**A Disappointing Ending: A Review of "The" Book Series by Pam Godwin**

I actually do remember the names of the characters because I finished the second book yesterday, uh, Reese is the guy that comes back into our heroine Charlize's life and her husband Cameron. You know it's kind of a thing at the beginning of the story we think I enjoyed the first book a whole hell of a lot. I love a good childhood friends to lovers romance, while I don't condone cheating in real life in books, I think it's fun and angsty and I think it creates tension, especially when you know the person who's getting shafted in the story like the husband he was a dick, you know we didn't really like love him and support him in the first book so it felt good it was like yeah Charlie like you go and get your childhood crush and have a good time like you deserve this. And I was so into it and I really liked that first book but it all sort of fell apart for me in the second book. I really did not like how this story ended, and I felt like it cheapened the angst and the tension built in the first book. I don't know, I'm so annoyed, and frankly, I don't like who our heroine ended up with. Like, I don't dislike either of the men, but I don't know that I feel like she made the right choice, and I don't feel like that choice was justified enough with all of the events that happened in the second book even in the first book too.

**A Shift in Perspective**

I'm just kind of unsure if I want to read the third book because I liked that guy better. But also, is it worth my time and energy when I got so emotionally invested in his first relationship? You know, I think the moral of the story is no, it's not to read books about cheating. There is actually a trilogy, but I think Pam Godwin could be wrong, um, they all have like pastel covers of like people kind of intertwined or whatever on the covers. Uh, Pam Godwin does this trope in a more fun and steamy way in a in a way that the ending was satisfying to me. It's like you don't want to be spoiled when you go into a series like this, but at the same time, I guess it needed to be done better.

**The Importance of Reader Experience**

I'm probably just rambling, and you're probably not understanding half of what I'm saying if you haven't read these books. But I read them, I read them, uh, and they were fun. They were fun entertaining way to pass the time. I will say, and that's really all I can ask for from romance novels, like if it feels like pulling teeth to read a book that's where the problem is.

**A Glimpse into Upcoming Content**

I hope that December brings me steamy delicious romance in my stocking under my tree. What am I saying? That's it, that's it. I'm done with this video, thank you for watching. Uh, stay tuned for Chan Miss tomorrow day two, I don't know what day two is to be honest. It's uploaded, it's ready to go. I filmed it a while ago, but there's going to be a mix of things going forward. Uh, so I just thought I'd like share that I guess here and now because I'm feeling chatty. Channamus is gonna be a mix of sit-down videos, daily vlogs, planned vlogs, and a bunch of other stuff. I'm hoping to like set up my planner for the year at some point during this month. I'm hoping to maybe do like a skincare, hair care, makeup routine tutorial thing because I know some of y'all were asking for that.

**A Look Ahead**

I am doing my yearly Goodreads Choice Award video during Chan Miss. I am doing "Best Worst Most Disappointing Books". I'm doing two secret TBRs that are coming. I have a night read five, and I have two taste tests. I shouldn't be spoiling all of this but you know some good stuff is to come. So, I would definitely say stay tuned or you could just save them all until the 31st and watch them all in one day. Thanks so much for watching this video, I know it's a little chaotic, I love y'all so much.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello welcome back to my channel and welcome to the first day of chan miss feels really good to say that i have been pre-filming things for chandmas for the past couple of months and to be filming the inaugural video feels pretty good i can't believe it's only three days until jammus starts today i'm doing my november wrap up and talking to y'all about the seven books that i have not talked about in videos before and it's gonna be an interesting mixed bag i read three thrillers and four romances over the past month month and a half honestly i read the thrillers back in october for a video i thought i was going to do but didn't do but i still want to talk about them so if i'm a little rusty on the thrillers that's why first up we have applestoverfall by leanne moriarty i enjoyed this book i cannot really remember what reading i gave it i think it was either three or four stars um this is sort of a family drama style thriller i mean if you read leanne moriarty i think you kind of know what you're getting yourself into but this is the first book that i've ever finished by her i tried to read big little lies and it just wasn't really my thing um this one is about a family of like tennis players and i don't want to say want to be tennis stars because no one ever ended up really being successful it's about a mom and a dad they own like tennis facilities and they have coached so many people in their day the dad is really passionate about the tennis side of things and the mom really got the business off the ground and it was their their wish and their hope that their i think four children would be you know tennis stars none of them actually go pro they have disappointment in that and that's like a running theme throughout the book but the mystery aspect comes in when we have the mother of the family the matriarch going missing and we also have someone strange kind of coming into their lives and we're wondering if she has anything to do with the mom going missing it's a super interesting book we have this girl this like random girl show up at mom and dad's doorstep and they're like we have no idea who you are and she's like my boyfriend was abusing me could i please stay here tonight and they're like yeah of course absolutely so they take her in and the mom ends up treating this girl as like a pseudo daughter and it creates a lot of tension and drama and a lot of things unfold throughout the course of the story in the past and then also in the present day you know trying to figure out what happened to the mom and if the dad had anything to do with it and it's a lot um i liked it though i thought it was a really fun and entertaining read i think it was way too long frankly but i feel like the way leanne moriarty writes you become invested in the characters and their lives and i never thought i would be interested in the goings-on of people who are into professional sports or like want their kids to be you know sports stars but i found it really fascinating and i think it's something that a lot of us could relate to in terms of your parents having expectations and dreams for you that you don't necessarily have for yourself so i liked it i thought it was good i think if you like her writing this would probably be a good book for you if you haven't read any leanne moriarty i don't know if this is the best place to start but i did find it good and you know despite again that like obscenely long length it was it was a fun time oh and i'd recommend the audiobook the thrillers that i read this month were all audiobooks and this one i think was especially good because we had a narrator from australia to narrate the book so that was nice i love a good i've got accented audiobook i know some people don't but i personally appreciate it if you know a book is set somewhere else that you know the narrator have the same accent anyway moving on one of my most anticipated thrillers that really didn't work for me the maidens by alex mike ladies um okay where to begin with this book we have this woman i cannot honestly remember her profession but her niece calls her up and is like hey uh my best friend went missing and then also my best friend that went missing they found her on campus she died she was murdered and there have been strings of killings going on and the aunt is concerned the aunt has a lot of like investment in this and even though the aunt is dealing with her own trauma because her husband has recently passed away she decides she's going to go help her niece and potentially help solve the murder mystery i think that aunt is like a psychologist or something or like criminologist anyway she'd like helps the police force and i hated most of this book it was boring as hell i really expected this to be interesting like dark academia there's also this aspect of the maidens like what the book is called right so murder mystery whatever whatever there's a professor on campus that our like the aunt kind of suspects that has something to do with these murders he has like a group of female students that he has that like have book clubs and stuff and ants are like um i wonder if this is sexual and she finds out oh my god like someone i know might be a part of this yeah i'm not doing a good job of explaining this book what irritated me a lot was a relationship that was unveiled at the end of this book if you've read the book you know what i'm talking about i don't want to like spoil it for people who still intend to read this it was so unsatisfying i wanted the reveal of this book to be more interesting and i will say the reveal was similar to the one in the silent patient but i feel like the silent patient did it better and i felt like there was enough lead up to it in this book it was like here's something out of left field um there you go i was personally insulted by it i felt like it was handled so poorly and the actions of one of our characters made zero sense i don't personally like when certain things are used as plot twists and the plot twist in this i really i genuinely felt insulted by so go read spoilers if you want more insight into it but i hated it i really hated it and i'm upset i gave the silent patient five stars i think this is going to be on my worst books list of 2021 which is so weird because i think the silent patient was on my list for 2019 or 2020 one of the two whenever that book came out this was bad so don't pick it up don't don't pick it up there's far better dark academia books out there if you're looking for something like that this was just um deeply deeply not good i would actually recommend if we were villains over this i feel like it's got a similar energy and a similar thriller vibe but is much better executed and better handled so moving right along another book that i personally didn't enjoy which honestly i think you can tell a theme here like i started reading these thrillers i was going to do a 13 thrillers and 13 days video i've done it before and i wanted to do it this year didn't work out because i didn't really like the thrillers i was reading for it and this one was kind of the nail in the coffin for me leave the world behind this was pitched to me as like literary fiction meets thriller which i kind of was like on not on edge about but like i was hesitant going into this book if i would like it because i don't really like literary fiction but i do like thrillers so i was like willing to overlook it um okay this book is about a family a white family it's like two parents and two teenage kids i think and they go and stay in an airbnb the dad we already know is kind of like a deadbeat loser mom is just kind of like sad and cause that's how these work right like that's how these books work then we have um a black kind of older couple who come and say hey um some is happening in the city so we wanted to come back to our house this is our house our airbnb that we're renting out to you can we stay in our house since the world's kind of ending and and the family's kind of like what the like we paid for this airbnb like we don't want people to be staying with us it's not much of a vacation at that point things sort of unravel from there it's bizarre i honestly going into this thought this would be kind of like a commentary on race and on class and things like that and maybe it was but i didn't see that for me this was just like a strange like body horror pseudo thriller with like really flowery language i did i just did not like the language usage and like pros of this book certain things i thought really like well encapsulated like white mediocrity and stuff like that and i do think that was well done but i don't feel like the writing overall lended itself to the story and i didn't find the ending of this book satisfying in any way also i have my notes somewhere i can't really remember um there are certain things that are said at the end of this book that i really didn't like and i i can't remember exactly the verbage used but it just it wasn't for me it was not for me and i think this will work for a lot of people i actually got on reddit after this to see like what people's overall thoughts and feelings were and it seems to be very polarizing so i think some people will really enjoy this book and i think some people really will not yeah it's like i appreciated certain aspects of this book certain commentary and the language sometimes but overall i just it didn't it didn't connect fully for me so yeah that one kind of solidified me not wanting to do my 13 thrillers and 13 days video um that i was trying to do for this year but uh it's fine i don't know i just have not been as intrigued with rulers lately and i've not really had luck with them this year so i'm kind of glad i didn't end up doing that video but moving along to the four romances i read they were all pretty successful i'm just more excited to read romance for december now at this point like i'm still working on some of my channel's content uh at the moment but i for the daily vlog portion of chan miss i'm gonna be reading a shitload of romance so i don't know i don't know why i felt like sharing that i'm just like so hyped first book that i read and you will actually see my vloggy kind of thoughts in an upcoming video it was a holly jolly divali and i loved this i thought it was so cute it's about her heroine who i cannot remember the name of because i i never remember the names characters right she is kind of in a weird place in her life she just got laid off from a job that she was really excited about and she's kind of lost her way she doesn't really know what to do next she was excited about the job but she she might want to go like kind of a different path and i feel like that's a very common thing in contemporary romance but she's struggling she doesn't know what she wants to do her parents are trying to like set her up on dates she ends up going on a date with a guy who she thinks like maybe he could be the maybe he could be a good match for me and then she decides that she is going to go to a friend's wedding in india because at first she had declined the invite when she was working she didn't think she could get time off of work but now she's like okay i have nothing else going on let me go to india and it's really this like discovery for her of kind of her culture and of what she wants out of life and also like discovery of love too she finds someone in india that she like really is uh falling for and i loved it i thought it was awesome i loved getting to experience divali with our main character and kind of understanding what the holiday was about through our main character she grew up celebrating you know certain holidays and um certain things in her culture but she doesn't feel as connected as some of her friends do and you get to kind of see some of that dissonance in india whenever she goes and is learning more about her own culture and at times she feels left out but getting to kind of understand what diwali is to so many different people i think is really interesting to see and yeah i don't know it was really nice i i just enjoyed the story i will say the romance wasn't like the strongest aspect of this book i i did really appreciate like the cultural aspects because i didn't know much about diwali going into this i like discovering it with our main character i thought it was fun so gave it three stars again i think like as a romance it wasn't the most successful but as a book in general like just a good holiday read i enjoyed it i feel like that's just my experience with holiday books in general like they're all pretty much three stars they tend to not get more than that from me because again i think there's so much focus on like the family aspects of the holidays and that sort of thing and not so much focus on the romance which is fine um and i like reading about it but it's never gonna get more than three stars for me um when it comes to you know is is the romance good it has to be the romance has to be good for it to be more than a three-star read anyway moving on i also read donut fall in love by jackie lau and i enjoyed it there's another three star read for me it's about our two main characters again i can't remember the names of them but the guy is sort of like this heartthrob in hollywood he is asian and he really has it on his heart and on his conscience to be the representation that he never saw growing up and he wants to you know be the hot asian lead like that's kind of his his thing and that's what he's striving for but after a series of kind of like failed projects i think he had a show that got canceled after the first season and a um rom-com that's doing poorly at the box office he's sort of feeling self-conscious and not really confident in his abilities to get accomplished what he wants to get accomplished on top of that his mother has recently passed away and his dad is really he's always been resistant to his son's job like not really into his son doing that instead of engineering but he also is really not wanting to connect with his children after his wife passed away and so our hero is definitely having to kind of struggle with that struggling with his career and his family's kind of like invalidation of his career and his feelings that's a really big part of this book and then we have our heroine who i think her dad or was it her mom i don't know one of her parents no it was her dad her dad i think passed away a while ago and her mom is now dating and so she's having to deal with that along with her feelings for the hero and just you know a bunch of other feelings i think her friend has recently been married or something and maybe doesn't have time for her there's a lot of like extra stuff to the story beyond just the romance but they kind of come together and meet because our hero wants to go on one of those like baking fail shows but like not be totally at it so he asks our heroine who owns bakery uh to teach him some things and i liked i liked it i really enjoyed the again the family aspects i thought those were really interesting and getting to see our hero i really liked him find confidence again after some of the stuff he's been through i thought was really like fun uh and i did like the kind of baking scenes that we got and getting to see them sort of like connect over their love for like sweets and stuff i don't know i just thought it was cute it was really sweet romance i wouldn't say that it was like super swoon-worthy or something that i'm gonna be thinking about for years to come but it was a really like satisfying and fun read and i liked our characters enough to wear i feel like this was kind of like a borderline four star read for me i think i rated it three stars on goodreads i can't really remember but um it was a good enough time and it passed the time well i read this on a road trip back to houston to see my parents so it was fun it was fun um and then the last two books that i read in november um had to take a water break um for a sec because i have a lot to say what he never knew and i think what he always knew by candy steiner i'd heard a lot of things about this book series i guess you could say there's three books the first two are a duet have a satisfying ending and then the third book is something different i had heard that this series is about cheating basically it's about a woman who's been married to the same man for a really long time their marriage is on the rocks and someone comes back into our heroine's life to shake things up i actually do remember the names of the characters because i finished the second book yesterday uh reese is the guy that comes back into our heroine charlize life and her husband cameron you know it's kind of a at the beginning of the story we think i enjoyed the first book a whole hell of a lot i love a good childhood friends to lovers romance while i don't condone cheating in real life in books i think it's fun and angsty and i think it creates tension especially when you know the person who's getting shafted in the story like the husband he was a dick you know we didn't really like love him and support him in the first book so it felt good it was like yeah charlie like you go and get your childhood crush and have a good time like you deserve this and i was so into it and i really liked that first book but it all sort of fell apart for me in the second book i really did not like how this story ended and i felt like it cheapened the angst and the tension built in the first book i don't know i'm so i'm so annoyed and frankly i don't like who our heroine ended up with like i don't dislike either of the men but i don't know that i feel like she made the right choice and i don't feel like that choice was justified enough with all of the events that happened in the second book even in the first book too i'm just like yeah i don't know i don't know i think it's pretty obvious um from my talking you know kind of where this book goes but i just first book was like four stars for me in the second book was probably like two i just i just i'm i'm upset i invested so much time into this book and it just let me down i'm like kind of unsure if i want to read the third book because i like that guy better but also is it worth my time and energy when i got so emotionally invested in his first relationship you know i think the moral of the story is no it's not to read it's not to not read books about cheating there is actually a trilogy but i think i think pam godwin could be wrong um they all have like pastel covers of like people kind of intertwined or whatever on the covers uh pam godwin does this trope in a more fun and steamy way in a in a way that the ending was satisfying to me it's like you don't want to be spoiled when you go into a series like this but at the same time i guess it needed to be done better i think that's really really what i'm what i'm trying to get at here i'm probably just rambling and you're probably not understanding half of what i'm saying if you haven't read these books but i read them i read them uh and they were fun they were fun entertaining way to pass the time i will say and that's really all i can ask for from romance like if it feels like pulling teeth to to read a book that's where the problem is i didn't have that problem with this book so i'll take it i'll take it or these books i guess anyway um those are the seven books that i read in november uh not for videos well mostly not for videos i am hoping that december brings me steamy delicious romance in my stocking in my under my tree what the am i saying that's it that's it i'm done with this video thank you for watching uh stay tuned for chan miss tomorrow day two i don't know what day two is to be honest it's uploaded it's ready to go i filmed it a while ago but there's going to be a mix of things going forward uh so i just thought i would like share that i guess here and now because i'm feeling chatty uh channamus is gonna be a mix of sit down videos daily vlogs planned vlogs and a bunch of other stuff i'm hoping to like set up my planner for the year at some point during this month i'm hoping to maybe do like a skincare hair care like makeup routine tutorial thing because i know some of y'all were asking for that i am doing my yearly goodreads choice award video during chan miss i am doing best worst most disappointing books i'm doing my sexiest books of the year i'm doing a couple of pretty juicy secret tbrs that are coming i have a night read five i have two taste tests i shouldn't be spoiling all of this but you know some good stuff is to come so i would definitely say stay tuned or you could just save them all until the 31st and watch them all in one day thanks so much for watching this video i know it's a little chaotic i love y'all so much uh thanks so much for watching and until tomorrowhello welcome back to my channel and welcome to the first day of chan miss feels really good to say that i have been pre-filming things for chandmas for the past couple of months and to be filming the inaugural video feels pretty good i can't believe it's only three days until jammus starts today i'm doing my november wrap up and talking to y'all about the seven books that i have not talked about in videos before and it's gonna be an interesting mixed bag i read three thrillers and four romances over the past month month and a half honestly i read the thrillers back in october for a video i thought i was going to do but didn't do but i still want to talk about them so if i'm a little rusty on the thrillers that's why first up we have applestoverfall by leanne moriarty i enjoyed this book i cannot really remember what reading i gave it i think it was either three or four stars um this is sort of a family drama style thriller i mean if you read leanne moriarty i think you kind of know what you're getting yourself into but this is the first book that i've ever finished by her i tried to read big little lies and it just wasn't really my thing um this one is about a family of like tennis players and i don't want to say want to be tennis stars because no one ever ended up really being successful it's about a mom and a dad they own like tennis facilities and they have coached so many people in their day the dad is really passionate about the tennis side of things and the mom really got the business off the ground and it was their their wish and their hope that their i think four children would be you know tennis stars none of them actually go pro they have disappointment in that and that's like a running theme throughout the book but the mystery aspect comes in when we have the mother of the family the matriarch going missing and we also have someone strange kind of coming into their lives and we're wondering if she has anything to do with the mom going missing it's a super interesting book we have this girl this like random girl show up at mom and dad's doorstep and they're like we have no idea who you are and she's like my boyfriend was abusing me could i please stay here tonight and they're like yeah of course absolutely so they take her in and the mom ends up treating this girl as like a pseudo daughter and it creates a lot of tension and drama and a lot of things unfold throughout the course of the story in the past and then also in the present day you know trying to figure out what happened to the mom and if the dad had anything to do with it and it's a lot um i liked it though i thought it was a really fun and entertaining read i think it was way too long frankly but i feel like the way leanne moriarty writes you become invested in the characters and their lives and i never thought i would be interested in the goings-on of people who are into professional sports or like want their kids to be you know sports stars but i found it really fascinating and i think it's something that a lot of us could relate to in terms of your parents having expectations and dreams for you that you don't necessarily have for yourself so i liked it i thought it was good i think if you like her writing this would probably be a good book for you if you haven't read any leanne moriarty i don't know if this is the best place to start but i did find it good and you know despite again that like obscenely long length it was it was a fun time oh and i'd recommend the audiobook the thrillers that i read this month were all audiobooks and this one i think was especially good because we had a narrator from australia to narrate the book so that was nice i love a good i've got accented audiobook i know some people don't but i personally appreciate it if you know a book is set somewhere else that you know the narrator have the same accent anyway moving on one of my most anticipated thrillers that really didn't work for me the maidens by alex mike ladies um okay where to begin with this book we have this woman i cannot honestly remember her profession but her niece calls her up and is like hey uh my best friend went missing and then also my best friend that went missing they found her on campus she died she was murdered and there have been strings of killings going on and the aunt is concerned the aunt has a lot of like investment in this and even though the aunt is dealing with her own trauma because her husband has recently passed away she decides she's going to go help her niece and potentially help solve the murder mystery i think that aunt is like a psychologist or something or like criminologist anyway she'd like helps the police force and i hated most of this book it was boring as hell i really expected this to be interesting like dark academia there's also this aspect of the maidens like what the book is called right so murder mystery whatever whatever there's a professor on campus that our like the aunt kind of suspects that has something to do with these murders he has like a group of female students that he has that like have book clubs and stuff and ants are like um i wonder if this is sexual and she finds out oh my god like someone i know might be a part of this yeah i'm not doing a good job of explaining this book what irritated me a lot was a relationship that was unveiled at the end of this book if you've read the book you know what i'm talking about i don't want to like spoil it for people who still intend to read this it was so unsatisfying i wanted the reveal of this book to be more interesting and i will say the reveal was similar to the one in the silent patient but i feel like the silent patient did it better and i felt like there was enough lead up to it in this book it was like here's something out of left field um there you go i was personally insulted by it i felt like it was handled so poorly and the actions of one of our characters made zero sense i don't personally like when certain things are used as plot twists and the plot twist in this i really i genuinely felt insulted by so go read spoilers if you want more insight into it but i hated it i really hated it and i'm upset i gave the silent patient five stars i think this is going to be on my worst books list of 2021 which is so weird because i think the silent patient was on my list for 2019 or 2020 one of the two whenever that book came out this was bad so don't pick it up don't don't pick it up there's far better dark academia books out there if you're looking for something like that this was just um deeply deeply not good i would actually recommend if we were villains over this i feel like it's got a similar energy and a similar thriller vibe but is much better executed and better handled so moving right along another book that i personally didn't enjoy which honestly i think you can tell a theme here like i started reading these thrillers i was going to do a 13 thrillers and 13 days video i've done it before and i wanted to do it this year didn't work out because i didn't really like the thrillers i was reading for it and this one was kind of the nail in the coffin for me leave the world behind this was pitched to me as like literary fiction meets thriller which i kind of was like on not on edge about but like i was hesitant going into this book if i would like it because i don't really like literary fiction but i do like thrillers so i was like willing to overlook it um okay this book is about a family a white family it's like two parents and two teenage kids i think and they go and stay in an airbnb the dad we already know is kind of like a deadbeat loser mom is just kind of like sad and cause that's how these work right like that's how these books work then we have um a black kind of older couple who come and say hey um some is happening in the city so we wanted to come back to our house this is our house our airbnb that we're renting out to you can we stay in our house since the world's kind of ending and and the family's kind of like what the like we paid for this airbnb like we don't want people to be staying with us it's not much of a vacation at that point things sort of unravel from there it's bizarre i honestly going into this thought this would be kind of like a commentary on race and on class and things like that and maybe it was but i didn't see that for me this was just like a strange like body horror pseudo thriller with like really flowery language i did i just did not like the language usage and like pros of this book certain things i thought really like well encapsulated like white mediocrity and stuff like that and i do think that was well done but i don't feel like the writing overall lended itself to the story and i didn't find the ending of this book satisfying in any way also i have my notes somewhere i can't really remember um there are certain things that are said at the end of this book that i really didn't like and i i can't remember exactly the verbage used but it just it wasn't for me it was not for me and i think this will work for a lot of people i actually got on reddit after this to see like what people's overall thoughts and feelings were and it seems to be very polarizing so i think some people will really enjoy this book and i think some people really will not yeah it's like i appreciated certain aspects of this book certain commentary and the language sometimes but overall i just it didn't it didn't connect fully for me so yeah that one kind of solidified me not wanting to do my 13 thrillers and 13 days video um that i was trying to do for this year but uh it's fine i don't know i just have not been as intrigued with rulers lately and i've not really had luck with them this year so i'm kind of glad i didn't end up doing that video but moving along to the four romances i read they were all pretty successful i'm just more excited to read romance for december now at this point like i'm still working on some of my channel's content uh at the moment but i for the daily vlog portion of chan miss i'm gonna be reading a shitload of romance so i don't know i don't know why i felt like sharing that i'm just like so hyped first book that i read and you will actually see my vloggy kind of thoughts in an upcoming video it was a holly jolly divali and i loved this i thought it was so cute it's about her heroine who i cannot remember the name of because i i never remember the names characters right she is kind of in a weird place in her life she just got laid off from a job that she was really excited about and she's kind of lost her way she doesn't really know what to do next she was excited about the job but she she might want to go like kind of a different path and i feel like that's a very common thing in contemporary romance but she's struggling she doesn't know what she wants to do her parents are trying to like set her up on dates she ends up going on a date with a guy who she thinks like maybe he could be the maybe he could be a good match for me and then she decides that she is going to go to a friend's wedding in india because at first she had declined the invite when she was working she didn't think she could get time off of work but now she's like okay i have nothing else going on let me go to india and it's really this like discovery for her of kind of her culture and of what she wants out of life and also like discovery of love too she finds someone in india that she like really is uh falling for and i loved it i thought it was awesome i loved getting to experience divali with our main character and kind of understanding what the holiday was about through our main character she grew up celebrating you know certain holidays and um certain things in her culture but she doesn't feel as connected as some of her friends do and you get to kind of see some of that dissonance in india whenever she goes and is learning more about her own culture and at times she feels left out but getting to kind of understand what diwali is to so many different people i think is really interesting to see and yeah i don't know it was really nice i i just enjoyed the story i will say the romance wasn't like the strongest aspect of this book i i did really appreciate like the cultural aspects because i didn't know much about diwali going into this i like discovering it with our main character i thought it was fun so gave it three stars again i think like as a romance it wasn't the most successful but as a book in general like just a good holiday read i enjoyed it i feel like that's just my experience with holiday books in general like they're all pretty much three stars they tend to not get more than that from me because again i think there's so much focus on like the family aspects of the holidays and that sort of thing and not so much focus on the romance which is fine um and i like reading about it but it's never gonna get more than three stars for me um when it comes to you know is is the romance good it has to be the romance has to be good for it to be more than a three-star read anyway moving on i also read donut fall in love by jackie lau and i enjoyed it there's another three star read for me it's about our two main characters again i can't remember the names of them but the guy is sort of like this heartthrob in hollywood he is asian and he really has it on his heart and on his conscience to be the representation that he never saw growing up and he wants to you know be the hot asian lead like that's kind of his his thing and that's what he's striving for but after a series of kind of like failed projects i think he had a show that got canceled after the first season and a um rom-com that's doing poorly at the box office he's sort of feeling self-conscious and not really confident in his abilities to get accomplished what he wants to get accomplished on top of that his mother has recently passed away and his dad is really he's always been resistant to his son's job like not really into his son doing that instead of engineering but he also is really not wanting to connect with his children after his wife passed away and so our hero is definitely having to kind of struggle with that struggling with his career and his family's kind of like invalidation of his career and his feelings that's a really big part of this book and then we have our heroine who i think her dad or was it her mom i don't know one of her parents no it was her dad her dad i think passed away a while ago and her mom is now dating and so she's having to deal with that along with her feelings for the hero and just you know a bunch of other feelings i think her friend has recently been married or something and maybe doesn't have time for her there's a lot of like extra stuff to the story beyond just the romance but they kind of come together and meet because our hero wants to go on one of those like baking fail shows but like not be totally at it so he asks our heroine who owns bakery uh to teach him some things and i liked i liked it i really enjoyed the again the family aspects i thought those were really interesting and getting to see our hero i really liked him find confidence again after some of the stuff he's been through i thought was really like fun uh and i did like the kind of baking scenes that we got and getting to see them sort of like connect over their love for like sweets and stuff i don't know i just thought it was cute it was really sweet romance i wouldn't say that it was like super swoon-worthy or something that i'm gonna be thinking about for years to come but it was a really like satisfying and fun read and i liked our characters enough to wear i feel like this was kind of like a borderline four star read for me i think i rated it three stars on goodreads i can't really remember but um it was a good enough time and it passed the time well i read this on a road trip back to houston to see my parents so it was fun it was fun um and then the last two books that i read in november um had to take a water break um for a sec because i have a lot to say what he never knew and i think what he always knew by candy steiner i'd heard a lot of things about this book series i guess you could say there's three books the first two are a duet have a satisfying ending and then the third book is something different i had heard that this series is about cheating basically it's about a woman who's been married to the same man for a really long time their marriage is on the rocks and someone comes back into our heroine's life to shake things up i actually do remember the names of the characters because i finished the second book yesterday uh reese is the guy that comes back into our heroine charlize life and her husband cameron you know it's kind of a at the beginning of the story we think i enjoyed the first book a whole hell of a lot i love a good childhood friends to lovers romance while i don't condone cheating in real life in books i think it's fun and angsty and i think it creates tension especially when you know the person who's getting shafted in the story like the husband he was a dick you know we didn't really like love him and support him in the first book so it felt good it was like yeah charlie like you go and get your childhood crush and have a good time like you deserve this and i was so into it and i really liked that first book but it all sort of fell apart for me in the second book i really did not like how this story ended and i felt like it cheapened the angst and the tension built in the first book i don't know i'm so i'm so annoyed and frankly i don't like who our heroine ended up with like i don't dislike either of the men but i don't know that i feel like she made the right choice and i don't feel like that choice was justified enough with all of the events that happened in the second book even in the first book too i'm just like yeah i don't know i don't know i think it's pretty obvious um from my talking you know kind of where this book goes but i just first book was like four stars for me in the second book was probably like two i just i just i'm i'm upset i invested so much time into this book and it just let me down i'm like kind of unsure if i want to read the third book because i like that guy better but also is it worth my time and energy when i got so emotionally invested in his first relationship you know i think the moral of the story is no it's not to read it's not to not read books about cheating there is actually a trilogy but i think i think pam godwin could be wrong um they all have like pastel covers of like people kind of intertwined or whatever on the covers uh pam godwin does this trope in a more fun and steamy way in a in a way that the ending was satisfying to me it's like you don't want to be spoiled when you go into a series like this but at the same time i guess it needed to be done better i think that's really really what i'm what i'm trying to get at here i'm probably just rambling and you're probably not understanding half of what i'm saying if you haven't read these books but i read them i read them uh and they were fun they were fun entertaining way to pass the time i will say and that's really all i can ask for from romance like if it feels like pulling teeth to to read a book that's where the problem is i didn't have that problem with this book so i'll take it i'll take it or these books i guess anyway um those are the seven books that i read in november uh not for videos well mostly not for videos i am hoping that december brings me steamy delicious romance in my stocking in my under my tree what the am i saying that's it that's it i'm done with this video thank you for watching uh stay tuned for chan miss tomorrow day two i don't know what day two is to be honest it's uploaded it's ready to go i filmed it a while ago but there's going to be a mix of things going forward uh so i just thought i would like share that i guess here and now because i'm feeling chatty uh channamus is gonna be a mix of sit down videos daily vlogs planned vlogs and a bunch of other stuff i'm hoping to like set up my planner for the year at some point during this month i'm hoping to maybe do like a skincare hair care like makeup routine tutorial thing because i know some of y'all were asking for that i am doing my yearly goodreads choice award video during chan miss i am doing best worst most disappointing books i'm doing my sexiest books of the year i'm doing a couple of pretty juicy secret tbrs that are coming i have a night read five i have two taste tests i shouldn't be spoiling all of this but you know some good stuff is to come so i would definitely say stay tuned or you could just save them all until the 31st and watch them all in one day thanks so much for watching this video i know it's a little chaotic i love y'all so much uh thanks so much for watching and until tomorrow\n"