I am really looking forward "The Future", I loved "The Power" so much. Really looking forward to getting a copy soon :) I'm so relieved you gave it a 4.5! X
It's so interesting to hear your book reviews. We have some overlap but some wildly different ones! The Secret History is my 2nd favorite of 2024 so far
Haven’t had a great reading year so feel like I have been in a slump. I also read the quiet tenant this month which was highly anticipated for me and I just thought it was ok. The main character frustrated me a whole lot as well. Just picked up the other side of night so I hope I love it. Great video Ashley.
The MC in The Quiet Tenant frustrated me too - I was screaming in my head "why aren't you trying to get out?!" but I guess that was probably the author's point haha. Hope you enjoy The Other Side of Night!
I didn’t care for The Wishing Game either but loved The Secret History ( and I don’t like dark academia usually). Here’s to a great May reading month 🎉
Just finished The Institution by Helen Fields. I know you've been looking for a 5 star thriller, this may be it. I really enjoyed it. Show burn, tense second half and I'll say no more, lol.
I'm so glad to hear that I wasn't the only one who didn't love that Victor LaValle book (which is interesting because I loved one of his later books, Lone Women--I think that was one of my favorite titles last year!) And the Quiet Tenant kinda surprised me, I had zero expectation for it, and so I found it pretty riveting. And because of the situation that the one character is in, and the things she had to endure, I was very grateful that many of her experiences at the hands of her captor were only hinted at. In another writer's hands it could have been pretty gratuitous and awful.
Hey Ashley, I've been following you for a long time and love your content :) I just wanna say that that hearing you are boycotting a company based on some comments from the Israeli side of the ongoing war in my country is heart breaking. I wish those boycott movements that love to hate on israel will also boycott the same people who murdered and kidnapped my friends and refuse to even share a list of names of the kidnapped civilians. I hope you guys in the state will never learn what it's like to be a broken family waiting for a massage that your loved one is alive in a tunnel 15 km from your home. Have a great weekend.
I have the same opninion as you about Local woman missing and She's not sorry. And yes, the ending of She's not sorry is very anti-climatic and I also gave it 3.5/5
Totally agree on Secret History, I might have enjoyed reading it more when I was younger, or before consuming other better things in books/movies/shows, but I thought it was so boring and couldn’t wait for it to be over. I have The Future on my tbr so I’m glad that was good! And adding Other Side of Night, thanks!
