 so this is a list i don't want to be correct about it's today we're gonna be doing a very interesting video we're gonna be doing three star prediction not five star predictions three star predictions don't do it don't do it we're gonna be chatting about the books that i want to read obviously i own them now on my tbr but i'm a bit nervous like i don't know if i'm gonna love them there's reasons that make me think they may just be a bit like average i couldn't do one star predictions because i don't own any books i think i'm gonna give one star but like three stars yeah there's some books i'm a little bit nervous about a little bit trapidacious about reading so we're gonna be chatting about the ten of those and then we'll react to this video once i have read all these books which i do not know when that will be probably like ten years in the future but we'll react to it and we'll see how on point i was but before we get into the video i want to say a massive thank you to the sponsor of 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is mysteries so you're like mega and you should love it but karin and mcmanus scares me this isn't her most famous book her most famous book is like one of us is lying two can keep a secret that series but i don't own them i own this i got it i think in a luma crate box like at the end of last year i haven't read it i know this is about like this rich and glamorous family but like four children are suddenly dropped by their mother with a single sentence you know what you did and then like the cousins receive an invitation to go to the old family house i feel like karin and mcmanus scares me as an author because she's one of the most popular like YA mystery authors but i just don't know if i'm gonna vibe with her writing i've heard some people say oh my god Megan you're gonna love it and i've heard some people say so i don't i don't really know what to expect going into it let me know if you've read it i'm gonna read this before i try out like one of us is lying or anything like that and see how i feel but i'm worried it's gonna be a bit simple like a bit more because you know i don't mean that because it's YA i mean i love the good girls guide to murder series but i just feel like this is gonna be more simple so i'm not yeah i'm a bit nervous about this one then we've got one that i'm i'm literally gonna get attacked for and rightly so it's what she deserves like you can attack me for this you can yell at me you can unsubscribe don't unsubscribe but one that i'm very nervous is gonna be a three star is concrete rose by Angie Thomas now i have no reason to expect this i have no reason to think this really because i gave the hate you gave an on the come up both like five stars i think or like four to five stars somewhere in that bracket so i love Angie Thomas's writing right like i love it so like why am i saying this the reason i'm saying this is because i read the first chapter of this for a try a chapter tag that i did like in the summer and i didn't like it that much like i really did not vibe with the first chapter i was like i'm not enjoying it i'm not enjoying it so Nina's to say i didn't pick it to read in that video but it has made me so scared like this before that video was like oh yeah i'm gonna read that book soon and now i'm like no i'm not i just didn't like the first chapter but the first chapter can be like not indicative of the book as a whole so that's just what i've got to tell myself then we've got a book i am going to be reading this month in a well yeah in a week or two and it's the king of crows by libra bray so my experience for the diviner series i love the concept i love a lot of libra bray's writing right i gave spoken about this before the diviners four stars layer of dreams five stars before the day will break she two point five stars and then this is the last one in the series and i've heard it's not good i have not heard many good things about this book like even people who love the series like gave them all five stars did not like this they didn't like it and now i'm gonna read it in like a couple weeks so many of you know set in new york in 1920s were following these characters who kind of have these special abilities but like i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i'm nervous i'm very very nervous i want to love it but am i going to then the next one is because i've read from this author once and i just thought it was okay like i thought that book was okay and that book was much more hyped than this one and it's the night she disappeared by lisa jewel so i picked this up recently it's a brand new release i picked up for a pound in my local charity shop my name's missy and i love shopping with coupons coupons it's not just you know grocery shopping for me it's a way of life i read the family upstairs by lisa jewel and it was like fine i read it actually for the reading rush last year and i enjoyed it like it was a very quick read for its length like it i flew through it but the ending annoyed me and i felt like a lot of it was just kind of like meh like like you know i know this one is about a woman who goes missing in like 2017 and then someone i think kind of like finds the body or something that in 2018 we're kind of following these two different storylines on the back it says a missing woman an abandoned mansion a family hiding a terrible secret so i'm excited to read it because i know it's gonna be like a fast paced quick thriller but i'm not holding out much hope because i didn't love the family upstairs and that was much like much more widely hyped it's one i'm probably gonna read soon because it won't take me long to read it but at the same time i'm not expecting like it to move mountains don't be fucking rude are you kidding me next one oh it's been panned no one really likes it survive the night by riley sega i have read three riley sagas i have read look every you can oh you can see it look every door gave it four stars home before dark gave it 3.5 stars and the last time i lied which i just read 4.5 stars so that's like pretty good that's a pretty good average for an author this no one's liked it no one is like that i believe it's about a girl who gets into this car with this guy he's giving her a lift throughout the night and there's been a serial killer on campus and she starts to think it's him it's him it's about her having to survive the night now it is just only over 300 pages it's quite short but i've heard it's just a bit boring and it doesn't really like do anything and it's just been panned like no one has liked it everyone has given it two stars my patrons are talking about it on our discord and like some of them were saying they actually laughed at the ending it was that bad or like wanted to throw their book against the wall it was that bad like it's laughably bad so yeah let me know if you've read this i just feel like so everyone's hated it but i am excited to read it because i've had pretty good success with everything else i've read from riley sagas i think there's only one other book i haven't read of his final girls i don't think he's got any other book so i think i've almost read all of his stuff which is kind of crazy i haven't done that intentionally next is a bit of an obscure book and it is miss pettigrew lives for a day by winifred whatson so i bought this a long time ago it's been 84 years i've owned it for so long that part of why i'm putting us on this list is to hopefully make myself read it at some point it's not long it is only 220 pages there's illustrations throughout like it's not going to take long to read but i'm just not expecting anything like major from it like i'm not expecting like it to be a new favorite i think it's probably just gonna be like a three star like but not in a bad way just like it's gonna be fine it's a classical book about this woman who has lived like this very uptight life and she lives through a day and lives like this wild day in her life so yeah there's a movie of it i've heard all right things but like i've just owned it for so long that like kind of my want to read it has diminished over time which is kind of natural it's why you should read your books as soon as you buy them and not accrue 170 unread books then we have shine by jessica ying this is a k-pop contemporary book written by like a k-pop star she's a k-pop star she was in girl's generation like back in the day and then this is a contemporary like ya she's written about like the k-pop industry again this just hasn't had like amazing reviews like a contemporary has to be like a YA contemporary has to be out of this world me to give it like a five star like i typically read them i may read this into the audiobook and i'm like okay it's fine like it was enjoyable but it wasn't like amazing and that's just how i think i'm gonna feel about this one it's another one i do want to read because it was sent to me by a publisher and it's been on my tbr for a really long time so i do just want to read it and i'm interested to read a book about the k-pop industry about the kind of this toxic work culture that a lot of the idols and like young kids like trying to get into the industry have to experience but i'm not expecting like it to be a new favourite essentially okay then we have a book that i'm actually very excited to read and i'm okay with it being probably like a three star and that is hashtag no escape by gretchen mcneill so i just read hashtag murder trending with my patrons for our patreon book club and there was very mixed reviews very mixed opinions the live show for it was so much fun because everyone was just dragging the book to fill i gave it i think a 3.5 i really enjoyed some aspects of it the ending let it down for me but like the book is ridiculous like it's trashy it wasn't very well written it's stupid like some stupid plot twist some bad writing like the descriptions oh we don't need to get into it we dragged it to fill for the descriptions of clothing like you know we do not need to hear about the next tool dress this girl is wearing i don't give a clap if you care clap if you clap if you care i have a lot of fun doing the book club with them for that book but i don't like expect anything major from this book having written this author before the writing wasn't amazing but it's a fun trashy read like you can enjoy a three star because it's trashy and fun but objectively no like it's not very good and that's kind of how i feel about this series i feel like i'm gonna enjoy the experience of reading them but then afterwards i'm gonna be like that was stupid like that was ridiculous so i am excited to read this one this is kind of like a spin-off this one's about like escape rooms like locked escape rooms and puzzles and like death and shit so yeah i'm excited to like read more of this trashy horror but it's not gonna be highly rated i don't think the next one is gonna upset some people again it's gonna upset some people and you know what i'm okay with that the cruel prince by holly black can you believe i even own this book because i can't what i bought this for a video right at the start of my youtube channel like two years ago probably um i don't think i even bought it i think was i gifted it or did i buy it i can't remember i just don't think it's for me it's just not for me it's just not gonna be for me it's not for main part you can also include a court of thorns and roses in this i feel the same about them they were for the same video i can't remember what they were for like i generally can't remember listen i just i draw a line at the tail i draw a line at the tail i can't take it i don't think i can read about it i draw a line at his tail like no no no no so yeah i just don't know if this like kind of like popular ya fantasy is gonna be for me i own it so i do want to read it at some point but i also don't it's gonna be like a three star i already know it i feel like i'm not gonna love it it's gonna be like a three star and that's okay but it's gonna be a three star and i'm gonna read it one day and i'm gonna read the series and i'm gonna do it but that that moment isn't now and then finally we have star daughter by Sheta Saka this is a gorgeous edition it's a very special book for me this was the first fairy lute book i ever received i ever when i started working with them this was my first box and so it feels very special to me and i love the gold sprayed edges i just remember my like the moment i unboxed this was such a joyous moment for me so i feel like a lot of love towards this book but it is not highly rated i think if i were to do reading the lowest rated books on my tbr video which i do want to do one day i hope you'll do that soon because i want to do highest rated again but i feel like i should do lowest rated before i do that i feel like this would be on there so maybe i'll do that video and read this i don't know but it hasn't been highly rated it's about this girl who like is descendant from the stars and she has to go into this like competition to defend her family or something and it's just not had great reviews it just hasn't done great so that is why it's on this list but i am excited to read it because it feels like such a special book for me but i feel like i'm not going to be the outlier in terms of views for this book so there we have it those are my 10 three star predictions let me know what you think of any of these books which ones you think i'm going to be correct on which ones you think i'm not going to be correct on i really enjoyed this video it's a bit different than the five star predictions videos but i love making predictions and i love reacting to them they're like some of my favorite things to do i'm kind of obsessed with it like i'm always thinking how can i react to something because it just brings me so much joy and pain at the same time if you've gotten to this video comment a star emoji thank you again also to all my patrons i just want to give you guys a little shout out in this video because i appreciate everything you guys do and all your support and our little community so so much so the link is always down below if you want to come join us and yeah i will see you very very soon in another video bye