 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another book review. I know my voice sounds funny I'm not feeling the greatest. I just got out of the hospital with a pancreatitis I'm still dealing with it. So I'm not my normal chipper self This is the first video I have shot in a week and a half all the rest of them I shot in October. So new video new me not really Anyways, I spent a couple days in the hospital Barely got out in time to restart this series Not series to restart my videos. I am not going to push myself, but I'm enjoying this The money is great doing daily videos. So here I am But other than that, let's just get on with the review today. We are talking about Mona. Oh wads all's well I listened to this one on scribed. I'm gonna get the hardcover. I just want to make sure Yeah, because I read bunny by her I listened to audiobook on scribe For that one also by the way, if you want a free month of scribe and you haven't signed up for it yet And you want to help out my kids? There's a link down there in the doobly-doo. You get a free month of scribe They get a free month of scribe Everybody's happy. I don't care if you delete it. They're not paying me to say this I don't care if you cancel your subscription the day after you get it I think it's still good for the entire month Just make sure you set a reminder if you don't like to serve definitely or even if you do like to serve But you can't afford it. It's whatever. I don't care if you keep it or not. Anyways, so I read listen to bunny Fantastic loved it adored it one of my favorite books of that year. I was I had no idea this one was out and Her her reviews People don't like this author for some odd reason I don't know why I know there was some controversy that she is not a fat person And she wrote a book called 13 ways to get a fat girl or something like that I read a bunch of those reviews and I don't know you don't have to be something to write about something but It's it's whatever I have not read the book a comment on that when I finally do it's actually a collection. I believe Anyways back to all as well The reason why I didn't go ahead and buy this one after loving bunny is because I always give authors two books To see whether or not I like them enough to buy them in physical form so the I Like bunny and I really enjoyed this one. Was it as good as bunny? No, it wasn't so for you here for the TL DW too long didn't watch I will eventually stop saying both Trying to get you guys to learn I don't think you're idiots. I just thought every everybody who comes in here is not, you know a fan of the channel, so Any I am so scatterbrained like I said, I am I'm not feeling well But I'm doing these videos because they actually bring me joy to do so here I am That with this one I Didn't like it as much as bunny, but I did like the ending more than I like the ending of bunny I thought the ending of this one was quite epic not in like a big Not not like a big action sequence or anything like that But I loved the Sria serial out the surreal aspect of it and I'm a big fan of that of this this subgenre all You know just completely one of my favorite subgenres is mental illness and Miranda Finch Fitch the the Professor the theater professor The theater director whatever she is in the book. She is unwell on top of that She also has a condition that I have I have a condition called quite a quina. That's why I'm disabled I have this the It's a the S the S1 nerve root looks like a horses tail so quite a quina it literally means horses tail I think it's in Latin But it affects your leg your hip it's sciatic and all that stuff with me It was the L5 disc ruptured and pinched the S1 nerve root. I had four emergency surgeries 2005 2008 2011 2014 they finally did a fusion In 2016 and fixed me. I still have pain, but my mobility is back I've had to learn how to re-walk twice So reading about this person with the same condition even though it's never called quite a quina in the book It it it really hit home Especially with the people that didn't believe her when she said it was as bad as she was that it was all in her head And it might have been okay. I'm not gonna spoil the book for you. It might have been all in her head But the way she was treated was unacceptable and it's the same way. I was treated Everybody's just like you just need to lose weight. It doesn't matter how much weight I lose My back is always gonna be messed up but It's like you have a head cold You know if you're fat you go to the the doctor and he's like I have a head cold and it's like you need to lose weight I'm not kidding. It happens. You wouldn't be so sick if you weren't so fat and so on and so forth Right, right, right. It's fat healthy. No, of course it isn't but not every condition is because I'm fat So I really really connected with this character and Miranda is probably my favorite aspect of it Since the book is told in first person from Miranda's point of view You don't get too much as far as the other characters. In fact because of her mental illness You get a lot of characters that run together But that is on purpose. So I'm not docking any points for that one I am gonna give this one four stars because I feel like the first half of it I didn't get enough character development for anyone other than Miranda for me to care and with a cast This big like Brianna, Ellie Hugo There's a Paul character. I know who all these characters are and I know their significance But you only really ever get to see them through Miranda's eyes and Miranda does not do a good job of Talking of dealing with with these people So it is very isolated feeling story because you're stuck in her head Literally because she's stuck in her own head most of the time also She starts off the book. She's on like every drug imaginable. She just reaches into her pocket Which is full of pills and just she doesn't care which one she pulls out whether it be pain medicine anxiety medicine anything And she's just popping and popping and popping So she obviously has a problem right from the jump And then toward the middle of the book everything took a jump with the baths I don't want to give too much away because I thought it was a really cool concept And I love how it played in I'm not going to spoil that either but it plays into something else or Another thing that's referenced in the book. Now the story itself is about this Theater professor wanting to do Shakespeare's all as well that ends well instead of the Scottish play Sorry, I'm a theater geek and I'm not even superstitious and I still call it the Scottish play Macbeth um since I'm not I don't have to worry about you know breaking a leg or anything The all the students want to do Macbeth the the director Miranda she wants to do all as well one of the trouble plays because it's a comedy and a tragedy and it's all muddled So it's it's called one of his trouble plays So it goes on and the farther it goes on she starts meeting these crazy characters And that's when the book gets interesting when you realize that these crazy characters might be completely and holy all in her head And that's what I love so much about the ending because everything is explained even though This is a book about mental illness and much of it is surreal Everything is explained by the end but the end does come off as a little bit of an info dump So all in all I'm going to give it four stars I didn't like it as much as bunny, but I like the second half of the book more than the entirety of bunny I know that sounds weird, but the front half of the book exists also and I can't you know I can't ignore that. I was rather bored. It wasn't even a slow burn for me. It's just I was just like, okay I I relate to this character. I don't relate to anyone else. So people she was bumping into or talking to I was just kind of Along for the ride until the second half when things got weird and wacky and that's what I was there for There is one scene in particular that really bothered me it is it's toward the end it's It has to do with grace toward the end not the ending with the final, you know final reveals But the I don't want to even I don't want to say too much But it was extremely creepy and it got underneath my skin in a way that Night film by Marisha Pessil got under my skin the scene on the bridge if you guys a red night film You know what I'm talking about There is a scene like that in this one that is so Subtly creepy. It's insidious. It got under my skin. It felt I felt Actual dread in my heart like I like my my heart was like oh shit shit shit shit But but that's I would say since you guys know I look for character pacing and dread I've already told you about character and dread as far as the and I even told you about the pacing because the first half It's kind of man, okay, you're getting to know Miranda You don't know what's real and not real and then you get even farther into the book And you realize even more stuff and it does pay off But I can't help but you know tell you the truth Which is I was bored with the first half the second half though chefs kiss But anyways, have you read all as well by mono a wad if you have let me know down there in the doobly Do whether or not you loved it whether or not you hated it whether or not You felt meh about it if you felt any of those things Tell me in detail why you felt those things so that we can have a discussion, but until next time I have been e you've been you This has been another book review and I'll talk to you guys later. 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