🕸️🔮SPOOKY reading prompts pick what books I read!🎃🧛

Hello friends it's time to get spooky guys I am so excited for this reading Vlog this week where we are going to be letting spooky reading prompts pick what I read so I made a list of spooky Halloween spooky Time automnal theme reading prompts with my patrons on our reading Sprints and we're going to be spinning a wheel to get a random reading prompt and then we're going to be reading a book based on that reading prompt and I'm so excited I just want to read spooky autumnal books I'm so here for the seasonal reading this week I want to read mad Mysteries I want to read horror I want to read dark Academia I want to read vampires I want to read anything spooky ooky cooky creepy spooky oy Cy and creepy so I am so excited let's should we just go and find out what our first book is going to be and I don't know how many books we're just going to do this for the week or maybe not quite for the week because I'm going away on Sunday so today's Monday so um probably read two to three books three books we're going to a for three we're going to aim for three in this I mean I could read them quicker who knows who knows but show we guys find out what our first spooky reading prompt is going to be and thus what our first book is going to be I I'll show you quickly here's a quick scroll through the prompts we got a lot we got a lot it's a shame actually we're not going to like do like how many have I got 36 different prompts we got quite a lot so shall we just spin the wheel and see what prompt we've got oh my God I feel so nervous let's go [ __ ] that's a hard one [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] full moon on the cover [ __ ] hell right let's head over to my bookshelf see if there's any holy [ __ ] full moon on the cover all right let's go do some investigating okay I feel like this is like there's books that I know have full moons on the covers but they aren't necessarily spooky books so we're trying to find both of those in one so let's first look at TBR cludo books of TBR cludo I was hoping the Gathering would have one but no such luck on the Gathering heli and death no moon nope nope I don't think any of the re these are really spooky witches of moonshine Mana a moon no moon one perfect couple by Ruth wear cuz I know that has a no no moon [ __ ] this is like the hardest one I could have gotten what has a moon on it that's also spooky this has like a [ __ ] no there's like stars there's a night sky with stars other that would have been perfect that one on the back no no moon bloody hell the tainted cup does this have one oh but is that spooky you know oh God the kind worth saving by Peter Swanson again a night sky no moon and is that a moon I feel like that's a moon or that's a moon there's something there as well it this kind of is spooky Sherlock H it's like a fantasy murder mystery am I going to read the tainted cup am I going to read the tainted cup is there anything else oh how to sell a haunted house by Grady hendris no moon no moon [ __ ] right let's take this seriously just another missing person is a murder mystery no moon can people put moons on their covers please maybe we're going to go with the tainted cup I suppose this is spooky it's a murder mystery it's a murder mystery it's a fantasy murder mystery it's one I've been meaning to get to for the whole year I've heard really good things about it so I think we're going to do this Part Sherlock Holmes murder mystery part Through the Looking Glass the tainted cup is one of the wildest most Original Stories I've ever had the privilege to explore okay I think we're going to read this cuz that's either that's a moon or that's a moon so we've got a moon one re or the other so I'll check with you when I'm bit the ways through this I'm a little bit daunted by this don't ask me why I'm I'm a little bit scared of it but I'll I'll check in with you when I'm a little bit of the ways through [Music] [Music] [Music] hello gorgeous seens I have just been on reading SP with my patrons and in that time I have got 77 pages into the tainted cup however I don't feel ready to talk about this yet I don't feel ready to talk about it yet I don't my thoughts aren't fully formed not fully cooked so I think I'm going to try and get to halfway through and then talk to you it's very unique it's very special oh that's quite a word to Megan so early on it's very unique it's a very interesting World building system so I want to wait to talk about that however I do want to talk to you about my serious light baby my favorite thing in the world this is my serious light this is the high definition light and it is a reading light and I use it every single day of my life if I'm reading usually it's by my bed but when I do reading Sprint sometimes I bring it over here I think about high defition light I have the portable one so I can I can move her around she's not plugged into anything right now you plug it into recharge but basically these are reading lights that have something called daylight wave link technology which replicates the daylight Spectrum from the Sun as closely as possible so what that does is it's very natural in the eyes it feels our brains are like oh yeah I know this this is natural I'm evolved to consume this so it doesn't you know have any negative impacts on our eyes my eye strain I haven't had eye strain since I've owned this this L and I used to get eye strain quite a lot I remember when I lived in leads and a flat there I'd get eye strain constantly whereas with this it still has a cozy atmosphere it's still like you're still cozy reading but it's making the page well lit for your eyes and I love it so so much I use it every time I read now the days are getting I can't believe how dark it's getting and the clocks are about to change here in the UK my goodness uh it's getting very dark outside this is essential during these months so if you've ever thought about getting one maybe use my code mwb 24 to get a100 off a high definition like guys £100 off 100% discount and free UK delivery they can deliver internationally they can fit with any plug you need if you're in the US but my code is specifically for free UK delivery so go check it out down below I'll leave a link down below I love my serious light so much for me it's essential to my reading and I cannot recommend getting one enough okay it's late and this book is a lot so let's talk about it um I haven't put the dust jacket on I'm so sorry can I be ass where is it oh hold on I got to try and balance whoa she fell she fell hard [ __ ] I think that went worse than I possibly could have imagined okay I don't know what you saw I may not be able to show you that I may have upscar myself through this udy and also feet I don't know you seeing my feet the feet are out the dogs are out anyways whoa okay okay the Chang is cut by Robert Jackson Bennett I'm going to try and talk about this in the simplest way I can because there's a lot of words there's a lot of terminology there's a lot of World building and you don't need to know all that at the at its court you don't need to know all that so we're following a guy who is basically the an apprentice's investigator but she is very eccentric and refuses to really leave the house so when needs to be investigated he goes and he's he's in this world they people have things that they can be like like I don't ations either physical or mental that they can install on themselves or like get work done on themselves and he has something that he basically has like a photographic permanent memory so he can remember everything he can remember every conversation everything he's seen and so the book opens with him going to this Rich ass home where a commander has been murdered by a tree sprouting out of his body and it goes from there um this book's very interesting this is one of the heavier fantasy I've read in a while in terms of World building think it's intense we've got a lot of like it opens up it reminds me of um I feel like the will of the many did this as well the will of many is set partially at a rich ass house as well be like ranking of the military and there's like every month has a different name and all the money has different names like it's one of those f i don't read a lot of fantasy like that like everything is different and I'm enjoying it but it's also taking me a while to get through it which of those do I want to start with let's start with the negative then we'll end on the positive it's slow for me it's taking me a long time to read it we may only end up reading two books in this Vlog my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined it's a lot to get your head around it's why I also had to wait oh I'm halfway through I haven't told you that I'm halfway through the book I had to wait till I was halfway through to really figure out what I thought of everything and it's just taking me a long time to read it I don't want to rush it because I think there's a lot you have to understand every scene has little quirks has little you know it's incredibly detailed which is a positive as well we're just starting with a negative it's just taking me a long time to get through and finding it a bit slow that's really Mo negative I'm loving the writing I'm really enjoying the investigator and Apprentice relationship she is very interesting she's obvious very Sherlock Holmes coded Sherlock Holmes basically it's basically Sherlock Holmes retailing and she I wish there was a bit more of her but she's a very interesting character and the dynamic is very interesting he is very like no emotion it's interesting having him as narrator because of that there's been a lot of World building like I said I haven't been reading a lot of stuff like this I have in the past like I read read like The J the green bone Saga or like Robin harp or like you know this more intense fantasy but for the most part I read more urban fantasy let's be honest with ourselves let's be honest I don't read a lot of like intense intense fantasy there's been more murders it's becoming a bigger murder mystery plot I'm really enjoying the setting of it I'm getting my way around the world building I am intrigued about how long a series this is going to be cuz I feel like a Trilogy won't do it justice everything that we're setting up I know the second book has been confirmed but I feel like this has to be at least like a four or five book series really to get everything in that we need so yeah I'm really enjoying the writing this is my first Robert Jackson Bennett but Foundry side is one that I always wanted to read it was one that I was always interested in from kind of like what was around on book just before I came on I feel like and just as I was coming on by the way guys I didn't realize in September it was 5 years that I've been doing book it's my birthday it's my birthday it's my birthday happy birthday to and I'm kind of sad I didn't do something to commemorate it even just like a little Q&A video or like I don't know maybe I could still do that I don't know if you'd be interested but I'm kind of sad I did do something to commemorate cuz 5 years is a long time I still feel new on book I think because a lot of people I watch and idolize on book started long long before me and have doing it a lot longer than me but I still feel new I still five years is like half a decade is kind of insane that I've been sitting on this internet talking about books so I'm kind of sad I didn't do something to commemorate it maybe I still should but 5 years that's crazy anyways um more about this book it's intense I wish I was reading it a bit quicker there's moments where I find I'm not taking the words and I have to go back and reread it again which usually I wouldn't you know that would be like a kiss of death me a book but there is a lot about this book that's positive it's very you know the world buing is so imaginative the writing is really interesting I'm enjoying the characters I'm intrigued by the murder mystery so I'm going to go ahead and finish it isn't necessarily spooky not really but it was spooky being props I'm hope I'm would really love to try and read three books in this video but if I'm going to if I'm honestly I don't know if it's realistic it's just not realistic we'll see we'll see we'll see we'll see if I could get like two shorter ones the second books maybe we'll try but this book is taking me a long time to read anyways I'm going to try and read as much as I can tonight um but yeah it's pretty fascinating but I'm not entirely sure what I think about it that's why I've waited halfway through it's very different we'll see we'll see how it goes for the rest of it [Music] 2 [Music] [Music] Hello friends good morning I have finished the tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett and I'm giving this four stars I really enjoyed it I'd really recommend it to you I oh I'm like listen sometimes when I start filming I haven't properly ploted my feet cuz I'm too excited to and I just start listening anyways there's stuff I really enjoyed about it and stuff that I had a few issues with it let's start with the positives this is a really interesting fantasy mystery hybrid you guys know I love cross blending genres I love historical mysteries I my favorite combination is fantasy historical mystery like urban fantasy set in our world but historical and a mystery oh excellent brilliant brilliant horrific very excellent fantastic beautiful supremely talented brilliant Strange Case alist daughter I'm looking at her right now so I loved the blend it's a very unique I've never read like a murder murder mystery like this in a fantasy world I don't think so that was very interesting this book packs a lot into a short space of time there's a lot going on there's a lot of World building there's a lot of the mystery going on there's a lot of characters which we get into in a second and like that I can see how that could be too much for someone but I think it managed a lot of it pretty successfully you know I loved the reveal I loved the journey that we took to get there but I will say there's a heck of a lot of characters in this there's like 10,000 characters in and often I struggle to remember who these people were they also have very like fantasy book names you know what I mean like not like names I'm familiar with and thus I find them harder to remember but there are so many characters and at times I canot I was just making educated guess I was like are you that guy or that guy you're one of the two and I'm going to make an educated guess as to who you are and often I was right but I did make following aspects of it a little bit difficult I would say and like I was reading someone's review and they were like cuz I I I like to read reviews like as I'm reading books or some people don't like to do that but I like do it I like to go like see what people are thinking about certain things and someone's like oh Robert Jackson Bennett is a great author to read if you're you know new to Fantasy and like don't want to dive at a dpen I'm like I thought this was quite heavy there's a lot going on Gag aandra a lot of words like I said a lot of Fantastical words and a moment so I was I'm a little bit out of practice I was looking back I don't read a lot of like high fantasy fantasy like I was mentioning before and also often the like high fantasy that I'm reading is often very much inspired by a real world culture unless I find that easier to follow like I wouldn't be able to really I mean I could be wrong I may just be realizing something but like I can't pinpoint if there is if this is based on real world culture which one it is but yeah I would really recommend this I think it's a very very unique special book I'm going to continue with the series I loved the relationship and are two main characters relationship between them and them and themselves it reminds me oh it's back there somewhere but if you've read um the devil in the dark quarter by Stuart turton it's very similar plot to that where you've got a very charismatic enigmatic investigator detective but they're kind of like not in the story much and you're more following they're more boring assistant and the book is narrated by them so it's very similar in that regard so there were moments where I wanted more of Anna the detective she's such an interesting character and we're following you know our guy Cole is his last name um a lot more but I did find him interesting by the end I just think it's funny that's like a pattern between those two books that's quite similar it reminded me all like little aspects of this reminded me of lots of books I've read but it was put together in a way that I've never seen done before so yeah I'm going to give it four stars I will continue with the rest of the series it didn't blow me away though and I was kind of hoping it would cuz like a 4.32 average rating is very high let's go find out what book we're going to be reading next what spooky prompt we're going to get next we are only going to read two books on this video I'm so sorry I'm so sorry that just took me ages to read it's quite dense it's quite in I found it quite dense so we're only going to read two books that's four we're only going to read two books um so TR we just go find out what it is what the other book we're going to be reading in this vog is I'm hoping for like a really good prompt and I'm hoping for something more stereotypically spooky season h or tumil you know okay let me get the website up why am I so nervous I feel so nervous I just want a good B I want something spooky okay I'm just going to click I'm just going to click to spin deep breaths everyone what is it going to be what's it going to be isolated setting okay I can work with that there's two books that I need to read that I think could both they're not like locked room but that's that's above it it doesn't have to be locked room it has to be isolated okay first we've got heli and death which is in a snowstorm a country house and the uh characters are all snowed in but already the one I feel like I'm leaning towards is the Gathering I think it's just vampires I want to read a vampire book I want to read a vampire book no I don't think you understand I'm obsessed it's set an Alaskan town where only 600 73 people live a small Alaskan town I think I think this would count as isolated right like the town is very much isolated from everyone else I think I got to read this I'm just very intrigued by this one the kind of like is it vampires and what C is doing with horror I'm very intrigued by so I'm going to I'm going to dive into this I'm going to read the gathering bya this is the kind of thing I wanted to read in this video but this would have been a good option too and they're both isolated settings I think but um I just think this is the vibe that we're going to go for so I'm going to start the Gathering by CJ I'm very very very very excited to get into this and um yeah I'll let you know what I think when I am a little bit of the ways through good morning friends I am halfway through the Gathering by well a little bit under I'm 170 pages in it's basically halfway um through the Gathering by C Cha firstly I just realized that's supposed to look like Teeth what a gag I only just realized that like the year of just realizing stuff and everyone around me we all just like realizing things this is very interesting so like I said we're in a small Alaskan Town 600 people live there a boy is murdered the town believed it was a vampire from the nearby vampire Colony that lives just outside of town and our main character Barbara is kind of like she's a detective and she's like a specialist in Vampires it seems and she's bought in to try and solve the case and everyone's very like it's just a vampire let us kill them she's called a call they want to kill off the whole Colony basically which is illegal so that's the first thing that's interesting about this book I was like At first I was like oh it's in set in our world I'm like we no all vampire books are set in our world the difference is people know vampires exist in this one so all normal people know that vampires exist and they're kind of people hunt them and they're a protected species at the start we have like these news articles kind of setting up some kind of uh World building for us as them as a protected species as them as indigenous people to certain lands uh which is very interesting so that's basically the book is her in this town investigating this and people being resistant to her wanting to find stuff out and she's covering things about the case that aren't already aren't as what they seemed before and I'm really enjoying it here's the thing it's my fourth CJ tudo I've given all of her books four stars CJ she's a very solid four star offer for me which I like I like knowing that she's going to write a good solid book she's not going to blow me away but I've read the chalkman the burning girls and the drift and they were all four stars and this one is feeling the same it could even be a 4.5 she may break the mold I'm really really enjoying it I'm loving the small town setting I'm loving the characters at meeting one thing that CJ she does very very well is she does conversations so well her conversations between people feel very realistic and the whole book is very interesting because it's kind of got this like mundaneness to it that I really enjoy it's got this like things are happening but they're not necessarily big shock reveals it's not drama it's smaller it's quieter it's more mundane but it's [ __ ] vampires you know and I like that J supposition so I think there's a lot that CJ does does really really well and it's just like it's just an easy read compared to Ed card which I obviously enjoyed but felt very taxing to read this is just easy peasy lemon squeezy and like I said those conversations I don't think you can underestimate particularly in a thriller how well an author does personto person contact like I don't know there's something about it that just comforts me and makes me happy as a reader like when a conversation flows and feels very natural um and yeah I think there's a lot of really interesting questions being opened up I still feel like there can be so much more that we find out I feel like it's been quite slow but not in a bad way in terms of stuff being revealed we found out I'd say like four key pieces of information that have been sprinkled but like that hasn't necessarily made me I haven't got any theories for what actually happened in the murder which is interesting I think the vampire Colony we've had like a scene or two following them is very interesting I'm just really enjoying it guys I'm just really really enjoying it I'm having a lot of fun so I'm having a great time so um yeah I'm going to keep reading I'm going to finish this today we're just going to go out for a nice tumil walk now but I'm fascinated I can't really predict where it's going to go but I'm very much enjoying it so yeah I'll see you a little bit later once I finished it [Music] hello cuties it is first thing in the morning that's why I look like this but I'm about to start reading something else and I just don't want to put another book in my head before I talk about this I finished the Gathering by CJ Teta is four stars this is what I mean CJ T is a four star I am like waiting for one to break the mo mold but this was definitely a four star for me the Sun positiv but a few negativ so something that c has been doing so interesting with this and her previous book is mixing genres that are similar but mixing them so well so this is a horror a mystery a thriller a police procedural allinone allinone it's got troops of all of those if you go into this book expecting it to be any of those like you think it's going to be a horror or a thriller or a mystery or a police pedal you'll be disappointed you've got to go into it accepting that it's all of those things like the drift was a mystery through the horror she blends these genres and tropes these genres and features these genres so so well I'm loving she only just started doing it in these last two books but I'm loving that aspect of it and I really enjoyed this I really really enjoyed this this is just a great book it's the kind of book that makes me think like isn't it crazy that we all just sit down and write these stories and share these stories and come up with these like lies then we all just read them lies lies and more lies and lies on top of Lies like I don't know I can just I just really appreciate this a book you know it's a book it's a book you know it's not trying to do anything different necessarily apart from the blending of the genre is like it's fairly typical but it's it's just a good book it's just a good book the atmosphere in this is incredible set in this small Alaskan town it's isolated there's a storm rolling in I thought you know if you're looking for a very atmospheric wintry book this is a great recommendation and yeah I just really enjoyed it I will say however I did feel like the ending was a bit rushed and even this morning I finished it last night and I even this morning I'm like so who did that like in terms of like the bad AE like cuz there's a few different you know like any any of these books it's very rarely like one person is the big bad like you have a few different if there's a lot of different things that have happened you have a few different people that have done things and I'm like well who did that part and who did that part like I'm struggling to remember so I would say the reveal is not the strong part of this and I was I had an idea in my mind of what like there's like an end reveal that's like a little question that's been running through the book not like uh who done it but like a yeah like a little question and I had an idea and if that idea had been what had happened it would have been gagra it would have been gagra it would have been gagra I will just say I haven't I need to go read some reviews I don't quite get the epilog anyone who's read this you can put spoilers in the comments like like do spoiler and then enter a couple times so the rest of your comment is hidden but I don't understand the epilogue quite it feels like it's setting up for a sequel which isn't something C has done before but maybe maybe we're going to get this vampire police procedural series C which I would not be mad but I'm a little bit confused by the epilog so I feel like the ending bit rushed not entirely clear but the rest of the book was just a great great journey and I had so much fun reading it and I'm so glad that I read it cuz this was the perfect time to read it if you if you've got this on your TBR read this before the end of the month it's just so much fun it's just a fun book you know it's a fun Pi you can't go wrong anyways I love you guys so much thank you for watching this reading Vlog apologies it was only two BS but you got to do what you got to do I've got two very very very long books in my next Vlog so I got to get ahead I got to get going on that but thank you all so much for watching let me know if you've read oh my God they were both 2024 releases as well though which is pretty good um let me know if you've read either of them and what you thought of them your opinions I would love to know and I love you all so much thank you for being here have a spooky time this Halloween and I'll see you very soon in another video bye [Music]