 Other parts of the van, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, you know, it's over for us. She's very, very like almost the polar opposite to Pip, which I feel like Holly Jackson had to do. 2AM section. So if you've been here a while, you all know that Holly Jackson is one of my favorite authors. The good girls that like to murder series is one of my favorite series of all time. I love her. Holly Jackson is incredible. And she recently came out with a new release, her first release outside of this series. It is called 5 to 5 and I am incredibly nervous. This is more of a thriller. So the synopsis that I know of this is that we have got a group of friends on an RV and there is a sniper somewhere in the area looking at them, threatening to them. And it's like this tense situation where they're trying to live and not get killed by the sniper essentially. So it's not a mystery, which is what I'm used to from her. It's not mixed media. And I'm just so nervous for the first book outside of that series. So I've decided to do something crazy. Wow. Crazy. You're crazy girl. I'm generally like at this moment, like it's not too late to just not do this. Do I just give up? If you look on the front, you will see it is set over eight hours. It is set from 10pm to 6am. You will see there's little chapter breaks with the times. I am going to read this book from 10pm to 6am. It is currently 9.52. It's 9.52. So we're about to begin. And I just, I don't know why I'm doing this. If you don't know me, you will not know, I'm a grandma. I'm in bed by 10, asleep by 11 every night. I struggle for like a week afterwards if I go to bed at like one o'clock for some reason. How am I going to deal going to bed at six? I actually don't know how I'm going to do this. And also, I tried to sleep beforehand. I was hoping to get like four hours of sleep so that we'd be ready to go. I got like an hour and a half. So I'm out of bed. Get that fire extinguisher. I'm off. So that's what we're going to be doing. We're going to be reading Five Survive in the eight hours that it's set in real time. I'm going to try and read each section in the hour that it happened. So I'm going to, I'm not going to like read it as quickly as I can. I'm going to read the stuff that is set between 10 and 11, between 10 and 11 and so on. So I'm going to go get ready and read the first section. The first section is pretty short. We're probably going to stay up here for the first couple hours and then I will go downstairs for the morning so that I don't wake my family up. When I do go downstairs, I'm going to try and take lots of things to do with me outside of just reading to keep me awake. I generally am so, I'm so nervous. But I know if I stay in my bedroom, I'll just go to sleep. So anyway, let's go get set up and get ready to start reading at 10 o'clock on the dot. Okay, it is about the 10, 10 o'clock, any moment. Oh my God. This is so terrifying. Come on. There we go. 10 o'clock. Okay, let's start reading. Okay, so I just got to the end of the first section, the 10 p.m. section. It is like half past, oh it's like 44s now. Before we chat about what I think of the book so far, I do want to take a moment to thank my sponsor for today's video, which is Serious Readers, because I was just using my light to read. So I've spoken a lot about my Serious Light to you guys, but I am obsessed. I'm obsessed. It's the only way to talk about it. I have been using this every night pretty much since I've got it to read. So if you don't know, this is a reading light. Something that is so special about Serious Lights is they have this technology called Daylight Wavelength Technology, which replicates a daylight spectrum as closely as possible. Before I use this, I don't think I realized how much I've been straining my eyes when reading at night. 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I feel like we're going to have a lot of the same shots tonight because I feel like am I going to have the energy to think about cameras, camera shots and like changing up the settings when it's like 3am and I'm just ready for bed. I don't know if I am. We have met our cast of characters. We have got six characters in this RV. It's late at night. They are driving, trying to find the campsite that they're going to rest at the evening. The cast of characters that we've got, we've got Red, we've got her best friend Maddie, we've got Maddie's brother Oliver, we've got Oliver's girlfriend, is it Rainer, Simon, and we've got Arthur. And Simon and Arthur, I feel like I kind of just friends with the general friend group. Oliver already is a... Don't like Oliver. Bad vibes from Oliver. He's vile, vile. I wouldn't want my arse with him if I had diarrhea. Red, our main character, is a very anxious person already. She's kind of like losing her train of thought, a lot worrying about a lot. Girl, it's setting me up a little bit on my like anxiety and like she's a very interesting character. It's already come out that her mum died a few years ago, and I think she's really caring for her dad and like looking after her dad, and so it's been difficult for her to come away. She's very poor, and she's the reason that they're in the RV and didn't fly because she couldn't afford to fly. So she's already got this very interesting character. She's very, very like almost the polar opposite to Pip, which I feel like how you actually have to do. Pip was such a strong character, like such like a... I don't know, just a strong archetypal character with these strong characteristics. A new character, after you've always known from her as Pip, I feel like her new main character had to be really different. So I'm enjoying that. It's taken me a moment to get into the style of writing. The first chapter I was like, oh girl, I don't know, I don't know. I'm a little bit nervous, but I feel like I'm getting into it now. And at the end of the section, they've just punctured a tyre. They went down all these roads, like these dirt roads, they got lost, and they've punctured a tyre, basically. Now, at one point in the RV, Oliver was telling them about him and Maddie's mother is like, is it, I don't know, American words, district attorney. I'm not used to this from Holly Jackson. Usually she's my brick gal. She's like a very high profile lawyer, and she's doing a case at the moment with like the Philadelphia mafia or something. I don't know. And my first thought, because we know that the Sniper coming, he was going to try and I first thought was like, is it someone from the mafia? But the way that the setting has happened, it's so circumstantial that they've ended up there. I think they're like Mr. Turning and got a bit lost that I can't believe that it's like something against one of them. But then why is there a Sniper like trying to kill them? Like, is it that deep? Like, did you just know what anyone to drive on this road? Like, what is happening here? It's getting weird. The title is five to five and the six of them. So one of them is going to die. And I'm already like, who am I okay with dying? Who can we spare? Yeah, no, I'm intrigued. I gotta admit, I think I watched, I did, I went to the event that Holly Jackson did with Waterstones for this. And I think she spoke about how a lot of her books like are now going to be set in America, like the next few books, because it is right for like true crime. Like, you know, we don't have as much true crime stuff over here in the UK. But like, it kind of makes me sad because I loved that the Girls' Guide to Medicine was British. And like, I don't know, I feel like you don't read a lot of modern murder mysteries set in Britain. I don't know. But even when you do like Ruth Ware, like the It Girl, like it's still, even though I said Oxford, like it wasn't like, it didn't have that like British flavour. I don't know how to describe this. And I feel like that series had, at least when it was written in the UK, when it's published in the US, they changed it to US, which is just freaking stupid. Anyway, so yeah, that does kind of make me a little bit sad. I don't know. I have not decided my thoughts on this yet. But yeah, we've got now 10 minutes till I'll start reading again. Yeah. Oh my god. We're reading Five Survived. Right, section two read. It is 11.53. I wouldn't say I started reading until like 11.25 or something because I took the thumbnail for this. I knew I had to get that in early doors tonight otherwise. So I am reading the sections in like 20 to 30 minute chunks, but I think our next section will be a bit bigger. So how exciting. I might tell you the plot up to vaguely, a little bit vaguely of the next section, but after that I won't be telling you any plot. But in basically this section, they, because I feel like the first third of a book or a hundred pages ish of a book like isn't spoilers really. It's setting up the plot. So anyways, in this section, they, it's already beginning. It's getting tired now In the section, they really, okay, we realized we're in, we're in trouble here. There's a sniper, right? Their tires got boom, boom, boom, boom. Other parts of the van, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. You know, it's, it's over for us. I don't know how much I'm in loving it so far. It's fine, but I don't feel like the writing is the writing I loved in the other series so far. Now I'm only just getting into it, but that's kind of my overwhelming feeling moment. I like read as a character. I'm not sure if our other characters are like fleshed out enough. But I mean, these are the only six characters we're going to have for the whole book. So I feel like by the end of the book, they will be, it's still the beginning. I still don't need to expect much. You know, when you usually you read a book by an author you love and the writing feels familiar, this doesn't feel like reading someone familiar, you know? When I read a Terran Jenkins read or an Aaron Morgenstern or a Courtney Summers, like the writing is always so quintessentially them that it feels like coming home. This doesn't feel like that for me right now. I'm also starting to get tired. We're going to go downstairs now. I was in bed, that was starting to become a mistake. So we're going to go downstairs for the next, well the rest of it really. I got to remind myself I've already done a quarter. I've already done two out of the eight hours. So like that's pretty good. We can keep doing this. I was starting to get that thing like when I talk my ears for funny, I get that when I'm tired. I don't know if anyone else gets that. Anyways, let's go downstairs, hunker down and read the next section. Okay, so we are downstairs. Our first Stay Awake objective is I'm keeping it lighter than I would usually. Usually I would just have these lamps on but we're keeping one of the big lights on today even though I object to it morally, the big light. We're keeping one on tonight so that hopefully I stay awake. So this is where we are probably going to be spending most of the night. It's not going to take me the whole hour to read each section and I want to be intentional with what I'm doing with that time rather than just scrolling through like Twitter or Instagram, which I think will make me more tired. I might play some Sims. I might watch some Royal's Wives. I might play on my Switch. There's still like mindless stuff but you know, stuff that keeps me a bit more awake and I'm going to go get some more teasers to eat. So it's like 10 past midnight. Let's read the next section. Oh, you're falling. Like me falling asleep. Okay, so I just got to the end of the midnight section, which I'm not going to lie. It was cutting a bit fine. It's three minutes to 1 a.m. Two minutes. Okay, so I told you I was going to tell you a little bit about the plot in this one but it would be the last. I'm just trying to speak quietly. My family are asleep. I told you I was going to talk a little bit about the book. Oh my god, we've got like five hours more to get through. I told you I was going to tell you a little bit about the plot in this one and what I'm going to tell you is that they've made some kind of contact with a sniper and he said one of you knows a secret and I need you to figure out who it is and tell me the secret. Too much drama for me. And that's it. Okay, that's all I'm going to tell you. So we know throughout the rest of the book secrets are going to be being dredged up. They probably all have secrets, which one of them is the one he wants to know. I don't know. They're probably all going to have secrets dredged up and like be fighting. The girlies are going to be fighting. Still not in love with the writing. Number one, I'm starting to look tired. I still hate Oliver. Oliver can, for all I care, he can be the one for all I care. I feel like it's not going to be him. Also something that I am enjoying though is red. Okay, so red keeps getting distracted quite easily. Like she struggles to keep a train of thought and she's getting distracted by things like the curtains, like a pattern on the curtains and other stuff like that. And I feel like that's all going to end up coming into play. Like she's going to have a realization based on some of the stuff she keeps getting distracted by, which is kind of fun. I don't think I'm going to be very good at being tactful. I want to say something, but I wanted to say it in the politest way because I'm tired already. This vlog is about to be a mess. I am so sorry. I feel like when some people use vlogs, they're like super like fun and whatever. I am a grandma. I should have been asleep hours ago. This is not my life. The way I'm feeling at the moment is I swear when I was watching that live show that Holly Jackson did, she said that she wrote this, I can't, I'm going to butcher the time period, but I remember thinking that's very quick to write a book like a month or something ridiculous. Like I can't remember. It was like six weeks. I feel like it was something around that kind of length of time that she said she wrote this in and I'm just feeling like, I don't know. I'm just not in love with it immediately. There's just something about it that I'm like, I feel like we could have tightened this up. I feel like it could actually be even faster paced. I don't know. It just feels a little bit like, let's speed things up a little bit. I don't make sense. I love you, Holly Jackson. Don't ever watch this video. No, no, clearly. Anyways, it is now one minutes past one. So let's read the next section. Hello. Let me hear you say it. We're like halfway through. Hell yeah. So I have read the end of the one section. So we're like halfway through now. We've already got to do what we've already done Again. I'm not gonna lie. My reading speed has not been fast. I'm... So like I have a few things to say. Firstly, no secrets have been revealed. I was waiting for some juicy, juicy secrets. Some juicy, juicy secrets. Nothing. No secrets have been revealed. I feel like everyone has secrets that start spilling them. Ugh. They've just been doing stupid stuff with mirrors. Also, I want to say what I feel like is missing for me from this. I'm not like disliking it. I don't need to think that. What is missing for me from this, Gally? I took the dust jacket off. Look how cute she is. Is that... Oh my god. Why am I doing this? You know, what's so good about the Good Girls Guy to Murder series is like Holly Jackson kept like coming up with such fun things to incorporate in the mysteries that were like so unique. Like a Fitbit tracker being how we solve a mystery or like I'm tired. So I can't think of anything. But there were loads of like Snapchat, like geo locations. Like I don't know. Incorporating loads of really fun stuff into it. And because in this are characters like in the middle of nowhere, no Wi-Fi, no cell phone connection. They're having a lot. They're like, that can't happen. You know, like her mixed media prowess literally cannot be used. It's like the antithesis. It's like the opposite. So. But imagine how tired we are. Imagine how tired we are. They were doing some stuff with a mirror and I just, it was being described and I could not understand for life. Like I couldn't picture it. And like when I can't picture something, we start getting into like troubled territory because that is number one like important for me is I have to be able to picture what's going on. If I can't imagine it, what am I doing here? What's the point? So they're kind of my issues at the moment. Like I'm feeling like I'm missing that extra something that Holly Jackson's books always had. I'm not getting any secrets. I'm not feeling particularly tense. I don't feel like invested. You know, I was hoping this would be similar to No Exit by Taylor Adams, where like from the get go, you feel sick. It's high. It's high stakes. And this is very high stakes. You know, I'm a sniper, but like it feels not high stakes. It feels quite slow pace. I feel like it's too long actually for what it is for a book that's over eight hours. I think it could actually be shorter. I wonder if we almost have too many characters as well. I feel like we could have cut down to five. I just feel like it all could have been a bit tighter. The whole time I was reading that section, I was telling myself, oh my God, I am going to make food. That's the motivation to get me through it. I was going to make food. I got to that point of tiredness where like the idea of any kind of food makes me feel like sick. It's absolutely sickening. That's sickening. And that sucks because I was going to film that as B-roll to make this video more interesting for you. So there's that. Like you asked me to eat an egg right now. I would literally rather stay up another 20 hours. So I will say just read the 2am section. It is 2.43. We're going strong guys. I think we're almost 3am. If we've made it to 3am, we can make it to 6am. It was three hours between friends. Anyways, we had the first moment in the section that actually made me gasp. Like jaw drop made me gasp. But it didn't like hit as much as it could. Like the initial moment was like, but then I feel like we haven't taken full advantage of it. I'm just waiting. I felt the secrets are about to start coming out, but I feel like I'm being teased and I don't know in a good way. I feel like I'm being promised a lot and not being given in. It was a pretty short section though. I read that pretty quickly. I think the next section is pretty short and then 4am and 5am are the long ones which like, holy, why are we doing that to me? But yeah, I'm still of the opinion that it could be shorter and quicker and faster paced and higher stakes. It's not giving me the highest stakes that I want it. Even though, yes, at this point, crazy stuff is happening. Excuse me. I am asking for more and I do not think that's irrational. There was just a line that says, red checking her phone. It says 3.13am. Strange how she didn't feel tired at all. Well, it's currently 3.08 for me. I beg to differ, red. I beg to differ. I beg to differ. Okay. Okay. I decided to walk around for a sec to try and wake up. I can't tell you much of what happened in that last section. I'm going to be honest. I feel like I'm looking a little bit like, oh my God, someone's gonna, there's a killer in the house. The killer. The killer. Regular scarves have the ends where the killer can come and just finish off. I don't want to play music in the shower because I want to hear if the killer is coming. I've been aware of the killer since birth. Yeah, I can't tell you much of what happened in the last section. I have no clue. No clue. No clue. I can safely say now that I'm not loving this as much as I wanted to. I thought this was like a guaranteed five star. It is not going to be a five star. I was thinking about it. I'm like, okay, right, the thrilleriness isn't working for me because it's not a fast enough pace. I'm not feeling stressed out. There's enough happening to make me stressed out. I'm just getting annoyed at some of the characters that are there. And I'm like, okay, the thorough isn't working. Let's go back to a mystery, Holly. Let's go back to, I've been showing you, oh my God, not the family photo. Let's skip over that. I'm like 12 and that. Let's do a mystery, right? And here's the thing, mixed media Holly Jackson can like kill it. Why don't we? There's this secret. We don't know what's going on. There's a secret. Someone's got a secret. I feel like they should all have more distinct secrets or the characters. And throughout, we get mixed media hinting at what each of their secrets could have been. So we're getting information as the audience that we know that the characters in the book don't, but we're getting little hints, little teases as to what could be happening. I think that would have made it much better, you know? So they're my current thoughts, you know, imagine like an Instagram post or a police report or this linking to what, not our saying what their secrets are, but hinting, we're slowly building the picture of what all their different secrets are and which is the ultimate secret that the person wants to know them about. Anyways, I'm going to go read the next section. I am so tired. Oh, a cat is scratching to come in. Who is it? Do you want to come see hello? Can you see them? Oh, so tired. I know the feeling, Rora. Right, you coming in? Yes. Come on in. I thought we'd hang out with the gnomes, by the way. There's just like a running joke. My people get my dad known to Christmas. Can't be my friend. Just please don't be my enemy, because my life is tough enough as it is. Okay, the book is just getting more and more ridiculous at this point. Like it's ridiculous. I'm really sorry. I'm not loving it like I wanted to. Holy. The thing is, I would much rather be asleep than reading this. Lugs. I swear to God, I'm at the end. Oh, stop it. You're coming in. Okay. The stuff that's happening does not need to happen. It can be like certain decisions are being made that can be so easily fixed. It does not need to happen. Decisions are being made that have no logical sense. Like for example, we may be just eliminated one possibility by doing X. Then another possibility comes up and we can eliminate it by doing X again. But we just choose not to and choose to put ourselves in mortal danger, don't we? Do you want a cuddle? We had great cuddles earlier. Hi. I love you. Do you know that? Yeah. Whoa. We're so tired, huh? So tired. Yeah. And there's a thing. There's going to be people that say, oh, she ruined reading it by staying up late. What a stupid video. She was never going to like it. Well, those are the same people that would be saying, if I cut this short one, just like, you know, dipped on the way I'm going bed, but like, oh, she sets these reading challenges and then doesn't go through with them. Why would you even watch? And then the same people be like, oh, you shouldn't even do the video in the first place, but then you wouldn't be watching it if you didn't have a bit of a pizzazz to it. I like a bit of pizzazz, okay? So like, I think just how ridiculous elements are being and how easily fixed they all are, just aren't interesting to me. I just not, Holly, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. It's probably like a three. I'm like, I swear to God, if you throw up and I'm good. Maybe even worse. Rora, you guys are testing me. Come on in. You're coming in or are you just lying there? You want to fight? Coming in. They can just see your fat ass, Rora. Is it actually going to be worse than a three? Maybe. Maybe it's giving 2.5 Rora. She's just lying there with her belly out. Like, anyways, let's go read the last section. There is a 6am that has like five pages, but I'm just going to go ahead and read that in the same chunk as the 5am. So I just finished the book and I was going to move somewhere to tell you, but I have two cats on me now. Hey guys, how you doing? Are you going to let me go to bed in a sec? Where do we begin? Do we really want to end this vlog here? Do we want to pretend this vlog never happened? These are options. I finished Five Survive and I'm going to give it 2.5 stars. Actually, don't even talk to me. I don't even want to talk about it. I am so sad. I might exit this conversation now. I'll see you all later. Oh, Rora's gone. That means Lux is going to go. Oh, she's going to go for the chocolate wrappers. She is obsessed with that. Yes, Maltesers. She's obsessed with Maltesers. If she sees Maltesers, she wants to lick the chocolate off of them. No, she's picking up the packet in her mouth. Alright. No. Stop it. I don't even, I don't even know what to say to you. I am so beyond devastated. It just didn't give me what I wanted. I think because I didn't feel, I feel like these characters, for them being the only six characters you spend time with, the whole book, I didn't care about a single one of them. I didn't care about a single one of them, which like I have to if I'm going to feel tense or dread. Oliver in particular, I think just like how awful a character Rora is meant that I could not get invested at all. I was like, someone just shut him up. It is 6.02 a.m. It doesn't want to focus. Yeah, Oliver is like an awful character. A, he's a douchebag, but also I just feel like he's a bit like not much, so much depth, so much layers to him. This is, I am so disappointed. This is not why I expected from Holly Jackson. Like this feels like a book that's been rushed out to me. I'm not happy. I just feel like everything that I know from Holly Jackson in terms of the twists, the depth of characters, the great writing, like none of them were there for me. I feel like I've ended an alternate reality. I don't know what's happening. And when I tell you, it felt like there were no twists. I feel like there were no twists. Like the resolution is so simple. It's so simple. Like if you're going to give me a thriller like this, give me twists, give me shocks, give me... It just felt so like obvious the entire time. Like not necessarily to get from point A to point, let's say the end is point D, right? But once you get point B, you know what point C is going to be. And once you get point C, you know what point D is going to be. Do you get what I'm saying? Like it's never shocking you in that... Once you learn a piece of information, you know what's coming next. You get me? I don't even want to talk about it. I can't believe I've stayed up till 6am reading this book. And I was like, this is going to be the best night of my life. It's going to be a five star. I'm going to be living my best life. Oh no. Oh no. Absolutely not. I'm just going to pretend this book doesn't exist, okay? We're just going to pretend it's not part of the Holly Jackson discography. Anyways, that's the end of the vlog. I am so sorry. I'm so tired. I can't tell what this is going to be like as a video. I don't know if it's going to be boring. If it's going to be chaotic, it's going to be both of them. So I don't know what I'm apologizing for, but I'm apologizing. I'm crying. So yeah, that's it. Do I want to end the vlog here? I suppose I do. That's the end of five survive reading it overnight from 10pm to 6am. I'm going to go sleep for at least like six hours now when everyone else is waking up. I feel like I just, I'm done. I don't want to talk anymore about this book because I am beyond disappointed. I didn't know it was possible to be this disappointed. Well, I'm glad this wasn't my first book of the year because it could have been. Anyways, I love you. Thank you for watching this video. Who knows how long it is? Who knows what the quality is? Who knows if it was entertaining or if it wasn't? I'm still talking. It's time for me to go to sleep. Thank you for watching. And I'll see you soon in another video. Bye!