 I just have to laugh because this is this is so well done because I should have seen it all along. I should have seen everything all along but you don't! Right, there's freedom. Yeah, yeah. He's hanging from my butt. Okay, I'm actually here now. Hiya, welcome to my channel and today we're doing my first reading vlog! So when I knew that I went to do a reading vlog quite early on because they're pretty much my favorite thing to watch. I know people apparently don't like them but when I knew I wanted to do a reading vlog I wanted to do something a bit special, a bit of a theme. I don't know, just not just me reading around a book and I thought what can I do? And then I realised I've got a book that has just come out. I'm so excited to read it and it's a genre I've never read before. I have never read a thriller, ever. I don't know why I've never read a thriller before. I think it's because I've read a lot when I was like up until 1415 and then I stopped until the past year or so and so I think I'm, I don't know, you just don't really read thrillers when you're 14 or 15 and so yeah, this is my first time picking one up. The book that we're talking about is The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware. This is what I'm going to be reading in this vlog. I knew I wanted to read this when Lala or Kayla, from Books and Lala who's my favorite, I just love all her videos. When she recommended it, gave it five stars. I could not have stopped talking about it. I was like I've got to buy that then. I've enjoyed a lot of other books that she's recommended. Hang on, I'll just grab two quickly. I really enjoyed Dead Mountain which is one that she recommended and Girls in Paper and Fire is my favorite books of this year so far and that was one I picked up from her recommendations. I basically, I just read everything she likes. So anyway, back to Turn of the Key. I don't know much about it other than a woman answers an ad to be a babysitter and it's in this super like smart home and she then she finds out that she's basically accused of killing one of the kids and but she's saying that she didn't. It's all written in letter form. That's what I remember. I was in Waterstones as she did and I was buying books two and three in the Winter Night trilogy. My favorite books ever now but I had a 30 pound voucher and so I needed to buy another book and I was gonna buy Daisy Drain's on the sixth but then I saw this. Okay, not a big fan of the cover, you know, whatever. It's very typical of UK thriller covers I feel like but then, then I saw, oh, hang on, hang on. Look at the keys. Isn't that so much fun? So that was Mark 1. That was Mark 1 where I was like, okay, I'm a sucker for not only sprayed edges but things that aren't just a color like I love artwork on the pages. Isn't that, are you obsessed? And then, and then I saw this inside. Isn't that so pretty? I don't know what it's, I also want to find out why it's like that. I assume maybe one of the wallpapers in the house is like that. I don't know but I saw that. That was strike two. I was like, well that's so so pretty and then she signed, she signed. I hope that the signature isn't a bad luck charm because the only other signed book I have is Vengeful by V.E. Schwart. And I gave this two stars as a story for another day though. Yeah, I gave this just five stars and I gave this two stars though. I'm gonna read for half an hour now. I've got some other things to do today so I'm gonna read for half an hour and then I'll check back in with you and then we'll probably read a little bit later and I'll take you through my day. A little bit because I know you're so excited to see that. Okay, bye. So I just went for half an hour. I got to page 50 which is a nice round number and that's much quicker than I usually read. So like usually if I'm lucky I manage a page a minute but this is a super fast read so hopefully this vlog isn't gonna be too short. But yeah now I'm really enjoying it so far. Obviously you're just kind of setting it up. She's just arrived at the house to do an interview and yeah like you definitely you definitely feel like you're like her and you're being lured into a full sense of security so you feel like you kind of I don't know it's difficult to explain you feel that foreboding but you feel like you know the house is warm and comfortable and you feel like okay. So you kind of feel how she's feeling and I really loved how it opened because obviously it's all letters but you had these really short couple pages. She's trying to write the letters and not being able to start and I feel like obviously at that point you're turning the page quite quickly and in a way it almost sets the speed that you're gonna be reading at like turning the pages super quickly so yeah I feel like there's gonna be quite a quick read and you really forget that she is writing a letter and that you're reading a letter. You feel like completely drawn into the story. I love the way that it's written in the sense that you are essentially reading someone's thoughts. I'm gonna go do some stuff and then hopefully come back to this a bit later. I'm just sitting down to have lunch and I said I'll take you through my morning but I didn't. Essentially what I've done since I saw you last is we let out my new the kitten you saw. We have two other cats but that's our new kitten. We let him out for the first time in the garden so I'm going to watch him to make sure that he didn't escape anyway which he did but you know and then I just filmed another video and I've just made my lunch so for lunch I'm having it's basically called bread soup. I know it doesn't look very well I call it bread soup. I know it doesn't look very appetizing but it's basically ciabatta, mashed palm tomatoes, garlic basil and parmesan. That's on Israel versus Parmesan. Just all mixed together. It's so good and filling. I'm watching Becca's new most recent vlog whilst I eat. Hello. Just checking back in again. I know it seems like I haven't moved and you've only just seen me talking but for me it's been a little while. I've just been sitting and reading it. I'm on page 126 already so I've read like a pretty good chunk of it already. Oh my god. It's like it's super spooky. It's really reminding me of if any of you have watched it, Haunting of Hill House on Netflix. Oh my god. Such a good show. Go watch it if you if you can. It is spooky though and it did mess me up for like about a week after. Me and my boyfriend watched it together up in Leeds. We lived together when we're in Leeds and we started it on Monday night. We watched two episodes then. Then Tuesday night we watched two episodes. There's 10 in total and then Wednesday we wake up at 10 in the morning having stayed up late watching his other two episodes and we watch all six at the rest of the six episodes just back-to-back just laying in bed like it felt like it was still the night before and he had an exam the next day for like final uni exams. The end revised one. We just had to watch it like we just had to find out what happened and this is really reminding me of that. I'm trying to make it no spoiler-y but I don't know if it's anything supernatural really at all. I don't think I don't know. I don't think it will be. The House and Haunting of Hill House wasn't modern in the way this one is. It wasn't a smart home but like in the old parts that's what I'm imagining this house to look like. So all their bedrooms in my head like I'm imagining the Haunting of Hill House bedrooms. Oh I just knocked you a bit. Okay that's like making it extra spooky for me because that actually freaked me out. So I'm a little bit scared. Just starting to get a bit scared. But like Ruth Wade is doing something really clever and she keeps kind of laying little nuggets down. Like the narrator will just say little things about herself or going oh of course he didn't know that or or something like that and you're just sitting there like I feel like this is gonna be a really quick read so I hope I'm gonna leave the house for you in the time that I read this. I think we might go for a walk a bit later but I'm starting to get a bit scared so I don't know how I'm gonna go reading it tonight but yeah that's my little update for now. No hi. Good morning actually it's not quite morning it's more afternoon well midday. I'm just catching up with you. If you can hear the movements that's my kid again. I just went to the gym I did two classes I am so tired. I'm so tired. I did body pump and body combat and so I'm just feeling so tired. So tired. But yeah I didn't end up reading any more of the book yesterday we came back from the walk, had dinner and I was just so tired then as well that I just fell asleep. So I didn't end up reading any more yesterday but we are about to go out to Lakeside if anyone knows where that is. It's like a shopping centre but there's other stuff around it. There's a new golf mini golf course there that we're gonna go do. I'm gonna have lunch first and then we'll go so that's why I'm catching up with you now because I haven't got a lot of time. I'm gonna read in the car on the way there because it's a fair drive. I'll get a bit of reading done then and on the way back and hopefully I'll film a bit at the golf course probably but the next time I'm speaking to you is when I'm back home. It's really much later but then I'll update you and how much I've read in the two car journeys. Super busy yesterday and I did read a little bit but I didn't have the chance to pick up the camera. I've noticed while looking at all the footage I've been filming that I'm not very good at putting myself in focus and I'm also not very good at making sure I don't have stuff in my teeth. So that's all we're working on today. I'm gonna try and finish turning the key today. Let's go, should we go get it? Yes Megan, we should. Okay then. So I'm about 250, 260 pages in there which means I've got about 100 pages left. I feel like it is all about to kick off. It's gonna hit the wall, it's gonna hit the fan, it's gonna hit everything. So I feel like I'm gonna be able to just be able to sit here and just get through it. I'm hoping I do because I'm listening to an audiobook at the moment. I'm listening to Wicked Fox whilst I'm also reading this. I've been reading Wicked Fox for like a month on and off and I can't get into it. I am not even halfway through but I want to finish it for August. If not, I think I'll probably just DNF it. So I'm now setting down to read this again. Oh, sorry about my leg. The thing is, even though I'm only 100 pages from the end, I don't know who I can trust. I don't know where it's gonna go. I don't know if that's because I'm new to reading thrillers. Maybe I'm just not adept at like figuring out you know who the bad bad guy or bad person is. I have no idea who I can trust and I have no idea what's going on. I have no idea of the explanations for everything. So yeah, I only have that much left to read so it shouldn't take me long. Oh my god. I did not see that coming. I did not see that coming. I didn't see it coming. I didn't see it coming. Okay, I'm really trying not to see it but what is gonna happen now? Oh my god. Oh my god. Okay, I'll be back. I'll be back after a rinse and more. I just have to laugh because this is this is so well done because I should have seen it all along. I should have seen everything all along but you don't. Oh my god. Girl, girl. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. How did I know? Oh my god. I'm about 30 pages away from the end so I'm gonna finish it. I mean I still got to find... I still got so much to find out. I still got so much to find out. Okay, okay. This has been a... this has been a great update. I'm gonna go and finish this book. Bye. Five stars. Five stars. Five. I did not see it all coming. About 20 pages from the end I thought oh I've got it. I've got it. I know what the twist is gonna be right at the end. I didn't. I was wrong. I felt like the characters were really well fleshed out but more like the most important thing was like the twists. Come on. Turn on the key. Let's get sickness. No, okay. I just... this is... this is... this is a great thriller. This is a great thriller. I mean I know I'm not a connoisseur but any strange imagination but it was great. It was great. It was so good. It's such a quick read. It's such a quick read. You could... if you're the type of person who can like read close to a book in a day you'll finish this in a day. I just took a couple days because I was doing stuff and sometimes I'd put off reading it because I was like I've got a film and I didn't have anything in my face. It was just a moment. I mean I know I should really give you a more in-depth analysis of it but right now I can barely think. You know the twists sometimes I think in thriller books what I hear is that they were they were the same like there's like cliche trope twists. I don't think these were that or not done in a way that you would expect them. I certainly didn't expect them and I doubt it everyone but it's just so infuriating because everything is right in front of your eyes. Everything... look how I'm hugging it. Everything's right in front of your eyes. You can understand everything once you read it, once you read the twists. I think everyone should read this. I think everyone should read this. I think everyone should read this. I'm a bit too excited obviously. I think this is a great book and I'm evidence that you don't have to be a big thriller fan to read it and to want to read it so yeah I would definitely definitely definitely definitely recommend it. I'm really excited to read some more Ruthwear soon. I'm definitely have to get my hands on some of it. Definitely definitely definitely. The ending was incredible. Don't do what my mum does and read the end first because then it just spoils it. It just spoils everything. I mean you won't understand everything but just don't do that. Just don't do that. Thank you so much for watching. If you've made it this far I really really appreciate it. Make sure you like the video if you enjoyed it and comment down below. I don't know, whatever. Comment down below any thrillers that you think I should pick up next because I'm really excited to get into them now. I'll see you very soon with a new video and I hope you have a good time until I see you next. Bye!