 So over the past year or so I have done a lot of videos where I read seven books in seven days and they're one of my favorite videos to film even though they're always an emotional challenge but I love doing them as videos so we're gonna do it again and I was trying to think of like what theme do I want to go with next sometimes I read seven horror books or seven mystery books in a specific week sometimes I've done seven readathons where I have to do a different readathon every day and I thought this time we would do genres so I'm gonna read seven genres in seven days I have to read a different genre every single day and that's because I love reading a wider area of genres for me a good reading month is when I've read like a genre here a genre there I see a good mix in my wrap-up at the end of the month in the books that I've read and the genres that I've read so we're gonna show you the different one every single day this week I don't know how it's gonna go I don't really have a ton of plans for books that I'm gonna read but let's just get started with it shall we but before we get into the video I want to take a few minutes to tell you about something very very exciting when reading your favorite Greek mythology books have you ever wished you could be sursey sorceress in touch with the learn in touch with the flowers and witch and magician have you ever wished you could be like a Achilles on the battlefield spearing your enemies feeling the the rage and the atmosphere of the Greek battle and for some reason when I was doing these clips I thought Ariadne fell in love with the minotaur but then I remember she falls in love with the guy who kills the minotaur so maybe you've read fanfic where Ariadne falls in love with the minotaur and you want to relive that well now you can because I'm holding a group treat to grace so a lot of you all know I am hosting a group trip to Costa Rica but some of you couldn't make it and you're like making can you hold another one there seemed to be a lot of excitement about another one so I'm holding another one and we're going to Greece I knew I wanted to do a europe one next for those of you more on the europe side that may be easier to get to all those in the US who when I come to Europe and I've never been to Greece I've always wanted to so that's what we're gonna be doing we're gonna be going on a group trip to Greece let me tell you all the details quickly we are going to be going to Greece specifically Crete the island of Crete this whole trip is on the island of Crete from the 1st of October to the 7th of October 2024 Greece 2024 baby I wanted to do a trip that was quite a far away in the future to give those of you time to save up because I know they're expensive I know they're not accessible to everyone so I hoped that by making a bit further in the future I would be able to make it a bit more accessible in terms of price we have 10 early bird spots at the time of filming two of those already taken by my patrons because I gave them early access to it so there's eight left at the price of two thousand seven hundred and ninety nine dollars which is about two thousand two hundred and ninety four pounds now you only need to pay 25 percent of this to secure your spot you do not need to pay the whole amount in one go in order to book this trip you only need to pay 25 percent and then you have till about 90 days pre-trip to pay the remainder so you've got basically nine months to pay the rest so you don't have to Russian paying and then after those 10 early bird spots are gone it's a hundred dollars more expensive so if you book early you get a hundred dollar discount it will be two thousand eight hundred and ninety nine dollars or I'll put the conversion rates for some currencies here as well so yeah that's the prize that's the dates shall we get into quickly the itinerary and what is included in this trip if you've seen other people doing travel trips you probably have a kind of idea of what is included so we have a local tour guide with us with the group the entire time they know the arrow off by heart they'll be handling all the organizational elements so we can just have a fun time then expert in the area so that's such a benefit it's not just a usual holiday obviously you have me being the host and being there with you guys the whole time but we also have a local tour guide who kind of guides us around the area and holds our hand through the trip as well some food is included on this one it's six breakfasts all the breakfasts three lunches and two dinners are included in the price your transfers to and from the airport when you arrive and when we leave you have three transfers to and from the airport we have three transfers when we travel to all the activities when we travel from place to place on Crete we have accommodation included in wonderful hotels you guys go go check out the listing and check out the hotels the hotels are incredible um go check out those you have shared accommodation so you'll be sharing with one other traveler but you can pay a little bit extra if you want a private room on this trip or i know some people bring a friend and you'd be automatically roomed with your friend for no extra if you come on this trip so let's get into quickly running through the itinerary if you guys have any questions i'll be running a q and a on my instagram when this video goes up and you can also ask any questions you have down below but we'll run through the itinerary quickly for those of you that are interested so day one we arrive everyone lands gets settled in the place and we have a welcome dinner day two the first thing we do is go to the palace of Nosos which i am ridiculously excited for guys if you've ever heard about the myth of Ariadne of the minor tour of the labyrinth this is the palace where that happened or the place where that myth is set i should say so we're gonna go visit the ruins of this palace and i just think this is gonna be like i feel like pictures and videos of these kind of sites can't be kept can't capture the magic of them i'm so excited imagine reading we might you might have read Ariadne then we just say that before the trip i've been dropping so many heads you can then imagine the story taking place at the place we are and then we're gonna visit the heraclion archaeological museum which i've heard is one of the best archaeological museums in europe it's got some ancient stuff like things like 900 bc what imagine seeing like plates or jugs and stuff from this time it's absolutely incredible i've heard really good things about this museum so then we're gonna go there day two we're in with Thymno and we're going on a jeep safari can you imagine us all like we're gonna see incredible sights we're gonna be on a jeep safari and then we go to this magical beach the Prevelli beach and have a swim it's this trip is very much like beach relaxing island getaway relaxing on a greek island kind of vibe so then we go have a nice beach relax day four we visit the Agrupolli waterfalls which are some of the most beautiful waterfalls we have lunch there we take in this picturesque setting and then we traveled to honeya where we're spending the rest of the trip day five we have a guided walking tour around honeya and like i'm showing you some of the pictures this is a beautiful greek island town so we're gonna walk around taste local delicacies learn the history it's going to be incredible and then we have the first of our two optional activities so all the other activities are included in the price the first of our optional activities is a monastery visit and wine tour so that's why this is a little bit extra because we're getting alcohol so yeah you taste local wines taste local snacks and visit this ancient monastery and also on this day we're gonna have our greek mythology book club so we're gonna have a book club on this trip of course and if you guys want to read books like Cersei or Song of Achilles in preparation for going to Greece i totally recommend it but our official book club pick and we will discuss these as well but our official book club pick is going to be Ariadne by Jennifer St because this is set on the island of Crete where we are and i thought also a lot of you have probably read those ones already so this would be a fun one if you haven't read it ready or just reread it for the trip to read to discuss when we're in that setting in the location so this is going to be our official book club pick and we'll discuss this and chat about it day six is a day for relaxing on the picturesque beaches there or you can take place in the second option activity which is a cruise around some of the caves the other parts the island the other amazing beaches we'll be visiting some of the most beautiful beaches on Greece according to many people there's some of the most beautiful beach on Greece so this is a little bit extra this and the wine tour are the extra optional activities that you can do or you can opt out of if they're not something you're interested in but we're gonna be on a little cruise for like the whole day like it's a seven hour cruise around the island around the caves around the seas around the beaches and i'm so excited and then day seven we say goodbye and travel home so that is a quick rundown of the itinerary i will leave the page link down below if you want to travel with me it is now available to book which is incredibly exciting if you guys want to come join me in Greece ask me any questions you have like i said you only need to pay 25 percent to secure your spot and you've got about nine months to pay the rest of it you've got ages until the trip to think about whether this is something you want to do i will keep you updated on my instagram as spots go but i think this is going to be very popular because Greece was by far the most popular destination that you guys wanted to go to when i put out polls Greece won every time you guys want to go Greece and so do i i'm very excited to eat all the amazing food there to see the amazing beaches and to experience the amazing history there as well so i hope you guys join me if you're able to on this amazing trip i also do just want to say full disclosure this video isn't sponsored by trovertrip but i have marked it as paid promotion on the youtube function because this isn't a sponsorship i'm not being paid to talk about in this video but as part of my role as host if the trip does go ahead i do get to go on the trip for free and i do get paid a certain amount depending on how the trip works that's how how the host role works on trovertrips so i just wanted to be full disclosure about that this isn't a sponsorship i'm not actually being paid to talk about this but i wanted to mark it as paid promotion because of my ongoing work with trovertrip so yeah that's all i'm gonna say i hope you guys are as excited as i am jeep safari amazing beaches visiting ancient ruins i'm so excited i think it's gonna be an amazing trip so hopefully some of you can join me and redary adney and be in Greece and it's gonna be amazing i am so excited so yeah i'll leave that with you we can get into the rest of the video now and i hope you as excited as i am good morning it's saturday first day are you crooked i don't know um first day of this vlog and today i need something short because something very exciting is happening today i am going to london to meet up with some of my patrons which i've never done before i'm nervous i'm nervous because i like i don't know i want it to be fun for everyone so i'm gonna go meet up with some of my patrons so i have like no time to read today really the level of unprofessionalism far too much so i want to go on my goodreads and see like let's look at my shortest books and then i'll get the audiobook for one of them or something like that i need something that literally takes no time right other days this week i'll be reading like a full 350 page book do you know what i mean but today we need something short so number of pages it also in script jail at the moment from these like half of the books i'd want to read not longest right these are known um that's something oh the camera got my food detected that's a series do i really want to start that so i was thinking tell us from the cafe before the coffee gets cold but that will make me cry and do i want to cry i don't want to cry so i was thinking that the six deaths of the saint but that's fantasy and we've got nettle and bone which is fantasy here's the thing right the six deaths of the saint is historical fantasy and every book on my tbr is like historical mystery like do you count that as historical or mystery so i i think i'm allowed to count it as my historical of this lock and just not read anything else it's even like vaguely well well we don't think it's historical but i'm going to class it as my historical because it is historical keep saying it just keep saying it keep saying it out loud and maybe you will convince hope so yeah i'm gonna go do that because i'm really excited i've had so many good things about this short story about alexie harrow and i think everyone's loved it some people said it makes them tear up though which isn't the best to listen to whilst we're getting ready but that's what i'm going to do it is so late it's like 11 o'clock i'm so tired i just got home from london um from the meet-up i know i barely filmed anything because i was just like enjoying being everyone's company but here's a quick picture of us minus one friend who had to leave early but um it was just so amazing meeting everyone i've never really done anything like that before and it was just so i don't know i had a great time i had such a great time we did some book shopping together we had lunch together i just had a great time i have a wonderful day um but i've got to tell you about the book it must confess this is my other this is like my mini tripod you're on the big one this is like when i put on my desk if i'm using it as a microphone i'm so tired i have decided to be a good person and although this has a historical setting i am going to count this as the fantasy book for this vlog so what that means is i'm not going to read nettle and bone in this vlog live the no i keep wanting the lives of the saints but it's the six deaths of the saints i really enjoyed this i'm gonna give it a four star i think it could have been stronger if i had read it in a different way like i read it whilst i was doing my makeup and then on the train home just the audiobook and i think perhaps it would have been even stronger but for me if i'd read it with like no distraction i interrupted because it is only like 30 pages but i think it is like an almost perfect short story like what it manages to do and say and make you feel and make you believe in 30 pages is frankly insane like miss alex wow but i can't give you a synopsis i've tried to think of it guys i'm so tired it's it's kind of about like a young girl who's made a fighter for a king let's just say that let's space it with me tonight but i think it was so it reminded me of what i loved about alexie harry's writing in the once feature which is what i'm so excited to read in starling house and all her other books is where it's got this like this so this is something some of my favorite authors have i feel like shawna maguire has this to some extent i'm trying to think of who else but like write stuff that has a very unique slant on reality or like writes fantasy that almost comes up with new conventions like it comes up with new ideas i feel like and i feel like i mean there's no ideas new idea like everything's been on for a year together but there's something in this and the concept of what this is that like feels so fresh and feels so new and feels so magical and feels so imaginative that i really enjoy it just wasn't a five star do you know what i mean it wasn't five star for me but it could have been in a different second start please excuse the shoddy day one to this but i'm not one of those people that forgive and forget i'm one of those people that fucking take score but it's reality you know i gotta read a book a day and a different genre every day and today was a busy day meeting friends so tomorrow tomorrow morning and maybe in the afternoon i'm gonna be editing the last vlog that you would have seen last week's vlog for you but like still this week's vlog for me so i need to edit that um tomorrow so i probably won't check in with you until that is done and then depending on how late that is and if there's anything like i want to do with my family i want to go for a run tomorrow evening so we'll just see where we're at tomorrow might be a good day for saga volume two that could be a good one and then we get into more of the longer books in the week because the weekend i'm trying to spend time with my family as well you know so that might be also we went into a bit on planet and i was gonna buy saga volume three because i know i'm probably gonna read saga volume two in this vlog and it was the only one from volume one to nine they didn't have they had every other volume so i tried i tried to buy you know a book that make progress in the series but instead i brought a stand alone i almost also brought um lights which was the finale to the sheets graph in all series forgotten i ordered it yesterday make i almost very nearly forgot that okay i'm leaving good night i'm gonna go sleep okie dokie so it is like nine o'clock what time is it half nine um i spent the whole day editing my strange case out in books video whatever you want to call it hasn't really got a proper name and then it got copyright claimed right as i uploaded it i love spending my weekends doing something and then it doesn't even work out it's okay i was probably i've forgotten that copyright claims are even a thing so i haven't gotten one in like a year but i probably was a bit bold with some of the stuff that i uh that i put in that video i think i just i deserved to get a copyright claim so it's okay it's not the end of the world but we are gonna pick up saga volume two today as our sci-fi pick this i'm you know i've started this vlog with probably like the smallest book so we're gonna read just because it's been a weekend i've been busy but i've got a bit more you know wiggle room shall we say in the week so anyways i'm really excited to read this i it's been almost a year since i read the first one maybe i'll read like one of you never catch up but um i'm really excited these are really fun really quick really enjoyable so i'm gonna go ahead and read this now yeah it's the most obscene image i've ever seen oh my gosh oh my gosh my eyeballs oh god okay okay i just finished whoa this like it's very dark in my room and my camera's trying to like deal with it and it made me very rad for a second like screw oh it's bothering me i don't like this i won't put it up with like everything but this is like it's my face i finished saga volume two i really enjoyed i might have even enjoyed this one more than the first one i really enjoyed i probably need to read them quicker than i currently am though because there were a few characters i remember who almost everyone was and i was like oh i can't remember your back stories girl like at the end there was a few people who had like 10 pages of storyline and i was like anyways so but basically all you need to know about this series is we're following a young couple with a baby and the book is told the series is told from like the baby's perspective when they've like grown up being like oh look at my parents like telling the story like as i guess it's been told to them kind of in this one we meet some of the grandparents and the storyline from the first one continues where like they're basically being chased down because people want to kill them because like they're like parts of two different kinds of people who are at war and like the fact they've had a baby together is like major major issue like this is a pr issue like they're allowed to do this so yeah they're kind of like supposed to be enemies but they're lovers and i really enjoyed this one the thing about this series is it's violent people can people can die just like just never be attached to anyone because everyone dies like you'll meet a cute character for two seconds dead and no one lives and it is a little bit like sexually uh strong what the word is but like it's very adult in its themes but i've really enjoyed this one i really enjoyed the storylines that we had like obviously it's a graphic novel it's sci-fi it's fast paced it's off you've got like you're being bombarded with world building and like fucking political intrigue and characters and like all this stuff happening in such a short space of time but also there was stuff in this one about like family and like appreciating the people we love like i don't know i really enjoyed it so i'm gonna give this four stars and now for the rest of the vlog we will be reading longer books well she says this i you know we'll be reading longer books we've done fantasy and we've done sci-fi so i think the next one tomorrow i am definitely gonna pick up the golden spoon by jessa maxwell this has been on at t-barcluedo for a while i think last month i put it on there and it's only about 270 pages so i think i can get a good ways throughout i'm really excited so this will be mystery so i think we will start this tomorrow and i'll check them with you when i'm a little bit of a way through it what's going on thank you he really likes to kill my hair whoa he's a killer he just loves playing with my hair don't you can i film okay you just keep keeping yourself amused so hello so next day she can tell it's quite late it's like half nine but i did end up picking up the golden spoon by jessa maxwell as my mystery for this vlog oh my god okay he's just having fun i'm just gonna let him do what he wants i picked up the golden spoon i'm really enjoying this i'm really enjoying it guys so basically the premise of this is imagine great british bakeoff but american version called bake week i've gotta go and let him out hang on they're all staying at this like lovely manner where they're filming the show as well and we have like a prologue that seems to be like there's some murder happens at some point it's a storm but then we go back to like the start of the week right and we're kind of we're following the perspectives of each of the bakers and the host whose house it is so we're following each of their perspectives and i'm just it's fun love a bit of drama i always said when i was going to read this like i'm not expecting high literature i'm expecting fun and it's giving fun bakeoff in the uk bakeoff actually comes back tomorrow for the new season new season starts all right so i feel like this is just perfectly timed so i'm like oh my god i can watch bakeoff tomorrow i think it's tracking a perfect balance between a mystery but also like chatting about the baking there's a lot of baking chat in this if you're a baking fan there's a lot of like i add the sugar then i add the flour my mum's talking to the cat outside so i think it has got this lovely cozy energy to it and talking about how the show is cozy and they will love the show because of this and there's a really interesting cast of characters as well i think we've got a really interesting cast of bakers but it does feel low stakes a little bit silly cozy i'm just i'm really enjoying it my one critique you know this is about 270 pages and i'm 100 pages in so i'm not far off of halfway and there has been and i don't think there is going to be for quite some time like any real uh intimation of like murder or like mist like mystery there's like a little tiny like minuscule crumbs of mysteries they give me crumbs oh my god it's a baking show i've connected the two dots you didn't connect shit but i've connected them but there's nothing really like solid and i'm a bit worried we're gonna read this whole book just kind of knowing that oh at the end something's bad's gonna happen that's not enough to coast me through it if you think of the guest list by lucy phony you find out right at the beginning of that someone's been murdered then you go back in time to you know the start of the wedding weekend and go through time leading up to the murder but that is interspersed with like little flash forwards as to what's happening as the murder happens and maybe this needed that just to keep the suspense a little bit because i feel like it's going to be like page 200 until we actually start getting a murdery do you know what i mean i don't know i could be wrong but yeah listen baking going wrong we've got characters who i feel like just a well-off like murder me i never really need to like truly incredibly or i do like flesh out characters but if it doesn't have them and they're just like cute and cosy i can deal with it but they've got a bit of grit to them i don't know i'm really enjoying it guys i don't think it's a five star but i think it's going to be a really solid four and i think it's just i mean who knows it could become a five but i'm really i'm like kind of shocked by how much i'm enjoying it because it hasn't had the best ratings but i love baking started making it had a breakdown what a petite so i'm really enjoying this now in terms of how much i'm gonna finish today because obviously it's like seven on a sunday i never end up reading actually one book a day because sometimes it's a struggle today i've been very busy but i think i might actually finish this tonight i just probably won't talk to you again because it's like half nine now but it does read very very far so i think i'm gonna get close to finishing it tonight if not finishing it but i will probably check in with you first thing in the morning on my thoughts so anyways let's go get in bed and get reading because i can't believe how much i'm enjoying it oh also and i'm breaking the fourth one but i just wanted to say i realized i forgot to say that we've been getting some really interesting backstories for the bakers where everything is not as it seems and it's starting to get like i feel like everyone's gonna have a secret and i really love that in a book when everyone has like a secret about their true motivations or who they are so i'm really enjoying the backstories of the characters okay back to reading okay doki so i finished the golden spoon first thing this morning and this one's a difficult one to write it's tricky because i don't think this is very good but i had a really fun time reading i want to rate it you know with the second half i had a lot of fun reading it but the murder happens objectively way too late there's objectively no mystery really moving this forward the characters the writing there's moments where the writing you know isn't the best there's a lot of description in this book and when it comes to the baking i enjoy that like a lot of description going into the bake you have to have that in a baking book right like going into detail how they're baking this what they're doing and the act of baking but like everything else is also so much description about like anytime someone gets dressed we know exactly how they're dressed and they've done their makeup and they've done their hair and i'm just not interested in that and also there's a few you know plot things to do with characters and traits they have that are just way too convenient okay but i enjoyed it i really think you have to go into this expecting it not to be great and just hope for a fun time because that's what i did and it meant i had a fun time and i didn't have too high expectations and listen it got me in the bake off mood bake off is tonight at eight o'clock i might even watch it live wow crazy you're crazy girl i i've never watched it live i always just watch it and catch up but i'm like i can watch it live wouldn't that be fun because it's got me in the mood it's got me excited for bake off and it's a murdery bake off i don't think it was incredible i think i'm gonna give it 3.5 i think landing on a 3.5 feels right because there were moments where i was reading the writing and i was like that that wasn't the best you know it feels very debut author you know amateur hour oh good that's that's mean but like you know the writing isn't the best but i think this is fun i think if you like cozy mysteries if you like great bitch bake off if you like this isn't really a murder mystery because there's you don't know anything like most of the book and the murder happened so abruptly like example of things being convenient or things not being plotted correctly is that at the beginning we get told that there's this horrible storm happening while the when the murders just happened right and we reach a point in the book where it's like okay now obviously the murders just happened we've got you know it moves the plot forward we're missing an hour we're like we don't know what happened with any of the characters and in that time a torrential storm has happened with no mention of it for the rest of the book like there's no lead up like oh there's going to be a storm tonight or the rain starts like it's normal we're going out for a jog we're like all outside torrential shit pouring rain which yes can happen in the UK but i feel like for a book where like you've really opened us up with this storm you need to kind of lead up to that do you know what i mean you need to yeah lead up to that so 3.5 it's not great but i did really enjoy it now the next book when i was meeting my patrons on saturday we were talking about me doing this video i remembered this book slash this series and i was like guys magical realism counts as a separate genre doesn't it and i thought of the next in the before the coffee gets cold series because this is like one of the only books i own that's shelved as magical realism like on goodreads you very rarely things get shot things that are magical realism or fabulism just get shelved as fantasy whereas this is so we're gonna go with magical realism as genre next and i make progress in a series guys i know we're really proud of me but then after this i have no clue what we're gonna read like zilch never like i don't know what we're gonna read so yeah i'm gonna read half of this it's about 190 pages i think it's in four short stories actually so i'll read the first two and then come and let you know what i'm thinking but the first one these made me cry a lot so i wonder i wonder if i'll cry with this one or whether it won't quite hit the same we shall see halfway through tales from the cafe i've read the first two short stories so these books are made up of short stories and i've read the first two so i'm over halfway guys and i'm really enjoying this it's not a five star right now because i haven't cried i haven't cried yet but basically if you haven't read the first in this series all you need to know is that it's set at this cafe where if you sit in a particular seat and drink the tea you can go back in time right but there's a lot of rules surrounding that it's a very constrained magic system and that's why i would class it as magical realism or fabulism because it's like very it's just this one cafe we can go back in time and the person that you want to speak to has to have been to the cafe so cafe cafe cafe how do you say cafe cafe i think you can tell by my face that i'm extremely tired today they have to have been there so you're going back in time to when they were there and you can't do anything that changes the future and you have to drink all your coffee before the coffee gets cold is the general idea and i'm really enjoying this there's something very quiet and comforting and cozy about these books yes they're sad i remember crying a lot at the first one i haven't cried yet but we've got time i'm finding this one less sad and more bittersweet i would say a sadness but also a joy to the two stories that we've had so far and we're kind of also getting to know the characters who work at the cafe and their back stories and the stuff that they've been through and i'm just really enjoying it i'm really enjoying the reading experience i'm also listening to the audiobook which i don't believe i did for um for the first one and i'm really enjoying the audiobook narrator and as a character there's a young daughter of um of the cafe owner and i'm really i love her character i can't remember how much she was in the first one but she's so cute in the first story she she was insisting on referring to herself as moa like moa will pour this for you now i don't know it's just she's very funny and cute and i just think yeah i'm really enjoying this and i have the next two in the series already on my tbi i own them so i can like read them whenever but there's just something very slow and comforting and you know i remember feeling like the first book as well this is touching already you know core human emotions and experiences that people go through and like stuff that happens a lot to people where you know they'll have a regret be that they didn't say this to their parent or their friend or their their partner or whatever you know and they regret that and it's like almost showing people who are experiencing that what it would be like to like go back and and write that or get some closure on that so i'm really enjoying it it's not a five star but it's feeling like a lovely read for this evening so i'm going to go ahead and finish it i don't know if i'll speak to you tonight depends how tired i am but i will definitely finish this tonight i've only got like 50 minutes left on the audiobook so yeah okay so i just finished tales from the cafe and i'm going to give this four stars i really enjoyed it i don't have a ton more thoughts i didn't quiet this one right and the first one i like bald and you'd think oh that means it's not as good but i appreciated how the topics and the stories in this were a little bit gentler like i was saying in the other clip they weren't you know i think some of the stories in the other one were like meant to make you sob your eyes out whereas this one felt a bit softer a bit gentler a bit more um understanding of like the peaks and troughs we go through as humans but i really enjoyed it i really liked the writing i'm excited to continue on the series they're just nice don't lose that bookmark again they're nice comforting cozy reads but i don't have a ton of thoughts on it other than that i think i'd love to know about the translation behind this because like some of the stuff like when the young girl is referring to herself as moi i wonder is she actually doing that or is there some like term in japanese that she's referring to herself as that like like has the same connotations or like i'm just really intrigued i stuff like that so i'd love to know more about the um the act of translating this but i think like the fantastical world building elements um have been expanded in a really interesting way in this one and i just really enjoyed it now now there are more presents i am going to see a concert tonight i'm going to see busted if you're not english you may not know who busted are but if you know the jenice for the songs year 3000 or what i go to school for they are not jenice for the songs and i loved jenice for this kid they are busted songs that they covered sneaky sneaky it's the truth and it's like busted 20 year anniversary i was like three to five i was obsessed with them like it's like a young child i love busted i love busted and so they're doing their reunion tour and me and my mum are going today and i'm just so excited oh it's also my first concert the o2 in probably like 10 years i might be exaggerating maybe like seven years but i used to love going to the o2 whenever i used to like one direction that would always be the o2 and i really like the o2 as a venue so i'm really excited um but yeah we need to head out in terms of what i'm going to be reading today i actually filmed um october's tbl cluedo yesterday if you haven't seen it yet and i ended up getting through like a random number selection i have to read the ballad of black tom and although that's on my october tbl that is a horror and i looked up the audiobooks only three hours so i think i'm gonna read that there's nothing wrong you should get ahead on my tbl but i think i'm gonna read that even though it's on october's because now is the perfect time to read it there's not really another vlog that i think it would fit in as perfectly and we haven't read any horror yet so i'm gonna pick up the audiobook for that and listen to it on the train there and on the train back because we're about an hour and a half away so we need to go but i'm very excited like oh i can't do it i'm so i'm so looking forward to it oh my gosh i'm so excited i still love busted i listen to their music all the time so we gotta go but i will see you in the morning and hopefully i've read the ballad back tom but i'm gonna go each point later then go to the concert can i like put like miko in guys i'm elm the concert last night was great we'll talk about in a second but on the way to the concert i could feel i was like fuck i'm sick because basically my brother's sick he's bought an illness hey from school i've caught it from him it's just a cold but i feel like the first cold of like autumn winter hits you hard i've just been sleeping all day i'm like exhausted i feel like so drained i'm hot and cold i'm like in and i just feel disgusting i feel awful so there's that but the concert was great busted were great i but like because i knew i was ill they had hansen as a support act they're like three support acts because they didn't actually they weren't on stage that long because like they're getting old oh my god tea central over here but during the support acts usually i would like get and pumped up but i was like mom i'm just not gonna move i'm just gonna sit here and just like reserve my energy for when fasted come out but it was really fun it was funny actually because the median age of women there the audience was like mostly 99% women and they're all like the mean the median demographic was like women 10 years older than me because i was three it was three when fasted come out so like the mean age of like my mom was like 10 years older than the median age of everyone around us and i was 10 years younger we were both like not in not in the not in the crowd but um anyways the concert was great and i read a little bit the audiobook on the way there and i finished it off this morning the ballad of black tom by victor laval i'm not capable of much thought right now so i'm gonna do my best so this is a retelling of a h.p lovecraft story and it's about i don't want to spoil i think it's a very short book i think it's you should almost know nothing going into it but i'm sure so we're following a guy from Harlem and like i want to say the 1920s it's a horror it's a little bit fantastical it's unpacking racism and police brutality and so many things through a historical lens but showing how much that still exists today and that's what i really want to say going into it i think the strongest aspect of this book is its historical elements right how it evokes new york at this time i think it feels i don't feel like there's a ton of description but it feels very vivid even just the way the characters interact with their environment and the way that they perceive things i feel like feels very new york in the 1920s it's like it's a setting i really like i mean i've been thinking a lot about how this i didn't love the whole of the series of the diviners by libra bray um particularly the second half of the series i did not enjoy but i think that book is really good at a setting and an atmosphere and a moment and evoking an image and i don't know i really enjoyed this aspect of the book but i would say the second half something happens at the midpoint where the perspective then kind of shifts and a big event happens and it switches more into the horror side of stuff and i think just because i'm ill i didn't properly take that in like i i'm kind of like i know 75 percent of what happened after that i didn't quite take everything in so i don't really know how to rate it i think i'm going to give it a 3.5 i preferred the second the first half sorry the second half i didn't like the perspective that then we were then kind of following um but i think what it was saying was very well done and i would definitely i'm interested lone women lone women lone women is the 2023 release from victor laval and i'm interested in that one so i'd give him another go i just think my reading of this was hampered a little bit by being sick because i've just slept all day guys it's actually a mess i just the cats have just been lying on top of me and i've been in this bed of sleep all day so i think what i'm capable of right now is pretty pictures so the rest of today so i've got to read today's book and i have got someone supporting me in what i'm about to do okay when i went on saturday to see my patrons i bought from forbidden planet the girl from the sea by molly nox os os attack is an effort s os attack i think and one of my patrons who was there with me sammy bought this as well and she read it on the way home on the train home and was like oh my god i loved it almost cried and then when i was talking about i do like a post of the videos coming that week every week on my patreon and sammy commented let me tell you right now if you still need a romance i would definitely say the graphic novel was romance with a hint of fantasy like you could definitely count it for romance so Samantha this is on you the rules don't apply i'm gonna count this as my romance pick on goodreads also it's shelved as like genre-wise it's shelved as lgbt then fantasy then romance so i would say it's a sapphic romance with a hint of fantasy because i think we've got a girl from the sea obviously but i think it's prevailing atmosphere is romance so we're gonna count this as romance i hope that's okay and i'm just gonna read this tonight i'll film some clips of it probably in the morning of like some of the graphics of it but i'm just gonna go sit in a dark room and read this and look at pretty pictures and that's all i can do right now guys i'm not capable of reading words so i'll see you in the morning hopefully i'll feel a bit better and i will see you with my thoughts on this but i'm very excited i'm excited to read something so quickly after buying it because i very rarely do that especially something i've bought on a whim so i'm really excited to buy it when it's still fresh also i was earlier before i fell asleep i was intending on reading a thriller and this morning the chateau by jack cungold is arrived britney one of my patrons sent me this and it's just so kind and it really brightened my morning because it was a rough morning so i was gonna read the whole of this today as a thriller because i was like i just want to read it the day it arrives isn't that fun but i'm not capable of words so this evening we're gonna read the girl from the sea i will see you in the morning we will have one last book to read am i gonna read a full on novel probably not let's be honest good morning i still feel like shit i slept terribly i was awake so many times in the night you know when like it felt sorry i've got like a weird light on my chin don't i roar is here as well as you've seen oh my god i'm obsessed with that anyways um i was awake so much that it felt like almost hallucinatory where i think i've just got to accept the chin light um where i was like in and out of sleep i think i've had a temperature on and off a little bit the past couple days is this better i don't know light is everywhere it's a mess but i did yesterday read the girl who felt no the girl from the sea i would definitely agree that this is a romance with fantasy rather than a fantasy with romance so i feel good about choosing it as a romance basically we need to know is you've got a girl who can't wait to leave the island she knows that she's queer but doesn't want to like let everyone on the island she wants to wait till she can leave and then live her new life but then there's this mysterious girl who she starts to put in love with it's basically what you need to know i enjoyed this i thought the illustrations were beautiful i thought what it was saying you know it's sapphic i thought what it's saying about being comfortable being yourself particularly in something like a small town was really beautiful but i don't know if i felt much this is something i've been pondering all night because it's beautifully illustrated i like the story but is that enough for a graphic novel i think graphic novels are difficult to rate or they're easy to rate high right they're easy to have an inflated rating because if you like the illustrations like you like the illustration style you think it's a cute story what do i rate this i think this is nice i think it's lovely but like i didn't feel a ton i think it's a bit forgettable and i think the romance felt a pretty insta-lovy so i don't know what to rate it because of that i think i'm gonna settle like a 3.5 i think it's nice i would recommend it but i was expecting to like cry or like feel something and i didn't really feel anything you know towards the end like it's saying stuff about family and standing up for yourself and any other i think it's all lovely but also sorry it's painful talking right now i need to go take a picture so i'm gonna disappear in a second it was just nice it wasn't up there for me with heart stopper with t-jack and sci-fi with the sheets series those are my favorite graphic novels and i just feel like this didn't quite compare in terms of like really making me emotional so in terms of genres we have read fantasy sci-fi mystery magical realism horror and romance and i feel like the number one one that is missing we have had you know the fantasy had historical elements but i want to read a good thriller right i want to read a thriller i decided i slept i told you guys i slept so badly i was awake from like four till six and in that time i decided okay i'm not gonna edit this vlog i'm gonna push this back a week so that it was supposed to go up this sunday or go up next sunday when you're eventually seeing this so i don't have to edit today i was gonna have to edit this whole vlog today and i was like megan you don't need that like i'm not up to it i'm probably have to have nap at some point i've got reading sprints of my patrons this afternoon so i've got a lot of stuff off so i was like that's the one thing i have in control in my control to move so i'm going i never you know i'm usually quite strict to myself and we'll just work through but also i haven't had a weekend off in weeks and i feel guilty about that with all of my family and tom you know works so hard throughout the week and i want to do fun stuff at the weekend and i'm like sorry i'm working so i'm trying to get better at having the weekends kind of off because that's definitely been getting in the way of spending time with those i want to spend time with the past couple weekends so that means we can read a whole book day and i'm gonna pick up the chateau which was very just kind of gifted me by britney i just want to read it straight away again i feel like i really did enjoy reading this as soon as it came off my tbr now i am going to this i really wanted to read this i think the synopsis sounds so interesting i know we've got a group of friends there's a murder this chateau but i did just go look on goodreads and i have the four friends on goodreads i have who have left ratings not just no who have left reviews sorry not just ratings we've got a two star one star one star and a three star so i'm a bit nervous but i've wanted to read this the whole year and i feel like sometimes with those kind of thrillers that maybe get a bit ridiculous people might not like it or whatever i do end up enjoying it so we're gonna read this whole thing today that's the plan for today we're gonna cuddle rora and i will check in with you once i'm halfway through this on what my thoughts are okie dokie so i'm halfway through the chateau by jecklyn goldis what you need to know about this is that i think i've kind of already told the synopsis got a group of friends who go to one of their grandma's house in france and the grandma gets get killed you know that from the beginning you know that like right at the start and then we travel back in time and go through time and then at the halfway mark the murder has really just occurred and i'm enjoying this i'm enjoying this i've gone into this with quite low expectations because i know it's been getting mixed reviews right it's been a bit of a popularizing thriller i don't think it's not five star for me at the moment but i'm i'm not having a bad time maybe it's because i'm not feeling very well and i'm like and i'm like dying no and i'm like um just wanting something fun because i think it's kind of fun like the south of france and it's drama and it's glamour and like people not telling each other the secrets and the french market and i think it's got a really it's very readable and i think it's got a really good mix of of things that are being hinted at being teased being like oh you know not very subtly but they're being teased that it's making me want to read on there's things with each of these characters that i'm intrigued about and like wondering how it could go further and there was stuff to do with the grandma leading up to her death that like raise a lot of questions and i'm just very excited to see how it all comes together i don't think it's the greatest work in literature but like i thought it doesn't have to be that for me i don't really you know i'm not a picky gal the characters are interesting because at one moment i think they're written really well and then another moment i think they have no character depth and are like just stereotypes and are not acting as if real people do how people would i don't know i'm going back and forth between that like there was this scene that just happened where one of the characters admitted something basically unprompted that is like absolutely ridiculous it's like it's so no one would ever in those circumstances fess up that piece of information i was like oh what are you even though i didn't agree with what she did if you're in the book maybe you know what i'm talking about i will i'm definitely not on that girly side i'm anti her at the moment well in general but her admitting this piece of information which is a twist it was just so that twist could happen and that could propel the story on versus it actually being revealed in an imaginative way you know so i do not like it when thoroughness do that the moment i'd say it's sitting at 3.54 depending on how this second half goes but it's fun it's a quick read i'm you know i'm having a good time and it's mixed perspective i'm enjoying the mixed perspective although i would also say so we're like going between the perspectives of the girls and also of the of the grandmother when she was alive and i would say apart from the grandma there was but for the four girls there wasn't a vast difference in the narrative voice right they're all written tonally the same and i think if you're going to do mixed perspective you can't do that right like you've got to they've got to have a different voice they've got to have a different cadence they've got to have a different vocabulary they've got to have a different way of saying things and i don't really feel like a lot of the women i'm like one of them girls they're women they're in their i don't think a lot of the women do have that so mixed opinions but i'm going to finish it and i will probably see you tomorrow morning once i hopefully finish it i'm gonna finish it tonight but i doubt i probably will feel rough tonight so i doubt i'm gonna check in with each other so see you in the morning my final thoughts and the end of this video have been going to seven bucks in seven days why do i do this to myself okay hey so it is the next evening i have been out all day so i haven't had a chance to film but i promise i finished the chateau last night and okay i'm gonna give this a very very very very very very tentative four i really enjoyed it but i had to make myself read it and i don't know if that stood out if that's to do with the book or if that's to do the fact that i've read seven bucks in seven days albeit short ones consuming that amount of stories in a short space of time does kind of make my brain go like whoa you know what i mean so i'm giving it a four i know this has been rated low but for a debut it's kind of ridiculous and fun but i did have to make myself read it i could have easily spent like three weeks reading this like i had no inclination to pick it up i had to make myself pick up every time but when i read it i enjoyed it so where do we go from here i think some of the twists are really good i really like the end twist i liked how you figure out who's done everything just before the book reveals it and you kind of go like you know what i mean like you know it kind of does that good thing in mystery thrillers where like it you just figure out just before so you feel clever but like really you were supposed to figure out just before it's been revealed you know but i liked the twist i liked it there was a little bit of like everything being revealed through letters at the end which isn't my favorite but like because of how everything played out it's kind of the only way that it could have been done i enjoyed it i think for a debut the writing's great i do think sometimes it gets bogged down in certain scenes the pacing isn't the best but i think for a debut through that it's not bad i don't really why is everyone hated this i don't know and i love women i liked the setting like the french setting a little bit of drama no no i had a bit of sophisticated drama to it so i enjoyed this i feel like my brain i can't review books here anymore like this this week is i always feel like this the end of the week and let it be nine i've got another one coming up and not too long i've got another one of these videos for the end of the year but it's like a combination of this kind of video and another kind of video i do that's what i'll say but um i enjoyed it i enjoyed it i don't know what else she's supposed to say i'm done with this vlog okay guys it's probably 10 years long um but thank you for watching this video i hope you enjoyed it let me know what you thought of any of the seven books that i wrote in this vlog and um yeah if you've gone to the end make sure you check out my grease trip that's coming up next year see if you want to come with i am so excited always want to go grease and this itinerary and the trip just sounds incredible so check it out if you haven't already whilst watching this video and if you got to the end of the video what should we come in just a heart give me a heart i need to love my brain is done for reading this funny books i'm not built for it um i will see you guys very soon in another video bye