 Back to another video. Today we're gonna be doing a very chill 24-hour reading vlog which is a bit of a lie. It's probably gonna be... I should probably call it a 12-hour reading vlog. We're gonna do a 12-hour reading vlog. You're just gonna accompany me around my day and I just really want to read. Today I don't really want to do anything else. I've been a bit stressed the past couple days and so I really just need a day to like chill out. I'm just here relaxing bitch, not but we're still gonna do other things other than read. I've got to go to the gym today. If I can do a little bit of work, like and not show you it because it's stuff I can't show you, I would like to but it's not the end of the world if I don't. The priority is reading. The book we're gonna be reading together. It's gonna be a bit of a chill vlog. Usually my vlogs have like massive themes to them. Today we're just reading a book. So the reason I'm doing this video really is because we're gonna be reading The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlyn Starling. So this is one of my most anticipated reads of this year. I'm so excited to read it and I have to read it today because on Saturdays or in two days I'm co-hosting the live show for the Literally Dead Book Club with Books and Lala. So I have to read the book and I hate, I cannot say, I can't tell you how much I hate reading a physical book and not vlogging it. Like in my head I'm like what is the point? What is the point? So because I have to read this book we're vlogging it. Like I feel like because it's a new release that so many of us are excited for. If I just read it and didn't vlog it it would be a waste and I tried so hard but I couldn't really fit it into any of my reading vlogs this month like any of my other reading vlogs because I could have just done that but like they didn't fit any of the themes I had this month. So we're just reading it on its own and I'm very very excited. All I know about it is that we're following Jane who needs a husband but she doesn't really want a husband. Like societally she needs to get married. So she strikes the steal with this doctor that they're gonna get married but kind of enable them to both still live their own lives. I don't know what's wrong with my voice sorry. And the agreement that they strike is that she cannot go to his family home after dark but one day she does and she sees him changed in a strange way. I don't really know much about it other than that. I think it's like gothic horror and I'm super excited to just chill out and read this today. So that's all we're gonna be doing is literally reading this book. It's gonna be super chill. We're not gonna stress out. We're not gonna try and read like a thousand books. We're just gonna read this together basically and I hope that's okay because it's what I need emotionally right now into the death of Jane Laura. What's happened yet? We've kind of only just gotten to the part where they've gotten married and she is kind of it's been a range that she's without him knowing it's been a range that she was going to go back to his family home that evening and he's like uh-uh pack your bags get out bitch. So it's kind of just been her proposing to him that they get married and him being like oh no and they're being like oh okay and there's this great tension between them. Like it reminds me a lot of like Regency romances like Jane Austen romances where like they can't necessarily say how they feel or they can't be improper so like everything is very like oh like so much tension between them you know so much left unsaid so much awkwardness and tension between them so I'm really enjoying that aspect of it. I'm really happy with what I'm seeing and I'm loving Caitlyn Starling's writing this is like oh it feels like a book that's kind of clever and we all know if it's done well I like a book that's kind of clever just the way that languages use I'm the cat of fighting um just the way that the languages use I really love and listen writing is the most important thing for me I'm currently reading another book for my patreon book club we're not gonna talk about that it's not great I don't like it! I don't like the writing it like writing for me is the most important thing whereas I love the cadence and the flow of um of Caitlyn Starling's writing so it makes me very excited to read The Luminous Dead which I do own it as well. I will say though if you're not into gore like I know it's horror but I don't think I was quite expecting the level of gore in this like it's gory from the off and like there were parts I kind of had to scan because I felt a bit sick a bit early in the morning to be reading that kind of yes I am really really enjoying it a good first 50 pages it is currently about 10 to 11 and I don't eat breakfast so I usually eat about 11 so I eat like brunch now that I eat dinner in the evening I only really have two meals so we need to cook something and usually I prep lunches for the week but I finished my the cats are really I'm just here to fight oh uh oh I finished my prep lunches yesterday so I've got like make something up today and there's like not much food in the house because the shop is coming tonight so I've scavenged I've got some leftover roasted broccoli you can't see the leftover roasted broccoli some nice tomatoes these are a good batch of tomatoes they're really good um as I think I'm going to make just like a a fritter kind of thing with them in it with eggs like an omelet almost and I think I have two slices of bread because I'm quite hungry because I've got the gym in like three hours so I don't want to eat anything heavy like I do kind of want pasta but I don't want to eat anything too heavy so we're going to go with this on the great cracks of a thousand leaves somewhere in our future rolling over the dividing things are you hey besties I had lunch Laura's hair do you want to say hello can you see her no there she is 121 and I'm really still really enjoying it it's a very enjoyable reading it's for it so far it's giving me beauty and the beast teas it's giving me Rebecca teas what can I say that here's the thing my general cutoff point for all books is that is a 30 mark and I'm literally 30 percent through this 360 pages and page 120 so I'm 30 percent through and that is usually my cutoff mark for deeming something a spoiler I kind of don't believe that anything that happened in the first 30 percent is a spoiler but like if it's not a synopsis is it hang on oh right at the end it compares it to Rebecca inspired by Rebecca so we can say it is giving me very much Rebecca flavors and I'm really enjoying it it's set in this really strange world where it's like post war England but we're not actually in England like everything is called like other words like made up words I've connected the two dots you didn't connect shit but I've connected them so it's kind of set in England but not which I really like I do like a fantasy esque element where you know that something is very much inspired by a country but it's not that it's like a fictional version I really enjoy that I think that the kind of horror and claustrophobicness and hauntingness of this is being written so so well I definitely feel on edge I feel spooked in a way that I haven't felt scared with a lot of horror that I've read recently like white smoke I didn't really feel scared the only good Indians I didn't feel scared as much as I perhaps would have liked until nearer the end whereas I feel like the suspense in this is building very very well from the start I do love a good like stuck in a house you know isolated I love isolation as a trope across horror murder mystery like I love my murder mystery to be like closed circle isolated thrillers and so I just love isolation as a theme and that's definitely what's happening in this book Jane has become very isolated very quickly kind of in an insidious way where you're not sure is this isolation an accident or is it intentional there's a lot of lies there's a lot of secrets I'm just listen I'm really enjoying it I'm having a great day just chilling out with the cats just reading I really like Augustine her husband as a character he's very interesting and I'm just really loving the gothic setting of this old decrepit falling apart house that were kind of stuck in strange things are happening this makes me want to read Rebecca as well I where is she like Rebecca's here somewhere don't know but it definitely makes me want to read Rebecca I've been saying that for years I feel like it's a classic that I would really really enjoy so yeah oh my god love this for us okay I'm just about to pop out to the gym but before we do that I thought we could quickly unbox a fairy loot so this is the November additional fairy loot I adore fairy loot as I've said so so many times and I'm just I'm very excited oh I'm seeing things okay so first oh my god get out look oh my god it's a travel cup this is so cute imagine getting something like that this is like I love it when they do items like this that are so practical that like you I could have spent my money on something like this like very easily it's something practical that you need but you get it in a fairy loot and it's so cute look oh my god oh my god Jesus Christ check out the label oh my god I love her that is so cute that is inspired by jade of fire gold which is like a new release fantasy I believe gorgeous love that that's definitely something I'm going to use oh I've got a poppy war enamel pen I love the poppy war wow that's one of my favorite pins I have seen lately I really really love that wow that's so cute I definitely need to continue the poppy war series as many of you know Aaron tried to make me do it and cheat in booktube twintails lately I'm just so fucking scared I'm just scared of like it's their big books and it's just like the time it'll take me to read them that I'm scared of oh what the hell a microfiber cloth inspired by vicious it says the world resists when you break its rules okay I couldn't figure out because the words like all in different places I couldn't really figure out the um the order that's cute you always need a microfiber cloth listen this is what I'm saying I love I love when they do kitcheny practical things like I remember they did a spoon type thing like a wooden spoon type thing and I ate that shit up I love that I love when they do that kind of stuff look at this is this a notebook no it's not it's like a reading tracker oh my god this is inspired by a blood and yes blood and ash series is inspired by how cute reading trackers are like such a such a popular thing I don't know maybe I'll give this a go but I've never I've always been a tough person to track my reading um digitally but it may be cute to kind of have something like this physically to give a go oh and I love it when they have and the ribbon they just know what gets me oh then we have got some washi tape listen I always need washi tape this box I feel like they've got the kind of items I want these are the kind of shit I want it's inspired by the rage of dragons it's got some gorgeous illustrations on it and then we have got the tarot cards this month which are inspired by a song of race and ruin which I absolutely love that's so cute okay time to see what the book this month is I think I see spread edges they just know they just know this is such a good box no it's jade fire gold oh my god the one that the mug is inspired by see I knew this book can you see that the sword down the edge actual tears streaming down my face screaming crying throwing up not another one oh for god's sake I can't honestly I can't stand this actual tears streaming down my face oh I love it I've actually been very excited for this I've been eyeing it up and I was waiting I wanted to get it I was waiting to hear maybe a few people review it before I got it though but it's been pitched for fans of girls of paper and fire which is me so for that reason I had been keeping my eye on it I think it's about like a girl who wants to get the throne or something oh yeah pitched also as a song of race and ruin very similar kind of plot oh come on now what what oh my god I love that art on the hard cover that is stunning okay I'm very excited to read this her destiny his revenge how exciting oh my god I'm very hot this is probably the two books october's which is here hang on um october's book was once upon a broken heart and this one are probably two of the fairy leap books I've been most excited to read of all the books we've received this month I feel like they've really pulled it out the bag so I am so happy I will leave fairy leaping down below as always I am gonna go out to the gym and then I'm gonna read more when I come back and hopefully I'll make like some really good progress through it when I come back because it is like almost like it's gonna be two o'clock when I go out to the gym I'll be back probably by like three then it's quite late I need to speed up my reading if I do want to finish this all today which I know I can do but we got to speed things up a little I'm done I I literally can't walk like it was leg day and I am in caveful walking but now I'm gonna head home have a shower and then carry on reading okay so it's obviously much later I came home washed myself and then I've just read more basically I'm so tired the gym killed me like literally me and my PT we usually do like sets of exercises with like repeats I'm not sure what the correct terminology is but we did like A, B, A, B, A, B for each one like A and B are different exercises C, D, C, D, C, D, C, D, E, F, E, F, E, F and after all the A, B's my legs are already like jelly like what the f*** even happened so like I'm feeling like you know when you're tired or you've just worked out a lot and you're so cold like I'm really cold and clammy right now and I feel a bit sick but anyway I am on about page 240 of the death of Jane Lawrence we've made a sizable chunk through it since I last spoke to you and I'm bit bored. Has anyone got anything to say? I'm bit bored I'm not gonna lie to you I'm a bit bored I am not sure I love the direction that this is going in it's taken on a whole without having to spawn anything but it's taken on like a whole other I've seen a lot of reviews that have mentioned this not a spoiler like in general and I just don't want to do that it's taken on this whole other direction and although it's something I usually like in my books this kind of element I don't know if it works in this and it's it's overtaken the whole story like it's what the story is now and I just feel like not much is happening like it's a little bit of like we go here and then we go here and then we go here like I'm not sure if the plot is really working for me I also feel like I love Kate and Sons writing right at the start of this I was saying how important the writing is and how much I'm enjoying the writing I still concur with myself however I feel like her writing it's actually a double-edged sword right because it's so beautiful it really suits like descriptive passages and like we'll be we'll be going into like this description and you'll be like sinking into this gothic atmosphere and then as soon as we get to kind of a more actiony moment it doesn't suit it like the writing is I don't I can't describe it but like I'm I'm just finding it boring because of that it's just a bit jarring I'm not really sure what's going on yeah I'm not loving it I need a cigarette I know but hold on cover yourself up at the moment here's the thing I'm enjoying the writing it's fine the characters are interesting Jane and Augustine have a very interesting dynamic playing between them and you're not sure who to like who to pity who to forgive in in kind of the situation that they're in and um I can't really predict where it's going to go so I'm enjoying aspects of it but like I'm also just a bit bored and it's not that long like it's 360 pages like it's not a long book but it feels like a long book it feels like this should have been a shorter horror do you know what I mean I feel like a lot of horror from the horror that I've read so far I don't read a lot but a lot of it I'm like you should actually be like a hundred pages less like you should be a hundred page less I think it's very hard to maintain to simultaneously maintain the claustrophobicness horroriness of a book as well as maintaining the plot so like I feel like it's actually doing a very good job of maintaining that claustrophobic horror you know scary moments but the plot is suffering it's very hard in a horror to do those two simultaneously and I don't feel like it's managing it and it just feels a bit meh it's not quite given me everything I want a bit more like like a bit more interesting things to happen so anyway I've got now sprints with my patrons in 10 minutes which is very very exciting I love hanging out with them so hopefully we can finish this in these sprints and get like a really good chunk of reading done and just like read loads if it like serves me up a crazy ending like if it serves me up an ending that has me gasping it could be a four star but like it's some it's going to be somewhere between a three and a four so it's not like bad is what I'm saying but I feel like my early check-ins were a lot more positive and this one's a bit like like the most recent section hasn't been my favorite holy shit this fucking book no he's mugged you off darling he has mugged you off so I had sprints with my patrons last night and I meant to film some of it but actually Tom came and joined us and I just forgot to film so we had the sprint and I finished the death of Jane Lawrence last night and you guys um no words no actually no words uh I hate it I hate at the ending I don't know how to talk about this without spoiling it that's why I'm actually excited for the live show in a couple days it will have already happened by the time you see this video but um I'm excited for the live show because I need to like talk about what the fuck what the fuck was the last 150 pages of this book what was happening like genuinely I don't understand I have I have no I don't have the foggiest what happened I have no clue how do I explain it like what like you guys it descended into I don't know what like I can't tell you my problems with it because I don't want to spoil the kind of route that the story takes because I obviously didn't know that before going into it but like it just switches on yeah and you're reading it I literally I had to force my eyes across the page it was awful it was bad like it was so confused you could have cut so much of that out I really don't feel like it served what it wanted to serve do I mean I don't feel like it served the purpose that it was intending to in terms of what it was teaching you about a character and a journey that the character was going on I'm trying to be as vague as I possibly can here's the thing it's a weird book right this goes on a weird weird route right and usually I like weird I was thinking a lot about Catherine House when reading this and I feel like Catherine House is just like cleverer with its claustrophobicness and the the journey of a character this felt too static to me towards the end but needless to say I actually don't understand a lot what happened at the end I don't know what what I'm supposed to know I I if you asked me actually to give you a synopsis of the end of what happened I wouldn't be able to tell you like I have I have no clue what I've just read so I'm gonna give it a 2.5 the beginning I really liked the first half I liked and then it just went on this like fever dream that wasn't a good fever dream right like I don't know if like weird books are hard to do well and as many as I like I love do you know what I mean I find that it's so hard to do well and I probably have high standards I'm very intrigued to see what Chanel and Kayla thought of it in a life I don't know what either of them have thought of it but I was very disappointed by this I'm very sad very sad so sadly this video is ending on a bum note I had a good day yesterday though just reading so I suppose I was posed to it but um yeah I'm glad I've logged it because otherwise like I would have just read the book it would have felt like even more of a waste of my life at least we've got a video out of it but um it wasn't my fave so if you've gotten to the end comment a hand emoji for the cover and thank you so much for watching as always I hope you have a good rest of your day rest of your week and I love you so much and I'll see you very soon bye