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- 0:10[SPEAKER_01]: podcast I'm McKinsey and I'm Kaylee and today we're going to chat with you about books that we have rated five stars this year would we looking back on those ratings still write them five stars yeah because I feel like sometimes after I set on a book my opinion changes and I think sometimes depending on the book it will go either way like I mean they're like ooh you know what I should have
- 0:40[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
- 0:40[SPEAKER_01]: So this would be fun.
- 0:41[SPEAKER_01]: We're just going to kind of go through good reads and see what we got.
- 0:44[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to chat, but we're going to do some recent reads.
- 0:47[SPEAKER_01]: So I am starting drawn together by Juliana Smith.
- 0:52[SPEAKER_01]: Kaylee says this might be her number one romance of the year, which has me aesthetic and flutter.
- 1:02[SPEAKER_01]: Let your stop now, I can't wait to read this book.
- 1:06[SPEAKER_01]: I like, I just need a good, a little good, like, feel good, remain it.
- 1:10[SPEAKER_01]: Like, a flutter might be my favorite.
- 1:13[SPEAKER_01]: romance boyfriend right now.
- 1:16[SPEAKER_01]: That's crazy.
- 1:17[SPEAKER_01]: I know.
- 1:18[SPEAKER_00]: I love that.
- 1:19[SPEAKER_01]: I am listening to the Ententehood Green House, which is the second book after Spel Shop, Spel Shop, yeah.
- 1:28[SPEAKER_01]: And it's, I think, I'm not like, I'm, what, 30, 40% into it.
- 1:32[SPEAKER_01]: And it's like set in the same world, but we haven't met these people before.
- 1:39[SPEAKER_01]: And hers are just like really,
- 1:42[SPEAKER_01]: cozy fantasies, you know, like anything crazy fantasy, but basically she gets turned into stone as a punishment.
- 1:55[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so like the other person on the other side of Medusa.
- 1:59[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but then she gets melted or like unstoned to help find a cure for why the magic is leaving this world.
- 2:10[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, she's a librarian.
- 2:13[SPEAKER_01]: So like she's like, I don't know why they say to you, you know, but then her and the dude the grumpy dude in the like I think they're it's not very remedy like hers are not like heavy on the romance.
- 2:25[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's just like you could tell that there's a little spark there.
- 2:29[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I've not read this spell shop.
- 2:32[SPEAKER_01]: So well, there's a talking spider plan spell shop named Caz who I'm obsessed with a freaking love Caz and this is the woman who created Caz.
- 2:41[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.
- 2:42[SPEAKER_01]: So there's still like intertwined a little bit.
- 2:44[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
- 2:45[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
- 2:45[SPEAKER_01]: I love that.
- 2:46[SPEAKER_01]: He read almost not twice.
- 2:48[SPEAKER_01]: What's something less than twice?
- 2:54[SPEAKER_01]: I think I might end the year out at like 70, which is more than my goal, but I'm always going to set a local because I want to feel good about myself So my first five star reader the year was like my first book of the year and it was variation of my Rebecca R.S.
- 3:09[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, same Yeah, that was my first part.
- 3:13[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry to the back
- 3:15[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if those five star might be like four and a half yeah, but still really good.
- 3:21[SPEAKER_01]: Like I think in the grand scheme of things I because I feel like the way that we rate it, it's like right after we finish it and we're like, but I don't think it would hold a five even to today.
- 3:33[SPEAKER_01]: Like I'm like you said, I think it's more before and a half maybe.
- 3:38[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't really like the way it ended and like how it was so fast in the way that it ended, which would definitely take it down to like 4.5 or like 4.25.
- 3:47[SPEAKER_01]: That's my thing is I'm immediately like a vibes writer.
- 3:51[SPEAKER_01]: Like it doesn't have to be anything special, but if it gives me all the vibes of like a fantastic book.
- 3:57[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
- 3:57[SPEAKER_01]: Then that's where I'm at.
- 4:00[SPEAKER_01]: And I also apparently was very stindewed with my fives.
- 4:04[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I kind of was too, except I re-read.
- 4:07[SPEAKER_01]: Fortunately not.
- 4:10[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, obviously those were fives stars.
- 4:12[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we're not even going to get about that.
- 4:15[SPEAKER_01]: A book I thought was going to be a fives star, but wasn't a fives star that I'm scrolling was on a storm.
- 4:21[SPEAKER_01]: I can give it four stars, too.
- 4:23[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 4:23[SPEAKER_01]: I was hoping it'd be.
- 4:24[SPEAKER_01]: I want to know if I rewrite it right now, if I would give it five stars.
- 4:29[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 4:29[SPEAKER_01]: Like, now that I'm marinated on it, I feel like I need to reread.
- 4:34[SPEAKER_01]: on a storm to see a flight.
- 4:38[SPEAKER_01]: It would be a five star read.
- 4:40[SPEAKER_01]: I think it would be.
- 4:40[SPEAKER_01]: I think now that we're not like pushing through to just finish and see what happens.
- 4:44[SPEAKER_01]: Like we can actually go back and appreciate.
- 4:46[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 4:47[SPEAKER_01]: Like every single thing that happened.
- 4:49[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, that's what I'm still mad at.
- 4:50[SPEAKER_01]: That blank page ending.
- 4:51[SPEAKER_01]: You're not wrong.
- 4:53[SPEAKER_01]: My next one was daughter of no-worlds by Chris
- 4:56[SPEAKER_01]: We just met which yeah, she's so funny and that was a really cool book of it that yeah, we went to that whole interview She was probably like the hilarious interview.
- 5:08[SPEAKER_01]: I've been to yes like she had us all Laughing so hard.
- 5:13[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, and just the whole like
- 5:15[SPEAKER_01]: And she was like, uh, what was the book she said was the book for or the song Oh, I tell her to this love or you are in love by Taylor Swift here in love and then she said give me full body Joel's and it's just talking about Abba in the Abba It was so good.
- 5:34[SPEAKER_01]: No, that was a really good one.
- 5:36[SPEAKER_01]: And I loved that book too.
- 5:37[SPEAKER_01]: Like I didn't read it this year But I did give that one five star that one still holds five stars like honestly might even be six stars for me
- 5:45[SPEAKER_01]: Like that's a true six star read no one was so good and then you haven't read certain that yeah that one I think I want to finish this world before I go to serpent in the wings of night yeah I think I want to finish that I would for sure and the other ones are being re-released
- 6:02[SPEAKER_01]: in December.
- 6:03[SPEAKER_01]: Like the next song, so I'm going to probably wait and do that.
- 6:06[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 6:07[SPEAKER_01]: My next five star was a court this cruel and lovely.
- 6:13[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I still need you to finish that series.
- 6:18[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my gosh.
- 6:19[SPEAKER_01]: That is hands down one of the best series I've ever heard.
- 6:23[SPEAKER_01]: Like it still has an impact on me as a human being.
- 6:26[SPEAKER_01]: Like best series I've ever read.
- 6:28[SPEAKER_01]: One thing about me.
- 6:30[SPEAKER_01]: Well, the thing about me is I am the queen of starting series and never finish it in, like there's probably 20 plus series I am in the middle of that I have absolutely no intention of finishing.
- 6:48[SPEAKER_01]: That's the difference between you and me.
- 6:49[SPEAKER_01]: Like I'm like I really want to finish this But will I ever get to it?
- 6:52[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
- 6:53[SPEAKER_01]: But Kaylee's like, yeah, no, I'm gonna Google it I'm gonna Google it and I'm zero attention to how to finish you have finish.
- 7:00[SPEAKER_01]: I've read two.
- 7:00[SPEAKER_01]: I just have two more
- 7:02[SPEAKER_01]: Right, and they're really like the cliffhangers at the end of them got me and I was listening to them.
- 7:09[SPEAKER_01]: And that was before I got into like reading all my Kindle and listening.
- 7:13[SPEAKER_01]: So I was like invested in it.
- 7:15[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 7:16[SPEAKER_01]: So my next five star was throwing a glass obviously.
- 7:19[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
- 7:22[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if it would be five star like four and a half.
- 7:27[SPEAKER_01]: Well, no, no, I'm sorry.
- 7:30[SPEAKER_01]: But some other books in that series, I could see but the run-of-class in the grand scheme of things.
- 7:37[SPEAKER_01]: We're about to go through my whole journey here.
- 7:39[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't know if I even gave five stars to solve them.
- 7:43[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't.
- 7:44[SPEAKER_01]: I did.
- 7:44[SPEAKER_01]: I'd actually do remember.
- 7:46[SPEAKER_01]: I did not do that.
- 7:47[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't, but thrown a glass was one of the ones I did get five star two.
- 7:51[SPEAKER_01]: And I stand by that one, I barely gave crown of midnight five stars, but I could tell you what happened in crown of midnight.
- 7:59[SPEAKER_01]: So I feel like I need to take that out on a notch, because I could not remember.
- 8:02[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't tell you, I grabbed a book and opened a page, see if you can say, oh, that's when she killed Bobby Yellowlegs, okay.
- 8:09[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, that was kind of wild.
- 8:11[SPEAKER_01]: She was still Selena at this point.
- 8:13[SPEAKER_01]: I think at the end of it, when she, yeah, I felt four stars, four stars.
- 8:17[SPEAKER_01]: We protected only ones.
- 8:19[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't rate.
- 8:22[SPEAKER_01]: five stars.
- 8:24[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think, um, crown of midnight was my favorite.
- 8:29[SPEAKER_01]: Why can't I remember what happened in Queen of Shadows?
- 8:32[SPEAKER_01]: Because that all blend together.
- 8:34[SPEAKER_01]: I can tell you what happens in the series.
- 8:35[SPEAKER_01]: What book comes right?
- 8:37[SPEAKER_01]: I have absolutely no idea.
- 8:38[SPEAKER_01]: Like, airifier, Empire Swarms and Tower Dawn all stand out to me.
- 8:42[SPEAKER_01]: I love Tower Dawn.
- 8:44[SPEAKER_01]: Airifier and Tower Dawn are the best books in that entire series.
- 8:47[SPEAKER_01]: I think I would agree with that.
- 8:50[SPEAKER_01]: hands down.
- 8:51[SPEAKER_01]: I'll fight you on it.
- 8:52[SPEAKER_01]: I do think I would agree with that.
- 8:54[SPEAKER_01]: Um, my next is first time call it.
- 8:57[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I get that one.
- 8:58[SPEAKER_00]: I started to get it.
- 9:00[SPEAKER_01]: Um, yeah.
- 9:00[SPEAKER_01]: That was my raining from the inside of the year.
- 9:03[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
- 9:04[SPEAKER_01]: And now it has been since I've written it.
- 9:07[SPEAKER_01]: But honestly, I read it.
- 9:09[SPEAKER_01]: But, but you were nine.
- 9:11[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 9:12[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
- 9:12[SPEAKER_01]: So it's, you know, it's still up there for a while.
- 9:16[SPEAKER_01]: You're not wrong.
- 9:17[SPEAKER_01]: And then the vote just came in and they put also.
- 9:20[SPEAKER_01]: I still have to read good spirits by B. K. Borsan.
- 9:23[SPEAKER_01]: So Oh, I saw that.
- 9:25[SPEAKER_01]: You know, who knows how long drawn together will be up there, especially with that book.
- 9:30[SPEAKER_01]: You know, a Borsan kills it every time.
- 9:33[SPEAKER_01]: I want to read the light large series.
- 9:36[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
- 9:36[SPEAKER_01]: No, that that's for Ken.
- 9:38[SPEAKER_01]: What's her name?
- 9:39[SPEAKER_01]: Alicester.
- 9:42[SPEAKER_01]: What's the word?
- 9:42[SPEAKER_01]: What's love like Farms?
- 9:43[SPEAKER_01]: Love like Farms.
- 9:44[SPEAKER_01]: See those words?
- 9:45[SPEAKER_00]: Words.
- 9:46[SPEAKER_01]: The love like Farms series.
- 9:47[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, you need to read that.
- 9:49[SPEAKER_01]: But that's a whole full full series.
- 9:52[SPEAKER_01]: So, but they're all interconnected sandalones.
- 9:55[SPEAKER_01]: Like you don't have to read that.
- 9:56[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, Fabri.
- 9:57[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll read that one.
- 9:58[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
- 9:59[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll do that.
- 9:59[SPEAKER_01]: I put that in my team here.
- 10:01[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
- 10:02[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I didn't give five stars that I've kind of shocked at?
- 10:05[SPEAKER_01]: What?
- 10:05[SPEAKER_01]: The deal.
- 10:06[SPEAKER_01]: Me, either.
- 10:07[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't
- 10:28[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it was really good.
- 10:30[SPEAKER_01]: I'm excited to see the Amazon series or whatever it is going to be.
- 10:34[SPEAKER_01]: So I read metal slinger in February.
- 10:38[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, again, and it was a five star.
- 10:41[SPEAKER_01]: I ate that book up.
- 10:43[SPEAKER_01]: I absolutely ate that book up.
- 10:46[SPEAKER_01]: King of find it.
- 10:48[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, there it is.
- 10:50[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I did not read it at the same time.
- 10:52[SPEAKER_00]: No, okay, okay, okay.
- 10:53[SPEAKER_01]: Before all of y'all in your mouth, I was like begging you to read it.
- 10:57[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, but no, if you have not read metal singer, yeah, I will not give you any spoilers.
- 11:04[SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm.
- 11:04[SPEAKER_01]: But the ending to metal singer is literally one of the most shocking endings that I have ever read.
- 11:13[SPEAKER_01]: So what you want, I did not see the ending coming.
- 11:16[SPEAKER_01]: And a lot of people do not like the ending, but I'm like, hey, there's going to hate because I know y'all have to do that.
- 11:23[SPEAKER_01]: You can fool everybody like that to those two.
- 11:28[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
- 11:28[SPEAKER_01]: So my congrats.
- 11:29[SPEAKER_01]: Because photos to you and I can not wait for God.
- 11:32[SPEAKER_01]: We'll do.
- 11:32[SPEAKER_01]: I will always be a Rachel Schmerstein every time.
- 11:37[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I gave Air of Fire five stars probably six at this point, because Air of Fire is my number one book in that entire series.
- 11:47[SPEAKER_01]: Am I worth that one kind of fast?
- 11:50[SPEAKER_01]: Like it only took me like from the mid-February to beginning of March.
- 11:56[SPEAKER_01]: I ate that one up.
- 11:57[SPEAKER_01]: I rated the book of Asriel Five Stars.
- 12:00[SPEAKER_00]: Which I still want to read.
- 12:01[SPEAKER_01]: Isn't it my TBR?
- 12:02[SPEAKER_01]: No, I need to put it in here.
- 12:03[SPEAKER_01]: You do.
- 12:06[SPEAKER_01]: So this one is a bit of a longer book and don't start it.
- 12:10[SPEAKER_01]: Unless you, I mean, you could be like me and read the first book and I would finish the series.
- 12:14[SPEAKER_01]: That's fine.
- 12:15[SPEAKER_01]: I don't care, please unbothered by reading any book because she's like, if I don't want to read the second one, I don't have to.
- 12:21[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, my brain is like, you have to finish everything you start and I'm like, oh, no, I will not finish the rest of this series.
- 12:28[SPEAKER_01]: That's just what,
- 12:31[SPEAKER_01]: But the first book was really, really good and it was interesting because like it was a fantasy book with no spice, it was, um, there was like one little snippet at the end, but like overall no spice, right, then the MMC is a literal god, like you read all gods, okay, but like that has never read one as an MMC and so I thought that was like I'm here for that super interesting yeah.
- 12:59[SPEAKER_01]: Um, you're not going to like this.
- 13:02[SPEAKER_01]: I give binding 13 five stars.
- 13:05[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 13:06[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I love binding 13 as an idea.
- 13:11[SPEAKER_01]: As a reader who has been through similar traumas, I do not love binding 13.
- 13:16[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 13:17[SPEAKER_01]: So that's fair.
- 13:18[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I can have that it made me feel all the fuels, which I'm glad it.
- 13:24[SPEAKER_01]: That's like a solid book to do that, like the happy and the side, like,
- 13:29[SPEAKER_01]: I know I say I don't like to cry reading, but sometimes when it comes across unexpected, I'm just like, oh, this is good.
- 13:35[SPEAKER_01]: My next five-star read was beautiful exile by Katherine Cowell, which is with Lincoln and Arden, that's the third one, right?
- 13:47[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's the fourth one.
- 13:49[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I haven't read that one.
- 13:50[SPEAKER_01]: That's the one you were about to read.
- 13:52[SPEAKER_01]: I think I read that one before the end of the year.
- 13:59[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, from there, it's going to be a good thought that, yeah.
- 14:04[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, um, what month are you in?
- 14:06[SPEAKER_01]: I must give a lot of five stars.
- 14:08[SPEAKER_01]: I'm in, um, um, I'm in my role, but I've also read a lot more books.
- 14:13[SPEAKER_00]: That's true.
- 14:14[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
- 14:15[SPEAKER_01]: So Queen of Shadows, I gave five stars.
- 14:17[SPEAKER_01]: Once again, I don't know what happens in Queen of Shadows, so I probably would knock that down to a four.
- 14:22[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I feel like a true five star needs to be something that I carry with me.
- 14:25[SPEAKER_01]: Like, right, even months beyond, like when I'm done reading it,
- 14:28[SPEAKER_01]: And so for me, Queen of Shadows, is that when they shatter the castle, I think it's how you?
- 14:35[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
- 14:36[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's fine.
- 14:38[SPEAKER_01]: Um, but that's also when, okay, I'll think, yeah, because then they go to tower Dawn.
- 14:43[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you're right.
- 14:43[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
- 14:44[SPEAKER_01]: So that is when they shatter because now it goes, um, I'd keep it if I'd go to four
- 14:57[SPEAKER_01]: Pump that down just to sit in.
- 14:59[SPEAKER_01]: Just because.
- 15:02[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't my favorite in the series and I feel like it needs to be one of my favorite in the series for it to be a true five star.
- 15:08[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but it's a really good read and like I think I rated it because My husband is like super in the wrestling.
- 15:15[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we're watching like all the wrestling stuff.
- 15:17[SPEAKER_01]: It was the vibes and I love ramen reign to the M and C is based on.
- 15:23[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 15:24[SPEAKER_01]: So I think because the vibes were there.
- 15:26[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, yeah, that's dark, but no, I don't think it was a five star.
- 15:30[SPEAKER_01]: Um, true.
- 15:33[SPEAKER_01]: So I then did years truly by Abby Jimenez.
- 15:36[SPEAKER_01]: That was a five star.
- 15:37[SPEAKER_01]: That was my first Abby Jimenez book and I loved it.
- 15:41[SPEAKER_01]: I think I'd keep it at five stars because it's like, it was just a good romance for sure.
- 15:46[SPEAKER_01]: That's one of the best five stars.
- 15:48[SPEAKER_01]: Abby Jimenez books out there.
- 15:49[SPEAKER_01]: Um, one true love's patallaging history.
- 15:53[SPEAKER_01]: I gave that a four star.
- 15:55[SPEAKER_01]: I think I hated how much I cried in the beginning.
- 15:59[SPEAKER_01]: I think looking back I probably would bump it down because I didn't like the calm like that the end whenever they were when I'm vacated when she went on vacation.
- 16:14[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 16:16[SPEAKER_01]: That's true.
- 16:17[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna say it for a solid four, but it was really good.
- 16:22[SPEAKER_01]: I'd never read anything like that before and if you haven't read one true loves we have we both read it because we put out of our TBR jars It's basically like this woman right before her when your anniversary loses her husband and a plain accident and then what is like five years later or something
- 16:39[SPEAKER_01]: it's years later.
- 16:40[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, she is engaged to this other man and her husband magically likes shows up and it's been like, I like, expects it to go way back to normal.
- 16:50[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I like hated that.
- 16:52[SPEAKER_01]: And I know it had to happen, but it didn't fiery aid it me.
- 16:56[SPEAKER_01]: Like I'm not the same person.
- 16:58[SPEAKER_01]: No.
- 16:58[SPEAKER_01]: Like there was a me like before and when me after.
- 17:02[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 17:02[SPEAKER_01]: You got to meet correct.
- 17:04[SPEAKER_01]: Um, okay.
- 17:05[SPEAKER_01]: My next one was Charles the Sun Queen, which I still stand by that being a five star read.
- 17:10[SPEAKER_01]: Um, the artifacts over on his body should totally.
- 17:12[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think I rated it five.
- 17:13[SPEAKER_00]: Really.
- 17:14[SPEAKER_01]: It was really good.
- 17:14[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 17:15[SPEAKER_01]: I think I stand by five because I still anytime anyone's like,
- 17:18[SPEAKER_01]: what's an immediate fantasy that you recommend to newcomers in fantasy or romanticy every time I'm like Charles on Queen.
- 17:26[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, such an easy read is end up enough to like get you used to the world building.
- 17:32[SPEAKER_01]: So I gave it a yeah, I'll stick by that.
- 17:34[SPEAKER_01]: I actually in changing my rating for when I rated at 4.75 and as much as I think about it,
- 17:44[SPEAKER_01]: Whoa, what did I give it?
- 17:46[SPEAKER_01]: I think you gave it the same as me.
- 17:47[SPEAKER_01]: I went seven five.
- 17:48[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, probably on goodies.
- 17:50[SPEAKER_01]: It just says five so yeah, because I think I remember when we did the podcast on it we both rated the same four points.
- 17:59[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm like no, that is a five sorry.
- 18:03[SPEAKER_01]: That is a no, it's I need to be doing that
- 18:05[SPEAKER_01]: I do make notes.
- 18:06[SPEAKER_01]: I need to be doing that one solid five for me is what it was.
- 18:12[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm I still think about that book.
- 18:15[SPEAKER_01]: I want to listen to it attitude.
- 18:17[SPEAKER_01]: So that's only to do list.
- 18:19[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't like seeing the to do list.
- 18:21[SPEAKER_01]: So I also if I've started this vicious dream, by Stacey's star.
- 18:26[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I love anything by her.
- 18:27[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't read any of her like earlier works like before a kingdom of lies, but this one is a standalone in a separate series, but it's interconnected with the world from a kingdom of lies, fantastic.
- 18:43[SPEAKER_01]: I love Medinea and like
- 18:45[SPEAKER_01]: I love me a good right-headed relatable.
- 18:48[SPEAKER_01]: We never have them.
- 18:49[SPEAKER_01]: So it was really good and it left off on a clip finger and I'm like patiently waiting for the second book right.
- 18:56[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
- 18:58[SPEAKER_01]: Heartless Hunter.
- 19:00[SPEAKER_00]: Bye.
- 19:00[SPEAKER_01]: I have not read that one yet.
- 19:01[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's Kristen Seasurelli.
- 19:03[SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.
- 19:03[SPEAKER_01]: It is.
- 19:04[SPEAKER_01]: But that one is I loved both the doology.
- 19:09[SPEAKER_01]: I like Heartless Hunter a little bit more than Rebel Witch.
- 19:15[SPEAKER_01]: Do all the day as a whole.
- 19:16[SPEAKER_01]: I really think you would like it.
- 19:18[SPEAKER_01]: It's a witch and a witch hunter And then love and then unfollow and love.
- 19:24[SPEAKER_01]: It's very enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers.
- 19:28[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, it's like a little whip blast while you're eating You do get a little whip blast while you're eating.
- 19:33[SPEAKER_01]: It's a
- 19:34[SPEAKER_01]: like enemies to lovers and at the very end of the book that I become in music in and they're still enemies in the second book.
- 19:41[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, to love.
- 19:43[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
- 19:43[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, yes, it's good.
- 19:46[SPEAKER_01]: Um, okay.
- 19:48[SPEAKER_01]: My next five star read was my introduction
- 19:55[SPEAKER_01]: I was all consumed by that book and Love it.
- 20:01[SPEAKER_01]: So it's gonna save five stars that whole series.
- 20:04[SPEAKER_01]: I read it on missing pieces five stars Which I think to this day is still one of my favorite Catherine counts, but I really yeah, like it's a it's a hard book to beat for me like I need to read that one still Especially the plot twist and like who did it in that book was like
- 20:25[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so I did simply mine and only mine back to back by the word pop-off.
- 20:33[SPEAKER_01]: I gave both of them five stars, but I think now I would give simply mine like a four or four point two five mainly because I'd like the enemies to lovers try better in only mine.
- 20:46[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so like that went to me.
- 20:48[SPEAKER_01]: They're both really good, but only mine.
- 20:51[SPEAKER_01]: I liked a little bit more, so I feel like I have to take a little bit away from
- 20:56[SPEAKER_01]: So, this summer.
- 21:01[SPEAKER_01]: I started the Wendy city series.
- 21:03[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
- 21:05[SPEAKER_01]: And devoured the whole entire series.
- 21:08[SPEAKER_01]: She read it in my mind.
- 21:10[SPEAKER_01]: I literally devoured the whole series.
- 21:12[SPEAKER_01]: There's not been a series that I've read that I've devoured.
- 21:15[SPEAKER_01]: That's like one after the other.
- 21:18[SPEAKER_01]: And I saved, rewind it back for like two weeks after I read the other, but I didn't want this series to end.
- 21:25[SPEAKER_01]: OK. And then I bought one last time when I read one and back.
- 21:29[SPEAKER_01]: Ball, tears, um, and so the only one in that series I did not write a five star was Mahai, the first one.
- 21:38[SPEAKER_01]: Really?
- 21:39[SPEAKER_01]: All the rest of them are five stars.
- 21:42[SPEAKER_01]: That is a whole Why choose series.
- 21:46[SPEAKER_01]: Why choose any of them?
- 21:47[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, like I choose them all.
- 21:50[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
- 21:50[SPEAKER_01]: She said who needs a big one.
- 21:52[SPEAKER_01]: Who needs to pick one?
- 21:53[SPEAKER_01]: Um, so I read here for the cake by Jennifer
- 21:58[SPEAKER_01]: if I source and I still stand by that like I love that book I was really loved the MMC in that book and he was so different than things that I've read recently and still stands out to me so yeah I think I did enjoy that one night and a moth oh yeah yeah I
- 22:16[SPEAKER_01]: Literally anything by Rachel Gillick.
- 22:18[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I'm 99% sure is an immediate just like go ahead and put a five star Stay at all net.
- 22:24[SPEAKER_01]: You couldn't make me hate her for like you can't even make me say to think bad like no I can't anything she writes.
- 22:32[SPEAKER_01]: I just already know it's gonna be a five star
- 22:34[SPEAKER_01]: Like I'm not so when it was funny because when the Taylor Swift album came out, and there was all that stuff about Charlie XX, she posted like a song by Charlie XX, and so people were like, oh, she's picking tied those like
- 22:47[SPEAKER_01]: I really don't care like I'm obsessed with nine the month.
- 22:50[SPEAKER_01]: I'm obsessed with the shepherds getting serious I don't care what you listen to.
- 22:54[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so Keynote Rires and Roses by Heather Hilderburn.
- 22:59[SPEAKER_01]: I Game of five stars.
- 23:01[SPEAKER_01]: I 100% say my five-star rate is so fast that I was like the second one's help.
- 23:06[SPEAKER_01]: No, it does not come out to like February March
- 23:08[SPEAKER_01]: So, that was really upsetting, and I was like, okay, positive setting.
- 23:12[SPEAKER_01]: That was really upsetting.
- 23:13[SPEAKER_01]: I just drew that to read on my TBRD, so it's, I'm pretty excited.
- 23:17[SPEAKER_01]: I'm kind of annoyed the fact that I read something that's not, at least the sequels out, and I don't care if it's not finished, but like the fact that I didn't even get the next book, I was like, ah, well, what's up?
- 23:28[SPEAKER_01]: My next five stars is what you're reading.
- 23:30[SPEAKER_01]: Next, it's lights out, not the German version.
- 23:38[SPEAKER_01]: No, I'm sick stars.
- 23:39[SPEAKER_01]: I can't wait to listen to them.
- 23:40[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, I don't know.
- 23:42[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how I'm going to feel about this book.
- 23:47[SPEAKER_01]: Listen, if you don't like it, that's fine.
- 23:49[SPEAKER_00]: I just want to like it.
- 23:50[SPEAKER_01]: That's your choice, McKinsey.
- 23:52[SPEAKER_01]: I want to like it.
- 23:53[SPEAKER_01]: I am a sucker for a good audio book, but I don't know if I get behind like the stalkery things.
- 24:00[SPEAKER_01]: That might be cringy to me.
- 24:01[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
- 24:02[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see.
- 24:03[SPEAKER_01]: We'll check you guys darker me whenever he wants.
- 24:06[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I has been dressed up as Josh for Halloween.
- 24:10[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, what's he watching me from the, he went to the shed and like walked around the shed and was standing there staring at everybody.
- 24:19[SPEAKER_01]: Um, towered on easy frost stars.
- 24:23[SPEAKER_01]: I reread practice makes perfect forever five stars forever five stars for me.
- 24:30[SPEAKER_01]: Jolted.
- 24:31[SPEAKER_01]: I took a private space perfect five stars jolted by V.
- 24:39[SPEAKER_01]: I'm trying to think, it took me a day to read that.
- 24:41[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it was easy.
- 24:42[SPEAKER_01]: It was an easy read.
- 24:43[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think I gave it.
- 24:44[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe four and a half stars, yeah.
- 24:46[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe four and a half.
- 24:47[SPEAKER_01]: It was good for what it was.
- 24:49[SPEAKER_01]: I gave a false start, which is the last one in the Gold Rush Ranch.
- 24:55[SPEAKER_01]: This one I hear.
- 24:57[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
- 24:57[SPEAKER_01]: It was a five star.
- 24:58[SPEAKER_01]: That was my favorite out of that whole series.
- 25:00[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, so that tracks.
- 25:03[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I gave the rule of a working, which is the second one of artifacts in Rino's five stars.
- 25:08[SPEAKER_01]: I just love the whole series.
- 25:09[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I I gave House of Earth and Blood five stars, which I know some people don't love the first one really.
- 25:20[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no, that was an easy five stars for me.
- 25:22[SPEAKER_01]: I devoured that whole book and immediately if I started
- 25:28[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Bryce is that girl.
- 25:29[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 25:31[SPEAKER_01]: I want it.
- 25:31[SPEAKER_01]: That is going to be a problem for 2026 McKinsey.
- 25:34[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, like that's my goal in 2026.
- 25:36[SPEAKER_01]: We're at least into the presidency city series.
- 25:39[SPEAKER_01]: I want to I'm just don't need to read the second one, but hunt and the person.
- 25:46[SPEAKER_01]: You're going to love her.
- 25:48[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to love her.
- 25:48[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to love her.
- 25:49[SPEAKER_01]: I'm excited.
- 25:50[SPEAKER_01]: The second one is a rind and cropping prince of the ball bar in pain.
- 25:54[SPEAKER_01]: What you know, that whole saying.
- 25:56[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
- 25:57[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
- 25:57[SPEAKER_01]: Like I cannot wait to know what that means.
- 25:59[SPEAKER_01]: Um, so my this should honestly be a six star read is if it makes you happy.
- 26:05[SPEAKER_01]: I truly live you.
- 26:06[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
- 26:07[SPEAKER_01]: I love.
- 26:09[SPEAKER_01]: it and it won't let me write it on good reads.
- 26:12[SPEAKER_01]: Every time I try to write it, it says an error occurred.
- 26:15[UNKNOWN]: What?
- 26:15[SPEAKER_01]: Every time.
- 26:16[SPEAKER_01]: So it is on ranked currently, like unrated in good reads.
- 26:19[SPEAKER_01]: But six are read.
- 26:22[SPEAKER_01]: I can't stop thinking about that book.
- 26:23[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't read it this year or else that would be on my list.
- 26:25[SPEAKER_01]: Oh true.
- 26:26[SPEAKER_00]: I read it last year.
- 26:26[SPEAKER_01]: That's true.
- 26:27[SPEAKER_01]: Um, 10 years ahead of the time.
- 26:29[SPEAKER_01]: So with romance book.
- 26:30[SPEAKER_01]: I found Julia Levy at last year on a Facebook ad.
- 26:34[SPEAKER_01]: Um, literally.
- 26:36[SPEAKER_01]: like a year and a half ago probably right when it first came out.
- 26:39[SPEAKER_01]: So I knew who Julia Libby was before all you losers did and we love her.
- 26:45[SPEAKER_01]: And that's obsession falls by Claire Kingsley.
- 26:48[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, she's very similar to Catherine Cales, like if you like Catherine Cales books read one of her books.
- 26:54[SPEAKER_01]: And the reason I fostered this one so hard is because it gave me a POV from the person who was
- 27:02[SPEAKER_01]: Ooh.
- 27:02[SPEAKER_01]: And after that, I think love that, that's folded up.
- 27:05[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I did say you swear by Megan Brandy, you have to read, have to, with a T, read this book.
- 27:15[SPEAKER_01]: I, you have it somewhere, loved this book.
- 27:19[SPEAKER_01]: It is nothing like boys of two men.
- 27:21[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
- 27:21[SPEAKER_01]: Um, there is some like, I cried, but like, it was like, feel good, cry, like, all this is precious and like, I'm sad, but like, not gut-riching.
- 27:31[SPEAKER_01]: and I'm even more excited.
- 27:33[SPEAKER_01]: I might jump to the third book because it's fake dating and it's with like the side character that everyone loves because he's funny.
- 27:40[SPEAKER_01]: So that's my next.
- 27:42[SPEAKER_01]: The only reason I have not read it yet is because I'm too scared.
- 27:46[SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of me so similar to the point of the time and there's nothing in there like that.
- 27:51[SPEAKER_01]: Not on the
- 27:54[SPEAKER_01]: There's like, there's death, but like, it not, and that could, and not.
- 27:59[SPEAKER_01]: It's, it's almost kind of expected, but unexpected, if that makes sense.
- 28:03[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
- 28:04[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I read, bourbon and lies, and I've read all three of them.
- 28:10[SPEAKER_01]: Right there.
- 28:11[SPEAKER_01]: I've read all three of them.
- 28:13[SPEAKER_01]: All of them were so far.
- 28:15[SPEAKER_01]: I read bourbon and lies five stars.
- 28:17[SPEAKER_01]: Like the bourbon boys can do that wrong bourbon.
- 28:20[SPEAKER_00]: Oh no.
- 28:20[SPEAKER_01]: Hawks brothers.
- 28:21[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, please.
- 28:22[SPEAKER_01]: The fox and then the ever king.
- 28:23[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I read it.
- 28:24[SPEAKER_00]: That was awesome.
- 28:25[SPEAKER_01]: I saw the five star.
- 28:27[SPEAKER_01]: The yearning that that man has.
- 28:31[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my gosh, I can't like the chills the words that this man speaks I can't even like I have not gotten that from a Minimacy and a mid net and I was just like and that's why the second book made me something yes, sir
- 28:49[SPEAKER_01]: Why?
- 28:50[SPEAKER_01]: Because it did not take my mom 50% to get there.
- 28:53[SPEAKER_01]: It did take a long time.
- 28:55[SPEAKER_01]: Um, so I gave the love hypothesis five stars.
- 28:58[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I just re-read that one this year too.
- 29:02[SPEAKER_01]: I ended up cannot wait for that movie.
- 29:05[SPEAKER_01]: No.
- 29:05[SPEAKER_01]: Can't wait.
- 29:06[SPEAKER_00]: Can't wait.
- 29:06[SPEAKER_01]: Can't wait.
- 29:07[SPEAKER_01]: Can't wait.
- 29:10[SPEAKER_01]: It was my first star.
- 29:11[SPEAKER_01]: I can't wait to read that.
- 29:13[SPEAKER_01]: I'm reading it literally about to start it today.
- 29:15[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it was so good.
- 29:18[SPEAKER_01]: Great, big, beautiful, I have five stars.
- 29:20[SPEAKER_01]: I did not give it five.
- 29:23[SPEAKER_01]: I thought it was such a beautiful blend of romance and like the big picture story.
- 29:28[SPEAKER_01]: And I loved all the ends and outs.
- 29:32[SPEAKER_01]: I can't see that I would probably now give it a four and a half.
- 29:35[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 29:37[SPEAKER_01]: I gave it a four.
- 29:38[SPEAKER_01]: But.
- 29:39[SPEAKER_01]: I've read all of her other books.
- 29:41[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
- 29:42[SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm.
- 29:43[SPEAKER_01]: You, that was her intro.
- 29:44[SPEAKER_01]: I think that was really good.
- 29:46[SPEAKER_01]: I was really good at engineering.
- 29:47[SPEAKER_01]: So I was like, wow, this is fantastic.
- 29:48[SPEAKER_01]: Kind of like the same vibes as Abbey him and it's like I've only read one.
- 29:52[SPEAKER_01]: Probably should venture out a little bit.
- 29:53[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but I read the birthday list by Stephanie Perry.
- 29:58[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I read the quick list by Katie Payton.
- 30:01[SPEAKER_01]: I see, by the way.
- 30:02[SPEAKER_01]: The birthday list is a lot harder than the quit list.
- 30:04[SPEAKER_01]: Oh.
- 30:05[SPEAKER_01]: The birthday list is about this girl who loses her husband and the cop who showed up to her door to tell her that her husband had passed away.
- 30:17[SPEAKER_01]: uh, ends up staying with her the whole night like making sure she's okay.
- 30:22[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 30:23[SPEAKER_01]: But then they don't see each other again until five years later and he helps her go through her husband's birthday list and like check off all of the things he wanted to do like on each birthday because he had a list of like he wanted to skydive by this birthday.
- 30:36[SPEAKER_01]: He wanted to do this by this birthday but he's not going to be able to do it anymore.
- 30:40[SPEAKER_01]: So she's like I want closure and I want to live
- 30:47[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my gosh that's sweet.
- 30:49[SPEAKER_01]: It's so sad.
- 30:50[SPEAKER_01]: I was balling the quilt.
- 30:52[SPEAKER_01]: This was way more fun than that.
- 30:53[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 30:54[SPEAKER_01]: I loved the quilt list because I okay.
- 30:58[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why but right now I'm reading all these or listening to these books where the girl doesn't like it's not your typical FMC like in the way that they look and the way that they are like they look different.
- 31:11[SPEAKER_01]: And I am loving this trope of like the MMC is going after the non-traditional girl, and I'm like, I love that for them.
- 31:21[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm eating it up.
- 31:24[SPEAKER_01]: I gave it five stars.
- 31:25[SPEAKER_01]: I'd keep it at five stars.
- 31:29[SPEAKER_01]: Seeker Haven, but Catherine cows, which is the last one in the spare fall series, we had an art copy for that.
- 31:36[SPEAKER_01]: And we'll have time for you.
- 31:37[SPEAKER_01]: Kind of ballroom.
- 31:40[SPEAKER_01]: It is a marriage of convenience.
- 31:45[SPEAKER_01]: They defile the tattoo table for her first tattoo, because he owns a tattoo shop.
- 31:52[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah girl.
- 31:53[SPEAKER_01]: Tommy, yeah, girl.
- 31:55[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, girl.
- 31:57[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, really good.
- 31:59[SPEAKER_01]: And he's like a secret like billionaire to yeah, my most recent five star was purpose unless so I'm very generous with five stars.
- 32:11[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that was my last one because I just read the house made and it was not five stars.
- 32:16[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I did find cruel winter with you and it was.
- 32:20[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of short stories like that on Audible.
- 32:24[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, um, and then I didn't realize existed.
- 32:27[SPEAKER_00]: I love my short story stuff out like that.
- 32:28[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so I was like, oh, free.
- 32:30[SPEAKER_01]: I found one by Christina Lauren, who, um,
- 32:34[SPEAKER_01]: I can't remember what it's called now, but it was the Discretion looked very interesting.
- 32:39[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think it's fun to look back on all the five stars and be like No, that was not because we're such like mood raiders.
- 32:46[SPEAKER_01]: We're like, oh, I love this and then later you're like, oh, maybe it was a good Yeah, I wrote better.
- 32:51[SPEAKER_01]: Is that gay mood raiders?
- 32:53[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that was fun.
- 32:54[SPEAKER_01]: That was fun.
- 32:54[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, good to like reflect to reflect and Well, I do better with my future wounds.
- 33:01[SPEAKER_01]: No, I think I've gotten more stringed on my stars
- 33:04[SPEAKER_01]: I have to, I mean, based on last year, like last year, like 20, 24.
- 33:09[SPEAKER_01]: Kaylee, you get five stars.
- 33:10[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 33:10[SPEAKER_00]: You get five stars.
- 33:11[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, Oprah Winfrey.
- 33:12[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 33:13[SPEAKER_01]: But this year, I was like, really five stars.
- 33:16[SPEAKER_01]: Now, do I still get all more five stars than I should?
- 33:18[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 33:19[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and then sometimes like I don't know what it is about me.
- 33:22[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it just depends on the mood I'm in but like sometimes Like with shoulder spares.
- 33:27[SPEAKER_01]: I was like scrutinizing the most tiny details like that was not five star Yeah, you know a bit you finished four months later.
- 33:33[SPEAKER_01]: You're like that was totally a fun look.
- 33:36[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
- 33:36[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, what was I thinking right?
- 33:38[SPEAKER_01]: You know agreed.
- 33:39[SPEAKER_01]: No, I understand that we will see you guys in the next video.
- 33:43[SPEAKER_01]: Bye