Bestie I love this, our TBRs for this and our reading tastes are so different I was so excited to see what you’d think of these! I completely get what you mean with YA I also feel like I never want to read it anymore, I wonder if I read Wilder Girls now if it would still hit the same as it did years ago. The ending of Dead Silence, I also found kind of weird but I think I liked the rest of the book so much that the ending didn’t bother me. I have read Crossroads but I am not a huge fan of grief in books, which is funny because I realised this reading Our Wives Under The Sea 👀 The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is a weird Stephen King to start with and I love survival stories, I’d be interested on how you’d feel about Below based on this. It’s a short novella and yes it was hard to find! I also love horror novellas and recommend Eric LaRocca for some great short horror stories! Also that butterfly look- ADORABLE 🖤
Now that I've started reading adult fantasy, YA fantasy is a tough sell. Although I do still partake in Cassandra Clare because I've been reading shadowhunter books for almost a decade 😂
A horror book that’s easy for me to recommend is When the Reckoning Comes by Latanya McQueen. And the audiobook is so great, it puts you in the story with their southern accents. It’s the kind of book I’d gift to someone if I didn’t know what to get them, and it’s a book I’ll definitely have my kid read someday. There is horror how we think of horror, but there’s also the human horror of what these people are okay with doing. Below by Laurel Hightower is also just a good time, and it’s a novella 😊
I just recently bought a new sci fi horror called The Scourge Between Stars that I’m really excited to read. You might like it cause it’s a shorter book!
I love Stephen King, but you do need to be into the themes in the book to enjoy his work. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is very much his love letter to baseball and a survival story. There is a scene from it that I will always remember, it was a good call to dnf the book if you don't love survival stuff 😅🥰
the girl who loved tom gordon is one of my favorite stephen king books, i hope you give it another try some day. in my opinion it's a very good starting place since it's one of his shortest but i understand people not liking it. i think another good starting point might be carrie? it's one of his earliest, so it sets a tone for his career. but other good books by him are mr. mercedes (it's a trilogy but that's the title of the first book), the long walk, the shining, the mist, desperation, misery, and the langoliers
i'm glad you liked the luminous dead! i read it early this year and was a little mixed on it. i think i might have liked it more had it been shorter (but i also think it would be a really good concept for a movie)👻
You're so right - it definitely should've been shorter! It kind of dragged in the last 25% and the ending was meh. It's just so hard to find horror that actually sticks the landing at the end
I recently read a 30 page book on Kindle called the Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E. Harrow. Its not horror, but its pretty short. Not sure if you'd be interested but when you said you enjoyed novellas I thought of that! 🙂
Just subscribed! So happy to have found you. My first Steven King book was “Needful Things,” which was appropriately creepy, impending dread, disturbing. I really loved it, but have DNFd others by him. NT is a great one though imo
Stephen King is hit or miss. My first SK book was Carrie and it was written in different formats (i.e. news articles, witnesses, etc) and the time line kind of jump back and forth so I decided to just stick to the 1976 movie version of Carrie. Supposedly SK has two different eras divided by books written after he became sober and books written before he became sober
Ah yes I did know that last thing about him! In high school I had to read his memoir and apparently he doesn't even remember writing certain books. He said he doesn't remember Cujo at all ✋🏻
Endings definitely carry more weight than the rest of the book for me! I read Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman a while back and enjoyed the majority of the book pretty well but I hated the ending so much that I basically just hate the whole book now lol.
Yayyy 1st like!!! I made the mistake of trying to get into horror by reading “Hidden Picture” by Jason Rekulak, now I feel like every horror book is just going to be a waste of time, so no more horror for me in the foreseeable future. 🧛♀️🧛♀️🧛♀️🧛♀️🧛♀️
I also typically don't like YA, but I did really enjoy Wilder Girls! It's not a perfect book, but it's very atmospheric. Very much a "more vibes than plot" situation, if that helps you make a decision!
Love your hair parted on the side! Wilder Girls was a 5 star prediction for me and honestly I didn't love it. I adored Dead Silence and wasn't super upset about the time shift, but I was aware of it before diving in so I think that helped. Just started a book called Episode Thirteen that's sort of mixed media style, you should check it out if you're into paranormal horror.
I wasn’t a fan of Alice as well, in part because of the violence against women and also because the resolution felt way too quick and easy. 172 Hours On the Moon is a quick space horror read, though it focuses on teens lol. I don’t read much horror but this book still gives me the creeps when I think about it. What a fun concept for a TBR! 👻
As bad as it sounds, violence against women isn't an issue for me in books but I didn't think Alice did it well. If it adds to the plot or is there to be realistic I can be okay with it. But sometimes it just feels so ehh like this book!!
That's the only Stephen King book I've read, and I didn't find it scary. I was like, "Isn't this guy a horror writer?" I just remember some lame monster thing in the woods, and that she ate a whole raw fish. Gross. (I did get Pet Cemetery when I was a kid because it sounded like a Goosebumps/Point Horror type of thing, but I was NOT old enough to read that. DNF'd pretty quick. 😆
after hearing you say that endings make or break a book for you, idk if you'll end up liking wilder girls because the ending is very abrupt... trying not to spoil but you'll either love or hate the ending
I loved the concept of Dead Silence but the execution fell flat for me. I think I would have liked it better if the dual timeline toggled between the original inhabitants of the ship and the crew exploring the ghost ship instead. Also, it's a different genre/type of scary but I recommend Everything You Ever Wanted by Luiza Sauma for a different option of lost in space type book.
Absolutely do not finish Wilder Girls, especially if endings are a big deal to you. I was enjoying the book all the way up until the ending, when the book felt like it ended mid-chapter and I genuinely questioned if my copy had missing pages. No resolution and a huge letdown. The ending brought the book from 4.5 stars down to 2 stars for me, I was that upset about it.
👻🧛♀️🦇 I enjoyed Wilder Girls but it is very YA.... and the ending doesn't match the tone of the rest of the book. I really don't think you'd love it. 😅
ok you're the only person who voted so far and therefore i trust you and will not continue lol also even if everyone voted for me to keep reading i probably would forget
I don’t like ya anymore either. I really love middle grade and adult, but nothing in between. Also, I love your hair it looks so nice. What tool do you use to curl your hair?👻
I like middle grade too! Specifically middle grade fantasy. There's something whimsical about it. But YA is not it for me anymore Also, thank you about my hair! I am so sorry to tell people when they compliment me because I have the dyson airwrap. 😂 It was an amazing investment for me. I use it every time I shower and it makes my hair feel great and look nice for at least 3 days.
Bestie I love this, our TBRs for this and our reading tastes are so different I was so excited to see what you’d think of these!
I completely get what you mean with YA I also feel like I never want to read it anymore, I wonder if I read Wilder Girls now if it would still hit the same as it did years ago.
The ending of Dead Silence, I also found kind of weird but I think I liked the rest of the book so much that the ending didn’t bother me.
I have read Crossroads but I am not a huge fan of grief in books, which is funny because I realised this reading Our Wives Under The Sea 👀
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is a weird Stephen King to start with and I love survival stories, I’d be interested on how you’d feel about Below based on this. It’s a short novella and yes it was hard to find!
I also love horror novellas and recommend Eric LaRocca for some great short horror stories!
Also that butterfly look- ADORABLE 🖤
No more grief recommendations for you! 😂 I'm a little afraid of Eric LaRocca but I'll have to try one of his books
I don’t mind YA fantasy, but YA based in a real life setting grates on my nerves lol.
Now that I've started reading adult fantasy, YA fantasy is a tough sell. Although I do still partake in Cassandra Clare because I've been reading shadowhunter books for almost a decade 😂
A horror book that’s easy for me to recommend is When the Reckoning Comes by Latanya McQueen. And the audiobook is so great, it puts you in the story with their southern accents. It’s the kind of book I’d gift to someone if I didn’t know what to get them, and it’s a book I’ll definitely have my kid read someday. There is horror how we think of horror, but there’s also the human horror of what these people are okay with doing.
Below by Laurel Hightower is also just a good time, and it’s a novella 😊
Ooh I'll look into that book! Thanks for the recommendation
As someone who LOVES YA I definitely get it TBH, I feel like the genre is pretty oversaturated but I still find some outliers every so often!
I just recently bought a new sci fi horror called The Scourge Between Stars that I’m really excited to read. You might like it cause it’s a shorter book!
Ooh yes I just added it to my TBR! I saw you and one other person haul it recently and it popped on scribd
Obsessed w the whole makeup look w the sparkly eye (while discussing Wilder Girls) 🤩
I love Stephen King, but you do need to be into the themes in the book to enjoy his work. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is very much his love letter to baseball and a survival story. There is a scene from it that I will always remember, it was a good call to dnf the book if you don't love survival stuff 😅🥰
Your fits in this video are unreal 🤩🤩🤩🤩
Aw thank you!!! 🫶
My experience with Stephen king is his horror books are mostly all build up with glimpses of horror until the big ending
Interesting! His books probably aren't for me the 😅
the girl who loved tom gordon is one of my favorite stephen king books, i hope you give it another try some day. in my opinion it's a very good starting place since it's one of his shortest but i understand people not liking it. i think another good starting point might be carrie? it's one of his earliest, so it sets a tone for his career. but other good books by him are mr. mercedes (it's a trilogy but that's the title of the first book), the long walk, the shining, the mist, desperation, misery, and the langoliers
I have been loving your reading vlog/challenge type videos! Such a cool idea. I'm also so picky with horror book endings 🙃
It's so hard to find horror/thrillers with actually good endings 😭
i'm glad you liked the luminous dead! i read it early this year and was a little mixed on it. i think i might have liked it more had it been shorter (but i also think it would be a really good concept for a movie)👻
You're so right - it definitely should've been shorter! It kind of dragged in the last 25% and the ending was meh. It's just so hard to find horror that actually sticks the landing at the end
Ever since I read I've been saying it should've been a novella!! Especially since this author has another horror novella Yellow Jessamine
@@manoeksbooknook oh i might try the novella!
@@sarawithoutanH i read yellow jessamine and it was good enough but what i liked the most was the gothic vibes
we read Dead Silence for book club recently and I feel exactly the same as you do about it!
Such a bummer about the last part 🥲
Also! I think you would really like Rachel’s (from the shades of orange) book recs. Lots of fun adult horror/thriller/SFF
Ooh I'll look her up!!
I recently read a 30 page book on Kindle called the Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E. Harrow. Its not horror, but its pretty short. Not sure if you'd be interested but when you said you enjoyed novellas I thought of that! 🙂
Just subscribed! So happy to have found you. My first Steven King book was “Needful Things,” which was appropriately creepy, impending dread, disturbing. I really loved it, but have DNFd others by him. NT is a great one though imo
I'll have to try that one!
maybe try some of his earlier books like salem's lot, cujo, children of the corn, christine.
If you haven’t read it already, you might enjoy Leviathan Wakes. It’s a space opera, but the series is amazing
Stephen King is hit or miss. My first SK book was Carrie and it was written in different formats (i.e. news articles, witnesses, etc) and the time line kind of jump back and forth so I decided to just stick to the 1976 movie version of Carrie.
Supposedly SK has two different eras divided by books written after he became sober and books written before he became sober
Ah yes I did know that last thing about him! In high school I had to read his memoir and apparently he doesn't even remember writing certain books. He said he doesn't remember Cujo at all ✋🏻
Doctor Sleep is probably the best Stephen King book I've read (skip the Shining the movie is better) 👻
I've been DNFing Stephen King novels since 2015. One day I will finish one.
This doesn't bode well for me lol
I’ve wanted to pick up a Christina Henry twisted fairytale book for so long now. They sound so weird
Endings definitely carry more weight than the rest of the book for me! I read Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman a while back and enjoyed the majority of the book pretty well but I hated the ending so much that I basically just hate the whole book now lol.
Being an ending person is so hard!!! Endings really ruin things for me
Yayyy 1st like!!! I made the mistake of trying to get into horror by reading “Hidden Picture” by Jason Rekulak, now I feel like every horror book is just going to be a waste of time, so no more horror for me in the foreseeable future.
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I've heard such mixed things on that book!!
I also typically don't like YA, but I did really enjoy Wilder Girls! It's not a perfect book, but it's very atmospheric. Very much a "more vibes than plot" situation, if that helps you make a decision!
That convinced me not to pick it up lol I'm not a vibes girl most of the time
@@sarawithoutanH Haha totally fair! Glad I could help you avoid another disappointment!
🕷 i was going to do wolf but i didnt want to be mistaken as a furry
Love your hair parted on the side!
Wilder Girls was a 5 star prediction for me and honestly I didn't love it. I adored Dead Silence and wasn't super upset about the time shift, but I was aware of it before diving in so I think that helped. Just started a book called Episode Thirteen that's sort of mixed media style, you should check it out if you're into paranormal horror.
I may have already read Episode Thirteen for the vlog I'm posting next week 🤭
I wasn’t a fan of Alice as well, in part because of the violence against women and also because the resolution felt way too quick and easy.
172 Hours On the Moon is a quick space horror read, though it focuses on teens lol. I don’t read much horror but this book still gives me the creeps when I think about it.
What a fun concept for a TBR! 👻
As bad as it sounds, violence against women isn't an issue for me in books but I didn't think Alice did it well. If it adds to the plot or is there to be realistic I can be okay with it. But sometimes it just feels so ehh like this book!!
That's the only Stephen King book I've read, and I didn't find it scary. I was like, "Isn't this guy a horror writer?" I just remember some lame monster thing in the woods, and that she ate a whole raw fish. Gross.
(I did get Pet Cemetery when I was a kid because it sounded like a Goosebumps/Point Horror type of thing, but I was NOT old enough to read that. DNF'd pretty quick. 😆
Based on what people are saying, Stephen King may not be for me at all 😅
after hearing you say that endings make or break a book for you, idk if you'll end up liking wilder girls because the ending is very abrupt... trying not to spoil but you'll either love or hate the ending
I think I've decided not to read it! Enough people said it wouldn't be my thing
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I loved the concept of Dead Silence but the execution fell flat for me. I think I would have liked it better if the dual timeline toggled between the original inhabitants of the ship and the crew exploring the ghost ship instead.
Also, it's a different genre/type of scary but I recommend Everything You Ever Wanted by Luiza Sauma for a different option of lost in space type book.
Yes that would have been a really cool way to do the timeline!
Wilder Girls is sooooooo good try again
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Absolutely do not finish Wilder Girls, especially if endings are a big deal to you. I was enjoying the book all the way up until the ending, when the book felt like it ended mid-chapter and I genuinely questioned if my copy had missing pages. No resolution and a huge letdown. The ending brought the book from 4.5 stars down to 2 stars for me, I was that upset about it.
Ok def not finishing
not to disappoint you but i LOVE yellowjackets and really didnt like wilder girls (the vibes are there, but i dont think it saved the book) 😅
Ok then I def won't continue it!!! You're the second person to say it's not great
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👻🧛♀️🦇 I enjoyed Wilder Girls but it is very YA.... and the ending doesn't match the tone of the rest of the book. I really don't think you'd love it. 😅
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Wilder girls was a 2 star for me, and the ending is definitely ambiguous which I’m pretty sure you don’t like
Ok everyone in the comments has convinced me it's not worth it!
I can’t stand YA anymore too
It just doesn't hit like it used to
I personally didn’t love wilder girls it felt a little slow for me and wasn’t very memorable
ok you're the only person who voted so far and therefore i trust you and will not continue lol also even if everyone voted for me to keep reading i probably would forget
I don’t like ya anymore either. I really love middle grade and adult, but nothing in between. Also, I love your hair it looks so nice. What tool do you use to curl your hair?👻
I like middle grade too! Specifically middle grade fantasy. There's something whimsical about it. But YA is not it for me anymore
Also, thank you about my hair! I am so sorry to tell people when they compliment me because I have the dyson airwrap. 😂 It was an amazing investment for me. I use it every time I shower and it makes my hair feel great and look nice for at least 3 days.
honestly the ending to wilder girls was bad imo cuz everyone just forgot their common sense for some reason (it was for plot convenience of course)
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