**Disappointing Thrillers: A Year of Missed Expectations**

As a book lover and thriller enthusiast, I was excited to dive into the world of suspenseful stories that keep me on the edge of my seat. Unfortunately, not all books delivered on their promises, leaving me feeling disappointed and underwhelmed. In this article, I'll share some of my least favorite thrillers from the past year, highlighting what didn't quite work for me.

**"The Family Next Door" by Meg Cabot**

I was excited to dive into "The Family Next Door," a thriller about a young woman who gets engaged and meets her fiancé's family for the first time. The twist? They're all rich and have secrets that threaten to upend their perfect lives. Unfortunately, the author wasted too much time on character development, leaving me feeling like I was stuck in limbo. The pacing was slow, and the reveals came too late to really make an impact. While the concept had promise, it wasn't executed well enough for me to fully invest in the story.

**"The Paris Apartment" by Lucy Foley**

Lucy Foley is known for writing unlikable characters that leave readers feeling frustrated or disconnected from the story. "The Paris Apartment" was no exception, with a protagonist who seemed more like a cipher than a flesh-and-blood person. The plot revolved around a young woman staying in her brother's apartment in Paris, only to discover that he's not there and she has to investigate the occupants of the building. What could have been a creepy and atmospheric thriller turned out to be a snooze-fest. I found myself checking my watch, wondering when something would finally happen.

**"Hide and Seek" by Unknown Author**

I was excited to dive into "Hide and Seek," a horror novel about characters playing a game of hide-and-seek in an abandoned park at night. Sounds simple, right? Unfortunately, the author dropped the ball, failing to deliver on the creepy atmosphere that I'd been promised. The characters were paper-thin, and their motivations seemed shallow. The whole thing felt like a missed opportunity to create something truly terrifying.

**"Malice House" by Megan Shepherd**

Megan Shepherd's "Malice House" had all the makings of a great thriller: a mysterious manuscript, an intriguing setting, and a protagonist with a personal stake in uncovering the truth. Unfortunately, nothing happened until the very end, when the story finally picked up steam. By that point, I was too invested to care about the plot twists or character developments. The pacing was slow, and the reveals felt like a cheap trick to get me to keep reading.

**Lessons Learned**

While not every book is going to be a home run, it's disappointing when expectations aren't met. As a reader, it's essential to know that even with the best intentions, books can fall short. In these cases, I couldn't help but feel like I'd wasted my time, waiting for something that never arrived.

**Favorite Thrillers**

On the flip side, there were plenty of thrillers this year that exceeded my expectations. From twisty mysteries to heart-pumping suspense, there's no shortage of great books out there. If you're a fellow thriller enthusiast, I'd love to hear about your favorite reads from the past year – what kept you on the edge of your seat?

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone today I'm here to do a video but I thought would just be fun today I'm going to talk about my favorite Thrillers that I read in 2022 and my least favorite thrither so I read primarily two genres if you want me to do this for the other genre let me know but I randomly read Thrillers and romance so those are kind of I've learned like my go-to genres like if I'm ever in a slump if I just want to read a book it goes to the genres I usually go to so with that means I read a lot of that genre and particularly in 2022 I read 34 Thrillers I'm kind of combining that also with with horror I think too I might have to update the numbers it might be higher I'll leave it right here if it's different but either way that's a good chunk of my reading because I read 96 books so I'm sure I read a lot of romances so if you want me to do a kind of top and least favorite um romance reads of 2022 let me know as well but I have 16 books I want to talk about today I'm going to talk about my top eight Thrillers that I read in 2022 and my least like my bottom eight Thrillers I read in 2022 so I'm gonna kind of differentiate them I'm going to start off with the good because that's always fun to talk about the good books you never want to talk about the bad books at least I don't I don't like bashing books no and I wasn't gonna do this particularly two book releases in 2022 but I was like you know what now I'm sure you guys have heard a lot about all of the Thriller releases in 2022 so I'm including backless thriller books that I read they maybe came out in 2020 2018 either way I read the mid 2022 does that make sense longest and forever let's just cut to it the first step is no secret my favorite thrower of the whole year was in my dreams I hold a knife this is on my favorites list of the whole entire year I love this one this is about a group of college um kids that are coming into the reunion basically one of their friend groups dies named Heather unfortunately because that's my name so it was awkward to read about I was like oh this is kind of awkward but they never really solved Heather's murder so they're back in the reading they're like let's hash it out we're gonna figure out who could other once and for all and honestly they are all horrible characters none of them have any redeeming qualities whatsoever and usually I've said time and time again I don't Jive well with those books I need to have some character that I can like kind of like root for that has good qualities that's you know overall a good person so when I read books where it's all horrible people I'm like oh I'm not too sure but actually Winstead the way she wrote it was just so amazing the Twist and Turn of this book the very last um big plot twist I loved it easily my favorite throw of the year I won't go on about it because I've talked about it a lot another book that I read that I haven't talked a lot about I think it's classified as horror but I can't think it's thriller-ish and that is and that is children on the hill by Jennifer McMahon hopefully I pronounce that name right this is my first book by her and I have to say I really enjoyed it I read this on eBook so my memory of it may be a little foggy so I'll do my best but basically it takes place in two timelines she's kind of known for that if you know she wrote The Winner people I'm planning to read that this winter hopefully like knock on wood my shelf meant it would I could do that um but basically back um you know back in the day we had a sister and a brother and they lived with their grandmother and their grandmother ran this kind of psychiatric hospital you know um for mentally ill patients and there's a little girl that comes to the hospital and she tells them you know I'm gonna bring her home you know let's kind of imagine her as her new sister like treat her kindly and treat her nicely and this girl comes in and it's kind of odd at first but then they decide to start kind of going into the hospital try to figure out what Secrets there are and things like that now fast forward many many years later we follow a character that is trying to like hunt down monsters because she thinks monsters are real her past is also tied in with this kind of psychiatric hospital and she's learning that maybe there's a killer and like a monster loose near the psychiatric hospital so she has to kind of go back there and it's very vague synopsis please forgive me but it was really good like it was creepy it had a lot of talk about family the plot twists were somewhat predictable but I still enjoyed them a ton if you want a dark creepy ass atmospheric book definitely check this one out like I said I think it's shelved as horror but I would say it's kind of it's not super super scary but it's definitely very thriller-esque then we have one that I have wanted to read for a while and I finally did definitely not by Agatha Christie this is my second Agatha Christie book and I really enjoyed it definitely my favorite of hers thus far so this is all about this is a part of the series oh gosh Hercule quinar I always pronounce his name horribly he's a famous detective if you know you know um but basically this whole book is about him going on this cruise on the Nile with a whole bunch of other rich people and someone gets murdered and you have to figure out who done it Agatha Christie's known for her locked door Mysteries where you have a certain cast of characters and one of them is the murderer and you have to kind of pluck it one by one to figure out who I love this one the other one that I read by her was um and then there were none which is a great one but I love that um just I don't know I think the characters are more like interesting in this book I love the setting of it I just I've come to learn that I love Agatha Christie and Agatha Christie is known like she's famous for her Thrillers and I can see why so if you're like I'm not too sure about Classics because me neither I'm not a classic reader at all I've learned that about me I try to expand somewhat I've read little woman I did enjoy that some of them I do like but majority I'm just not a classic reader I still would recommend Agatha Christie I still think her work stance this time it's very um readable in case you're wondering with language and the way things are said yes it is kind of set in the past obviously but it's still very much readable to this day so I would definitely recommend checking out Agatha Christie another thrill that made it into my top favorites of the year was my best friend's exorcism by Grady Hendricks this is my third novel by him and goodness me he does not disappoint this is my first time I think the first time he's made my favorites list but green Hendrix writes horror I'm not galatio it's but it's not like super scary it's more like grotesque which it sounds really odd but it is but this book is set in 80s if you can't tell because this whole book is fashioned like a VHS tape yes 90s kids where you at oh but but basically we Gretchen and friends and going to the woods to have some fun and I think Gretchen I forget which one yeah Gretchen comes out of the woods and sums off with Gretchen you know she's got a lot of problems she may be possessed by a demon so the whole book goes throughout her Abby trying to figure out what is going on should she should perform an exorcism on her best friend and at the root of it all it's about a friendship I've learned with Grady Hendricks books that there is a predominant like big plot of scariness like this one's obviously about a demon possession scary but at the root of it it's something much more like bigger like a bigger picture thing like a friendship AKA also the book I'm currently reading of his right now that is just being released is how to sell a haunted house which is about a brother and sister and like family-ness I don't know man that might take the cake for the creepiest granny Hunter's book I read because it is about scary puppets it's intense but this one I I really enjoyed I think you could read this still like I said it's not overly overly scary you know it's 80s possessions you know kind of the thing that was back in the 80s but the Poltergeist Stephen King you know the 80s so I really loved it highly recommend it one that didn't quite make my list of the favorites of the year was girl forgotten by Karen Slaughter this is her second book in I guess the pieces of her series um it was made into a Netflix show weirdly enough I do not recommend the Netflix weirdly enough I do not recommend the Netflix show I know that's blasphemy because Tony Collette is in it and I love Tony Nicolette like usually anything she's in I'm all for but that show no but I did enjoy pieces of her it's the only Karen solder book I've read Because her books I've heard are intense so I can't tell you too much about this one but we follow our main character Andrea and she is now a he's a US Marshal and she basically gets assigned to protect this judge that is getting death threats and she goes there and she learns us there's also an unsolved murder tied to this and also might be familiar to Andrea's past so this one goes back in time Karen Slaughter's kind of known for that for way back when this young girl was murdered on her prom night to now and how it kind of fits in with Andrea and the judge and it's very dark the characters are horrible a lot of really horrible things are done like it's kind of got also got like a cult in it as well but I enjoyed it I flew through it I was addicted to it it was a great one it makes me want to read more Karen Slaughter but I'm hesitant because I'm like can I handle it but I still really love this one and of course you know what made my list Daisy darker by Alice Feeney I love this one it's on a lot of people's favorite lists with good reason if you're looking for a very Thriller atmospheric book that is perfect to read and kind of the cold rainy day this is one for you this is kind of a modern retelling of Agatha Christie's and then there were not I think if you've read that book you can clearly see where this book is going but that didn't make it any less enjoyable so in this book we follow a character named Daisy darker and she's going home to her grandmother's to celebrate her grandmother's birthday it's on Halloween her grandmother lives like on this house on an island that when the tie goes in or something like that you can't leave like you're kind of stuck there and so her she goes there her sister and um her parents they have a very tumultuous family relationship and the clock strikes midnight and what do you know somebody dies every hour upon the hour and they're like who's done it so it's got that Agatha Christie lock door thing for sure but Alex Finney loves a plot twist yes she does she likes multiple ones too so ones I could see coming some I could not but either way I really enjoyed the red writing of this one and how it was very atmospheric with the house being so close to Sea you could smell the salt in the air and how it was dark and creepy with the Halloween Vibes I really loved it definitely a favorite of mine for sure next up is the nothing man by Catherine Ryan Howard I read two books from her this year and this one was definitely my favorite I think another one of hers might be on my least favorite so that just goes to show you um this one is when it's for the most interesting plot like I have learned this author writes really interesting plots but her execution is kind of not there so this one is all about a guy who is a security guard and like this mall and he's like walking around one day and he sees the books and new releases and there's a book called The nothing man and he's like holy crap this whole book is about the serial killer the nothing Man how he terrorized and heard a lot of family members and how this one girl that's the only like Survivor of him is writing her kind of tell on she's trying to figure out who he is and he's like crap because what do you know he is actually the nothing man so this book is really interesting how you get a book within a book because in this book you actually get chapters of the nothing man reading what Eve who escaped the nothing man's thoughts are and you can also see Jim who is in fact the nothing man am I confusing you yet reading it and being like is she gonna find out who I am like holy crap what am I gonna do I didn't love this one as much as I wanted to because I felt like the overall ending was not there for me but I really enjoyed the whole tension of will he be found will he get caught finally will he finally figure out who he really is and it's just really interesting about a serial killer finding a book that's written about him like that just is so interesting to me and so I definitely really enjoyed it and I would recommend it it wasn't I could have made my favorites but like I said Catherine Ryan Howard's her um it just doesn't go 100 there for me so I liked it I did enjoy it it just wasn't one of my all-time favorites and the last book I will talk about as far as my favorites for Thrillers go will be Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier I read three books by her maybe two books you know three books this year from her and this one's easily my favorite it's about a girl that is a jail because she finally gets found out that she was involved in her best friend's murder years ago you follow her to jail and she does her time she comes out and the guy who committed all this was her High School boyfriend who was kind of like a serial killer now well he escapes jail and murders are happening and she's like crap and so it just basically is all about characters that have a lot of different scary things and they have motives and creepiness and this one's very dark I'd say especially the end I was like oh my gosh like this is intense but I enjoyed it it's definitely a very twisty Thriller Jennifer Hillier writes really easy to read Thrillers like ones that you can fly through there are some that you just have to take your time be patient with them and there are some that you're just like I gotta finish this thing ASAP and this one was one of them these are my eighth favorite Thrillers now let's talk about some of my least favorite colors that I've read this year flicker in the dark by Stacy Willingham this was actually my first read ever of 2022. I was really excited about it I believe it's debut novel oh my gosh I don't remember what this book is about I remember not enjoying it it had a great plot it was about a character I believe that she she found out basically when she was younger that her dad was a serial killer there was all these girls that went missing and her dad like confessed and he was put away and now her mom has passed away and her dad's passed away and she kind of has to go home to set things right and now murders are popping up that are very much like copycats of her dad so she's like what the hell is going on and it sounds so interesting doesn't it it really does but it just fell flat the pr the plot twists were so predictable I hated the way it ended the character already I am not a fan of the um unpredictable main character where you don't know if she's really telling the truth or not she's unreliable that's the word I'm looking for I've read it so many times girl on the train on the silent patient you just don't know if what she's saying or what she's seeing is actually real because she doesn't even know it herself so you're like I don't know what to believe so that's the number one thing I hated about it because I was like I how am I supposed to believe you you don't know what you're doing obviously she's going through a lot of trauma it just wasn't there for me didn't enjoy it definitely was a letdown for sure especially making my least especially my first book of the year didn't start off the year with a good like jump I will say then we have one that I've you know it's in my least favorite its video but I'll still talk about it the last thing he told me by Laura Dave I've told you this time and time again I read this because of my 22 books to read in 2022. I read it primarily because I believe it when the Goodreads Choice Award for favorite Thriller I want to say in 2020 or maybe 20 I don't know it won the award and so with that you're like going into it with really high expectations but this one was just it is a case of Miss marketed I'll say that and I'll say it again and I'll stand by it because when you read it it's not a thriller book at all it's more of a woman's Fiction it's more about family there's not a lot of thrilling aspects to it we follow a character I don't even know her name she gets married to this guy great he she inherits a stepdaughter great and then her husband goes missing and she's like what the crap and so she's trying to figure out along with her stepdaughter like where'd her husband go what's going on you start uncovering the past and it sounds interesting it was boring nothing really happened at the end it was really about a mother and a stepchild like coming together and being a family which is great that's awesome like it wasn't a horrible book with that but they treated it like the best ruler ever and I'm like this is not a thriller it's really not it's not at all so I put it on the list and I still open on the list because they still Market it as Thriller and it's not I'm just gonna move on I feel like I've talked a lot about this one the golden couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekin and this is my I don't even know third or fourth book by them and I think officially after this I have to bid a dude to them because I have liked one book by them and the last three I have not I really enjoyed the life between us which was their first book they wrote together and then every book after that I have not liked this one oh gosh what is it about it's about a married couple that is having a rough time and they go to this therapist which is like the world's unknown therapist but she doesn't have a license anymore because she got too involved like with her therapist like helping marriage couples out and I'm like if that's not a warning sign I don't know what is why would you go to this therapist and of course what do you know she gets really involved in their lives and like breaks in their house and stuff and I'm like it just it wasn't good the plot twists were not good everything was predictable I just it was boring I'm boring I'm boring and I just I think I just kept a bit of due to this author Duo I just I want to like their books I just don't and I think more often than not now I'm not liking them so I'm not going to continue reading them if I don't enjoy them and I know it sounds harsh but why waste your time you know on books that you think like you hope that'll be good but you kind of have a feeling it won't like I don't know I don't know then we have another thrill that I really want to love but didn't the family game by Catherine Steadman this one sounded much like ready or not this movie that I've heard a lot about um and I've watched a lot of Clips it's about a woman that gets married to this guy and that night they have to place hide and seek game and choose the Target and if she gets caught she gets killed so it sounded really interesting so this is about a character that um she gets engaged and she's never met her family and they're all really rich and she meets them and then secrets are Unleashed and then they all start to have these games like there's a one game that was my favorite that Krampus and that was really creepy like I was like oh my gosh and then on Christmas Eve they have like the scavenger hunt that was also really creepy if they would have went with that the whole book I would have really enjoyed it but it's instead at the scavenger hunt that was the best part of the whole book took up maybe the last 10 of the book The majority of it was her trying to figure out her fiance's secrets and like her father-in-law having this weird attraction to her father-in-law and I was like this is not it like no like get it out like I don't know so the author wasted a lot of time getting to the big finale when all I wanted was for the finale to be elongated which usually I don't say that but the best game the best thing about this book are the games and coincidentally enough there's not enough of them in this book so I just I don't know I wanted to like it more it's not like a least favorite book I didn't put on my least favorite books of the year because it wasn't but as far as Thrillers go it was because I was expecting to love this one and it just let me down a little bit the Paris apartment by Lucy Foley this is another author I might have to better do to because this is my third book by her I've really enjoyed one love the guest list that I read The Hunting Party hated it that I read this one did not like it I've learned with Lucy Foley she writes a lot of unlikable characters like characters you want to punch in the face characters that you don't care if they die or not you just don't care Lucy Foley is known for that so this one's about a girl that goes to stay with her brother in Paris and he's not there and so she she has to like investigate all the people living in the apartment and it's boring that's all you know it wasn't good I'm just gonna move on step is hide another one of my least favorite books this one I really had high hopes for it's a horror book not even scary it's about characters that play this hide and seek game in this old abandonismo park and you're like crap this sounds amazing nothing happens nothing like they had an opportunity to be creepy and dark at night they don't be the freaking hide and seek game in the dark they play in the daytime I'm like where's the freaking steaks at like I'm a scaredy cat and I wanted more I wanted to be scared more like that's telling you something I I can't talk about this book more I've not seen this yet on somebody's favorites book because it just was it was not good highly disappointed in it malice house by Megan Shepard I had really high hopes for this one it was all about a character that her father was a famous author he died she goes home to kind of you know collect his belongings and she finds a manuscript there that he never released full of like these really creepy children stories and coincidentally enough she's an illustrator so she's like you know what maybe I could sell this because she's not doing good financially maybe I can draw some of his illustrations like bring them to life put them in a binding and sell them and so she starts to like ask her dad's friends they get really too interested in it and then maybe her illustrations you know with her dad's things start maybe coming to light it sounds really interesting doesn't it again another book where nothing happens until the last 20 of the book like when the last 20 like us hit the fan like it got creepy quick I'm not gonna lie to you but by that time I was so uninterested because nothing was happening that I didn't even care that's just how I feel nothing really happened I did not enjoy it it was a sad one I think that's all is that eight I don't know I'm just gonna stop because I don't wanna bash on any books so there you have my like favorite drawers of the read and my least favorite those are the read either way I read a good majority of Thrillers this year I read 36 that's a lot goes to show you that not all of them are going to be amazing and that is okay because that's how life works but I would love to know what favorite Thrillers you've read this year or last year I should say and what least favorite notice you read last year let me know down in the comments as always thank you so much for watching and I will see you in my next video bye foreignhello everyone today I'm here to do a video but I thought would just be fun today I'm going to talk about my favorite Thrillers that I read in 2022 and my least favorite thrither so I read primarily two genres if you want me to do this for the other genre let me know but I randomly read Thrillers and romance so those are kind of I've learned like my go-to genres like if I'm ever in a slump if I just want to read a book it goes to the genres I usually go to so with that means I read a lot of that genre and particularly in 2022 I read 34 Thrillers I'm kind of combining that also with with horror I think too I might have to update the numbers it might be higher I'll leave it right here if it's different but either way that's a good chunk of my reading because I read 96 books so I'm sure I read a lot of romances so if you want me to do a kind of top and least favorite um romance reads of 2022 let me know as well but I have 16 books I want to talk about today I'm going to talk about my top eight Thrillers that I read in 2022 and my least like my bottom eight Thrillers I read in 2022 so I'm gonna kind of differentiate them I'm going to start off with the good because that's always fun to talk about the good books you never want to talk about the bad books at least I don't I don't like bashing books no and I wasn't gonna do this particularly two book releases in 2022 but I was like you know what now I'm sure you guys have heard a lot about all of the Thriller releases in 2022 so I'm including backless thriller books that I read they maybe came out in 2020 2018 either way I read the mid 2022 does that make sense longest and forever let's just cut to it the first step is no secret my favorite thrower of the whole year was in my dreams I hold a knife this is on my favorites list of the whole entire year I love this one this is about a group of college um kids that are coming into the reunion basically one of their friend groups dies named Heather unfortunately because that's my name so it was awkward to read about I was like oh this is kind of awkward but they never really solved Heather's murder so they're back in the reading they're like let's hash it out we're gonna figure out who could other once and for all and honestly they are all horrible characters none of them have any redeeming qualities whatsoever and usually I've said time and time again I don't Jive well with those books I need to have some character that I can like kind of like root for that has good qualities that's you know overall a good person so when I read books where it's all horrible people I'm like oh I'm not too sure but actually Winstead the way she wrote it was just so amazing the Twist and Turn of this book the very last um big plot twist I loved it easily my favorite throw of the year I won't go on about it because I've talked about it a lot another book that I read that I haven't talked a lot about I think it's classified as horror but I can't think it's thriller-ish and that is and that is children on the hill by Jennifer McMahon hopefully I pronounce that name right this is my first book by her and I have to say I really enjoyed it I read this on eBook so my memory of it may be a little foggy so I'll do my best but basically it takes place in two timelines she's kind of known for that if you know she wrote The Winner people I'm planning to read that this winter hopefully like knock on wood my shelf meant it would I could do that um but basically back um you know back in the day we had a sister and a brother and they lived with their grandmother and their grandmother ran this kind of psychiatric hospital you know um for mentally ill patients and there's a little girl that comes to the hospital and she tells them you know I'm gonna bring her home you know let's kind of imagine her as her new sister like treat her kindly and treat her nicely and this girl comes in and it's kind of odd at first but then they decide to start kind of going into the hospital try to figure out what Secrets there are and things like that now fast forward many many years later we follow a character that is trying to like hunt down monsters because she thinks monsters are real her past is also tied in with this kind of psychiatric hospital and she's learning that maybe there's a killer and like a monster loose near the psychiatric hospital so she has to kind of go back there and it's very vague synopsis please forgive me but it was really good like it was creepy it had a lot of talk about family the plot twists were somewhat predictable but I still enjoyed them a ton if you want a dark creepy ass atmospheric book definitely check this one out like I said I think it's shelved as horror but I would say it's kind of it's not super super scary but it's definitely very thriller-esque then we have one that I have wanted to read for a while and I finally did definitely not by Agatha Christie this is my second Agatha Christie book and I really enjoyed it definitely my favorite of hers thus far so this is all about this is a part of the series oh gosh Hercule quinar I always pronounce his name horribly he's a famous detective if you know you know um but basically this whole book is about him going on this cruise on the Nile with a whole bunch of other rich people and someone gets murdered and you have to figure out who done it Agatha Christie's known for her locked door Mysteries where you have a certain cast of characters and one of them is the murderer and you have to kind of pluck it one by one to figure out who I love this one the other one that I read by her was um and then there were none which is a great one but I love that um just I don't know I think the characters are more like interesting in this book I love the setting of it I just I've come to learn that I love Agatha Christie and Agatha Christie is known like she's famous for her Thrillers and I can see why so if you're like I'm not too sure about Classics because me neither I'm not a classic reader at all I've learned that about me I try to expand somewhat I've read little woman I did enjoy that some of them I do like but majority I'm just not a classic reader I still would recommend Agatha Christie I still think her work stance this time it's very um readable in case you're wondering with language and the way things are said yes it is kind of set in the past obviously but it's still very much readable to this day so I would definitely recommend checking out Agatha Christie another thrill that made it into my top favorites of the year was my best friend's exorcism by Grady Hendricks this is my third novel by him and goodness me he does not disappoint this is my first time I think the first time he's made my favorites list but green Hendrix writes horror I'm not galatio it's but it's not like super scary it's more like grotesque which it sounds really odd but it is but this book is set in 80s if you can't tell because this whole book is fashioned like a VHS tape yes 90s kids where you at oh but but basically we Gretchen and friends and going to the woods to have some fun and I think Gretchen I forget which one yeah Gretchen comes out of the woods and sums off with Gretchen you know she's got a lot of problems she may be possessed by a demon so the whole book goes throughout her Abby trying to figure out what is going on should she should perform an exorcism on her best friend and at the root of it all it's about a friendship I've learned with Grady Hendricks books that there is a predominant like big plot of scariness like this one's obviously about a demon possession scary but at the root of it it's something much more like bigger like a bigger picture thing like a friendship AKA also the book I'm currently reading of his right now that is just being released is how to sell a haunted house which is about a brother and sister and like family-ness I don't know man that might take the cake for the creepiest granny Hunter's book I read because it is about scary puppets it's intense but this one I I really enjoyed I think you could read this still like I said it's not overly overly scary you know it's 80s possessions you know kind of the thing that was back in the 80s but the Poltergeist Stephen King you know the 80s so I really loved it highly recommend it one that didn't quite make my list of the favorites of the year was girl forgotten by Karen Slaughter this is her second book in I guess the pieces of her series um it was made into a Netflix show weirdly enough I do not recommend the Netflix weirdly enough I do not recommend the Netflix show I know that's blasphemy because Tony Collette is in it and I love Tony Nicolette like usually anything she's in I'm all for but that show no but I did enjoy pieces of her it's the only Karen solder book I've read Because her books I've heard are intense so I can't tell you too much about this one but we follow our main character Andrea and she is now a he's a US Marshal and she basically gets assigned to protect this judge that is getting death threats and she goes there and she learns us there's also an unsolved murder tied to this and also might be familiar to Andrea's past so this one goes back in time Karen Slaughter's kind of known for that for way back when this young girl was murdered on her prom night to now and how it kind of fits in with Andrea and the judge and it's very dark the characters are horrible a lot of really horrible things are done like it's kind of got also got like a cult in it as well but I enjoyed it I flew through it I was addicted to it it was a great one it makes me want to read more Karen Slaughter but I'm hesitant because I'm like can I handle it but I still really love this one and of course you know what made my list Daisy darker by Alice Feeney I love this one it's on a lot of people's favorite lists with good reason if you're looking for a very Thriller atmospheric book that is perfect to read and kind of the cold rainy day this is one for you this is kind of a modern retelling of Agatha Christie's and then there were not I think if you've read that book you can clearly see where this book is going but that didn't make it any less enjoyable so in this book we follow a character named Daisy darker and she's going home to her grandmother's to celebrate her grandmother's birthday it's on Halloween her grandmother lives like on this house on an island that when the tie goes in or something like that you can't leave like you're kind of stuck there and so her she goes there her sister and um her parents they have a very tumultuous family relationship and the clock strikes midnight and what do you know somebody dies every hour upon the hour and they're like who's done it so it's got that Agatha Christie lock door thing for sure but Alex Finney loves a plot twist yes she does she likes multiple ones too so ones I could see coming some I could not but either way I really enjoyed the red writing of this one and how it was very atmospheric with the house being so close to Sea you could smell the salt in the air and how it was dark and creepy with the Halloween Vibes I really loved it definitely a favorite of mine for sure next up is the nothing man by Catherine Ryan Howard I read two books from her this year and this one was definitely my favorite I think another one of hers might be on my least favorite so that just goes to show you um this one is when it's for the most interesting plot like I have learned this author writes really interesting plots but her execution is kind of not there so this one is all about a guy who is a security guard and like this mall and he's like walking around one day and he sees the books and new releases and there's a book called The nothing man and he's like holy crap this whole book is about the serial killer the nothing Man how he terrorized and heard a lot of family members and how this one girl that's the only like Survivor of him is writing her kind of tell on she's trying to figure out who he is and he's like crap because what do you know he is actually the nothing man so this book is really interesting how you get a book within a book because in this book you actually get chapters of the nothing man reading what Eve who escaped the nothing man's thoughts are and you can also see Jim who is in fact the nothing man am I confusing you yet reading it and being like is she gonna find out who I am like holy crap what am I gonna do I didn't love this one as much as I wanted to because I felt like the overall ending was not there for me but I really enjoyed the whole tension of will he be found will he get caught finally will he finally figure out who he really is and it's just really interesting about a serial killer finding a book that's written about him like that just is so interesting to me and so I definitely really enjoyed it and I would recommend it it wasn't I could have made my favorites but like I said Catherine Ryan Howard's her um it just doesn't go 100 there for me so I liked it I did enjoy it it just wasn't one of my all-time favorites and the last book I will talk about as far as my favorites for Thrillers go will be Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier I read three books by her maybe two books you know three books this year from her and this one's easily my favorite it's about a girl that is a jail because she finally gets found out that she was involved in her best friend's murder years ago you follow her to jail and she does her time she comes out and the guy who committed all this was her High School boyfriend who was kind of like a serial killer now well he escapes jail and murders are happening and she's like crap and so it just basically is all about characters that have a lot of different scary things and they have motives and creepiness and this one's very dark I'd say especially the end I was like oh my gosh like this is intense but I enjoyed it it's definitely a very twisty Thriller Jennifer Hillier writes really easy to read Thrillers like ones that you can fly through there are some that you just have to take your time be patient with them and there are some that you're just like I gotta finish this thing ASAP and this one was one of them these are my eighth favorite Thrillers now let's talk about some of my least favorite colors that I've read this year flicker in the dark by Stacy Willingham this was actually my first read ever of 2022. I was really excited about it I believe it's debut novel oh my gosh I don't remember what this book is about I remember not enjoying it it had a great plot it was about a character I believe that she she found out basically when she was younger that her dad was a serial killer there was all these girls that went missing and her dad like confessed and he was put away and now her mom has passed away and her dad's passed away and she kind of has to go home to set things right and now murders are popping up that are very much like copycats of her dad so she's like what the hell is going on and it sounds so interesting doesn't it it really does but it just fell flat the pr the plot twists were so predictable I hated the way it ended the character already I am not a fan of the um unpredictable main character where you don't know if she's really telling the truth or not she's unreliable that's the word I'm looking for I've read it so many times girl on the train on the silent patient you just don't know if what she's saying or what she's seeing is actually real because she doesn't even know it herself so you're like I don't know what to believe so that's the number one thing I hated about it because I was like I how am I supposed to believe you you don't know what you're doing obviously she's going through a lot of trauma it just wasn't there for me didn't enjoy it definitely was a letdown for sure especially making my least especially my first book of the year didn't start off the year with a good like jump I will say then we have one that I've you know it's in my least favorite its video but I'll still talk about it the last thing he told me by Laura Dave I've told you this time and time again I read this because of my 22 books to read in 2022. I read it primarily because I believe it when the Goodreads Choice Award for favorite Thriller I want to say in 2020 or maybe 20 I don't know it won the award and so with that you're like going into it with really high expectations but this one was just it is a case of Miss marketed I'll say that and I'll say it again and I'll stand by it because when you read it it's not a thriller book at all it's more of a woman's Fiction it's more about family there's not a lot of thrilling aspects to it we follow a character I don't even know her name she gets married to this guy great he she inherits a stepdaughter great and then her husband goes missing and she's like what the crap and so she's trying to figure out along with her stepdaughter like where'd her husband go what's going on you start uncovering the past and it sounds interesting it was boring nothing really happened at the end it was really about a mother and a stepchild like coming together and being a family which is great that's awesome like it wasn't a horrible book with that but they treated it like the best ruler ever and I'm like this is not a thriller it's really not it's not at all so I put it on the list and I still open on the list because they still Market it as Thriller and it's not I'm just gonna move on I feel like I've talked a lot about this one the golden couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekin and this is my I don't even know third or fourth book by them and I think officially after this I have to bid a dude to them because I have liked one book by them and the last three I have not I really enjoyed the life between us which was their first book they wrote together and then every book after that I have not liked this one oh gosh what is it about it's about a married couple that is having a rough time and they go to this therapist which is like the world's unknown therapist but she doesn't have a license anymore because she got too involved like with her therapist like helping marriage couples out and I'm like if that's not a warning sign I don't know what is why would you go to this therapist and of course what do you know she gets really involved in their lives and like breaks in their house and stuff and I'm like it just it wasn't good the plot twists were not good everything was predictable I just it was boring I'm boring I'm boring and I just I think I just kept a bit of due to this author Duo I just I want to like their books I just don't and I think more often than not now I'm not liking them so I'm not going to continue reading them if I don't enjoy them and I know it sounds harsh but why waste your time you know on books that you think like you hope that'll be good but you kind of have a feeling it won't like I don't know I don't know then we have another thrill that I really want to love but didn't the family game by Catherine Steadman this one sounded much like ready or not this movie that I've heard a lot about um and I've watched a lot of Clips it's about a woman that gets married to this guy and that night they have to place hide and seek game and choose the Target and if she gets caught she gets killed so it sounded really interesting so this is about a character that um she gets engaged and she's never met her family and they're all really rich and she meets them and then secrets are Unleashed and then they all start to have these games like there's a one game that was my favorite that Krampus and that was really creepy like I was like oh my gosh and then on Christmas Eve they have like the scavenger hunt that was also really creepy if they would have went with that the whole book I would have really enjoyed it but it's instead at the scavenger hunt that was the best part of the whole book took up maybe the last 10 of the book The majority of it was her trying to figure out her fiance's secrets and like her father-in-law having this weird attraction to her father-in-law and I was like this is not it like no like get it out like I don't know so the author wasted a lot of time getting to the big finale when all I wanted was for the finale to be elongated which usually I don't say that but the best game the best thing about this book are the games and coincidentally enough there's not enough of them in this book so I just I don't know I wanted to like it more it's not like a least favorite book I didn't put on my least favorite books of the year because it wasn't but as far as Thrillers go it was because I was expecting to love this one and it just let me down a little bit the Paris apartment by Lucy Foley this is another author I might have to better do to because this is my third book by her I've really enjoyed one love the guest list that I read The Hunting Party hated it that I read this one did not like it I've learned with Lucy Foley she writes a lot of unlikable characters like characters you want to punch in the face characters that you don't care if they die or not you just don't care Lucy Foley is known for that so this one's about a girl that goes to stay with her brother in Paris and he's not there and so she she has to like investigate all the people living in the apartment and it's boring that's all you know it wasn't good I'm just gonna move on step is hide another one of my least favorite books this one I really had high hopes for it's a horror book not even scary it's about characters that play this hide and seek game in this old abandonismo park and you're like crap this sounds amazing nothing happens nothing like they had an opportunity to be creepy and dark at night they don't be the freaking hide and seek game in the dark they play in the daytime I'm like where's the freaking steaks at like I'm a scaredy cat and I wanted more I wanted to be scared more like that's telling you something I I can't talk about this book more I've not seen this yet on somebody's favorites book because it just was it was not good highly disappointed in it malice house by Megan Shepard I had really high hopes for this one it was all about a character that her father was a famous author he died she goes home to kind of you know collect his belongings and she finds a manuscript there that he never released full of like these really creepy children stories and coincidentally enough she's an illustrator so she's like you know what maybe I could sell this because she's not doing good financially maybe I can draw some of his illustrations like bring them to life put them in a binding and sell them and so she starts to like ask her dad's friends they get really too interested in it and then maybe her illustrations you know with her dad's things start maybe coming to light it sounds really interesting doesn't it again another book where nothing happens until the last 20 of the book like when the last 20 like us hit the fan like it got creepy quick I'm not gonna lie to you but by that time I was so uninterested because nothing was happening that I didn't even care that's just how I feel nothing really happened I did not enjoy it it was a sad one I think that's all is that eight I don't know I'm just gonna stop because I don't wanna bash on any books so there you have my like favorite drawers of the read and my least favorite those are the read either way I read a good majority of Thrillers this year I read 36 that's a lot goes to show you that not all of them are going to be amazing and that is okay because that's how life works but I would love to know what favorite Thrillers you've read this year or last year I should say and what least favorite notice you read last year let me know down in the comments as always thank you so much for watching and I will see you in my next video bye foreign\n"