 that's bad that's really really bad it's just fun it's just fun fun fun to read we're getting down a few another one bites the dust don't know what she's saying i didn't know she's saying i thought she wrapped whatever i don't know if i'm feeling it later in the week you need your hair to be at a certain point for a certain thing but your current hair washing schedule is not on the right trajectory and it's just it's a mess it's a mess so besties if you are here regularly you'll know i am trying to finish as many series as i can this year i'm trying to get down to only 26 ongoing series by the end of the year which still sounds like a lot but i think that's like what is realistic i just want to get that number down quickly because i've started a few series this year which means i need to finish more you in danger girl and i want to like get the number down in one fell swoop so i decided the perfect way to do that is to finish a couple of the geologies that are on my series this you guys have pointed out to me a couple times i have quite a few geologies where i've read the first book and i'm like let's just bish bash bosh bish bash bosh read one book each those geologies and then the geology is finished i mean come on now the best thing about winning it's when you win so yeah this will get our number down by three one fell swoop i love that for me i love me so much so what we're going to be reading first we have got the monics by kas Morgan and danielle page this is the sequel to the ravens it's like a sorority of witches who like have each other's back and like bestie i'll do anything for you i really enjoyed the first one in this series so much more than i kind of could have anticipated it just did ya so well right and it's set at college i appreciate having older characters in ya i think that's something we need to do more of i mean i love college is like a an interesting time i love ya set at college i love adult books set at college because i think you can kind of straddle that line and you can easily kind of sanitize not sanitize college but like you know right from it from a wide perspective or you can like ham up the murder sex drugs like whatever you want then we got a little novella because my reading has not been going the quickest let's be fucking honest i'm ashamed oh i wasn't been going very quick i've been struggling so i thought throwing this in the mix would be good we've got drown country by emily tesh i love this cover so much i think it's such an interesting cover it's so weird these novellas are about these beings these men who live in this forest it's very difficult to to pitch this especially because my memory of the first book i'm gonna be honest not quite there i don't think i'll manage to find a recap of the first one because it is more niche um my memory of the first one isn't great but i'm hoping i'll still be able to enjoy this it's got a very like fairy tale dreamy style of writing in these and then i feel like i'll do you i'm gonna be happy to see the last one which is muse of nightmares by lanie taylor i remember when i finished change the dreamer i said i had to read this straight away i evidently have not done that it's been over a year two years maybe yeah he's terrible you're on it he's really terrible that's bad that's really really bad but we are gonna finish this we're following leslie strange who um he loves i can't remember the plot then he's obsessed with a mythical lost city of weep but then he gets to go there there's also some stuff to do with like gods and stuff but i won't say anything more about that and listen lanie taylor has the most beautiful lyrical writing so i'm very excited to get to this i think i will find a recap for strange dreamer and i think i'm gonna reread the last maybe 50 pages of strange dreamer because that wrecked me i'm not gonna reread the whole book but i'm gonna read the last 50 pages again because i want myself to then start this straight away in the mindset of like pure devastation the strange dreamer put me in so that's the plan we're gonna read them in that order i think and listen i'm just gonna be so happy i will tell you actually at the end of this what how many series i'm currently reading what number we've got like half the year to get down to 26 so let's just get reading i am just under halfway through the monics i'm on page 195 and i'm enjoying it the thing is right so in this sequel obviously the first one we're at the sorority of witches and we're still very much in that setting obviously i'm not going to spoil anything not having in the first one but we're still in this witchy sorority and they're trying to you know help the sorority survive and help each other and okay it kind of feels like this series should be longer because it doesn't feel like much has happened like i've read half of the final book the hair the hair today i went to the hairdresser to say for consultation and i was looking myself in the mirror and i was like dear god the fucking hair is fresh old yeah i've read half of the the second you know the last book and it doesn't feel like we're particularly close to anything important happening in this book there's kind of like some unknown malevolent thing to do with the magic that we don't really understand it's affecting how they do their magic we've got a lot of different romances a lot of different like we've got a love triangle there's a lot of different stuff going on but i'm enjoying it but it kind of feels like a cosy read do you know what i mean it's like it's a very good YA i think i'm not reading it thinking this is like dumbed down like i think a lot of different ages of YA even if you're you know an adult and read YA i think it's a 12 year olds could all enjoy this and really take something away from it that's a testament to the authors writing considering they you know i feel like all those different audiences can really enjoy it i also do enjoy reading a YA set at a college i think you know high school is one thing but i feel like some people think that college because you're 18 that should always be adult but you still feel like a child like scarlet i think must be like 21 in this book but it's still written through the lens of YA and i think it works really well and i would love to see more YA set at college because people go through different stages some people become very much adults at uni and i feel like some people kind of stay the same person they were when they were 18 so i think you need both right because we love dark academia murder drugs betrayal kind of genre at college but i feel like there's also a lot of space for this um i really love the characters i really love their relationships it's a kind of book that i feel like i can't read critically often i'm kind of reading with a half pure enjoyment view and half like left brain right brain half critical and thinking what i'm gonna say to you guys and i feel like i can't really read this critically it's just like a fun comfort read that i don't really have to think too much about and that i'm just really enjoying so i'm just having a lot of fun reading it and i i really like the setting i love this college setting of these girls there's a lot of girls i'm not gonna lie i don't always know know who all they are like who is she who is she where did you find her we say bailey reagan like i don't know who any of these girls are i'm gonna be very honest with you i don't know the backstory but they're just there and it's like enough i'm not like going oh i don't remember who you are so that doesn't make sense like i just know they're another girl you there and that's fun we're part of the group we're part of the group it's just fun it's just fun fun fun to read and i think it's a very solid YA geology that like i said a lot of people couldn't read so i'm gonna go ahead and finish it maybe tonight i have the audiobook so um i'm gonna try and finish it tonight if i can and i'll probably check in with you in the morning on what my thoughts are than it are founding headaches if like i'm not coherent don't ever go at me but i finished the monics i really enjoyed it i'm gonna give it four stars i was saying i did reading sprints yesterday with aaron which was so much fun i was thinking because i do weekly reading sprints every single week on my patreon i don't do them publicly anymore and i actually miss it it was a lot of fun so i think maybe i'll try and do more going forward i don't think this is kind of book you're ever gonna give five stars right like it's nothing spectacular i don't think it's anything that hasn't been done before but i think it just does what it's saying it's gonna do really well you know it definitely reminds me of like buffy and like 90s rom-coms kind of 90s rom-coms with the romance elements of it and buffy with like the spookiness and the sleuthing and like oh my god we're teenage like i don't know like witches and stuff like i think that's a really fun element and as someone who loves buffy the vampire slayer it's really fun to kind of read stuff that feels like references to it throughout i will also say i really appreciate morally gray characters i feel like this has quite a few like our main characters scarlet and vivi perhaps not their morally gray characters but they do morally gray things or things that as a reader you're like i am very uncomfortable with the energy that we've created in the studio today but you can a hundred percent understand why they're choosing to do that because they're doing one of this oh oh they're doing one of this to like protect each other and their sisterhood and like the family and the sorority so you can understand why they're making those choices but they're not perfect right sometimes i feel like in YA the author wants you to love the characters so so much that they make them like perfect like never make a mistake if anything goes wrong in the story it's not their fault and i've just fed up with that shit you know i enjoy seeing them and really seeing their thought processes behind making these iffy decisions yeah on the whole i feel like it does a lot of classic YA tropes and YA plot feats but just does it well you know what i mean it doesn't feel like when i'm reading it i'm like yeah i have read all this before like i have encountered this stuff before but it feels expertly plotted and beat out like when writers they usually talk about plot beats and i wonder if it's because it is co-written they had to really like plan it out and get each other on the same page so when they wrote separate stuff maybe and came together it all made sense so it feels like it's been like plotted out within an inch of its life but it's all just perfectly linking together so a really nice astrology a geology that i didn't expect to enjoy as much as i did so we're after a success maybe it's another series finished which is such a success also on the live yesterday i did knock off a few series i decided i wasn't gonna finish the Nancy Drew mysteries because they're just very difficult to get my hands on other than physically and i did want to read them orderly and it's just like impossible to do that now there was another series what was the other series i knocked off can't remember though it was another series i got rid of off my series spreadsheet so we're getting down a few another one by the dust don't know what she's saying i didn't know she's saying i thought she wrapped whatever i'm gonna start drowned country by emily tesh one of my favorite covers ever i just love it and i'm just really excited i'm gonna go sit in the garden for a bit read this live my best life and i'll probably just check in with you when i'm finished this is a fantasy series following these two men who are kind of like tied to the woods that's all i'll say because i don't want to spoil anything and yeah i'm very excited it's gonna be like fantastical dreamy fairy tale etc so i'm very excited to dive in right if you didn't watch my last video that just came out welcome to the new camera i'm very pleased with that i finished drown country by emily tesh and i have some thoughts i initially when i was reading this i was like wow i have fucked up here i have well and truly fucked up here oh no this has now gone downhill because i have left it too long between reading this and reading if i can get it out it's literally right here silver in the wood right i read this i think towards the end of 2020 and i was like i'm so confused i don't understand a single thing that's going on like but turns out i think a lot of time passes between these two books and the first half of this we're kind of just like things are being said things events are being alluded to and i was like i have just truly forgotten everything but turns out in the second half of this book we then learn what happened in the time the past which is just a crazy way to write a book for me like listen i'm when i'm reading a sequel i'm coming in confused usually sequels there's an airplane outside apologize if you can hear it usually in sequels there's a little bit at the start of like helping to reacquaint you with where you are it doesn't have to be like a full-on recap but usually the author does it in a very clever way where they're kind of just getting you back into the mood of where you are what's going on this did the opposite as a bitch let me confuse you uh let me have let me make you have no idea what's going on yeah that totally seems correct yeah okay yeah great great like what so that annoys me about this book by the way i haven't said what i'm giving it i'm giving it three stars yeah that feels right also this is written from a different perspective than this one this first book because of the perspective it's written from is a very like whimsical and melancholic and this is very like witty and clever and jokey still with that beautiful writing but it's a different point of view and i just don't know if i like that i kind of wanted to stay in the same perspective it still is beautiful writing there are a few moments that i enjoyed about it but it took me a fucking week to read i've been working on this for five weeks it took me a fucking week to read and it's a hundred pages i just didn't care to pick it up do you know what i mean like i'm struggling at the moment with wanting to read we need to do something i'm going on holiday in two weeks there's no point like overhauling my life before then it's like when people are like oh christmas is in two weeks so i'm not going to die yet that's how i feel i'm not overhauling my reading yet we're just trying to get through it but i've been struggling to like find the motivation to read i think it's because i feel a bit shit about my channel i feel a bit shit about everything i've just been in a funk this whole year and myself and i've been struggling to break out of it this hasn't been a great year for me and so yeah but yeah i just didn't entice me it was fine it was enjoyable to read there wasn't you know once i actually made myself read but even then i had to listen to the audiobook originally i was like i'm just gonna read it physically because that's how i read and enjoyed this but in the end i had to get the audiobook well it was on the script but i had to listen to the audiobook because otherwise i was not focusing and even then i would read for 10 minutes and then it would lose my focus but uh yeah listen at least we finished the geology at least another series finished that in itself is a success so yeah anyway we're gonna get into the last geology of this video which means reading news of nightmares which is the sequel to stranger dreamer and i would like it saturday i would like to probably try and read this over the weekend and not uh read it for much longer because i've got a lot of other reading to do over the next couple days so yeah okay so a hundred pages into news of nightmares i don't know if i'm feeling it i'm not gonna cry maybe i'll cry this is the issue right i do worry that i left it too long between reading the first one and reading this one but i'm just not feeling it i don't feel like the writing is as wonderful as i remember it being in the first book and the first book does a lot of like working up to this romance right setting up this romance and i'm not feeling the right way so in this book it's like come to fruition and i just don't i feel uncomfortable with the scenes of them together i'm like oh no like i feel like they're strangers like i don't feel this romantic connection that is supposed to be there and so i just don't like i feel like i'm reading a romance book that i'm like uncomfortable with you know what i mean like i'm not buying it so it's a problem it's a problem it's a big problem and i feel like we haven't not much has happened in the first hundred pages i don't feel like i mean the first book ends on such an amazing cliffhanger i don't feel like that has really been taken advantage of in the way that i would like i mean i don't know what i wanted to happen but that ain't my job i've read the first hundred pages and i'm like well we've kind of been a bit stagnant not much has happened so at the moment it's like a three star i'm not really feeling it it reminds me of how i felt about daughter of smoke and bone which i gave a three star versus how i feel about shame to dreamer which i really like and that that is i mean the problem with lanie taylor for me has always been that i love her writing in terms of just like pros and the style of writing probably one of my favorite writers out there but i always have a problem even in strange dreamer with the plot and the characters and the character development and the problem with this one is i'm not feeling the writing either i'm not really enjoying it which makes me really sad i don't know if the problem is i am listening to the audiobook just because at the moment me and reading i don't know it's just been difficult for me to be in the mood to read at the moment i've still fallen a thunk i have not been myself this whole year and it's getting to the point now when i'm fed up i speak to my patrons a lot about this but um noisy car that's very rude isn't it this whole year i've kind of felt like how do i put this just not myself yeah a bit of a rat like creatively reading enough like in my life i've just felt like in a bit of a rat and um i don't feel out of that yet and so i need the audiobook to actually get reading done but i don't know if that's perhaps making me not like the writing as much anyways i'm gonna go read probably like another 150-ish pages i don't know how long is it no maybe another 200 pages and then i'll check in with you again it's father's day today in the UK so we're gonna go for a walk now so i'll film some b-roll of that yeah everyone pray for me that i end up liking this because at the moment it's not going the best excuse my appearance you know in those days or when later in the week you need your hair to be at a certain point for a certain thing but your current hair washing schedule is not on the right trajectory and it's just it's a mess it's a mess so the hair i mean she's puffy i just made it worse but she's puffy but also i mean it's just not good is it it's just like i mean how do we i mean the head is big so like we have to have it either i want to know what does it feel like to be so goddamn ugly anyways do you think i'm gonna zoom you in a bit when you're a bit closer okay i am now 300 pages into music nightmares and i am sorry to say that my opinions have not changed drastically i was talking actually to um one of my patrons Anna who i i said in discord along patreon well our patreon discord i said like i'm just not feeling it this time and i don't know what's wrong with me like i don't know what i'm doing wrong and and i was like i'm the same it just doesn't have the same magical feeling that i think the first one does i just don't i don't know i'm getting into a little bit more um certain events i mean the plot has started now i feel like for the first you know 300 pages the plot has barely occurred like nothing's happened really i feel like we're finally getting somewhere and the events of the actual book are gonna happen in this last 200 pages so at least i'm thankful for that but i was trying to pinpoint it i was trying to i was trying to pinpoint what my problem is and i think the problem is in the first book laslo i would say is our primary character he's really our focus i look a bit gray today i need to start taking my eye on tablets again no that's fitting actually kind of oh i'm knocking you it's a mess it's a mess when the hair is a mess everything's a mess here's the thing if you ask me let's just pin let's drop a drop a point let's drop a point in the whole book discussion for a sec if you asked me to go outside in public looking like this today or like to an event i'd be like no it's crazy it's crazy i think this is crazy never but putting myself on the internet for thousands of people to view that's fine but it doesn't feel like that i think the problem is in the first book laslo is our primary character and then this one i'd say he's like the second main character but just the kind of lens through which he viewed the world i think is what made me like the first book and we're kind of not viewing everything through his perspective you know everything's like is it third person i know i i think i missed school when we discussed first person second person third person and i know it's right but i always doubt myself yeah i think that is perhaps the issue and the plot i mean the plot is one of my least favorite plots i've had in lany tale and i had that problem in door smoke and bone she likes to like connect characters and stories but i don't know if he always fully gets it like she likes to have maybe like two separate stories going on and connect them but i don't feel like it really ever works when she does that they kind of feel like two separate stories that are tenuously linked every time i've read her doing that i'm just not enjoying it as much i wanted to and i fucking go on the good reads and five stars five stars five stars five stars five stars five stars five stars five stars five stars five stars five stars five stars from like everyone i'm friends is on there so like what am i supposed to do what am i supposed to do with that information like just cry to myself yeah like i i'm sad about it because i want to love what everyone else is loving and i don't want to be an outlaw and i'm like isn't something wrong with me have i just left it too long between reading them i don't know but i'm not feeling it in the same way anymore so i finished me the nightmares and let me just take my bookmark out keep you in suspense i finished me tonight mares i'm sorry to say my opinion of it has not really changed i'm giving it a three star no you've made the wrong decision i'm really disappointed i'm really really sad about this one i mean listen at least it's another series ticked off at least it's a book i've had for a few years now read they're the positive we're gonna take from this i still by the end loved the writing of this book but i have multiple problems a few of which i've told you already i feel like they told us this thing quite often the end reveal right a villain or a big thing at the end will happen and then she'll go back and give you 50 pages from years and years and years in the past leading up to that moment explaining to you why that has happened and i just don't like that i don't i don't like that development like i just feel like give me that before let me have the tension leading up to it this big event happens where you're kind of like somewhat confused or you feel like the foundations haven't been laid enough and then she goes back afterwards and then explains more to you and you're like girl and i guess my only other real big issue with this was that i didn't really feel like many of the characters had any character development in this i would say there's two maybe two and a half characters who i feel like are different people in any way to what they were at the start then a lot of the characters remain stagnant for me in this i just feel like the plot in this was really lacking it does not need to be 500 pages it could easily be 300 there's a lot of time wasting there's a lot of villains not being properly utilized and everything being a bit convenient uh so yeah that's kind of all my thoughts i feel like i've shat on this book enough who already didn't talk about it anymore but i'm sad because i love lanie taylor the idea of lanie taylor i love i love her writing but there's just something about her plots that don't seem to work for me so yes that's me done with this trilogy at least that's me about the end it says the end or is it and i'm like girl i come on yes it is you've shown an incredible lack of respect so anyways at least we finished three series in this vlog that is such a relief off my chest i went and i just kind of on the spreadsheet and as of i guess the midpoint of the year i'm currently in the middle of 33 series so we only need to finish seven more in order to get to my girl of 26 series in the middle of however i probably will start a few series this year so i guess the goal is to finish more than seven but i feel like that's a pretty good position to be in i think i started the year with 43 44 something around that number series that i was in the middle of perhaps even more so i feel like we've been doing pretty well and this video definitely helped like getting three out the way in one go really really helped but yeah 33 they were currently in the middle of get that down to 26 and i'll be so happy and then i'll probably just start loads more series next year and just all the progress will be finished but yeah i hope you enjoyed this video let me know which these geologies you want to read the most or if you have read them which ones you most enjoyed thank you so much for watching as always don't forget to subscribe if you're new here and i will see you very soon in another video bye