 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another book review. Today we are talking about Adam Cesar's tribesman. Yeah. If you don't know Adam Cesar is a YouTuber. He runs a channel called Black T-Shirt Project. I can't remember if his name is the title of his channel or if it is the Black T-Shirt Project. I'm not sure but he's really, really good. Him and Cameron Chaney are my two biggest inspirations for wanting to start a channel and that was even before I had read any of Cesar's work. Since then I've read the con season, the summer job. I enjoyed both of them and now I've read tribesmen and I enjoyed this one also. Oh yeah, not video night. What is it? It's the one Zero Lives Remaining. That's it. That one was fantastic. This one is fantastic. I gave this one five stars on Goodreads so that's a TLDR. If you want to hang around for the rest of the video, I loved it. What I loved about it is going into any type of book like this, it's a themed novel, almost a tribute to things. There are certain expectations that one brings with them to something like this. You want the gore, you want the nudity, you want the insane violence, you want some kind of unexpectedness, unpredictability because if you get into something like this and everything is just unfolding as the stuff that it's based on unfolded, there's no fun in that. That's not a tribute. That's just mimicry. With this one, right off the bat, I was instantly engaged. It opens up with a twist on this type of storyline. I've read several books that tackle this type of subject and I haven't liked any of them except for Kia Wilson. I think Kia Wilson. Let's see here. Yeah, Kia Wilson's. We eat our own, which is back here on my shelf. I like that one, all right. It's a far more literary take. It has second person narrative, first person, third person. It's a very literary take on a fictionalized version of Cannibal Holocaust. This one is another one that is a fictionalized take on that, but this doesn't deal with, it's not like a documentary kind of deal. What it is is the actual, it's like they're filming the movie and you're there for the filming of the movie and then things go horribly wrong. That's what I was waiting for with Kia Wilson's book where Wilson failed me, Cesar came to the rescue. I enjoyed everything about this book. There was one point when I actually went, what? To the book as if it could answer me. It shocked me. It wasn't a gore thing. It was a plot twist that I wasn't expecting. I don't know why I wasn't expecting it looking back on it now, but I was not expecting it and the entire tone of the book changes at that pivot point. I appreciated all the characters. I did not see the final girl coming. I did not see that aspect. I thought it was going to be someone else and it wasn't. I think that's kind of a spoiler because there's only two female characters, but when you get to that point, it's obvious who's going to survive once you get to that point. Up until that point, it's not. I appreciated the utter ridiculousness of the reactions because of, now the book is not ridiculous. The book is not funny. Don't get me wrong there. What I'm talking about is the reaction to a certain scene, how everybody, see these are all spoilers, but how everybody reacts to a certain scene, it had me giggling because I was having so much fun. It was right after the what moment. I was just like, this is great. I took my time with this also. I did not blow through it. I probably could have read this in a sitting. This is only 109 pages, but I wanted to take my time with it because I was having so much fun. It's almost like that's one of the things that I enjoy so much about reading versus watching a movie is I can't slow down a movie, but you can pause it of course and you can do slow motion. It really is not conducive to the process. It does not enhance the process, not for me anyways. With the book, I can slow down and go, okay, I see what they did here. I see what they did here. I see why this sentence or this paragraph is built the way it is. Adam Cesar is the most dependable horror author working today. I have never picked up one of his books and found a multitude of errors. I've never picked up his books and found hot garbage. I've never picked up his book and found loads of plot holes. He is very consistent and I respect that, especially in the digital age when people just throw up their rough drafts. Now, I think the best part about this book is the expectations like I was talking about before. I brought this up in other videos, old, old videos. You can't have a book like Riley Sager's Final Girls. You can't have a book that deals with the aftermath of a slasher story and have a boring story, I guess is what I'm saying. You can't give someone the premise that you're inside the aftermath of a slasher film or inside a slasher film and not give them what they showed up for. It'd be like The Walking Dead and only having the zombies in it for maybe two minutes in the middle of an episode and all the rest of it was drama. You have to have the promise. Basically, you have to cash the check that you're writing and that's what Adam Cesar does consistently. He's like Hunter Shea in that regard. They always provide the fun that you are looking for and that's it. It's a consistent package and I enjoy it. But I'm done rambling. Please go pick up Tribesman and literally anything else by this author. Definitely check out his YouTube channel also. He does fantastic movie reviews. I think right now he's doing like a shutter series. He's done book reviews, all that stuff. Definitely check him out. I'll leave all his deets down there in the comments below. But until next time, I have been E, you have been U. This has been another book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye.