 Good morning, good morning, day-da-da-da-da-da-da-da, it's day three of summer ween! Hello friends, welcome to the next summer ween vlog. We excited? I am! So if you haven't watched yet, I did a vlog of days one and two of summer ween where I read The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz, What Moves Are Dead by Teaking Fisher, Fall of the House of Usher by Edgarden Poe, and I started her body and other parties which I'm reading one short story from this every day for the read-a-thon. If you haven't seen it, don't worry, you can still watch this, okay? Like why are we doing like series like this? Is the views like drop off the further and you get? Because people think oh I can't watch that without watching the first, yes you can, yes you can! I can't do it! You can! You can do it, you can! You can! So um it's day three, I'm not gonna put as much pressure on myself these next few days to like read as much as I did in that first vlog because I read a lot. I read like three and a half things in the first two days of the read-a-thon. We have three things left on my like definite want-to-read TBR. I have great news by the way everyone. The remaining prompts we've got left are Read Something with Orange or Black on the Cover. I'm going with this one because out of everything on my definite TBR, Other Than What Moves Are Dead which I used for the November prompt I don't want to double up. This one was the darkest cover like her hair is black, the shadows are back so that's what I'm using for uh something black on the cover and then I've got great news guys. A Karris, one of my patrons pulled through, turns out On Wives Under the Sea takes place in the autumn. Here's the screenshot! I'm not lying um it takes place in the autumn or like part of it takes place in the autumn or fall if you're American. So I'm gonna read this for that prompt. These are the three books we've got left. In terms of what I'm gonna read today, I think I'm gonna read You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kaelin Bayron. This is a super new release where at a summer camp I think it's slasher, everyone's dying, horror, like it's just fun. A summer camp for summer ween. The vibes, it's so good. Co-workers are disappearing, one ends up dead. I'm really excited for this. So I have read Syndrome Is Dead by Kaelin Bayron um I hated it. I really didn't like Syndrome Is Dead and then I haven't read This Poisoned Heart or that whole series. This is like me giving Kaelin Bayron a second chance because I'm so intrigued by the premise of this. I think it could be just super fun YA. I think it's perfect for a readathon. So like this is our second chance. I love A Good Final Girl Trope. I've had loads of books that I've loved with The Final Girl Trope. Final Girl Support Group. There's more but I can't think of them. Yeah it's a trope I really enjoy. So I feel like if I'm gonna enjoy her stuff it's this and I'm also intrigued you know her branching into horror after writing more like fantastical you know fairy tale like stuff. So I'm really intrigued by this. So we're gonna start this. It is already 11 o'clock and my plan's today. I'm about to help Tom with some stuff and then we're going out for another walk. If he saw day two we just went out for a walk. But usually at the weekend we just go out for walks okay. And then the only other thing is I do have a live show this evening with my patrons for our book club. So that's my only plans for the day. I don't know if I'll finish this today but I'll definitely hopefully get a good way through this. I'll check in with you probably about halfway through. And yeah I'm hoping I'm gonna love this and thank you Charlie my patron again for gifting this to me the other day because it's I think it's perfect summer weekend. I feel very lucky to have this in my hands right now. I don't think I'll see you pull a walk so let's go on the walk. I'm only joking. I'm gonna make some lunch before we go out for a walk. I've got some like fish I need to use up so I think I'm gonna make like a salad. I got some boiled potatoes I think I can crush and roast that's what we're gonna do. Waitless I am way underneath your wind I so. Alright so I'm gonna level with you. It's almost eight o'clock and I'm only like 40 pages into this. It's today's not been a good reading day. I wish that I could just disappear. I just yeah I just went for a walk, hang out with Tom's family, hang out with my family and because Tom is telling me to be busier in the weeks with work at the moment I'm just trying to keep weekends free. Today I just didn't feel like reading. No but I'm hopefully gonna read quite a bit this evening but I'm just checking in because I'm just about to have a book club live with my patrons some of my patrons for our book club. We're gonna be chatting about A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross completely separate to summer weekend. I'd love to know your guys opinion because everyone in the book club has kind of given it three stars. It was a 3.5 for me so I feel like it's not gonna be the most exciting book club live because everyone's just like meh it's alright I'm great but yeah I'm just going to have that and hopefully this evening I would like to get at least halfway through this evening and check in with you but yeah reading the day just escaped me. I think in the week now the rest of the days in the readathon are in the week and I think it'll be much easier because I'll just feel like there's less you know the weekends I feel like I want to be with my family, be with Tom's, be with his family like spend time with everyone because they're not you know everyone's off work whereas in the week everyone's going to be working so I think it'll be easier the next couple of days. Anyways I'm gonna go hop on the live stream but hopefully I will see you this evening. Fingers crossed if I don't see you don't be mad at me if I do see you I want you to all give me a massive round of applause okay and last night and then today I had to do quite a bit of work this morning so it's like four or five o'clock now and I've only just got halfway through you're not supposed to die tonight by Ken and Bayron don't be mad at me we're gonna read loads this evening and this afternoon okay okay this is a quick read it won't take me long to finish this then the plan is we're gonna read two more short stories from her body and other parties and then maybe we'd thanks the graphic novel that's the plan for the rest of today everyone I'm already feeling like this vlog is gonna be like the ugly stepsister in the middle of the other two summer week vlogs and I've kind of just come to terms with that so in this we're at this like fake summer camp so our protagonist is living there for the summer but it's her job basically they like the where this is sorry I feel like you're really crooked where this is set was the set of a notorious slasher movie like years and years ago and they kind of reenact it for paying guests but like they make it seem like everything's gone wrong and someone's killing everyone when really it's all part of the show you know but then some of her campmates have started going missing now in the synopsis it says when one of her co-workers ends up dead charities are always the final girl suddenly becomes all too real that hasn't even happened yet okay and I'm halfway through a 220 page book like what is that about my big critique of this is that it just feels a bit slow when you're promising me fun slasher I want us to get to the fucking chase like you know what I mean the whole start of this has just been like them having nights where they're reenacting this and some of them going missing and her getting her friends to turn up and her girlfriend to come and turn up and help them and then we're just chatting and like whatever like it just hasn't been I haven't felt motivated to read this which is part of the problem it's been my summer wean saboteur it's not bad I'm enjoying this a lot more than any other kailyn bayron that I've read so I think I would mean depends how this ends but I would be up for reading from her again there is something about her uh dialogue that I just find a bit cringe but I think I find a lot of why quite cringe nowadays but there's just something about it the way like it's whole I'm not calling Ken and Bayron old okay let me get it out there I'm not calling her old but as an older person there isn't a teenager right trying to write how teenagers talk I just find that so I think it's so hard to pull off you know I just don't know many people do it right when it's like contemporary you know this is horror but like contemporary YA so I don't know I'm a little bit bored I'm not hating it but like this promised me fun slasher whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa you know but I don't feel like the stakes are high yet and if like in a 200 page book you're telling me something in a synopsis that hasn't even happened at the halfway mark let's speed things up a little bit like what what is going on I'm so confused why why like with a slasher that should happen at the start and then give me a whole book of like like final girl support group of like crazy stunts and crazy things happening and like running from the killer and it's just not happening so anyways we're gonna make the rest of today a success even though it's the afternoon we're gonna make the rest of today a success for summer wean so I'm gonna go head out to the garden and read the second half of this and it is a quick read so hopefully it won't take me long and we'll have a good pace to everything and it would just be like whoo yeah I'm hoping at the moment it's like a 33.5 it's not bad but we could be better gave me what I wanted it gave me a slasher fast paced drama incredible scenes crazy amazing what is going on the second half gave me this however if it's a 220 page book you've got to give me that for the whole book because it meant that this second half although giving me the drama it felt so rushed it felt so rushed it felt like we were like trying to move as fast as we could and so the ending didn't feel like a satisfying resolution for me there is something there is like a last minute twist you know like throw some throes and horrors do that whereas like a last minute like whoa oh how the tables have turned you know what I mean one thing about them tables they turn there was that and I enjoyed that but on the whole it's so hard because I enjoyed this much more than Cinderella said I think I'm gonna give this a 3.5 but it's gonna round down to three on Goodreads because I have you know I have quite a few problems with it also there is like a villain in this of course is like the whoever was killing other people in this book and it reminded me it reminded me of like um you know like a disney channel original movie when you were a kid and like they'd be a villain and it would just be like their whole reasoning for why they were doing what they're doing which is kind of like yes it brought the drama but it was kind of like okay or like you know you feel like a pokemon when there's always like the the bad team whatever like they're different in every game and they always like have some weird motivation or like weird character backstory that you're kind of just like right it just felt a bit cheesy and not it felt more childish than teen than horror do you get what I mean yes horrors can be cheesy whatever but just it felt a bit like you know and I've seen iterations of it done before and I think done better I think this is a good readathon pic it's so fast you read it really fast but I just I feel like it is quite short and if it was longer I feel like if you want that first 100 pages to just be building us up we need like another 100 pages of action because it just wasn't enough in my opinion so anyways I don't know what I'm gonna read next um I'll check in with you once I've read something else tonight because I feel like I need to go make that decision off camera okay quick check in to say I just read the next short story and her body and other parties which was uh what's the full title let's get into her full title especially heinous 272 views of lauren order svu so I think I said in the last vlog that I thought this was gonna be like a reflection of the lauren order svu show um I forgot what I was reading evidently because it's not that I mean it is every it's a lot of paragraphs where each one is basically just an episode title that is a real so I'm just gonna move you a bit there is a real episode title of the show but like I'm pretty sure that what is described as happening in this does not actually happen in the show but I loved it I loved it it was the kind of weird surrealist horror that I just I eat it up try not to say mother challenge failed that is definitely my favorite in the collection so far it was a five star for me I should have read a second one today but I don't think I'm gonna have time but yeah this one oh it was so much fun I have never watched lauren order svu but I imagine that if you have watched it and like this is referencing all the characters from the show I reckon it would be an even more fun experience so so far we've had a five a four a three and a five in terms of the short stories in this collection so far so I'll be intrigued to see what it averages out to but yeah it was I don't want to spoil anything for you but it just kind of like goes crazy and I just loved it I love this format of like giving me the episode synopses but like you know what's real what's not I don't know I loved it I forgot to say when I read you're not supposed to die tonight that ticked off to prompt read something with orange or black on the cover her hair was black the shadows were black so that's what I picked for that prompt so we've done that prompt so the only prompt we need to do still is read a book set in the fall and I don't think this is I mean it may be but the book I'm gonna read for that I wasn't to see I if I started it in this vlog I wouldn't finish it and I'm trying to keep the vlogs kind of like contained the books like not have books overlap between them so hopefully I will read this tonight it's not long it's the graphic novel that I think is just about a romance between a vampire and a werewolf so I think this will be a fun summer ween vibey read so yeah I'm gonna have a bath and then I will settle down and read this okay so I read fangs last night I was too tired to check in but it took like 10 minutes to read it was such a quick read all I can tell you about this is that it basically is a romance between a werewolf and a vampire like that's all you need to know going into it it's a super super quick read I just I also I love the cover like I love the it's like cloth can you see I enjoyed this I'm gonna give this a four star my one like reason it's not a five is that it's not actually like there's no narrative there's no story it's just each page is like a little vignette a little moment in their life and in their relationship together there's no continuing storyline and I just think that means I can't give it a five star because I didn't like you know it didn't take me on a journey we just saw moments with them there was one moment if you saw me laughing it only made me laugh like that once but I don't know if you can see he goes can you speak to dogs it's a little cute dog and he says you're a disgrace isn't that funny but there was no other moment that made me laugh like that but yeah I would say on the whole this is a fun like spooky-esque well it's not spooking itself but it's worlds of empire it's got that kind of aesthetic to it yeah a fun little graphic novel that I really enjoyed thank you to Sophie by the way for gifting this to me this was gifted to me by Sophie and yeah I would recommend it I think again this is another thing that's perfect for a readathon it didn't take me long to read another tick towards my goal guys I think I might I haven't said this anywhere because I didn't want to jinx it but I think I might read 150 books this year I think I'm on track for the first time ever to read 150 books in a year get a good try and run so that is the end of technically it's day five now so that's the end of the reading vlog for days three and four of the readathon we read two books and a little bit more of her body and other parties both are fine but we can't the lofty heights of the five-star for episode one I don't know if we're gonna get another one but I'm really excited I already know what I'm gonna be reading in days five six and seven but I won't tell you now because you need to tune into the next vlog which will be out on Thursday so it'll be out on the night for me of day seven so I'll be finishing in like a little bit early I guess the readathon but yeah I hope you guys enjoyed this vlog let me know how someone we know is going for you if you're participating if not let me know how you're reading is going if you got to end comment a ghost emoji we did a pumpkin last time I went to comment a ghost this time and I will see you soon in another video bye