 Hello friends, how are we doing? It's time for a video I get excited about, but also I feel I always feel very nervous to this video. We'll get into one in a second. But we're going to be talking about my most anticipated releases for the first half of the year. I always do it in two halves because there's loads of books that are going to come out in the second half this year that we're all going to be excited about that haven't even been announced yet. New Richard Osman book, he's got a book coming out in September. Do we know what it's about? No, actually I listened to his podcast. This is, we're already off on a tangent. I in my brain, I want to keep this video very concise because we've got a lot of books to talk about but here we go. He has started doing a podcast called The Rest is Entertainment where he talks about like movie and TV. If you don't know Richard Osman worked in TV for many, many years before he started writing books, he like created a lot of famous TV shows. I think like Deal or No Deal. I don't know if he created it, but he like created a lot of really famous, particularly game TV shows here in the UK. So it was predominantly what he talks about, but he did speak about his new book the other day and he was like, yeah I've barely written it. I've got to get it in by March. So there's Richard Osman book coming out this year that we don't know anything about or we know a little bit about. We know the vague synopsis about a father, daughter, father and daughter-in-law, detective, agency, GUI. But anyways, tangent over. We're going to be talking about my most anticipated release this is my first half year and I've got over 40 books to talk about. 40 books. I don't like to read synopsis to you in this video. I like to turn up and just tell you the things that stand out to me, but I like to free will it basically. I have just gone through and read the synopsis of all of these books. So like it's not like I'm underprepared. I have read the synopsis of all of them, but I'm not going to read the synopsis out to you. I'm going to tell you what I think is going to make you most excited. I'm going to, you know, I'm going to phrase in my own way. There's no plagiarism here. I'm saying people who read our synopsis are plagiarizing. I will speak for myself. That's a horrible thing to say. No it's not. I'm very nervous because we want to keep this book, this video snappy. We don't want it to be 40 minutes long and we've got over 40 books to talk about. So we should just begin, shall we? And I'm going to tell you about all the books that you should be excited about coming out this year. Really, I have no business talking about 40 books. I'm excited about coming out in the first half of the year when I read about 35 new releases every year that come out that year. So it can all that. Um, but let's get into it, shall we? I'm excited for a lot of these books. I get very excited about new releases because I'm just so full of promise. I just want to say I'm putting the release dates. We're going in order of release date. However, some of these release dates are UK ones. Some of them won't be UK ones. Some of them will be the US ones and the book won't come out then in the UK and I just didn't know that. The New World Children's Moe comes out in February in the UK, but it's already out in the US. So I've got it down it's coming out in February because it's not out for me. But some of these books are they've got the release date wrong for UK and some of them it will be the UK release date and those videos will be like, what? That's coming out here in the US. Moving on. Okay, first we have got The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins. I have read Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins and I really did enjoy it. This one sounds very intriguing. It's about this Heiress who dies. She's very notorious. I think she was like kidnapped at some point. She's got like millions and millions of pounds of wealth and her wealth goes to her adopted son and at first he ain't interested in it. He's like, no, I'm all right and he goes off, gets, goes to the countryside, gets married. But then his uncle dies and it goes back to him again. He's like, okay, right, I'm coming back. I think it's to do with him and his wife going back to this house and family secrets, family tensions. Maybe someone's gonna murder them for the money. Who knows? You know, Rachel Hawkins, I've only read one book, but for me it was very like fun thriller. You know, it was very like we're here for shits and giggles. We're here to have fun. We're not going to take ourselves too seriously. And that's The Heiress. Then we have The Night of the Storm by Nishita Parekh. This is a debut and it's set during a hurricane and I believe a woman and her son who recently, the woman's recent gone through a divorce, left the son's father. Everyone in their apartment block gets chucked out because they're like, it's not going to be safe in the hurricane. So they go to her sister's family home. The husband's a little bit weird. Then I think some of the husband's family turn up and then someone dies and they're all trapped in this house in the storm. I saw the drama me. I just love it. I love and I was like, close circle murder mystery. I feel like that. I didn't read a lot last year. I actually didn't read. I've got a video coming up where I'm going to recommend the 10 best murder mysteries I've read in the past year. And it was actually a struggle. I am not reading enough murder mysteries. I feel like we had a, we had like a increase in them and then they're dying again and I'm not happy about it. I'm really, really excited about this one. It sounds incredible. The cover, I feel like it's so much ferric. I'm so ready for it. Then we have Only If You're Lucky by Stacey Runningham, who is an author I somehow read. They're two first books, even though they're not like an incredible author to me. I've read them. This one very interestingly is about female friendships is about, I think, a university and one of them is like this star girl, you know, the other ones shy and they become friends and they move in together and then a nearby like guy from another, what's the word, frat, I don't know, American words, is murdered and the star girl, she goes missing and um, shy girl is like gonna investigate, you know, which is interesting because Stacey Runningham's first two books have been very much based, I feel like, on a little bit older characters, very much to do with like couples, more domestic thrillers. She hasn't uncovered female friendships yet. I'm intrigued to see how she does that. Then we have The Mystery Guest by Nina Proz, this is the sequel to The Maid. We're following Molly The Maid again at her hotel and a murder happens. I think it's like a really well-known mystery author is murdered. Is it his secretary? Is it the doorman? Has Molly got something to do with it but Molly's going to investigate it again and I did enjoy The Maid. I didn't love it but I think it was a fun mystery so I'm excited for the next one in the series to come out. Then we've got one that I actually already know, I got a advanced copy, well I think this is a finished copy but I got it advanced, is Helly and Death by Oscar Jensen. This is Scandi, what's it called? Scandi Cosi, a love letter to Agatha Christie. Okay, I got to tell you what it's about, so it goes a snowstorm, a country house, old friends reunited, it's going to be murdered. Look there's a floor plan everyone, come on, come on. Let me tell you before I press play I like the song. I'm in love with the song. Okay I'm not going to read you out many synopses but this one sounds, I got, I got to read you out the start of this. Torben Helly, I'm sorry, a Danish expert and owner of several excellent Scandinavian jumpers has been dragged to a remote south snowbound Northumbrian mansion for a 10-year reunion with old university friends. Things start to go sideways when their host, a reclusive and irritating tech entrepreneur, makes some shocking revelations at the table. Then these are followed by an apparent suicide and group faces attest to their wits and their trust, Snowden and Cut-Off, Torben decides to draw upon all the tricks of golden age detectives pass in order to solve the mystery. This is very exciting, this is very exciting, I'm really excited for this one. Oh I think this is going to be great. Look at it, I love a floor plan. That's how you get me. So I, I really need to get to this soon. I feel like because it snowed in it could snow soon. What can I read this for? Okay let me go like rearrange some of my videos so that maybe I can read this in February. Then we have got No One Can Know by Kate Asmarshall. I haven't read any Kate Asmarshall's adult thrillers that she's started coming out with yet but I'm really intrigued. So this one, a girlie and her husband, she finds out she's pregnant, they're broke, everything's going wrong, she's sacked from her job and she's like okay, my love, it's something I haven't told you. I actually own my old family home with my sisters, we own it jointly, we can't sell it but we can go live in it rent-free. Okay? Only thing I haven't told you is my parents were murdered there and people maybe think I did it. A profound silence has entered the chat. So I think it's about her reuniting with her sisters, mystery, who murdered their parents, etc, etc. I'm very excited for it. Then we have one, another one that I got on Arkov. Death on the Lysotania by R.L. Graham. Lysotania is one of the most luxurious ocean liners within 1915 and there's a murderer on board. There's a murderer on board and we're stuck on a boat and someone killed someone. A man's body is discovered in a lock cupboard with a key inside and no gun to be found so he's shot but the room is locked. Locked room and a mystery. I love a good locked room and a mystery. I think I'm gonna enjoy that. Then we have Come and Get It by Kylie Reid who is the author of Such a Fun Age. This one has very mixed reviews already. A lot of people are giving it three stars, I've seen have got the arcs of it. It's about this professor and students and money, indiscretion, bad behavior, desire, consumption, reckless abandon. I'm a little bit nervous for it. I really liked what Such a Fun Age was saying, what it was doing. I'm interested and I love the cover. I think the cover is very fun but a lot of people are saying it's kind of just like people at college behaving badly. So then we have Bride by Annie Reid where there's a few in this video that I'm not gonna spend too long on but they're my most excited ones because they were on my 24 books read and 24 video and this was one of them. It's a paranormal romance between a werewolf and a vampire who have to go into an arranged marriage to preserve the alliance, the tentative alliance but their rivals between their clans. And you're going home sweetie. That's what it is. I'm very excited. She can just keep writing. She can just keep writing and I'll keep reading. You know, I love you Allie. I love you. Then we've got 14 days by the author's guild. I wrote dynamics by Margaret Atwood. I think it's edited by Margaret Atwood but it's set in this apartment block in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns and they meet on the roof every night. Like the residents of this apartment block meet on the roof every night and they're like chatting about their lives and it's written by various authors but I think that you don't know who's written each chapter. So each author is written a different chapter but you don't know who it is. Who are some of the other authors? Oh Celestine, Emma Donahue, Neil Gaiman, John Grisham. So yeah, there's a lot of really prominent authors. I think this is an interesting idea and also not knowing who wrote each chapter. I wonder if I'll be able to like pick them out or if anyone would be able to pick them out. Next we have an education in malice by Essie Gibson. Some people said this is a sequel to A Daryl of Blood. I don't think it is. I think it's just another vampire rebook. We're set at this like school for girls, isolated and Carmina's there. Carmina is a student. Yep, yep. I'm excited for this one. Dark academia, you know, it's coming out in February. I feel like it should come out in autumn or like, you know what I mean? It should have come out. That's a bit late because then we're getting into springtime and like we're in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts. Then we have The Warm Hands of Ghost by Catherine Arden, another one that is on my 2024 TBR because it's Catherine Motherfucking Arden, baby. I don't know why I always say that. It's just Catherine Motherfucking Arden, do you know what I mean? Like it's just Catherine Motherfucking Arden. This is a horrible one book which doesn't make me nervous. But we're following a brother and sister. The sister is a nurse and she has just found out that her brother has died but for some reason she doesn't really believe it to be true. And then we're following the brother a year earlier when he finds himself I think in an overturned pillbox with an enemy soldier and they're trying to fight their way out together. I just think it's a standalone. It's Catherine Arden. She's gonna give it to me. And the way she's been speaking about this book has me very intrigued. She's speaking about like what a labor it was, how difficult it was to write. Like how, what, she's been negging it up. I'm not gonna lie. She's been negging it up. And so yeah, I'm really excited for this one. Then we have What Feasts at Night by T. King Fisher. This is a sequel to What Moosa Dead. And this one we're following Alex Easton again as I think they go to their old family hunting lodge and they turn up and the caretaker is dead, the lodge has been overturned and there's like a strange silence hanging around the lodge. It's again, it's a short novella. It's horror. I love T. King Fisher. I'm reading all T. King Fisher stuff so I'm very excited for this one. Then we have one that's tentative. It's tentative. It's tentative. We Have the Women by Kristen Hannah. It's a book set in the Vietnam War. I don't know. I'm just like you all know that Kristen Hannah's got another book coming out. I enjoyed The Nightingale but like that is a book that is like oh yeah I'm gonna make you cry. My purpose is to make you cry. And I don't know how much it earned it. Like I don't look back at that and think I was really emotionally invested but like I bold reading that book. I remember reading it still. The reviews, oh my god guys. It's got 2,900 advanced ratings and people have obviously got ARCs and it has got a 4.68 average rating. Everyone loves me. Well the old bastard hates me but they're just wrong. So this is basically telling the stories of women during the Vietnam War where their stories have been forgotten essentially. Then we have Miss Lady in Parts Half-Nine by Sean Allquire. I think I'm gonna read this as soon as it comes out. I have a video that I think I'm gonna push back a couple weeks so that this book can go in the video. I can read it as soon as it comes out. This is The Next In The Way We're Children series. We're following Anne C again who we met, well we met in like a previous previous book but we really followed her in the last book In The Way We're Children series. If you don't know what this series yet is, where have you been? But it's about these portal worlds these kids go to and it's the perfect one for them. And Anne C maybe is a little bit easier at finding doors. Maybe she finds it a bit easier than other people. So maybe she's gonna help some other people find doors. Maybe we're gonna go on a quest. It's been a while since we had a quest. And basically the books alternate between being in a world, in a portal world, like in a character's portal world, and then another one where we maybe start off at End of the West School for We're Children and like either it's set at the school or we travel from the school if that makes sense and this is one that starts at the school. And I love those ones. I think I'm more for school galley. I like the school setting. Oh god, we're only in February still. Then we have Tender Beast by LaZelle Sanbury. LaZelle is an authortuber. I used to watch a lot when I was really in my authortuber days. I haven't been watching as much because I'm that's not my focus right now but maybe it will be by the end of the year. But LaZelle has the Bloodlight Magic Geology, Delicious Monsters which came out last year which I had one of the things about and this is her release this year. And I just, I own Bloodlight Magic. I need to read it. All of her books sound incredible. This one is about a family dynamic. I think it's about these four siblings and the eldest one is told when her before her mother dies to look after Dom I think and she's like okay. And then she finds Dom with blood on his hands and there's a body and she's like uh and he's like I promise I didn't murder. And so it's about these family secrets and family dynamics. I think that's a very interesting idea of a book. Next one I can't tell you much about. I can't remember. I can't remember and the plot I read it. I didn't give me much. It is a dark and drowning tide by Alice and Saf. I just added it because of the cover. I'm gonna be quite honest with you. Great gowns, beautiful gowns. It's sapphic fantasy with a sharp-tongued folklorist and her academic rival must team up to solve their mentor's murder. Sapphic fantasy romance. And listen I'm not the biggest like romanticy fan as we keep proving but I think something about this one and it's I think I'm hoping it's gonna have very lush lyrical writing based on the cover. This is entirely based on the cover. But like when I saw that cover I couldn't not add it to my to my spreadsheet. Could I? Nope. Nope. Then we have Murder Road by Simone St James. I'm really excited about this one. So a young couple they're driving down the road they're trying to find they're like we're on our way to our honeymoon where do we like where's our where's our resort and they pick up a hitchhiker and find out they look at the hitchhiker and there's blood seeping out of their coat and then this like truck starts running towards them and the hitchhiker dies. Gag a trandra. Here's the thing. So most of James's books always have like a speculative element to them. So I'm suspecting that there's like a loop or like old murders are being relived on this road. It's set in 1995. Oh, I suppose it James. I love I love her fresh take on books. It's kind of like a horror kind of like a murder mystery kind of speculative. There's so many layers to it. So I'm very excited for Murder Road. I think that could be a good one this year. Then we have The Best Way to Burry Your Husband by Alexia Cassele. This one is about four women who kill their husbands and they're helping each other bury the bodies basically basically. Good for her. Good for her. Good for her. I'll see you tonight. See you tonight. Then we have West Sleeping Girls Lie by Farida Abikey Ahmeday. This is the author of Ace of Spades which I didn't love and everyone else loved but I want to give her another chance. This is again set at like a boarding school. She loves a good like prestigious school setting. Girl new to boarding school discovers dark secrets and cover-ups after her roommate disappears and a student is found dead. So I'm out of mystery. I'm intrigued. I love the cover. I'm going to give her another go. I'm going to give her another go. Then we have The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentil. This is about a mystery writer who turns up to like her brother's house and is like let me in. Let me in. I need to write these books. But then her mentor is brutally murdered and her brother is the suspect. I read The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentil which I didn't love as much as I was hoping but I did really enjoy it. I feel like her books always have like a little like a mystery but with like a little element like a weird element to them you know a little added element. Then we have The Kellaby Code. Here's the situation with this one. The Kellaby Code. It's got some 16 ratings so not a lot of people have read this yet in terms of arcs but it's got a 3.25 average rating which is not a good start. I'm a little bit concerned but part of that is probably because it's got so few ratings like a one it's got one one star and that will throw it off a lot. But it's about this guy who is living a world he can't afford to in which he doesn't belong but he like does stuff with his friends but then he finds out his friends are like dating and he's like absolutely not. I love one of you. Maybe maybe he's gonna kill one of them. I don't know. The plot doesn't give me a lot but Rich Nosman recommended it on his podcast the other day and said like it's his favorite book he's written ages. So like I have to listen to Richard. Where would I be if I didn't listen to Richard? I have to so I've added it to my spreadsheet. Richard loved it so I've probably got to read it. Then we've got Icarus by Kate Ankrem. I really enjoyed everything I've read from Kate Ankrem. She's got very very unique writing and this is I'm not going to tell you the whole plot because it's really confusing but all you need to know reimagines the tale of Icarus as a star-crossed love story between a young art thief and the son of the man he's been stealing from. And if you've read Kate Ankrem before and you know her writing you just know what we're in for. You just know what we're in for. That's what I'm going to tell you. You have to know if you get the girls are gonna get it and the girls are don't don't. Like if you know the vibe of Kate Ankrem you know what we're going for and I'm very excited. Oh then we have one I'm so excited for. I think this is gonna be so good. We have How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin for fans of Knives Out and the Thursday Murder Club. This one's so fun so it's about this woman who when she was young in 1965 she receives a prophecy from like a fortune teller saying yeah girl you're gonna be murdered. Sucks to be you. And so she spends her whole life trying to solve her murder. She's compiling dirt on everyone in life. She's got dossiers baby and then her is it her niece? Oh her granddaughter? I'm not sure. Some relative. Oh it's her great aunt. Yeah okay yeah okay so it's her great niece. She turns up the house and finds this woman murdered. She's been murdered and so she's trying to use all the dirt that she's dug up and like the secrets and everything to like figure out who's done this murder. I think this is gonna be a great release this year. Then we have as you guys know if you watched my last video one of my most exciting releases again it is The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Tartan. We all need to take a moment. We all need to take a moment. Okay so we've got the last 122 people left and three scientists in this world. They are on this little island. The whole rest of the world has been destroyed by this fog. They are protected on this island from this fog okay. They are like they're fishing, they're farming, they're living their lives like whoo we're on the island. Then one of the scientists is murdered and it triggers a lowering of the security system and so the fog's gonna come get them if they don't solve what the murder happened. They have 92 hours and the security system has also wiped everyone's memories of exactly what happened the night before which means someone on the island is a murderer and they don't even know it. The murderer doesn't know that they did the murder. Sorry. I'm not kidding that's the best song I've ever heard. Oh my god. I'm so excited for this one. This is gonna, this is gonna be first house. This is gonna be first house. This is gonna be first house. I'm so excited. Well we have a lot of my most excited perks coming out in a row. Then we have Just For The Summer by Abby Jimenez. This is also this video and the next one was in the video. Just For The Summer is about this boy and a girl who both when they date people that person after they break up goes on to find their soulmate, the love of their life and so they decide to date to cancel each other out. Abby Jimenez has become one of my romance girlies. I trust her. I get along with her. I love her romances and this one's like her first one that I've read that's a bit speculative so I'm very excited for it. Then we have The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson. This girlies mother disappeared when she was younger. She's lived in the shadow of her mother's disappearance forever. A documentary is being made about the disappearance and her mother turns up again. This is gonna be me and Holly Jackson reunited. We're gonna get along again. We're gonna be besties again. We're gonna forget if I've survived ever existed. We don't need to talk about that. But yeah, I think this is gonna be a return to form for Holly Jackson and I'm very, very, very excited. Then we have The Gathering by CJ Tudor who is a very reliable author for me and I'm just gonna read you out the synopsis because it's so short. It says, A small Alaskan town, a missing boy, a brutal murder, a detective bought in from out of state to assist the former sheriff who investigated a similar murder 25 years ago. But are they hunting a twisted psychopath or something even more terrifying? That's all we know. But the idea of it being set in this small, isolated Alaskan town, very exciting to me. Then we have The Familiar by Lee Bardugo. I'm gonna be honest with you, the plot of this one is not going in my head but I love Lee Bardugo and I'm excited for something different from her. I'm very, I love whenever she comes up with something different. Grisha first. Fuck off, honestly. I guess that really upset her and I heard that she never wants to see my face again. Sabrina! This is a historical fantasy set during the Spanish Golden Age and I think there's like political maneuverings and secrets and hiding and scheming. Just look at the cover. We've all added it to our most anticipated pay releases. The synopsis is sometimes when I'm doing this video there's just certain synopsis that don't make it into the brain. Like I try and they're just not easily digestible. They don't make it in. But I'm very excited. I'm gonna love it and I'm gonna read it. I'm gonna read it this year. Oh then we have One of Us Knows by Alyssa Cole. Again, I didn't love None of Us What No? When No One Is Watching. I didn't love When No One Is Watching as much as everyone else did but this one sounds very interesting. We've got Konitia Nash who has Disassociative Identity Disorder. So she has lots of altars. They have lots of... The synopsis refers to the characters both she and they. They've become a caretaker of this historical estate. They get stuck on the island because of like a storm I think and this guy that she hates and what her life crashing down is murdered and she's the prime suspect and they have to figure out what's going on. So I think that sounds like a very interesting synopsis so I'm excited for that one. They only have When Among Crows by Veronica Roth. I've really been intrigued by a lot of the stuff Veronica Roth has been coming out with lately. I feel like Divergent happened and I feel like she disappeared but I don't think she did. I think she came out with like another trilogy. But I really enjoyed Poster Girl by Veronica Roth. I really love the short story arc that she wrote in one of the like Amazon Kindle collections. And then she's come out with two novellas. A very different sounding and I'm just intrigued by this one. Step into a city where monsters feast on human emotions. Knights split their soul to make their weapons and witches always take more than they can give. We're gonna go find Baba Yaga for an enchanted flower. I don't know. I just like the cover and everything that Veronica Roth is doing at the moment intrigues me so I added it. Then we have The House That Horror Built by Christina Henry. I love the cover for this one. I love it. This is about a woman who is cleaning the house of a reclusive horror director. She loves horror films. She's like, oh my god this is so fun. Look at these props that were in these horror films. I'm dusting it. And then she starts to hear a voice behind a locked door of someone calling for help. But our guy lives alone and never has any visitors so like who the fuck is this? I love the cover. I think it's gonna be camp. Camp. It's camp. It's camp. I don't know what to tell you. Then we've got The Main Character by Jacqueline Goldis. I really enjoyed The Chateau by Jacqueline Goldis. I know that everyone loved it. But I enjoyed it and I love the cover of this one. So we've got this mystery author who hires real people and conducts intensive interviews with them for her mystery books. Okay and she puts the main character, the new main character on a train with her brother, her best friend and her ex fiancee all passing on this plane. And then people are gonna be murdered. What's going on? It's like going on a plane. It's on a train through like Italy. Like the kind of... What's the word? You know what I mean? Like the nice parts of Italy. Like on the coast where everyone's like what's going on all day? We're there, right? That's the vibe. And it's secrets. It's set on a train. I love a train. I love isolation. I love secrets in the past. So I'm really excited for this one. I love the cover. I think it's gonna be a fun one. Then we have Flawless Girls by Anna-Marie Macklemore. This is about two sisters who get sent off to this private boarding school. One leaves within a day. The other one comes back and is like losing her shit. She's like acting very strange. Is possibly murderous and then it goes missing like say. And her sister's like what? What's going on? I've already read one, Anna-Marie Macklemore. But Anna-Marie Macklemore's books always make it onto my most anticipated racist list because I always love the synopsis of them. Then we have The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley. I really... I will read the synopsis out to you again because it's very short and we don't know a lot yet. I spoke about this in my other videos. There's another one that's on my 2024 TBR. It says, welcome to the opening weekend of the manor, a luxury resort built on top of old secrets and an ancient word. And the characters we have are the founder, the lover, the mystery guest, the kitchen help, the detective, all have an agenda, all have a past but not everyone will survive. Lucy Foley, the woman that you are, the love of my life. I will defend you to the death and I will always read your books. Thank you. Then we have another Ali Hale's word. We have her like normal adult romance book. It's sciencey. It's love. I think that they're wanting to buy each other's companies and they have like a secret affair. I don't know if that's quite... Or like she works at the thing. She works at the place that he wants to buy and she's like off limits but they start an affair. It's Ali Hale's word. We know what we're going. You don't need to know the synopsis. Then we have She Left by Stacy Gray which I think is this a debut? Yeah this is a debut that I thought sounded interesting. So this is about a girl who walked out of a house party, left her friends one night and the neighbor all brutally murdered and 20 years later 10 people with connections to the crime have been invited to a remote cliffside house by a journalist looking to do a story on the crimes but then not everything's what it seems. Maybe they're going to die. They're isolated. There's a lot of isolated house books this year which I love. I love that for me. At the end of the day all I want to say is thank you Lady Gaga. We have How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive by Craig Dulley. It sounds like another... There's a lot of horror movie. I've got The House that Horror Built, How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive and we've got Horror Movie. This is apparently a darkly humorous horror novel. This is a famous 80s slasher director set out to shoot the most terrifying horror movie ever made using an occult camera that might be and probably is demonic. So we need to know babes. It's all we need to know. Craig, thank you. The idea of a demonic camera probably just starts wailing. The camera just starts wailing randomly. Absolutely. Absolutely. Then we have Middle of the Night by Riley Sager. This is Riley's first time writing a male protagonist. How does he do it? What a brave step Riley. This is about a guy who I think in their backyard him and his friend were sleeping in a tent one night. You know as a kid sometimes you're like oh my god I want to go camping and like you think I'll just go camping my back garden. In the night someone sliced the tent open with a knife and stole his best friend. 30 years later he goes back to his old family home. People let things start appearing around the house in the garden that like are his best friends and he's like what the fuck is going on? And something that Riley Sager's been playing with a lot in his recent books is is there a supernatural element or isn't there? That's been a running theme in a lot of his books and sometimes there has been a supernatural element and sometimes there hasn't and that excites me. That excites me because you're keeping me on my toes. I love a speculative element but like with him he's always got a hint of like is there or isn't there and sometimes there isn't sometimes there isn't. You know with someone's in James you always pretty much know there is going to be a speculative element and that is that is going to be there but like I like that Riley's keeping us guessing so I'm excited for that one. How have we got left? We've got two left. We've got The Cautious Travelers Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks. I think this is another debut. So it's the end of the 19th century and the world is a wash with marvels. I love anything that's like Victorian times. There's nothing so marvellous as The Wastelands, a terrain of terrible miracles that lies between Beijing and Moscow. Nothing touches us abandon wilderness except the great trans Siberian Express, an impenable train built to carry cargo across continents but which now transports anyone who dares to cross the shadowy wastelands. On the platform steps a curious cast of characters, a grieving woman with a borrowed name, a famous child born on the train and a disgraced naturalist all heading for the great exhibition in Moscow. I love anything on a train. I love the cover. I love the historical setting. Absolutely, absolutely. I'm obsessed. And our last book is one I just mentioned. It's Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay. I've never read anything by Paul Tremblay but I'm willing to give him a go. And it's like this cursed, you know the cursed film trope slash genre. In 1993 a group of young guerrilla filmmakers spent four weeks making horror movie and a tourist disturbing art house horror flick. The weird part, only three of the film scenes but ever reached the public. I've started reading The Good Snoppy's Archie because it's just exciting. And then basically three decos later Hollywood wants a reboot and there's only one surviving like member of the cast or character and he's gonna try and like help them make the film but everything starts coming back to him and like the memories and the darkness and what have you. Okay everyone that is almost anticipated releases for the first half of the year. Wow, that was a lot. I feel like I got through the most good pace and didn't bore you though. I tried to keep things moving but yeah let me know any of these that you're excited for too. Let me know which ones you think I'm most gonna love because as we know we're trying to make this like my best reading year ever. It's not off to a good start so I'm really gonna need some things to pick up the numbers. I'm really excited for a lot of these. I think a lot of them have really high hopes and high potential that I'm gonna love them. So let me know also if there's any books that you're really excited for coming out in the first half of the year that I have not mentioned. There could be. There could be some books I have not mentioned that you're very excited for but let me know and I will see you guys soon in another video. Bye!