I think you might like Penance by Eliza Clark. It hits that psychological disturbance combined with the true crime angle. It’s more litfic than thriller, but so smart and layered. Kill Show is another I recommend. It is told in interviews about a reality show following a family with a missing daughter. Our tastes often overlap. Strange Sally Diamond and First Day of Spring are some of my faves too.
I love hearing your reviews on all of the different genres of books that you read. They are in depth and insightful. Completely random and not book related at all, absolutely love your top. Where did you get it?
I really love how detailed you are reviewing these. You’re really giving context, beyond “it’s a good book, trust me”. You’re really great at describing different genres and picking out tropes and relevant reasons for one to pick up the book. You’re great at this. Appreciate the time stamps and your hair looks gorgeous 🥺. Love from South Africa 🇿🇦.
I just bought The Husbands because of your previous recommendation. I also read the other book titled The Husbands, and am currently reading My Husband. I guess marriage is a theme in my reading lately, lol!
Great video, I appreciate how you stress what attracts you to a writer's style, expression, chosen tone behind the writing ✍️. Next of Kin took me to Apple TV's "Servant."
Thank you so much for these recommendations. A lot of them were already on my TBR. Just put a hold to my library for a certain hunger! Sounded so good.
I really really need to read Head Full of Ghosts. I have it checked out and keep thinking of it. If you love Annie Wilkes have you watched the Castle Rock show from a few years ago? It doesn’t follow any of Kings books but it’s all Easter eggs and nods to his books. I watched RU-vid videos about the episodes I didn’t get all the Easter eggs, but I could still follow the story. Season 2 has Lizzie Kaplan playing a younger Annie Wilkes and she is phenomenal. It’s so hard not to see the actress as that character now she did some a good job. You don’t have to watch season 1 to understand season 2, there’s a few connections but it’s whole new characters. But Sissy Spacek is in season 1 and she’s also amazing in that season. Not just cause she’s Sissy Spacek, they give her such a great storyline that makes her shine. I thought it was a great time, but Lizzie Kaplan is absolutely a standout. (If I’ve already asked you this sorry lol, when people mention Annie Wilkes I wonder if they’ve gotten the experience of seeing Lizzie Kaplan play her!) I loved Quiet Tenant, the writing was so haunting, one of my favorites of last year.
I have not seen that show! I don’t feel like I’ve read enough King to get the Easter eggs either, but I LOVE Lizzie Kaplan, so I may have to watch anyway!
I really loved getting this peek into the kinds of stories you love and gravitate toward, and what's especially interesting is how the various preferences intersect in different ways. It made me take a second to come up with something similar for myself and while I haven't sorted it into actual books yet, I've got four tropes/genres: dark academia mystery/thriller with a bit of speculative or magical realism or supernatural business--but also maybe not, because the writer is coy about it; stories about writers or artists who go off to create in seclusion and weird/creepy/mystery/thriller stuff ensues; stories focused around some kind of media (books, films, music) maybe cursed, maybe not, and the people who are hyper-fixated or obsessed with it; unhinged women stories with a supernatural or speculative leaning. And a bonus fifth category which is mostly trash: books about crazy rich people who spend their money in ridiculous ways, because I like to live vicariously.
I absolutely love your videos! The Reformatory I’m getting ready to read after the book I just got recently. I got The Barnes and noble edition of Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis it’s so pretty! Have you heard of it? I’m on this cozy kick hahahha
We have super similar tastes, but for some reason, I don't like Alice Feeney books! Argh!! But so many of these are all time faves for me too. I recommended Stolen Tongues to anyone who likes A Head Full of Ghosts 😍
I just ordered Happiness Falls as my free birthday add-on from BOTM 😄 Also have Death in the Details on hold from my library and hope it comes in soon!
Speaking of books that define your taste I just read the devil and Miss Davenport it's really good and it personifies Shirley Jackson a lot she even does a little authors know at the end of the book about Shirley Jackson but if you get a chance the devil and Mrs Davenport!
