 Welcome back to my channel, I hope you're all good. Today we're gonna be doing another edition, I don't know if I call it a series but like kind of a... I guess a series of videos that I've done on my channel where I talk about all of the books on my TBR in a specific genre. I've done this previously with mystery and horror and today we're gonna be doing it with all the thrillers on my TBR. I really like doing these videos because I find they're a good way to make those of you new to my channel or like, you know, my TBR is constantly changing so I think it's fun to check in with a specific genre. Probably a genre that I'm like kind of into at the moment. I feel like I've been reading a lot of thrillers at the moment so I feel like this is fun to just check in and like see what you got for the read. And I also think it's fun because I want you guys to tell me from this list what you've most enjoyed, what you want me to get to next, so I can kind of like figure out, you know, what the pulse is, what people, what the people want, give the people what they want. We have got four categories that we're going to be going through to my trusty notebook. We're gonna be talking first through the bulk of the books, the books that I own physically that I can show you. Then we'll talk about the books that are wrapped up. As many of you know, most of my 2021 new releases that I own are wrapped up. And then we'll talk about two that I have ebooks of. Something that I realized when doing this video is that I actually don't have that many thrillers on my TBR. I think I have 27 or 28. Oh my God, that's, that's, that's a lot. Once upon a time, that number would have been much higher. Now my mystery is much higher. I think I have like 48 or something mysteries on my TBR. For a long time, I found it hard to find mysteries or like popular mysteries or new release mysteries. Thrillers are more popular, but I honestly feel like mysteries are starting to have a moment. How have I played a part in that? I like to believe so. Delusion. You can't convince yourself. Whereas now I feel like I found a lot of mysteries I'm interested in. So I have a lot less actual like thrillers. But because I would really class as thrillers on my TBR. But anyway, let's just get into it and chat about all the books that I am excited to read. First, let's talk about these in what sort I'm looking for. Unison. I'm struggling to find words today guys. I have The Wife Between Us and The Golden Couple by Greta Hendricks and Sarah Peckinen. So this is their new release that came out like last month or this month, I don't really know. This is probably now like one of the five oldest books on my TBR that I've owned the longest and haven't read. Feel free to shame me. I have owned this since before I started my channel. I got it from a charity shop. This book has been through it and I still haven't read it. It's like 300 pages. I've almost read this so many times. You guys will know from the beginning of my channel, there's been multiple times I have almost read this book. And then yet, I have not. I have not. So this one is about like two wives, like an ex-wife and the new like replacement and like the tension between them. And this one is about this couple and the wife cheats and then they they stowed to therapy together to try and fix it. And lo and behold, the therapist does not have a license and it's all a bit dodgy. I've never read from Greta Hendricks and Sarah Peckinen the writing duo but I've always had such good things. But I am starting to realize I don't know if the like, you know, the stereotypical like domestic thriller husband and wife situation is for me. I just I don't know if I like that. I find it a bit boring. Like someone's always cheating. You know, someone's always not who they say they are. And I'm just like, I don't think I find like husbands and wives very interesting. Boring. Boring. I don't know. I don't know. It's all just a bit white and middle class. I don't know. I want to see rich people dying. I don't see middle class people cheating. I don't like the music. I'm entitled to my opinion. But I will hopefully give both of you to go. I am very excited. And like they are one of the number one thriller authors, author writing duos, especially out there. Then we have actually one that I need to haul soon. I got this recently. I have The Whisper Man by Alex North. So I was not planning on getting this. It was not really, you know, it kind of had its time a couple years ago. And I wasn't really planning on getting it. But there's this shop in the UK called The Works. And they do, when you go in there, you can get three paperbacks of five pounds. And I saw one I wanted. And then I thought, well, and you would have done it too for a check. Let me get two others that I'm vaguely interested in. And it's hard because like in there is all like, you know, old women romance kind of situation. But anyway, this is one of the ones that I picked up. And all I know about this is that it's like a father and son moved to this new area. There was a serial killer 15 years ago in this sleepy town. And now it seems when they move there, the serial killer might be back. It's all the drama, mate. I just love it. Can we just say the cover for this is fucking hideous. Fucking hideous. The US one, much prettier, much nicer. This, what will we thinking? There's like a butterfly with like skulls and nails. Like it's very bizarre. I really understand. But yeah, I mean, like this was so popular. It's one of the most like popular thrillers that I have on this TBR, like most red. And I just thought, listen, let's give it a go. Like, it's just a thriller. I got it for like, you know, the equivalent of like one pound something. I just thought I might as well pick it up. And it was popular in its day. Then we have one that I'm super actually these next to I'm super duper excited for this one in particular because it's kind of half thriller, half mystery. We have a reckless girls by Rachel Hawkins. This is like a new ish release. I think it came out the start of 2022. We have six friends who go to this deserted island for like a holiday and then one of them dies. And it's you know, they're trying to figure out who they can trust, what's happening. It is and then there were none retelling. And I have had many issues with them. Then there were none retellings because I don't like and then there were none. My one issue with them then there were none retellings is scheduled deaths. I say it every time. I don't like it. I don't like knowing someone's going to die like in the next chapter. I want there to be an element of surprise to the death. It just really it really irritates me. I don't know why. I've heard really good things about the writing in this one. I've heard it's like quite fun, quite campy, quite ridiculous. And it's like halfway between a thriller and mystery. I think I've categorized it as both on my TBR because it's like halfway between both. And listen, rich, stupid people about to die. Sign me up. And then we have another book of the month one that I've received and that is A Flicker in the Dark by Stacey Willingham. This one I'm also super excited for. It's about this girl who many years ago there was a serial killer in a town and her father confessed essentially. And then years and years later in the present day, guess what? The killings are starting again. There's a theme here. There's a theme. Is it a co-incident? Is it a co-incident? I ask you. Is it a co-incident? And the kind of question is, is it a copycat killer or was the correct killer never brought to justice? This has already been like optioned. Before it even came out, it was optioned to be adapted into like a film or TV show. I think for like Emma Stone's company or some shit. And again, I've just heard really good things about this, especially for a debut. I think it's gonna be like a fun, eerie, small town thriller. And yeah, I'm really, really excited for this one. Then we have one of the most bizarre, bizarre like shaped books I've ever owned. I don't know if it's just a mass market payback and we don't really have them in the UK. We have The Escape Room by Megan Golding. Let me just like show you. Like look at it in comparison to the size of a normal paperback. Like what? Why is it so thin? Girlie, you don't need to be that thin. So the ninth swim by Megan Golding I read last year, I think. Yes, the year's all black. And I did really, really enjoy it. So this is another book by Megan Golding. I knew I kind of wanted to continue on reading this author. It's about these colleagues trapped in this escape room and like trying to survive. I like, they go there thinking it's a game and then it's like, oh shit, we're about to die. There are moral people. There are more people. They've done some shady shit in their business lives and it's them kind of like facing the music for that. And yeah, I just really, really loved Megan Golding's writing when I read The Night Swim. I think she had like amazing prose and like really, really fun writing. So yeah, super excited to read this even though it is a strange, like it's so hard to hold the, but what is going on here? Why? What are the choices behind this? Anyway, then one that I'm actually going to be reading soon, sometime this month hopefully, is The Burning Girls by CJ Tudor. This is an art club I have of it. I really like The Chalkman by CJ Tudor, so I'm very excited to get to this one. This one is like this, again, this quaint English town with like a dark past, baby. It's got a dark past. People have been dying, left, right, and center. I can get real dark, but we all know. And actually, I don't think everyone knows it's not my darkness. I can get dark. And I think it's a father and daughter move there, I'm pretty sure, and shit starts with her in. And I just, yeah, I don't know. I feel like CJ Tudor again is a great writer, a great plotter, great atmosphere, and like brings something a little bit different to Tudor's. So yeah. Oh, then we have, again, this is like halfway between a mystery and a thriller. Again, I would probably, there's not many odd categories as both, but this is one that's like halfway between two, Sleep by CJ Tudor. It's like another isolated, right there's a thriller. I think it is. It's like halfway between the two. It's again like a set in this remote hotel in the kind of situation. There's like seven guests and then a murder happens. And I've just again heard really good things about this. Mara from Books Like Woe really enjoyed it. That's why I picked it up. I got this for £3. I, oh, I've still got my receipt. Let me, oh, I got a bookmark. Excuse me. I didn't know you were in there. I'm very intrigued. I'm super excited. I've never read anything from CL Taylor. And there's a Lucy Fo, Lucy Foley Blabbs it. So, okay, then we just quickly have three books that I got from a box of stories. Why do I forget the name then? I got from a box of stories and they are basically like this company that sends you some books that would otherwise have been destroyed. And I got these in the thriller like box I asked specifically for. We have one where it's like sisters going to their aunt's house and like the would start closing on them. It's very mysterious. We have one about a woman who dies and leaves behind her child and her friend gets a letter written before she died. And it's something about like is it possible to love your child too much? I've never really read anything about like mums and kids. So I'm very intrigued about that. And then this one is about a lawyer defending an 11 year old boy who's been accused of killing a younger boy. So I am excited for all of these but I've never really heard anything about them. They're not super popular. I think the guilty one is more red than the other ones. But I still want to get to these at some point because they do all intrigue me in their premises. Premises, that's not the right word. Premises, in their synopsis. And then the last one I can show you physically is Pine by Francine Toon. This was like the thriller of the month from Waterstones one month so that's why I got it. I'm very excited for this one. Again it's like all isolation. We have a daughter and her father who live alone in the highlands. A woman stumbles on the road on halloween night, now drives her back to their house in the morning she's gone and it's like this tight-knit community and they start tearing each other apart and then a teenager goes missing. It's like oh shit! I have heard mixed things about this. I think it's like a horary thriller like halfway between the two. But I do like nature-y gothic thrillers like nature focused gothic thrillers. So that's particularly why I'm so excited for this. Before we get into the books that I can't show you I actually just realized I finished filming the video and I realized there was a couple that I didn't talk to you about because they're on my book cart. First we have Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian. So this one is about this university student who looks like an ordinary university student but she's actually a highly intelligent psychopath out for revenge. So I think what happens is she's part of this secret clinical study with the university psychology department kind of monitoring and watching people who are psychopaths but what happens is I think they start dying? Yeah a string of murders and they all seem to be linked somehow to that investigation. She's kind of being preyed upon by this mysterious murder but she's also out to get revenge. She also wants to like I think kill people herself. She's like I could I could take a bit of that. I could have a bit of that. So I'm very excited for this one. I've heard it's like very well written and very strange. Then we have one of the most popular thrillers I feel like recently which is In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead. It's very the secret history kind of eyes. We have six friends, one college reunion, one unsolved murder. So there's a murder in their friendship group and they're coming back to the first college reunion and they're I think trying the book is trying to figure out who actually committed the murder. I think like one of the friends is like really determined to catch the killer and he just like keeps accusing everyone like you did it! You did it! You did it and like not being right anytime but this is like one of the most popular thrillers that has come out recently. I feel like it's had really really great reviews so I cannot wait to get this. It's like one of the books I want to read most ASAP. And then we have a book I actually bought really recently. It's just come out. It's called The Long Weekend by Julie McMillan. This is about a group of friends, three women arriving for this isolated getaway. You know what's the most exciting thing about winning? It's when you win. I love that feeling! Their husbands haven't arrived yet but they arrived to the location early. When they get there there's a note that says by the time you read this I'll have killed one of your husbands. They don't have any phone signal, they don't have any Wi-Fi. It sounds very very exciting. This is like a kind of traditional thriller. Do you know what I mean? I feel like it's going to be just really fun, really good at what it's doing. And that's why I had to get it. I had to get it. I was very excited. Listen, I might not like husbands and wives but I do like multiple husbands and wives on a holiday together. That gets too excited. Okay then let's just talk about quickly all the other ones. So the ones that I have wrapped up, we have the collective. I cannot remember any of the authors for this so you will see them on your screen. The collective was another one I got from Book of the Month. This is about mothers who, I think all their kids have been killed? Oh my god, not me for getting the synopsis. I think their kids have been murdered and they're like getting revenge. Like mothers getting revenge. The cover is all of them like walking into the night. It's like very dramatic so I'm very excited for that one. We have The Neighbor's Secret which was another one I definitely should have looked up the synopsis for because I can't remember. The level of unprofessionalism far too much. We have The Dinner Guest. This is another one I'm super excited for. Another one I bought because it was a thrill of the month by Waterstones. They get me. They do get me. They do tempt me. This is about like a husband and wife and a couple friends having dinner at their house and one of them ends up murdered. I think the wife is found with a knife in her hand. It's like who killed who? What happened at the dinner party? This is actually the guy who wrote this. Used to run Waterstones Twitter and like social media. I don't know why I always remember that but that's like the one thing I know about the author. We have The Girl in the Wolves which is still one of the thrillers I want to get to most. I'm really on hoping I unwrap it. It's based about this family moving to this house but it seems there's a girl living in the walls of the house. I'm not sure if she's more like ghost-like or if there's actually like this young girl living in the walls of the house and like trying to survive but I love the addition of it that I have. I pre-ordered this last year and I still haven't read it. Then we have Other People's Clothes by Calla Henkel which is kind of like set in the naughties. It's very like in like Brittany era and we have these two friends who start like holding, they live with this other woman, they live at her house like renting and they start like throwing parties but then they think the woman's obsessed with them and like it's out to get them and it sounds very intriguing so I'm very excited to read that one. Two e-books that I have finally are Beneath Devil's Bridge. This one, both of these books I got as e-books were when I had Amazon Prime and you can get Amazon first read, you can get a free e-book every month. So yeah Beneath Devil's Bridge is a podcast one! Yes and yes! Yes and yes! Woohoo! So it's like this podcaster investigating this old case which was supposedly solved but now the murderer doesn't interview with her and he's claiming I didn't do that and the podcaster is trying to get in contact with the old lead detective on the case. At first she's like I'm not engaging with this but then the podcast blows up and it's mysterious and like oh my god who killed her? Like what is happening? Very exciting and the last one which I love the cover for is Lies We Buried. It's about this girl who when she was like eight escaped this basement. She'd been trapped in her whole life and now she's a photographer and she gets invited to work on this project of these murders that are happening and when she goes to the site of one of them it is literally the same setting that she was in as a child. The same toys, the same you know everything on the same setting and there's a note left for her at the scene of the crime. I'm very excited for this. I absolutely love the cover. It seems very eerie, very dark, like a real dark messed up thriller so I'm very excited to treat this one as well. So that is all the thrillers on my TBR. Let me know which of these you have read, if you've enjoyed them, that you're most excited to get to yourself. I would really really love to know. If you got into any video comment a shocked face emoji down below. Thank you for always watching my videos. I've got some super exciting stuff coming within the next couple months, couple weeks. I have like months fan in advance but I have some super exciting stuff coming and hopefully I should be back now to uploading three times a week every week. I feel like I've got my shit together again. So you will see me three times a week, Tuesday, Thursdays and Sundays. Thank you so much for watching. I love you and I'll see you soon. Bye!