 Hello everybody, E here back again with another book review if I'm not as peppy and perky and Energized as I usually am I got some stuff going on in my personal life If you want to know more about that you probably already know if you follow me on Twitter, but yeah Some stuff going on with my mom. So if you want to read about that, I don't want to go on too long In this book review So I will link you to my blog post to my blog The post that I posted on my blog. It's been almost two weeks since I uploaded a video I believe I'm not entirely sure because I've completely lost track of time if you read the post You'll understand why and things have only gotten worse It got a little bit better than it got worse So there's even more updates that that are to come Once I get you know the time to actually sit down and write it down But I wanted to get something up on the channel before everybody is like I guess he's just dad So today we are talking about black magic by our Saint Claire Is an awesome bookmark that? Regina sent me as well It's for the Dark Hollow Chronicles the ghosts of Dark Hollow the Witch of Long Shadows, which is a rad name I think the Lord of Blackshire Blackshire whatever If you don't know our Saint Claire or Regina has her own YouTube channel She does book reviews that she has some of the best book hauls a lot of retro Horror and we'll touch on that in a second But a lot she is a fantastic fantastic channel she was nice enough to send me two of her books and They are even signed because she is super awesome like that the signature right there um But right off the bat. I enjoyed this book. I'm gonna give it three stars now. I'm gonna tell you why When I said we were gonna talk more about retro horror That's because I want to talk a little bit about how much I feel Regina You know Has her inspirations on her sleeve. This felt very much like a retro horror novel a novel Maybe of the 80s and 90s that kind of thing I wouldn't say go far as far back as the 70s But there are certainly some elements in this book that made me smile Now the reason right up front I want to get the the one negative criticism I have and the reason why I'm giving it three stars instead of four because I did enjoy the story quite a bit There were several errors there were enough errors that I found in the book that I That caught my attention and kind of took me out of the story most of these things I will say that I believe that most of these errors were made during the editing process and maybe one more proof read Could have could have done or I'm not sure what Regina's editing process is But maybe one more proof proof read could have caught The the errors that I had I know there was one where there was three on one page and that that's that's upsetting You know when you have a story that's really good that you want to kind of you know fanboy over It's like I had a lot of fun with this to be distracted by that and I feel it'd be dishonest to my viewers The watchers of this channel if I didn't mention those things Because I've had times in the past where people come back and said oh you didn't mention this or that Or the other so just trying to be completely honest and up front But the content of the book the story is a lot of fun. I had a blast reading it There especially one character in particular his name is Lloyd Lloyd is douche-tastic He's one of those those Other jerks that I enjoy reading about I don't enjoy knowing people like this in real life And I don't pay too much too much attention to people like Lloyd in real life But they are a lot of fun for me personally to read about Lloyd's misogynistic Lloyd's an asshole Lloyd's all these things and he's a lot of fun to read Even though he is this jerk. So Bravo Regina on Lloyd Had a lot of fun with that. I also really enjoyed the premise. There's a twist in here I didn't see coming and that's always that's always pleasant. It's always a lot of fun when I get tricked I didn't see the the ending coming Now this one isn't I wouldn't say it's It's it's not your any kind of like hardcore horror or anything like that It's more of a dread kind of thing. There's even a lot of dark. I felt I felt there was some dark comedy And there's also it's this this is a compliment. I hope it comes out as a compliment listening to Regina talk on her on her channel listening to the way she talks and how her I Guess her not her diction or pronunciation anything like that It I'm always amazed when an author can completely embody an entire Entirely different type of character and that's what impressed me the most about Lloyd Is you know, you see a certain side of Regina on her YouTube channel and then you read Lloyd and you're like well then Lloyd's got a filthy filthy mouth and While Regina might be that you know be You know might talk like a sailor in her in her you know every day life on the YouTube channel She doesn't come across that way, so I was very impressed by how out of character She was able or into character I should say how into character she was able to get that's one thing with these characters I'm a huge fan of characters period characters carry a story for me There can be absolutely no plot whatsoever and a character will save the story for me With this one that her characters really really do shine But and I said the only negative criticism I have is the the amount of areas I found it now by no means Is this unedited garbage? I should have brought that up at the beginning But no means is that you can tell Regina knows what she's doing and these are what I call honest typos or honest errors Instead of just tossing out a first draft, you know, just set it and forget it kind of thing This is this has it feels like it has been worked on and a lot of times in the editing process words will get deleted Or you will see what you thought you wrote instead of what you actually wrote I've been doing this long enough that I can usually tell honest errors and honest typos from someone who just doesn't care and Regina Obviously does care So I'm going to recommend if you are not put off by the occasional error here or there I would say in a hundred fifty page book. There's probably 15 Maybe 20 errors in the entire book It was enough that I noticed but it wasn't so so Stupidly obvious that it broke the entire book for me or else. I just wouldn't have finished it I suggest you go out and check it out. She has another book. It was a black mask unmasked I'm sorry not black mass. It's unmasked. She sent me unmasked also I'll be reading that one probably in the next couple months, but I enjoyed this one to continue to follow Regina and she did mention that she was going to go back. I did contact her She was going to go back and clean up the manuscript again and then republish it So maybe wait a little while before you grab it But if you grab it on Kindle or whatever it should update so but I I recommend it for the story if nothing else I want to go out on a It Just a thank you Those of you who hang around to the end of these videos are usually the people who interact with me the most I want to give a heartfelt. Thank you to everybody who has been there for me who has Payed paid attention while I've ranted And just was just overly emotional on Twitter While my mom was going through the the worst of it and she still is going through some pretty bad stuff And we don't know if she's going to make it Right right now. She's just kind of lingering and that really really bothers me But I need to get back to work to try and take my mind off this because she had there hasn't been any big changes It's just it got bad and stayed bad But thank you so much to everybody who reached out Everyone who who sent their well-wishes their prayers their their positive vibes all that stuff I really really do appreciate it appreciate you. I love you all so until next time I have been a you've been you this been another book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye