 the King of the Chronicles? What are you doing with your life? And I'm talking to our people to do my work. Manderlay is iconic. And I hated that book so much. Vibes. Hey guys, it's Leigh Ann and I'm here today with no nuance, just vibes. So I know this title and this thumbnail are a bit cheeky. I just want to be clear up front that I don't mean to suggest that any of the books that I'm going to talk about today have no nuance, have no complexity, are not intellectual in any way. But basically, I'm going to be talking about books that I think really just like deliver on vibes, which isn't to say that they don't deliver on other things. I mean, setting is important, but I don't to me vibes is different from a setting because setting is, I don't know if there's a way to explain, so setting is like the bricks and mortar and vibes is just like the the mood, the tone, the the lighting, if that makes sense. So yeah, I think I think that's clear. I don't think it's a very high concept video idea. So yeah, I'm just gonna have a list of books that I think have incredible vibes. First up is Rebecca by Daphne de Morier, which is like one of the number one reasons I wanted that mega disclaimer of like that does I'm not saying they don't have any nuance, even though that's literally the video title no nuance. But so Rebecca, if you've never read it or never heard of it, Rebecca by Daphne de Morier is it's a classic, more of a modern classic, she wrote it in the 1920s I want to say. And if it is a character driven story, and so with a character driven story, you might think it's not going to have incredible vibes, but it absolutely does. This follows the story of your unnamed narrator, who is the young new bride of the master of this house called Manderlite, or the owner of this house called Manderlite. And it's it's a creeping slow moving kind of psychological, I guess thriller, I mean thriller I think oversells it a bit like if you're expecting a thriller that like what we're used to like Gone Girl, it's not like that. But it is this like psychological thriller is the best one I can think of. It's basically like you're following this young woman as she's unraveling the mystery of Manderlite and about her husband, and about the his first wife, and what happened to her in Manderlite. And Manderlite, the house, is basically a character in the story, like beyond just having a prominent setting, beyond just having vibes, and the location be something that is noteworthy, it is like literally a character in the story. I feel like no list of books that's talking about like setting being important, which is kind of what vibes is, would be complete without Rebecca. Manderlite is iconic. So I mean, I highly recommend this book. I think it's one of those classics that like it doesn't read like a classic. I mean, it does read like a classic. It is slow and it is wordy, but I think it's more highly digestible for a modern audience than a lot of other classics. Like it's enjoyable to read. Not that classics aren't enjoyable to read, but a lot of classics can be like a bit more effort to read. I don't think that Rebecca takes a whole lot of effort to read and enjoy. So I recommend it in general, but also Manderlite, so many vibes. Next up I have The Bear and the Nightingale or The Entire Winter Night Trilogy by Catherine Arden. I picked the least Vibe cover to hold up mainly because it was nearer to hand and also because I never ever show this cover off and I wanted the excuse to, but this is bothering me. The more vibes you cover because I mean, yeah, this one doesn't doesn't doesn't demonstrate vibes so much. There's a child screaming outside and I need that to stop. So yeah, Bear and the Nightingale, I'll put this one down. Bear and the Nightingale delivers these vibes, this town. If you've never heard of it, never heard me talk about it, never read it. The Winter Night Trilogy is sort of Russian folklore just in general being retold. So it isn't any one particular Russian fairy tale that's being retold, but it is a sort of like it's kind of like historical fiction because it is taking place in Russia, not a fantasy world inspired by Russia, but it's incorporating folklore as like active elements. Characters from folklore and like concepts from folklore, from Russian folklore and the main character. It's kind of like the battle of like pagan folklore versus Christianity and like the main character being very much in tune with sort of like the little gods of nature and that and budding heads with the Christianization of Russia. She's fine with people being Christian, but the Christians are not fine with her leaving bread out for like the little like house elf essentially. Dumb a boy, but all these like little Russian spirits anyway. So it's an excellent trilogy about like the vibes. It is so much like Russian nature, Russian winter, Russian food even. It is it just absolutely you just like sink into this fantastical magical Russia. And then in the later books like it isn't just the first book takes place more in a rural area and then later you're in Moscow and that's once again the Moscow vibes are off the charts. This series definitely feels like vivid. Like it feels like you are being transported to a magical Russia. A dark Russia, an unsettling Russia, a sometimes scary Russia, but a magical lush Russia nonetheless. Next up I have a book that I I mean I must have talked about it in the wrap up when I read it but I don't think I've really ever talked about it that much and that is House of Sulton Sorrow by Erin A Craig. This is one of the few more recent YA releases that I really really enjoyed and I remember specifically like when I picked this up because I had just I had gotten this book and another book around like Halloween time and this had just come out. That's why I got it not because I thought it'd be a good Halloween time read. I think it came in a book box but I got like this other YA book that I thought was more likely to be my jam. It had like a skull on it and it was about these like Welsh skull monsters and I hated that book so much and that one was I was expecting to get creepy vibes from and whatever and I was like that was terrible so I picked this up and I remember thinking like this is instantly way more like it's not at all what that other book said was going to be so I wasn't expecting the other book to have a seaside theme but like that creepiness that I was expecting from the other book this immediately delivers. So House of Salt and Sorrow. This book is a retelling of a fairy tale that is not very frequently retold that being 12 Dancing Princesses and this takes place um this is more I feel like people don't or at least I don't often associate like creepy ghost stories and stuff. I usually just think of oh like decrepit castle or old Victorian manner or the Moors but I mean quite frankly like seaside things can be quite creepy like an old abandoned lighthouse um and that kind of thing. So this is definitely like seaside creepy and the vibes are off the charts like I feel like when I was reading this like I just the sense of like the dampness, the salt, the I can like hear ocean waves crashing, the sense of dread building because of this sort of macabre ghostly mystery that this book is all about. It is just extremely atmospheric and I had a great time. It's not like the best book I've ever read but I had an absolute like wonderful time just reveling in the creepy atmosphere that this book was just absolutely delivering. So if you want seaside creepiness this book will deliver. Next up I have the book series that actually inspired this whole video idea. So that is The Raven Cycle by Maggie Steve Otter. The Raven Cycle is it's just maximum vibes. I mean I know this video is about books that have vibes so I know I'm going to say vibes about every single book and that must be getting slightly annoying. I can't help but that's what this video is about. But The Raven Cycle like when I think of vibes I just think of The Raven Cycle slash when I'm reading The Raven Cycle all I think to myself is just vibes and I can't put it any other way because yeah like it's a cool setting. This takes place in Virginia but in like very rural Virginia and there's a lot of like there's like a magical forest and there's a lot of, I mean mainly it's the magical forest. I mean everyone else is like living in a house or dorms or whatever but that's the thing about Maggie Steve Otter's writing that like so then the female main character, Blue Sergeant, she lives with her mother and her two aunts in this house because they're all psychic so it's this like messy cluster of chaos because she lives with psychics. So the vibes of Fox Way, a 300 Fox Way where Blue Sergeant lives, it's kind of a little bit like the borough like where the Weasleys live except I mean it's totally different than the borough but in terms of like this place that is kind of otherworldly a little bit because you have the psychics and it's very chaotic and messy and it is this kind of like you have to love the mess because we're all living here and it's kind of chaos and we're not super rich so everybody has to share and it's a little crazy so there's a lot of vibes in 300 Fox Way. Cabe's Water, the magical forest just off the charts magical vibes. I feel like I can smell the greenery I can hear the water rushing like it's just vibes and then the characters themselves, Maggie Steve Otter's writing, it's less than what I would call characterization and more vibes. Each character to me is just they each have their own specific vibe and that is the character and I don't know I think that might be why some people don't like Maggie Steve Otter's writing I love it but that's why I feel like the vibes are off the charts because it isn't just like the setting has mega vibes the characters have vibes their clothes have vibes every place they go into has vibes like the cars they drive have vibes the magic has vibes just it is just the vibeest of vibe series so if you're not down with that she's not the writer for you but that is what I love about it and it is it is just so atmospheric at all times. Next up I have Cersei by Madeline Miller oh my god all the books I'm holding today are so shiny um I have a less shiny edition but I thought I'd show off the pretty shiny one. Cersei if you don't know is a retelling of the story of Cersei from Greek mythology and Madeline Miller's writing I mean I might equally have held up Song of Achilles but I do feel like Song of Achilles also by Madeline Miller also a Greek myth retelling. Well that does deliver a lot of atmosphere and vibes I think Song of Achilles is more action packed if that makes sense whereas Cersei is so much about sort of like the island that she lives and what that's like and her own kind of vibe and it's just more kind of slow and contemplative than Song of Achilles and for that reason it feels more vibey to me than Song of Achilles because Song of Achilles again it absolutely has great atmosphere I don't want to say that it doesn't but this book is spending more time just kind of being in a place without plot moving forward if that makes sense and I feel like that makes the book sound really boring and I'm certain there are people that do find the book boring but I don't think it's boring I think it's just more contemplative and for that reason it gives you more of an opportunity to kind of just savor the place that it's in and kind of sink into all of that. I feel like I'm really not articulate today I'm so sorry. All I can say is vibes. Cersei is an excellent book just in general I highly recommend it but also vibes. Next up I have Strange the Dreamer by Lainey Taylor another extremely shiny book. Lainey Taylor's writing also so similarly to Madeleine Miller's two books like I could have put the Daughter of Smoke and Bone series on this list it is also jam packed full of vibes but I feel once again like between Song of Achilles and Cersei I feel like Strange the Dreamer, the duology, is slower and it is more contemplative and it does just spend more time reveling in the place that it's taking place whereas Daughter of Smoke and Bone it absolutely has incredible settings but it is more like plot driven action packed like let's keep it moving so even though it's like wow you're not really stopping to take in the wow whereas Strange the Dreamer actually similarly to Rebecca where I said like Manderlay is like a character in the story Strange the Dreamer likewise place almost becomes a character in the story because the very beginning of the book I think all of the the like promotions for the book also like brought this in into it about the place called Weep I mean like the bottom of the book jacket says welcome to Weep it's like most book jackets I don't feel like make a point of welcoming you to the place that they are taking place without spoilers and I feel like this is one of the reasons why people find it difficult to explain what Strange the Dreamer is about because you don't know very much going into it and you can't know very much going into it because knowing almost anything about it spoils it but the place called Weep is a place that kind of like disappeared it's this lost city and the main character Laszlo Strange is obsessed with finding this lost city finding any scrap of information anything he can find that is just even proof that Weep existed so again I can't really say anything more than that but like Weep the city of Weep is like a character in the story for that reason and so there's a lot of focus put on everything to do with that place and everything to do with people that would have come from it or how the fact of it being there and then being gone and how that makes one feel and I mean outside of Weep I mean the library that Laszlo Strange works in where he's digging up information about Weep also is very atmospheric as a library not as like whimsically manually atmospheric it's a library but like Laney Taylor's writing style oh it's very different from Maggie Steve Otter's writing style I don't want to say that they're the same but similarly to Maggie Steve Otter this like this approach to giving everything a lot of vibes so there is never any mundane part of anything that Laney Taylor writes every single part of it is like technicolor so Laszlo in the library researching is is lush and imaginative and beautiful and whimsical even the most sort of like boring straightforward part but yeah Strange the Dreamer is just a feast for I want to say a feast for the eyes which doesn't make a whole lot of sense because it's a book so you can't it's not in front of you you have to imagine it but like it is like a feast for your mind's eye is the best way I could explain it so I highly recommend again just in general but also many vibes next up I have obligatory The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss if you don't know anything about me or my channel then you may not know that I'm a big big big fan of The King Killer Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss this is a little different from the other books on my list because I do feel like it is vibes aren't like the most important thing about it but I do when I think about Name of the Wind when I think about reading The King Killer Chronicle a lot of what stands out to me a lot of the enjoyment that I derive from it is the setting is this cozy vibe lots of taverns and cider and ale and musicians playing in a tavern where you can just sort of like smell the wood paneling and it very much places you in every setting that Kvothe is in like be it the tavern be it the school be it wherever he is you have a very distinct sense of how this place looks how it smells how it feels you feel like you're walking through this world with foe so it isn't like the magical whimsy and wonder of Strange the Dreamer for example but it is nevertheless very much like sinking you into the tone and feel of this world albeit a more grounded world than Strange the Dreamer but yeah I just I couldn't talk about vibes without the Name of the Wind which again just in general highly recommend if you haven't read The King Killer Chronicle what are you doing with your life yeah read The King Killer Chronicle but also it makes a great autumn read because of the autumn vibes and last on my list is a book that you may not have expected from me and that is and then there were none by Agatha Christie this is a who done it this is probably if not her best known it's I think one of them that her most well reviewed or more universally enjoyed but I enjoyed it a lot more than Murder on the Orange Express which was a big let down for me and then there were none is like the quintessential closed circle mystery it is isolated closed circle mystery like when I feel like every single book that has an isolated isolated closed circle mystery you know how like every epic fantasy is like the next game of thrones every isolated closed circle mystery is the next and then there were none so if you haven't read it or heard of it it is it's not like one of her series with like the famous detective like Poirot or Marple or anything like that this is just a standalone and there's this island where all these people are invited to come to this island and none of them know each other none of them know why they've been invited and they all start dying one by one and everyone on the island is trying to figure out who is doing this and why and it is just this this tiny little remote island where you can't make contact with land because there's also pre cell phone days and it is it's it's so creepy and well done and that sense of panic and isolation and the loneliness of being on this island like even if there wasn't a murderer it sounds like a pretty isolated lonely depressing place to be if i'm quite honest but then there's some there's clearly murders happening and you're next and it is just so well done and the entire time I feel like you you feel like you are on this remote deserted island um and that like ticking clock of like who's next who's next who's next is it's just so well executed this is so so good classic for a reason highly recommend again probably a good halloween time read because it's quite creepy also many vibes so yeah those are all the books on my list of books that deliver on vibes let me know in the comments down below if there's any books that you would have added to this list if there's any books that you would take off of this list there's any books that you would have expected like knowing me for me to have put on this list uh whatever you want to let me know i post videos on saturdays other random times as well but i think saturdays so like and 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