 So I like to do this video where I read seven books in seven days around a certain theme and I always think it's a great idea and I then hate myself for doing it whilst it's happening because I have to read a book a day and then by the end I'm like I should do this more often. I just read seven books in seven days and we're doing it again. We're here again, we're ready, we're back, it's time to do it all over again. Hi, how are you doing? We're back and we're ready for it all over again. So yeah, this time we're going to be reading seven murder mysteries in seven days. I love murder mysteries. If you guys have been here a long time, you know, I love murder mysteries and I've just been feeling like I haven't been reading enough of them. I haven't been reading enough of them, I haven't been replenishing my soul with enough murder mysteries. We've done this before with seven horror books and seven readathons. We did seven readathons in seven days and that was fun. But this is just seven murder mysteries of my choosing, okay? I have full control. We can do this. We were all so happy that day. It's actually hard to even imagine how terrible things would soon become. So in terms of my TBR, there's been a few that have been on previous TBR cluedos that I definitely want to make sure I get to. We've got four here. These are definite. These are absolute. These are happening and you be pleased to see they were quite short. So we've got The Woman in the Library by Salari Gentiles. This is probably the book I'm most excited to read in this video. I am pumped. I am ready. Like, let's go. This has been one of my most anticipated books. To give you like a brief synopsis, we're going to talk about synopsis all of these. It's a book within a book. The book within a book, there's a murderer in the library. One of the four strangers sitting around the table committed the murder but they were all sitting there. How do they do it? And then there's the author writing the book, writing letters to someone about the book. I'm confused. Essentially, doesn't that fill you with excitement? Doesn't that get you going? Two series I'd like to make progress in. I'd like to read the next porro. Good old Agatha. Good old Agatha. Come on. It's not a mystery video. I don't read a bit of Agatha. This one is Lord Edgeworth Dies where I think a woman tells Porro she wants her husband to die and then he dies. So yeah, that's the next in the porro. I'm up to number nine, everyone. Applause, please. We're getting there. I would also like to read the next in the Lady Hard Castle mystery series. This might be more a missing person murder mystery but these are basically murder mysteries. Come on, if you've been here, allow me this. I don't really know much about it. We're on the seaside. I love Lady Hard Castle and Flow. The audiobook season is incredible so this will be good for a day when I want to listen to an audiobook. Good for a day when I'm super busy. We are going to read your guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper. This is basically a graphic novel taking the mick out of murder mysteries. It's got like the usual suspects, the usual places, like the little village that often exists in murder mysteries. I have been so excited to read this for so long. This and Woman in the Library are probably the two I'm most excited for. So those are like four definites that are absolutely happening. Two that I would like to get to. One because it's short, Six Stories by Met Wazelowski. This is like a podcast kind of one. I've heard really good things about this. We've got like, I think this teenager was killed and then years on he's trying to like interview the teenagers at the time who were kind of like around him when it happened. I've heard really good things and I would also like to get to The Murder Game by Tom Hindle. This is the only murder mystery from 2023 that I have so far. I mean it is long so this is going to be for a day when I can just read it basically but it's at this 1920s murder mystery dinner party and someone actually gets killed. So that's six. So today it is Mother's Day here in the UK and I don't want to read a long book today even though I'm not really doing much because I've been reading a lot the past couple days. Like I feel like let's do something substantial but not intimidating. I'm thinking why don't we start with Agatha because I can listen to the audio book for this. Proro books are always quite quick like they're nice and speedy. So I think let's start with Lord Edgeware Dies today. We're not doing loads from Mother's Day. We're just going to the garden centre locally. We're going to have lunch there and we'll buy some plants and maybe do some gardening. That's basically the plan for today. So yeah I feel good about reading this. Get the Agatha out of the way and then maybe tomorrow, I feel like maybe tomorrow we read the woman in the library. I don't know. Anyways we're almost back to the for the garden centre so see ya! Lovely day. I'm very tired. I dressed for the weather that I wanted not the weather that actually existed and I got so cold and when I get cold I get really tired and like crabby. Crabby? It's not as an Americanism. Grumpy. I'm about to have a bathroom. I think you can hear it running because I need to warm up. But I am halfway through Lord Edgeware Dies and it's okay. Essentially what you should know is that this woman comes to Proro going like I want to divorce my husband. I want to get rid of him. I might even kill him. You know what? I don't believe in the glorification of murder. I do believe in the empowerment of women. And she's asking his help to convince Lord Edgeware that they should get a divorce essentially. And then like the next day he's murdered. And certain people claim to have seen her at the house that night so she is definitely the chief suspect. But who knows? Who knows? It feels like every suspect that we've got it's like too obvious for it to be them. Do you know what I mean? I don't know. But that's basically what we need to know. And I mean it's fine but guess who's here? Guess who's here? Hastings! Hastings! Do you hear that? I've looked it up. He's in this one. ABC Murders which is in like four books time. And then Curtain which is the last one. I'm almost free of this man but I didn't think he was in this one and he is. I actually have no objection to him being in a book right Hastings. If you don't know, Hastings is like Porro's friend who's narrates a lot of the early early books. He narrates this one. And he's kind of just like Porro just says he's like he's kind of like the every generic man. Like he thinks what the generic thing would be to think. Like he's just like he's dumb. And he gets offended when Porro speaks the truth to him. I'm like Hastings get a grip. Good god get a grip girl. I don't mind him being in a book. I'm hoping maybe for ABC Murders. I don't know but I'm hoping for AC Murders and Curtain. He doesn't narrate it but he's just there because I have no problem with him being there. It's just being in his head. It's no coincidence that like all of her best books don't have Hastings in them. All of the best Porro books don't have Hastings in them. He can get gone. I'm so annoying. Objectively I don't mind him but I just don't like the books that I read from his perspective as much you know. Murder Roger Ackroyd is arguably the best from the early Porro books before Murder on the Euronexpress and guess what that's the one that doesn't have Porro in it. The one that doesn't have Hastings. But yeah it's a fairly easy mystery. I mean we've met lots of people. It feels like what's going to happen in this one is that all of the suspects seem so obvious or at least the suspects that I think it is seem so obvious and so you think oh no it's way too obvious to be them and then it's going to end up being them because you discounted them because it was way too obvious to be them. It's what it feels like this is going to be. I feel like for a Hastings one though I am enjoying this a bit more. Like I'm liking, I feel like the writing is starting to come into her own a bit more. The way that the book is moving I feel like I prefer to some of the other Porro early ones. So anyways I'm going to finish it tonight. I don't know if I will see you tonight or if I'll just check in with you in the morning because I am quite tired. Yeah maybe I'll just see you in the morning with my thoughts but I'm definitely going to finish it tonight because I've only got like an hour and a half maybe a reading left to do. Like if I'm reading it from the page. Yeah fucking Hastings bro. I'm so sorry Hastings. There's nothing against you. You're just annoying. Yeah I want to like you but you're annoying. Okay good evening everyone. So I finished Lord Edgewood Dies last night. It was too late to check in with you and then all day I've been prepping oh my gosh let's just move this over a little bit. All day I have been prepping for the Agatha Christie disappearance video which is fitting since I just read a video that I'm doing that hopefully is out already by the time this is coming out. One would hope but I've been reading like a lot of books and like websites and stuff for that and trying to find pictures and newspapers and stuff. So I've done all my research for that today. That took like the whole day and then tomorrow I'm gonna script and film it hopefully. But anyways so yeah that took up the whole day at six o'clock now. Anyways let's talk about Lord Edgewood and then we'll talk about what we're gonna read today. I finished this last night and I'm gonna give it a three. Right that's for multiple reasons. Firstly Hastings. Now that's bullying. Did you see that? Turns out I lived up. He does narrate the ABC murders. I'm hoping since that's such a loved one listen I don't dislike Hastings as a person. I just don't like him narrating the books. For me I much enjoy the poro books from the outside perspective not from Hastings being like oh I just didn't really connect to any of the kind of characters in this book that we met. When I think of the last one I read which was Parallel Endhouse I really enjoyed reading from a lot of those characters. I thought they're really interesting characters. I thought the character group had a really interesting character dynamic but I found myself forgetting who all these people were and how they were all connected and relating to each other and I do draw the line at incest even if this is the 1920s and you know your cousin's I mean it's just your cousin. I don't care but I did like the end reveal. I thought the end reveal was really good and I enjoyed it and I think it's one of the first ones from Agatha Christie that I've read like this so I enjoyed the ending. That was it really. I thought the end reveal was good. The last like 40 pages I was into it but for basically the whole rest of that second half from when I last checked in the last night I was kind of checked out. I was kind of just like I don't care. Me and Christie, me and Agatha have a mixed relationship. Five stars, one star. I've given her everything in between basically. I've just been trying to figure out what I should read today. Obviously it's quite late and when I woke up this morning I was like I've had enough of reading because I have to read a lot before this video as well in order to get my last one up but now I'm like oh I don't know the evening's upon us. I'm in the mood but I need to be realistic with myself. I found this which looks tiny it is but I feel like it might be what we read today because I realized there's no rules that I can't start another book today if I finish one. There's no rules that I can't get ahead. That's not happening. All right. We're gonna read an elderly lady is up to no good so I think that's we figured out what the seven books are because we've yeah we spoke about one of them. This was recommended to me by one of my patrons. We're following Maud who's an 88-year-old woman and I believe this is a series of short stories actually about like her dealing with like murder and shit. So I need to do some cooking tonight, some stuff that I can listen to the audiobook with. The audiobook is only three hours long so so I'm probably gonna do a mix of I'll start it off with the audiobook and then I'll read it physically along with the audiobook afterwards but yeah I think we're gonna start with this because it's late I'm feeling a little bit tired. I want to go to bed early so that I can like smash it tomorrow with this Acala Christie video. A lot of this video I'm not going to be doing a lot of my life because I'm just trying to get this Acala Christie video done. I'm not going to be doing exciting things for you in this seven books in seven days. I need to talk quietly because I'm my family asleep. It's 20 past 10 and I'm just doing some skincare and I just finished the book and I thought I'd chat to you about it. So I finished and elderly lady's up no good um this wasn't been deceived. I'm so sorry I know but like honestly we're in this we're all deceived. I don't know if telling you what this is it's a spoiler no on their back it says Maud has no qualms about a little murder that that's putting it lightly like this is a series of short stories and this all just it gives us like the last short story so whatever but I had such a fun time reading this book I had the most fun a little bit of murder is so much fun it's so much fun yeah I'm going to give this four stars I loved this I really did enjoy it it is such a short little cute collection of short stories about this little old woman who definitely has no qualms about committing a little murder and honestly go Maud go Maud like I love women having hobbies apologies apologies we can hear my candle by the way I'm making sure it doesn't tunnel so I'm still banning it yeah I really enjoyed all the short stories in this I was gagged I didn't know where this book because I hadn't read the back properly and I was gagged and gooped I was it all over the place I really enjoyed it I loved the writing the writing itself I think this author is Swedish and I hope I'm correct in saying that the author of Bear Town is Swedish and the writing felt very similar to me perhaps it's how Swedish is translated to English and how that that linguistically feels because their writing felt very similar in a good way I really enjoyed the writing it was just fun it was just a fucking barrel of laughs murder is a barrel of laughs I just love I love reading about old people as well like listen Maud's living her life she's doing what she's got to do she's doing you know perhaps a little bit delusional perhaps a bit paranoid but Gally she does what she needs to do girl boss yeah there's not much for me to say to you about it because I don't want to spoil anything more than what I've already told you again I feel you know I feel like I haven't told you anything it's not in the back you know really if I'd bothered to read this properly would have been a problemo the audiobook was really good as well I really really enjoyed the audiobook I listened to all of it via the audiobook and read along I'd say for the second half and the narrator was really really good and this is a series there is a second one I'm debating whether I'm actually going to get the physical version or whether I just listen to the audiobook for the second one I'll definitely finish the series off this year um but yeah I don't know if I will just get the audiobook I don't like having an incomplete series so maybe I will I'll get the second one physically as well two books down my loves one no not one to go five to go what we read tomorrow is going to depend on strategically how the day goes so I'm going to wake up I'm going to script the Aga Christie video I'm going to film the Aga Christie video then I decide is it a better use of my time to read a longer book like let's read the woman the library tomorrow I have got reading sprints of five with my patrons or is it a better use of time to try and edit as much of the uh the video the Aga Christie video tomorrow like say if I finish filming like 12 I'm gonna edit in which case we would probably read six stories tomorrow I don't know we'll see which of these we read tomorrow it'd be one of these two I would imagine I feel like I keep saying I'm gonna read this and keep paying it off because I am so excited to read it I'm scared what if it doesn't live up and I want to make it the perfect condition okay hi so I just finished filming the Aga Christie experience video it's almost five o'clock it's taking me the whole day to script and film that the script for it was almost four thousand words long that's me cutting down from like a document that's about twelve thousand words of research then making the timeline for myself and then scripting it so I'm pretty pretty tired get your ass up and work but I have got reading sprints and I feel like none of the books fit the length of time I have to read like I don't want to I'm tired but I have got reading sprints but I have got to wash my hair tonight and that's I mean I wash it every other night but it's an olympic sport washing my hair okay if I'm being honest with you I am torn between two of the books I'm most excited to read which oh shit which I'll run in the library and six stories the pro about six stories is I have an audiobook and it's a full cast audiobook and I've heard such wonderful things about this audiobook it's like a podcast so plan me thinking that but then part of me just thinking let's just get into or in the library if I don't finish it today like it's not the end of the world because as long as I read seven books in seven days I would like to keep it to a book a day but like if I read your guide it's not getting murdered that's just too quick for today we don't know super quick book but I've done all the middle of the road books because I'm impatient like that oh do I go with this or do I go with the audiobook no we're gonna go with woman in the library I've got a fair amount of time to read today it's only almost five o'clock so I'm gonna go with this even though I don't have the audiobook this is one of the books I've the most excited to read and it's not long it's 250 pages although the font isn't large okay right let's go then I'm gonna pop out in the garden for a second get some fresh air and then this prince will start and I will start this um it's really late it's like nine o'clock oh you can see my pyjamas my clothes my exercise clothes anyways I you know everyone has clothes that you've only worn for like an hour and they're still clean you want to put them in that's where they go anyway it's nine o'clock they're about to have a bath I need to wash my hair wash my hair it's taken me a bit longer to do the sprints and eat I just ate for ages but I am halfway through my library so I haven't done badly even if I don't finish this tonight I reckon I'll get at least like halfway through the next half so I'll get I reckon at least three quarters of the way through I'm really enjoying this let me try and give you the simple I'm not even gonna try and get deep into this synopsis I'm gonna give you the simplest explanation we have got a character writing letters to their author friend okay that's plot number one they're writing letters that author friend is a famous author they are sending back chapters of their current work in progress to the first character so they're like sending them a chapter and at the end of the chapter we have a letter from that first character going oh that's so great this is what I think about x y and z and in that book that she's sending chapters of the character is writing a book let's just get our heads around that for a second everyone just sitting in silence and think about that because it's a lot but I'm really enjoying it and so in the chapters that's where the main plot is happening like the the chapters that are being sent in the first chapter I think a group of characters are at this library table and they hear a scream and it turns out someone was murdered and we find out at the end of that chapter that one of the people sitting at that table was the murderer but how do they do that when they were sitting there and I think the the murder was like blunt forced trauma to the head it wasn't like poisoning or something so what's the truth I'm just enjoying it it's fun it's ridiculous it's campy it's over the top the inception of like reading the chapter and the author the the author in the chapters is writing a book about the other characters in the chapter like inspired by them it is so much and I'm having a lot of fun reading the chapter and then getting the letter from the friend saying oh it's so interesting I think the murderer is this there's a murderer is this because it's making me kind of pick up on things I I didn't think about or making me theorize more it's also fun knowing one of these four characters the murderer because you're looking everything they do in great detail I feel like at the moment there's an obvious choice and it's not gonna be that person it's not gonna be that person I can see why this hasn't got the best reviews it's got like a 3.5 I think this is marmite to the heavens like it is so you're gonna love it or not I hate it you know it's a very interesting set of writing because the book is written I think if I read a book that was the chapters which is the main portion of the book there was just a book like that the writing would piss me off because the writing is kind of pretentious and like self-aware but because of this whole concept of like the author is a character and the author is conversing with this person in the emails he's still with me um it makes it fun it makes it interesting like stuff is starting to happen that is just ridiculous so it's like the meta-ness if I read a book of this I wouldn't I wouldn't vibe oh that's what I was gonna say to you I was mistaken because I thought the whole book was gonna be them sat at that table and like that's only the first chapter I thought they were gonna be like no one can leave you have to sit here and it's just gonna be through like conversations that kind of maybe would have been boring but just through like conversations with each other that we figure it out but no this is like over the period of weeks and weeks and weeks but yeah I'm having fun I don't think this is gonna be a five star but I've been excited to read this for a long time not because I thought it was gonna be a five star but because I like modern murder mysteries that take the genre and twist it and do something interesting and different and new with it and this is new I mean it's difficult I don't even know if you guys have the foggiest as to what I've just explained as soon as you read it you get it but like trying to explain it it's like a book within a book within a book but I've made really good progress and like I said I'll probably get at least three quarters of a through because once you get into this this is a super quick read okay so you may be thinking Megan a day's missing and you'd be correct I did finish the woman in the library last night but I finished it at like 11 30 so I did read this across two days that's okay we can read two books today or at least try to let me not make promises the final thoughts on this bad boy I'm gonna give it a four maybe it's a 3.75 but I think a four I think it's a really fun book like I was saying before I just loved the new take on a murder mystery this was taking the letters that Leo the friend is writing to her at the end of each chapter start getting a bit bad vibes and I really liked that and I thought it was interesting it was both a protocon like seeing the character of her who we never really see the author the character of the author kind of bleed into the book the chapters that we're reading and sometimes I liked that and sometimes I thought okay it's getting in the way of this being a great book now do you know what I mean I'm not sure what the balance of that was I had a super fun time reading it on the whole but I would say I have a few two it's been a long day guys I spent okay yesterday I spent let's we'll get into critiques in a second I spent the whole of yesterday editing this agatha christie vlog and then I've only just finished now and it's like half three usually a video like a non vlog video would take me a day's worth of work to plan film edit this if you've count up me doing the research months ago it's at least like five days of work to make this video I'm really happy with it I'm really proud of it I'm so happy I've finally done it because I've wanted to do it for ages so now we're finally free I'm fitting more like a human again and we're ready to do the rest of this vlog so anyways what was I saying yeah a few critiques I have of it is I did feel like the ending was really rushed it was making me a bit anxious like we were like 16 pages from the end I was like how is this gonna end clap if you have anxiety I do appreciate an ending it doesn't have loads of unnecessary stuff at the end like when you've the ending has happened and you still like 40 pages the book is totally unnecessary but in this I was like okay and then the ending just kind of happened and I didn't feel like we had a good build up to the ending it felt like we were kind of on the same level same level and suddenly it ends do you know what I mean it didn't feel like we really built the ending and I will say you know that one of these well really three characters so you have the protagonist in the story and then three friends and you know it's one of those three friends who is the murderer and so it's this really tight pull of of people to suspect and then one of the characters is kind of like the obvious suspect and so I obviously didn't suspect them so that leaves like two people and so then when the murderer is revealed you're like yeah I knew that guys knew that because you've kind of having so few characters to theorize as to their motivations and why they did it and how they did it leaves you with very little options you know what I mean I always say with a good amount of mystery you want like six suspects five suspects being left with really I would say only two was like it's obvious so that kind of drew was a drawback for me I was going to and I was like I know who it's gonna be I know how it's gonna happen but I will give it a four because I thought it was such a fun book you know such a fun imaginative book but I am a little bit disappointed because this was like a five-star prediction for me it wasn't that and I can see like I said before why so many people haven't enjoyed this because the style of writing because it's kind of like everything's in on the joke not it's not a joke but you know everything is like in this concept and everything is fed through the lens of this concept I can see how people don't love it so plan for the day I have actually just started as I was getting ready speak me again I feel like I've been like this editing little gremlin for the past couple days and I've forgotten how to speak I just started this the murder game by Tom Hindle I don't know much about it I can't tell you much yet so I'll check in with you and I'm about halfway through this and then if we do have time we'll read your guide to not getting murdered in a quaint English village tonight but we can also double up with this on Friday or Saturday do you know what I mean it doesn't have to happen today so we're definitely going to read this today and this will be the book that we read when we read two books in one day over the next couple days I'm going to go read some of this I'll let you know what I think when I'm about halfway through just stumbled across a strange moment on the audio book my god I tell you the plot basically what you need to know is we've got these characters from this small town going to this New Year's Eve party that is I've got this annoying hair in my face okay there is like a 1920s murder mystery party they all kind of know each other there's this drama with this lighthouse that someone's converting there's secrets from the past there seems to be multiple secrets in the past I don't really know what's going on there that's all you need to know and I'm just bored I think there's something about Tom Hindle's books that just don't do it for me I if this doesn't pick up I'm not gonna pick up another Tom Hindle I'm just not gonna do it to myself but neither of his books are bad right this and the fatal crossing which I read last year they're not bad I just don't care do you know what I mean I'm not reading it going on this writing's bad or whatever I just feel like his character actually I think that's what it is his characters feel so anonymous I couldn't even tell you who half these people are there's too many of them and they're all I don't give a f*** they have no characterization and so I just don't care his books are just boring like I can't root for like oh I hope it's not this person or I hope it's that person I think it's this person if I don't know who any of them are I'm just feeling bored I'm not loving the audiobook narrator I'm still gonna listen to it by the audiobook because I don't think not listening to it by the audiobook would help much but the audiobook narrator was like being posh one moment but is trying to put on like a London accent for some of the characters particularly like for a rich character but it's like a bruv uh I'm trying to find I need to I can't do it the two of you have some history come on oh no I can't that's not it but like I'm putting on like a kind of rougher London accent for this like posh character and I'm like what does that make any sense we're halfway through and the murder has only just happened and you're telling me you're setting this at 1920s murder mystery party like that's the hook but that doesn't happen like because the murder happens right as he's giving them the opening speech of this murder mystery party I so no one's gonna be concerned about figuring out the clues I thought we could I was angry I was angry the idea of a murder mystery party like my oh gosh it's so camp so fun but that you've lured me in and it might as well not been there because it just wasn't happening it could be any other new year's eve party because guess what the murder mystery thing doesn't happen at all no one gets into characters no one looks for some clues so much potential wasted like there could have been a murder halfway through the murder mystery party and people try to figure out if it's a real murder if it's not like see a murder and then is that something for the like for the clues or is and like one of the characters has gone missing and were they in on the plot of the murder mystery party or has it been an actual murder I kind of get my words I'm excited think of the possibilities think of the drama think of the range and we're not getting any of that I'm just gonna go ahead and finish it I think it's it seems big but listening at my normal like reading with the book pace it's only gonna take me like an hour and a half of reading to finish this so I'm just gonna get it done and it's done I'm really sad this was the only 2023 murder mystery that I own that's come out that I wanted to read so far that I haven't already read and it's disappointing I'm not kidding when I tell you I'm debating giving this one star I think I'm gonna give it one star I was saying in the last clip I don't think Tom Hengel's books are bad I don't think I have anything good to say about this book I know here's a thing right I don't think wow it's not the worst writing ever read although we'll go onto that but I just think it's a crime for a murder mystery with this fun a sounding premise to be this boring like you actually have to grow out of your way in my opinion to make this foreign like you gave me nothing nothing nothing was bought nothing was given I kept getting so annoyed with how these characters are acting you know what a character like acts in the most stupid freaking way possible just to help the story and what the author and make it more convenient like there's a police woman in this who ends up turning up and firstly she does stupid stuff throughout the book but when she starts like accusing people it's fairly obvious that that person is being framed like they have a clean alibi for the murder like it's literally not possible and she's like it's you and I'm just like you are pissing me off and this this person is obviously in deep just a very anxious person deep distress and she's like being meaner and meaner to them and it I just really annoyed me from being honest I'm a bit pissed off about it a book hasn't irritated me like this in a long time I felt like my time has been wasted my money has been wasted I'm gonna give it one star usually I reserve one star so books that I think are like offensive there's nothing offensive in this but I am angry I don't want to tell you like it's pissed me off this whole book has pissed me off and it's more just the fact that it's so boring like nothing happened I thought the dialogue was pretty bad the characters I couldn't tell you any of these people are they are all boring they all have no characterization the reveal of who it is okay yeah a little bit of a gag but not really like boring boring tomato tomato I just I'm upset I don't have anything else to say to you I don't I want to pretend this didn't happen can we all do that just the way these characters would talk it was so no one speaks like this that is something I can't forgive in a book when it just feels cringe cringe cringe and boring that's kind of unforgivable for a murder mystery in my book I can't believe I've given that a one star that might be my first one star of the year anyway so two days to read the three books remaining we can do this I think I'm gonna save death beside the seaside and your guide not getting murdered for tomorrow and it's about what time is it it's almost four o'clock I'm gonna focus on reading six stories this afternoon and evening I don't really know much about this so I'll give you the plots and obsess when I'm about halfway through but my god anything is better than what I've just read I am fuming fuming all right good morning so I finished off six stories this morning I read most of it last night but I finished off this morning and you'd be thinking Megan you didn't check in halfway that's because I for most of reading this book I didn't know how I was feeling about it and to be honest I still don't know how I was feeling about it anyway I'm gonna do my skincare and chat to you and then I'll tell you about our plan so today because obviously it's our last day so six stories is basically about a boy whose body was found in the 1990s um like my mouth was open I did that because I was talking not really gonna multitasking I should learn this by now I can't redo these two things at once yeah his body was found in the 1990s and it is a podcaster going back and doing interviews with a lot of the people who knew him he was kind of part of this um nature group with these adults and kids so it's really just adults and kids from that group per being interviewed and trying to kind of get to the bottom of what happened that's basically all you need to know it's not like say days during the six where all the interviews are kind of like mixed in together each interview is separate and I think that was the sticking point for me I think I'm gonna give this three stars it wasn't bad but I just didn't love it like I feel like a lot of people have been loving it and I think it's because each of those interviews being separate it felt like there was no tension each of them were like 40 pages long and it kind of just felt like they dragged on and I didn't feel like there was any tension being built which being told the same story kind of over and over again with little new nuggets being revealed which weren't interesting I didn't dislike this but I was just kind of like okay you know what I mean I didn't I don't know it didn't do for me what I feel like it's doing for a lot of people do you see the snail slime yes I am putting snail slime on my face so I don't really have I feel like I don't have much to say to you it was kind of just fine like I just read it and I was like okay like I'm not gonna remember this going forward I'm not gonna continue on with the series there's like six books in a series I'm okay I'm good I don't need more I don't think it was bad but I think maybe there's just something about the writing that I didn't personally click with that's kind of hard to say to you the characters were fine but I didn't feel like any of them were like I don't know there was one called Anya and you and she was kind of my favorite character she was the fifth interview but by then I was just like not super interested there's just these few small scenes that we heard about over and over again and they just weren't that interesting to me so that's that on that don't mind me I'm just picking my eye cream on but I just realized I need to hold stuff up to talk to you okay so we've got two days no we've got one day left we need to read two books today and oh I've got to hold stuff up quickly eye cream I'm definitely going to read your guides not getting murdered in a quaint English village tonight I'm going out for a walk this today most of the day with Thomas family and um probably have dinner around there so I'll try and read that when I get home but I was supposed to be reading Death Beside the Seaside by T. E. Kinsey today but I'm just not feeling it that's fairly long it's a fairly long Lady Hardcastle and I'm just feeling like read out you know the trouble with these videos like I'm always happy after I've done them because I've read seven books in seven days but I just don't think I read this much actually no here's the thing I wouldn't feel like this I wouldn't feel like oh I've read so much I'm kind of like my brain is kind of read out if I had read like one or two books with the same amount of pages as I've read but it's I think it's so me consuming so many different stories I've read a lot of shorter books and I've consumed so many characters so many plots so many information that's kind of too much if it had just been like two books with the same amount of page lengths I wouldn't feel like this but it's the consuming of so many stories so I love the Lady Hardcastle mysteries and I just don't want to read this while I'm in that kind of mood so I was asking some of my patrons I was like what should I read does anyone have any short murder mystery recommendations and we were kind of struggling to come up with anything and I was like I don't know maybe I'll read the next in the elderly lady series the one that I read early in the week but it's only a matter of mystery I would be kind of like breaking the rules a bit and part of me was like I'm okay breaking the rules so I was gonna do that and then one of my patrons was it Sophie I feel like it was Sophie let me check on the discord yeah Sophie recommended a jury of her peers by Susan Glassville looked up the order but it's only an hour long so it's easy to do but I'm like okay so this is like a play or a short story by Susan Glassville I'm gonna be honest I don't know anything about is that really bad is she a really famous feminist OG author from back in the day I think this was published in the 60s that is not correct but yeah it's just like this short story about these two women who tried to solve a murder that this detective can't and I'm all for what I got a spot on my chin guys I never get spots and recently I've just been breaking out loads and I don't know why maybe it's something maybe one item of skincare I'm using doesn't agree with me but I don't know how to discern what I never got spots and suddenly we're breaking out I don't know if you've noticed the past couple weeks yeah I'm all for reading a book that I knew nothing about one of my favorite books in series a strange case of the alchemist daughter I picked up the audiobook on a whim I've never heard about it it was because I needed I think like a murder mystery for a video and I didn't have any more and I just like looked around and I picked that up so yeah I'm just going to do my makeup and then I'm going to make some food and I'm going to listen to drew of her peers which is going to take me like half an hour which is great I'll see you in a bit hopefully I can chat to you before we go out on the walk and then we'll go out on the walk and I'll come home and I will read you guys not getting murdered tonight we're just about to go out for a walk can you see me yeah you can just have to go for the walk but I just finished a short story so I thought I'd just tell you about it as I packed up my bag that's literally like 40 pages long I don't know why I told you it was written in 19 what I told you 1960s yet 1917 is it 17 basically all you need to know about this is that a woman's husband has been murdered and she's accused of killing him it's kind of in this rural town where everyone knows each other and the sheriff and like the I can't remember these these men these detectives who have gone to the house to try and find clues as to what's happened these women have gone with them what I think is the sheriff's wife one's maybe the farmer's wife I'm not sure but they've both gone there and they're kind of tasked with going through her stuff while they look for the proper clues and it ends up being a book where you know the detectives think they're the good guys and they're trying to find justice when really it's the women who are finding justice through their knowledge of what women are like and through looking through this woman's things and I really enjoyed it I'm giving it four stars I think this is a great little short story and I also think for the time it was written it's fairly radical in what it's saying and I want to spoil anything but listen they're here for the women women protecting each other women like I loved it and I loved how it showed the detective thinking they were the ones who were helping and they were the ones who were going to solve this but it was the women it was the women so yeah I think for what it was saying in 1917 about good versus bad good versus evil what justice is what is justice what is yeah what justice should be brought on someone for their actions when you take in a full picture I thought was great I really enjoyed it and I can't believe this was written in 1917 so thank you Sophie for the recommendation because it didn't take me long to read I just um read it listen to your audiobook while I was making an eating lunch and I really enjoyed it so woohoo we're going to read your guide to not getting murdered after I come back from the walk and from around Tom's house so I'll see you this evening bear just finished your guide to not getting murdered in a quaint English village by Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper and I'm going to give this five stars but what it is I knew I'd be obsessed with this and I am obsessed with it it's basically just taking the mick out of people events and locations in both the village of a quaint English village and the manna house in a quaint English village and just making kind of the murder mystery genre in general and I just thought it was so fun I loved it talented brilliant incredible amazing show stopping spectacular I loved the illustrations I loved the sense of humor I thought it was really funny there was like a lot of good like referencing throughout the book because it was common strands of thought and of reference like there was a lot about the vicar again and again or like when we're in the manner there was a lot of references to the characters we had there and how they all intertwined and I thought it was really fun and in the pictures there'd often be anything that was like a murder weapon would be coloured red and I thought that was just like a really fun little thing otherwise it was black and white but there'd be little murder weapons with like red on them and I thought I was really fun oh my god also height of camp there was quizzes at the end there's like two sections and there's the village and the manna and the end each of them is like a quiz to see whether you'd survive it's just so fun it's so fun like putting what you've just read to the test I was like oh my god I love this I feel like I'm the top student I loved it I knew I would love this I think this is something that's just gonna be really fun to reread now and then again like I love the sense of humor I thought it was really funny really humorous the quizzes were a nice little added special touch there's not much I can say to you because it literally took me maybe 20 minutes to read but I'm obsessed I loved it Maureen Johnson J Cooper please come out with more I would like have 20 of these I'm not even kidding it's so much fun that brings this to the end I wrote seven books in seven days we did it even if it I'm lucky I did not read Lady Hardcastle Day because I would not have had time this wasn't the most successful vlog I don't think it wasn't bad when you think of it but we did have some duds and we had like a few like three stars so let me rank these this is my ranking of the books that we read with the short story um was it again I can't remember Jure of her peers I would say maybe for what it was I would say above women in the library because I didn't really have any problems with the short story I thought it was great for what it was whereas I did have problems with that so I put it in there so a lot of shorter things what worked for me the more you think about it perhaps a one star for this is harsh but it's just how I feel in my bones I don't think I've ever given out a one star like that it's always a book that's like offended me personally I would give a one star but like being this boring has offended me personally so that is me done with Tom Hindle I'm sad I didn't love this more but I still had a really fun time this was kind of the big most anticipated book that I was reading in this vlog I wish I'd loved it a little bit more but I still think it was really fun and out of all of what we read probably the most unique with what it was doing I've never read another book like this and the layers that this had so yeah those were the books that we read I'm ready to like not read for a day just to refresh my life I'm gonna have a bath now and play some cozy grove it's been weeks I haven't I've been so busy with what I've had to read for videos the past couple weeks I haven't played cozy grove in weeks weeks so that's my evening but thank you guys for watching this video um I had a lot of fun making it there's always a struggle reading seven books in seven days but I had a lot of fun I have a few more of these planned throughout the year I think we've got at least two more coming throughout the rest of the year so I hope you guys enjoy them I think they're always a bit of fun even if they are kind of torture for me to do that's like part of the fun and yeah if you got to the end comment a magnifying glass emoji down below and I love you and I'll see you very soon in another video bye