 And welcome back to my channel! Today we're starting a new vlog series which is ironic because it's about finishing book series. So the name for this series, total credit to one of my patrons, Taylor, because I did not come up with it, but it's called Series Wife Out and every month we are gonna be finishing off some series. A lot of you will know one of my biggest reading goals this year is to get down to only 26 ongoing series because I think I have about 16 that I won't be able to finish so that plus 10 others is what I'm going for. So Series Wife Out is basically gonna be making me do that. So every month we are gonna be finishing a series. So I'll give you a little review of what I thought the first book and then we'll read the other books in the series. But this first episode is gonna be a little bit different. Last year I uploaded a video talking about every series I was in the middle of and in the description was a poll for you guys to vote on what series you wanted me to make progress in and so we're gonna be reading the series that you guys chose for me to read. So excited! Now you were very kind because you chose some of the only series where I only had the last book left to read. So we're gonna be finishing three series. Not gonna be making progress, we'll be finishing three series in this video which is a great start. We're starting year on 41 so we've got to finish 15. 15 in total and this will get us three of the way there. So I'm super happy you guys are in super kind and I was actually really surprised to see what you voted for. So let's check about how many votes we got. So almost 600 of you filled out the poll which is kind of crazy and I said that you could pick up to three books each so that's why the numbers are gonna be quite big for how many of you voted for each of these. But the first, this first one, 44% of you voted for. It had 254 votes so most of you wanted me to read this and hear what I thought about it as good as dead by Holly Jackson. This is a place for legends, okay? So I am so excited to read this. This has been one of my favorite series ever. It is by far my favorite YA mystery series. I think it's absolutely incredible. We're following Pip who solves cases in her local town and in this one I believe she has a stalker who is sending her letters saying who will look for you when you're the one who disappears. So she is the case that she is trying to solve in this one and I'm just so excited to see you know where this series ends up, where Pip ends up as a character and to read a mystery because I love a good mystery. So that's the first one that you voted for. Then coming in at number two with 214 votes was Act Your Age Eve Brown which I was kind of not anticipating seeing because I don't read a ton of romance so I didn't think that would be something you voted for but I suppose it is a super popular series. So in this we're following the Brown sisters and each of the books and them having a romance and in this we're following Eve who's the baby of the family. I don't really know much about the plot but I've really enjoyed the first two. You know Talia Hibbit is kind of one of the only romance authors I've really enjoyed reading from so I'm so excited. I really wasn't expecting to pick this. I thought you'd pick mainly fantasy so I thought this was a really fun you know one to put in the mix. And then finally you guys um the final one 31% of you voted for with 180 votes. The King of Crows. Please do not. This is an intense request from my heart. I am not meaning to shame you. This is the King of Crows. This is the King of Crows by Libba Bray. So this is the final in the Diviners series where we're following these like a scooby gang of friends who are diviners who have these special powers in 1920s New York and there's there's been this character called the King of Crows who's been in it from the first book like subtly. I'm building up to him being the big villain in this last book and I loved the first two in the series but the third one I didn't love so I'm fucking nervous. I'm so nervous to read this one because yeah not a lot of people have loved this one. It hasn't been super loved but I'm excited to be back with like our cast of characters in the 1920s atmosphere again so yeah but I've put off reading this like a bajillion times like many of you will know I've been supposed to read it like 20 times and haven't read it. So those are the three books that we're gonna be reading in this vlog and I'm super excited to see how they're all gonna turn out. I'm gonna start with as good as dead because I can't contain myself and I need to see where this book goes so I'm gonna start with this one and I'll check in with you in a bit. What the fuck? What the fuck? I'm sorry I'm about to sue Holly Jackson for fucking emotional... oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god so I was waiting until halfway through this book to talk to you because the first 100 pages were very slow. I wasn't quite into them I was like oh my god this is not good and then it's picked up it's picked up ladies and gentlemen and I'm loving it but here's the thing I'm on page 246 when I tell you the plot twist had just happened but this is the kind of thing I I feel like should happen at the end of the book not right now not right now what we've still got half of the overhaul of the book to go. What the fuck? What the fuck? What the fuck? Holly Jackson I'm about to sue you. They put me through purgatory yeah they put me through hell on this earth. Okay so obviously this is the third book in the series so we're going off vibes we check in so these books listen okay so in this she has a stool chair she's trying to figure out what is happening and like I am emotionally attacked I feel tense like the route that this is going down is so different firstly Pip is like she's been doing more shit than I think a human can handle so she's a little bit losing it she's like she's conscious that she's losing it but she's losing it so we're in the first book she'll have this very like you know trustworthy like main character who is like very kind of to the point knows what she's investigating knows what she wants although she has like ups and downs like she's got a what the audience would refer to as like a good head on her shoulders this one the head to skew it like she's losing it and so that's an interesting element where you're not sure how much you can trust what she's saying what she's thinking etc but holy shit the route that this has gone down I can't even tell you the kind of general route and investigation we're on now because I think it's a spoiler but like I when I tell you I'm on live to my patrons right now we're doing reading sprints and when I tell you I got like I I put the book down I just looked at all of them like this the woman was too stunned to speak I just know the second half is gonna be crazy I feel like it's gonna be level like no exit levels of tense I feel sick I'm gonna throw up I actually can't take this I actually can't take this this is so good this is so good oh my god because here's the thing we just have like a little serious investigations and I was like I know what the fuck's going on here and very rarely do you feel a step ahead of Pip in the investigations but she was her and Ravi her friend were well come into the wrong conclusions I was like bitches fucking get your goggles on and listen let's read this shit again because you're not catching on to what's going on here I still think I'm right but I don't expect this to happen what the hell so I know I'm right but I think I not I was supposed to know I'm right but now I can't even I can't even take it what is gonna happen oh my god I need to finish this whole book tonight like I don't give a fuck like I've got 250 pages left I need to finish this whole ass book tonight so I'm on sprints on my patrons the next couple hours I've gotta get up fairly early in the morning so I gotta drive I'm gonna drive um to the doctor appointment I've got quite a ways away from me at a different hospital but like sleep is for the week sleep is for the week this book is so good oh my god okay I'm gonna go carry on reading it I'm gonna go finish it on the live of my patrons and um then I'm gonna then I'm gonna go cry I actually I think I need to pace for a bit because I actually I actually am gonna throw up okay let's go find out what happens next I don't even think I don't think hang on you're not quite right let's prop you up a bit I don't think I'm emotionally ready I'm like I'm holding up right to talk about this book like I you guys I remember thinking I'm about to beat this bitch up so um fuck five stars five stars I think this may whoa is this my favorite in the series this is my favorite book in the series and a good girl's guide to murder was my sixth favorite book last year so I think that that shows you how much I loved this this book is fucking bonkers like I can't explain to you enough how crazy this book is I was not I finished it last night yesterday afternoon I could not talk to you mm-hmm that was not happening because oh my god like I can't I can't talk to you I was sobbing the end of this book got me like okay so without this isn't a spoiler but the end of the book is a little bit some people I've read some reviews that weren't spoilery either so I can say it that that called the ending unresolved but I love that I love when there's a little these characters we love so much I think it would feel wrong to shut the book and you're like that's it you know you're like that's the end a book that that lets you imagine what the future holds but whilst fucking ripping your heart out and stomping on it I I really like it so I mean I fucking out this book is crazy very similar levels to no exit it kind of spirals into of craziness and it really goes down a route that you could never predict like I could have never have guessed that this is where this book was gonna go you guys it is fantastic I was so paranoid when reading this book like I'd shut it and I'd be like well this whole series is so into like texting and and internet searches and emails and like like people's digital traces and people people say like I was like oh my god like can I google like the time my post office shuts or are the police gonna come run to my house like do you know what I mean like I I was like so paranoid I was reading this book I can't trust them they don't know what they're doing Holly Jackson is a fucking superstar this series is the best YA mystery series out there there I'm saying it I'm saying it I have asserted that position like I can't emphasize you enough how good a writer Holly Jackson is and I love when over a series the first one is fucking bomb but you can still see a progression of a writer and this this book feels so ambitious and it pulls it off it's amazing how the mystery in this is spun like little details that you learn on page 100 or page 200 come back at the end and like blow everything apart do you know what I mean like little details that you think are just window dressing like details of the mystery like suddenly that is so important and you're like wow that was planted so well like it's just so well done and sometimes the way I feel about this book in this series sometimes you can love a book or a series so much that you can just kind of sink into it like sometimes I'm reading at the moment I really notice a book that I love because I don't have to like set timers for myself for reading like otherwise when I'm reading I typically set like pomodoro timers when I'm reading like I'll reach 25 minutes then give myself a five-minute break but this book you could not pry it out of my hands like for the last this much I would say of the book I could not stop you were not stopping me I was just laying there like this like it was just incredible and I'm so excited to read anything that Holly Jackson puts out in the future like I I'm just so excited what a great way to start 2022 finishing a series tic-tic tic-tic and one of my favorite series ever and it being five stars you gotta go because you would have nobody thank you god oh my god okay crazy honestly the twist this takes halfway through I can't I can't explain to you how good it is so if this is your push to start this series start a good girls guy tomato series like please do it because this was incredible I'm hoping to read killjoy this month which is like a prequel short story I need to get ahead on some of my other reading first if I have time I'm gonna fit that in and then that truly is the series like shut for me like done this is amazing this is amazing and now we've got to read the king of crows by libra bray so listen I'm very scared of this book it's long the audiobook is 22 hours long that's just not me like that's just not the person I am but we've got to we've got to read it we've got to read it and then we finish the series so I think I need to go read like a recapitans or a recap of the series because I I feel like there's a lot of details I cannot remember from the end of this book or the last book sorry and then we'll start it now I am excited to go back into this New York world again but I've just heard so many not good things that I don't have the highest hopes but let's see let's let's go and see okay so I'm about 100 pages in to king of crows I've read that much whoa it feels like I've read a lot more than that this book is like 500 something pages that is it's a bit long libra it's a little bit long I'm enjoying it like it's this is quite good but I feel like this book was always going to hinge on how it ends on how it ends the whole series it's fine at the moment but we haven't gone into the meat of everything I'm enjoying being back in like the 1920s world I'm enjoying being back with like the scooby gang of characters I think it's I think it started off pretty strong I think it started off like straight into the action which is kind of what you want I will say the king of crows is a villain that the whole series is being building up to so kind of from the beginning you get the sense of this character being there and you know that he's going to be like the end villain and you have like other villains of the week monsters of the week essentially like in all the other books you have an individual villain and the king crows is the kind of pervading character across the whole series and like I don't know if I'm convinced of him I don't know if I am scared of him at all he's not really giving me anything he's a little bit boring and I'm just not feeling it so like the king of crows not not really bothered which is what the whole thing hinges on me anytime the king of crows turns up I don't want to be a bitch but you guys are really boring I will say I'm pissed off I'm still angry I'm still so angry that liverbro writes an entire book based on Henry and Ling to make me fall in love with them and to make them my favorite characters in the whole in the whole series by a country mile and then they're just like kind of ignored they're just kind of ignored to the rest of the series and it's outrageous frankly it's outrageous like they're barely notable they're barely doing anything Theta okay she's a cool gal but like she's nothing on Henry and Ling and their dynamic their dynamic was one of the purest friendships like I mean when do you see a friendship like that you don't anyway this isn't spoilers for the second book by the way because like you know who cares it's like the synopsis of it but honestly outrageous that she makes me that attach those characters and then they're just irrelevant how can you do that what is the purpose of that I just I'm so angry about that but the book is fine I'm listening to the audiobook which I've never done before and I'm enjoying it like it's okay I'm not loving it I think I got so attached to some of those characters in layer of dreams and I loved the route that layer of dreams went down but I think I lost a lot of love for this series in the third book so now it's just something I'm enjoying reading but I don't feel particularly passionate about if that makes sense I don't know I also feel like the whole such I love the 1920s setting in New York I feel like the story hasn't progressed that much I almost wish we could have come out of New York for one of the books in the series like the second or third I feel like we should have gone somewhere else because it's gotten a bit stagnant and I feel like it's relying on that a bit too much so I feel like it would have worked better if we'd exited New York for a period and then we're back in it also add to the fact that one of my favorite characters from the start of the series is dead not a spoiler like you know people are gonna die but one of my favorite characters is dead and so like I don't even have them to like get me excited so I don't know I don't know how I'm feeling about it I'm gonna read some more then I'm gonna tidy my room and listen to audiobook and hopefully I'll make some good progress today I'd like to even try and finish it today because I really want to speed up my reading it's the 20th today I don't know it's the 21st oh my god I've only finished four books so far that's not very good for me like that's not very good January hasn't been a great reading month I've kind of been getting on my feet in other areas of life so I would like to try and finish this tonight I'm not doing much else today so I'm going to try and rely on the audio book quite a lot but the audiobook is very long like I'm listening to it on I'm listening to it on three times speed and I've got six hours left and it's currently in quarter past three in the afternoon so wish me luck um but yeah I'm gonna go just listen to the audiobook for a bit which obviously will take me down to 1.8 speed which we have 10 hours left anyway I'm gonna go read some more and I'll check with you when I've probably read like another 150 200 pages I don't even want to talk I don't want to talk about this book I've been putting off filming this clip I've been putting off reading more of it it's not bad it's not bad I'm just a bit bored like it's long this book does not need to be this long it's like I'm reading it and I'm getting nowhere like it's like a pasta dish like you know when you're eating pasta and you're like it just keeps on going it just it keeps being more of it it's so it's so piping hot I've spilled it all over my dress what now it's not bad it's not it's fine like the characters some of them are going on interest well interesting things are happening I'm getting very close interesting things are happening I'm on like page 350 ish uh no I'm not page 320 yeah like interesting things are happening but I don't feel like any of our characters are like developing at all they're just waiting like this feels like a book of waiting why are we waiting that we could have sped it up a little bit like should we speed it up a little bit so I don't feel like there are an interesting character arcs and this has become so character focused and like nothing's happening like it's taking far too long something I always loved about the Divina series was like how it would like almost zoom out on New York and like so you'd have something happen to our characters and then we'd learn what was happening to like ordinary people like on the other side of the city or something like it always took the whole population into account which I think some fantasy doesn't do like it kind of like ignores other people and like the impact that it has on them but the whole time I'm reading this book I'm not getting excited about reading this book I'm getting excited about other books I'm getting excited about all the books I can read once this book is done I've already read four books it is the 20 what is it the 23rd is it the 23rd it's the 24th of January you guys I've read four books and it's all because I was putting off reading this book for ages I know it's taking the ages to read it so like it's a scam it's a scam and I just want to finish it so I can read other stuff because I genuinely believe this kind of mini slump I've started the year in is gonna be gone once I finish this book so listen it's not like it's bad it's not bad but depending on how it ends it could be anywhere from like a 3.5 maybe more 3 to a 2 now it's much more likely to be a 3 I don't think it's bad then it's next like it'll be 2.5 then it has a minuscule chance of being a 2 but it still has a chance do you know what I mean so it's much more skewed towards 3 but I don't know it's something about it the pace is just not keeping me interested it's not keeping me vibing like I'm bored I'm bored so I'm gonna try and finish wow I'm not gonna finish it tonight because I'm going out for dinner now but I'm gonna get as close to finishing it as I can hopefully I'll have time to read a little bit tonight because yeah it just it just needs to get finished it needs to get finished I need to move on to other stuff because I'm not really feeling it and it's not fair to the book because I've kind of already mentally checked out you know okay so we have a lot to talk about because a lot of reading as I can you guys I've finished it I'm finishing it and it was rough it was rough it was rough dear god where did you go I gave it two stars in the end and it was rough I haven't I've delayed talking about this because it's hard I can't believe this is finished I can't believe I've finally finished this series I can't tell you it's very satisfying to finish the series so I'm glad I've read it I'm glad I finished the book you know finished the whole arc but the pacing in this oh my seals my favorite book mark was in there the pacing in this was off it was not just off it was like sour sour the pacing was sour it was so boring the second half this was so boring and you just constantly you're waiting for the end you're waiting for the end there's like 150 pages in this book where we're in this one place which obviously I can't say but we're like in this one place we're stuck there I'm sorry about the weird lighting oh well yeah we're stuck in this place and like nothing we're just walking around in circles we're just walking around in circles and then you're waiting for like this big climactic end fight fight fight let's fight you know that the whole series has been building up to with the king of crows and it just like whimpered out it whimpered out the ending you're expecting me to believe that that is how that ends no you're looking at me and you're gonna tell me that I'm wrong am I wrong it was likely my brain didn't know how to end all of a sudden she didn't know how to end the big end scene which like it doesn't make any sense because the other book I think they've all been pretty good like the ending has been pretty good the ending to this was not satisfying at all not satisfying in the slightest now did I cry yes I did cry a few times at the end because libra praise writing is still amazing like it's so beautiful it's so emotional it's so complex like her writing is really good in terms of the language in terms of making you feel something like I felt something like I've cried a couple times I was so attached to these characters but this book was off like I can't even begin to explain it to you the reason it's not one star is because I cried like I felt something like there were moments I enjoyed but it was so fucking boring it was boring I'm so sorry I'm so sorry like I know I don't want to be dunking on this book like I don't want to be saying this shit it felt like the vibration had gone back to the drawing board with like the last book in the series and should have written something different I don't I don't feel like this was a fitting end to the series I'm kind of forget it exists but I'm glad I finished it but like what a disappointment what a shame like it's very sad very very sad also the king of crows let's just talk about this for a second the king of crows is in the whole series this isn't a spoiler like he's there from the beginning the most boring main villain he had no spies I don't care what anyone says he's boring he's straight up stupid like he's stupid he's stupid he's stupid he's stupid he's stupid where's the flavor where's the flavor in this I spent like three weeks of my life reading that in what world but anyway I am now actually over already over halfway through actual ag brown I know I should have spoken to you in between but like I just I just needed something else and let me tell you what a tonic for the soul what a what a outstanding but no it's not that it's outstanding but I'm reading it and I'm like thank fuck I'm reading something that isn't king of crows I'm reading something that isn't king of crows I am reading something that isn't king of crows it makes me so happy so in this we're following the last brown sister Eve who is kind of like you know she's like the baby of the family she's been babied she doesn't really have a career she doesn't have a job she just like uses the trust fund floats about but she has to get a job and she stumbles across this B&B and it's like cold distant owner Jacob like it's enemies to lovers it's grump sunshine grump sunshine grump sunshine can I just tell you grump sunshine we all know from the love hypothesis apparently I think every romance I need to read needs to be grump sunshine I don't think I'm gonna like it if it's not grump sunshine like apparently that is my shit I don't know why I don't know why but apparently something about it something about it guess me I'm on page 200 like I've read mostly the audiobook I've really been enjoying the audiobook and I've really been enjoying their relationship it's like obviously it's romance it's not a spoiler that well nothing's happened yet they're kind of just they both fancy each other but I love that kind of slip from finding each other annoying to really liking each other and falling for each other and the other one doesn't know and they think they don't really like each other they're like are we friends like are we even friends like do we like each other like oh it's so cute tiny hip hip can write a good romance I will say there's something about the narration style that I feel like I've stumbled across that like is not my favorite like it's a bit like oh I'm funny I don't know if that makes sense I don't know it's something that was always niggled me throughout the whole series and I don't really know how to put it into words but it's like something to do with the third person narration style with the style of writing don't necessarily mesh for me like it's almost like it wants to be first person the way that it's got the humor in the story but let me tell you I don't give a fuck I'm reading this so fast you can't stop me I'm back bitches I'm fucking back I'm never gonna be stopped reading ever again I am absolutely loving the experience of reading it is it like the best book in the world now it's probably gonna be a four star but I'm gonna be really happy that I've finished off this series so I'm gonna finish this fucking vlog that's been going on for a month today it's ending today it's ending I've had enough I am gonna go do some housework and things and I'm gonna listen to the audiobook of this and I will probably come back to this evening late this afternoon having finished it with my final thoughts okay so I've finished Act 3D Frown I have finished three series in this video I'm so happy so yeah I enjoyed this it's a romance it was like here's the thing this book was not surprising to me anyway because having read the previous two Brown sisters romances like I knew what I was getting you know what I mean I knew what I was setting myself up for so it wasn't surprising in any way what is this I don't really have any like groundbreaking thoughts on it because it was like yeah that was what I expected but I really liked the romance I thought they were very sweet and wholesome together and grump sunshine it does something to me I don't know why at this point trix the dolls are the dolls I really really love it I love how they brought out the best in each other and there was so much conversation about like discovering different parts of you and loving those parts of you with so much care and gentleness and their relationship was just really really lovely and it was hot and it was great and it was wonderful whatever like you know it's a romance I will say as I read romance after romance you know I'm not a fan of the third act conflict I know I know this is an ongoing discussion within romance communities and whatever and I know like some people are like oh romances need a third act conflict you know they need something to go wrong or at the end but I don't know if that's true I just find it predictable and I don't I'm not a fan of it I rather the romance takes longer to come to fruition and has a few stumbling blocks along the way than have this kind of shoehorned-in third act conflict because to me I was like you guys you wouldn't this wouldn't be happening like we'd gotten to our point in our communication and like understanding each other but this just would not be happening and I just don't feel like it's needed so that aspect of it I was like you know do we need this but I'm still gonna give it four stars like I still really enjoyed it I would say I've enjoyed all three of the brown sisters books pretty much similar amounts like I think I gave them all four stars maybe I gave Danny Brown 3.5 I think I gave Danny Brown 3.5 but both this and Chloe Brown 4 and you know tell you a bit it's just a like probably one of the only romance authors along with Ali Hazelwood that I'm gonna pick up every time they put something out like without fail I'll always pick up her books so it was a success and listen we finished another series so that's the end of this vlog I hope you enjoyed it and we finished three series we're on our way now it only took me the whole month apologies that there hasn't been that many vlogs in January we're now in February I know don't worry but um yeah apologies I wasn't that many vlogs in January it was just a bit of a strange month but I'm already feeling like better and like more like myself so there'll be a lot of vlogs coming in February hopefully I feel like I'm on the reading train again um but if you've gone to the end of this video comment a musical note emoji because Eve loves music comment that down but if you've gone to the end of this video let me know what book series also you want to feature in this vlog series so what ones you want to have their own vlog um I already have the first two planned because I have all the books for them so I know what the first two will be but other than that I haven't planned it out if you kind of know what series I'm in the middle of you can let me know down below which of those you're on a whole vlog for thank you so so much for watching I can't tell you how much I appreciate all of your support as always and I'll see you very soon in another video bye