 When you sleep with strangers, you wake up with enemies. This is always the case. Keep watching to find out what book we're talking about today. It's Kyla Denigno and you're watching Kyla's Reading Day. This is another special edition in the vlogmas series where I'm reviewing a book by Erich Drum Dickie. Today the book we're talking about is Waking with Enemies. So don't let the cover distract you, right? It definitely is to be attention-grabbing. The genre of the book is fiction. The theme of the book is literature, African-American literature. This is book two in the Gideon series, which we didn't know was a series until we got to about the fourth book, right? So the first one was Sleeping with Enemies. The second is Waking with Strangers. And in this book, we continue to follow the contract killer Gideon. So one of my favorite, favorite, favorite, favorite things about this book. Absolute favorite is Tebi and Bruno. It's Tebi and Bruno forever, even though Bruno had to kill Tebi. But let me tell you, when you are a contract killer, not that I know any. If you're a contract killer, Gideon, he's the protagonist of all the stories. He ends up being raised to become a contract killer. You've got to read Sleeping with Strangers to find out the backstory. But by the time you get to Waking with Enemies, he's still working, right? He gets these jobs, he goes out, he puts hits on people. But you get to hear the story of Bruno who is out to get Gideon. Well, Bruno goes to a coffee shop. He meets this woman. It's love at first sight. You know Bruno's married, but you're cheering for them. You're just like, oh, what's going to happen? Oh my gosh, right? Tebi's this tall, beautiful woman in all white, people in London don't wear white. Like it's this whole story. And like, who else gives you that? Like, why would you need to know the background story of Bruno being a real guy who is working because his wife was trying to divorce him and he needs money? Right? So you're just like, if that happened to me in my life, would I need to become a contract killer to make money on the side? But Erdram Dickey always goes into the background story of why people do what they do. And that is one reason why he is one of my favorite authors. I absolutely love to read his works. And this Gideon series is just is absolutely one of my favorite. Gideon is hilarious. But anyhow, one of the things I really love about the relationship between Tebi and Bruno is that Bruno really gets vulnerable with Tebi. Now he doesn't tell her a lot of the stuff that he's thinking. You know, he takes her to a play. He leaves to go to the bathroom quote unquote. And in the meantime, he's out torturing someone. He comes back to the play. All of that aside, he's still just the person who's attracted to another person and they go on some dates. And it's like, it's so corny. I know it sounds so corny, but Bruno is a man. Tebi is a woman. They meet up. They like each other. They hook up. Erdram Dickey has a really good way of humanizing his characters, even the contract killers, right? He's on his way to go track someone down. He just bought a gun and his daughter calls asking him to pick up books at a bookstore and is like job aside, contract killer side, he's an actual person. So this book and the relationship between Bruno and Tebi is so important to me because I love that Erdram Dickey humanizes every single character. And the fact that he was in Sleeping with Strangers is really important. So I hope I have intrigued you to pick up this book. If not, don't worry about it because I will definitely be rereading it. I reread all of these books and the Gideon series especially is wonderful. So thank you for hanging out with me today. I know this is different. This is very, very different. I am putting up one vlog every single day for Vlogmas 2022. And today we reviewed the book, Waking with Enemies. So if you sleep with strangers, you can wake up with enemies. Don't forget it. So please get in the comments, let me know. Have you read any of the books in the Gideon series? Have you read any books by Erdram Dickey? Okay. And I will see you tomorrow because again, one video every single day until December 25th. So thanks for hanging out with me today and I will see you next time on Kyla's Reading Day.