 Well hello long time no chat. I still do videos, I still read books and I've read some books this year and I thought we could do a quarter one wrap-up. So January, February, March, that's quarter one. It is April, what is time, who knows. Beginning of the year was kind of shit like personally which translated into the beginning of the reading year not being shit exactly but being weird. So what I read the first quarter of the year is not super reflective of what I normally read for like life reasons. So anyway um basically TLDR um I was reading things that like didn't require much of me or wouldn't like trigger other anxieties that I was having for me. Um I mostly was reading things that I could get through in like a single day or a single sitting. It's kind of the vibe and then of course you know like I read books for patrons every month and for every quarter for blades and bodice wrappers and Kaz is attacking her own tail. Great timing my love. Anyway so yeah I also I don't I have physical copies of quite a few but quite a few I don't because I was getting a bunch of stuff from the library. Aside from books that I read for like a vlog project type of stuff that I don't include ever in wrap-ups until after that project is complete um I've read 21 books so far this year. I haven't quite finished my eighth read of The Wolf or my 17th read of Ella and Panted so they can't actually be considered for or included in this wrap-up but that as well nearly but okay um the beginning of the year almost back-to-back not actually back-to-back we'll do them all together um stay stay stay so technically there's like one book in between right here so we'll just take that one out and do it next. I read once a broke once a once upon a broken heart trilogy by Stephanie Garber uh on no one's bingo card for me to be reading ever including mine I to this day do not like okay be okay the reason for this I had never in my life desired to read these books or really was interested in this author this is not my scene and it remains not my scene but I read all three books so this cover I hadn't seen before I'd only seen the US covers this is the UK slash specifically I want to say Waterstones or maybe it was just the UK I don't know um no okay well this is is signed which I'm not sure that I was aware of oh this is the vault edition oh yeah because these all have um naked covers that are like different and I guess they have different symbols on them I have hearts on mine I don't know what the other options were anyway I saw in someone's vlog them reading it but reading this copy and I will not name names but it was it's somebody that I watch now and again who I I don't actually like their videos that much and I also almost never agree with them about books like I don't go to them for taste either um so I can't really explain why I watch them any better than I can explain why I read these were these books but anyway they had this copy that they are reading and I was like I just love this the look of this book and in that vlog this person wasn't like in love with this book they thought it was like fine so they weren't even like getting me hyped for it or anything they weren't like this is the best book ever this is so good ah like and no they were like that's okay like it's it's pretty good it's decent uh for like YA fantasy it's okay um but I was just like gotta have it gotta have it this edition I tracked it down and the rest of the trilogy and got the set from I think I got them on pango books or possibly mercury I don't know um for a stupid amount of money like it was the cheapest that I saw anywhere so like it was a decent I I could sell them all for more than I paid but I still paid a stupid amount anyway so I read these books almost back to back and I do not recommend them I gave them all three stars even though they're probably deserving of one star each because there's nothing really about them that's good except for the covers which genuinely bring me joy continue to bring me joy every time I look at these covers on my shelf I'm like you're so beautiful that something about the colors is just so deeply satisfying to me I don't care that I didn't really think these books are good and I still like I I guess the only word for how I felt reading them was that I did enjoy the experience but I I don't know how like what other word to apply I've never felt the way that I did reading these books the best I can do is is say that it was like the experience of like role playing cosplaying of the type of person that would enjoy these books I was like what if I just turned off my brain and every time the book did something that I would normally be like this makes no sense this is stupid this is ridiculous this is a great example of bad writing this is why you should never do this in a book how can people like this every single time the book did that which was very very often I was like what if I just kind of like watched that thought and waived at it as it passed by and didn't engage with it and just read these books like I see no no problems here yeah they're not good they're truly not good not even in like uh this is so bad but you know it's like trashy good fun it's not trashy good fun it's not even like wildly entertaining nonsense it's pretty boring in mid there's there's nothing redeeming about these books except for their covers if you love these books I'm really happy for you like it's fine you can like them you can like what you like yeah they're not good I just really like these covers and for whatever reason I just chewed through them all and I don't regret the experience but I don't think I'll ever understand why I did it but anyway that happened so then um in the middle of there don't fall down don't fall down I read um city of last chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky with my patrons for our buddy read not for the vlog because I also do a vlog and yeah this is the first book in this series that was the name of the series the tyrant philosophers and I was pretty disappointed in this I've heard the second one is like much better and that I would probably like things that I didn't like about this I would like the second one better I might read it I don't know I love the covers the style of the covers of the series basically I felt like this had a so very very much potential there are so many things in this book that conceptually are absolutely my cup of tea and not only my cup of tea but like this specific type of scenario being proposed by the author is very very interesting and and has the potential to be like a fantastic basis on which to write the story but I felt like one it did too many things in one book so we couldn't actually devote any time to actually like properly examining engaging with any one of those ideas so it was like looking at a menu of fun options and not actually getting to order anything and then I mean that was the main problem honestly and then well I guess the things that it was engaging with I feel like are quite similar to a lot of what is the story is quite different I don't want to give you the wrong impression but there are a lot of similarities to Kaz can we not you're so cute but please don't that's no that's not for you okay bye bye to the age of madness trilogy by Joe Abercrombie the third the second trilogy the third set of three in the world of first law so a little hatred it's trouble with peace and the last argument wisdom of crowds and in particular wisdom of crowds is where I feel like there's similarity to some stuff in here you've got this sort of like revolution in a city populist uprising thing going on in a speculative scenario with like a lot of politics and machinations etc more magical because Adrian Tchaikovsky is more into more magic and Joe Abercrombie is on the lowest of low ends of magic like the like when people say low magic like Joe Abercrombie is like barely any magic I just feel like Joe Abercrombie he kind of like spent the entire trilogy that trilogy developing some of the ideas that are kind of like shoved in here alongside 50 other things in one book and we kind of like go through the arc in that is explored in that whole trilogy in like a quarter of this one book so it's just too fast and you can't properly engage with it so I just kind of felt really unsatisfied reading this I was like there's just like so much good stuff in here and it's like all going to waste because we can't actually like chew on any of it so again I've heard the second book is better both in general and also like given my criticisms specifically that people said well the second book for you in particular would work better so I might read it I don't know but yeah that's how I feel about this. Stunning cover though. Then what did I read next? Hexwood for the ladies and bodice repers it was my pick so the live show was on my channel by Diana Wynne Jones who is the author of Howl's Moving Castle. Hexwood is much much more much much less known less well known to the point where this is out of print I think or almost out of print or maybe print on demand and like I didn't know it was so hard to find when I chose it so I felt a little bad about that because I just already had this book and Diana Wynne Jones is a pretty well known author so it didn't occur to me that this would be hard to come by. Anyway this book was dedicated to Neil Gaiman by Diana Wynne Jones which was like a huge part of my interest in it but yeah we talked about it in the live we all felt kind of mixed about it it has like it's a kind of chaotic and strange book that you kind of have to be willing to go with if you like Terry Pratchett, if you like Doctor Who, if you like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, if you like that kind of like absurdist chaotic Britishness then you probably do quite well with Hexwood but it's certainly not for everyone so anyway I'm glad I read it I don't think everyone felt that way. Then I did next read The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams for my vlog for my patrons um they meaning they chose it for me to read if you have forgotten I've forgotten at this point. And I what did I think about this? It wasn't very memorable I think I thought that it was quite mid. Did I write a review for it? It'd be great if I did but clearly it's um not a memorable book. I feel like there was something specifically that I don't know of me. Ooh I did write a review. I was being all cryptic because I'm like you have to watch my vlog to know what I thought about it. Well I have to go watch my own vlog to know what I thought about it. I just said I can see why they chose it for me but dot dot dot well god damn it past Leanna. Future Leanna doesn't know what you meant by that so let's see. Yeah I think I thought that it just wasn't okay yeah it's coming back to me. Characters I thought were not well done at all and I think I thought that the politics of it was actually like quite simple but acting like it was complicated. I feel like that was my thought about it. Oh and I think that I thought that the main character who's like that's what could kind of get you invested in this is if you're really like interested in the main oh I thought yeah the main character wasn't very consistent in his characterization. He just was like whatever that type of character would need to be in a given part of the story because like that's what this like hero's journey arc is about because this is the part of the story where they develop courage. This is the part of the story where they like it just didn't feel like this is a character that's genuinely going through these changes. They're just like going through the proper like checkpoint motions of like what the story needs them to be so it never felt realistic or consistent or consistent within them as a character or for the story it didn't feel believable that they would behave in these ways it was just like well this is the part where this type of character does this thing and this is the part where the this type of character would react this way because that's how the story has to go you know. So yeah I felt it was kind of not very well done. I think I thought that the prose was good yeah I think I thought that the prose was good enough to where if you were kind of not paying attention you'd be like this feels like it's probably pretty good but then like if you actually like looked at the politics of the story and the characterization or lack thereof it's actually like there's not that much there under pinning this so yeah and then it had like a cliffhangery ending that I saw coming and I did not feel interested in going on to read more so yeah I was quite disappointed because I think this was my first Tad Williams. I own a different Tad Williams that I had purchased a long time ago because Patrick Rothfuss recommended it um and the prose being good I can see why he'd be into it. The book that I have from Tad Williams that I had originally intended to read first and have not is I think it's to do with boats or something. The dirty streets of heaven so not boats. I haven't read it but that was that book specifically that I got from Rothfuss as a recommendation so maybe I would really like that book I don't know. Prose was pretty good in this. I definitely enjoyed the prose more for this than like say my attempts to read the world. So yeah this wasn't it for me. Then a book that I've definitely talked about on the channel um you should have seen the video although I was pretty cryptic about what book it was in the thumbnail but I'm sure you clicked on the video so you know that Shakespeare was a woman in other heresies how doubting the bard became the biggest taboo in literature by Elizabeth Winkler. This is nonfiction about the Shakespeare authorship question and this is going to go down to be one of my favorite books of the year. On the thumbnail if you're confused and you're like no I haven't seen that you did a video on this I just blurred it out and I said this is the best thriller that I've ever read because it reads like a thriller. It's nonfiction um but it's Elizabeth Winkler kind of like tracking down this question and talking to people and it's just like really taboo questions that people are trying to warn her off from like asking about it and it's this really contentious topic which seems ridiculous because it's like who cares like why are you not allowed to ask about this um there's just like so much wrapped up in it so many people who have kind of like their reputations and identities wrapped up in this question um so just like the macro of like how did it get to be such a big deal to even ask that question as well as the specifics of like okay but like it seems like there's pretty good reason to actually be asking this question so then and if not you know this man from Stratford called William Shakespeare then who it's just this like amazing multi-layered like so complicated and and like historically and anthropologically culturally politically interesting mystery and Elizabeth Winkler's authorial voice is so compelling and readable I was just like chewing through it like it was a page turner I couldn't get enough I read it so fast I was like this is so good so anyway I highly recommend whether you give a shit about Shakespeare or not I recommend next I read a book that I got from the library um and that was the house across the lake by Riley Sager again I saw in some video someone get hyped about it um I think I had read Riley Sager before yeah I definitely did I read the one with the green cover um home before dark I didn't really like it but everyone always loves Riley Sager I shouldn't say everyone these are quite popular author so anyway this person loves this one and I was like all right give it a go and credit where it's due for a big chunk of the book the certainly the first half of it I was like yeah this is like really compelling and page turning like I'm it's very atmospheric it's very like moody like I'm I'm definite page turner flying through this one I know what's gonna happen and I think the person who really liked it had said that like it's unpopular it's an unpopular opinion to really love this one that a lot of people take issue with kind of the twist in it or the ending in it and they're like I like it but a lot of people really don't like that so I was very curious to see what that twist would be because I was like well so far so great very like credit where it's due like this is kind of unputdownable and then the twist happened and it was I was not prepared it was truly the most ridiculous I what no out no absolutely not that was ridiculous so yeah credit where it's due it is like talented writing to make the like getting there the setup and the premise and the hey you know scene to scene to feel so kind of like oh my gosh what's happening I feel that like tense and I feel interested and curious I think it's like good writing like in that sort of sense but like the the plot like where this goes what the answer to what's going on is is truly one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read in my entire life zero out of ten do not recommend next I read the Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes which is the second book in the inheritance games trilogy I've started reading Final Gambit I would like to finish that series this here Final Gambit and then I don't actually know like where the brothers Hawthorne sits if it's a prequel or a sequel or what I have all four but anyway this felt very much like a middle book the first book was a very page turny fun book that isn't like quality but like just a very good time for me anyway the premise is that some like poor ish I guess it's a properly poor girl finds out that like some mega billionaire has died and like left her randomly his um well his house and everything but there's a catch where she has to like stay in the house for a year and there's like a puzzle mystery to be unearthed like in the house and it's like a competition to actually win the inheritance between her and his act his like blood relative heirs his uh grandsons slash nephews or just grandsons I don't know but so it's like the boys and her trying to figure out like the clues left behind in this big mansion house this like uber billionaire so it's like a fun time I reminded me of like the western game which I love when I was a kid um or like the knives out house but like on crack because it's like billionaire so like it was like silly but it was like anyway every chapter ends on a cliffhanger kind of thing so anyway this is the second book and uh of what I believe is a trilogy again I don't know exactly what the brother's hawthorn is I have it but I think it's a trilogy like this mystery will wrap up in the next book this just feels like a way to stretch it into three books because like nothing really like happens in here there's like a couple kind of reveal type things to get you through but it's like it's here to like pad the run times what it feels like so like it wasn't a terrible time but it felt very much like we're kind of like treading water until we can like wrap things up in the final gambit so I'm looking forward to having this wrapped up because it seems to me this is probably going to have been a duology or even a standalone but anyway I'm having a decent time oh yes I also talked about this uh next I read argile by ellie conway which isn't actually written by ellie conway because there's no such person as ellie conway spoilers for my video on argile I read it because I saw the trailer for the movie and I was like oh it's based on a book the book sounds really interesting like I'm gonna go read the book and then see the movie and I did that which ended up being much more of a chaotic and confusing situation than I really realized and argile the book is terrible really really bad and there's kind of a reason for that which I talked about in that video but um I felt very um tricked so do not recommend next I read happy place by emily henry and I think that the world's strategic pink reserve was um expended on this book I loved be treed and read that when it came out and then after that I read like I picked up a bunch of her backlist which was YA she's now written quite a few adult books but at the time it was all just like the YA books and I haven't liked any of those and then she wrote another adult book so I tried I was like okay so I guess that's where it's at so I did I read people we meet on vacation and better than the young adult stuff but I didn't like it very much so I was like okay I guess be treed one hit wonder like that's it but I got I got this one a while ago I think someone gifted it to me I think I don't really give up on authors if they did something right at one time this I really really liked I still like be treed slightly more but this was like we're back baby I was like this is what I wanted this is what I thought all of your books would be this was giving me more what be treed gave me we're like I felt very invested in these characters and it wasn't you know it's not just like a rom-com you know it's it's kind of like serious life issues more lit fiki where I feel very seen and very represented by kind of some of the emotional issues and baggage and and like the friendships and the everything that's in it I was just like yes this this is it this is what I want from Emily Henry so I think I gave this five stars I probably was like oh should I then I was like fuck it this was I couldn't put this down I didn't want it to end so yeah if you liked be treed I do think you'd like happy place definitely much much better than people we need on vacation I really liked this next I read halibans war by james s a quarry she's actually what's it daniel abraham and someone else were the writing duo this is the second book in the expanse and I really really liked it um I plan to read more of the expanse this year I read the first book in the expanse last year as part of like a vlog project and I started watching the show after reading this and I'm definitely enjoying the show more now having read because I tried one episode of the show a while ago before I'd ever read any of the books and wasn't a fan but having read a couple of the books the show is a lot more interesting to me because I kind of know these characters from the books and I'm more interested in seeing them in the show because I think the show is not paced especially well but if I kind of already know from the books then I find myself a bunch more interested weirdly even though I already know what's gonna happen I don't know I really enjoyed this I think I probably like this slightly more Kazzie no okay Kaz knocked over my liqori yeah you did don't look at me like that you're so cute where was I oh yeah caliban's war um yeah I think I like this better than leviathan wakes and I did really like leviathan wakes but now it's been a minute now I'm like mixing the show with this oh yeah there's a character that I think it's already in the show but it was she wasn't in the first book but they put her into the beginning of the story what's her name she was interesting I liked meeting her something oh yeah avasarola yeah yeah no I really really enjoyed this I'm enjoying the series I think I've heard people say that's kind of like a long series and comes back up again which in such a long series as to be expected but yeah this is just like good like fun adventure sci-fi space opera stuff like interesting politics lots of interesting characters I feel immersed and interested and playing with some interesting concept take some twists and turns that I don't expect like it's not you know like breaking the mold or anything but it's like it's very good I can see why the series is so popular so yeah looking forward to reading what's next abaddon's gate yeah just think it's a good time if you like sci-fi I think this is good next next I read for my patrons because you see the patron vlog is so the way that I do it is where like higher tiers of patrons get to like suggest books and then everybody gets to vote on which book I actually read and then I vlog the book me reading the book I know super complicated no one's ever done it that way before but patreon the like app or whatever it's really stupid and when I when you're creating a poll if you like it has like automatically two entries and then you can you know add more add more add more but if you accidentally add an extra one you can't delete it so okay this has happened a couple of times where I've like accidentally added an extra option um where I can't delete it and then like that's what I write in the option I'm like well I can't delete this one like that's why this is here this isn't a real option so that happened again where I were like I can't delete this one because patreon is dumb and I can't delete this one because patreon is dumb won the poll and so I read fourth wing because I thought that would be funny and um yeah it was uh it was funny um pretty long vlog one of my longer ones because I kind of like talked about more you know specifics and nitpicks I figured that's kind of what people would want from me I'd had food poisoning directly before reading this it was an interesting time so yeah I read fourth wing and um yeah that's all I have to say about that uh next then I read another thriller that I got from the library um The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley and I did not like this either I liked it at first kind of like with um not nearly as bad of a twist as um the house across the lake but kind of like with that where I was like to start out with I was interested in grossed it seemed like a good premise good setting and then where it ends up going I was like this doesn't make a lot of sense it makes very very little sense and it just like it beggars the belief to a point where like I can't find it interesting or be like oh what a twist because I'm like that's ridiculous like what so yeah I was pretty disappointed especially because in the past I've quite liked Lucy Foley books um the first of hers I read I think was The Guest List um I liked that and also if I read by her I read The Guest oh yeah The Hunting Party I didn't like that as much as The Guest List but it was pretty good I liked that it better than The Paris Apartment is that it it might be it so yeah it's definitely the least good Lucy Foley book that I've read not as bad as the Raleigh Snaker one and then next for my Patreon buddy read I'll be last year we read The Wizard of Earthsea in December I think and I kind of hoped it would be a read-along but I think I'm going to stop here um but we read the tombs of Atuan um by Ursula Le Guin or Ursula K. Le Guin and my feeling with this and with The Wizard of Earthsea is that I mean these walked so a lot of other books could run I just don't enjoy reading it because there's so much better like so many better books that have come later they kind of owe a lot of what they they are to Ursula K. Le Guin doing this first but also like with Wizard of Earthsea like I enjoyed that one more than this one this I liked a lot less than this one did some things where I was like this doesn't make sense and the thing about this that would be interesting is the thing that it's not bothering to explore so why am I reading this I was quite irritated but like The Wizard of Earthsea I thought it was pretty good but it was very kind of arm's length and surface level and it was telling the type of story that like Robin Hobb would tell but The Wizard of Earthsea you know is like short just like this and the story that it tells Robin Hobb would take an entire trilogy to tell and she would do this like mega deep dive into the psychology of each of the characters and that's kind of what I'd be more interested in and so like The Wizard of Earthsea felt kind of like like an outline that Robin Hobb would write for her trilogy and so it was a good story one that I'd be interested in it just felt like we never got to like get into it so I was like I I mean I see why this kind of like changed the fantasy landscape and why it is regarded as a classic but yeah Tombs of Atuan like I said I was pretty annoyed at what it chose to focus on and chose not to focus on and how it handled a certain aspect of it I was like what so yeah I'm disappointed because I own them all in these pretty editions and I want this to be my favorite series of mine because it's so classic and well regarded etc but it's just it's not honestly so anyway I'm disappointed then next I read Lock Every Door by Riley Sanger which I liked better than the house of nothing will ever be as stupid as House Across the Lake truly baffling but Lock Every Door was a lot like the pair's apartment where the premise to begin with is really really good actually more like House Across the Lake where the beginning is really really good the setting exactly what I would want it feels mysterious and interesting the characters are compelling I am really you know I'm it's very page starting not as pain-turning as House Across the Lake I have to say I was disappointed in that that I wasn't like whoo like what's gonna happen next but it was good I was enjoying it and then the revelation of what's going on and what's been going on and what the mystery is was ridiculous um so I just I couldn't enjoy it I couldn't find it to be an engaging twist because it was just so bonkers and then it gets wrapped up in just a ridiculous and aggressively dramatic way and I thought I was like just trying to get through it at that point I was like okay well this is stupid um so yeah I think I'm dead with Riley Saker or maybe I'll try again who knows uh next I read A Good Girl's Guide to Murder um by Holly Jackson which is the first book in a series but I was pleasantly surprised that well some part of the mystery remains to be told in the future I think it's a trilogy as well but like a big central mystery to that book does get wrapped up in the first book which I was after reading Truly Devious and not finishing yet the inheritance games and I think some others I don't know but I'm just kind of used to them kind of like dragging it out and stretching it so well the there's a carryover from this original mystery that is like I'm assuming what the next book's going to be about like we get solid satisfaction of murder mystery resolution in the first book um and actually so I got that from the library but um I went ahead and ordered this special edition because it's just I didn't actually like the book that much but this edition is so freaking cool the pages I mean this parade pages like I this is so awesome the end pages so like I think it's pretty good I don't think it's like breaking the mold so I think it's better than Truly Devious in terms of like the mystery and the the fact that it does wrap up a big part of it in the first book is more satisfying I just like being in the world of Truly Devious better so like I think in some wibbly wobbly objective sense if there is such a thing this is better than Truly Devious but Truly Devious I just like escaping into this like ridiculous unrealistic boarding school setting where they are in Truly Devious and then the flashbacks to like the old timey um timeline like I just being transported to that setting is more appealing to me than this much more mundane setting but I think this is a better mystery and a better execution of a mystery plot for a YA book if that makes sense so I think it's better but I like Truly Devious better anyway I'm definitely gonna read the next books in the series and I've ordered the editions to match because of course next I read the Morton Artour by Sir Thomas Mallory which I've had for a long time I've never read it before which is kind of the not there is no like one single Genesis point but it's kind of the the first sort of proper um canonization of the King Arthur legend story I really kind of hate King Arthur I never that's why I haven't hadn't read it before and hadn't read any Arthur story before by which I mean any of the kind of like original traditional classic Arthur stories because I just it's never appealed to me um I'm a Robin Hood girly not that you have to be one or the other but like of these old timey England legend slash history type figures Robin Hood like yeah King Arthur I was like I don't get the appeal but I'd never actually read the original story and having read it I feel like even less kindly disposed towards it I was like I never really liked it when I just kind of had this bear kind of sketched outline of what King Arthur is the bare bones of kind of like vaguely the the beats of the story having them sort of properly read it now like oh my god fucking Arthur this story I do not understand why it's like has the you know the imagination and nationhood like of England in its grip like I just what so anyway there's a reason I read this that I am not saying yet right now but anyway for the same reason that I read this I read reread by force alone by lobby to Dar this is I read this when it came out and um at the time I was like I think I would get even more out of this if I was more familiar with King Arthur and now reading Malory's Le Morte d'Artour right before rereading this I was like oh hell yeah yeah there's even more here I love this even more the first time I read it I was like I think this is brilliant but it was super weird and I don't know that much about Arthur I think it's brilliant though and rereading it one I was prepared for how weird it is because this you know is a reread so like I'm not like what the fuck I'm like I know it's gonna be a pretty massive what the fuck but also then I could actually kind of more engage with or identify all the places he's messing with Arthur and intentionally kind of satirizing parts of Arthur that kind of the first time I love this and I also love the fact that this is written by somebody who also fucking hates King Arthur this is not written from a place of like a scholar that is like it's not coming from reverence or admiration or obsession like this is not somebody who's like knows the Arthur story intimately and kind of wants to kind of mess with it or do a twist on it he hates the King Arthur story despises and it's like if you're gonna read this like know that going into it if you are a big fan of Arthur or even kind of like Arthur he doesn't it's not treating it kindly or reverently or anything and then also it's kind of like bananas in it kind of the speculative elements and the tone that it takes with it which I really really enjoy I think it's brilliant but it's a weird one and again there's a reason that I read this and well read that and re-read this which stay tuned for that next I read Rouge by Mona Awad and I was disappointed because it really did not stick the landing in my opinion I thought when I started it that I was like oh this is even better than Bunny and I really liked Bunny but I was like oh this is like a step up from that like the writing in and I maintained the writing in Rouge is better than Bunny and so like for like at least 50% to 75% of the book I was like this is really good I'm probably gonna give this five stars four minimum and then it truly completely fumbles the landing in my opinion to the point where I was like oh this is barely a three stars like I kind of wish it just kind of randomly cut off in a midpoint with an utterly utterly open non-conclusive ending would have been better I would have given it four stars but it like wraps things up in a way that is like isn't good isn't it's not satisfying because it's like too satisfying it's like this suddenly this like neat let's explain everything and none of the explanations are good but let's go through the motions of explaining everything and wrapping everything up and like I don't know what meaning I was supposed to derive from the ending or if the point of it is that there is no point then stop putting a bow on it like I just it completely lost me on the ending but like 75% of it I think is so good and so interesting and I couldn't I was like I kind of couldn't wait to see where this would then wrap up I was like where is she going with this like what is ultimately going to have been the point of this um and well yeah anyway the journey was much better than the destination. And last, aside from my current re-re-re-read of The Wolf and I'll enchanted, I read for my patrons they chose for me to read and vlog, station 11 by Emily St. John Mandel and um I uh let me put it this way I think fourth wing is a much better book. That's all I had to say about that. So yeah that's a wrap up of quarter one. Kaz what are you doing? That's a wrap up of quarter one. Um hope you're well. I'm decently well. I'll be back soon-ish with another video. I have several in mind. It's a matter of sitting down to film them. Just a little tricky these days but we'll we will get it done and yeah let me know if you've read these books if you want to read these books if I've convinced you to or to not read these books. The usual whatever you don't let me know. I post videos dot dot dot sometimes um so yeah see you when I see you bye