 Julia and welcome back to my channel and for today's video I'm going to be filming eating my Goodreads reviews part two. Part one last month or earlier this month I don't remember but you guys seem to like it and I thought it was fun to film and some of you guys requested another one so here I am bringing that to you guys so if you don't know what I did last time is basically I just I've read a lot of books and I've written a lot of reviews on Goodreads that are like not essay or like English like English class worthy but like just to get my general thoughts down so I wanted to read over some of these and just kind of laugh about them and then see what I thought about certain books and if I still feel the same way and things like that. I don't know like I was gonna pre-plan which ones I choose but I think it's more fun if I just scroll and just kind of find it. This is my Goodreads I can barely see what these are but we'll do this one. Oh it's Coraline. I love Coraline. Oh I kind of read by the looks of it. Oh okay okay not bad. So I gave this a 3.5 out of 5 stars. I've read this in 2015. It has a 4.03 average so let's get into the review. So basically I put a quotes which is I don't want whenever I want. Nobody does not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that and didn't mean anything? What then? Then in bold I put captivating story amazing writing surprisingly kind of creepy. Surprisingly because it is middle grade but a lot of people say it's really creepy and I'm like it's middle grade but it was actually like had a creepy tone to it so that was good. So I said Coraline's story was about her and her journey. She goes through the door in the drawing room of their house and gets transported to another place that this other place looks exactly like her home but her parents have button eyes and things are strange. It's about her and her other parents and her trying to get back to her actual parents. Coraline is actually a very inspiring girl and very brave considering how young she is. I really admired her character for that. So that's the thing. I've read books like especially middle grade it's shown more but like where there's kids that are portrayed as like really strong just kids and it's really nice to see that you know because some kids are annoying and kind of there but it's nice to see that there's some really brave kids out there. I don't mean that to any offense but like I like seeing these powerful kids in books because it's good when middle grade readers read these and they see like they get inspired by someone around their age group. That's what's really nice and yeah I would actually not even give Coraline a 3.5 out of 5. I would boost it more up to a 4 just because I after I thought about it more I've liked it more and I've seen the film and like I love the book so like it's probably around a 4 rather than a 3.5 but along with that I said I don't think I would get her butt and eye parents out of my head. I mean I kind of did and then I saw the movie and I was like the other mother is kind of creepy. I'm giving it is a 3.5 honestly because I don't know what to rate this okay so like I didn't know what to do. I mean it was enjoyable and interesting but not my favorite thing. I definitely like this better unfortunately than unfortunately the milk but it's not a 4.5 or a 5 for me but fits into the 3.4 star range. That's right good Julia and then I did another quote which is because she said when you're scared but you still do it anyway that's brave and then it says spoilers events in order so then you have to click the remove spoilers which I'm I mean show spoilers so I'm not gonna do that but I have all the spoilers listed I guess. Oh my god I have a lot like I can't show you but it's all this yikes okay so that was my review for Coraline. This is my 2016 shelf. This book is how hard it can love be. This is the second book in the spinster club trilogy which I really like this I remember really liking it. So yeah it was published in on February 1st of 2016 and it has a 4.21 Goodreads average. In my review I ended up giving it a 3.75 out of 5 stars which I still agree with probably more to a 4 than a 3.75 but it was still really solid. But this was lovely. It took me a bit to get into this and get used to Amber as a narrative compared to Evie because Evie was the main character of the first book and I guess I had some trouble getting used to this new character considering I liked Evie so much. More about romance than mental illness though it deals with addiction and a dysfunctional family. Oh that I probably meant that part was really real and raw to me. Amber was interesting and I liked following her as a character. I love Hollywood Friday her characters are great her books discuss feminism feel very real. Not to mention I read this one the day and stayed up late to finish it because I couldn't put it down. I liked the romance I thought it was really cute. Amber's mother bothered me a lot and I felt the end could have been wrapped up. I felt the end wrapped up in a pretty little bow which I disliked a bit because like yeah I remember it was like a little like it was all wrapped up like super gray and I'm like okay like okay like I don't know sometimes I don't like when endings have these perfect endings to them that I'm like how did that happen? And the last thing I said is I do prefer the first book in the series and I did prefer Evie's story over Amber's but I still quite enjoyed this book it was funny and interesting and it picked fun at stereotypes and gender roles. So yeah I did like that one. I still kind of agree with that. Maybe we're on a 3.75 or a 4. I still agree with that. Oh my god. Okay so I got the Telltale Hard by Agar Allen Poe. This has an oh my god. This is an average of 4.22 and it was it doesn't say when it was published but I know it's not recent but yes. So basically my rating I kind of glanced at it and I just saw a bunch of caps. Okay so I read this on October 2nd of 2016. I said this is so clever and cunning. It's so dark creepy but so ironic. The male character tells us he's not mad and guides us through the events of a murder he committed. So good and perfect for this type of year and I gave it four stars. Why didn't I give it five? I love that book so much. Like sometimes I'm very picky so now I'm like it would be a five. Like it's worthy of a five I've read it so many times but for some reason I gave it a four. I don't know. Let me know down below so maybe of some of your good reviews and how they were or maybe if you've had any changing opinions on books let me know down below or maybe if you are a really harsh reader like I am. Well it's not like I can't even say I was a harsh reader because like I still kind of am but I know when a book deserves five stars. When before I was like nothing deserves five stars. So now I'm more willing to give five star ratings but before I was really really picky and nitpicked and stuff but since that since I read the Telltale Heart I've read it several times now and I love it so much. So yes so thank you guys so much for watching. I hope you guys are enjoying the vlog in this video. Let me know your thoughts in the comments down below and I'll see you guys tomorrow with a new video. Bye!