 Hey everyone, welcome back to my channel. Today we're gonna do the Try a Chapter tag video. Is that a tag? I don't know. We're gonna try a chapter vlog reading vlog. This is bad already. So uh, so uh, in this video I'm gonna try the first chapter of three different books and whichever chapter I enjoy most of the first chapters we're gonna read that book together. I'm really excited but I am also very sceptic is the right word because I lasted this about a year ago and I thought like I'd read a great first chapter and I hated the book. It was, it was the silent patient which was like one of the most popular thrillers and I'm one of the only people who hated it. I really didn't like it. So we're hoping that this is gonna be more successful and I'm not gonna give whatever book I read two stars. Wishful thinking. You're a dream. Are you dream a lot in your sleep? No, not really. So I have picked out three 2021 new releases that I really want to get to. So we have got Fire Keeper's Daughter by Angeline Booley. This is like a kind of like mystery thriller about drug related deaths in the indigenous community I believe. I know it's very hard hitting, very emotional and yeah I've just heard really great things. One that I haven't heard great releases for but I'm really excited for and I'm really upset I haven't read it yet is A History of What Comes Next by Sylvain Neuvel. This is like something to do with the race to the moon, like the space race. I could be making that up. I think it's about this family of women who are like trying to stop the Russians getting things from the Germans in the 1940s. I don't really know. I've heard this a bit strange, a bit weird but I really want to get to it. It's like one of the 2021 new releases I was most excited for. So we're gonna give this first chapter a go and then I have also got Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas. This is the kind of like not sequel to The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas but we're following Maverick which is the dad of the protagonist from The Hate U Give. So we're following him when he was a teenager, dealing drugs, finding out he's gonna be a teen dad, yada yada. So we've got like a contemporary, we've got a historical sci-fi I think and then we've got like a contemporary thriller thing. I think it's like contemporary plus thriller this one. So we've got three different kind of books. They're all, I think these are pretty much like some of my most anticipated 2021 releases. So they're all books I'm really excited for. I tried to pick three where I've got like similar levels of anticipation for all three. So excited. So that is not gonna cloud my judgment. Like I'm equally excited for all of these three. We're just gonna judge it on the first chapter. So I think I am gonna read the first chapter of Fire Keeper's Daughter first and I'll say what I think after a minute. Okay let's go. This is so much fun. Okay so first chapter of this, I really enjoyed the writing in it. I feel like the writing style is just very easy to read. So basically not much happened, obviously it's only a chapter. But the first chapter was very much like examining the tension and like the difficulty I think she feels, the main character feels between her indigenous side of the family and her non-indigenous side of the family. I believe her mum's side of the family are French or something and that's who she lives with and so it was kind of like examining yeah like how the indigenous side of her is in conflict with that and like the difficult time that her family has had over the past couple months and how she is like postponing going away to university for that. I found it very readable. I was very engrossed in it. I really enjoyed the writing but at the same time there wasn't anything in that first chapter that like has me like oh I have to read on. Do you know what I mean? Like nothing big happened. Push me up against the wall, give me a kiss then I might get excited. Possibility, we may go with this one. I think I'm gonna go downstairs and I'm gonna read the first chapter of the history of what comes next. Next. So basically this isn't really like necessarily a first chapter it's an introduction so we we're hearing from the perspective of who I believe is the grandmother actually no let me not let me not doubt myself who was who was the grandmother of our protagonist that we're gonna follow throughout the rest of the book. Basically detailing how there are these generations of women mothers and daughters who are numbered so the grandmother was part of the 97 with her mom and then part of the 98 with her daughter. They are like scientists who are into science and they like affect really well known moments in history so it's like intimated that they affected elections or wars and stuff through the science and they're like secretive whatever and she details how there's these pairs and they can never be through for long so her mom killed herself. The grandmother's mom killed herself after the grandmother had her daughter and she's detailing how her the grandmother's daughter has now had the protagonist. They're on this boat escaping Germany going to America and the grandmother's husband finds her diary and she's like well let me drive a penderous brain. What? I was just like huh? Very matter of fact that I know and I was like did I did I just read what I thought I read? And then because there can never be three for long this isn't a spoiler because it's literally the introduction. The introduction says a bag of silverware tied around the ankle should be good enough. I think I will wear the blue dress. Amit will like that. It was always his favorite. So here's the thing this is why I was talking about the other book. The other book didn't have anything major happening in the chapter one. This I'm gagged. I'm gagged on page five like excuse me like what? So I'm very intrigued by this but at the same time I preferred the writing in Fire Keeper's Daughter. Some of the writing in this I wasn't like 100 vibing with but I do know that I like Sylvain Nouvelle's writing. I've read like a four star and a five star from him so I do have a very good success rate with Sylvain Nouvelle. So I don't know you guys. I really don't know what to choose. Look I'm like indecisive already. I don't know what to go for. Okay I'm gonna go read the first chapter of Concrete Rose our last book and then I'll come back to you with a decision. So I just finished the the first chapter of this and I gotta be honest like it didn't really pull me in. Oh my god. And I don't really know why because I loved both of Angie Thomas's other books so I'm just a bit confused. So basically in this Maverick is basically going to find out whether he's a dad. I just was a bit bored like throughout the beginning and I've never had that with Angie Thomas's book so I don't really know what's going on there because this is like one of my most anticipated releases. I'm not going to pick this. I think I'm feeling most drawn to a history of what comes next after that intro and that is actually the one that I thought I least want to read like out of the first chapters. I thought Concrete Rose would be the one I'd most want to read so that shows you how different it can actually be because I thought I would pick this but I'm not. Like I was really bored. I don't know. Maybe I've read the other two via audiobook so maybe I need to read this physically and with the audiobook maybe I'm just used to that. I don't know. But yeah I think I'm gonna go and read some more of a history of what comes next because that was the one that drew me in the most from the first chapter. Okay that's a bit crooked. The level of unprofessionalism far too much. Okay so hey I am about 100 pages into a history of what comes next. I thought about it and I may have fucked it for myself a little bit by like by picking the book with the lowest rating out of all of these to like not have a repeat of last time where I gave the book two stars because so many people who I have similar reading taste to have given this book two stars. But always a positive thinker. Me. Yeah I think I'm quite positive. Am I? What do you guys think? I mean let me ask the audience. I'm really enjoying it. Like I'm really enjoying it. I think it may be helped by having read Sleeping Giants maybe by Sylvain Niveau. I really enjoyed that. Let's put her here. So basically we are following like I said Mia who has kind of been hired by the Americans to give them Germany's leading rocket scientist basically. Her family basically these women like I said there's this lineage of them. She's like number 100. They're aliens basically they're called the like is it the kipsu? Yes kipsu. And their motto is something like get them to the stars before evil kills them or whatever. So basically the motto is like space travel for humans. Help humans get to space before the world kills. I don't know. Something along those lines. And they're like super human strength so they can kill a bitch if you need to kill a bitch. They're like I'm just here to fight. I really like it. It's told in this very like dispassionate disconnected way. We have no speech marks. All speech is told in like dashes. So we'll have like a section of inner narration from the protagonist. We also hear from her mum's point of view. Sarah, Sarah's point of view. So yeah you'll have this inner narration and then there'll be dashes and it won't say who it's said by. Which I think I was thinking about this. Sylvain Neville has a thing about speech because the famous files with other series that I was talking about is told completely through interviews. So it completely avoids this kind of inner narration. And then this one is mostly that and not a lot of speech. And I think it's very interesting for an author to explore those two things like in opposition to one another. So yeah I'm really enjoying a dispassionate tone of voice. I feel like the pace is very interesting. We're having flashbacks to previous generations of the women the mothers and daughters and like the impact and the lessons that they learned that they've passed down to the generations the rules they've learned. Oh there's also a tracker who is so just like these women have this lineage there's a lineage of the tracker who is supposedly a man who is trying to kill them. The kibzu constantly talking about how the tracker is going to kill them. I've been aware of the killer since birth. Now I hear that you don't you think people are always going to come and get you. Oh the killer. And well what was she doing in the stairwell because that's where the killer is. We don't really know much about that yet other than like the tracker is near at the moment. So it's very interesting it's told right at the end of the Second World War so like right as Germany is losing. I think it's a very interesting take on the end of World War 2 from this complete alternate history point of view. Yeah I'm finding like it's going well so far but I'm the anomaly. I'm really enjoying it. I'm really enjoying it. Also my god I thought I was picking up a standalone this is a fucking series and let me tell you I thought it would be a good idea last night to do a series spreadsheet and I was having a go at myself about how many series I've started and haven't finished and I was like I'm not gonna start any series for the next I'm not gonna start I'm not gonna start any series for the next like couple days or whatever because couple days I'm not gonna start any let me try again. I'm not gonna start any series the next couple months because I need to just get through the ones I've started I'm just gonna read like standalone and continue series that I've started. Um this is a fucking series so boohoo I am a clown fuck but I'm really enjoying it and I'll see you in the morning when I wake up. 200 pages into history of what comes next and listen I'm still really enjoying it you guys it's a bit of a different book I think not everyone's gonna love this I can understand why everyone doesn't love it. I think this is the kind of book where if you don't buy into it a hundred percent from the get go you're not gonna enjoy it. Most books when we read them we spend a little time at the beginning like figuring out do I like this I think with this one from that first chapter you have to go into it going wow okay I'm excited let's fucking go if you're a bit tentative like dipping your toe in it's not gonna work it's not gonna work you're not gonna enjoy it. I am loving the the uniqueness of this it's such a unique story both in imagination in how much thought has gone into this like alien race idea with these women and these daughters I absolutely love the flashbacks to different pairs of women like throughout history I can't describe to you I really enjoy this you guys I can understand why everyone hates it could not be me though I would rather die well I may live to regret that I may hate the last 100 pages who knows this whole idea of this alternate history with this race to the stars I'm loving Mia as a character is super fun to be in her head and she's kind of struggling against the idea of this pre-ordained existence and you know having to just like live the life of what that her mama says she has to in the universe says she has to and not getting to choose what she wants to do and the life that she wants to lead so she's kind of rebelling against that there's sometimes I think the pacing is a bit off if I had to complain about anything I don't think it's a five star and that would be my why it's not a five star reasoning but I just think it's such a unique science maybe I just don't read enough science fiction maybe here's the thing maybe I'm too much of a newbie to science fiction and so I'm just like oh my god it's great and people who have read more science fiction are like with mystery I can feel myself becoming pickier with what I want because I read more and more of it and I barely ever read sci-fi so that could be a reason but I love the combination of futuristic sci-fi with being in the past like that's so cool to me I cannot tell you where it's gonna go I am so excited I'm gonna go finish it and hopefully I'm still gonna love it at the end who knows I I feel like I will I feel like I'm gonna be the outlier here wrong with me if you're really enjoying a book but I really liked it I had so much fun reading it the reason I think I like Sylvain Nevelle's sci-fi so much is that it makes me feel clever I think a lot of sci-fi leaves me feeling dumb but Sylvain Nevelle does this thing where like I know that I don't understand a lot of what he's talking about and like the reasons behind it and it's like very advanced science but he says it in a way that has me going I'm a genius like I feel like I'm learning a lot whilst reading his stuff I feel like I'm discovering stuff I feel like I'm finding out new things that's probably my favorite thing about reading his books I can understand how people don't get into it because of the way it's told we don't have any like descriptors of the way people speak it's literally just lines like a script and it doesn't have people's name next to it so you're constantly having to like remember who's saying what but I still really loved it I thought it was such an imaginative way to tell a story at the end there's this really interesting authors note where he goes into the history of everything and his research and I didn't realize until that authors note how much of what is in this book actually happened and Mia is just plonked into it and like takes the credit over it so I thought it was so fun how so much of what happened actually happened and so you can really start to believe this idea of this girl who had to hide herself in history being the hidden force amongst all of that so that just added this element of like oh it's true isn't it it's true to me even though I know it's not true um I loved the idea of the kibzu this lineage of mothers and daughters who are really strong but have had to make sacrifices throughout history the idea of that going throughout history and the effect I just loved it I think it's such a cool idea um I'm giving it four stars it's only about 300 pages so it's not too long at all so I would really recommend it and here's the thing as well I know this is a series and I was like kind of like oh fuck I'm starting another series but I think this is the perfect kind of book where it can be read as a standalone if you want it to the way it ends you're like I could be satisfied not picking the sequel up I want to of course I'm excited for the sequel but it ends in a way where you're like well that's a nice closure to the story as well so I liked that as well I do I do think I prefer books that end with a bit of closure rather than like a really over the top cliff hanger to get you to pick the next book up like I feel like I should want to do that without an over top cliff hanger that means that the book can't stand on its own I think I like books in series to stand on their own and to be like separable so yeah I loved it I would recommend you read a history of what comes next everyone else gives it two stars I am the anomaly here but I really enjoyed it I really liked it I think it's fun sci-fi I think it's easy to read yet still pushing yourself if you're not like an avid sci-fi reader because I'm not I hope you enjoyed this video it was much more successful than last time I did try a chapter tag and we were against the odd tier with this book being universally like not like yeah I hope you enjoyed the video if you've gotten to the end comment a spacey emoji and I'll see you very soon in another video bye