bardugo's amazing writing i just love it i just loved it so much this was my introduction to the body to go i'd never read any of her stuff before and i just love it like it's so good it's so dark so mysterious darlington can get it i want to [ __ ] you the minute i saw you i'm sorry i don't mean to feel like that but yeah he is hot he is fine i did want somebody i just think if you haven't read ninth house by now you are doing yourself a disservice it's coming out and payback in the uk like next week i don't know about the us but in the uk it comes out in paperback like next week so that's the perfect opportunity to get your hands on it if you haven't read it before and it is literally out of all these books my number one recommendation and you say megan you should have put it at the start then and i say no let's end on the hi ninth house i just want you all to read it so bad it is so good so that is all of my spooky book recommendations i hope you enjoyed let me know if you have any spooky book recommendations because i'm always looking for more i've got a couple on my tbr that i'm really excited to read thank you so much for watching i hope this helped and i will see you very soon in another video bye [Music]