 So the unfortunate consequence of me always doing themed reading vlogs, like set TBRs, this is the books I have to read for this reading vlog, is that I feel like I often don't take part in readathons unless I'm doing a specific video for that vlog. And a readathon I've always wanted to do is Buzzwordathon, right? That's usually even more difficult for me to read a book that fits a prompt every single month for every month of the whole year. But then last year, Kayla from Books and I Like Who I Should Have Specified Buzzwordathon, if you don't already know, I'm sure you do, is her readathon where you have to read a book with a specific word in it every single month. And last year she did a vlog where she went through and saw which of the prompts she'd already ticked off throughout the year and then read books to fulfill any prompts that she hadn't already ticked off. And I just thought, Kayla is perfect for me. So in this vlog, we are going to be participating Buzzwordathon, which I've never done before, and we are going to be completing Buzzwordathon in a week. The rules don't apply. So I'm very excited. So the idea is we're going to go through, and if I've read a book this year, this year so far, so in 2023, that fulfills a prompt, then we've ticked it off, ding, ding, ding. And if not, we have to find a book that fulfills it and read it in this vlog. I have no idea how many I'm going to have fulfilled. It could be 11. It could be one. I have no idea. I can't really remember what all the prompts are. So I've got up the challenge on Storygraph because I know that people can recommend books. So if I have a prompt that I haven't read a book for, I figured we could find some examples on here. So let's see. Number one is Life and Death. I've read that. I remember thinking, oh, that's really good. Because like one at the, not first, maybe the second or third book I read this year was Death and Croissants by Ian Moore. So I've done that. Number two, Verbs. Oh, come on. Let's just look through my reading tracker. I've got it open here. Survive? Is survivor verb to survive? That is, isn't it? Surviving, typing, typing. Yeah, we've done that. We've done verbs. Okay, good. Good so far. Number three, Marches was secret. Mate, I don't know if I've done that. Fuck, there's no secret. Oh no. Okay, we have to read something with secret. Let me look, let's look at the book. How do I look at that? Oh, there we go. Let's look at the books. Lovent, that's not a secret. Are there any on here? Daddy's secret angel. So these don't have secret in the title. Okay, of books I haven't read, Lady Audley's Secret. That's just an audiobook I have on Audible. The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective, Secrets and Lies and the Golden Age of Crime. Oh, I do want to read that, but I think it's quite long. Ten out. Okay, that's not bad. Maybe we'll read that. It's in like the subtitle, but I think that counts. Delusion. Convince yourself. It's not like it's a secret by Misa Seguria. How long is that? That's on the script, but I can just search here. I haven't read that and that's like a YA I would like to read. Ten hours and 30, okay the same length. Okay, I think I might go with Adventures of Maud West. I don't really want to read Lady Audley's Secret because that's a classic and I've read lots of classics lately. So maybe we'll go with The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective, Secrets and Lies. Should I go find my copy and check that it says secrets on the front? Okay, I found it and it does say it says secrets on the front. So that's our first book of the TBR. Okie dokie. Then we've got emotion related words. Oh god, okay. Let's search my tracker with the ones. Okay, happy, no. Sad, no. Um, smile, no. Frown, no. Pride, no. Oh god, anything emotion related. I don't think I have. I can't think of anything that is emotion related. Oh but I have got a book I want to read. Let me go get that one. Okay, I don't think I have fulfilled this prompt either so we're gonna read All The Rage by Courtney Summers. I love Courtney Summers as we know and it's time to read another one of her backlist and I know this one's a bit of, you know, all of her books are difficult to read. I think this one is dealing with the essay of a young girl by the sheriff's son. Yeah and no one believes her but um, yeah this is quite old. Why is, why am I so overexposed? Okay, we're just gonna live in it. Anyways, we're gonna read this one for that one. Okay, next one. Flavour, flavour and it has to be, it can't be a food. It has to be something that's like a seasoning or a flavour. So like croissants isn't a flavour. Sugar? If salt is one is sugar. Let's see what Kayla says. I haven't got headphones in so this sound might sound a bit weird. Moving on to May, this is my favourite. I'm gonna call it flavours so um, I would recommend a dash of salt and pepper. Maybe a women and salt. I feel like sugar should be included. Oh, sugar, sugar, sugar. Okay we've done it, we've done it. Okay, we've done it. I've read Beneath the Sugar Sky. Yes I wasn't reread but I read it this year so that counts. Okay, number six, other. Okay, so that's a one word one. I like the ones that are one word ones because I've either read it or I haven't. Her body and other parties, I have read it. Okay, weather, I must have done. I must have done. Weather, weather, weather, weather, weather, weather. Um, what are some of the examples? Rain? Oh rain, in mercy rain, in mercy rain. Oh, Sean McGuire is coming through, I've read In Mercy Rain by Sean McGuire. Okay, we've done that one. Um, body, body itself. Okay, we've got that one, her body and other parties. Is there anything I've got that isn't that, like heart? I must have read ones with heart. Every heart a doorway. Oh my gosh Sean McGuire. She's incredible. She's a beautiful person. Her talent and brilliance is beyond. Next one, game. Game related words from game itself to games like chess checkers, cards, twister, to words related to games like first, last, wait, okay, I must have done. Game, the murder game. We've done that one. This is going well. Number 10, magic. Magic in the title or related words, witch, charm, conjure. Okay, I must have done magic. Oh, oh, wait, no, that's all magical realism. Okay, maybe I haven't done magic. Have I done witch? Snow White Lens Witchcraft. Snow White Lens Witchcraft. Have I got any books on my TBR that are magic because I feel like, does she want it ideally to be magic? Magic. And so I am challenging you to find a book with magic in the title. Okay, yeah, I did remember that. Magic for liars. Have I got anything that's magic? Oh my god, am I gonna have to read Mr. Magic? Okay, blood like magic, am I the one I'd love to read? Language of Thorns Midnight Tales. No, I think I've got to read Mr. Magic. I think I've got to read Mr. Magic. Oh my god, I just bought it. I'm excited. We're gonna read Mr. Magic. I have been looking forward to this book so much. This is like looking at child stars on this show that they were on in the 90s that like no one, there's no surviving records of. And it just sounds, it sounds really good. I'm scared about my reaction to that one. Okay, and then good. I must have read stuff that has good. An elderly lady is up to no good. A house with good bones. Okay, we've done that twice. And then last sound related words. Sound. Okay, have I read anything that would sound? No. Noise. No. Song. Ghostwood song. Skeleton song. Oh my god. I could have done this whole challenge almost. We're just short of the choir and the way that you're doing it. And the Song of Achilles. Okay, we've done that. So our TBR for this vlog is Mr. Magic to Fulfill October's Magic Prompt. All the Rage 2 Fulfill April's Emotion Prompt. And the Adventures of Maud West Lady Detective to Fulfill March's Secret Prompt. So those are the three books that we're gonna be reading in this vlog. I'm very excited. I don't know which one I'm gonna start with. I'll go see what I want to pick, but I'm very excited to dive into all of these. Okay, hey friends. I am, how far am I? I'm about 80 pages into Mr. Magic. So I've only read the beginning, but this book is quite short. It's under 300 pages. And I wanted to chat to you before shit hit the fan basically. So all you need to know about this is that it is a horror. We're following the cast members of this cult show like 30 years on. And this show, there's no like videos of it on YouTube. They're the Wikipedia pages sparse. There's no past like TV guide, TV schedule entries of it. And if you try and talk about online, it gets deleted, like there's no record of it. And it ended in a very traumatic way, it seems to be. And we're following Val in particular, who doesn't remember any of this, right? She's been living on a ranch with just her dad for the past 30 years. And she like doesn't remember anything about this show. And she comes back into contact with some of the people and they're trying to help her figure out. And there's like a reunion and a podcast and whatever. And there's the, and there's normal chapters and there's interspersed with like mixed media of like Reddit forums or like blogs or whatever or the Wikipedia page talking about the show and nothing yet. It's definitely a weird book. Like there's already a lot of like blurring the lines of reality. And I think it's going to go a bit crazy. Like there's already things happening where for example, like she'll reach for the TV but then she'll be walking on the stairs. Like there's already moments where like it doesn't follow. It doesn't make sense. It's like glitching and their attitudes towards the show and what they're willing to talk about and what's happening with this reunion are already weird. There's like a lot of weird stuff going on. It's getting weird. And I'm really enjoying it. So I read another book by Kirsten White last month, The Dark Sentence with Frankenstein and I didn't like it at all. But there's something about this. I don't know how to explain it. That it's like, it feels nostalgic and not just because it's based on this like 90s kid's show. I think Barney, right, with like this big figure called Mr. Magic who no one really knew was he a puppet? Was he an actor? Was he CGI? No one knows. It's not just nostalgic because of like the TV show. I remember there's something about this book that I don't know whether it's because it's like an autumnal day today for the first day, but there's something about it that feels like a nostalgic reading experience. Do you know what I mean when like, I don't know how to put this into words. When you read a book and you remember that moment and it's like, I feel like I've, it's somehow replicating what the what the characters are feeling where you meet someone and you feel like you've known them before. Like I feel like I've read this book before. It's very interesting. I don't know how it's doing that. Am I going crazy? I'm really enjoying that element of it. So I'm really enjoying it so far. I think it's setting up the horror so well. I'm excited for how it's going to unravel and come apart and like, shit's going to hit the fan. I'm really excited. I'm loving the mixed media elements. I know it's going to be weird. It's going to be weird, right? I think Kirsten, why it's like horror, it happened with Hyde as well. I think it's quite divisive, but I like that she's doing something a little bit different, you know? So I'm really enjoying it. I feel like it's going to be a bit of an unput-downable book. I know this is already, this is going to be a bit polarizing, but I'm, I'm loving it. And I'm so excited to hear about, you know, there's so many questions about the characters relationships and what happened and what actually is the truth with the show and why is it being kept secret and what happened at the end that made it end and how was Valor protagonist like, involved in that? There's so many questions. So I'm really enjoying it. I'm kind of shocked because I was scared, but also I kind of knew if anyone was going to enjoy this, it would probably be me, you know? I think I'm just special, special. I like weird camp horror and I feel like this is what this is, you know? I don't like psychological introspective horror. I don't like extreme horror, but if it's like weird and surreal and questioning truth and camp, I mean a 90s kids TV show, come on. Just look at the cover, it's pink for God's sake. That is my kind of thing. So I'm really enjoying it. I will check in with you when I'm a little bit more the way through because like I said, I kind of, we've met all our characters now and now I feel like the story is going to really get moving. So I wanted to talk to you before that happened. Okay, I'll see you in a bit. Hello, hello. It is the next day. I'm about another 100 pages into Mr. Magic. I'm still really enjoying it. The first thing I want to say is this is absolutely definitely 100% the kind of book you do not want to read in a week, like or more. You want to read this in like a day or two because honestly who knows what the fuck is going on? Who knows what's going on? This is very confusing, but I love it. It's weird. I'm trying to think of something it reminds me of, reminds me of. It's similar to like something like Catherine House, right? Where like there's blowing of reality. There's not like a through line of truth. Everything is up for debate. Everything. Who can we trust? What's actually happening? I have no clue. It's bloody and suspense, but I'm enjoying it. I think it's kind of fun. There's a big theme running through this of like parenting. I wonder if kids said a child recently is like, oh my God, what the fuck am I doing? Because there's this through line of like all of the, apart from our protagonist, all of the other kids from the show who are now adults have now had kids and they're all craving the order that the show gave them and wishing they had something like that for their children and saying that like, oh, I don't think I'm a good parent. They're all having issues with being a parent. They're finding it so hard and saying, oh, I wish, you know, I could put them on Mr. Magic basically, even though the experience that they had seemed to be very strange. Like they, the idea of it, this blank room that they made things up, it just like completely, there's no reality to this. They all slept together on the floor and like, where did you eat? Like what is going on? How are you on this show for like years of your life? Like what is that? There's no logic. There's a reality to this. Don't go into this if you're hoping for like some form of reality because guess what? You'll get none. Does that sound like something you want? Yes. Well, let me tell you, you'll never get it. I just think it's very imaginative. I think there's this creeping suspense to it and I love the mixed media and it's done just right, right? I don't think this book needed any more mixed media. It's just got some sprinkled through that really rounds out the kind of weirdness of it because the character's relationship to this show and like their experiences since are so blown the lines of what we would expect reality to be. But like the show was real. There's real people on like, you know, Reddit forums like this is what I remember of it. So it kind of adds another surreal element to it. I'm enjoying it. I wouldn't recommend this widely. I think it is a bit too weird for everyone. Like even mid, they'll be having like a group conversation and mid conversation, someone will say something. I'm like, where did that come from? Look what is going on? So I can understand why not everyone would like this. But I think if you're looking for like surreal horror with like some interesting characters, I haven't really had any questions answered yet. This is really hinging on the execution of the ending, right? Because there's so many answers. And I could see it being a book that has a completely open ending where we basically get none of our questions answered. Now, if that happens, I won't necessarily rate it low, because if I think it's done well, I'll be okay with it. But I think there's a risk that it wouldn't be done well, I would feel like very anticlimactic. So we'll see. I'm going to try and finish this today, because like I said, I think you should read this quickly so that you can kind of like, it feels like a book where you're trying to keep a lot of strands like held together at the same point, you know what I mean? So yeah, I'm going to try and finish it this evening, so I'll see you then. But I'm glad that I've read this so quickly. Again, I've been reading a book, so I've like the past couple of vlogs I've literally just bought, and I love that for me. I love when I buy a book and just read it immediately. That's such a vibe. Anyways, and yeah, I'll see you this evening with my final thoughts. This could go a lot of ways. Like I can't even tell you really what my rating would be now because so much of it hinges on how the ending is executed. So I just finished Mr. Magic by Kirsten White, and I'm going to give it four stars. I really enjoyed it. There was a moment at the ending where I was like, oh is it going to be a 3.5? But then the way the ending truly wrapped up was a four, and I really enjoyed how it was done. It's my favourite kind of ending. I do like a bit of sweet ending. Well like an ending where everything isn't wrapped up in a bow, right? You can have an ending where things, you know, end up mostly well, but like nothing can ever end up 100% good. You know what I mean? So I can ending that's a little bit bittersweet, and I was going to be like, oh it's an allegory for this, this and this, when it's done so well because of XYZ, but that kind of is revealed in this last section, or truly realised in this last section. And so I don't want to spoil it for you, but I think what this book is really a representation of is done really really well, and you can tell it comes from someone who has experienced, trying to talk around it, has experienced what this is. A lot of it touches on like, you know, child stardom. That's not really, it isn't about, I don't want you to go into this thinking, oh it's about like what happens to kids when they're putting films or whatever. That's not really what it's about, it's more about something else. It's an allegory for that. And it's making me even think about aspects of myself. Not that I've, oh god this is difficult to talk around. Not that I've experienced something that this is the author, there's an author's note in particular that then clarifies aspects. Not that I've experienced something like that, but perhaps to a lesser extent and it's just interesting. I know it's like, I like it when a book makes me think. So I don't have much more to say. This is going to be very polarising. Not everyone's going to like this. It is weird. I'm an acquired taste. You don't like me? Acquire some taste. It doesn't make much sense. It is a book you need to read quite quickly because there's like, I feel like I was fighting a tide of like understanding. I was constantly trying to like keep following what was going on. Like you do have to kind of work to like follow the path that the book is taking. But I really enjoyed it and I think it does a really great job of examining what it's examining. So yeah, first book success. We've ticked off the magic prompt. Now for the emotions prompt. I am going to start All the Rage by Courtney Summers. Listen, I love Courtney Summers. I want to read all of her backlist so I'm excited to have the opportunity to read some more of her backlist. And I'll check in with you when I'm probably about halfway through this. I think this is going to be a bit of a difficult read. I mean all of Courtney Summers books are. They're not, you know, fun and sunshine. But you know, I'm looking forward to it as much as one can look forward to a book of, it feels wrong saying that, a book of this topic. But I mean, I just don't think anyone does it as good as her. So I'm excited to read this. Okie dokie. I am halfway through All the Rage by Courtney Summers. In this we are following a protagonist who is essayed by the sheriff's son. And but that is very, a very small part. Well, not a very small part. It lingers throughout the book, but that's not what the book is following. So that happens in a flashback right at the start. And then I actually struggled, we're getting to this, I struggled at the start to like place the timeline because it happened at the start. And then we go two weeks earlier, but I missed a bit in the right after the flashback it says that was a year ago. So we're a year on from that event, we see something happen and then we go back two weeks earlier from that and then lead up to that event. And then now I'm past that initial event. I don't know if that makes sense. But for a while I thought we were two weeks before her getting essayed at a party by this boy, but really we're a year on from that and two weeks earlier from what we see in the first chapter. That makes any kind of sense. It took me like 50 pages to realise we were not two weeks before the party, we were two weeks, we were a year after the party. It took me a while. I'm confused. So we're following her and no one believes her. She's being bullied. You know, he is, it's a small town and his family are incredibly influential. Everyone at school has sided with him. All of her friends turned on her. We're seeing how she's then chosen to interact with the world and chosen to react to that kind of terrible reaction to what happened to her. You know, I always say that I think Courtney Summers books find the people who need them. You know what I mean? She writes about these difficult topics and I always think that I get the feeling that they are, they refuse to be the easy answer to a question. They refuse to like her characters are never, the books always take an unflinching look at some difficult questions and characters who are not there's this idea of the perfect victim and for society to have any kind of empathy for anyone in any kind of situation. There's lots of examples of this. They have to be the perfect victim and I think all of Courtney Summers characters have a bit of grit to them and I really admire that. I admire in all of her books the angle that she chooses to look at it with. At the moment it's probably like a four star 3.75. I'm enjoying it, you know, but I don't know if I'm like it's quite an old like you know it's 2015 and I feel like you can kind of it's like a bit of its time. You know what I mean? Not in a bad way just like in the kind of high school setting and like also that's just not necessarily what I read now, but I am enjoying it and I think it's written beautifully. The writing has this almost like poetryness to it that is very unique in a book of this kind. I think the writing is incredible. I think the way that we've gotten to know our main character Romy is so intimate. So there's a lot that I'm really enjoying about it and now it's in the synopsis so I can tell you but another girl has gone missing and we're kind of looking at how she is because of her relationship to that girl and the events that happened to Romy in the past year, how she's reacting to that situation. So I'm gonna read the rest of this today and I'll check with you once I finish it. We're gonna go out for a walk at some point so I might film some of that but I'm enjoying it. I'm enjoying it and I'm very glad to make my way through some more Caught in Summer's Backlist. Okay we haven't been out for the walk yet but I have finished all the rage before we went out so I thought I'd check in with you. I'm gonna give this four stars. I thought the ending was incredible. I got quite emotional at the ending and how it all comes together and it does a good job of you as a reader feeling like there are certain things you want to happen as a reader. There's certain vengeance you want characters to get or certain answers you want characters to get or certain things you want to happen or characters to know certain things and it does a good job of like giving you some of that but not giving you everything you want because again a book shouldn't ever give you everything you want because life, life's not fair. You know what I mean? What's fair? Right. Life's not fair. This situation is far from a perfect situation so if everything to be wrapped up in a bow in the way that I think the reader wants to desire is never gonna happen so I think it does a good job of that and I just I really loved the ending of this. I thought it was beautiful and I want to clarify one other thing. I want to clarify that I said this was like very obvious time. I don't mean that. I just mean it reminds me a lot of what I used to read when I was like 13, 14, 15. I don't think it's on its time. I think it just reminds me of the other stuff that I read from that time so I just wanted to clarify that but yeah I just you know this is a very difficult book to read but again like I was saying I don't really have many new thoughts but I think I preferred the second half. It was a very it's a very quick read but it's a very you know it is a tough read and it reminded me of um I can't remember her name the lead character from I'm the Girl where like I said Romie's not gonna do Romie's not gonna react in the way that like some people hope she will to everything right and that's valid and that's okay you know like again this idea like in everything you do not have to be a perfect victim the idea of what a perfect victim is to be worthy of justice and to be worthy of living a happy life eventually you know and like not be worthy of not having even more shit thrown at you you know we see this across you know in so much things not just in stuff to do with um essay victims like in war or in I don't know there's so many examples in life you can think of and um it's something I do really admire about Courtney Summers books that like her protagonist asks ask questions of you as the reader and um I don't know I always admire that so yeah I really enjoyed it um this is you know it is an order book but I still would recommend it but like you know this has a lot of triggers so be aware of that going into it okay so the last prompt we had to fulfill that ticked off the emotions prompt the last point we had to fulfill was secret so the tire tech have secrets secretive secrets um in the title and I was supposed to read the Mord West lady lady detective adventures I can't remember the title is secrets and lies whatever I don't remember I don't remember love I don't remember at all I really don't because I know for a long time ago but I want to save that to read on a very specific day I this is like we're going to talk about it because I'm really not there but like for the book that I want to write I think that book that nonfiction book could be very informative and I'm just not there I'm not there at the moment guys so I did some research on that list on Storygraph for the buzzword of thumb and I came across The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie this isn't a Poro book if you guys know I'm reading the Poro books in order but I was feeling kind of sad because I haven't read many X Christie's this year I only read one and the next one in this in the Poro series which is the only uh X Christie series I'm in the middle of is Murdoch on the Iron Express which I've read before but I want to do a reread around Christmas time so I wasn't going to get a chance to read another one this year and then this came up so this is following I think a superintendent of battle who when I was looking on Goodreads it looks like he's in one Poro book and then he's in three other standalone books I'm not going to mark this as a series because on the back it's just part of a list of other Agatha Christie kind of stand-alones but this is in 1925 so it's one of her older stand-alones I think it's a bit more thriller-y it says Little did Anthony K suspect that an errand for a friend would place him at the center of a deadly conspiracy drawn into a web of intrigue he begins to realize that the simple favor has placed him in serious danger so I feel like it's one of Agatha Christie's more thriller-y suspense intrigue books so I'm very excited to read this I've got the audiobook and I'm really happy to be reading another Christie because listen I want to read all the Christie's ever to exist eventually I'm really excited to make progress so I'm gonna head out on the walk now and then tonight we are going on my grandparents because it's my grandfather's birthday we're having a pizza party so I don't know if I'll see you before then maybe I'll have read halfway before then or maybe I won't we'll see how I do um but yeah I'll check in with you when I'm halfway through the secret of chimneys by Agatha Christie it's really just broken up Miko's not happy that I'm talking if you didn't know Miko you don't like us talking yeah it's sleepy okay um I am halfway through the secret of chimneys and I'm really enjoying it so basically what we need to know about this is that it is much more espionage with like a hint of country house murder it's very interesting so we've got this guy who promises to like deliver the memoirs of like an old king right but a lot of the book is about these political figures who are scheming to like reintroduce the monarchy like who work in the foreign office in the 1920s that's so exciting to me and so this is such a different side of Agatha Christie that I've ever read from before so yeah we've got those characters who are like scheming to like reintroduce the monarchy to this country like you know Britain meddling and every other country's affairs what we've done for the whole of time honestly it's just disgusting but yeah so they're doing that and the memoirs are like the old king of that era and murders start happening and blackmail starts happening and Miko always so sleepy and then now we are at a country house with like a murder element to it so it's kind of a hint of espionage political thriller with a traditional Agatha Christie country house murder mystery and I'm just really enjoying it I am shocked by how much I'm enjoying it it's a completely like I said a complete different side to anything I've read before from Agatha Christie and I'm just so glad that I have done this video and then I decided to pick up this for the video because otherwise I wouldn't have read this for like 10 000 years because I'm only reading the Paro books and so it's very interesting to read a book from like early on you know from around the same era as the other Paro books I've read but with a completely different tone I think it's making me think of Agatha Christie a different way and also it's funny guys it's funny there's like quite a lot I mean to be fair there's always something a bit humorous about Agatha Christie's books like Paro is quite a funny character I feel like in his mannerisms and his quarks but there's just like a lot of humor in it and it's somehow striking this balance between espionage mystery humor like there's a lot of elements to it that I'm kind of I wasn't expecting I wasn't expecting to yeah enjoy this as much as I am I have no theory about what's going on though it's a little bit more it's a little bit more complex I feel like than just her Paro mysteries like there's a lot of going on there's a lot of political elements and machinations there's a lot of characters I don't know quite who all the characters are I'm nodding like I understand but I'm not so sure I do there's a few characters do you remember like have a book a pretty classic right there's so many characters and you kind of just like give up I know who they all are and you're just like okay like as long as I know who the most important ones are it's probably fine but then one of the ones you accepted that you don't know who they are ends up being the murderer like yeah anyways I'm gonna go finish this today so I'll see you later today um I might be around Tom's by the time I finish it because we're going around there today but yeah I'll check it with you when I finished it but at the moment I'm really enjoying it imagine if we get three four stars in this while I'm guessing at the moment it's four stars okay I have finished the final book of the vlog the secret of chimneys and I don't have a lot more thoughts about this I didn't love the second half as much so I think it's going to be a 3.5 gosh I'm all for variety a 4 a 4 a 3.5 no I I did really enjoy this like I said probably the highlight for me was seeing you know it mostly is a country house mystery but it hasn't an added in element that I feel like not a lot of um christies I've read have had so I really enjoyed seeing that element to it I just there was just too many characters guys it's just too many characters I agree I have had it and I'm you know what I have it it was way too many characters honestly the people would turn up and I'm like they'd turn up like every 100 pages for two pages and I'm supposed to remember all these people like there was too many characters and I do think that led it down but you know and also sometimes I feel like yes I really enjoyed reading this but like so many christies I read she was just pumping them out guys she was turning books out when you scroll through and see how often the book she was published she published at least one a year pretty much for like 50 years more than that really so there's like a lot of there's a lot of books and sometimes I feel it with her when she has a hit oh my god it's like incredible but like a lot of her books I do feel like for me are like a three three point five like they're good they're enjoyable I have fun but like they're not special so there wasn't an element of that with this we're like she was just pumping those books out you know but I had fun and it was fun to read something christie that wasn't pro because I think the only one I've done that for was and then there were none I do want to start Miss Marple next year I am interested in starting Miss Marple but yeah I enjoyed it I it's not where I'd recommend starting with like a christie but if you enjoy reading like a christie then I think it's a fun time just too many characters honestly it's like 50 people in this book anyways guys I hope you enjoyed this vlog of me completing buzzwordathon in a week thank you Kona for creating such a fun readathon I had a lot of fun participating it even if it was only for a week not for the whole year yeah like I said it's such a fun readathon because I never would have read this if it wasn't for needing secret um I wouldn't have read this for like until I was probably like 80 so um at the moment it's taking me like how long I could have published books to read them I'm reading like one or two a year from us we've got a while the world to go um so yeah thank you guys so much for watching this video if you've gotten to the end comment a sh the sh emoji because it's a secret a solicit secret no it's a secret uh comment that emoji down below if you got to the end and I will see you very soon in another one bye