 So about a month ago I did a video where I was doing the finale to wrap up risk which was the last iteration of wrapped up and the idea was I couldn't stop reading until I found a five star and I was like okay I can't pick the books I'm obviously gonna read like 10 books the red one the first book I read was a five star so if you watch that video you'll know that at the end I unwrapped five more books that had been wrapped up just to see would any of these do I think any of these would have been a five star do I think if I had carry on reading to find a second five star or if the first book hadn't ended up being a five star would I have gotten one if I unwrapped five more books and I got a lot of comments saying that they wanted me to then read those books so that's what we're gonna be doing today I'm calling these the wrapped up rejects because they are no longer wrapped up they were just on my tbr they did not succeed at being chosen in wrapped up during 10 episodes that we had but we're gonna read them anyways I'd like to see that I would like to see that if you remember I was wrapped up risk I had wrapped up 25 books I was most excited to read on my tbr and 25 books I was least excited to read so I think it'll be interesting to split this tbr we have three that I was most excited to read and two that I was least excited to read split them up into that and see whether that has any effect on the rating at all so the ones that were in the most excited to read category first we have The Last Housewife by Ashley Winstead I know this is a pretty messed up thriller following I think abuse of women and sexual abuse of women in particular but I have heard such good things I feel like everyone who has read this has loved it and so I'm like okay kind of have to read it I gave in my dreams a hundred and I have five stars so I feel like if I keep on this trend Ashley Winstead could become a favorite thriller author for me then we had Girl in the Walls by AJ Can you say this is a mystery gothic book about a girl who lives in the walls of a house and the families start hearing stuff I don't know if she's like a ghost I don't know what's going on but this is one that I have had on my tbr for a long time for like two years actually and I pre-ordered it and it's one that I've wanted to get around to for the longest time there's just something about the vibe of this that I feel like could really work for me and then we have Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Gino Dorsen listen it is government UK government secret witchy element of the UK government I just can't I can't take it I feel like it's gonna be perfect for me but the stage presence I've got the voice I've got the looks and I just have everything and I know I have this might be the number one prediction on this list this all the last housewife I think are my biggest five-star predictions on this list but it's witches I love witches I love get back in there I enjoy politics I listen to a lot of politics podcast and quite politically engaged so the idea of this witchy subsection of the UK government I almost can't take it I almost can't take it and then the two that were on the least excited to read list first we have every line of view by Naomi Gibson I just know this is about a girl who makes uh AI that she like falls in love with I don't know this one was sent to me by the publisher it was during an era where I think I accepted a lot of books from publishers I would just take whatever I could get do you know I wanted all the facts because I couldn't believe that publishers would even send me books like that is kind of crazy and also I accept this is 2021 so this is two years ago that I accepted this like I said oh yeah I'd love to receive that I don't really read as much YA anymore at all I think in 2021 my reading was 50% YA 50% adult and I don't know what the percentage of I have to guess maybe 20% YA this year is what I've read and then the other book that was under least excited for this house this is you know some of those books I'm least excited for because obviously I'm excited for all books on my tbr they have like qualifying reasons so the other book is educated by Tara Westover I know so many people have loved this I've had so many good things about it but it is one of the oldest books on my tbr it's one of the few books that are still on my tbr from before I started my channel which is like four years ago actually when is the anniversary is it like today no I don't know when the anniversary we're coming up to it it's sometime in like mid to late september was when I started my channel so yeah this is one of the oldest books on my tbr I think I've just not read it because I don't read as much nonfiction as I would like in an ideal world and I've just been a little bit intimidated by it so that's why that was under least excited to read so we are gonna be reading these five books in this vlog and seeing whether any of them could have ended up being a five star I think we're gonna get one oh I don't know if I should say that because five stars are just not happening for me this year but I think we're gonna get a five star in this vlog I think we're gonna get it and if we don't then we just cry some of you asked me to read these and do this video and a lot of these are books that I have been meaning to get to this year so let's just get into it and see whether any of these are gonna be five stars I'm being deadly serious perhaps the worst book I've ever read I'm not enjoying it I'm not I hate it I fucking hate it oh my god oh my god oh my god okay so I picked this first because I have to read I'm working on the vlogs and I have to read a certain amount of books per a certain day and this was obviously the quickest read it is a quick read right it's dog shit it's terrible I don't like saying this this is a debut author the publisher sent me I'm using a bookmark like a cute little note that the publisher sent me like oh my god we love this book I hope you love it too and I feel terrible I'm sorry Liv I'm letting you down I'm very sorry if I've let anyone down or if I've caused any egg but I have to look after number one guys okay so the premise all you need to know about this book is we've got a YA we've got a protagonist who has recently her brother died in a car crash and her dad left home and she's going through it she's got all this trauma and to cope with it she makes this like AI I guess is what you call him like he's like code this like being through computer coding and she names him after her dead brother Henry and they're like hacking shit together they're hackers hackers your software slays by the way um okay it's terrible I don't want to say to you like I have trouble with young YA right because this is young in my opinion young young YA the protagonist is 17 but it reads as the kind of thing I would have read when I was like 11 or 12 when like you've started secondary school I remember we'd always like look in the library for like stuff that was at our reading level but was like the most scandalous thing you could ever imagine reading there was like a book library about a girl who'd like never had sex but was pregnant and like the librarian wouldn't let any of us year sevens um check it out but we all wanted to and by the time you're like she would have let you check it out like year 90 you don't give a fuck because that's like childish childish whatever but as a kid you're like oh my god what did that happen that's so intriguing I have trouble with these young YA books because sometimes there's something about them that I don't have with YA or with middle grade like older white mid to older YA or middle grade where like I can see how they're written for the audience I enjoy reading those books but there's something about this young YA kind of subsection that I always don't like and I can never tell is the book rubbish or is it just a problem that I have but in this case yeah oh guys it it is perhaps some of the worst writing I've ever read it is so bad it reminds me of what I write when I was like eight years old never forget when I wrote a story about like me like becoming the next singer and I was the Jonas Brothers protégé the day after meeting Nick comes up to my hotel room and asks me to be his girlfriend and wraps me up in a big bear hug it's that kind of description you know what I mean I'm trying to find examples she's done so much terrible stuff as well this guy is just keeps going it's just terrible this is terrible terrible terrible terrible and I was reading some reviews on Goodreads and like someone this is pure conjecture is that the right word this is I'm not I'm not alleging anything I'm just saying what I've seen on Goodreads okay this is not my opinion but this other author's alleging that her book was used as like the basis for writing this and this was written through some kind of software and like there's a lot of conspiracy what if AI wrote the AI book I'm not saying that this is a pit it's not an opinion it's it's a conspiracy theory that I'm actually interested in but I'm not saying it's true please don't sue me but I cannot emphasise you enough just how terrible this I can't believe this was published I'm sorry I'm sorry it's so bad let me find let me find because I know on Goodreads there was examples of like terrible quotes and I feel bad yes it's a debut but like I have to speak my truth oh yeah she's being bullied by the girl she was best friends with who was in the car without on the car crash when her brother died anyways Lydia Commedia always in places you're not wanted did you go shopping she snorts we know you didn't do that the only accident here is your outfit no no no no no no no and like stuff is happening with the AI with the like AI guy I don't want to spoil it for you well don't even get no let me not but like something's happening he's it's creepy and not in a good way I'm just like oh my gosh what an experience anyways I'm gonna go finish it guys I we're just just when you think it can't get worse it does I don't even I have to be honest perhaps the worst book I've ever read I'm so sorry I hate saying that I don't want to dunk on it but like I have to because no no no no no no no no no what one star obviously guys guys perhaps the worst book I've ever read you are going to jail period I have to spoil it for you I can't talk about this and not spoil it I don't think any of you're gonna read it so let me spoil it okay so she has this AI that she makes then like it can be put into chips in people's bodies first she puts it in hers then there's this plot to put it in someone else's she puts it in his spinal cord oh also locks her mother a Tesla and her mother has to like claw her way out of this Tesla anyways put in this guy's spinal cord she gets caught before it goes through gets put in like a mental hospital is like there like trying to break out like talking to the council like my boyfriend Henry the council like oh his actions are a bit controlling like you think finds out that this boy has like permanent spine damage from her then somehow there's like this agent from like this like tech companies we're monitoring her hacking skills and he comes and visits her in the hospital and she puts the chip in him so that Henry's in him and then then then then then then then then her and Henry run away together like oh let's go and then her and this Henry who bear in mind remember is named after her young dead brother go fuck it out that is disgusting that is disgusting disgusting that's a bit incestine no that's a little bit incestine oh dear god and it's so bad like their relationship the dynamics terrible abusive awful right but that's never really yes as the council going on he's a bit controlling then she never comes at realization yes you could say it's like a villain origin story i'm not sure oh god girl girl no i draw a line i always draw a line incest sorry might be controversial in some YA smiths but where i draw the line one star the writing was terrible like terrible i i'm so sorry i i don't like being mean about books but i can't lie and i haven't felt this way about a book ever it was one of the worst things i've ever read i i don't even want to say to you like the she does terrible stuff with this guy and there's like never any repercussions for it and the way just the way that scenes are described is the worst cheesiest oh god didn't eight-year-old write this no because i've seen the pictures of the author i don't be mean i hope she never sees this don't watch this but like guys i have nothing else to say i have nothing else to say i have nothing else to say moving on i'm actually gonna take a break from this vlog i had to read that if you see what i've seen that already yeah you've seen me reading my 100th book of the year so i've had to read a set number of books to get to my 100th book of the year so i'm gonna go do that vlog now and then i will come back and hopefully the other four books in this vlog i feel like we have good luck with so i just read the terrible one first so i'll come back i don't know what i'm gonna pick up first out of these we'll see what i'm feeling like i suppose i'll be reading fantasy so maybe not i'm actually still a coven am i ready for last housewife yet i don't know we shall see but i'm gonna take a break and hopefully the vibes of the rest of this vlog will be completely different because we need it hello it's been a while well for me in this vlog at least i had to go read hellben and i had to go read everything i never told you my patreon book club but we're back baby we're back and i'm 100 pages into the last housewife but she wins instead this is the five star prediction i don't know if it's necessary feeling like one right now i can't get any worse than what it is can it i can't get any worse right the bottom basically all i talk about the plot is we're following shea who is married she's got a rich house husband she's like painting her nails one day listening to a podcast finds out oh yeah her best friend that she lived with at college has died and the police are saying it's a suicide but the podcaster who is a childhood friend of hers is saying it's a murder and they've kind of teamed up to try and solve it i think that's all i'm gonna tell you i'm getting the sense this is the kind of thriller that we're gonna end it in a very different place than we've started it judging by the trigger warnings are at the start of this book it's gonna be a difficult read so i think i've told you before also that people have told me there's something to do with a sex cult i thought that was in the girl's past but there's the stuff that's happening in the present day in these first hundred pages they visited somewhere that i think is that that's like the present day stuff and she didn't seem to know the place so maybe i've got my timelines mixed up perhaps but i don't know how i'm feeling about it yet i think because it's the kind of thriller that's gonna be a bit twisty turny is gonna change rapidly tonally i think it's gonna get dark and messed up and a bit gruesome and a bit weird and a bit uncomfortable that i i think i don't i can't really know how i feel about it at the moment because i don't really thought other than this was yet another five star prediction that may or may not be a five star i don't know i don't know i feel like this is a kind of book you cannot make your mind up in a hundred pages there is podcast elements where she is um like narrating to him some of their past which i do like that as a way for a past timeline to happen but can you see it's like i say this i say that but i think it's an interesting way to tell the past story and it actually leaves me interested rather than if it was flashbacks i think i'd get a bit bored it's interesting seeing her tell things of her like teenage young adult self through her adult lens i think is interesting but i don't have many thoughts but what i do have is book me i have two things i have one i ordered myself and one that i think is from a publisher so let's open the one that i ordered first because i know what it is i did finally pick up the last word by taylor adam this is one of my most anticipated releases of the year and it was just a little bit expensive so i've been holding off on buying it but i know a lot of people have enjoyed it it's about a woman who writes like a negative review like it comes tracking her down wait is this fucking play about us i love no exit by taylor adam's i still think to this day this is that is one of the best thrillers that i have ever read like i love no exit so i've had i had mixed things about the last word but i'm hoping it will be up there i'm hoping it could squeeze its way into the goodries choice awards at the end of the year because maybe i'm doing a video about that again and this one is quite thin whatever this one is i think i have an interesting as to what this one is let's have a look oh yes okay it is the christmas guest by pete swanson ashley smith's invited to spend christmas with her classmates family at their cotswolds manor something strange about the old house what could the motives of the mysterious family be oh exciting so the publisher reached out and asked whether i'd like to receive this and i said yes because i'd already been planning to get my own hands on this excuse me get my own hands on this and read it around christmas time i think i'm going to do a vlog just before christmas of reading some christmasy murder mysteries because there's a few coming out um this year in fact that i want to get to that sound really interesting so it's super short so thank you so much to the publisher for sending this my way i am gonna read it this year around christmas time great but cool look at those oh they just both make me so excited i will try and get like another how far i want to get 150 pages tonight i'd like to about 150 pages tonight we will see and hopefully i'll check them with you right before i go see i'm gonna go do a dance now though fitness marshal my favorite i love fitness marshal dance workouts i have a playlist of just his you know individual song videos that i put on and i do and it's well refined at this point like my playlist is a work of art and i just love dancing it makes me so happy it makes me feel so good so i'm gonna go dance and i will see you maybe later tonight when i'm hopefully not too sweaty guys i don't want to talk about it i'm 250 pages into the last housewife i'm not loving it i was in pure shock i thought i might have misheard i'm not loving it i'm not disliking it but i thought i would love this hang on i'm 250 pages in and i honestly don't have many thoughts but i'm just not loving the writing style like linguistically like the way it's feeling not in terms of what's happening in the book but in terms of like the language the style of speaking it's feeling very melodramatic like at the end of each chapter there'll just be this very like you know what i mean in thrillers when it's like and i fall into the abyss of the drama and i don't know how to put this right so this is talking about um this is like minor spoilers but abuse uh being framed as kink but it's not that it's abuse and possible even worse even worse than abuse if that exists but you know i don't want to spell things out if you don't spoil anything but abuse of women right disguised as kinky sex or whatever but it's not that um and that's kind of what is investigating that's like a minor spoiler but i warned you okay spoiler over i think this this stuff like this exists in the world obviously and on so many different levels um there are so many issues with trafficking with abuse with all these different things right and i think it's so important that we discuss these topics but i just person and this is a personal thing i don't feel like this really is i don't feel it's not i don't feel like it's handling the subject with care but i just feel like if we're gonna talk about this and we're gonna have a book about this and i think a lot of people feel differently and feel like this has gotten to the meat and the depth of of the topic but i don't feel like we're really getting to any depth but i feel like we're very surface level with our our discussion of of this and like i said stuff like this does happen in society and i'm just a bit disappointed for me personally again i think a lot of people feel differently about this but i just feel like we're not discussing what is happening beyond surface level i don't know if i've explained that right it just like reminds me if if this topic was to be handled on a crime tv show or something for an episode like that's how it feels like it's being handled a lot of the scenes we have in these situations feel very samey to me and i mean i'm not like i'm not an expert on this i don't speak for people who have gone through stuff in this book so they might read this and be like that's an accurate depiction of what i went through but for me i don't know i just feel like there's more that could be said and there's more that we could examine about the the the depths of awfulness that these situations that can go to i don't know some of you might have read this and be like Megan this is pretty fucking awful it is pretty fucking awful what's happening in this book but i just feel like it could have gone deeper with its analysis and criticism personally maybe i should read nonfiction about this if i want that kind of discussion and not a thriller you know so i don't know i don't know guys i'm gonna go ahead and finish it but this was a five star prediction that's all i'm gonna say and right now it is not that i'll see you in the morning i want to cry good morning i'm just about to get ready and this morning i finished the last house wife i'm gonna give this three stars i'm gonna give it three stars my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined i feel like everyone else loved this i feel like i go on my goodreads and it's like five stars five stars five stars five stars five stars five stars yeah i'm really sad this just didn't work for me the writing didn't work for me i liked the podcast elements where it was written like a script i like those moments but everyone was just kind of disappointing when you think this is gonna be a five star answer three and the three is generous if i'm honest with you i'm giving it a three because i think it's important topics like this are covered even if i don't think that it necessarily covered the topic in the way i wanted the topic to be covered but like i said maybe reading a topic like this in a thrillery setting isn't necessarily what i was looking for but i mean it's a three it's a three we kind of match though it's making me nervous fashion wins this next book i thought she was gonna become like a you know four or five star every time thriller author for me apparently not someone who i really liked the writing style in my dreams on a knife i really did not like it in this like the way the tone you know the way oh this like stuff at the end up here where it's like impossible to say i guess you get to decide like this the metadrama i'm not talking in terms of what happens in the book i'm talking about the tone of voice i just don't i didn't buy for that okay i think we just we move on when am i gonna get a five star am i gonna get a five star on this video i'm gonna cry all i'm doing today is reading so i don't know what book i'm gonna start next but i'm hoping we're gonna finish the book will i start next and then read a good chunk of another book all i'm doing is reading i'm gonna go get ready for the day and then pick up something probably i feel like i need an audio book i need something that i have the audio book for maybe i'll just get the audio book for actually no i think both Girl in the Walls and Her Majesty's Royal Covenant are on script so i will probably start one of those but yeah don't talk to me i'm very sad okay i haven't done my makeup yet i'm ready for the day i've actually read the first half of this Girl in the Walls really quickly i'm halfway through i've just been listening to the audiobook whilst i did washing but washing away did like you know life admin i've just been listening to the audiobook i'm gonna get ready for the day now properly it's like two o'clock but we don't need to talk about it can i just say i have always loved this cover so much this cover is actually it's a photograph and all of these layers of it like it's i'll try and find the article that i read about it but like they're all card cutouts that are layered back and then taken as a photo from the front and i just think it's so cool i've always really loved this i pre-ordered that this was a debut and i just like the sound of it on wallstones i think it was in my pre-ordering era where i just like pre-order books left right in center i'm not quite that girl now this is like 2021 so yeah i pre-ordered it and it's taken me two years to read but i'm halfway through and basically the premise of this book is we're following Elise who is living in the walls of the house that she grew up in after her parents have died that happens fairly early on that's not a spoiler and so you're following mainly her perspective but you're also following the family that now live in the house and them kind of you know is something weird going on or they imagine it or whatever but it's mostly about Elise and her grief kind of like we've kind of touched on that i guess we might go a bit further into that but her dealing with like the tactics and the way that she doesn't let them know that she exists i guess this doesn't have a very high rating it's like a 3.4 on good reads and i can kind of understand why because it's very slow it's very intimate it's not a lot is happening it's not a high six plot barely anything has happened in this first half but there is something about it that i am enjoying it's kind of got that gothic style of book where you're in this creepy house she's living like she's actually living in their walls like she'll just be like they'll be in the kitchen again she'll be up against someone like the writing isn't lyrical it's not lush but there was this one line about when she was a kid and she liked to go to this she'd like to go to the park to see the Christmas lights with her family where it says she had gone with her parents twice already that month but before they had always arrived after dark now she wanted to see what celebration in the oaks looked like in the afternoon when the sun still illuminated each of the bulbs and cords that weave between the hedges and formed the outlines of reindeer and snowflakes and i don't know that's not exactly like you know beautiful writing but there's something about that just captures an image and i feel like that's something this book is doing really well it's like capturing a vibe capturing a moment capturing an image capturing an atmosphere that i feel like it's doing really really well that i don't know this was a debut and i don't think the author has come out with anything since then but they're i don't know there's just something about the writing that feels there's moments where it feels very accomplished for a debut i think it's about what it is to live what what does it mean to live and it's about the need for connection and it's about grief and i think it's exploring that through an interesting lens i don't think it's gonna be five stars will i ever get a five star again honestly that's never gonna happen ever ever ever if i read all of my favorite books all time at this point i think they could be four stars like it's it's a problem but i am enjoying it so i'm just listening to the audiobook i'm definitely gonna finish this in the next couple hours and we'll start another book today guys we're gonna achieve my goal of finishing a whole book today and at least starting another book because i don't know i just like the last house left took me like five days to read when it really should not have done so yeah i'll see you in a little bit once i've read some more and put my makeup on and i look more human i literally finished a girl on the walls 10 seconds ago because i'm going on sprints my patrons i've got seven minutes and 33 seconds until the sprint is over so i want to make sure i have time to talk to you about it this is a very interesting book it's a very i'd say it's a little odd unusual book it's not i wouldn't say it's like weird weird like out there is like experimental like super weird horror or whatever that you read but it is just a little bit odd it doesn't necessarily follow conventions that we think we're gonna see in books okay i'm feeling weird right now i'm feeling like so weird i skimmed i haven't read it all but i was skimming there's like an author q and a at the back and he says that this was written during a class taught by actually Nina drugamont who's the author of the christie affair if you've read that that's like a book written from the perspective of agth christie's husband's mistress but anyways and i think you can tell that this comes from like a writing class i don't know how to describe it it's not written with i don't think mass appeal in mind or like making you know becoming a super popular like best seller it's written a little bit experimentally and written more for the idea i enjoyed it i enjoyed it i really liked following the girl's a character i think it's soft it like softly touches on themes of grief and loss and home and family and belonging and etc etc but it's not heavy-handed with them it's very like soft with its touching on them i don't know what i'm gonna rate this and i think i'm torn between a 3.5 and a 4 i think the last chapter there was i liked the little touch the last chapter was it's the kind of ending that i think some people will think is a little bit fairy tale like or a little bit like on the nose or a little bit stupid you know like a little bit movie like you know where stuff happens that would never really happen in real life but i liked it so i think i'm gonna give it a 4 i'm glad to have finally read it it's been on my tbr for so long it didn't take i read it all today basically but it wasn't a 5 you know i think it's interesting i liked the writing style like i said i would really be interested in reading more from this author in the future but he hasn't published anything else i do think some people go into it with the synopsis like oh there's a girl hiding in the walls thinking it's gonna be like a horror like imagine if you know someone was living in your wall right now like it's not that to me at least that's not how it read it wasn't scary it wasn't spooky it was more about the emotions of the characters than the than the situation themselves so anyways a 4 we have yet to find a 5 star i was angry i was angry but with our next one this is like i said at the start of the video i think of any book in this vlog this is the one that i think could get a 5 star it's her her magic's raw covered by juno dorsen it's witches it's set in the uk government everyone's been telling me i'm gonna love it so i feel like it should be a 5 star like if it's not we've got a problem so i'm gonna start this tonight i'm hoping to get like a hundred pages in so maybe i will check in with you before i go sleep if i do get that far but i feel like this has to be a 5 star surely surely what's a girl gonna do for a 5 star these days sell my soul this will be it guys this will be it it's her magic is raw covered come on come on it has to be a 5 star yep yep yep guys i'm a hundred pages in to her magic is raw covered i'm loving it finally some good fucking food so all you need to know about this is that we have got five women in the present day who seem to be friends as young girls who are all witches they're all witches right but they're all kind of like living their witchy lives in different ways some are involved in her magic is raw covered which is like the governmental department for witches some are just like living family life some used to be in hmrc but are now living with other covens or like doing other jobs or whatever and we're following them each chapter switches perspective between them but we definitely have some that we follow more neve in particular is probably the one that we follow the most i'm just loving it oh yeah i'm loving the writing it's reminding me actually let's just talk about quickly what just arrived today oh my god jesus christ check out the label the next day we met a club and it's actually reminding me of each other in the way that this does like british references like the way that this talks about like a boy zone or spice girls i'm just like oh yeah oh yeah yep i just love when i open a book and i see um first of all the dedicate or not dedication but like there's a quote about the spice girls first page and then we're talking about boy zone on the first actual page of the book like that's just that just makes sense to me that is just yeah so i'm loving that there's also a lot of mention of this war that happened i don't know like 10 years ago or something for them like a witchy war and all these characters have history i think so often we read books where like characters get to know each other over the course of the book but these girls have like a lifetime of history in particular this war which seems to have been incredibly traumatic and have gone through something so you know deep and emotional and harrowing together and have that shared history i think is a really interesting place to come at the book from so i'm just loving it jenna dorsen what did you put in this i'm having so much fun it's fun it's fun it's fun i do love a fun book the witchy mess is witchy by the way the witchiness is witching the witchiness is witching yes boss yes yep yep i'm like talking in my headset that the witchiness is witch because like i said before i hate when you promise me witches and you don't give me witches whereas you're giving me witches and this i feel like we've learned just enough about the world and the magic system in the first 100 pages where it hasn't been info dumping but we've learned about witches and warlocks and types of witches they all have different kinds of powers but it hasn't been too much it hasn't been overpowering like we've been getting to other characters getting into the world but the pros has been engaging i don't want to speak too soon imagine if it's a five star i think i'd cry i think i'd actually cry it was a five star i don't even care that i'm starting another series because yeah i think i'm gonna read this whole thing tonight it's like half four i'm gonna go out for a run now and then come back and wash my hair but in the rest of the evening i'm gonna be in my pj's cut up in bed with a candle on reading this book and it's gonna be five stars i will see you in a bit i am now about 270 pages into her magic swirl cover and i'm still loving it still loving it i'm loving the sisterhood of the characters i'm loving all of the characters i'm loving how they're like because when they were kids they wanted to be like one of the spice girls and they're like using the spice girl archetypes to like you know dolson's using the spice girl archetypes to like examine different aspects of a person and different things each of these women could be feeling i'm just loving it and something happened that i'm not gonna call it a twist because i never call something like this a twist but something happened that i had seen i was like oh i wonder if we're gonna go down that route i wonder if that's gonna happen and it did and i just think it's being handled so well i don't want to you know mention it because i think many people go into this book not knowing it not knowing that that's gonna happen in this book i think it's being handled very well and it's something how do i say this out of spoil anything it's something i've thought about often when it comes to writing a book particularly a fantasy book and a fantasy book that has a magic system built on certain built on certain um you know any any magic system has a framework right and i'm like how could you do this kind of magic system we don't want to spoil anything but be inclusive and be and celebrate everything that would encompass under that magic system like how do you how do you yeah make those how do you join those up together and i just feel like this is doing such a wonderful job of that i'm absolutely loving it guys i'm like obsessed it is so readable it's funny it's fun it's lighthearted but so serious it's witchy i feel like the world the magic is so well built out i am like oh my god guys i've already got the sequel oh you can't see it i can't get it out of the car the car is too tightly packed i'm so glad i've already got my hands on the sequel because i'm like kind of obsessed but if this is gonna be five stars it's feeling like it could be five stars now right now guys it's feeling like it's a possible five stars slay okay everyone i want you to prepare yourselves because i think we know what i'm gonna say five stars oh my god i'm so happy i'm giving how much these were all covered five stars i loved it it was just such like a little special book oh no sometimes god i'm not used to having a five star i'm not used to having anything to critique i'm like what do i say but i just loved it i loved the sisterhood i loved the characters that we followed i thought the setting in this like rural yorkshire town was so vivid like i could really picture all of the houses and the hills and the settings i just love it i just want to say the mild spoilers mild mild spoilers so quick ahead like a you know few tens of seconds if you don't want to hear i really hope the person well multiple people multiple people died but i really hope the person who i don't want to be dead isn't dead i really hope they're not dead because that will make me really sad make me really sad but yeah what this had to say god this is difficult because i didn't know going into it what a big theme a certain theme would be in this and i think it is done so well and handled so well that i don't want to tell you about it but it makes it very difficult to talk about the rest of the book but you know what this says about belonging and people deserving to belong and what true intersectional feminism should be i just loved it and i love witches and it gave me witches the one thing i would say i mean it's a five star so like this isn't a major critique but like i would i would love in a future book if we got into more like how the witches relate to the politics because it's kind of just glanced upon like oh yeah the prime minister signs like a whatever whatever but i suddenly loved politics and this is like pitched as like the witchy um division of government in the uk i would have liked there's there's nothing really to do with the political side of it really like how it connects to like mortal or they call them mondayans people without magic how it connects to mundane politics i think that could be a fun angle for it to go into a future book they reminded me of the rook which is like a supernatural division within government and that one is much more set like how it relates to government or whatever much more as a governmental department we spend a lot of time in rural yorkshire and this which i loved but i just think in a future book there is room for it to go down that route of like i don't know it's getting a bit more political but i loved it i loved it i think it's like a rite of passage for a lot of british girls to become obsessed with ambelaine when they were a kid i was obsessed with ambelaine and the idea of like ambelaine being like the first witch i loved it i loved it i was obsessed with ambelaine so glad to already have my hands on the second one the shadow cabinet i'm very excited but i'm nervous i'm nervous because i wanted to go down a certain route and i'm very very nervous that it's not going to let me not look because i will spoil myself but i love it okay right last book i'm gonna read the whole book today educated by tarah stover let's go my friends around tom's now i have no idea how long footage i've got left on this sd card i'm honest but i am just over halfway through educated i'm actually like 210 pages through so i'm a little bit over halfway and the thing with this memoir is i'd always heard about it being pitched as likes where it's like i'm sat in front of a big window and there's just like loads of people walking fast slowly but surely you start to realize actually i can't nip to the garage of me pajamas anymore for a painting mug even if i want to i'd always heard about it as she it's about a woman who as a child her parents were like part of the end of day's movement idea like doomsday end of the world is coming and she never received an education and that it's about that and yes it is i've just gotten to the part really where she goes to university for the first time but what this is really about in my view is the abuse she suffered as a child and i'm guessing at the moment i don't think she realizes like at this point in the narrative i don't think she realizes that she has been abused but the way that her and her siblings and her mother's safety is constantly put in jeopardy and in harms wearing without any care by their father i think is really what this book is about like there is shocking event after shocking event of things that happen to these kids that's just like brushed over they don't believe in doctors their mother is like their healer but there's you know i guess this is like minor spoilers but just an example is there's like this car crash that her mother gets they all they're all in and her mother gets serious brain trauma from it than what she never fully recovers she has like raccoon eyes is what they call her which is actually a term for someone with serious brain injury and she just never gets they don't believe in going to hospital they don't believe in going on her dad in particular doesn't believe in that and so it's a very hard read i think like go into this i don't think i was expecting the level of abuse in terms of like physical safety that this book has but it is very well written i'm enjoying it i find it some people don't rate non-fiction at all and i do but i think this is a bit of a tricky one to rate because at the moment it's feeling like a four star just because it's not feeling like a five do you know what i mean but i am still enjoying it and i think the second half is going to get into a lot of her being educated the first time and learning for the first time she's at university and she doesn't know what the holocaust was she doesn't know the truth about slavery in america like they know they've got taught nothing these children yeah this is a book that will make you angry but i think it's an important read but i think it's just it's different than what i was necessarily going into it expecting so i'm enjoying it i think it's very interesting it's very well written i think it reads almost like a fiction book in how she's constantly like moving the plot along very well integrating how she feels about certain things with what is actually happening but i also think it's difficult coming at a book like this so many years after the hype right i feel like so many people read this in like 2019 or whatever like around that time and so it's it's difficult i don't know if you can ever get like a natural read of a book that's been so hyped up and everyone's given it five stars and everyone's very bad and everyone's loved it that only years down the line once the hype has died down but you've still like you've consumed all the hype right like that's such a difficult standard for a book to reach and so i don't know if it's just feeling like yeah this is great but it's not does there need to be an element of surprise for a five star or an element of like novelty or an element do you know what i mean i'm questioning a lot in my life what may kith a five star so anyways i'm gonna go ahead and finish this and i will check in with you once i have and that'll be the last book of the vlog guys so i just kind of dedicated i read this really quickly i feel like i almost read it too quickly okay i just read it so fast and i'm gonna give this a four star i did really enjoy this i think it is worthy of the accolades that has been given i think it is fascinating you know really this boils down to i was thinking about it and i've seen it you know not in my personal life but in many other people's lives it's like how family can hurt you the most this is a very extreme example but you know family your family in many ways knows you better than anyone or knows how to hurt you better than anyone and obviously this is a very very extreme example but i don't know i just think this was a very well written book i think it must have taken a lot to unpack all of this and put it in a book and like no really in reality that you are forever to some degree alienating yourself from your family for doing something like this that requires an incredible amount of bravery uh that i don't think a lot of people have so i really enjoyed it but i almost had like no thoughts other than that i've found this one really difficult to talk about it i've just like read it and consumed it i think what it talks about is religion is very interesting it's very interesting when i've been consuming like a lot of media you know i watched um some documentaries and i've watched other people why did i just almost fall over uh other people talking about this just in different like you know circumstances about Mormonism right and i just think it's interesting because we don't really have anything uh i feel like in the uk equivalent to Mormonism it's a very american i feel like because this is my perception don't come at me if i'm wrong for this but like a very american religion and we don't have anything in the uk with this like fundamental christian tilt to it with the same strength and like amount of people following it as Mormonism in the u.s i just think it's interesting to think about that and how the place that Mormonism has in the united states and how it affects things but yeah the reason it's only a four star is not five because i really said anything about about it is that it's not five i didn't get the five star bias from it and also i just think like there's part of me i wish we could have gone i think it should have gone more into depth on the education side of it because she kind of it's really about her family and it brushes over i feel like a lot of the academic like progress that she makes because i as someone who like it lives in the uk i just like the the jump that she's made from not being homeschooled having no education not knowing what the holocaust was not knowing about slavery to like studying at cambridge is like i feel like she didn't it just happens and of course it's like incredible hard work for me to get to that point but in my brain i know people who have like had you know top education are incredibly clever who might not get into cambridge like it's it's difficult you know and so my brain i'm like but tell me how i don't know and like and then goes on to get a doctor and does goes to harvard and does all these things i just felt like i don't know some of that progress was kind of like brushed over and as someone who's very interested in like academia whatever i would have liked to that to have gone into more detail but i really enjoyed this and listen we found a five star on this vlog guys i haven't got all the other books with me because i'm around tom's listen we found a five star and imagine he's recovering but yes i hope you enjoyed this vlog uh reading the wrapped up rejects and seeing if any of them would have ended up being a five star from that original vlog and thank you guys so much for watching comment a present emoji down below if you got to the end and i will see you very soon in another video bye