 Being the slayer, Buffy didn't have a lot of time to read, but we are going to pretend that she did. But welcome back to my channel. Today, as you can tell by the title, we are going to be reading like Buffy Summers aka Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I love Buffy, I have grown up with Buffy. I will get more into that in a second. But before we actually get into the video, I want to take a moment to thank the sponsor because we've done a bit of a themed intro to the sponsorship for this video. Right, the sponsor is Book of the Month. I managed to wrestle the amazing blue box off of a vampire. So many people probably know that Book of the Month is this super popular online service for book readers, which honestly, I still can't believe I'm working with them. It's kind of been my ultimate YouTube goal. 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Okay, so let's talk about this video now. Buffy Summers, an icon, a legend. She's an icon, she's a legend, and she is the moment. Now come on now. But I thought she would have read more in the seven series that the show was on. I'm not gonna lie. I did my research. I like watch those episodes. I went and I looked it up online and my spooky gal ain't read a lot of spooky books, which is what I was hoping for. She ain't read anything. She didn't have time. She was too busy killing vampires. She had no time to read, basically. So I present to you my research that I have done in Band Candy. Season three, episode six. When faced with the prospect of selling the band to Candy, Buffy compares herself to fictional character Willie Noemann from the play Death of a Salesman. I have not read a play in a long time, but it kind of has like a nostalgic feeling for me because obviously at GCSE at school in English, she'd read a lot of plays and then I did drama for A level and we'd read loads of plays for that. And I actually really enjoy reading plays. So I'm gonna read Death of a Salesman. I literally don't know anything about this play. I cannot tell you the plot. A lot of you are probably sitting there screaming at your screens, but I know nothing about the play, but we're gonna read it, okay? We're gonna read it. Then during season five, there's an episode called Buffy vs Dracula. I knew I wanted to read a vampire book for this video. I feel like it's only fitting, but I've read Dracula and I hated it because it shit. So instead for this, I am going to be reading Hunting Prince Dracula by Carrie Manuska. Okay, this is the second book in the Salking Jack the Ripper series. I didn't love the first in the series, but I love the vibes. I love the potential of this series, but I remember the writing wasn't quite my vibes. And I think in this one, Audrey Rose has traveled to Romania to study and people are saying that Prince Dracula is alive and revived and is killing people, essentially. That was kind of the two references to any literature I could find Buffy reading. So then the last book, for a third book, I was thinking, well, what would she actually read? If I had to imagine what Buffy would actually read, what would it be? And I think she would love romance. She's a bit of a romantic at heart, and I feel like she'd like to read normal people doing normal things and having a normal romance. In the show, she's always craving a normal life and a romance. She's always in romances, so I thought I should definitely do romance. And the one I have chosen is the Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood. It's about these two scientists, one who's a PhD student and the guy is a professor at the school. And it's their romance, basically. And I've heard really, really good things about this. I'm looking forward to reading a bit of fun, lighthearted romance. So that is the third book we're going to be reading. So we have got these two plus Death of a Salesman. And I'm super excited. My whole camera literally just fell on the floor. The tripod just fell and hoping we're still alive. I'm hoping the camera's okay. It looks okay. Okay, so turns out that although my camera didn't break, my microphone did. Lo and behold. So in the next like two clips, the audio quality isn't as good because it's just my camera's microphone. After that, I realized and bought my microphone again. And then the audio quality gets back to normal. So like the next two clips is bad audio. But then it gets okay again, basically. I am going to start Death of a Salesman. I have got the ebook on my very old iPad. Oh, she's so real. And again, I literally do not know what to expect. I have no idea what the plot of this play is, but I'm excited to give it a read. So let's go read. I'll go read Act One. Then we'll chat about it. Then I'll go read Act Two. Death of a Salesman. It's fucking boring. It's fucking boring. But one saving grace is I'm enjoying reading like a theater script. Again, I'm enjoying reading like with stage directions and just it's taken me back to when I did drama A level and how much I loved it and how much I enjoyed acting and seeing plays, going to plays. Like I haven't been to a play for so long and I used to go to a lot and it's taking me back to that element of it. That's a really good thing. It's basically following this guy, this old guy, and we're following him, his wife and his two adult sons and he is starting to kind of get easily confused between what is reality and what is not. He's kind of blending realities between the past and now and he's got very fractured relationships with one of his sons in particular because of it. He doesn't appreciate his wife. It's just boring. Listen, I don't like the kind of plays and I used to have this problem back when I used to like read a lot of plays, watch a lot of plays where it's like it happens in 24 hours in my room. Like I don't like it. I really, I don't like it. Just give me a bit of spice. Add a little bit of spice. Like why are we always going to have all these plays that I mean I know it's good for like set dressing and everything like we can just stay in the same place but it's boring. The thing is it's very different to a book, isn't it? Because even a novella, it's different even to if a novella happened in one room with the characters that we only met for like a hundred pages because I feel like we would know more about inner motivations with plays. There's no like descriptions or what the characters were thinking and you kind of have to like figure it out for yourself and I don't like that. Just serve it all up to me on a platter please. But poor Buffy Summers, I can understand why she didn't really like school because reading this shit I have better things to do with my time. I finished Death of a Salesman and I don't even want to talk to you about it. I was bored as fuck. I was bored as hell. What a miserable reading experience. I know in a way that the author has done what they intended to do because it's just like miserable. It's like misery about life and time and work and one's relationship with the relentless pursuit of work. So I know the author did something well but fuck me. I did not enjoy reading that at all. The ending made me a little bit emotional but that was it. The rest of the time I was just pushing myself through this so I'm gonna give it two stars. Two stars because the ending I felt was poignant. But fuck I just I literally have no words. Right now life couldn't get any worse. I literally have no words. Listen I understand it's a classic, it's a tragedy, it's not supposed to be fun and game but that it was like torture. And I think as I'm already a little bit sad this week I'm already a bit down in myself and so just reading sad shit I'm just not in the mood to do that and so it was really hard and I don't even want to talk to you about it because I don't want to talk about sad things. I just thought it was boring like it's literally just characters standing around talking. Nothing happens. That is not how I like my theatre. I mean here's the thing I do appreciate more character-focused theatre sometimes. Like it doesn't have to be fucking like Les Mis where we're all singing and dancing and shits going off but it has to be interesting and this was not. So I mean that's what I'm not talking about any longer. I'm sorry Buffy Summers that you had to you know sit through this and study this probably. I'm sorry Miss Buffy. I feel your pain. I cannot imagine how oh my god I cannot imagine how terrible it would have to be to do this at school like to analyse this in depth. So I'm gonna go ahead and start hunting Prince Dracula. Hopefully this is gonna be a bit more of like a fun easy read. All I know is that Audrey and Thomas are back on another adventure together and I'm hoping it's gonna be like spooky and gothic and all of those things. So yeah I'm gonna go ahead and read this now. I am already like over halfway through hunting Prince Dracula. I have kind of been flying through this I'm not gonna lie to you. So in this explain the plot for this could be mild spoilers for book one but I really don't think it is because I'm not gonna tell you what the actual mystery like resolution was in book one. You know that Audrey Rose and Thomas Cresswell are gonna be off on different adventures throughout every book in the series. I know that about books three and four. I ain't read them but like you know that. So basically Audrey and Thomas have gone to Romania to study at this really prestigious school in Romania that is held in Vlad the Impaler's aka Dracula um his old castle. Is it a coincidence? Is it a coincidence? I ask you is it a coincidence? There's this kind of rumor that Dracula's back and people are going missing and people are dying and the girlies want to try and figure it out. I'm really enjoying the atmosphere in this. I think this these books this series relies on its atmosphere. It does have a good vibe. It does have a vibe that the girlies eat up. It's got this like snowy atmospheric spooky haunting old castle aesthetic. It's a pin chest board of a book. That's what these books are. That's why people love them. They are pin chest boards of a book and the relationship between Audrey Rose and Thomas Cresswell is everyone's old tumblr fanfic relationship that we all fucking fall for. Here's the thing. I don't love the writing the writing style. The writing style does throw me off a bit because it is first person from Audrey Rose and she's just like this girl she is going through some stuff but like being in her head and her inner monologue all the time is a bit exhausting. It reminds me a little bit to a lesser degree but it reminds me a little bit of Midnight Sun and being in Edward's head all the time. Like I'm like girly like we're on the same thought track every 20 pages. It's just repeating. I don't know if I've ever been the biggest fan of the relationship between Audrey Rose and Thomas. I feel like I'm starting to warm up to it but I do find him kind of annoying. Booktube loves him. Everyone who reads this book loves Thomas Cresswell. He is like one of the OG guys that everyone loves. I just don't feel it but I do think this one is better than the first I think right now for me. I'm just flying through it. It's a very easy read. I think we've got a lot more interesting side characters in this one. There's a lot of interesting characters at the castle at the school particularly some girls which I wasn't expecting. I thought it was all gonna be guys but there's some girl characters who I'm really enjoying and have got some interesting dimensions to them and I'm like oh but I'm not loving it. But it's good. It's good. Listen I'm starting to understand the Booktube's obsession with this. Why Booktube is on a chokehold for this book. A little bit more. Not that I will be that myself but I'm starting to understand it a bit more. Hello hello. I have finished Hunting Prince Dracula finally. Actually before we talk about that I want to talk about this show that me and Tom went to last night. It was a drag show called Death Drop and it's like this murder mystery show kind of and then there were none inspired and it was so much fun. I like I haven't been out out like that in a long time and I'm going out the weekend so like what is my life? Yeah it was a lot of like British kings and queens in the show but two drag race queens were in it. Willem and Rajah O'Hara and it was just so much fun. It was so silly and campy and stupid. Anyway Hunting Prince Dracula. I have mixed feelings about this because I think it's better than talking Jack the Ripper but I gave that a three stars and I think I'm going to give this a three stars. I was leaning almost towards a 3.5 but I think I'm going to give it a three. It's like somewhere between a three and a 3.5 basically. Maybe okay I'm going to give it a 3.5 but I'm going to round it down on Goodreads rather than round it up because it feels closer to a three but it is kind of in between. I enjoyed this like I flew through it. It was a fun book to read. I really enjoyed the experience of reading it kind of but there's just nothing about it that sets me alight. There's nothing about it that makes me go oh my god that was so good. Oh my god that was such a fun book to read. Oh my god wow you know. I just want to sit here on me over a minute gather my thoughts. It's a book that I'm glad I had the audiobook for because if I didn't have the audiobook I think it would have taken me fucking yonks to read it. At least I could read it like whilst I did my makeup and stuff like that because I don't think it's a kind of book that I'd be super excited to pick up. I enjoy the romance but also I've never really brought into it. Thomas Crestwell is not my flavour of man. I don't know why. I find him a bit swarmy a bit like slimy. I know he's not supposed to be like that but I find him a bit slimy and I feel like it ended in a really fun way. The aesthetics are wonderful but for me I think the thing that prevents me from absolutely loving this is the writing style. There's something about the writing and me that just don't click. I do want to still try and finish this series. I know that's crazy like I know people like Megan you've given both of the books three stars essentially in this series just end it and I'm like no I want to finish the series. I want to finish the series because I like finishing series and this is the oldest series on my TBR that I'm still reading so I want to finish it you guys. I want to finish it. I don't know when I'm going to or probably take me like another two years to read the next two books. I mean it was okay. It was fine. It was an enjoyable read. You know it's good for spooky season. So anyway now I am going to read the last book which is The Love Hypothesis by Adi Hazelwood. I just heard such one of the things about this. I was watching Mara from Books Like Rose wrap up the other day and she said this is her favourite romance of the year. That's a higher praise. That's a higher praise. So today I need to edit some more of this vlog. I've kind of been editing it as I go along but I need to edit some more of it and I need to read this. I need to try and edit the video and read this whole book today and it's already like 11, 12 o'clock so I have got reading sprints with my patrons later so I want to make sure I'm reading in that so I think I'm gonna edit for a bit and then read for a bit, edit for a bit, read for a bit so that hopefully by the time the sprints come that's at half seven. I want to have edited everything I've already filmed and hopefully maybe I've read a hundred pages but yeah I'm excited. I'm really, really excited. Okay so I am 95 pages into the Love Hypothesis and this is exactly what I need right now. This is exactly what I needed to read right now. I am just flying through it. I'm loving this. It is brilliant American literature and I don't care what anybody it is. It should be taught in schools. So basically we're following a PhD student who ends up getting into a situation where she is fake dating the most feared professor in the faculty. He's known for being like an asshole basically. He's known for being strict, horrible, making students cry but they get into a situation where he agrees to fake date and their dynamic is so fun you know she's kind of this upbeat positive person and he is just deadpan kind of miserable but like only nice to her like I think I like this in books when the guy is like cold but is lovely to love interest. I don't know why I just really like it and I did read Take a Hint Danny Brown which had fake dating and I didn't I think I'm enjoying this one a bit more. I feel like they both really are invested in it and really have something to gain in terms of their careers and the fact that they're kind of in the same workplace without having any kind of weird dynamics like workplace dynamics with each other it's affecting both of them in their shared workplace in different ways and it's really really interesting so I'm just loving it. I really like how how it's starting off because they're still just obviously fake dating. With Take a Hint Danny Brown which I read they both felt things for each other beforehand right but in this one there isn't that so I really am enjoying obviously seeing them going from not being interested in each other at all and then they're going to fall in love. That's what I think I love in romances so perhaps that's why I didn't love Take a Hint Danny Brown as much as I wanted to and as much as I thought I would and as much as I probably would love other telly hip hip stuff is because they both kind of like fancied each other at the start of the book whereas when I read romance I want to see them fall for each other I want to see that moment where they start to fall in love and obviously you still had that in Take a Hint Danny Brown because it was more lust into love but this one is like total non-interested in each other inter love I suppose at some point so yeah I'm really enjoying it I can see why this is a romance that so many people have loved so I'm going to read some more my live reading sprints my patrons start in just over an hour so I've got a bit more time to read and then I'll just read loads in the sprints and I'm hoping I'll get very close to finishing this book tonight hopefully. okay guys gals my non-binary pals we have got we've got a situation we find ourselves in yesterday I went out with my family for the day and on the car ride there and the car right back I read the whole of the love hypothesis I finished it I'm sorry I didn't want to check into the like a hundred pages before the end but I didn't I will never forgive you and we have a situation we have this is a momentous occasion it's a big moment this is this is the first romance book ever that I'm giving five stars I can't believe that I actually can't believe that I'm gagging I love it I love it and it gives me that buzz I mean can we just take a moment can we take a moment I oh my god okay I have just come down with a cold today and I feel like my demuted no my reduced energy because of that is gonna like I'm not gonna do this book justice but fucking five stars ladies and gentlemen everything about this is perfect I love the sciency setting these brainy bitches getting on I love the fake dating in this can we talk about grump grump hero sunshine girly I just I just loved them I think I do like books where they're not listen I'm not into books where the guy is mean mean like abusive mean but if he's a bit grumpy and she is the one that he's not grumpy for I mean I live I mean I well and truly live I loved this can we talk also book the month excellence coming through I just need to trust them with everything maybe actually to trust book the month of my life these sex scenes in this who I think maybe my favorite smart I've ever read in a book like genuinely and the conflict in this the conflict at the end got me more than like any other romance conflict has got because I don't know it just tore at my heartstrings and I felt sick and I felt on edge and I want to know how it all resolved it was so good and it was funny can we talk about how funny it was this book is fucking hilarious you know some romance books sorry my face is itchy don't mind me some romance books try to be funny and I don't think we'll then pull it off but this pulled it off and I just loved how they directed I love the friends I loved the kind of work pressures they were both under and how that's hide into the story I just you guys this was so good my first ever romance book I'm giving five stars the growth of the characters went on throughout the book it had me I don't understand this is so good this is my favorite romance book I've ever read I loved it I loved their relationship amazing and I think Buffy herself I think she would have fucking loved this I think she would have eaten it up what a great what a great what a great distraction from giving vampires this book would be I could just imagine her sitting in her room and just loving this book oh my god I just want to hit you all over the head with it five stars for a romance who am I who is she who is she who is she where did you fight her I loved reading like my girl Buffy summons for a week it was fun I love Buffy I had so much fun reading like this big girl for a video so I hope you enjoyed it too if you got to get in the video leave the vampire emoji and yeah thank you so much for watching let me know what you would have read if you read like Buffy I mean kind of the first two were the only books you'd mention in the video but let me know what other books you think she would enjoy and have liked and thank you so much for watching I will see you very soon in another video love you lots bye