reading YOUR BEST BOOKS of 2024🌟📚

so every year around this time of year I hop on Instagram and YouTube Community page and I ask you guys what your best book of the year has been this year is no different in fact it is different cuz I need your best books more than ever so today I am going to be reading the most popular books that you guys mentioned as being your favorite books of the year I'm in need of some great books I'm in need of a five star if I don't get a five star in this video I'm going to be disappointed I need Five Star Energy so badly I can't tell you how much I need it in every fiber of my being well you know what all give us a break we're doing all we can I need a five star so we're going to be reading your favorite books of the year so far and let me tell you it's an interesting selection I think we've got a really good selection of books here so shall we just go find out what books we're going to be reading okay I'm here at my desk in front of my spreadsheet I wrote down every single book that anyone said do you want me to tell you how many books that is do want me to tell you how many books I sat here for hours and typed up into this spreadsheet that's what you said and you know what I what was that okay James for books I haven't read There are 314 for books I have read there is another 78 so we're looking at almost 400 books I typed out and wrote down every single one but we're going to be reading the most popular I'll quickly tell you the books I have read what the most popular were we had the Thursday Murder Club by Rich dosman with nine the tainted cup which is interesting by Robert Jackson Bennett with eight shark Heart by Emil Beck was seven and then both with six we had trest of the emerald sea which I think I read for this video last year and bright young women so that's a great I mean they were like top books to me uh four out of five of those are five stars to me so we're pretty much in agreement but shall we get into the books that I haven't read that I'm going to be reading for this video I'm going to start up the top with the one that most people said and 10 people said that this was their favorite book of the year and it is the one of the many by James islang 10 which is if you've been around here for a while this was in last year's video and I sof youed it cuz I didn't feel like I could hack [Music] it Cara what are you doing what are you doing here all right yeah how are you all right thanks you good what are you shopping for oh I'm just got my shopping and everything no I'm cooking a big dinner on Sunday can I hack it now when I'm assing these struggling with fantasy we shall see I'm going to start with this because I aim I want to give myself time to read it and time to get into it I mean it's so long let's all talk about this um so long I want to give myself time I can't remember I'm going to go back to that video and see how far in I got I think I got maybe 100 pages but I'm looking forward to this the fact that this has been on two consecutive best books of the Year videos is absolutely insane so it's time that I listen to you guys this is a Fantastical book an Elite cian Academy a young fugitive and un covers layered Mysteries and world changing secrets in this new fantasy series by James isington I'm excited I'm excited if it's another go I'm going to give myself time with it I'm going to take it slowly but I'm very much looking forward to it so that's our first book next book that eight people said was the reformat Tre by Tanana reev Jew I've got a bit of a bad copy I don't know if you guys can see oh you can see it there can you see how the shine is misprinted maybe I should have like tried to get a refund or something I just don't have the time I don't it's not that big a deal but I have a missprint if I'm ever holding it up looks weird that's why um let's just talk about the length of these two books both over 600 pages are you trying to kill me are you trying to kill me are you trying to kill me die die die but this one I have heard such wonderful things about I've wanted to read this for a really really long time following a trivial scuffle with a white boy 12-year-old Robert Stevens Jr is sent to the grace toown school for boys but the segregated Reformatory is a chamber of Horrors haunted by the boys that have died there I know that a lot of my patrons have read this this year and said it's one of their favorite books so I'm very much looking forward and it's my first Tana reev Jew and I've never heard anything from her and I'm very excited to do so cuz I know she's kind of like a classic author that a lot of people really enjoy so I'm very excited for that and then the next two books seven people said and you'll be glad to know they're shorter so seven people said both of these first we got very short one I who have never known Men by Jacqueline harpman I'm very excited for this one this is probably the one out of all these I most excited for because I feel like I've heard a lot of people really enjoy this from different places people who typically read very different genres or different types of books I've heard them all really enjoy it this one is about 39 women who live imprisoned in a cage and I think there's a young girl who's born into them or appears in them and she wants to escape they basically have like no memory outside of the life of them being imprisoned and I'm very much looking forward to getting to this one I feel like this could be my favorite if I had to predict and then this one I know a lot of people have enjoyed and it's horror and horror does typically have a lower rating but these all have much higher ratings these are like 4 point something this one's got a 3. like seven average rating or something but I have heard a lot of people who really enjoyed it and it is we used to live here by Marcus CL I can't pronounce anything guys CLA that might be wrong anyways I don't really know what this is about it's a debut horror young couple Charlie e and Eve can't believe the killer de they got in Old House old man looks ad door claim to the year claims to have lived there wants to show his family around she lets them in as soon as the end strange thing starts to happen interesting I'm very excited for this one too so these are the four books we're going to be reading this Vlog that are your best books of the year like I said I think I'm going to start with a wi the many I want to I'm feeling scared about this one right like I want to tackle it cuz I'm feeling intimidated by it so it's like half three now I've got a little bit more work to do but then all I'm going to be doing this afternoon evening is making a start on this so hopefully will get quite a ways in but um yeah I'm going to give her some time I'm going to let myself get through it you guys it must be special it must be FAL for so many of you who have enjoyed it so I'm looking forward to getting into it thank you to everyone who let me know your favorite books I want to read all of them I want to read all the best books I need five stars so I'm hoping we're going to get a five star in the stack so let's start our first book and see how it goes [Music] oh [Music] so I am reading the one of the many our first book but I want to take a moment to thank the sponsor of today's video which you saw me using in the last clip which is my serious light from serious readers if you are regular here you know I love this bad boy I use it every single day when reading it is essential to me when reading so if you haven't heard before this uses something called daylight wave technology that replicates the daylight Spectrum as closely as possible which means it is completely natural on the eyes I can't explain it truthfully well enough to someone who hasn't used it but it just feels it doesn't feel abrasive like other lights like I've got my ring light on me right now for example and it's hurting my eyes a little bit theing light hurts my eyes this doesn't the light 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synopsis of this I don't know what's a spoiler I think that what I want to tell you is a little bit of a spoiler so you're following a guy who is an orphan and you know that he's got a secret and he's kind of trying to masquerade who he is and you're sitting this society that there's like it's kind of like oh how do I explain this maybe like Greek or Latin inpire where there's this Republic where there's like tears of Officer or tears of like Rank and those tears all get W will which is like energy or Magic from people below them they all have people below them and he gets um adopted by quite a senior guy in the system and he wants to put him into the academy to have him be his son have Legacy train him get him to win is this is there a competition oh no he wants him to find answers for something that he thinks is sus about the academy we haven't gone to the academy yet in the first 200 Pages I'm just really enjoying it now is it going to be a five star unsure it feels a little bit intelligent for that for me I don't know I doesn't have I think I I think it's a little bit more brutal this style of fantasy isn't usually my style of fantasy it's a bit more masculine energy I'm usually in my feminine energy when it comes to fantasy like I love lyrical Lush beautiful Katherine AR Aon morston leardo like I don't know women essentially is women whereas this is more like harsh and War and G you know I mean that kind of energy but I am really enjoying it I found it quite easy to get through these first 200 Pages something just happened in the last 30 pages which was Gaga chondra it was a great plot twist it was great moving of the story along I get the sense I mean this is a series I don't know how long this series is going to be let me know if anyone knows but I feel like there's going to be a lot of layers to it and quite intricate political Intrigue and motivations and a lot of layers to decisions for stuff and I think that's going to be a very very interesting reading experience also do we know when the second one is coming out yet do we know that I don't know that meeting a lot of characters we're meeting a lot of situations that we're trying to understand and there's like a lot of stuff but that he knows that we're not necessarily privy to entirely yet which is interesting but I'm pleasantly surprised by how much enjoying this considering I struggled with it and had to soft dnf it I know it wasn't a full dnf when I dnf it it was that like it was too long and I just couldn't get into it and like it was taking me too long to read whereas I think I have a good chance of reading most of the rest of this today I've got reading Sprints in about 2 hours so I'm just going to read up till then and then I'm going to read you in the reading Sprints I'm going to definitely get to 400 pages today so I'll check in with you probably once I've read another third of the book but my aim is to try and get as close to finishing it as I possibly can so that's the sitch but um yeah I'm enjoying it I'm pleas surprised how much enjoying it and I think um I think it's got a lot of interesting elements to it so I'll see in a bit with more thoughts but we're off a good start with this video I just want a five star I don't think that's too much to ask for I really want a five star from this video so badly so let's hope and pray we were all so happy that day it's it's actually hard hard to even imagine how terrible things would soon become who's that cat who I love there's people out there hopefully they can't see us okay let's talk shall we daa let's talk you go you go scare them off I did not check in with you at 400 Pages because if I'm honest I did not have a lot to say some people about to be very mad at me some of you about about to be very mad at me some of my patrons about to be very mad at me I'm giving this 3.5 I don't get it I don't get it I don't get the hype I don't feel regretful one moment about what I said and believe me if I really wanted to I could be a lot meaner but I'm holding back I don't get why this is the book that like most of you said last year and this year I didn't get it you go on good reads five star five star five star five star five star five star everyone is giving this five stars everyone in their mom hm yeah is giving this five stars I'm moving this but that's going to mean you see the tunnel a bit that's daa's favorite thing in the world it's her tunnel we have a fishing line I don't know if you can see it we have a toy that we put in the in the arm of this chair so that it Jangles into the hole anyways I'm procrastinating for tell you about this book here's the thing I can see okay this is a well-written book it's well crafted book I can see why you [ __ ] like it because it's like magical School beat Hunger Games okay I was never a Hunger Games girl I was never a Hunger Games Girl and so that doesn't get me the Nostalgia does not get me like it gets some of you in its grasp I think the biggest problem is it's it's just not for me right my fantasy that I love is cutesy or lyrical or cozy or mysterious like magic like magical magical witchy like you know it's very feminine this is M it's hard it's hard fantasy hard fantasy and I just don't love that I don't it's hard the Roman influences don't appeal to me as a reader they don't they don't this is not my favorite kind of magic system and I have a few issues I mean here's the thing I enjoyed it but it's too long I I've been saying lately I like long books but don't do it for the sake of it this does not need to be the [ __ ] head Whopper it is is it's so long I really struggled with the pacing in some elements I just think you can cut it down I felt similarly about W sleeping girls lie which I read this month I think for my book club my Patron book club and I think a lot of us agreed like you don't have to take any any scenes out but you could just trim the fat on everything and that's how I personally feel about this book also I'm just ripping it shreds I did I promise I did like it but it was a 3.5 I'm ripping sure because my expectations were so high cuz so many people have L this okay d I love you I'm procrastinating I have issues with how a lot of the death and destruction in this seems pointless and they do say that at times the character is like oh it's pointless it's for that that reason but like why does need to happen I think the big events for like that to happen where like a lot of people are dying or like there's huge ramifications for stuff it has to feel worth it or I have to understand why the adversaries are doing what they're doing and I'm not entirely sure I always did Beyond like a surface level explanation I don't want to spoil anything but I'm not sure I ever fully got reasons for particular events happening and our main guy firstly he's 17 I'm sorry that man is at least 25 that is an adult he does not act like a 17 none of them act like 17y olds none of them act like 17year olds what are you 40 we're the same age I know I'm a sucker for like six of crows and like they're all old and I just excuse it when I love it I excuse it but this man is old as hell and he is good at everything there's no Stakes because he will win spoiler he will win he will be the best at everything that he tries to do and for why like yeah he does have a past like the others don't know but I don't think that pastes means he's going to be [ __ ] like Superman out here he is amazing in everything and I just don't think that interests me I needed my protagonist to fail sometimes and he didn't really he was just great and everything he tried to be at so you know I'm unsure as to whether I'm going to continue the series I keep saying that the past three books I've read have all been starts in the series and I've given them all 3.5 where like I've enjoyed them well enough but I have problems and I just don't know if I want to pick up I I don't know I haven't made a decision on any of them yet yeah I don't know what I don't know I don't know what you guys are reading if I'm honest with you it's fine it's not the best book I've ever read it's not the best fantasy book I've ever read you may not hold the space for me and that's okay but that's a hill I'm going to [ __ ] die on yeah okay so we're going to move on that book took me way too much my life reading I've spent so long reading that book so long read that book so now I want something quick and fun so I'm going to pick up the horror that we've got we used to live here cuz I think this will be fastpaced like you know popc corny I'm really excited for the reformat TR but it's 600 Pages again and I'm nervous for that so maybe we'll read the other two books first and then we'll read that yeah I'm I'm looking forward to picking this up and seeing what everyone thinks of it it seems a little bit mix mediary so I'm really excited I'm really really excited to pick this up this began Life as a serialized short story on Reddit where it won the scariest story of 2021 award on the No Sleep Forum 18 million members film rights have been snapped up for Netflix interesting okay exciting I'm going to start this I'll check with you I'm halfway through daa might tell you something too about her life how much she likes beating up the boys she loves grabbing a chunk of their flesh in between her teeth you can't tear her off anyways I'm going to go read this um it won't take me as long as it took to read that dear God fingers crossed hello cutie I'm back in my um work from home uniform I I know I probably wear this a lot well I do wear this a lot sometimes I was this twice a week so I can wear it a lot this set it's like a matching joggers as well and it's like my favorite thing to wear if I'm reading or working at home cuz it's not pajamas Obie but it's like I feel put together but it's comfortable anyways also please admire this chair that the cats have absolutely ruined I'm ready to cause absolute Havoc I am just under halfway about halfway through we used to live here I am about 140 pages in and I'm enjoying it it's exactly what I needed God I feel like I've read half a book in the time it took me to read two pages of all of the many it's a very very quick readed which is exactly what I needed well it really the only book has 10 hours long which I think is like an average book right a short book I would say is like 7 hours I think I have never known as 6 hours and I CH a book is 7 hours I think 10 to 12 is like a typical audio book one many was 24 the other week I read um Wolf Hall that was 24 I read Pinko that was like 20 reformat is 20 why am I reading so many like 600 page books in November at the end of October and November like I had to read like four or five 600 page books the most hideous experience for me to go through how horrible I'm [ __ ] just pray for me I'm very excited for the good Dre video cuz I'm just going to be reading like super quick yummy books yummy books um anyways I'm about halfway through we to live here this is very very interesting and fun I'm enjoying it you know I'll tell you right at the B doesn't feel like a five star right now I'm constantly on the lookout for a first start it feels like a very strong for so we're following a young couple called Charli and Eevee who have just moved into this house that they are redoing up together and a family knock on the door and they say uh you know the dad used to live here can we come and look around and at the time Eve's home alone and so she calls Charlie but she can't get a hold of her and she's like okay yeah you can come in but she's very very anxious and they end up having to stay the night in the description it does say Charlie suddenly vanishes so it's the next morning Eve wakes up Charlie's not there and what I think is very interesting about this book is that the horror in this first half has all been stuff that can be very easily explained away you Eve is very is it Eve or Evee Eve sorry Eve is very anxious and you know has like spiraling thought patterns which I can very much relate to and identify with it's some of B set I it's good set me off perhaps cuz I do the same thing of like overw worrying and stuff she's very anxious and so there's certain things that like could be explained away as her overthinking things but also there's so many things happening like that that it is very a very unsettling reading experience and guys let me tell you it's mixed media we did it yes we've won yes we won can't believe it in between chapters we have these very short mixed media little interludes of like a newspaper report or a police report or like a Reddit Forum comments and I'm loving them I love it I love it love why do I keep looking outside while I'm talking I'm so sorry let me look you in the eyes it's just like a nice Winter's day and I'm not going outside we you talk about a second let need to talk about what's going on I love mix media I love it I love it and at the end of each of them there's a little M code that is making a sentence I'm I'm you could very easily miss that but I am I'm picking up I'm looking up what the mors code is I'm translating I'm producing I'm Nancy Drew out here wait a minute I'm figuring this out I'm like Scooby and Shaggy I'm solving a mystery so I'm loving that aspect of it it's a very quick read I don't know if it's I mean it could be first start I'm not you know I'm just holding out hope that one day I will read a five star book again if that's not too much to ask so yeah I'm enjoying it the writing is in offensive I think the writing is actually pretty good for a debut we've got interesting characters it does feel I I think cuz I've been reading a lot of long books it feel like holy [ __ ] like we're halfway through how's this going to go like oh my God we just gotten started but um yeah I'm enjoying it now I think I'm getting sick Tom has been sick this entire week I've been nursing him back to health I've been very been very good I've been nursing him back to health this entire week and um I thought I'd escaped it but I'm getting a really sore throat and he's been very ill and it started with a sore throat so I'm a little bit concerned about that so I may be spending the rest of this Vlog sick and you know what I can still read if I'm sick so I'll probably keep on vlogging so you'll just have to live with me being sick we'll all just have to enure that hopefully it won't be too bad anyways we'll see I'm touching words that I'm going to not have it as bad as he's had it but I'm going to go finish this now I'm really yeah I'm really really enjoying it I'm finding it very very interesting and it's just an easy read um I've never sh guys come look at this photo of me do you want to see young Megan do you want to see how cute I am look how cute I am look and they're my they're my toys that I made be in the picture look at Megan I don't know why I should I do that anyways I'm going to go I'm going to go read this book and I'll see you and hopefully I'm not feeling too ill at that point don't say that Mona don't ever say that hello I'm very ill also there's no light going up let me open this up again and try not to get blinded is that okay I don't really think you need to see me if I'm honest I thought I wanted to film this cuz I want I can read if I can do anything I can read and so I thought I'd try and film this clip I just had to I just wash my hair to try and feel more human I don't know how well that's going for me but anyway let's just talk about the BS cuz I don't know how long I've got in me I finished we used to live here when did I finish this yesterday morning I ended up being a bit disappointed by the ending of not disappointed disappointed I well I feel like it could have done more I've been thinking about this and I have a few conflicting thoughts that I'm going to try my best to piece together for you also I'm going to try and do this without spoiling anything but I guess this is vaguely vaguely spoilery for the nature of the ending of this book right I will just warn you now to not listen to this clip if you care about that I love murder mysteries because a murder occurs someone investigates it and then Justice is bought or not even Justice cuz actually I don't mind my Mysteries where like the killer gets away with it but answers are given you get answers you find a question is asked you and you you get answers this ending felt like there were a lot of answers that were just out of grasp I also love endings just to clarify that open I love an open ending I love a last minute twist I love like a last sentence twist you know look at Katherine house for example I mean everyone [ __ ] hates that book I love that book and I love the ending of that I love how you really don't know what's happened I don't think this is an open ending I just think this is an ending where I'm lacking answers and I feel like they're just there there's quite a few I feel like almost plot holes or just like convenience things aren't explained if they were explained would cause issues that I had an issue with it it reminds me a lot of House of leaves if you enjoyed it's like House of leaves light right house of leaves is incredibly intense this is like a novel with some cute little like MSE code and little clue stuff and little sentence things in there short your to me you are not on my level you never will be on my level do not compare yourself to me it's like House of leaves light if you're too Intimidator House of leaves but want something similar I guess this is what I'd recommend but it just felt a little bit like you could have done more with that with the way it ended I was like really okay it felt a little bit cop outy it felt a little bit I guess it's a debut and it felt a little bit like you could do more with that you know that's my overriding feeling so it's a 3.5 again so say it with me the last four books I've given have all been 3.5 so I've had enough of it I've had enough of it quite frankly I think there's so much promise for this but I just didn't feel like the execution really grabbed me if I'm honest with you there's probably more I could say but I'm I'm overheating and feeling cold at the same time so I'm going to move on I'm going to try and read as much of the reformat Tre as I can today despite feeling unwell I mean I may read nothing if I'm entirely honest with you but I really should try I'll probably get halfway through this before I check in with you because the the more reading I can do without talking the better so um yeah that's the aim today is to at least start reading this and give it a go I just want a good rating I just want five stars I actually think there's something wrong with me and like not wrong with me I just think I've actually read too many books I'm too picky I'm too picky I just want five stars so badly and these books should be a you know cuz everyone's bloody loved them anyways I this one I have high hopes for so I'm going to start it get halfway through hopefully on I next talk to you I'm feeling better I'm just going to rest um I just really every day I'm in a delusion like I feel better I slept so badly last night I barely slept um [ __ ] Tom for giving me this ill and he's still ill a week in and I'm on day three if being generous three so yeah more like two really so anyways I'm going to go um and hopefully the reformat tree will be more successful [Music] Hello friends I'm still not feeling great I'm I'm feeling better we're getting there I'm still feeling great but I am feeling great about this book I am halfway through 300 pages in and I'm loving it well I don't want to say I'm loving it cuz it is horrific but I think it's magnificent I think it's marvelous I think it's amazing just obsessed with this so all you need to know is that um Robert Stevens Jr who's a young boy gets into a scuffle with a white boy when defending his sister and we are in Florida in the 1950s and Robert Robert is black and his sister's black and uh it's a very racist town that they live in and he gets sent for kicking a boy who pushed him first by the way for kicking a boy to this place called the reformat tree for six months which is horrific and there may be ghosts there and they abuse the boys terribly there and it's we're following basically Jo timeline which we'll get into maybe um of him at the reformat tree and there's also his sister and their kind of family and family friends trying to get him out of there and I'm loving it I think Tanana R Jew's writing is absolutely incredible I don't feel like I've read 300 pages I mean part of that might be du down to that GE timeline which I'm not disliking because they're kind of set at a parallel time and I feel like their their their discussions really inform each other so they're moving parallel I think I often don't like when it's like jumping around in time with split timelines I think I like yeah they're run they feel very close to one another feel very entwined so I don't have an issue with that it might be why though it doesn't feel like I've read 300 Pages cuz we have kind of read 150 pages of each storyline but um yeah I just think these characters I feel so connected to the writing is wonderful is very hard what it's being writing about and obviously the horror is kind of based in reality and is also drawing the supernatural elements are are really reflections of things that happen in reality so it it it's just guys it's just fascinating I am I am just being taken along for the ride I think um yeah it's obviously if you ask me what was happened not a lot has happened but I don't care I don't care I mean I don't know if I'm giving you very good thoughts because I feel [ __ ] to sell but there's just something about the way this is written that I just feel feels very accomplished you are dealing with a writer who is written a lot of books it's is my first ever one and knows what she is doing and you know there's moments of it that are so horrific so horrific and you want to look away from almost but like it forces you to look and I just think it's wonderful also I think the AUD narrator is very good I think I've listened to this AUD book ra a lot but particularly for ya I think because just just in general ya is a more diverse genre I was looking through her catalog she's done a lot of ya stuff um like think like ya black fantasy or something like like that so her her voice I do almost associate with that but it's okay because even though this is an adult book we're following two main young characters and so I think it gives the book a bit of like naivity and innocence that I think is a very interesting reading experience so I'm planning on finish this today I hopefully I'll have more I know my thoughts aren't the best right now I'm trying guys I'm trying um I hope I'll have more like thoughts at the end but it's just that kind of book where I'm like 10 out of 10 no notes you know I'm loving it and I don't know what else to say to you sometimes I find e about books I have problems with I don't have any problems with this I think it's wonderful so I'm going to go keep reading today I just honestly I don't want to do anything else I just want to sack off everything else I'm supposed to do and read this book because I'm yeah I'm loving it I'm loving it I'm loving it so I'll see you hopefully later today having finished it but I feel like maybe we finally got a five star on our hands I don't want to speak too soon but I feel like maybe it's time oh my goodness this is a 10 out of 10 no notes back I've got a five star I knew you guys wouldn't let me down we've got a five star at the end of the day all I want to say is thank you Lady Gaga this book oh my goodness it is a literary Masterpiece I cannot wait to read more from T but this book just feels I mean I don't know if she just this amazing across the board but this book there is just so much of her in this firstly you can tell especially from the author's notes so much this is based on family lineage and characters based on family members and you can just feel like the person she's poured so much of her person into this book I it's absolutely incredible it is like I was saying absolutely horrific it's it's visceral it's like to your core horrific and in some ways it's not a horror cuz it's just like it's real it's not like a there's a few Supernatural elements but it's not like a you know it's not supernatural horror in aot way a lot of Horrors are this is just real this this happened this happened throughout history you know I don't want to spoil too much but like children getting stolen away from their families and put in these schools and fill in the dots you know like it it's it's horrific that this is real you know I I just absolutely adored this I loved the journey we went with other characters I felt like it was just perfectly well the sun is suddenly like crazily shining you can't tell cuz I got the ring light on soly too different but it's like whoa the angels are singing It's amazing the characters the journey that we go on with them the way she's infused history throughout it the care that it feels like has been taken with this story I guys it is amazing it is a it's like a it's a book it's a book you know what I mean I do struggle talking about books that I've loved so much I'm just like go read it like it's just amazing but um yeah like I said this is my first time of June I just can't wait to read more I don't think you should be scared of by the size of this I read it pretty quickly it simultaneously feels literary but also slot driven and twisty and the last 60 page of this I was I was on the edge of my seat about to throw up like it was tense she spent all this time crafting a relationship with these characters for you and you were just like oh my God I it was stressing me out like you were just rooting for them in this last part of the book and everything seems against them and everything is up oh and you're just rooting and rooting and rooting and I won't tell the way it goes but like I didn't cry that's the only thing a lot of my pictures told me they cried at this I didn't cry but I loved it I I think it's incredible my favorite character in this was probably Gloria who's the sister I just loved loved loved loved Gloria and yeah I mean this is part horror part reminder of what has happened in history and how we shouldn't let it go and I just I mean I loved it you guys need to go go read it and it's now time for our final book of the Vlog final one of your favorite books which was I who have never known men I don't know if I'm going to check with you halfway through this or just read the whole thing it's only about 180 pages and so that's like on the board of whether I'd usually check in like 990 Pages or just read the whole thing through I guess it depends how I'm feeling part me she wants to read the whole thing but I feel like this book this book feels very Monumental to me this would have been my prediction for a five star going into this video so maybe we still have five star potential oh guys I feel like I haven't done it give me time give me time to think there's nothing much sad than it's incredible usually the time I feel like I haven't spoken about it but usually my time is taken up with critiques of books anyways we're going to go read this today I'm literally just going to go sit and read this book so yeah I'll either check the halfway or just finish the whole thing but I'm I'm really really really looking forward to picking this one up I'm feeling like we've turned a corner now we've got a five star the possibility is endless I'm just going to read five stars indefinitely from now well until have to read Freedom mcf next week let's not talk about that moving on can we not talk about that we don't oh are you all right yeah oh sorry Dar I'm going to go read that book and I'm hopefully going to love it fingers crossed good evening it's late to the same day and I have finished a f a bookly vlog I who have never known man and let me sum up my thoughts to you my thoughts and this back uh gu it's good definitely I thought it was fun I like the beat so here's the thing with this one I can recognize why the girlies that love this love this but I don't know if I'm that girly if you haven't read this B basically 40 women are in this underground cave and they don't know how they ended up there a lot of them had lives remember their lives before this but the narrator is a young girl who doesn't remember her life before this and one day they escape above ground and that's all you really need to know and it's about this girl's musings on humanity and Womanhood and love and human relationships and etc etc and like I can recognize this book is good I can recognize this book is great in fact I can recognize it's really well written I can recognize it's really interesting I can recognize it's saying very philosophically interesting things but like you know I look at on good reads readers also enjoyed the books the authors I've read from before in here Sally Rooney all wives Under the Sea by Judy Armfield Mona award um what else I read here but by isaka yuzuki these are all like I feel like I've felt very similar about all of these books where like I can I can see why other people enjoy this but it's just not for me I'm giving a 3.5 I didn't dislike I liked it I liked it but I'm not I'm not feeling the things I think a lot of you have felt from it I'm sorry I feel like she's a Cold Hearted Snake I amum I feel like I sound so negative all the time I mean 3.5 is a good rating right all these the three books in this bog I've given a 3.5 I've enjoyed but not like not enough to give a four which is something like four is like really good book really really good book would recommend really good book 3.5 three is like me fine 3.5 is in between that and that's how I feel about all these books I mean you guys don't want to know what my average rating for the year has been but let's just say it could be it could be a smaller number so yeah I I don't really have a ton of thoughts on this I other than saying I can see what it's saying I can see what it's saying is good I can see why it's doing it well I can see it's a good example of that but like I'm glad I didn't film a mid mid mid checkin I thought this book would like you know have a real impact and it didn't you know I the ending was the ending I was like huh yeah you did something there babes you did something there that ending yeah you yeah you gobbled a little bit you gobbled a little bit maybe tasted it you you sampled the youres you know what I mean but yeah that's how I feel I I do also think like I think this was originally it's recently been published in English I believe but I think it was originally written in the 1990s and I will say I think it feels like it has a modern perspective it feels like it has a modern look on things and like I probably think on the 90s on Longo it's 30 years ago this was published 30 years ago and so I do think that's impressive I think the I mean this is dystopian I say in the future or maybe not that far future but you know what I mean it's set not now and um I think it has a modern outlook on things that is very very interesting I don't want to give tooo much away either I feel like it's I'm struggling to talk about this without spoiling it's hard to spoil stuff for this but yeah it was fine so reading your best books of the year I have had one five star and three 3.5 Stars when it's crazy that when you look at that list um hang on let me get it up again of books I have read that were your favorite books of the year so many of them are five stars Thursday M Club B Richman shark heart tresy C bright women house and SE yours JY by AB menz like so many of them are five styles to me the most popular ones but then I don't seem to get that when I then read the books I haven't read anyways I do feel good I didn't mention this but I don't think to you guys but six people said we solve murders BR chman which I shall be reading this week and the sword of Ken and five people said the spell shop and just for the summer and I think they could I think there's some possible five stars amongst there for me maybe I should have read some of them anyways no I thought I was going to love all these books alas anyways I hope you enjoyed this video let me know what you thought of any of these books cuz go quite a lot of your favorites follow you but um yeah the reformat tree was by far my favorite I'm now going to go start reading for the good re Choice Awards thank God I should have started this video ages ago but I'm so excited so I shall see you guys soon I love you all very very much and yes I'll see you very soon in another video bye [Music]