**A Love Letter to "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo"**

I was worried that I was going to put myself in a slump with this book, and I just didn't want that. I had a negative association with this author's previous works, but I'm so happy that I finally did read this one because it was literally one of my favorite books ever. I absolutely loved the way it was written. The interview style was just so interesting and it made it feel real. It made me feel like I was listening to a conversation between the interviewer and famous rock band from the 70s, which I just love watching life interviews and documentaries about. So this just felt like that, and it was unlike anything I've ever read before.

**A Unique Reading Experience**

The layout of the book, the writing, and the characters all came together to create a unique reading experience that I absolutely loved. The way the author wove together the story of Evelyn Hugo's life, from her early days as a rising star in Hollywood to her later years as a reclusive widow, was just masterful. I felt like I was getting a glimpse into the life of a real rockstar, and it was so captivating. I loved watching my favorite band from the 70s come to life on the page, and I found myself feeling like I was part of their world.

**A Full Circle Moment**

But what really made this book stand out for me was the way it came full circle at the end. I did not expect that plot twist, and when it happened, I just gasped out loud in surprise. It was such a satisfying payoff to all the stories and characters that had come before it, and I felt like I was witnessing something truly special. The author's writing style is so evocative and engaging that it makes you feel like you're right there with Evelyn Hugo, experiencing her triumphs and struggles firsthand.

**A Fan of Real Rockstars**

What I think I loved most about this book was the way it portrayed real rockstars as people, rather than just icons or figures. I love watching documentaries and interviews about musicians, and this book felt like that, but in a much more personal and intimate way. It was like I was getting a glimpse into the inner workings of their minds and hearts, which is so fascinating to me. The author did an incredible job of capturing the highs and lows of life as a rockstar, from the fame and adoration to the pressure and stress.

**A Newfound Love for Taylor Jenkins Reid**

I have to say that I was a bit skeptical about reading Taylor Jenkins Reid's books at first, but "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" has completely won me over. I love this book so much, and I'm already looking forward to the movie adaptation, which I hope will do it justice. If you haven't read this book yet, I highly recommend adding it to your TBR list. It's a must-read for anyone who loves stories about real people, and anyone who loves rock music or Hollywood history. Trust me, you won't be disappointed.

**The Power of Goodreads Ratings**

I also want to talk about the power of Goodreads ratings in books like this one. The rating system can be so subjective, and it's always interesting to see how different readers react to the same book. For "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo", I was surprised to find that it had a 3.5-star average on Goodreads, but for me, it was definitely more than that. I think this says something about the subjective nature of reading and opinions, and how we all respond differently to the same book.

**A New Author to Watch**

I've decided that I'm going to add Taylor Jenkins Reid to my list of authors to watch, and I hope that her next book will be just as good as "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo". The fact that this one was a surprise hit for me shows that even if you don't love an author's previous work, it's always worth giving them another chance. And who knows, maybe I'll discover some new favorite authors in the future.

**A Relatable Video Experience**

Finally, I want to talk about how much fun it was to film this video. As someone who is usually indecisive when it comes to choosing books to read, I found that having a video format allowed me to think out loud and share my thoughts and opinions with all of you. It was such a pleasure to record this, and I hope that you guys enjoyed watching it as much as I did filming it.

**A Recommendation**

If you haven't already, please go watch the video where I talk about this book in more detail. I made a Pinterest board dedicated to "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" because I'm just so invested in the story and characters, and I hope that will help convince you to read it too.

**A Love Letter to Fans**

And finally, I want to thank all of you for being part of this community. Your comments, questions, and opinions mean the world to me, and I love connecting with fellow book lovers like you every day. Keep reading, keep recommending, and most importantly, keep loving books as much as I do!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enokay hi guys welcome or welcome back to my channel I'm really excited about this week's video I am definitely a mood reader but I also am so indecisive when it comes to choosing what book I want to read next unless I have a video planned or like it's very rare that I know what book I want to read next on my TBR or just like on my bookshelf very rare So this week I decided to let Goodreads choose what book I read next on my TBR based on the ratings the highest rated on my Goodreads and then the lowest rated on my Goodreads read the book of them and I guess just see my opinions based off of how they were rated on Goodreads from other people and just let that decide what I read this week so I have my TBR for this month that I want to stick to really really bad I don't know I now have this thing where I love doing reading Vlogs so much like so now I have this thing where any book that I read I feel like I want to make it into a video literally couldn't choose a book I was like oh this would be a good video hopefully I'm gonna show you all the books that I have first and then we'll go on Goodreads and we will see if you've watched my TBR video when I was choosing them blindly you know what my TBR is but if you didn't see that video These are the book options and then we'll look on Goodreads and see which ones I'll be reading the flat share by Bethel Leary I actually started this at the beginning of the month I got 25 pages in this is a contender tell me lies I want to read this so bad because I have seen literally everyone watching the show and I just saw that there was like a huge plot twist and I keep getting tick tocks of it and I keep scrolling past because I don't want to spoil it because I really want to watch it but then I was like I need to read it first heard not two great things about the book some people like love it some people hate it but the show I just really want to watch it kind of hoping this is one of the their highest or lowest random secret history a bit on my TBR for literally so long the one by John Mars I see nothing about this book until I post my TBR video and so many people were like short chapters fun story so excited about that one Daisy Jones and the six unpopular opinion don't come for me I'm not a Taylor Jenkins read fan I've read three of her books and I just I don't I don't know the devil wears black you were there too water under the bridge I'm gonna go through them I'm gonna write them all down and then we'll see what the winner is okay I have winners here what happened to me okay we all knew this was gonna happen right we had some really close contenders so let's go back through them and I'll tell you the one that didn't make it the flat share was rated 4.04 Stars secret history was 4.16 the one was 4.12 Double Horse black was 4.16 a high Contender the same as secret history you were there too it was a 3.89 and water under the bridge was 3.76 you can't tell which one's one from me saying that the highest and the lowest can you guys believe that these two were the ones that got picked I literally said I really want to read this and I was like I don't like selling chickens read and this is the highest and this is the lowest 4.24 and then 3.54 yeah it's meant to be something is telling me the world is telling me I need to read Daisy Jones and the six and then something is also telling me I need to retell me live this video is perfect okay don't know what I should do first I feel like let's do the lowest rated First Once I really want to read it and two because I feel like I don't want to read this and like love it and then be like oh I have to read the lowest rated now plus I just know this is gonna put me in a slump I'm so negative no maybe I'll love this I also have Audible I just listened to a whole book I heard that the audio version of Daisy Johnson the six like you need to listen to it I also just got a tick tock about the show slash movie I don't know which one that's coming out so let's start with tell me lies let's see what this is about everyone remembers the one no not that one the other one the wrong one the one you couldn't let go of the one you'll never forget Lucy Albert is eager for a fresh start when she arrives at our small California college and immediately Embraces all that college life has to offer and then she meets Steven DeMarco Charming attractive complicated devastating confident and sure I don't I don't like that word Steven sees something in Lucy that no one else has seen and she's quickly seduced by the sense of possibility that his attention brings her meanwhile Stephen is determined to forget an incident buried in his past if exposed could ruin him and his single-minded drive for Success extends to winning and keeping Lucy's heart Lucy knows there's something about Stephen that isn't to be trusted Stephen knows Lucy can't tear herself away and they're addicting entanglement will have consequences never could have been is this so toxic College romance that's the vibe I'm getting I'm also getting the vibe that there's a plot twist because I saw on Tick Tock that these girls were like gasping and then I saw the TV and they were like tell me lies spoilers so I scrolled past really quick and I was like are there plot twists of this or is that just the show I don't know I'm excited let's start this I will read a bit and give you my first impressions let's get into it see you guys in a little quick pause in the video to talk about caseify you guys look at the case I have there's books on them oh my God it's the cutest case I think I've gotten yes bookcase is literally everything look how cute that is so we haven't heard of case five they're the world's most popular Tech accessory brand known for their protective cases and Global collaboration and they're gonna have their biggest sale event of the Year this case that I have now is the bounce case this is their most protective case ever you 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toxic and you get from the beginning his personality how he feels towards situations and girls and things like that like you get the frat boy boy type of situation like you get that off the bat but from right now I don't think it's a bad book I just think people don't like the characters and don't like reading about boys that play with their emotions to get what they want like that's basically what Stephen is in this book she intentionally wrote Steven like that so that's just a personal opinion if you hate books like that don't read it I personally hate books like that and it reminds me of men like Twisted blood like those kind of toxic men and stuff like that but this is where I differ because I'm enjoying this book I think it's because in like Twisted love that main character was just unrealistically toxic this is like giving me flashbacks this is exactly how some boys in college boys in high school act and think of girls like this like this is like realistic like it's scary to think about but there's boys like this in the world like there's boys that manipulate girls to getting what they want and like playing with their feelings and stuff like this isn't a lot I think that's why I'm enjoying this like it doesn't feel so out of pocket the way he's acting like yeah it's incredibly disgusting to read have you like thinks about girls and like plays with their feelings and stuff but like I said it's more of a realistic take like I've been through it like so many girls have been through a toxic relationship toxic boys and just not realizing that there are boys out there that don't act like this like you just don't know I think that's why when doing it it's relatable in some sense so I think that's where people differ some people just don't like reading about boys that aren't perfect and aren't treating girls right and like loving the girl this is complete opposite like he is just completely toxic and the girl also is not perfect either and I think people don't like reading about that we can hate on them all they want but like there's people out there that are like this so I think that's why I'm enjoying it if you don't know what this is about and I didn't really explain it well in the beginning basically it takes place present day Lucy's friend from college is getting married so the bridesmaid she goes I think it's the day before the wedding I know it's the morning of I don't know exactly what it is because you don't get too much of that and then it flashed back to her in college where she met all of her friends and where she met Steven and his dual point of used to get both of them and then you get just them through college how they met Stephen's point of view with him and like I said how he acts towards girls and his mind process being such like exactly what you think of when you think of a boy like that is him and you get both of them and how they word are in college and then it'll flip back to like present day where they're at the wedding and she hasn't seen Steven and I'm pretty sure he's gonna show up at the wedding we haven't seen him present day yet but we've gotten a good background of how they were so that's my rant on this book it's not easy the romance type of book to read it's so toxic so stay away if you don't like that look up trigger warnings I think it could be worse but I do understand why people are so turned off from the book like it I understand the writings so far to each their own I think that's what this book and the writings are reflecting I'll give you my further updates it could change I could end up literally hating this book you never know I'm not even halfway through I've gotten to the point where I think I can tell and understand why people are writing it what they are and saying what they say about the book rant over opinions done I'm gonna go read bye foreign no way how did I not see this all the signs pointed to this I guess I'll update now because I just found something out that's literally crazy I didn't find it out but I'm guessing and I think my guess is correct on page 245 I don't have like too much left I'm still enjoying it I mean I know it's completely incredibly toxic and horrible to read about but it's entertaining yes there was this thing where I guess there was this thing that Stephen got into a while ago and he kind of hints at it at some point it's like you don't really know exactly what happened but like you could pick up on it someone just said something it all just like completely just like clicked in my head and they have it like straight up like went out with it and said what happened but it all just makes so much sense and I can't believe that I didn't pick up on it sooner I'm gonna keep reading no one has changed Steven is still a piece of Lucy is still just lost this isn't in the past them not the present them at the wedding like it's still in the past like there are live sitting up to the wedding I guess yeah Lucy from what I can see she has friends that care about her which is great but it's just like she can't really help herself I still have the same opinion where people probably read this book and absolutely hate the way that these characters are written and perceived and it's like it's done on purpose burning I really can't believe I just put two and two together I hope I'm right I'm 99 sure I'm right this is crazy I need to keep reading I'll talk about it because I literally just finished it like 10 minutes ago and I think I have an unpopular opinion this one was 3.54 Stars I'm gonna rate this I think four stars what I've heard and what people have told me their opinions about it I'm on the unpopular side of this except for like a select few have told me it's like one of the favorite books but I thoroughly enjoyed this I absolutely loved this type of romance if you can even call it that this type of book I think I've learned after reading this for Romans genre specifically I'm more of a character-driven type of girl this story is about Steven and Lucy's lives from when they met and like their lives all the way up through college after college until they're grown like all the years it just goes through that span of time and what's happened between them and the ups and downs mostly downs but with no like specific like plot points really it kind of just like jumps between months sometimes and it's definitely more character driven between them I really enjoy this like I said this is a book about toxic relationship and toxic people and Steven is is not a book boyfriend that people would love he's not even a book boyfriend to begin with he is just like a very narcissistic I don't know if I said this in the first or the one of the other clips that he was in February like the sociopathic tendencies like he has no empathy for people he doesn't feel guilty for anyone he's very selfish and just does what he wants to do and has his own perceptions of things and like literally does not care about anything or anyone but himself with that mindset he can't really go into relationships and like care about the other people he just like will do what's best for him but then you have Lucy who had such a rough time first in college aside from before even meeting Stephen you get her going to school and you get her not being able to like even have fun because she is so honed in on her appearance and what she looks like and things like that that's a very it's real in real people's lives I love how realistic that this was like it wasn't all sunshines and butterflies and rainbows with the relationships you don't really get that a lot in romances or ones that I read at least so I really did like that and then you just get the on and off between her and Stephen it's like even for her that she like had this pull towards him I remember she went to a therapist during this too when he had such great insights for her today on the line that part like he'll always come back for more Lucy he won't give it up until he has to and she said that he meant that as a warning and she savored it as hope which was just so true like the therapist was like he's gonna keep coming back for you and once you give him what he wants he doesn't care anymore he's comfortable he doesn't feel anything for you he's a dog he wants something new refreshing and he's done with you and that is like such a realistic thing because there's people in relationships in real life that go through this and I just I really enjoyed reading something that wasn't just like a high standards you get from the book boyfriend and I liked how this was written and I was talking to someone about this and they said this book just feels so personal I totally agree I liked it I also liked all the other characters like she had friends that she met in college that are there and prevalent in her life throughout the whole novel and then you get them all the way at the end in like the later years as well and it's just like very full circle at the end and also that little plot twist thing that happened not like I guess it was plot twist another time I figured out in like one of the little previous clips that I was talking about out and I was right about it but also I could see why people don't like this this might not be everyone's cup of tea it's definitely it was really good to read I was really enjoying it I wasn't like counting down how many pages I had left so I was surprised by this one I'm very excited to go watch the show tonight whenever I see like bad readings on Goodreads not bad like lower readings on Goodreads I'm always like a little iffy and like is it really a bad book is it like a general consensus that this book is not that great or is it like a personal preference and taste to the book like some people have the taste and will like it and some people just don't and that's where the rating comes in so you never know unless you read it so I'm happy I read it happy it was on my two yard this month on to the next guys I wanted an update that I did start watching the show I got to episode seven I think there's like ten and why do they make books into shows or movies and just not follow the storyline of the book it's like not the same Jackie is one of her roommates in the book it's literally just not a character in the show Steven's parents are different the storyline is different Wrigley has a brother I don't know if you've read it and then you watch the show too I just get frustrated when that happens because I love the book and then I want to watch like real life show live action and it's just not the same dumb problem but I did want to update and say that I did start the show and it's good like it's not bad it just it's not the book Daisy Jones and the six I'm so scared Taylor chicken's readjust I just I have I'm part of again the unpopular opinions with Taylor Jacob who's writing I just don't love it I don't love her story lines I just not for me you never know though I like Malibu Rising I didn't like hate it it was like a good story and I liked the characters but other ones I've read didn't love this who knows could love it won't know until I read it but this reading let's refresh is 4.24 which is really really high Daisy is a girl coming of age in LA in the late 60s sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip slipping with rock stars and dreaming of singing at the whiskey of Gogo her voice is getting noticed and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things also getting noticed is the six a band Led by the brooding Billy Dunn on the eve of their first tour his girlfriend Camilla finds out she's pregnant and with the pressure of impending fatherhood baby goes a little wild on the road Daisy and Billy crosspass when a producer realizes that the key is supercharged success is to put the two together what happens next will become the stuff of Elijah late 60s I don't love anything taking place in those times but I won't put a negative light onto this book because it's taking place there I'm not gonna do that it sounds entertaining reading the back of it Ellen haldebrand has a quote at the back of it so that is that's uplifting for me because I love Ellen I will update you guys once I start and get into this I don't know we'll see what I think foreign but I got to page 108 last night I read a bit all the way until like 2 3 A.M and I was like that's saying something I didn't have high hopes for this book not even just like going into it the past two days but literally since I received this I still like I said I'm not a Taylor Jenkins reading fan but the way this book is written is so fun I feel like it's like real people so in the beginning it's like a author's note in the beginning but I thought it was like real and I'm reading it and she wrote that's an attempt to piece together a clear portrait of how the renowned rock band days and shows in the six Rose to fame and then it says over the course of the last eight years I conducted individual interviews with current informal members at the band as well as family friends whatever so the whole book is laid out as an interview style so I've read that I was like oh that's cool daisy Jones in the sixth was a real bin and she need to read them I don't know why the way it's written as an author's notebook I thought it was real so as I'm reading I'm like that's cool and I Googled it and it's completely fake but it's so interesting going into it because it's written like an interview and you get each character's name who they are and then them talking to the author as if she's interviewing them and it is so so cool it makes them feel so real I am thoroughly enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would I think it's so interesting the setup of it and I thought I would get kind of bored of the interview sound but so far I haven't it makes it feel like like real people like it's all like I'm reading a real interview and I've never read a book like that so it's really interesting and plus not just like the way it's set up the actual story is really cool because it's like going from how they became a band how Daisy got her rise to fame and then like how they met I'm at the part where Daisy kind of just joined the band and I like it a lot I think it's really interesting it's really cool I was listening to the audiobook but I don't know I don't really I feel like I mean the audiobook I do put it on if I'm like doing things and it is cool because each character in the book has like a different voice actor or whatever so they feel like what people then do but so far so good which is a really really surprising I'm having fun reading this which is a good thing obviously it could be the first Taylor Jacobs read book that I like love and I actually had to watch the show I really hope it doesn't Justice I'm excited to see this like in live action form goodbye foreign pages and I still am really really enjoying it I've been listening to the audiobook more now because I was like doing things everyone was right like it literally feels like real people like these characters are real people giving like interview answers and like talking about what happened during their like come up as a band there's another little like romance thing between like other characters that I'm like here for I'm always here for like a subtle not main character like a minor characters romance moment I don't know why I just love it so I really love that and I'm just like dying to see the show like I want the show now because it's like really good I think I'm gonna finish it tonight or in the morning tomorrow but I kind of don't want it to end this is kind of redeemed too much you can read for me I guess because I don't know the other ones haven't really hit me personally but this one it's just like I don't know what it is I think it's like the interview style is really interesting for me and also I read Malibu rising and one of the characters from that book made an appearance in this one so that was kind of cool actually annotating it too I've had some good things underlined now I a book when I like feel impelled to like underline something or like I feel like I should annotate externally annotated much recently so when I start annotating a book it's a good sign came to say that I'm still enjoying it only gone up from the last time I've updated I'm excited to see what this goes because this is obviously more character driven it's like the characters journey and story of how everything went down and I also love that because you'll get like one character giving the story of that time of what they're talking about and then I'll go to the next character and like what they said it's like I didn't say that I said that so it's like it just feels real you know I really like it it's like up there right now like favorite books so assuming it goes until like the end of the band or like however they ended up where they ended up what happened with them but we're on like the almost Peak I feel like or the climax of where the band dude went I'm excited okay we'll see how I feel at the end foreign ly surprised of my feelings towards this book honestly this video never happened and I wasn't really sticking to my TBR I probably wouldn't read this for a very long time it was just a personal thing that I just didn't love Taylor Jenkins reads writing and I was worried he was gonna put me in a slump and I just didn't want that and I just like had so many negative connotations with this book just because of my previous readings with this author but I'm so happy that I finally did to read this because this was one of my favorite books I think ever I absolutely loved the way it was written the interview style was just so interesting and it made it feel real it made it feel like I was listening to you when I had the audiobook on like an actual interview between obviously the interviewer and famous rock band from the 70s I just love the layout of it and the writing and the characters felt I keep saying they felt real but they literally did I love watching like real life interviews and documentaries and stuff like that so this just felt like that and it was just like unlike anything I've ever read before and then at the end there's like this little plot twist kind of thing that came up and I like gasped out loud so I just didn't expect that and it was so full circle when that happened and then at the very end the way that that book ended was just so I don't know I loved the ending I wish that there was like a second one in this obviously I don't know if it's ever gonna happen I feel like these characters are real rock stars real band and this was like a real story of how they're up and coming and I loved seeing all the ends of the band like you know like us from an outside perspective of rock stars and just musicians in General like you see them putting out an album us going to their shows and us like loving their music and like idolizing them but this is how their perspective their point of view of their Fame and had them realizing how big of a band they are selling out these shows and having all these people all around having like people wait on them like it's crazy seeing in their point of view obviously different than today's times because they were up and coming and huge in like the 70s 80s but still I loved it so much and I'm gonna read it five stars it's crazy how Full Circle this video came because I was so nervous about this one and this ended up being like literally a favorite book of mine now I cannot wait for the show I hope that they do it justice I really really do and now I'm on Taylor Jenkins read side the other books weren't for me but from here on out maybe I'll read more of hers I don't know maybe this was just the exception I like both of these books I mean honestly Goodreads ratings used to take it with a grain of salt because those are other people's writing to other people's opinions and I always say books and opinions on books are so subjective you have to read the book to get your own opinion on it and it may be completely different from everyone else so that's why you can't really rely on the ratings clearly because this book was literally a 3.5 like averaged on Goodreads and I actually really enjoyed it I gave it four stars the thing is though is I can understand why people don't like the book but then I can also understand why people love the book like it's just after you read the book you can understand why it has that rating this one I understand not why it was the highest rated I just so good and you know it's good for me like I know it's like a five star when I go on Tick Tock after and I just like sit for like a half hour scrolling through Tick Tock just like trying to validate my feelings towards this book and like seeing everyone else post tick tocks about how much they loved it and all of their like little edits and like tick tocks and feelings on it and just relating to them that's when you know I love the book is when I have to like research it I made a Pinterest word for it I'm invested is this like a book that I would want to like reread because I really liked it I'm just gonna have to wait for the show now and just binge it like over and over again so hope you guys enjoyed this video I like this video was fun to film I like that it helped me choose which books to read because I'm just so indecisive I can pick a TBR but when it comes to picking books to read in the TBR I just can't choose so sometimes I just need something to pick for me and this was fun so I highly recommend everyone's opinions and ratings are so different so yeah that's what I've gotten from this thank you guys for watching let me know your opinions on these books if you've read them if you love them if you hate them thank you guys for watching I hope you did enjoy and I will see you hopefully in the next one goodbyeokay hi guys welcome or welcome back to my channel I'm really excited about this week's video I am definitely a mood reader but I also am so indecisive when it comes to choosing what book I want to read next unless I have a video planned or like it's very rare that I know what book I want to read next on my TBR or just like on my bookshelf very rare So this week I decided to let Goodreads choose what book I read next on my TBR based on the ratings the highest rated on my Goodreads and then the lowest rated on my Goodreads read the book of them and I guess just see my opinions based off of how they were rated on Goodreads from other people and just let that decide what I read this week so I have my TBR for this month that I want to stick to really really bad I don't know I now have this thing where I love doing reading Vlogs so much like so now I have this thing where any book that I read I feel like I want to make it into a video literally couldn't choose a book I was like oh this would be a good video hopefully I'm gonna show you all the books that I have first and then we'll go on Goodreads and we will see if you've watched my TBR video when I was choosing them blindly you know what my TBR is but if you didn't see that video These are the book options and then we'll look on Goodreads and see which ones I'll be reading the flat share by Bethel Leary I actually started this at the beginning of the month I got 25 pages in this is a contender tell me lies I want to read this so bad because I have seen literally everyone watching the show and I just saw that there was like a huge plot twist and I keep getting tick tocks of it and I keep scrolling past because I don't want to spoil it because I really want to watch it but then I was like I need to read it first heard not two great things about the book some people like love it some people hate it but the show I just really want to watch it kind of hoping this is one of the their highest or lowest random secret history a bit on my TBR for literally so long the one by John Mars I see nothing about this book until I post my TBR video and so many people were like short chapters fun story so excited about that one Daisy Jones and the six unpopular opinion don't come for me I'm not a Taylor Jenkins read fan I've read three of her books and I just I don't I don't know the devil wears black you were there too water under the bridge I'm gonna go through them I'm gonna write them all down and then we'll see what the winner is okay I have winners here what happened to me okay we all knew this was gonna happen right we had some really close contenders so let's go back through them and I'll tell you the one that didn't make it the flat share was rated 4.04 Stars secret history was 4.16 the one was 4.12 Double Horse black was 4.16 a high Contender the same as secret history you were there too it was a 3.89 and water under the bridge was 3.76 you can't tell which one's one from me saying that the highest and the lowest can you guys believe that these two were the ones that got picked I literally said I really want to read this and I was like I don't like selling chickens read and this is the highest and this is the lowest 4.24 and then 3.54 yeah it's meant to be something is telling me the world is telling me I need to read Daisy Jones and the six and then something is also telling me I need to retell me live this video is perfect okay don't know what I should do first I feel like let's do the lowest rated First Once I really want to read it and two because I feel like I don't want to read this and like love it and then be like oh I have to read the lowest rated now plus I just know this is gonna put me in a slump I'm so negative no maybe I'll love this I also have Audible I just listened to a whole book I heard that the audio version of Daisy Johnson the six like you need to listen to it I also just got a tick tock about the show slash movie I don't know which one that's coming out so let's start with tell me lies let's see what this is about everyone remembers the one no not that one the other one the wrong one the one you couldn't let go of the one you'll never forget Lucy Albert is eager for a fresh start when she arrives at our small California college and immediately Embraces all that college life has to offer and then she meets Steven DeMarco Charming attractive complicated devastating confident and sure I don't I don't like that word Steven sees something in Lucy that no one else has seen and she's quickly seduced by the sense of possibility that his attention brings her meanwhile Stephen is determined to forget an incident buried in his past if exposed could ruin him and his single-minded drive for Success extends to winning and keeping Lucy's heart Lucy knows there's something about Stephen that isn't to be trusted Stephen knows Lucy can't tear herself away and they're addicting entanglement will have consequences never could have been is this so toxic College romance that's the vibe I'm getting I'm also getting the vibe that there's a plot twist because I saw on Tick Tock that these girls were like gasping and then I saw the TV and they were like tell me lies spoilers so I scrolled past really quick and I was like are there plot twists of this or is that just the show I don't know I'm excited let's start this I will read a bit and give you my first impressions let's get into it see you guys in a little quick pause in the video to talk about caseify you guys look at the case I have there's books on them oh my God it's the cutest case I think I've gotten yes bookcase is literally everything look how cute that is so we haven't heard of case five they're the world's most popular Tech accessory brand known for their protective cases and Global collaboration and they're gonna have their biggest sale event of the Year this case that I have now is the bounce case this is their most protective case ever you can see like the corner they're expanded so it allows your 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towards situations and girls and things like that like you get the frat boy boy type of situation like you get that off the bat but from right now I don't think it's a bad book I just think people don't like the characters and don't like reading about boys that play with their emotions to get what they want like that's basically what Stephen is in this book she intentionally wrote Steven like that so that's just a personal opinion if you hate books like that don't read it I personally hate books like that and it reminds me of men like Twisted blood like those kind of toxic men and stuff like that but this is where I differ because I'm enjoying this book I think it's because in like Twisted love that main character was just unrealistically toxic this is like giving me flashbacks this is exactly how some boys in college boys in high school act and think of girls like this like this is like realistic like it's scary to think about but there's boys like this in the world like there's boys that manipulate girls to getting what they want and like playing with their feelings and stuff like this isn't a lot I think that's why I'm enjoying this like it doesn't feel so out of pocket the way he's acting like yeah it's incredibly disgusting to read have you like thinks about girls and like plays with their feelings and stuff but like I said it's more of a realistic take like I've been through it like so many girls have been through a toxic relationship toxic boys and just not realizing that there are boys out there that don't act like this like you just don't know I think that's why when doing it it's relatable in some sense so I think that's where people differ some people just don't like reading about boys that aren't perfect and aren't treating girls right and like loving the girl this is complete opposite like he is just completely toxic and the girl also is not perfect either and I think people don't like reading about that we can hate on them all they want but like there's people out there that are like this so I think that's why I'm enjoying it if you don't know what this is about and I didn't really explain it well in the beginning basically it takes place present day Lucy's friend from college is getting married so the bridesmaid she goes I think it's the day before the wedding I know it's the morning of I don't know exactly what it is because you don't get too much of that and then it flashed back to her in college where she met all of her friends and where she met Steven and his dual point of used to get both of them and then you get just them through college how they met Stephen's point of view with him and like I said how he acts towards girls and his mind process being such like exactly what you think of when you think of a boy like that is him and you get both of them and how they word are in college and then it'll flip back to like present day where they're at the wedding and she hasn't seen Steven and I'm pretty sure he's gonna show up at the wedding we haven't seen him present day yet but we've gotten a good background of how they were so that's my rant on this book it's not easy the romance type of book to read it's so toxic so stay away if you don't like that look up trigger warnings I think it could be worse but I do understand why people are so turned off from the book like it I understand the writings so far to each their own I think that's what this book and the writings are reflecting I'll give you my further updates it could change I could end up literally hating this book you never know I'm not even halfway through I've gotten to the point where I think I can tell and understand why people are writing it what they are and saying what they say about the book rant over opinions done I'm gonna go read bye foreign no way how did I not see this all the signs pointed to this I guess I'll update now because I just found something out that's literally crazy I didn't find it out but I'm guessing and I think my guess is correct on page 245 I don't have like too much left I'm still enjoying it I mean I know it's completely incredibly toxic and horrible to read about but it's entertaining yes there was this thing where I guess there was this thing that Stephen got into a while ago and he kind of hints at it at some point it's like you don't really know exactly what happened but like you could pick up on it someone just said something it all just like completely just like clicked in my head and they have it like straight up like went out with it and said what happened but it all just makes so much sense and I can't believe that I didn't pick up on it sooner I'm gonna keep reading no one has changed Steven is still a piece of Lucy is still just lost this isn't in the past them not the present them at the wedding like it's still in the past like there are live sitting up to the wedding I guess yeah Lucy from what I can see she has friends that care about her which is great but it's just like she can't really help herself I still have the same opinion where people probably read this book and absolutely hate the way that these characters are written and perceived and it's like it's done on purpose burning I really can't believe I just put two and two together I hope I'm right I'm 99 sure I'm right this is crazy I need to keep reading I'll talk about it because I literally just finished it like 10 minutes ago and I think I have an unpopular opinion this one was 3.54 Stars I'm gonna rate this I think four stars what I've heard and what people have told me their opinions about it I'm on the unpopular side of this except for like a select few have told me it's like one of the favorite books but I thoroughly enjoyed this I absolutely loved this type of romance if you can even call it that this type of book I think I've learned after reading this for Romans genre specifically I'm more of a character-driven type of girl this story is about Steven and Lucy's lives from when they met and like their lives all the way up through college after college until they're grown like all the years it just goes through that span of time and what's happened between them and the ups and downs mostly downs but with no like specific like plot points really it kind of just like jumps between months sometimes and it's definitely more character driven between them I really enjoy this like I said this is a book about toxic relationship and toxic people and Steven is is not a book boyfriend that people would love he's not even a book boyfriend to begin with he is just like a very narcissistic I don't know if I said this in the first or the one of the other clips that he was in February like the sociopathic tendencies like he has no empathy for people he doesn't feel guilty for anyone he's very selfish and just does what he wants to do and has his own perceptions of things and like literally does not care about anything or anyone but himself with that mindset he can't really go into relationships and like care about the other people he just like will do what's best for him but then you have Lucy who had such a rough time first in college aside from before even meeting Stephen you get her going to school and you get her not being able to like even have fun because she is so honed in on her appearance and what she looks like and things like that that's a very it's real in real people's lives I love how realistic that this was like it wasn't all sunshines and butterflies and rainbows with the relationships you don't really get that a lot in romances or ones that I read at least so I really did like that and then you just get the on and off between her and Stephen it's like even for her that she like had this pull towards him I remember she went to a therapist during this too when he had such great insights for her today on the line that part like he'll always come back for more Lucy he won't give it up until he has to and she said that he meant that as a warning and she savored it as hope which was just so true like the therapist was like he's gonna keep coming back for you and once you give him what he wants he doesn't care anymore he's comfortable he doesn't feel anything for you he's a dog he wants something new refreshing and he's done with you and that is like such a realistic thing because there's people in relationships in real life that go through this and I just I really enjoyed reading something that wasn't just like a high standards you get from the book boyfriend and I liked how this was written and I was talking to someone about this and they said this book just feels so personal I totally agree I liked it I also liked all the other characters like she had friends that she met in college that are there and prevalent in her life throughout the whole novel and then you get them all the way at the end in like the later years as well and it's just like very full circle at the end and also that little plot twist thing that happened not like I guess it was plot twist another time I figured out in like one of the little previous clips that I was talking about out and I was right about it but also I could see why people don't like this this might not be everyone's cup of tea it's definitely it was really good to read I was really enjoying it I wasn't like counting down how many pages I had left so I was surprised by this one I'm very excited to go watch the show tonight whenever I see like bad readings on Goodreads not bad like lower readings on Goodreads I'm always like a little iffy and like is it really a bad book is it like a general consensus that this book is not that great or is it like a personal preference and taste to the book like some people have the taste and will like it and some people just don't and that's where the rating comes in so you never know unless you read it so I'm happy I read it happy it was on my two yard this month on to the next guys I wanted an update that I did start watching the show I got to episode seven I think there's like ten and why do they make books into shows or movies and just not follow the storyline of the book it's like not the same Jackie is one of her roommates in the book it's literally just not a character in the show Steven's parents are different the storyline is different Wrigley has a brother I don't know if you've read it and then you watch the show too I just get frustrated when that happens because I love the book and then I want to watch like real life show live action and it's just not the same dumb problem but I did want to update and say that I did start the show and it's good like it's not bad it just it's not the book Daisy Jones and the six I'm so scared Taylor chicken's readjust I just I have I'm part of again the unpopular opinions with Taylor Jacob who's writing I just don't love it I don't love her story lines I just not for me you never know though I like Malibu Rising I didn't like hate it it was like a good story and I liked the characters but other ones I've read didn't love this who knows could love it won't know until I read it but this reading let's refresh is 4.24 which is really really high Daisy is a girl coming of age in LA in the late 60s sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip slipping with rock stars and dreaming of singing at the whiskey of Gogo her voice is getting noticed and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things also getting noticed is the six a band Led by the brooding Billy Dunn on the eve of their first tour his girlfriend Camilla finds out she's pregnant and with the pressure of impending fatherhood baby goes a little wild on the road Daisy and Billy crosspass when a producer realizes that the key is supercharged success is to put the two together what happens next will become the stuff of Elijah late 60s I don't love anything taking place in those times but I won't put a negative light onto this book because it's taking place there I'm not gonna do that it sounds entertaining reading the back of it Ellen haldebrand has a quote at the back of it so that is that's uplifting for me because I love Ellen I will update you guys once I start and get into this I don't know we'll see what I think foreign but I got to page 108 last night I read a bit all the way until like 2 3 A.M and I was like that's saying something I didn't have high hopes for this book not even just like going into it the past two days but literally since I received this I still like I said I'm not a Taylor Jenkins reading fan but the way this book is written is so fun I feel like it's like real people so in the beginning it's like a author's note in the beginning but I thought it was like real and I'm reading it and she wrote that's an attempt to piece together a clear portrait of how the renowned rock band days and shows in the six Rose to fame and then it says over the course of the last eight years I conducted individual interviews with current informal members at the band as well as family friends whatever so the whole book is laid out as an interview style so I've read that I was like oh that's cool daisy Jones in the sixth was a real bin and she need to read them I don't know why the way it's written as an author's notebook I thought it was real so as I'm reading I'm like that's cool and I Googled it and it's completely fake but it's so interesting going into it because it's written like an interview and you get each character's name who they are and then them talking to the author as if she's interviewing them and it is so so cool it makes them feel so real I am thoroughly enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would I think it's so interesting the setup of it and I thought I would get kind of bored of the interview sound but so far I haven't it makes it feel like like real people like it's all like I'm reading a real interview and I've never read a book like that so it's really interesting and plus not just like the way it's set up the actual story is really cool because it's like going from how they became a band how Daisy got her rise to fame and then like how they met I'm at the part where Daisy kind of just joined the band and I like it a lot I think it's really interesting it's really cool I was listening to the audiobook but I don't know I don't really I feel like I mean the audiobook I do put it on if I'm like doing things and it is cool because each character in the book has like a different voice actor or whatever so they feel like what people then do but so far so good which is a really really surprising I'm having fun reading this which is a good thing obviously it could be the first Taylor Jacobs read book that I like love and I actually had to watch the show I really hope it doesn't Justice I'm excited to see this like in live action form goodbye foreign pages and I still am really really enjoying it I've been listening to the audiobook more now because I was like doing things everyone was right like it literally feels like real people like these characters are real people giving like interview answers and like talking about what happened during their like come up as a band there's another little like romance thing between like other characters that I'm like here for I'm always here for like a subtle not main character like a minor characters romance moment I don't know why I just love it so I really love that and I'm just like dying to see the show like I want the show now because it's like really good I think I'm gonna finish it tonight or in the morning tomorrow but I kind of don't want it to end this is kind of redeemed too much you can read for me I guess because I don't know the other ones haven't really hit me personally but this one it's just like I don't know what it is I think it's like the interview style is really interesting for me and also I read Malibu rising and one of the characters from that book made an appearance in this one so that was kind of cool actually annotating it too I've had some good things underlined now I a book when I like feel impelled to like underline something or like I feel like I should annotate externally annotated much recently so when I start annotating a book it's a good sign came to say that I'm still enjoying it only gone up from the last time I've updated I'm excited to see what this goes because this is obviously more character driven it's like the characters journey and story of how everything went down and I also love that because you'll get like one character giving the story of that time of what they're talking about and then I'll go to the next character and like what they said it's like I didn't say that I said that so it's like it just feels real you know I really like it it's like up there right now like favorite books so assuming it goes until like the end of the band or like however they ended up where they ended up what happened with them but we're on like the almost Peak I feel like or the climax of where the band dude went I'm excited okay we'll see how I feel at the end foreign ly surprised of my feelings towards this book honestly this video never happened and I wasn't really sticking to my TBR I probably wouldn't read this for a very long time it was just a personal thing that I just didn't love Taylor Jenkins reads writing and I was worried he was gonna put me in a slump and I just didn't want that and I just like had so many negative connotations with this book just because of my previous readings with this author but I'm so happy that I finally did to read this because this was one of my favorite books I think ever I absolutely loved the way it was written the interview style was just so interesting and it made it feel real it made it feel like I was listening to you when I had the audiobook on like an actual interview between obviously the interviewer and famous rock band from the 70s I just love the layout of it and the writing and the characters felt I keep saying they felt real but they literally did I love watching like real life interviews and documentaries and stuff like that so this just felt like that and it was just like unlike anything I've ever read before and then at the end there's like this little plot twist kind of thing that came up and I like gasped out loud so I just didn't expect that and it was so full circle when that happened and then at the very end the way that that book ended was just so I don't know I loved the ending I wish that there was like a second one in this obviously I don't know if it's ever gonna happen I feel like these characters are real rock stars real band and this was like a real story of how they're up and coming and I loved seeing all the ends of the band like you know like us from an outside perspective of rock stars and just musicians in General like you see them putting out an album us going to their shows and us like loving their music and like idolizing them but this is how their perspective their point of view of their Fame and had them realizing how big of a band they are selling out these shows and having all these people all around having like people wait on them like it's crazy seeing in their point of view obviously different than today's times because they were up and coming and huge in like the 70s 80s but still I loved it so much and I'm gonna read it five stars it's crazy how Full Circle this video came because I was so nervous about this one and this ended up being like literally a favorite book of mine now I cannot wait for the show I hope that they do it justice I really really do and now I'm on Taylor Jenkins read side the other books weren't for me but from here on out maybe I'll read more of hers I don't know maybe this was just the exception I like both of these books I mean honestly Goodreads ratings used to take it with a grain of salt because those are other people's writing to other people's opinions and I always say books and opinions on books are so subjective you have to read the book to get your own opinion on it and it may be completely different from everyone else so that's why you can't really rely on the ratings clearly because this book was literally a 3.5 like averaged on Goodreads and I actually really enjoyed it I gave it four stars the thing is though is I can understand why people don't like the book but then I can also understand why people love the book like it's just after you read the book you can understand why it has that rating this one I understand not why it was the highest rated I just so good and you know it's good for me like I know it's like a five star when I go on Tick Tock after and I just like sit for like a half hour scrolling through Tick Tock just like trying to validate my feelings towards this book and like seeing everyone else post tick tocks about how much they loved it and all of their like little edits and like tick tocks and feelings on it and just relating to them that's when you know I love the book is when I have to like research it I made a Pinterest word for it I'm invested is this like a book that I would want to like reread because I really liked it I'm just gonna have to wait for the show now and just binge it like over and over again so hope you guys enjoyed this video I like this video was fun to film I like that it helped me choose which books to read because I'm just so indecisive I can pick a TBR but when it comes to picking books to read in the TBR I just can't choose so sometimes I just need something to pick for me and this was fun so I highly recommend everyone's opinions and ratings are so different so yeah that's what I've gotten from this thank you guys for watching let me know your opinions on these books if you've read them if you love them if you hate them thank you guys for watching I hope you did enjoy and I will see you hopefully in the next one goodbye\n"