 Hello everybody, E here welcome back to another book review today is a special one because this is we actually finished a buddy read For this channel. We actually finished one In the past we have finished the Hobbit But I did I stopped along the way The whole of the rings ones. I think I got through the fellowship. It doesn't matter This is the first complete read through we have done of anything as far as reading with E over on Goodreads But this time we made it because I brought in my buddy. Well read beard. Okay, so go check him out If you haven't already he's fantastic For those of you who like my older videos where I don't do any editing. What's over I just sit and talk to a camera Beards your dude. So if you're like, oh man, you're company. You're doing all this friendship stuff Then definitely go over and check beard out But today we are talking about Ali sees Names see at like at like the sea, you know sea the Y is silent go down hard Beards review should be up today, too. I'm not sure if it's not linked down there in the doobly-doo Just go over there. Just go over to Beards channel. You don't know where Beards channel is just well read beard Just Google it Whatever anyways, so this book I have one minor gripe And I'm gonna get that minor gripe out of the way right up front. This is completely biased completely subjective If you I don't think I was talking to beard and beard was like well every isn't everybody gonna have a problem With reading about it. And I'm like, yeah, but I'm just I'm I'm tired of it So that's my only gripe and that is reading rape scenes. I don't I've never enjoyed them I don't like writing them. That's just me personally It's just it it's not it's not that it's that it triggered that it triggers me or that it is I don't find it enjoying to to read it. That's it. I think that's the only thing and that's I'm only knocking off 0.5 for that. I know it was important to the backstory, but also it rang a little I mean, I know damn near every woman has a me too story You're not all and all women have me too story, but it there was a lot of I don't know I'm trying to say this the right way It felt a lot like promising young woman even the backstory Almost to the point where I was like, okay, this is going to happen This is it it became predictable because I've read about this type of Situation so often am I saying stop writing about it? Hell no tell your stories. I just I don't like reading about it but the The other point I'm trying to make it is yes, it is needed. It was needed It was there. I just didn't like reading it as my own subjective opinion As far as the entire rest of the story. It was absolutely amazing, especially after our two Killers that it says on the back that they're killers you have Meg and we're gonna talk about that name here in a second We're talking about Meg and Jack. They're both killers They end up bumping into each other once they finally meet the book takes off and I didn't want to stop But I kept my pace. We were doing like 25 pages a day I did cheat at the end and read the last 75 pages all in one go. No the last 50 pages I'm sorry I stopped at a hundred to check in and then I read the next the next 50 pages But once it gets going man, it's written it didn't end anywhere like none of us I don't think any of us expected it. There were several of us I think at least at least six or seven people joined the read-along over on Goodreads. I haven't checked the The I didn't want to be spoiled too much and it's really hard to hide spoilers here on YouTube So I didn't check the comments too much any big bricks of text. I completely skipped over but I'll go back and talk to you guys I will have already responded to you guys by the time this goes up, but I had a lot of fun with this book The writing is fantastic. There are some hard truths in here That dudes are not going to like Well certain types of dudes most of us know that these these things are problems Most of us know and do not hang out with these types of dudes or even speak to these types of dudes And sometimes one of your friends will pop up and be one of these types of dudes And that's when you cut ties. Hopefully But anyways, it's it's not a hard read as far as content is concerned other than there There is the there's a lot of talk of rape There's a lot of talk about Meg's back story Another thing with this one is I there's There's a scene that just completely changes Everything like I was saying all of us in the group thought we it was going one place Thought something was going to happen before something else happened and that thing did not happen. It just Starts with one moment. I don't even want to tell you what instigates it just starts with one moment And the ball gets rolling. I really enjoyed the way it ended. I didn't I didn't see any of that stuff coming I knew they were going. I knew that was going to happen there at the end just did not Happen in the way. I thought it was going to probably because I had seen Promising young woman. Um, and I got stuck on that for the first half of this book and that's probably It's probably a lot of Me not loving it right off the bat because I was so stuck on it But once I got past that fact once I got past that and it turned into a completely different thing I was all there for it. Now. Let's talk about Meg This of course it it doesn't feel it way and it's not really like a rape revenge fantasy It's not like I spit on your grave where This person is hunting down the people that rape them this stuff is all in the past with with this one what you're getting is a Person hunting down people that really have no association with this person But they are bad people then you have another killer who just is pulled drawn To to kill with no set. There's nothing sexual whatsoever about what they do There might be a little bit of an arousal while they're killing but it's more about the killing than it is about, you know You know the sexual release or whatever But let's talk about me. Um, I had I have not read this interview or this article or any any of this about The author talking about how she was inspired by Jack Ketchum's the girl next door The young woman in that book is I believe called Meg someone else brought this up in the I can't remember which one of you I apologize Brought up that this article where Ali says this Ali C says this that was based on It's inspired by Jack Ketchum's the girl next door that characters names Meg this character's name names Meg so it feels like This that it feels too on the nose not to be you know not not connected But it feels like and I don't want to spoil the girl next door for anyone, but it feels like it feels like it's it was supposed to be that way like like see was The author was going for you know a revenge fantasy for that character and if that's the case Absolutely awesome. I'm down for that Again, the literally the only thing that the only criticism I have is nitpick from me I personally don't like reading about certain things the same way with a Pedophilia child endangerment death of a child. I don't like reading about it. I'll read it I just don't like it. So in my own subjective opinion, this books is a five-star read. I Gave it five stars. I believe on good reads, but I put four point five and literally that point five What I'm talking about is my own subjective opinion having to do with the rape stuff but By all means if you like a good vigilante horror novel This is the place to go if you like really dark horror erotica not, you know, people like Fucking and cutting each other's guts out, but just the sexual tension While there's horror also if you're a Barker fan, you're probably gonna love this I'm trying to think of more and I'm completely slipping because I'm not a huge fan of erotic horror It worked here. My god. It worked here actually fantastic tension between these two characters. You just want them To have sex. I mean, I don't know how else to put it There you just want these two to go at each other and I've never liked that with with stories I know I'm never sitting there going would you two already? I'm never like that. But here we are But if you read go down hard, I love this title Have you read go down hard by Ali see if you have please? Let me know what you thought of it down there in the doobly-doo Me and beard will be doing one of these beard alongs every single month So keep an eye out for that subscribe to his channel subscribe to my channel Whatever go follow the Goodreads group if you want to I'll leave all that stuff down there in the doobly-doo If you want to throw out options for what we should read next maybe it's something beard reads a lot especially in the Indie market So if anybody wants to Maybe bring up something Indie That we haven't read make sure definitely check beards channel because like I said he reads so much Read check his channel first see if he's done it yet, and if you know him personally maybe ask him But if you have any suggestions leave them down there in the doobly-doo if you've read this book Let me know whether or not you loved it or hated it If you loved it or hated it tell me why you loved it or hated it so that we can have a discussion But until next time I have any you've been you this been the book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye