Random Comment Generator Picks My Next Reads! 📚

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]Right. The last time I did this, it worked incredibly well. You guys picked three of the best books I have read in a long time. I had a fabulous week. Now, I don't want to tempt fate, but I'm doing it again. I'm going in with the same energy. You guys better do well. You better. Welcome in to your comments pick my reads for the week. If you've never been here before, hi, welcome.

[00:00:24]Subscribe. I'm Flo Alec Reading, and this week we're using a random comment generator. I filmed my entire physical TBR a few months back, and I got you guys to put in the comments any book you wanted to see me read. So, it should be one book in each comment. So, when I generate, I should get the name of the book. I'm going to do three rounds. I'm going to pick two comments per round, and then I get the final say on which one I want to read. So, those are the rules. Those are the vibes. The last time we did this, we got Catabasis, Blue Sisters, Rabbit Hutch. I loved all three. I loved all three. So, low-key, I feel like you guys know my reading taste. I'm happy to put it in your hands again because you did so well. That being said, if you do badly this time, I'm never doing this again. I'm kidding, mostly. Okay, we have the random comment generator. We have 502 comments to pick from. Okay, I think that's enough rambling, it's enough housekeeping. I think we're just going to go straight in and pick our first set of books. So, two comments, two options to get something good. Please pick well for me, guys.

[00:01:27]Option number one is Oh, Blue Sisters. No way. Uh, well, thank you for your comment, but I read it last time. I'm so sorry. Okay, well, we will try again.

[00:01:42]Option number one is The Favorites.

[00:01:45]I did have an inkling this might come up, The Favorites by Laine Fargo. I do really want to read it. I do really want to read it. That is a very strong first option. Okay, that is like a contemporary romance. You guys have been wanting me to read it for a very long time. Okay, that is option number one.

[00:02:03]That is strong. The Favorites is up against What have we got?

[00:02:09]Oh, The School for Good Mothers. I just read this. I loved it. I loved it. So, you guys are picking well for me. This is good though. Look at me reading books that are on my TBR. Love that. Okay. So, we still have The Favorites versus Small Boat. I also already read. And dare I say, also a good read. You guys really are picking well for me, but sorry, I have also read that one as well. Okay, we will find a second book.

[00:02:34]Otherwise, we'll just read The Favorites, I guess. Option number two.

[00:02:38]This is how you lose the time war. It's on your 2026 TBR. It's also on my 2026 TBR. Oh, no, that's a lie. It was on my 2025 TBR.

[00:02:49]And I didn't read it. Hmm. Now, here's a conundrum because I am more in the mood for The Favorites, I would say, but This Is How You Lose the Time War is tiny. It's one of the tiniest books on my TBR. And I have owned it a lot longer, so I feel I should pick it. That's like a dystopia sci-fi. I think it's told through letters. That's kind of all I know. I think I'm going to pick The Favorites. I think I am. I also feel like it's the one you guys would want me to pick. And this is your video. This is you guys taking control and picking. I feel like those are two really, really strong options, but I think for book number one, I think we're going to go for The Favorites. So, we're going to get into the reading for book number one. Okay, I am halfway through The Favorites. I am on page 236.

[00:03:34]I've been kind of audio booking {forward slash} reading it. The audio book is really good, by the way, cuz it has all of the like voices and music for like the kind of what I think the Daisy Jones audio book is meant to be like, which I haven't I mean, I've read it, but I've not I didn't listen to it, but everyone told me to. And I know these books are compared a lot, so I thought I would try the audiobook of this. It is really good. I'm 50% in.

[00:03:58]We know what this is about, right? I feel like everyone does. It's like two ice skaters, childhood sweethearts, Olympic hopefuls. Stuff happens in the past. We're kind of in like a documentary format looking back on what actually happened. That was quite vague, but I do feel like most people at this point cuz everyone read this, right?

[00:04:16]Like a year ago. Not me, behind the party as always, but finally got around to it. It's taken me this long to remember that it's a Wuthering Heights retelling. You guys did tell me, and then in one ear out the other, completely forgot. And I did think Heath was a slightly random name choice, and I did think that when I first read it. And then we obviously have Caterina, but that just didn't clock to me as being similar enough to Cath. I don't know.

[00:04:42]Like you guys literally told me, and then I just it went into the ether, and I completely forgot. Which it does make me think that I now know what the ending is going to be, which is a shame. So, in some ways I kind of wish I didn't know that. Then again, I mean, the plots aren't that similar.

[00:04:59]Actually, let me preface all of this. I haven't read Wuthering Heights.

[00:05:02]>> [laughter] >> I haven't. I just kind of know the story.

[00:05:05]I've seen the film, but then as far as I can tell, the film is incredibly different to the book. So, yeah, maybe the ending won't be the same, but I feel like it has to be to a degree if it's going to be a Wuthering Heights retelling. Although, is it marketing itself as that? No, it has to be because it's Heath and Caterina. It has to be, surely. Anyway, this is a lot more toxic than I was expecting it to be, but also, if it's a Wuthering Heights retelling, kind of makes sense. It does rely pretty heavily on miscommunication, but then again, so does Wuthering Heights. So, a lot of this is making a lot more sense to me now that I've remembered that arguably quite important piece of information, but it's written really well. The drama is giving. The drama is constant. I definitely do see the Daisy Jones kind of comps. It does feel like Wuthering Heights in a Daisy Jones era type of thing. But, I like books with complicated characters. I do think this is a little bit more romance leaning.

[00:06:03]Not that it's necessarily romantic.

[00:06:05]Like, it's definitely very toxic, but I do think it's probably written for romance readers as opposed to literary fiction readers. And I was expecting it to be more in the literary realm, but it's actually arguably more in the romantic contemporary realm.

[00:06:19]Which again, I probably did know, but just is is not exactly what I was expecting, I guess, is what I'm trying to say. But, loving the drama. The audiobook elements like really really add to it. So, that's been really fun.

[00:06:31]So, yeah, I'm I'm having a good time.

[00:06:33]It's just not completely what I was expecting, I guess. But, also arguably a lot of that is on me anyway. Right.

[00:06:39]Hello. How are you doing? I have updates for you because I have finished The Favorites, but also before we get into that, I've got a little book haul for you. It's one singular book, so I don't know if that counts as a haul, but it's a new book, so I wanted to show you. Uh today I picked up Broken Country cuz I have seen this everywhere. Consider me intrigued. It's not what I thought it was. I thought it was a thriller.

[00:07:03]Apparently, it's a romance.

[00:07:06]Apparently. Allegedly. Although, looking at the back, the people who have blurbed it, maybe it is. I don't know. Let's find out what it's about together. But, everyone's been reading this, and the average rating on Goodreads high. She's above a four. And most of the books that I read that are above a four, actually this one is as well. But, most of the books that have above a four average rating, I tend to enjoy as well. Or at the least can appreciate them being good books. Although that being said, some of my favorite books incredibly low averages. A lot of Emma Cline's books have really low averages, but I think that's just because they're not going to be for everybody. Like, maybe something like The Favorites is more of a crowd-pleaser.

[00:07:43]So, that's why it has a higher average.

[00:07:45]Anyway, I'm going off on a tangent.

[00:07:47]Broken Country is about Beth, and it says she met Gabriel when she was 17. And then he left, and it was Frank who picked up the pieces.

[00:07:56]I don't know who Frank is, it doesn't say. And then Gabriel comes back later, years later, cuz of course he does, they always do. And it says people in the village said nothing good would come of his return. Oh, and as Beth looks at the man she loves on trial for murder, she can't help thinking they were right.

[00:08:12]Okay, so maybe romance and thriller. I don't know, but it's like a man returning after many years, but he's also on trial for murder, which bit of a red flag, babe. Okay, interesting. And then, I have finished our first book for this video. The final third of this book, the drama amps up to like the 10th degree. Is that a saying?

[00:08:34]I don't know. I I mean, the drama is like drama-ing throughout. The final third takes it to a whole 'nother level.

[00:08:40]I am not convinced that these guys, anyone in this book, ever finishes a single ice dance routine ever without somebody collapsing. I feel like that happened continuously, but like also I can't ice dance, either, so like what do I know? You know when you watch the Olympics and it's like something that you couldn't do in a million years. Like you're watching like the most impressive gymnastics routine that's like ever existed, and then you're like, "Yeah, that landing was a little bit off." And it's like, "But you couldn't do it."

[00:09:07]That's how I felt watching these guys. I was like, "Oh my gosh, like finish the routine." But also like, "Babe, I couldn't either. I fall over my own feet walking." It also did not end without spoilers how I thought it was going to end.

[00:09:21]I'll leave it at that, I guess.

[00:09:23]It's quite a loose Wuthering Heights retelling, again with a massive pinch of salt cuz I haven't actually read it.

[00:09:30]It's It's an interpretation, I guess.

[00:09:33]Like I I see it, I definitely see the inspiration, but plot-wise, from what I know at least of the ending of Wuthering Heights, not the same. That's all I'll say. I'll leave it at that. But also with a massive pinch of salt being that I haven't actually read Wuthering Heights, so my interpretation of actual Wuthering Heights is coming from other interpretations.

[00:09:54]So like actually maybe I just don't know the ending of Wuthering Heights, but I think I do. And I think it's not this.

[00:10:00]But also maybe it is, who knows.

[00:10:02]I don't think it is. Overall, this was fun. I wasn't rooting for the couple. I didn't really want them to be together, but I liked them individually. That doesn't bother me, but just know that going in if you're like a romance reader, it might not be a book where you're like, "Oh my god, I want them to be together." But I'm not a romance reader, so I kind of don't mind that. I like complicated relationships. I like relationships that are messy and toxic and all of that stuff. I find that interesting. But I do also think that this I said this before, I think. This to me is marketed to the romance crowd and it's kind of written for romance readers more than literary fiction readers. And I do think romance readers would enjoy it.

[00:10:42]But massively contradicting myself, I also wasn't rooting for the couple. I feel like nothing I just said made sense, so take of that what you will, but it was fun. The drama was fun. Cat also kind of reminded me of Carrie Soto, who I love. A woman in sport who's like stands up for herself, like not necessarily completely likable, but I liked them. Yeah, they kind of And I see the Daisy Jones comps as well. So I definitely see why this keeps getting comped to Taylor Jenkins Reid books. I see it. I think it's got strokes of Daisy Jones, strokes of Carrie Soto. I liked it. I had fun. I think it's definitely less literary than I was expecting, but I think it's a really good one to get you into literary fiction, if that makes sense. People are always asking me for recs for getting into literary fiction. This would be a great one. The Wedding People, I think is also in that kind of realm. So, yeah, consider this one of them. And with that, I've been talking for an actual age, so we're going to move on. We're going to do book number two. I've actually already read it, but I'm doing this whole video out of order. I do all of my videos out of order. But, you don't know what it is, so go find out.

[00:11:49]Okay, welcome back in. We are picking book number two. We just read The Favorites, which is like a contemporary romance, I think. I mean, you would have just seen me read it. But, I'm hoping for something a little bit different, but is out of my control. We are picking two books again, and this is option number one.

[00:12:05]We have No way, The Favorites.

[00:12:09]Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, cool. Cool, cool, cool. We're going to pick again, but thank you. See, I told you you guys really wanted me to read The Favorites.

[00:12:15]Okay, let's pick Let's pick again. We have My Brilliant Friend.

[00:12:22]See, I was about to say I'm a bit scared of this book, but you have literally said surprisingly an easy read as I thought it might be a big brain book.

[00:12:29]That is kind of what I thought it would be. My Brilliant Friend, okay.

[00:12:34]That to me scary. Scary book. I mean, I know I bought it and it's on my TBR, but scary. That is option number one. That's like a very, what I thought anyway, a very intense literary fiction. It's like the New York Times best book of the century as picked by critics. That to me is scary. I don't know. I know it's about like female friendship, but I think they're quite young. So, I don't know. It's also in a series, which I don't know how I feel about that. Okay, that's option number one. I feel like I would like a really strong option number two, but we'll see.

[00:13:04]We have Olga Tokarczuk, also already read. Look at me having read all the books on my TBR. I love that for me. Okay, let's pick again. My Brilliant Friend versus Blue Ticket. Oh. Oh.

[00:13:19]That took me a minute to remember what that even was. Blue Ticket. Okay, Blue Ticket is a dystopia about I think it's like women separated into women who can have kids and who can't have kids and it's like a fate awarded to them or something. Interesting. Hmm. I'm not like immediately drawn to either one of those books, but I think I might go for Blue Ticket cuz I feel like it's going to be very very different to The Favorites. I mean, both of them realistically are going to be very different, but The Favorites is a big book. My Brilliant Friend is a big book. Blue Ticket is shorter. So, for that very shallow logic, I'm going to go for Blue Ticket as book number two.

[00:14:00]Thank you.

[00:14:01]>> [laughter] >> We're going to get into the reading. I wanted to do my first update for Blue Ticket cuz I'm a fair way in now. I'm on page 126.

[00:14:10]So, maybe I would say 40% in.

[00:14:13]I didn't really know what to expect with this one because I've never heard anyone talk about this. I've kind of since seen that a lot of people really like this author, but she wasn't actually on my radar after all. I found this in I can't remember, but I found it in bookstore and the premise just got me.

[00:14:31]So, I thought I'll get it. Why not? This book is following a dystopian world where girls get given either a blue ticket or a white ticket in a lottery.

[00:14:43]So, a white ticket grants you children and a blue ticket grants you freedom.

[00:14:47]That's how they worded it. And effectively, our main girl, this is all on the back. This isn't spoilers. Our main girl gets given a blue ticket, which basically means she's given freedom, but it also means that she can never have children. Pretty quick into this book, she is like really pushing back against that and she basically makes a series of decisions that forces her on the run. And that's kind of where we've got to at the moment. The first, I don't know, maybe 50 pages of this book was so fast-paced and now we have slowed down a lot, because we're kind of almost doing this like road trip, which I will say I really don't like reading about road trips in books. I mean, this isn't a road trip. Like she's literally on the run. But I mean, in terms of like getting in the car and stopping at a motel and back on the road the next day, etc. We're very much in the thick of that at the moment. I love the writing.

[00:15:44]I love the writing. I already want to read more from this author. I also I've said this before, I really enjoy the style of writing where everything is quite broken up. The moments feel quite detached. We're jumping through moments very quickly. I really like that writing style. I know it's not for everyone, but this quite like paired back, not fixating on tiny details. I really really love that. I will say I want more of the actual society, because I thought we were going to focus a lot more on the wider society. And we're kind of not.

[00:16:17]The bits of dystopia that we've got have been very under explained. So, we get the very basic concept of this lottery that I just told you. But that's kind of all we know. We don't know why. We don't know how it came to place. We don't know if there's like anyone pushing back against it. We don't really have anything of the wider society other than people kind of hate anyone who doesn't follow it. That's all we've got. And now she's kind of on the outskirts of society anyway. So, I kind of hope in the second half we get into some more of that, because it's fixating on her a lot more than the actual society, which I like. I really like her. I think she's a very interesting character. But I just also want a little bit more of the society, because I'm interested. But I love the writing. I'm absolutely flying through this book. Yeah, I guess I'm just intrigued to see where it's going to go, because as I said, very quick start. It's slowed down a little bit now. I mean, I say that with a pinch of salt. Like the way this book is written, it jumps through moments quite quick.

[00:17:19]So, it's not a slow-paced book by any means, but we are sort of slowing down for I don't want to call it a road trip.

[00:17:24]I'm just like explaining it like that so that you know what I mean. But, she's on the run, effectively. But, because it's just her in a car, like at hotels, that's the kind of style of road trip that I'm like I don't love reading about in books. So, I'm kind of hoping we don't fixate on that for too long. But, that's a personal thing. I'm sure other people don't mind that. That's just like a weird thing that I never really enjoy in books. Anyway, I guess the point being, 40% in, very, very intrigued so far. I hope we get more of the society as a whole, but I'm flying through it. I'm intrigued. I want to know where it's going to go. Okay, I finished Blue Ticket. I actually finished it a few days ago, but fully forgot to tell you about it. So, I thought we would chat about it now. This is actually of the video, the first book that I picked up because I was very intrigued and I didn't know what to expect. I think, in general, a lot of my thoughts from the earlier check-in stand. My favorite part of this would definitely be the beginning and the ending. I feel like the beginning and the ending moved so quickly, and we really got some more of those hints about the society as a whole. And then, the sort of like big middle chunk was very isolated and a lot more, I guess, introspective, which I do love in a book. But, I was really craving that bigger commentary on the society as a whole, which I think we got more towards the start and the end. The ending definitely got me. As in, not necessarily plot twist, although low-key kind of, and I didn't see it coming.

[00:18:56]But, just like the emotions. I do feel like all of the slower parts in the middle definitely had that emotional payoff at the end. I would be very intrigued to read some more from Sophie Mackintosh. I feel like The Water Cure, I've heard really good things about. I feel like you guys have told me to read that one. I don't know a single thing about it. I don't know if it's dystopia.

[00:19:16]I don't know if that's her general genre or if this is just her only dystopian book. The Water Cure seems to be like the logical next place to go. I don't even know if she has other books.

[00:19:26]Oh, well, maybe okay, this is her second book. So, maybe that is actually the only other option. So, I guess kind of ignore me, but I do want to read that because I really like the writing style.

[00:19:35]I liked how we had this very like broken up text. I've said this a million times.

[00:19:40]I love that pared-back writing style where it's not overly explained. Things are just moments and then we kind of move on from them. I really liked that.

[00:19:48]There were no speech marks, which I didn't even notice until about halfway through the book. And I am a big fan of the no speech marks thing. I know it's not for everybody. I really like it cuz I think it really makes the internal and external flow. And I really like when we get these moments of I'm not 100% sure if this is dialogue or not. I've never gotten so far into a book without speech marks and not noticed. It's happened to me before I've not noticed straight away. I've never got halfway through the book, like over 100 pages in and been like, "Huh, there's no speech marks in this."

[00:20:22]And I do think that's a credit to the writing because this writing flows so effortlessly. So, yeah, love the beginning, love the ending. I kind of said before I'm not the hugest fan of books where we're following somebody traveling across a place, like whether that's a road trip or they're walking. I don't know what it is.

[00:20:41]I I just don't enjoy that in literature.

[00:20:43]I could not tell you why, but the start of this and the end of this, I just thought that emotional payoff was absolutely there. And to be fair, I don't think it would have had the emotional payoff if we hadn't have had that slower middle section. So, I guess just take that as like a personal opinion because plenty of people don't have that really like insane issue. So, yeah, I guess take it at what you will, but I'm intrigued for sure to read more from Sophie Mackintosh. So, that is book Well, it's my first book, but I think it's book number two for this video. So, I'm going to pass you back. You can find out what we're reading next, and that'll be our book number three. Okay, welcome back in. Hopefully, I've enjoyed the last two books. Hopefully, it went as well as last times did. I feel like that is a big bar to live up to, so I guess here's hoping. But, we've had a romance contemporary, and we've had, I think, a dystopia.

[00:21:35]I'm assuming. We're picking our third book. I feel like you guys have done well so far, so don't let me down now.

[00:21:41]Okay? Yeah, okay. I really thought Scythe was going to come up, by the way.

[00:21:45]I mean, it definitely still could, but I'm pretty sure 90% No, 90 is ridiculous. Maybe 30% of the comments on that video were for Scythe. And I feel like if it comes up, I have to pick it.

[00:21:57]But, anyway, I've really put that into the air now. Okay, our final two book options for the video are I for an Eye.

[00:22:08]That would be such a good genre contrast, cuz that's a thriller. It's also a thriller that Oh.

[00:22:15]>> [laughter] >> I've just read the comment. The comment says, "M.J. Arlidge is an amazing writer, but so far I think that's his worst book."

[00:22:23]Well, it's the only one I own of his.

[00:22:26]Oh, well.

[00:22:29]I mean, it's not a glowing review for the book that you've picked for me.

[00:22:33]>> [laughter] >> But, that also does make me intrigued.

[00:22:35]Also, I think the concept sounds so interesting. Okay, well, either way, I still think that's a strong option, and we'll see what book number two is.

[00:22:44]Hopefully, it's something good. We have Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell.

[00:22:52]Hang on. Okay, this is tricky, because I get to read a thriller either way, so I'm very happy about that. The question is is do I read Lisa Jewell, who I know and love, or do I take a risk on I for an I, and even the person who recommended it to me doesn't even like it that much?

[00:23:09]But now I'm intrigued. Now I'm kind of intrigued.

[00:23:13]I think I might do it. I'm going to go for I for an I because I'm intrigued.

[00:23:17]Consider me intrigued. Okay, that's book number three. That, either way, is a good genre contrast. I'm happy to have a thriller to end the week. So, that is book number three. We're going to get into the reading. Fingers crossed it's good. Okay, I have started our third and final book for this video, I for an I by I say this guy's name wrong so regularly and I do apologize, M.J. Arlidge.

[00:23:39]Arlidge, I'm still doing it. M.J.

[00:23:41]Arlidge. I've literally met this man and I'm still getting his name wrong. Sorry, not that he's watching. M.J. Arlidge. Um I am dyslexic and I am going to play that card. That's why I keep getting my letters in the wrong order, but I keep saying Arlidge. It's literally Arlidge.

[00:23:54]Anyway, I for an I. The concept of this book, which has intrigued me for so long, by the way, it says there are only nine criminals in the whole of the UK who are granted lifelong anonymity. So, basically, they have been let out of prison or potentially, kind of depending on each case. Basically, they're free and they've been given new identities to live under because their crimes were so heinous that they need new identities, otherwise there's a really high likelihood that they would be tracked down. So, we're basically following loads of different POVs, which I will say for the first I'm a third and did I say that? I'm actually listening to the audiobook. I don't think I said that, either.

[00:24:39]All of that is important information.

[00:24:40]Starting into the audiobook, the first I don't know, 15% of this, I had nothing. I did not have a clue what was going on because there are so many POVs.

[00:24:55]It's quite a long book, but the chapters are really short. I just wasn't following it to the point where I kind of wanted to DNF it. So glad I didn't.

[00:25:04]I'm so glad I pushed through because now I'm really really intrigued, but I did have a bit of a wobble there where I was like, I really really really don't know what's going on. But I am glad that I pushed through it because as I say, I'm a third in. We're really starting to like dig into all of the characters.

[00:25:19]We're following some of the criminals, we're following some of the police, like we're following lots of different perspectives. There's empathy for everyone, which I love. And every single character without fail is written in the messy middle, which we know I love. No one is a villain, no one is perfect, everyone is somewhere in between, which is always my favorite thing in books.

[00:25:39]And I've said this before specifically with thrillers, I kind of don't care about your book unless the characters are there. Like you can have a great plot twist or like a fast-paced plot, but if the characters aren't complicated, cuz I'm literary fiction reader, I sort of just don't care, which I know is Well, is that bad? I don't know. It's just personal taste, I guess.

[00:26:02]It's why I always love Lisa Gardner thrillers so much because they are so character-driven and they feel messy and complicated. And I'm definitely getting that in this. As I said, took me a minute to figure out who everyone was, quite a long minute, but I think I've got that now, I think. So if you're having a similar issue, push through.

[00:26:18]It'll be okay. If I can follow it, you can follow it. I'm having fun with it so far. So I'll give you some more updates when I'm a little bit further through.

[00:26:24]But so far, now that I figured out what's going on, so good. Right, I just got back from the gym, so I do look a bit rough, but we're all going to look past it. I have made so much progress into An Eye for an Eye, but I wanted to update you quickly because I feel like I'm probably going to finish it today.

[00:26:40]Take that with a pinch of salt because I do have two auditions to film today and I'm working later.

[00:26:46]But I'm 70% in. I mean, it's a long audiobook. It is long, but I'm really loving this now. Like, really really loving it. I think the last time I spoke to you was about a third in and I was kind of saying like the POVs were a bit confusing. They arguably actually kept getting more confusing because everyone kind of has two names because you have like the name of the person, like the actual person's name, but then you also have their alias.

[00:27:13]So, and like they're kind of referred to as both by different characters. So, if you're not paying attention, like for example, being in the gym if I like tune out for a couple of minutes, not a couple of minutes, but like if I tune out like even for a few seconds and then suddenly I'm like, wait, who is that? So, that is that character? I always have a few moments of that, but all of that aside, I'm loving this. I'm This is so good. The concept is fascinating. The way all of the story lines are intercut, perfect. The pace, it's so pacey. It's got tiny little chapters. All of the chapters are like three, four pages, which, you know, I do always love a short chapter. The audiobook narrator, so good. And it just feels like it's handled really well.

[00:27:58]There's empathy for everyone, whether it's like the family of the victim, whether it's the person who actually committed the crime. Everyone feels complicated, but everyone is approached with empathy. And then just the way we're intercutting between all of the different story lines just gives it such good pace. I'm having the time of my life with this. It's so good. It's obviously very sad and dark in parts, but it feels like it's so well constructed. And once I kind of got past the whole everyone has two names, what is going on? Like I I think I said I nearly didn't have this at the start because I was so lost. So happy I didn't because this is so good. Right, it's the same day. I've actually just finished filming the audition tapes I was telling you about. Um if I look like I've been crying, well, I was going to say I haven't. I have, but for the audition.

[00:28:46]So, I You probably I don't know if you can tell, but if I do look sad, I'm not It's fine. But, that's why I finished Eye for an Eye.

[00:28:56]That's what I'm getting at. Guys, I had the time of my life with this. This was so good. It was so well done. All of the storylines, I feel like were concluded satisfyingly.

[00:29:07]Don't get me wrong, some of them were pretty sad and brutal, but they all, considering there was so much going on in this book because there were literally so many threads of story, I feel like all of it felt like it wrapped up satisfyingly. None of it felt rushed, which I guess comes with having a longer book, but I think when you have that many storylines, characters, etc., it can be quite hard to not just rush through all of it, and I feel like we really didn't. I would definitely check your trigger warnings if you want to read this. It's also a very gory book at points, so just know that going in. It raises some really interesting moral questions, moral dilemmas, and I just think the writing was great, the pace was great.

[00:29:50]I had such a good time with this book. I really, really, really, really enjoyed this. So, yeah, if you want a thriller but with like complex characters and complicated moral dilemmas, give it a go. Eye for an Eye, M.J.

[00:30:07]Arlidge. Said it correctly. I don't know why I have such a tough time saying his name. M.J. Arlidge, Eye for an Eye.

[00:30:14]Um I would definitely read more from him. And I know the person who recommended this said that she didn't This was not her favorite, and he has so many other books. So, maybe give me your recommendation for where I should go next cuz I would definitely read. He's actually The reason I met him, I think I said earlier, is cuz he's written a book with one of my mom's friends, who is a writer.

[00:30:34]Um so, I I must have that book. I'm pretty sure I have that book. So, I will probably read that next, actually. But, anyway, if you have any other recommendations, please do let me know.

[00:30:43]Anyway, that, I believe, I'm reading the books out of order. I believe that brings us to the end of this video. And let me know if you want to see this concept again. I feel like you guys have been picking very well for me, and we've had a nice range this week. So, I would totally be down to do this again. So, let me know. Equally, if you want to go back to my physical TBR video, if you want to add any comments, so that the next time I do this, they're all there.

[00:31:06]Like, your comment might get picked. If you want to do that, feel free, cuz I go back same physical TBR video. I'll try and remember to link it in the description, but I'm also not very good at remembering things like that. And I always say it, and then never do it.

[00:31:16]But, I will try and remember. I will try and remember. If not, it's probably from like 6 months ago. I don't know. Have a scroll.

[00:31:23]I don't know. Anyway, thank you so much for being here. I love you, and I will catch you in the next one. Goodbye.