Giving Four Thriller Authors a Second Chance By Reading Their Most Recommended Books 🔪😱

hi everyone welcome or welcome back to how to  train your Gavin so a few months back I did Summerween and I read some of booktube's most hated  Thrillers for that Vlog or should I say three Vlogs because I did three episodes of it I read  four books that I think were considered some of BookTube's most hated and I ended up reading them  for the first time and giving you my thoughts and feelings on them to say whether I aligned with  other booktubers turns out I wasn't a fan of pretty much any of

the books I read in that vlog I  mean I might be a b-tch but I do sometimes play fair I felt bad I felt bad that I was judging  them solely based on their lowest rated books so in order to be fair and in order to be nice I  thought I would try and give these four authors a second chance it was an idea that came up during  that vlog series and a few people mentioned it in the comments as well wanting me to do something  like this so consider this the follow-up to reading some of booktube's most h

ated Thrillers  video series I did so the four authors are Alex Michaelides Ruth Ware Riley Sager and Peter  Swanson I keep wanting to say Ron Swanson because I'm such a huge Parks and Recreation fan and I  feel like he's the only person with that surname that I like and in the comments of the Summerween  Vlogs you guys told me all of the books that you loved from these authors so how am I choosing the  books for this video well I have gone through all of the comments on those videos and I have

tallied  up all the times a book was recommended and I have clear winners it was a little bit close at some  points but you know I feel like the four books that I need to read in this video are hopefully  some of the best I mean if you guys really love them then surely they're the best surely so  let's start off with Alex Michaelides the only other book other than the maidens which I read  and really did not enjoy is the silent patient so even though that was the only other book by  the author 1

4 people did recommend it in the Vlogs so you know it could possibly be good so  I will definitely be reading the silent patient for Alex Michaelides and that's because there is  just no other option I have no other option okay Ruth Ware uh she has a bigger catalog she has in a  dark dark wood the woman in Cabin 10 the lying game the death of Mrs Westaway the turn of the key one  by one and the IT girl or is it the It girl I don't actually know so there's actually a clear winner  for Ruth Ware a

nd to tell you the totals that each book got recommendation wise in a dark dark wood  got four votes the woman in Cabin ten got seven votes The Lying Game got zero votes not a single  person recommended that book to me the death of Mrs Westaway got six votes the turn of the  key got 39 votes one by one I'd already done that and the it girl or the IT girl got one recommendation  but I feel like that was because it hadn't really come out yet or it was about to come out and I  think one person read

it on netgalley and they enjoyed it so they recommended it but yeah  it doesn't win it doesn't win still so as you can see there was a clear runaway favourite in the turn  of the key like it doesn't even come close the runner-up is the woman in Cabin ten with seven  votes so there's a huge huge huge gap between them so I'm definitely going to be reading the turn of  the key by Ruth Ware in this video for Riley Sager it was actually a lot closer and at one point it  was a different book that I w

as going to be read but then as I was getting through the third and final  episode of the previous series there were a lot more votes for the one that ended up winning so  in terms of Riley Sager his books are final girls the last time I lied lock every door home before  dark survive the night which I've already read and the house across the lake so in terms of numbers  what were recommended the most final girls got eight votes the last time I lied got 20 votes  lock every door got 32 votes home

before dark got 48 votes and the house across the lake got  three votes so at one point lock every door was gonna be the one that was going to win and I was  really excited for it actually because I know that is Nakia from Nakia's hideaway's favourite Riley  Sager book but home before dark it does look really good and I'm excited to read it especially since  survive the night was my favourite of the bunch that I read in that previous vlog series even  though it still wasn't great and I still di

dn't enjoy it all that much but I still have huge  hopes for home before dark I love the name of it too it's a great name and then finally Peter  Swanson his catalog includes the girl with a clock for a heart the kind worth killing her every  fear all the beautiful lies before she knew him eight perfect murders every vow you break and I of  course have read nine lives so in terms of numbers what was recommended actually Peter Swanson books  weren't recommended all that much in the comments of th

at series not a whole lot of people came  forward with a recommendation for him and a lot of people hadn't actually read from him yet either  so I feel like he just wants to know if all of the authors in this video is like the least popular  which you know sometimes I do like to root for an underdog but I already don't think I'm gonna enjoy  any of his books in all honesty a lot of people have told me he usually retells other stories and  one of my biggest gripes with nine lives was that it was

just a really boring and awful retelling  of and then there were none by Agatha Christie and I just feel like Peter Swanson doesn't have an  original thought in his head however the votes are in and the girl with a clock for a heart got one  vote the kind worth killing got 12 votes her every fear got zero votes all the beautiful lies got  zero votes before she knew him got zero votes eight perfect murders has got nine votes and every  vow you break got two votes I was actually really scared that

eight perfect murders would win because  I have heard that this book spoils a lot of twists and reveals from other classic Murder  Mysteries and again I'm not surprised because it's Peter Swanson we're talking about so I'm  really glad that the kind worth killing won I haven't really heard about that one and I know  nothing about any of these books just putting this out there I don't know anything about them I  will tell you what these books are about in the sections where I read these books so

I will have  time stamps down below if you want to check those out this will be entirely spoiler free too so you  don't have to worry if you haven't read them yet I won't be spoiling a thing however if I do want to  rant like I did in the previous vlogs I will put a spoiler warning up on the screen and I promise I  will not spoil anything for you if you never want to see spoilers you will have the option to skip  and I'm really excited about this vlog I really am because I'm not reading books t

hat a lot of  people hate I'm reading books that the majority of people really enjoy I'm sure there are a lot  of people who don't like the books that I'm about to read in this Vlog but just knowing that you know  they're more universally well accepted compared to the ones I read in the previous Vlog series makes  me happy it makes me excited and I'm so looking forward to going back to my library as well I'm going  back to my library I'm going to be checking these books out I have checked if the

y're available  in the libraries by going on the online catalogue and they are one of them however isn't available  in the one that's just around the corner from me but it's available in a different Library that's  still part of the the library chain that I guess it's part of and I'm just going to travel there  tomorrow to pick it up from that place hopefully nobody gets it before I get there and if they  do they won't be able to stop me from getting it from their hands I obviously can't start r

eading  them tonight because I don't own them yet it is 9pm for some reason I'm drinking a pumpkin spice  Frappuccino at 9pm so I guess I get a night off that's a really strange concept so let's get into  the books now and before we continue don't forget to give this video a like if you enjoyed And  subscribe if you haven't already okay let's go before I get started and tell you about my day  I thought I would show you how I make my coffee because I did get a comment on my haunted castle  Vlog f

rom moonflower asking how I do my coffees so I thought now would be a perfect time to do this  as I'm about to make a coffee and join Jade on some patreon Sprints so I need this coffee this  is only my second coffee today and it's 12:22. 12:22 so I'm flagging I'm flagging a bit but  first did you like what I did with the place I got this from chillingham Castle and I thought  what should I do with it should I put it in my library but then I thought why not put it up  with my coffee machine and m

ake it look like I am selling coffee to witches or something I  don't know with homemade witches Brew served daily and I do have my little cauldron there as  well on top just to add to it I'll keep this up all year round I don't care if it's on Halloween  I'll keep it up all year round I really will um oh crap this needs washed my housemate is pretty  sh-t at washing dishes is not gonna lie anyway back on track so the coffee that I use I use this  coffee and I get it from Amazon I get a pack of

four really quite cheap it's espresso creamer  and it is strong and creamy with the strength guide of four so I do like really strong coffee so  that's the kind of coffee I use and I do put it in a coffee jar thingy-ma-bobby and then I  just you know scoop it into this I need to turn this on as well oh my God I'm turning on from the  wall you'd think I don't do this all the time I do I do it's just because you know what people are  watching me right now I'm a little bit nervous so I do scoop it

in I always do double shots  I never just do singles screw that I've piled it up in there and then I use this little thing to   squeeze it in make sure it's nice and compact so this is a Breville mini Barista Coffee machine I  got this like over a year ago I could probably do with another one A different one to be honest  but I do have a little syrup station here as well I have pumpkin spice oh I was almost about to  actually do that there hazelnut those are my big ones but I do have vanilla gin

gerbread  salted caramel and just plain old caramel it does this every now and then I also have  my chocolate sprinkles up on the top because I always make myself a cappuccino it's my go-to  it's my usual it's my usual so I'll put my mug under there I've put this in with the coffee  grounds can you see look at yeah you can see fine and then double it's a double baby then  I got the milk yeah I'm not fancying the syrup today otherwise I would put pumpkin spice in  but I'm a little pumpkin spiced

out not gonna lie I had a cold one yesterday and that was enough  sorry about the light so I poured the milk into my little milk jug thingy-ma-bobby I don't know  technical terms okay I do have close-up shots of me doing this in my Read With Me video with  the nature sounds so now I'm going to steam the milk it'll be very loud so I don't think I'll be  able to like actually talk about what I'm doing perfect and then I just steam the milk it  takes a little while to do this it's not as fast as wh

at you'd get in a coffee shop and I  like it to be a little bit extra hot so that it lasts a little bit longer I don't like drinking  it until it's a bit cooler but just knowing that it's there and it's like hot now I'd want to  get to it straight away I don't have to explain myself to you okay so I usually wait until it's  between 160 and 180 on the temperature dial thing let's get a bit froth action on this as well so not exactly the best angle but yeah the milk's  done I probably put in a lit

tle bit too much but I'm not 100 percent sure sometimes it looks like it's too  much and it's not sometimes it's too little and it's not I don't understand half the time but  yeah you would do a little bit of this I don't know what this does but I just see Baristas do it  in Starbucks all the time so I do it too and then and then pull ER than that I think I've like froth frothed  it you know okay so that's not like the most perfect one I've ever done so I'm sorry I've kind  of done a little bit

of a disappointing one for you I definitely made it better in that Read With  Me video so do check it out if you haven't already I'll link it down below but uh yeah and then  I just put a little bit chocolate sprinkles at the top and that is my cappuccino it'll taste  bloody lovely though yeah it's still perfect absolutely perfect God I make the best ones I  just need you guys to come over here and try for yourselves I'll make as as many as you want three  pound fifty per cup okay I had a little

bit of a struggle this morning with this Library malarkey  I absolutely love it though absolutely love it and if anything it makes me love libraries even more  so I did have to go to a one that's like a little bit further away to get one of the books and so I  got there but like I've never really been inside before and it's just really just one room and it's  really just one room and not a huge selection but it was so cute and so nice and there were two old  ladies who were minding the desk and

you know I came in and I was like oh hi I'm just here to get  something is that okay and they're like yeah yeah that's fine are you part of the library and I was  like yeah because I thought I was I thought like the library I met now is part of all of them I  thought was like some kind of like chain thing in my bubby because they use the same Catalog  online and that's how I knew that this book was in that Library so I thought it was just all one  thing so I was just like yeah yeah and stuff so

I went and I got the book and then came back and I  got my car down my library card like oh not that one we don't do that one so that she had to sign  me up for one which was absolutely fine and I'm not saying like all old people are like this at  all but she was not the fastest on the computer but it was so in daring because she was like  doing all of the things and like we were just like chatting in between and then she turned the  screen so that I could see it and the whole thing went off th

e whole thing went off and like she  was in the middle of like signing me up for the library and just the whole thing went off and  I was like but she was telling me that you know here I'm the person she was with I like volunteers  and I just absolutely love that like they were the nicest people ever and they were just so helpful  so they got me sign up for the card I felt a bit embarrassed because I thought I was joined up but  it's a different Library so of course I need a different library ca

rd but I'm a bit dim so yeah  I got my Facebook from there and then I went to the one I usually go to but then I couldn't find  one of the books and I was like crap it's on the Shelf so I asked someone oh it says it's available  in the catalog it says what one available in P so I was like it's just something it's on the page  like no that's paperback it's like all right okay but like it was in a different section anyway  because they have other stands and things which obviously I worked at a Boo

kshop for four years I  should know this there are stands I like every now and then and other little selections and stuff  so obviously it was going to be on there I just didn't look oh so I was a little bit dim this  morning but you know what the one thing that was constant in both those libraries was phenomenal  customer service so nice so wholesome and she chat to me for a little bit as well yeah I got  all my books and about all the books I needed to for this video plus one more because I wa

s just  looking right and I was like oh my God like I I love being alive I just love it I absolutely love  the way it feels and just the way I feel when I'm in one and just checking the the books out and  just like so anyway I was just having a look and there was one more that I looked at that I thought  looks really really good so I'm going to show you that before I talk about the ones that I'm reading  for this Vlog I might try and fit this one in even though it doesn't fit with the theme I mi

ght  try and fit this one in but it's called black Lane Mana by Guy morpis it doesn't look so good  and then on there as well I get that Christian steroids oh actually just fell off the bed are you  okay I got that question on steroids like that's hilarious and it's like some kind of magnet  town there was a four-tale passed down an old story about a Shipwrecked upon the coast single  Survivor who made it to show his descendants are said to have a unique ability once in their  lives and only one

s they can unwind the events of the previous six hours and then the more than  200 years later part-time police Constable Ella Manning is attending a party at blockley Manor  when a region storm sweeps in Shane several other guests find themselves trapped when the horse is  brutally murdered in his study the next morning the door locked from the inside they turned to  her to solve the crime oh honestly it sounds so good and I think it's brand new because the front  of this yeah is totally blank

it just feels like a brand new book so I'm excited to read that  but I'm not reading that in this Vlog although I might try at the end we're gonna see anyway  Marvel of that story libraries are phenomenal so I did manage to get my hands on the kind worth  killing by PR Swanson this was the one that was in the library that was a bit further away so this  better be worth it it for that little bit extra mileage I had to walk for it that'll be worth it  I managed to grab home before dog by Randy Sie

ger this one was the one that wasn't under seeker  and it was in a different place on a display but these two I found easily the sanitation by  Alex Mike Ladies as well as the turn of the key by Ruth Ware so yay I got them all and I'm really  excited to dive in I don't know which one would start first I will ask the patrons what they think  I should start with and yeah let's uh see what I'm gonna be reading first I don't really have a  preference I don't mind which one I read first foreign forei

gn not gonna lie I was way too tired last night but  I do have my second coffee of the morning ready to talk to you about the silent patient during the  patreon reads friends with Jade yesterday we did a poll in the live chat and I asked people what  they think I should read first and it was actually quite close there were a few ties and Jade was  the one who ended up picking this for me to read first although the poll did end up going in favor  of this too so Alex is actually the author that I'

m least excited to read because he was my least  favorite author from the first lot of episodes of reading booktube's most hated Thrillers so I  was a bit wary about this going into it I did really enjoy the premise of it when I read it so  this follows a woman called Alicia and for some strange reason she killed her husband and they  never spoke again afterwards and then we follow Theo who is a psychotherapist and he wants Alicia  to be his client essentially but she is in a sort of hospital an

d Asylum is yeah just trying to find  out why she killed her husband so inexplicably so honestly actually I was so pleasantly surprised  by the star of this so we actually have Alicia's diary first and she talks about her husband and  you know it seems like all nice and lovely and then we go into the first chapter which is when  Theo starts to take over as narrator and he says the first line Alicia berensen was 33 years old  when she killed her husband and I was like oh that's a good first time

I will give him that  that's a good first nine so I was intrigued by that right off the bat and then I will say my  attention is kind of waning a little bit because I feel like the rain style is quite pretentious  and it's not really my kind of thing and I felt the same way about the maidens however I do think  I am preferring this to them I genuinely actually 100 I am like this more than the maidens and  I I'm only like 100 pages in so anything could happen anything could happen but already I'm

just  intrigued by why Alessia killed her husband I have no idea why or like if she even did it did she  even do it nobody really saw her to it she was just covered in blood she was with the body and  because she hasn't spoken at all it's like well what actually went down what actually happened  so I am so intrigued yeah and the fact that Theo is a psychotherapist and he is trying to get  Alicia as a client and he's gotten a job now at the place where she's kept that does make more  sense than

the main character in The maidens do doing what she did and honestly the one of the  most ridiculous things the maiden was how ridic how absolutely ridiculous that whole thing was  but this one it's a lot more believable and I'm following it a lot better and again I don't know  if I love Alex's Ryan's style but he's keeping me interested I am intrigued looking forward to  reading more of this today I was going to go to my local cafe but I don't know if the pivot's  still there so I might scratch

that but all in all that's actually a pretty good start I really want  to finish this today I really want to finish this video I would have read so much more yesterday but  I kind of got caught up in doing taxes I actually wanted to do them I actually I had stuff I needed  to do for and I was like you know what I kind of want to do this right now so I did tax stuff  yesterday mostly but I still managed nearly 100 pages so I'm really happy with my progress so far  okay this man isn't for me it r

eally isn't I mean attractive yes he is an attractive man I'll give  him that but Mr Alexander is writing style the way he tells a story not having it so as I said  before I did find the premise really intriguing really like the mystery aspect of it but I feel  like after a certain point I was like wait hang on what am I actually reading so I will have to do  a spoiler bit for this I will put spoilers on the screen so that you don't have to listen through  the spoilers if you haven't read it yet

if you want to read it then don't worry I will not spot  it for you but I can't talk about the plot twist and stuff without you know spoilers so I did  mention that we had Theo as the psychotherapist and he tries really hard to get Alicia's case  she's been in this place for seven years I think since she called her husband and he's trying to  get her to talk and to think in to do things so there's a lot of plot holes for me there were  a lot of things that didn't add up and didn't make sense an

d I feel like I had the exact same  problems as I had with the maidens with this one and I thought starting this one out I thought it  would be different but I soon came to realize I just don't get on with it I just don't let's do  the spoiler review right so we have Alicia and her Diaries right and Alicia she say is things  that are happening in her life we get leading up to her husband's murder and she mentions a man she  mentions saying a man and honestly as soon as soon as we had the inkling

that Alicia wasn't the one  to kill her husband I immediately thought Theo I think it was pretty obvious that the only man that  would be a shocking twist per se would be Theo the psychotherapist who's been trying to get Alicia  Keys she's obsessed with her and stuff like that I thought that's what's going to be in it and I  was right I was right this man this man who ends up coming in and tying Alicia up and tying her  husband up it is the all Theo doesn't kill her husband Alicia still does ki

ll her husband but  I just don't understand her reasoning for it I don't get how we got from point A to B in this I  don't know if maybe I just accidentally skipped it although I doubt it but I just feel like there's  just a huge part of this or huge chunk of this missing that I feel should have connected the  dots but it just didn't now apparently Alicia when she was younger her dad said that he wishes  that Alicia had died instead of his I believe her sister had died or something and her dad s

aid I  would rather her be dead and Alicia hid that and she's like well that was the moment he killed  me I've been dead ever since right but like it doesn't really explain anything it doesn't explain  why she stays silent or even why she actually does kill her husband like I don't think any of  that's explained her art as well like there's a huge focus on her art and what her art represents  and her painting I don't think any of that came to anything in this either and even Alicia's sketchy  re

latives or people who were associated with her husband when Theo is going off and doing his  investigations and stuff like that came to pretty much nothing either because I mean I don't I can I  don't really understand what I feel is doing this if Theo was the man who came in and tied them  up and set Alicia off for killing her husband Why seven years later is he trying to get a case  and I know I know Theo has troubles at home he has a wife who was cheating on him and honestly I  didn't care le

ss I was like am I supposed to care about him in his love life in this relationship  with his wife because I don't I actually don't I don't care about anything of that he's like I'm  not going to talk about me this is Alicia's story he was a liar he's a liar I also don't understand  the whole investigation thing into Alicia killing her husband Charlie they would have seen that  she'd previously been tied up right because yeah Theodore did bind her and then you know he he  shoots his gun in the a

ir with both the husband and her there and he lets Alicia go he he removes  her bones and lets her go and she does end up shooting her husband in the face five times which  again I don't think was explained very well but Charlie the investigators the police would have  well one seen the bound marks on her arms so they would have known and they would have I don't know  if Theo took the rope that he used or anything but like Charlie Charlie there's just some particles  of you know anything like fo

r some reason it just seemed like the investigation was stupidly not  done properly and also just the fact that they didn't even consider the other man Theory which  there was a witness for and even Alicia's diary I don't understand why she would do this but it's  like the same as why I like dnf'd the appeal I was just like why is this all being told in emails  this just doesn't make sense but like say with this when Alicia is writing in her diary right and  she's like oh a man's just broken in

he's coming upstairs he's on his way and stuff like that why  are you right now in your [ __ ] diary run run just leave why are you doing that and it's the  same at the end like with a twist thing with you know Theo um given Alicia this obscene amount  of morphine that's supposedly going to put her in a coma and like it's a huge overdose of it she  still had time to write everything in her diary and hide it so that the people could find out what  Theo had done to her but like why didn't she just

say something her reasoning for being quiet the  entire time you're not saying anything is stupid like she doesn't actually have a reason to not  speak and defend herself there is just no actual reason for that it doesn't make sense I feel like  the whole mental health side of it as well wasn't export very well so kind of came across this  very well bad and something that was handled very well what else honestly was just so much that  frustrated me by the end of this I was gonna give this like

two and a half stars but I'm thinking of  like really lowering that now to like two stars I think I gave the maidens one and a half star so  I think I will give this two stars because I did still like it more than the maidens and it made a  little bit more sense than the maidens but I don't know maybe I should lower the maidens to one and  give this one 1.5 yeah that's what I'm gonna do I want to give this one 1.5 Stars I just I didn't  think like it was that great like I don't mesh with the wri

ting style at all I don't think there  was an actual plot twist in this I don't think the story at the end of the day made any sense there  weren't any really characters that felt genuine I feel like even with the maidens too a lot of  dialogue was well just felt manufactured and it just felt like we're watching a play which I guess  probably is the point because we have some kind of like Greek tragedy kind of parallel or whatever  with this which is fine honestly but we're being presented a rea

l life story you know this is  supposed to be real this is supposed to actually make sense and it doesn't it feels panto it feels  fake it feels false the dialogue isn't genuine it's just none of it feels genuine my memory is  shocking but I definitely like this just slightly more than the maidens but it's just genuinely  not for me I will never ever read another book by this man again ever yeah a disappointing like  hugely disappointing especially starting off the blog like this when I'm suppos

ed to be reading  you know booktube's most like love Thrillers by these authors and obviously I had no other option  to read this and if it releases another I'm not going to read it I'm not gonna read it even for  a video project it ain't gonna happen unless it gets like hugely amazing reviews and I get four  more but other than that no I'm not gonna do it so yeah that was a bit of a round review I'm so  sorry if you didn't want any of the spoilers and you've skipped to this part I just don't kn

ow what  else to say about this book other than it's just really disappointing and just wasn't really that  good to me anyway so I do have either home before dog the kind with killing and the tune of the key  to read next I'm unsure which one to start I mean I have put a bookmark into home before dark but  that's because it was on the top of the pile I am probably more excited to read home before talk  or for the other ones but I might go on Instagram I might do a story I want to have a little b

it  of a break or a reading break because I just I just want one yeah I'll just wait a couple hours  Put on my Instagram stories what I should read next and see what people pick pardon me secretly  hope not home before dark is the winner because ready Sega was top of the leaderboard in the  summerween Vlogs so we'll see if ready Sega continues his reign as the best thriller author  out of the ones that I've read for this series oh foreign okay so I went on to the Instagram post to  look at the p

oll and when I checked it the tune of the key was winning so I started reading  the turn of the key and I'm now 82 pages in but now home before dark is winning so I don't know  what to do uh this is hilarious okay so what I'm gonna do is because I respect you guys so much  I respect all the people who've ordered in that poll that I'm gonna honor the poll I will start  reading home before dark instead so I'm gonna put a little pause on this however I want to let  you know my thoughts on this so f

ar so I'm gonna have a little bit of a clear final moment when  I talk about this and I'm like okay but now you won't know what I think of the rest of it until  probably the end of the video or after home before talk I may as well continue this after then again  I don't know do I want to end this Vlog with Peter Swanson I ended the last Vlogs With BS Swanson  So It's Tricky It's Tricky I mean I don't mind pausing this at the minute I am liking it so far  actually I will I might as well review ri

ght now I am liking this so far it is good I do still  have some grapes I do have some grapes so this one follows Rowan and she answers the nanny ad  she lives in London but this ad for this in any position is way up in Scotland and she is really  desperate to get this job actually because it's really good money it looks too good to be true and  yeah it looks fantastic it's a dream come true job so she ends up going there from what I've read she  goes for her interview and the family pay for the

train tickets she meets Sandra who is the mom  and she meets some of the kids the next day but she doesn't meet the husband yet the husband isn't  there and the previous four nannies have all gone and we don't really know why they left the job and  Rowan actually did find a kind of a creepiest note by a former nanny who didn't finish the letter  that they left it was telling her to something and drawing things she was trying to tell her to  be careful so that's a little bit creepy and I am liki

ng the Intrigue of that and we also actually  start this book with Ron been in jail for killing one of the kids I don't know if she killed one  of the kids it's actually Up For Debate so far this whole book actually is told in a sort of  letter format because at the very start of this book we have Rowan and she's incarcerated Iran is  asking Mr rexham to represent her to try and help her so she sent a letter after letter after letter  trying to convince him to get her as a client and this is whe

re some of my gripes come in right so  I'm not a big fan of letter formats right and this is going to be spoiler fruit spider fruit I'm not  a big fan of formats because especially when it's an event from like months and months and months  before right how is Shea supposed to remember every single minute detail of the story the way  it's coming across as is that this is like a novel format and then we get reminded that's actually  letter like it doesn't come across as a genuine letter especially

since of like how detailed  it is we get internal monologues within those moments and I'm just like how just for example  on page 54 I took a photo of it we have Sandra who is the the mom but that's enough about me in  the house what about yourself Sandra said with the air of getting down to business tell me a bit  about why I attracted you to nannying and then the narrator wow that was a big question and I'm just  like that wow that shock in that moment feels like it's happening in that moment

and I know this is  like a really nippy thing but it happens a couple of times where it seems like the narrate like you  know she's telling her story Rowan's telling her story and she's shocked or she has an emotion that  happens within that moment and I'm just like but you're telling this lawyer your story in a letter  format months after all of this has happened so I find it really hard to believe that this  is taught in letter format and I feel like Miss Ruthie herself forgets every now and

then that  she's supposed to be writing a letter not in the way that it's coming across as because even every  now and then we do have Rowan say but Mr wrexham please and it's just like it brings you back to  the fact that it's a letter without making it feel like it's a letter you know I don't know  maybe I'm being nitpicky but it does take away the believability for me and I'm not saying it's  bad I'm not saying it's bad I'm actually enjoying what I've read so far you know and that but that's 

what I said about the silent patient didn't I in the first 99 pages and I just don't really like  things told in letter format about events that happened months or years before where everything  is told exactly how it apparently happened with all of the emotion all of the internal monologue  it just doesn't add up to me you know so when I start faking it unless they're lying then it  doesn't make sense that's just my take on it I'm not reading more of this anyway your vote me  to read one befor

e dark so that's what I'm going to do because I'm a man of my word I did take a  break as well because Married at First Sight was on so I could have been a lot further into the  tune of the key but I had married a first sight to watch and also it's two for Tuesday abdominals  so I got some dominoes I got some food so I don't have home before dog this is actually the one that  I was hoping would win so like it does work out it does work out would you move into a house where  a murder happened and

there are rumors that there might be some kind of glossy activity there now  I literally just spent you know three nights in a haunted castle and it freaked me out and I  barely got any sleep and I feel like most of that was in my own head so like say would you  move into a house where a dad had murdered his daughter and I think something else might have  happened there as well before this because one of the secondary characters not just I should  probably tell you what this is about a secondar

y character said something a little bit ominous  that you know the previous owners who are the ones who were involved in that murder they had  something to deal with like they had to deal with a house or something like that and it was  interesting you know it is interesting so I am 127 pages in I read quite a lot last night it  is very easy to read actually it's like quite you know fast going and stuff but I thought the  same about survive the night to begin with as well so we'll see how we get

on so this follows Maggie  and yes and yes and years ago when she was a child she and her parents moved into a murder house  that murdered a house I was telling you about and they don't even last that long there they  leave inexplicably and then her dad releases a book about their experience there and Maggie  doesn't believe a word in that book and a lot of people love it it's like a bestseller and  then Maggie's father dies and he leaves her the house in his will it's called Banbury  Hall first

ly with his dying breath he sees never go back to that house never do it  and then he leaves her written his will I'm so confused if you never want her to go back  to the house don't leave it to her in your will you know it's essentially totally forgot about the  fact that he had that house she was never going to go back unless it was in the will and it was so  like it's just like that was weird but anyway I don't want to be too overly negative in this  Vlog I really don't I want the positives s

o easy to read I quite like Maggie as a character she's  fine I like the atmosphere and I kind of like the because we have two different things happening  once we have what happened I think it was like 25 yeah 25 years in the past and then what's  happening now so I do like the juxtaposition between both those timelines and I mean nothing  overtly original is happening right now there are a lot of haunted house cliches you know we have  a main character who has had night Harris since she was a c

hild and of course they most likely  happened or started happening while she was at being brick Hall as a kid we have the murder house  we have secondary characters who live nearby being a little bit it's sketchy yeah I feel like I've  read something like this before but I'm interested to see how it will become original I'm sure it  will I'm sure it has its own little identity that I need to uncover but no I mean I'm flying  through it to be honest I don't think there's anything else yeah that w

as a really short update  I just wanted to let you know that I've actually started this just like you guys wanted actually  let's check the poll imagine imagine if you know the morning after the poll is totally different oh  no it is still home before dark that's winning the camber killing is just like not getting any votes  it's so far back so long before dark we're going to continue this bad boy today I definitely want  to go to a cafe tomorrow I promise I keep saying that then I don't but tod

ay I have some things for  the house coming including oven shelves because I've been living with only one oven shelf for this  past year and so I really needed more oven shelves and I just decided finally to get some so that I  could actually cook more than one thing at once I've just been having like plates of one thing so  like I'll have a plate of like chicken nuggets and that's it I'll have a plate of chips and that's it  yeah I've not been living the productive life when it comes to cooking

this past year but it's all  about change it's all about change so I do have some home stuff coming that I genuinely need  to live so I'm not gonna go out and miss that delivery I'll but then again who knows maybe I'll  just miss it for the fun of it so back to reading I go for a nice late night tea yes please oh it's  so cozy it's so cold out it smells a weed outside as well not gonna lie there's definitely been a  lot of drug dealings going on down in drug alley as I like to call it this is w

hy I don't like my  cats out no I doubt they'd be getting drugs but I do have my tea ready to talk about home before  dark and it's so late oh it's not that late it's like 9 30 p.m that's not late I'll still be  wait for another six or seven hours but it did actually take me a little bit longer to finish  home before dark I got to a point around about the Middle where I was carrying less and I don't want  to keep saying this about Thrillers and things and I I do think I enjoy Thrillers and even

the ones  that are like so hyped are like I can see why I can definitely say why but I didn't love it I  didn't love it I don't know if maybe because these are hyped it's working less than my favorite  a bit like how I read you know booktube's most hated books and I didn't personally hate them  because their booktube's mostly Thrillers but I feel like having your mind in that frame of  thinking where I know it's like one of the most hated so I already feel like I'm going in with  these expectati

ons that I'm gonna hear too it's almost a bit like with these books I'm going  in with the expectations that I'm going to love them because they're so hyped but I I seem  to be underwhelmed every time especially saying this is definitely better than the silentation  though definitely I think I might give this one three stars it's definitely better than survive  the night as well I just got to a certain point where I stopped thinking it was interesting which  for a story like this where it has th

at potential power our normal aspect and it has you know really  interesting mystery at the root of it I think when it all came out and we find out exactly what  happened and we've connected all the pieces I think that's where I was rather underwhelmed  so spoiler Freighters for a moment I did still like it I like the atmosphere I thought it was  really well written and I liked the dialogue and it felt more genuine than the silent patient for  instance and I definitely did like it more than surv

ive the night this didn't make me angry  which is great it didn't make me angry I do say there was a sort of a double plot twist or a  double reveal where I kind of preferred the first reveal over the second reveal but that's neither  here nor there I Can't Always Get What I want okay we're just gonna talk about spiders there so in  this house right we don't really know if Maggie made up the ghosts if she was having some kind of  just childhood delirium or whatever and we don't know whether or n

ot her dad lied about the stuff  that he wrote in his books so it turns out he did he did lie because he was covering up for Maggie  so my mind's a little over the place so I've been pretty hall Maggie ends up discovering a body  a skeleton that's like 25 years old from around about the time when Maggie and her family left the  haunted house and it seems to be the missing Petra so Petra was somebody who was part of their lives  way back then Petra is actually the housekeeper's daughter who would

occasionally look after Maggie  and she would kind of befriend Maggie and things like that but Petra did go missing 25 years  ago and nobody knows exactly what happened they thought she might run away but Maggie 25 years  later in the current in the present-day timeline she does discover a skeleton wow that's hard to  say she does discover a skeleton she does discover a skeleton and it turns out to be Petra and she  has this moment where she thinks that maybe her dad had killed her and the Myst

ery now in the  second half of this book is did her dad kill Petra who killed Petra how did she end up there  so we actually did get the reveal that Maggie was the one who killed her and I was actually really  loving that I was like okay the main character's the killer I like that I do like that and some of  it would have made sense because we have a moment where Maggie questions the chronology of what  happens in this book you know because Maggie got this injury this uh scar that she's had fore

ver  and she sees that it's not in the right place in the book so there was like a little bit of  Suspicion about that and I was like hmm that's interesting what has that got to do with anything  and I thought that is what cleverly connected her to being the killer I mean I didn't guess who  being the Killer and it turns out she's not the killer anyway so I was pleasantly surprised  by that I didn't know who the actual killer was and when she was revealed I was a little  bit underwhelmed because

it turns out I think I mentioned it before that there was a father  daughter suicide murder thing that happened in the past and that's why Maggie's family was told  when they moved into beanberry Hall and so yeah their dad killed the daughter killed himself and  then left a widow so it turns out that the Widow of the daughter whose her husband had killed  is the one who killed Petra because she would break into being very hole and watch Maggie sleep  because she reminded her of her made her dau

ghter which honestly it is creepy it is very creepy but  I just didn't really care too much for that reveal I did like how the ghosts turned out to be real  people and how they were explained I did really like that as well come to think of it what was  her name again Marta Marta is the one who killed Petra and the one who's been watching Maggie  sleep and she has these glasses that reflect the moonlight so when Maggie was younger she  would call her Miss Penny face and that would be like the cre

epy oh you know that's the name of  the ghost that's scary and it is scary like it is scary especially since actually now that she is  an actual real person who's been breaking in that is terrifying and genuinely terrifying part of me  does wish that the ghost had been real and it had been an actual paranormal thing but I do like how  we had that explanation what I don't understand is though Maggie would say Time and Time and Time  and Time and Time Again back in the past that the ghost was stan

ding right there and her parents  would look and there was nobody there but Maggie was the diamond that they were so I don't know how  it goes about explaining like how so were they not there like was Maggie just making that up but then  I don't understand that I don't because apparently they're real people if they weren't ghosts and  she wasn't saying things then why time and time and time again was Maggie saying oh there they  are right there in front of you behind you why weren't they there t

hen if they were real like I  don't get that I don't know if maybe I'm just like looking too far into it or maybe I've just missed  something completely and I'm constantly looking for plot holes and everything apparently but I I  did have a good time reading this if the middle part of it wasn't as slow as it was I guess like  Maggie's section did start to get a little bit repetitive and I was preferring the past segments  because I was looking forward to seeing what this whole sleepover was abou

t because it was the  sleepover bit and that was like really interesting other than that I just feel like I probably  built myself up more for for it and I didn't get the the thrill of this thriller as much as  well I wouldn't even really call it too much of a thriller I would probably say it's like a mystery  I don't know I mean I don't I'm not an expert I'm not an expert but I don't I I would probably say  it was more of a mystery I think that's all I really want to say about it yeah it was it

was  good so that's why I'm giving it three stars it was did I give survive the night 2.5 I might only  giving this 0.5 more than survive tonight really okay I want to change it to 3.5 3.5 I think a  whole point more than survived the night but again I could be wrong I might be remembering all of the  reasons wrong from months ago again I'm all over the place it's late anyway you finish off my tea  I did a lot of housework today got things tied up cleaned I feel cleansed I feel refreshed I wond

er  should I read the 10 okay next or the kind with killing next I am already part ways through the  tone of the key and I was liking it actually from what I read a two pages I would like to finish a  book tomorrow because I do have some writing to do the more I think about it the more I think I might  have actually liked Peter Swanson's book the least in my previous series rather than Alex make ladies  why don't I research my own videos I think it might be in PS1 because I remember really hatin

g  nine lives like to the point where I think I had a full-on rant about how much I hated it so if I  have actually been P.S Swanson who I hate it the most not personally just his book I'll keep Peter  Swanson for last I'm going to return to the turn of the key yeah I just want to read this though  I feel like I'm actually going to give this one a good read okay a 3.5 is a good reason actually  now that I've amended it but yeah I feel like this one could potentially be a full I really do yeah  I

have high hopes that this could be a full I hope I'm not disappointed right I'm actually going to  do it I'm actually going to go out and go to a coffee shop you might think I'm being a Hermit  but honestly I haven't I've been to the castle last week I'm in a bit of a getaway next week  with some friends and like it's not a problem it's just I don't want to go to that Cafe of the  perverts there it's put me off but I really want to go back to the cafe like I just want to sit  in a cafe and read

the turn of the key it's been a few days now since I last updated you I decided  I was being too hard on myself with deadlines and timelines and things like that and I was trying to  rush things I don't want to rush things you know I want to be able to enjoy this so I haven't  actually read more than from my last update I don't think I can't even remember what I last  said in my last update but I am on Page 162 of the turn of the key it would be great if I could  finish this at the cafe today i

t really would and you know what I'm just gonna say how it goes not  gonna stress myself out I'm not gonna be like okay this needs to be done by then and this needs  to be done by then you know it's just gonna be chill so yeah let's go this Cafe change the  scenery up a bit in this Vlog I mean it's just been these four walls hasn't it I want to  say if this Cafe has any really good autumnal drinks any full drinks that they made have  an offer that I would like to try I did have a pumpkin spice s

ize this morning from Starbucks  delivered but you know what if they're different from which space that is add this Cafe I might  as well I feel like I'm getting back into them I got sick of them but now I'm slowly getting  back into enjoying them again so yay I also have terrible acid reflux so I'm gonna have to get  that sorted to do too so I'm getting on a bit I am my body doesn't balance about the  way you used to when I was 12. foreign I've had this in the fridge  for the past few hours wel

l probably like seven hours or something it  is a sour apple Frappuccino from Starbucks and I'm sorry the lighting's terrible  in here but can you say this at all this is what it looks like this is what it's  supposed to look like and I'm gonna try it I've never tried it before it popped up and I was like  a sour apple Frappuccino hmm let's give it a try oh oh that's powerful stuff it probably tastes  nicer when it's fresh but it's still it's it's pretty good I I quite like it actually it has  f

lavor it has flavor so I'll put that one down for now I would take me a few hours to drink so  I actually did read quite a lot more of the turn the key I wanted to finish it in the cafe but I  got to page 264 and guys I think I probably will end up giving this a full style I do I think  it's really really good so far actually really enjoying the story the atmosphere and stuff and  I'll delve into it a lot better when I finished it and I do my little spiery thoughts and all of  that so I will tal

k more about it then but so far again really good and just the storytelling style  of it is not my favorite don't [ __ ] me this is not a letter to a lawyer don't try and pull the  wool over my eyes without one Ruth way I forget all the time that she's writing to a lawyer  apparently but yeah I'm gonna finish it now I did order food right okay keep this between  us right so last time my housemate ordered food without asking me if I wanted anything right so  today I've just ordered food without a

sking my housemate if he wants anything you know what  to say when people go low you go lower also the cafe was really nice again I've missed that  place so much the pivot wasn't there so that's a good thing but also it was so busy when I first  got there I thought crap I won't be able to get a table I'll have to go but turns out actually  that if I just waited like five minutes a table would clear up so by the time I got my coffee I  said can I get it to take out got my coffee by the time it wa

s made and stuff there was a free  table I managed to stay there for a good like two and a half hours or something it really made a  huge dent in my book so I'm really happy with the progress of that and I've just finished seeing  my book haul as well so that's all done I can just relax wait for this food and finish the turn  of the kitty which I'm so happy is not a bad book hell of our pissed off so I like to tell a point  I was overlooking a lot of the things that I had personal issues with wh

ich I mentioned a  thousand times in the Vlog so far and I was just overlooking a lot because I was just  like I want to like this a lot of people do I like the atmosphere it feels really quite  creepy you know we have Rowan being in this new nanny job and how she doesn't really know  and it's like very technologically advanced or whatever and there's like a hidden attic and  she's having noises upstairs stuff like that you know I was getting a little creeped out  at certain points and I was lik

e okay this is pretty good I have such I hope for this and I  was like oh this could definitely be a four star foreign is always based on lies like I know I  totally get it though you have to kind of lie in order to prolong a reveal or a kind of plot  twist but I hate it when it's first person and we get a plot twist that doesn't really make a  whole lot of sense when we've had their internal monologue this entire time I mean I know she's  writing this in a letter but I genuinely think Ruth wher

e forgot she was writing this as a  letter because the amount of times we had in our monologue and in our feelings in that moment  that totally betrays oh crap I'm watching Sprints [ __ ] sorry I'm currently watching Sprints  I would say what the [ __ ] is that is that ghost okay we're going to smilers I'll put a  smile of wine up on the screen so if you don't want to respond for this book jump ahead I will  have spider on the screen is a light softball toilets I kind of wish it was Ghost I real

ly  do I'd rather ghost than a [ __ ] YouTube video so that all the noises that Rowan  was hearing in this attic thing was just a YouTube video being played  by Maddie the kit that's what it was I feel like you were probably bloody and awful  as a YouTube video that was playing you're not actual footsteps which you know we had Rowan  measure the depth perception of the audio of the footsteps and it wasn't light enough to be a  child but it was loud enough to be an adult kind of thing like it was

like stuff like that but  if it was a bloody YouTube video like come on and then the whole thing was misbehaving  children that's all it bloody was there was no kind of scary person there was no ghost it  was just a misbehaving child this entire time and the house the house is just oh okay I  was a little bit shocked when the teenage daughter came back and revealed that she knew  Rowan's real identity which is called Rachel Rachel used her roommate's identity call Rowan  in order to get the job

but yeah I was kind of a little bit surprised by that actually and  I should have picked up on that you know I thought this was quite clever this way quite  clever there was a moment where very early on where Rowan couldn't give her driving license  or something big and she had an excuse can't remember what the excuse was but I believed her  so like that was all fine and well and then it turns out that Roman is actually the daughter  of the father who is part of this house who we only ever meet

the ones he was a sleazeball he  tried to sleep with her he's been sleeping with all the previous nannies and that's why they  were leaving they were leaving because you know they were well some of them were sleeping  with him I I think that that's what it turned out as one of them was sitting with them for  for quite some time so that was the reason why they left it would have been so great to have  had that explored a little a bit mole honestly rather than it just being a sort of plot twist 

but also the fact that Rowan is his daughter and I'm just like hang on again that doesn't  really make a whole lot of sense when we've been having internal monologue this entire time and  when Rachel slash Rowan was confronted by this man and he hit on her like we had her internal  monologue and she did nothing she said nothing that's why I don't trust first person narrators  and these kinds of twists when it just doesn't make sense because we've been inside their bloody  head we've been inside

their bloody head while they're trying to keep it away from us I mean I  know this is told in a letter but again Ruth boy forgets that Ruth bear forgets that she's writing  the bloody letter to a bloody solicitor so I'm really disappointed by the end of it now it turns  out actually that the the dead child is Maddie she got pushed out of a window by her younger sister  Ellie and yeah so Rowan is definitely innocent of it but at this point I don't Politico it would  have been more of a Twist if i

t hadn't turned out to be her I would have respected her for it  like infectionally fictionally because at the end of the day Rome was a bit of a bland character  she wasn't really that interesting like she kept doing things such as frustrated the life out of me  she's taking up this job she's taken up this job where she's looking after kids and she can't do it  like on the first day she fails and she just keeps making these silly decisions and it's obvious that  it's going on top of her and she

doesn't talk to anyone but like Jack and then Jack turns out would  be a bit of a scumbag cheating on his wife so like this just filled with scumbag characters oh like  I really wanted to like this one I really did why is this happening to me uh but like  you know what I mean about lies like I just feel like the entire time we were lied  to for a plot twist and I don't like that I mean I know that's probably the basis of a lot  of plot twists but like Charlie you don't have to be inside someone

's head this entire time  just for them to come out with something like that that doesn't make sense to there earlier  inner monologues and emotions and feelings it doesn't make sense and I stand by that I stand by  I don't mind being lied to if the plot twist is one good in two it makes sense overall I just  don't think it does because we've been in her goddamn head I'm so mad at the ending I love the  idea that we had Maddie get pushed and stuff and we had her body in that but like there's not

hing  happens after that really we lead all the way up to who was it that died who was the daughter  that died the child that died and then nothing you get nothing with that it would have been you  know cool to have seen you know how Rowan reacted to that mole the kind of the way between the body  and the police coming you know like maybe like just Hamp up the creepiness of it make her think  that she's been pushed earlier you know that not actually fell from the window make her be like oh  my G

od is there's like someone in the house make something scary out of it you know like that's the  whole point of her hearing things in the uh in the Attic in her thinking there was someone in the  house and she's been paranoid this entire time that there is something ghosty or something make  her think there's something there make her think that somebody pushed Maddie rather than just  have it be that she finds her body and it's all there it's all there she gets the way she finds  out that early

pushed her was because she gets a letter from her at the end and I don't even  think she gets this bloody layer to be honest and it's just the way that I don't think any  of her letters went to the solicitor because we heard Richard McAdams at the fairy end and with  a letter on the 8th of July 2019 say Rich bit of a funny one but we found this pile of wallpapers  when he's ripped now a wall looks like one of the prisoners hit them so I don't understand did  she hide the letters and not actually

send them like I just don't understand why did she do  all of that just to hide the letters in a wall did somebody else hide them oh ash oh crap I'm  resting this on a pillow so like I just need the engine to be explained a bit more because it just  was over in like five pages oh you're so cute look at your lying on your back saw your belly you  open your paws are up oh you're so beautiful oh you're making me feel better after reading this  aren't you so yeah it's over in a couple of pages we f

ound out all these Revelations then boom it's  done so yeah I don't understand why these letters were never posted did she hide them herself I  just don't understand it just feels like one big waste maybe like one big waste and anyway  why did she withhold her name from Mr rexham as well if everybody knows that she's Rachel  why with all that information until the very very end and why withhold the information of which  child died until the very end if Mr reximal would have already known who die

d like I don't get it  this is why I hate the letter format because it does make any sense why for dramatic effect why  you're trying to get him as your solicitor you don't need to add dramatic effect in shape was  saying that she can't skip out on any detail right she can't skip out on any single detail  about what happened to her because if she did then the whole story would fall apart but I  genuinely think you could have wrought like 10 pages of what happened because a lot of this  was Waffl

e a lot of it was Waffle and like the whole thing about the the doll head and she  even said halfway through the book as well oh sorry I'm rambling a bit I should really get  to the point in the store yes you should yes you should absolutely that's what you said to begin  with that's why you have to apparently include every single detail which again doesn't make  sense because how are you supposed to remember every single thing from that long ago I'm down  to what she thought at that moment and

felt in that's the end of the spoilers a bit disappointed  with this one not gonna lie I was really feeling the four star for the most of it and then  before I came on here I'd have told you guys I was thinking okay it's a three but then  after talking about it like actually talking about it I think I might give it a 2.5 what  did I give one by one did I give it two stars I think I did 2.5 for the turn of the key I can't  remember anything about one by one honestly apart from that stupid app sto

p every chapter it was  that unmemorable I will say some of this was more memorable but what a letdown so so far the authors  are going in order again so we have Riley Sega as my favorite author from this experiment and then  Ruth Ware second and then Alex mcleadis is I think maybe bottom so far I think Peter Swanson ended up  bottom you know what I should really check let me just go and check what was the final leaderboard  did I say I put the maidens last earlier I was totally wrong I actually

put Nine Lives last so  in order of favoritelli's favorite author out of this it was ready Sega Ruth way Alex Mega ladies  and then Peter Swanson so that's exactly how this is looking so far so when I read the kind worth  killing by Peter Swanson if that turns out to be my least favorite Vlog then we've just had a  repeat we've just had a repeat of the Summerwind Vlogs where it turns out to be in the exact  same order for the authors so there's palming that's hoping that is Peter Swanson book b

reaks  the mold I really do he was my least favorite author even though I thought it was Alex to make  ladies I thought it was the maidens but it's not I really want Peter Swanson to book the trend I  really want him to give me a really good thriller I'm not holding out too much hope but this is  history repeating this is history repeating foreign and talk to you a little bit about my first  initial thoughts on they came with killing I'm only like 30 pages in I'm on chapter three  I've decided t

o borrow the audiobook from Libby as well because I've been reading so much  physically this past like month or so in fact even longer than a month I can't even  really remember the last time I listened to an audio book and just sat and enjoyed and just  did what I needed to do partnering around doing housework and stuff like that it's been a while  so I'm listening to the audiobook of the Kane worth killing and I I just got a moment where  I just felt like okay I have to like come on in and tal

k to you about it and it's part of  like the premise really so it's not spoilery in my opinion it's not a spoiler it's just  the the mind of them I guess like just the yeah anyway so the uh kind with killing I will  tell you what this is about we follow Ted and Lily they meet each other at an airport and their  flight gets delayed I think this is like strangers on a train inspired which I think I've already  mentioned but I've never seen or read strangers on a train I believe there is a film of

it I don't  was it based on a book it probably was but yeah it's inspired by that and that's essentially  where two strangers they meet for the first time they talk about killing someone and I think  they end up attempting to kill the other person's person that they want to kill or something  like that I don't know how to explain things properly firstly each chapter is a different POV  so we have 10 chapter one Elite chapter two ten chapter three and so on and so forth and chapter  two made me q

uite uncomfortable actually it was talking about Lily and Lily was you know saying  about like her past and some of it was like really really sexualized and something happened to her  a guy called Chad chat chat yeah checked she was talking about how a guy called Chad came into a  room at night and was like touching himself and stuff like that and it was like really gross  and uncomfortable uh Lily's section was like very sexualized and uncomfortable to read so yeah  I don't know who the person

Lily wants to kill is and I it's probably chat I don't know but Ted is  talking about killing his wife because she cheated on him and that is on the back as well so it's not  a spoiler and just like his reason is just like so weird in the way that Lily jumps to all the  world would be better without her I'm just like I mean there are things that you do that are way  worse that would warrant a reaction like that but infidelity I mean yes it is frowned upon it is not  good I don't agree with being

in Fidelity I don't agree with being unfaithful to your spouse but I  just don't think it's worthy of killing someone over when you talk about that to a stranger and  they're like yeah like they deserve to die and it's just like it's not Is that real is that like  seriously real but I am liking it like it's not really a big criticism of it of course like she  has to be this way in order to drive the plot forward I totally get it so it's not criticism  I just found it so funny and I had to jump

in and talk about that because I find it so bizarre  and so odd but I I do like it it so far it's an interesting premise I like that they're chatting  about their past and and stuff like that I'm learning more about them it's fine it is fine I  am liking it there was something else I wanted to say as well but I've forgotten why do I not write  notes down also the audiobook why the audiobook it has two different narrators one for Ted modularly  the sections with Tate I mean bear made them only li

stened to like the second section of 10 because  I'm on chapter three it seems to have a different audio quality to the person who's been reading  Lily like Lily sounds in a professional studio and narrating this professionally but Ted sections  sound like they're being recorded on a phone like you can really tell the the different audio  quality between the sections and it's very jarring and it's very jarring I'm not going to hold  that against this book though because literally if I read anoth

er book physically right now I'll  probably combust so listening to an audiobook is just the way forward for me right now I've also  got Sims 4 house building in the background I'm getting obsessed with that again I just have the  videos on a loop on Youtube at the minute so I can watch them in the background seeing people make  houses on the Sims it's my favorite thing to do on the Sims so seeing other people too I just watched  a guy what is the YouTube channel uh it is Devon Bumpkin and I jus

t watched them do the Sanderson  sister house so osana sister Cottage and it was so good I think I have Sprints later with hardback  water Ali from hardback order she's doing a 48 Hours 24 48 I think it's 24 hours 24 hour reading  Sprints reading House of leaves so she asked me last night if I could do some at 5 30 p.m which  is like plenty of time plenty of time I'll get some so much right by then but yeah I need to get  ready I need to just put something on I need to put clothes on and don't m

y pajamas my Frozen Olaf  pajamas you get these off and yeah just cracked on with the day can't do this in my audiobook  and hope that I get a thriller that Thrills me absolutely no thoughts just Vibes right now I  am opening a bottle of Prosecco it is Saturday night you know and also I am going to be joining  alley which I've already mentioned but there's like 25 minutes before I join her and I am on  chapter 15 of the kind with killing why is this so hard got it I'm just tell you crack One ope

n I  have another drink since last week so let's toss to a pretty good book so far hey oh it smells  pretty good I haven't tried this one before it doesn't tell me anything about this to be honest  and I do have my Chambord to put in here for a little bit of added flavor I was just pop in  some Chambord let's do a little bit of a taste test see if I end up enjoying this Prosecco have  the rest later and let's give this a try cheers yeah it's fine no qualms absolutely fine so yeah  not much else

to say about the kind with killing Lily is quite messed up not gonna lie she has done  things done things that are very wrong I've done things are very wrong in her life and she does  something very early on as well that trigger warnings for animal abuse and that's all I'm  saying I'm almost a part two of the half finished house I mean we are getting a lot of character  work which is fine but in terms of the actual plot of this whole strangers on a train even  though they want a plane and Lily i

s promising to kill Ted's wife not much has come to fruition  with that and I imagine it will take a little bit longer to get there I mean I am like only nearly  halfway through so but I do hope to finish this during Ali's reading Sprints honestly that'll  be really nice finish it by tonight yes please I should have probably opened this yesterday  because I prefer ranting about books when I've had some prosecco and I feel like my round for the  turn of the key would have been you know that much

more fulfilling to me personally had had a glass  of Prosecco I should save that really for Ali's live because apparently we're playing truth or  dare or something but I will link Ali's live down in the description box if you want to check it out  really excited and yeah that's that's it for now oh yeah the biggest plot twist of this vlog is  that I did quite like this one I've just edited the intro to this video right and I mentioned  in the intro about well some distaste for Peter Swanson and

how I feel like he would probably  be my least favorite out of the bunch that I'm reading in this Vlog what a clown I am I would  have updated you last night when I finished but again I got too tired I wanted to lie in bed I do  have a pumpkin spice latte to enjoy as I tell you about the kind worth killing so yeah I actually  did like this one this is one from this Vlog that I definitely like the most it didn't make me angry  it didn't [ __ ] me so I appreciate it a lot for that and it genuinely

surprised me with a few of  the twists and turns that happened in this like genuinely surprised me I didn't see a lot of it  coming and again it's Mr Swanson so I genuinely thought it would be Millie's favorite again but  no he proved me wrong he proved me wrong I don't think he's going to be someone I will continue  reading in the future because I don't think I will like any of these other premises but I  appreciate this one this was definitely the best thriller I read throughout this entire s

eries  I know I said the story as well that I were going to talk spoiler free inspired are filled so you  can choose between them it's hard to talk about this without going into spoilers so I'm gonna go  into spoilers so this is your spinal warning I'll put spider on the screen and then when it's all  there spoiler will come off the screen and it'll be safe to watch again so keep an eye out for  that but I am going to go into spoilers now so when I last updated you it was before I went live  wit

h Ali on her 24 hour reading Sprints and I said I was only chapter 15. it was the chapter that  changed everything it was like the first chapter that I was like [ __ ] so Ted Ted the one who  is trying to get Lily to kill his wife Miranda he dies at the end of that chapter Brad kills  him Brad is the one who is sleeping with his wife and Brad kills him and I was like wait hang  on that's my main character you've just killed I was actually really surprised by that and then  Lily reads about in th

e paper and she's like oh [ __ ] oh [ __ ] but also another big twist is  that Miranda turns out to be Faith who took Lily's boyfriend while she was in school so there is a  connection there and Lily recognized her to the airport so that explains like a lot it explains so  much you know how I was saying it's so absurd that you know you'd be a stranger and you'd be like  yeah kill them and I said it was absurd that that would happen well Mr Swanson explained it you know  Lily has a lot of hate fo

r Miranda faith and faith is her middle name I think and Faith was the name  she went with because she didn't like Miranda or something anyway there is a connection there so it  explained the rant well the seemingly randomness of the the meeting at the airport between 10  Lily and I was like okay that's actually going a little bit clever not gonna lie like it explains  things it doesn't make things seem so unbelievable you know and thrillers are I it to some extent  supports to be believable bec

ause if they're set in the real world then make me believe it you know  so it definitely got some brownie points for that I will give it that so things happen we I don't  feel like we got quite a lot of character stuff a lot of character background in history which  really explained a lot of character motives so I didn't mind it sometimes I find it boring but I  really didn't mind learning a lot more about past and stuff especially the connection between Lily  and Faith slash Miranda and way to

actually get another kind of thing that happens a little bit  later on where I was a little bit confused because again because Lily confronts Brad and you know  tells him oh tell Miranda to meet me at this place so that I can kill her and then I was just  like well this is what Brad told Miranda and I was like why would she say that to him just  for him to reveal it to Miranda you know why like if that didn't make sense to me I was like  hmm let me think let me think and then and then Brad doubl

e crosses Miranda and kills her so Lily  has gotten Brad to kill Miranda faith and I was like so that is why Lily explained everything to  Brad saw that he could double cross I would say this is Scandal this is Scandal but I was in for  it honestly I was like this is really really good but it just shows how manipulative and insane  Lily is I mean remember she and I don't think I mentioned this in the Vlog because I haven't  heard a spider thing but one of the first things that Lily tells you abo

ut is when she killed a  cat like she actually kills the cat and that oh like I hate Lily I really do because anybody who  does that too an animal is like scum to me so I I don't really think I like any of the characters I  don't think any of them are particularly likable but I don't think they're supposed to be really  they're all very flawed like even Ted like even though he died at the start and I was like you  know infidelity doesn't warrant you know your wife dying but like Miranda was you

know plotting  to have Ted killed herself so like there was that whole okay well Ted's reasons are Justified now  but he didn't know that he was gonna get killed by it you know what I mean so there's like a lot of  gray area to explore there but it was like really well explored I think which again I'm so surprised  that because it's Mr Swanson we're talking about so I went off on a tangent there didn't I what  was I even talking about originally what was I saying Ali has seven minutes left on he

r Sprint  for the 24-hour Sprints she's done and I want to hover this along so now when the time it goes  off I'm done yeah so let me just go back into my memory and remember what happened next and  just lots of things happen next okay oh yeah I was talking about how none of the characters are  likable which is again fine I don't mind unlikable characters as long as they're interesting I don't  mind them and they were interesting so yeah Lily um gets brought to kill Miranda Shake kills  Brad by

poisoning him which again I was like she needs to be stopped she needs to be stopped  and then she stabs a police officer who well kind of like an investigator who was kind of  following her she ends up getting out of that because she makes oh actually it was this officer  was following her and she was like scared like she wasn't really scared but like that's the story  she went with and so she can get away with that as well I'm like is there anything this woman  can't get away with is there any

thing um Sonic locate respect for that but also she scares me she  actually scares me and yeah that's pretty much the story like I totally didn't expect where it went  I thought Ted would have her wife killed he might feel some remorse and he might worry that Lily was  gonna out him as conspiring to kill his wife so he would try and kill her and she would try and  kill him and I don't know like that's kind of the direction I thought the story would go in but  the fact that we had the main charac

ter Ted die in chapter 15 and then his wife died not long after  and then just to have Lily be on this murderous Rampage kind of thing it was just different friend  and I I enjoyed it I enjoyed that a lot and I just enjoyed that this book never once lied to me about  anything which is something that I really don't like in Thrillers I mean I know they have to do  it every now and then to you know give you red herrings and to throw you off the scent bonus like  straight up [ __ ] like say you turn

on the key then yeah I'm not usually a big fan nor spoilers  now no spoilers just really good book definitely my favorite when I read this video I'm gonna give  it four stars I don't know what it's going to take to give a thread over a five star but I'm still  on the hunt for that five star Thriller but it is probably like one of my favorite Thrillers  I've read just because of how much it surprised me and how low expectations I had of it going into  it that really helped I think so that's the

kind worth killing that's the last book I had to read  so ranking them now from where's the best my least favorite one and in fourth place is the silent  patient by Alex mcglidies is there a plane flying overhead did not really enjoy this one all that  much I definitely think Alex make ladies is not the writer for me and then the turn of the key by  Ruth Ware yeah I had high hopes for it it started off so well but unraveled about halfway through  and just kind of fell apart to me by the end of i

t unfortunately and then my second favorite was  home before top I already Sega I did still enjoy the atmosphere of this one a lot even if I wasn't  fully taken in by the plot and then my favorite of the Vlog surprise surprise to everyone is the kind  worth killing by Peter Swanson my least favorite author from my summerween Vlogs has catapulted to  the number one author of the Redemption episode so that's really good I am so happy with that  actually I mean I wish I enjoyed all of these more th

at I did apart from the came with killing  I don't think I could have enjoyed it more but these three I was expecting home before dark to  be at least before but in the same with the turn of the key but I think it was four 3.5 2.5 in 1.5  I think that's how I rated them yeah this is the order I enjoy them and now I can't wait to return  them to library and yeah I'm just happy I'm happy but yeah that's the end of the Vlog I really  appreciate you watching don't forget to give this a like if you e

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