**My Reading Experience: A Journey Through Summer Reads**

This month, I embarked on a reading adventure that took me to various corners of the literary world. As I delved into the world of books, I discovered a new favorite author and explored the realm of email relationships. It was a summer of romance, self-discovery, and escapism, and I'm excited to share my experience with you.

**The Story of Liz**

My first book of the month was "Better Than the Movies" by Lynn Painter. The cover caught my attention, featuring a list of classic rom-coms that I adore. Each chapter header was a quote from a beloved film, which made me feel like I was getting ready to watch a movie – and I loved it! The story follows Liz, a character who has been obsessed with rom-coms since her mother's passing. She's always envisioned her life as a romantic comedy, but when a guy from her past walks back into her life, she sees an opportunity to make her dreams come true. With the help of her neighbor, West, Liz enlists him to help her win the guy over. The result is a predictable and cheesy tale that I thoroughly enjoyed. The author's writing style is effortless, making this book a perfect summer read for anyone who loves romance.

**A Summer of Adventure**

My next book was "Take Me Home Tonight" by Morgan Matson. This novel takes place on one night in New York City, following the adventures of two best friends, Cat and Stevie. The story begins when they decide to take a spontaneous trip to the city, but things quickly go awry as they get separated and each embarks on their own journey. I loved this book for its lighthearted and carefree atmosphere, which reminded me of other favorite books like "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" and "The Babysitter's Club". The author's writing style is engaging, and the multiple plotlines kept me guessing until the very end. While some reviewers had mixed opinions about this book, I thoroughly enjoyed it and would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a fun summer read.

**A Month of Reading**

Overall, my reading experience this month was a mix of romance, self-discovery, and adventure. From the predictable yet enjoyable "Better Than the Movies" to the lighthearted and exciting "Take Me Home Tonight", I had a blast exploring different stories and authors. While I didn't give any books five stars this month, I did enjoy reading 11 books and discovering new favorites. As we head into June, July, and August, I'm excited to continue my reading journey and explore more amazing stories.

**Author Musings**

As I reflect on my reading experience, I've come to realize that Morgan Matson is one of my favorite authors. While "Saved the Date" didn't quite resonate with me, "Take Me Home Tonight" won me over with its charm and excitement. Who knows which book will be my true favorite? Maybe it'll be revealed in a future video...

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone today i am here to talk about all the books i read in the month of may so may was a really good month for me i read 11 books i'm officially out of my reading slump round of applause i knew what would happen when warmer weather came to me that was probably the biggest factor of my reading slump like winter i just i get bad seasonal depression that and then being newly pregnant it just it it just happened that way but now it's warmer so i'm outside more which gives me a lot more time to read so yeah 11 books read i've reviewed some of these um whether it be recent reads videos and things like that so there are some books that i probably go into more detail about through different videos which i will link any recent reads more review videos down below in the description box and in the cards above in case you want to hear about more but yeah 11 books there's a lot to talk about so as always i'm going to start my least favorite working up to my favorite so the first book i want to talk about is a why thriller called the ivies by alexa dawn so this is a thriller that caught my eye because of the cover the cover is very intriguing i really enjoy the cover and the synopsis sounded really cool it was about these group of girls that are in this private boarding school and they're called the ivies like their group is called the ivies because they are known to like be very cutthroat they each are like assigned a college one of the ivy league schools like one of them's assigned to harvard other ones assigned to like um brown things like that and yale all those other stuff so that's like their that's their goals they assign colleges they don't have any competition because if you know if like you're really into college which i'm really not but um if you're really like into the emissions of college games you can know how cutthroat it can be you know certain colleges only accept a couple of students from like a really prestigious school so they made each girl have a different schools there wouldn't be any sort of crossover no sort of animosity no sort of competition well easier said than done we follow character name olivia who is a newcomer to kind of the ivy she is not really born into money she got into this boarding school um with a lot of scholarships and things like that she's assigned one particular college but she doesn't really want to go there she wants to go to harvard because that's been her dream but the main girl the head of it all i forget her name is the one that's assigned to harvard so when college admissions come out or i should say early acceptance has come out the main girl learns that she did not get into harvard but olivia did and she keeps it hush-hush but apparently another friend of the group another one of the ivies also applied to harvard and also got in and she's much more vocal about it and then basically the whole book is that emma that's the girl the other girl that got accepted to harvard ends up dead the next day so you're trying to figure out who kills her what's going on olivia's like learning are these iv girls really my friends or are they really not and that's kind of the whole premise of the book i'd say if you love books that in like boarding school like kind of really just rich teenagers that are like whoa it's me i didn't get into the ivy league of my choice i couldn't really compare i couldn't really relate to it at all which is you know on a multitude of levels because i'm out of the age bracket for which i recognize so take my rating with a grain of salt as always with my ratings um and number two i just don't come from the whole boarding school life things like that i didn't really go to college so i didn't really go to like a fancy college or things like that so i don't get it but i mean if you want to cut through a world of like gossip girl with some like really intense college admissions maybe check it out i'm not gonna lie i ended up giving it a two out of five i just really just didn't enjoy it that's the sad matter of it next up is a book that i have reviewed i do like a whole thriller one and that is for your own good by samantha downing again this is set in another kind of private school and this one we follow a multitude of characters we follow a student that goes there we follow a teacher and other teachers and basically what happens is a slew of people get murdered and you know who did it this is not like a whodunit type of book at all you know who's done it you're just kind of discovering their motives and how evil and manipulative people are with what they want in their own lives so i give this one a three maybe i'm just not meant to read like boarding school type of books maybe they're just not for me obviously as my two least favorite books this month were set in boarding like private schools boarding private schools um saying but i just i don't know i just didn't like any of the character of this book which i think was the main point of it all these characters were very unlikable um which i understood but i just i just didn't love it as much as her previous two other books by samantha downing that i have read before so i gave it a three it's not like the worst thriller i've ever read it's an adult one but i just didn't like it nearly as much as my lovely wife or he started it another three star is while we were dating by jasmine gilroy again i did kind of a deep dive review into this one as well this one i said in that video i never remember jasmine gilroy's books i think this one is about a guy named ben who's like the head of a marketing team and he gets assigned to work with he gets his like pitch this cell phone like um kind of marketing commercial thing and the person that's gonna be the head of it all is a character named anna ann i think is her name she's like a famous actor she's going to be the star of it all and she's there and she meets ben and they kind of hit it off and they begin fake dating to kind of help um you know boost her stardom because she's a big premiere coming up and that's the whole gist of the book it was okay all of her books i found are just okay they're great summer reads because they're cute they're romantic um but they just don't feature much in them they're not much to grip upon if that makes any sense i don't know maybe it's just me but i have heard that a lot about her books i like them i enjoy them while i read them but afterwards i'm like i don't remember anything so yeah three star for me i promise and all the books i read this month are just like kind of average another three is heartbreak for hire by sonia hartel so this one comes out in august i believe and i i was really hoping to really love this one because it sounded really cool but i just i didn't um so this one is about this character named brinkley so it works for this place called heartbreak for hire so it's a secret service that specializes in revenge for jilted lovers frenemies and long suffering long-suffering co-workers with a little cash despair basically it's a company where it takes down men and she is like in charge i think of the like really the egos you know she like a female will hire them to like take another co-worker take another guy take his ego down a few notches because it might be a little bit up there and basically brinkley gets assigned to this um job that we're being the book and she meets this guy and she's attracted to him and it's never happened to her before and they kind of hit it off but she's like this is you know my job i can't do this and turns out her boss decided to shake things up and hire some men to do some revenge on females and who should be one of the hires is the guy that she was actually assigned to take down mark so they're paired together to have to work together so it's kind of like an enemies to lovers type of thing and it sounded good like but then i think about the whole revenge thing and i'm not a revenge person by any means like i'm not i'm just not so i just didn't love how it was always combating like men and women um i did like how women stood up for themselves and they were like you know we need to change the system because men think they're superior which can be very true a lot of times but i don't know i just something rubbed me the wrong way about it maybe it was just me and the romance it was okay i just again it wasn't super memorable or rememberable i forget the actual word that you saved for that but i gave it a three it was it was just okay like i said i think this one comes out in august if i'm not mistaken just kidding it comes out july 27th we're close enough to that so there you go then i decided to read a tessa bailey book that had been sitting on my kindle for a long time that is getaway girl this is the first book in her series i've read a lot of tessa bailey books she writes a lot of adult steamy books just in case you're forewarned this one is about um character named addison potts who decides to like show up at her cousin's wedding that she hasn't really seen in years and she gets there and her cousin the bread does not show up and so she like goes to her car and she sees the groom like oh my gosh what am i gonna do and she's like i'll offer him a ride and they become friends and then something more it's all about her and elijah who was actually going to be the future mayor of charleston south carolina and it's about their romance and it was cute i give it a three and a half out of five it was steamy i like the plot of it i think i will read the second book i think it's called runaway girl i'm not gonna lie i do enjoy tessa bailey's books but there's not much to talk about it next up is one that comes out in september i'm sorry i'm reading a lot of head in advance because if you don't know i'm having a baby in september so i'm not going to be reading for like september probably for the like september on to the rest of the year so i'm trying to read any book that i can that i'm interested in that comes out in the later half of the year now because i have time now and i don't you know it's what it is so anyway i read when sparks fly by helena hunting i've read three other books by her really enjoyed it this one follows two characters oh my gosh i forgot their name ebook reading always has to be like this book follows avery and declan who have been friends since college they've never had any like romantic feelings towards each other but basically the book starts with they need to go on a trip together but declan bails last minute because he has a hookup and she has to take her car that is really not reliable and she gets in a bad car accident she's okay and everything but she's wheelchair-bound and can't really walk a lot for the next few months and declan obviously feels very horrible and very guilty about it so he like um works from home and takes care of her and through that and they learn maybe that they've had feelings for each other all along and they're just now realizing it so it's a friend still lovers that's kind of over 30. i found it to be really really cute what did i give it i gave it a 4 out of five i liked it i didn't like it nearly as much as her previous book kiss my cupcake but it was just if you want just a really great organic friends to lovers romance i would recommend this one you have a thriller survive the night by riley sager his fifth book i think it is um i gave this one a four out of five i enjoyed it again not nearly as much as his previous book home before dark this one follows a character named charlie who is kind of escaping college because of a multitude of reasons and she like finds this ride on this rideshare board this is set in the 90s by the way or maybe the late 80s i forget and it's a guy she doesn't even know they have to leave in the middle of the night and as they're driving as you know she learns that she's not this guy that she's writing with and maybe he's hiding a lot more than she thinks he is because another subplot of this book is that there's this campus killer on the college and nobody knows who it is and things like that and she's like crap am i writing with the campus killer and it takes place all in one night it goes through like kind of hour by hour and it's definitely very interesting i think there's a lot of twist with a lot of thrillers there's multiple twists there there's one i think that is very predictable there's a couple that i really enjoyed overall i liked it i liked the nostalgic kind of of a 90s kind of horror type of thing and it just wasn't it wasn't as good as home before dark i loved that one but i liked it i liked it a lot so i gave it a 4 out of 5. speaking of thrillers the other thriller i read this month was final support group by grady hendrix which i also gave a 4 out of 5. this one is intense i would even classify this as horror probably i probably should look it up on goodreads and i will not be surprised if it's labeled as horror um but i read this because i read his previous book last year the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires and really enjoyed it so this one if you can guess by the title it's about final girls which i'm sure you've heard because of this book i'll talk about that but basically you have a whole group of girls of final girls which if you don't know what a final girl is it's the last girl standing at the end of a horror movie pretty much there's one person left it's usually a final girl and they have all had traumatic things happen to them and we follow one character predict particular i forget her name um and she has her life has been really tough she's been very paranoid she keeps her house locked up and basically through the course of this book she learns that somebody's trying to kill off all the final girls but nobody believes her so she goes on this whole mission to save all the final girls and to prove that there is somebody after them and i liked it it's very very gory i say if you are like not into gore which i am not it was very tough for me to read this stay away from it if you know that doesn't bother you go for it but if you also like a lot of nostalgic horror movies like scream for the 13th any of the halloween movies um like you know those type of classic psycho stuff like that they are very reminiscent they talk about each of the final girls scenarios of how they became to be final girls and they're like straight taken from that those movies which is fun to read about um but also scary so a lot of you have asked me is this a total rip-off of final girls i mean they're both about final girls i don't think kind of the extent of it this one's much more tamer i would say and grady hendrix really goes into the dissect like the dichotomy of a final girl and how it's really affected them so they're the same but also different if that answers your question but i gave it a four it was interesting it's definitely stuck with me because it was scary next up i have an adult romance and that is very sincerely yours by carrie winfrey which i gave a four out of five this one follows two characters yet again named teddy and everett teddy is in the beginning of this book in a relationship and that's kind of all teddy is this relationship she just pours herself into this relationship so when the guy breaks up with her she's like who am i so she works this kind of toy store and she's trying to figure herself out and she watches this like children's program called everett's place think of like mr rogers neighborhood where it's about everett and he has puppets it's kind of like a local children's network um show i guess you could say and she's like i'll write him an email for advice because why not so they start writing emails back and forth it becomes an email relationship and it's super cute i'd say if you're a big fan of you've got mail which is one of my favorite movies of all time this is a cute one to read it had the email relationship it was just sugary sweet i i just really liked it it was like a cutesy summer read that i enjoyed i didn't give any books five stars this month i actually can't remember last time i gave five star i don't know what it is but the last two books i want to talk about are both like contemporaries i gave them both four out of five i don't have a definitive favorite this month honestly so the first one better than the movies by lynn painter i read this because the cover it's got so many classic like rom-coms on here which is my jam and each of the chapter headers is a quote from a rom-com like 10 things i hate about you you got mail i was like oh i love this i love this so much because it's me in a book but in this book we fought a character named liz she's obsessed with rom-coms she has been since her mother has passed away and she's always thought her life would be a rom-com and then one day this guy from her past kind of walks back in her life and she's like this is it this is my opportunity for the rom-com i've always wanted and so she enlists her neighbor next door west who you know she's always gotten along with but you know he's annoying he's the only next-door neighbor to like help kind of you know get him get the guy involved with her but of course you can guess where it's going to pan out her and western have feelings for each other you get it it's super predictable super cheesy i was 100 for it i liked it four out of five super cute great summer read in my opinion and i just say if you like rom-coms you'll probably like this because you know they reference it so insanely much which i'm always deaf and the last book i want to talk about is the new morgan matson book take me home tonight so this book takes place and one night we follow a multitude of characters mainly cat and stevie who are best friends and kind of opposites and somehow they go to new york um city because they're in connecticut and they decide to go to new york for the night and they get separated somehow and they each have their own different adventures and it's just a really fun book it reminded me a lot of nick and noor's infinite playlist of like avengers and babysitting fear fillers day off it's just you know it's kind of like a murphy's law type of book for like if something's going to go wrong it's gonna go wrong in this book because they're each without phones they can't contact each other it's just kind of a fun night adventure of a book that's all i can say is this my for is this my favorite morgan matson book i don't know i think i might do an author morgan madsen video very very soon because i do want to figure out which one truly is my favorite but i really enjoyed this one i had a really fun time with it the reviews have not been the best of it but i definitely liked it a lot more than her previous book saved the date which i was not the biggest fan of so i like that it was kind of totem one night it was an adventure we followed multiple characters so i didn't feel like it got stale at all and i love there's one girl's plot that is totally totally like completely obscure and like doesn't make sense at all but i had a really fun time reading it and it's a great summer read in my opinion so i gave it four out of five that's all the books i read this month 11 books a lot of books so i plan to read a lot for june july and august and then after that probably zero so just get ready for that i would love to know what you guys read this month please let me know if you're writing the same things and that's about it i'll see you guys in my next video bye youhello everyone today i am here to talk about all the books i read in the month of may so may was a really good month for me i read 11 books i'm officially out of my reading slump round of applause i knew what would happen when warmer weather came to me that was probably the biggest factor of my reading slump like winter i just i get bad seasonal depression that and then being newly pregnant it just it it just happened that way but now it's warmer so i'm outside more which gives me a lot more time to read so yeah 11 books read i've reviewed some of these um whether it be recent reads videos and things like that so there are some books that i probably go into more detail about through different videos which i will link any recent reads more review videos down below in the description box and in the cards above in case you want to hear about more but yeah 11 books there's a lot to talk about so as always i'm going to start my least favorite working up to my favorite so the first book i want to talk about is a why thriller called the ivies by alexa dawn so this is a thriller that caught my eye because of the cover the cover is very intriguing i really enjoy the cover and the synopsis sounded really cool it was about these group of girls that are in this private boarding school and they're called the ivies like their group is called the ivies because they are known to like be very cutthroat they each are like assigned a college one of the ivy league schools like one of them's assigned to harvard other ones assigned to like um brown things like that and yale all those other stuff so that's like their that's their goals they assign colleges they don't have any competition because if you know if like you're really into college which i'm really not but um if you're really like into the emissions of college games you can know how cutthroat it can be you know certain colleges only accept a couple of students from like a really prestigious school so they made each girl have a different schools there wouldn't be any sort of crossover no sort of animosity no sort of competition well easier said than done we follow character name olivia who is a newcomer to kind of the ivy she is not really born into money she got into this boarding school um with a lot of scholarships and things like that she's assigned one particular college but she doesn't really want to go there she wants to go to harvard because that's been her dream but the main girl the head of it all i forget her name is the one that's assigned to harvard so when college admissions come out or i should say early acceptance has come out the main girl learns that she did not get into harvard but olivia did and she keeps it hush-hush but apparently another friend of the group another one of the ivies also applied to harvard and also got in and she's much more vocal about it and then basically the whole book is that emma that's the girl the other girl that got accepted to harvard ends up dead the next day so you're trying to figure out who kills her what's going on olivia's like learning are these iv girls really my friends or are they really not and that's kind of the whole premise of the book i'd say if you love books that in like boarding school like kind of really just rich teenagers that are like whoa it's me i didn't get into the ivy league of my choice i couldn't really compare i couldn't really relate to it at all which is you know on a multitude of levels because i'm out of the age bracket for which i recognize so take my rating with a grain of salt as always with my ratings um and number two i just don't come from the whole boarding school life things like that i didn't really go to college so i didn't really go to like a fancy college or things like that so i don't get it but i mean if you want to cut through a world of like gossip girl with some like really intense college admissions maybe check it out i'm not gonna lie i ended up giving it a two out of five i just really just didn't enjoy it that's the sad matter of it next up is a book that i have reviewed i do like a whole thriller one and that is for your own good by samantha downing again this is set in another kind of private school and this one we follow a multitude of characters we follow a student that goes there we follow a teacher and other teachers and basically what happens is a slew of people get murdered and you know who did it this is not like a whodunit type of book at all you know who's done it you're just kind of discovering their motives and how evil and manipulative people are with what they want in their own lives so i give this one a three maybe i'm just not meant to read like boarding school type of books maybe they're just not for me obviously as my two least favorite books this month were set in boarding like private schools boarding private schools um saying but i just i don't know i just didn't like any of the character of this book which i think was the main point of it all these characters were very unlikable um which i understood but i just i just didn't love it as much as her previous two other books by samantha downing that i have read before so i gave it a three it's not like the worst thriller i've ever read it's an adult one but i just didn't like it nearly as much as my lovely wife or he started it another three star is while we were dating by jasmine gilroy again i did kind of a deep dive review into this one as well this one i said in that video i never remember jasmine gilroy's books i think this one is about a guy named ben who's like the head of a marketing team and he gets assigned to work with he gets his like pitch this cell phone like um kind of marketing commercial thing and the person that's gonna be the head of it all is a character named anna ann i think is her name she's like a famous actor she's going to be the star of it all and she's there and she meets ben and they kind of hit it off and they begin fake dating to kind of help um you know boost her stardom because she's a big premiere coming up and that's the whole gist of the book it was okay all of her books i found are just okay they're great summer reads because they're cute they're romantic um but they just don't feature much in them they're not much to grip upon if that makes any sense i don't know maybe it's just me but i have heard that a lot about her books i like them i enjoy them while i read them but afterwards i'm like i don't remember anything so yeah three star for me i promise and all the books i read this month are just like kind of average another three is heartbreak for hire by sonia hartel so this one comes out in august i believe and i i was really hoping to really love this one because it sounded really cool but i just i didn't um so this one is about this character named brinkley so it works for this place called heartbreak for hire so it's a secret service that specializes in revenge for jilted lovers frenemies and long suffering long-suffering co-workers with a little cash despair basically it's a company where it takes down men and she is like in charge i think of the like really the egos you know she like a female will hire them to like take another co-worker take another guy take his ego down a few notches because it might be a little bit up there and basically brinkley gets assigned to this um job that we're being the book and she meets this guy and she's attracted to him and it's never happened to her before and they kind of hit it off but she's like this is you know my job i can't do this and turns out her boss decided to shake things up and hire some men to do some revenge on females and who should be one of the hires is the guy that she was actually assigned to take down mark so they're paired together to have to work together so it's kind of like an enemies to lovers type of thing and it sounded good like but then i think about the whole revenge thing and i'm not a revenge person by any means like i'm not i'm just not so i just didn't love how it was always combating like men and women um i did like how women stood up for themselves and they were like you know we need to change the system because men think they're superior which can be very true a lot of times but i don't know i just something rubbed me the wrong way about it maybe it was just me and the romance it was okay i just again it wasn't super memorable or rememberable i forget the actual word that you saved for that but i gave it a three it was it was just okay like i said i think this one comes out in august if i'm not mistaken just kidding it comes out july 27th we're close enough to that so there you go then i decided to read a tessa bailey book that had been sitting on my kindle for a long time that is getaway girl this is the first book in her series i've read a lot of tessa bailey books she writes a lot of adult steamy books just in case you're forewarned this one is about um character named addison potts who decides to like show up at her cousin's wedding that she hasn't really seen in years and she gets there and her cousin the bread does not show up and so she like goes to her car and she sees the groom like oh my gosh what am i gonna do and she's like i'll offer him a ride and they become friends and then something more it's all about her and elijah who was actually going to be the future mayor of charleston south carolina and it's about their romance and it was cute i give it a three and a half out of five it was steamy i like the plot of it i think i will read the second book i think it's called runaway girl i'm not gonna lie i do enjoy tessa bailey's books but there's not much to talk about it next up is one that comes out in september i'm sorry i'm reading a lot of head in advance because if you don't know i'm having a baby in september so i'm not going to be reading for like september probably for the like september on to the rest of the year so i'm trying to read any book that i can that i'm interested in that comes out in the later half of the year now because i have time now and i don't you know it's what it is so anyway i read when sparks fly by helena hunting i've read three other books by her really enjoyed it this one follows two characters oh my gosh i forgot their name ebook reading always has to be like this book follows avery and declan who have been friends since college they've never had any like romantic feelings towards each other but basically the book starts with they need to go on a trip together but declan bails last minute because he has a hookup and she has to take her car that is really not reliable and she gets in a bad car accident she's okay and everything but she's wheelchair-bound and can't really walk a lot for the next few months and declan obviously feels very horrible and very guilty about it so he like um works from home and takes care of her and through that and they learn maybe that they've had feelings for each other all along and they're just now realizing it so it's a friend still lovers that's kind of over 30. i found it to be really really cute what did i give it i gave it a 4 out of five i liked it i didn't like it nearly as much as her previous book kiss my cupcake but it was just if you want just a really great organic friends to lovers romance i would recommend this one you have a thriller survive the night by riley sager his fifth book i think it is um i gave this one a four out of five i enjoyed it again not nearly as much as his previous book home before dark this one follows a character named charlie who is kind of escaping college because of a multitude of reasons and she like finds this ride on this rideshare board this is set in the 90s by the way or maybe the late 80s i forget and it's a guy she doesn't even know they have to leave in the middle of the night and as they're driving as you know she learns that she's not this guy that she's writing with and maybe he's hiding a lot more than she thinks he is because another subplot of this book is that there's this campus killer on the college and nobody knows who it is and things like that and she's like crap am i writing with the campus killer and it takes place all in one night it goes through like kind of hour by hour and it's definitely very interesting i think there's a lot of twist with a lot of thrillers there's multiple twists there there's one i think that is very predictable there's a couple that i really enjoyed overall i liked it i liked the nostalgic kind of of a 90s kind of horror type of thing and it just wasn't it wasn't as good as home before dark i loved that one but i liked it i liked it a lot so i gave it a 4 out of 5. speaking of thrillers the other thriller i read this month was final support group by grady hendrix which i also gave a 4 out of 5. this one is intense i would even classify this as horror probably i probably should look it up on goodreads and i will not be surprised if it's labeled as horror um but i read this because i read his previous book last year the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires and really enjoyed it so this one if you can guess by the title it's about final girls which i'm sure you've heard because of this book i'll talk about that but basically you have a whole group of girls of final girls which if you don't know what a final girl is it's the last girl standing at the end of a horror movie pretty much there's one person left it's usually a final girl and they have all had traumatic things happen to them and we follow one character predict particular i forget her name um and she has her life has been really tough she's been very paranoid she keeps her house locked up and basically through the course of this book she learns that somebody's trying to kill off all the final girls but nobody believes her so she goes on this whole mission to save all the final girls and to prove that there is somebody after them and i liked it it's very very gory i say if you are like not into gore which i am not it was very tough for me to read this stay away from it if you know that doesn't bother you go for it but if you also like a lot of nostalgic horror movies like scream for the 13th any of the halloween movies um like you know those type of classic psycho stuff like that they are very reminiscent they talk about each of the final girls scenarios of how they became to be final girls and they're like straight taken from that those movies which is fun to read about um but also scary so a lot of you have asked me is this a total rip-off of final girls i mean they're both about final girls i don't think kind of the extent of it this one's much more tamer i would say and grady hendrix really goes into the dissect like the dichotomy of a final girl and how it's really affected them so they're the same but also different if that answers your question but i gave it a four it was interesting it's definitely stuck with me because it was scary next up i have an adult romance and that is very sincerely yours by carrie winfrey which i gave a four out of five this one follows two characters yet again named teddy and everett teddy is in the beginning of this book in a relationship and that's kind of all teddy is this relationship she just pours herself into this relationship so when the guy breaks up with her she's like who am i so she works this kind of toy store and she's trying to figure herself out and she watches this like children's program called everett's place think of like mr rogers neighborhood where it's about everett and he has puppets it's kind of like a local children's network um show i guess you could say and she's like i'll write him an email for advice because why not so they start writing emails back and forth it becomes an email relationship and it's super cute i'd say if you're a big fan of you've got mail which is one of my favorite movies of all time this is a cute one to read it had the email relationship it was just sugary sweet i i just really liked it it was like a cutesy summer read that i enjoyed i didn't give any books five stars this month i actually can't remember last time i gave five star i don't know what it is but the last two books i want to talk about are both like contemporaries i gave them both four out of five i don't have a definitive favorite this month honestly so the first one better than the movies by lynn painter i read this because the cover it's got so many classic like rom-coms on here which is my jam and each of the chapter headers is a quote from a rom-com like 10 things i hate about you you got mail i was like oh i love this i love this so much because it's me in a book but in this book we fought a character named liz she's obsessed with rom-coms she has been since her mother has passed away and she's always thought her life would be a rom-com and then one day this guy from her past kind of walks back in her life and she's like this is it this is my opportunity for the rom-com i've always wanted and so she enlists her neighbor next door west who you know she's always gotten along with but you know he's annoying he's the only next-door neighbor to like help kind of you know get him get the guy involved with her but of course you can guess where it's going to pan out her and western have feelings for each other you get it it's super predictable super cheesy i was 100 for it i liked it four out of five super cute great summer read in my opinion and i just say if you like rom-coms you'll probably like this because you know they reference it so insanely much which i'm always deaf and the last book i want to talk about is the new morgan matson book take me home tonight so this book takes place and one night we follow a multitude of characters mainly cat and stevie who are best friends and kind of opposites and somehow they go to new york um city because they're in connecticut and they decide to go to new york for the night and they get separated somehow and they each have their own different adventures and it's just a really fun book it reminded me a lot of nick and noor's infinite playlist of like avengers and babysitting fear fillers day off it's just you know it's kind of like a murphy's law type of book for like if something's going to go wrong it's gonna go wrong in this book because they're each without phones they can't contact each other it's just kind of a fun night adventure of a book that's all i can say is this my for is this my favorite morgan matson book i don't know i think i might do an author morgan madsen video very very soon because i do want to figure out which one truly is my favorite but i really enjoyed this one i had a really fun time with it the reviews have not been the best of it but i definitely liked it a lot more than her previous book saved the date which i was not the biggest fan of so i like that it was kind of totem one night it was an adventure we followed multiple characters so i didn't feel like it got stale at all and i love there's one girl's plot that is totally totally like completely obscure and like doesn't make sense at all but i had a really fun time reading it and it's a great summer read in my opinion so i gave it four out of five that's all the books i read this month 11 books a lot of books so i plan to read a lot for june july and august and then after that probably zero so just get ready for that i would love to know what you guys read this month please let me know if you're writing the same things and that's about it i'll see you guys in my next video bye youhello everyone today i am here to talk about all the books i read in the month of may so may was a really good month for me i read 11 books i'm officially out of my reading slump round of applause i knew what would happen when warmer weather came to me that was probably the biggest factor of my reading slump like winter i just i get bad seasonal depression that and then being newly pregnant it just it it just happened that way but now it's warmer so i'm outside more which gives me a lot more time to read so yeah 11 books read i've reviewed some of these um whether it be recent reads videos and things like that so there are some books that i probably go into more detail about through different videos which i will link any recent reads more review videos down below in the description box and in the cards above in case you want to hear about more but yeah 11 books there's a lot to talk about so as always i'm going to start my least favorite working up to my favorite so the first book i want to talk about is a why thriller called the ivies by alexa dawn so this is a thriller that caught my eye because of the cover the cover is very intriguing i really enjoy the cover and the synopsis sounded really cool it was about these group of girls that are in this private boarding school and they're called the ivies like their group is called the ivies because they are known to like be very cutthroat they each are like assigned a college one of the ivy league schools like one of them's assigned to harvard other ones assigned to like um brown things like that and yale all those other stuff so that's like their that's their goals they assign colleges they don't have any competition because if you know if like you're really into college which i'm really not but um if you're really like into the emissions of college games you can know how cutthroat it can be you know certain colleges only accept a couple of students from like a really prestigious school so they made each girl have a different schools there wouldn't be any sort of crossover no sort of animosity no sort of competition well easier said than done we follow character name olivia who is a newcomer to kind of the ivy she is not really born into money she got into this boarding school um with a lot of scholarships and things like that she's assigned one particular college but she doesn't really want to go there she wants to go to harvard because that's been her dream but the main girl the head of it all i forget her name is the one that's assigned to harvard so when college admissions come out or i should say early acceptance has come out the main girl learns that she did not get into harvard but olivia did and she keeps it hush-hush but apparently another friend of the group another one of the ivies also applied to harvard and also got in and she's much more vocal about it and then basically the whole book is that emma that's the girl the other girl that got accepted to harvard ends up dead the next day so you're trying to figure out who kills her what's going on olivia's like learning are these iv girls really my friends or are they really not and that's kind of the whole premise of the book i'd say if you love books that in like boarding school like kind of really just rich teenagers that are like whoa it's me i didn't get into the ivy league of my choice i couldn't really compare i couldn't really relate to it at all which is you know on a multitude of levels because i'm out of the age bracket for which i recognize so take my rating with a grain of salt as always with my ratings um and number two i just don't come from the whole boarding school life things like that i didn't really go to college so i didn't really go to like a fancy college or things like that so i don't get it but i mean if you want to cut through a world of like gossip girl with some like really intense college admissions maybe check it out i'm not gonna lie i ended up giving it a two out of five i just really just didn't enjoy it that's the sad matter of it next up is a book that i have reviewed i do like a whole thriller one and that is for your own good by samantha downing again this is set in another kind of private school and this one we follow a multitude of characters we follow a student that goes there we follow a teacher and other teachers and basically what happens is a slew of people get murdered and you know who did it this is not like a whodunit type of book at all you know who's done it you're just kind of discovering their motives and how evil and manipulative people are with what they want in their own lives so i give this one a three maybe i'm just not meant to read like boarding school type of books maybe they're just not for me obviously as my two least favorite books this month were set in boarding like private schools boarding private schools um saying but i just i don't know i just didn't like any of the character of this book which i think was the main point of it all these characters were very unlikable um which i understood but i just i just didn't love it as much as her previous two other books by samantha downing that i have read before so i gave it a three it's not like the worst thriller i've ever read it's an adult one but i just didn't like it nearly as much as my lovely wife or he started it another three star is while we were dating by jasmine gilroy again i did kind of a deep dive review into this one as well this one i said in that video i never remember jasmine gilroy's books i think this one is about a guy named ben who's like the head of a marketing team and he gets assigned to work with he gets his like pitch this cell phone like um kind of marketing commercial thing and the person that's gonna be the head of it all is a character named anna ann i think is her name she's like a famous actor she's going to be the star of it all and she's there and she meets ben and they kind of hit it off and they begin fake dating to kind of help um you know boost her stardom because she's a big premiere coming up and that's the whole gist of the book it was okay all of her books i found are just okay they're great summer reads because they're cute they're romantic um but they just don't feature much in them they're not much to grip upon if that makes any sense i don't know maybe it's just me but i have heard that a lot about her books i like them i enjoy them while i read them but afterwards i'm like i don't remember anything so yeah three star for me i promise and all the books i read this month are just like kind of average another three is heartbreak for hire by sonia hartel so this one comes out in august i believe and i i was really hoping to really love this one because it sounded really cool but i just i didn't um so this one is about this character named brinkley so it works for this place called heartbreak for hire so it's a secret service that specializes in revenge for jilted lovers frenemies and long suffering long-suffering co-workers with a little cash despair basically it's a company where it takes down men and she is like in charge i think of the like really the egos you know she like a female will hire them to like take another co-worker take another guy take his ego down a few notches because it might be a little bit up there and basically brinkley gets assigned to this um job that we're being the book and she meets this guy and she's attracted to him and it's never happened to her before and they kind of hit it off but she's like this is you know my job i can't do this and turns out her boss decided to shake things up and hire some men to do some revenge on females and who should be one of the hires is the guy that she was actually assigned to take down mark so they're paired together to have to work together so it's kind of like an enemies to lovers type of thing and it sounded good like but then i think about the whole revenge thing and i'm not a revenge person by any means like i'm not i'm just not so i just didn't love how it was always combating like men and women um i did like how women stood up for themselves and they were like you know we need to change the system because men think they're superior which can be very true a lot of times but i don't know i just something rubbed me the wrong way about it maybe it was just me and the romance it was okay i just again it wasn't super memorable or rememberable i forget the actual word that you saved for that but i gave it a three it was it was just okay like i said i think this one comes out in august if i'm not mistaken just kidding it comes out july 27th we're close enough to that so there you go then i decided to read a tessa bailey book that had been sitting on my kindle for a long time that is getaway girl this is the first book in her series i've read a lot of tessa bailey books she writes a lot of adult steamy books just in case you're forewarned this one is about um character named addison potts who decides to like show up at her cousin's wedding that she hasn't really seen in years and she gets there and her cousin the bread does not show up and so she like goes to her car and she sees the groom like oh my gosh what am i gonna do and she's like i'll offer him a ride and they become friends and then something more it's all about her and elijah who was actually going to be the future mayor of charleston south carolina and it's about their romance and it was cute i give it a three and a half out of five it was steamy i like the plot of it i think i will read the second book i think it's called runaway girl i'm not gonna lie i do enjoy tessa bailey's books but there's not much to talk about it next up is one that comes out in september i'm sorry i'm reading a lot of head in advance because if you don't know i'm having a baby in september so i'm not going to be reading for like september probably for the like september on to the rest of the year so i'm trying to read any book that i can that i'm interested in that comes out in the later half of the year now because i have time now and i don't you know it's what it is so anyway i read when sparks fly by helena hunting i've read three other books by her really enjoyed it this one follows two characters oh my gosh i forgot their name ebook reading always has to be like this book follows avery and declan who have been friends since college they've never had any like romantic feelings towards each other but basically the book starts with they need to go on a trip together but declan bails last minute because he has a hookup and she has to take her car that is really not reliable and she gets in a bad car accident she's okay and everything but she's wheelchair-bound and can't really walk a lot for the next few months and declan obviously feels very horrible and very guilty about it so he like um works from home and takes care of her and through that and they learn maybe that they've had feelings for each other all along and they're just now realizing it so it's a friend still lovers that's kind of over 30. i found it to be really really cute what did i give it i gave it a 4 out of five i liked it i didn't like it nearly as much as her previous book kiss my cupcake but it was just if you want just a really great organic friends to lovers romance i would recommend this one you have a thriller survive the night by riley sager his fifth book i think it is um i gave this one a four out of five i enjoyed it again not nearly as much as his previous book home before dark this one follows a character named charlie who is kind of escaping college because of a multitude of reasons and she like finds this ride on this rideshare board this is set in the 90s by the way or maybe the late 80s i forget and it's a guy she doesn't even know they have to leave in the middle of the night and as they're driving as you know she learns that she's not this guy that she's writing with and maybe he's hiding a lot more than she thinks he is because another subplot of this book is that there's this campus killer on the college and nobody knows who it is and things like that and she's like crap am i writing with the campus killer and it takes place all in one night it goes through like kind of hour by hour and it's definitely very interesting i think there's a lot of twist with a lot of thrillers there's multiple twists there there's one i think that is very predictable there's a couple that i really enjoyed overall i liked it i liked the nostalgic kind of of a 90s kind of horror type of thing and it just wasn't it wasn't as good as home before dark i loved that one but i liked it i liked it a lot so i gave it a 4 out of 5. speaking of thrillers the other thriller i read this month was final support group by grady hendrix which i also gave a 4 out of 5. this one is intense i would even classify this as horror probably i probably should look it up on goodreads and i will not be surprised if it's labeled as horror um but i read this because i read his previous book last year the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires and really enjoyed it so this one if you can guess by the title it's about final girls which i'm sure you've heard because of this book i'll talk about that but basically you have a whole group of girls of final girls which if you don't know what a final girl is it's the last girl standing at the end of a horror movie pretty much there's one person left it's usually a final girl and they have all had traumatic things happen to them and we follow one character predict particular i forget her name um and she has her life has been really tough she's been very paranoid she keeps her house locked up and basically through the course of this book she learns that somebody's trying to kill off all the final girls but nobody believes her so she goes on this whole mission to save all the final girls and to prove that there is somebody after them and i liked it it's very very gory i say if you are like not into gore which i am not it was very tough for me to read this stay away from it if you know that doesn't bother you go for it but if you also like a lot of nostalgic horror movies like scream for the 13th any of the halloween movies um like you know those type of classic psycho stuff like that they are very reminiscent they talk about each of the final girls scenarios of how they became to be final girls and they're like straight taken from that those movies which is fun to read about um but also scary so a lot of you have asked me is this a total rip-off of final girls i mean they're both about final girls i don't think kind of the extent of it this one's much more tamer i would say and grady hendrix really goes into the dissect like the dichotomy of a final girl and how it's really affected them so they're the same but also different if that answers your question but i gave it a four it was interesting it's definitely stuck with me because it was scary next up i have an adult romance and that is very sincerely yours by carrie winfrey which i gave a four out of five this one follows two characters yet again named teddy and everett teddy is in the beginning of this book in a relationship and that's kind of all teddy is this relationship she just pours herself into this relationship so when the guy breaks up with her she's like who am i so she works this kind of toy store and she's trying to figure herself out and she watches this like children's program called everett's place think of like mr rogers neighborhood where it's about everett and he has puppets it's kind of like a local children's network um show i guess you could say and she's like i'll write him an email for advice because why not so they start writing emails back and forth it becomes an email relationship and it's super cute i'd say if you're a big fan of you've got mail which is one of my favorite movies of all time this is a cute one to read it had the email relationship it was just sugary sweet i i just really liked it it was like a cutesy summer read that i enjoyed i didn't give any books five stars this month i actually can't remember last time i gave five star i don't know what it is but the last two books i want to talk about are both like contemporaries i gave them both four out of five i don't have a definitive favorite this month honestly so the first one better than the movies by lynn painter i read this because the cover it's got so many classic like rom-coms on here which is my jam and each of the chapter headers is a quote from a rom-com like 10 things i hate about you you got mail i was like oh i love this i love this so much because it's me in a book but in this book we fought a character named liz she's obsessed with rom-coms she has been since her mother has passed away and she's always thought her life would be a rom-com and then one day this guy from her past kind of walks back in her life and she's like this is it this is my opportunity for the rom-com i've always wanted and so she enlists her neighbor next door west who you know she's always gotten along with but you know he's annoying he's the only next-door neighbor to like help kind of you know get him get the guy involved with her but of course you can guess where it's going to pan out her and western have feelings for each other you get it it's super predictable super cheesy i was 100 for it i liked it four out of five super cute great summer read in my opinion and i just say if you like rom-coms you'll probably like this because you know they reference it so insanely much which i'm always deaf and the last book i want to talk about is the new morgan matson book take me home tonight so this book takes place and one night we follow a multitude of characters mainly cat and stevie who are best friends and kind of opposites and somehow they go to new york um city because they're in connecticut and they decide to go to new york for the night and they get separated somehow and they each have their own different adventures and it's just a really fun book it reminded me a lot of nick and noor's infinite playlist of like avengers and babysitting fear fillers day off it's just you know it's kind of like a murphy's law type of book for like if something's going to go wrong it's gonna go wrong in this book because they're each without phones they can't contact each other it's just kind of a fun night adventure of a book that's all i can say is this my for is this my favorite morgan matson book i don't know i think i might do an author morgan madsen video very very soon because i do want to figure out which one truly is my favorite but i really enjoyed this one i had a really fun time with it the reviews have not been the best of it but i definitely liked it a lot more than her previous book saved the date which i was not the biggest fan of so i like that it was kind of totem one night it was an adventure we followed multiple characters so i didn't feel like it got stale at all and i love there's one girl's plot that is totally totally like completely obscure and like doesn't make sense at all but i had a really fun time reading it and it's a great summer read in my opinion so i gave it four out of five that's all the books i read this month 11 books a lot of books so i plan to read a lot for june july and august and then after that probably zero so just get ready for that i would love to know what you guys read this month please let me know if you're writing the same things and that's about it i'll see you guys in my next video bye you\n"