Ranking my 2024 Horror books!

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Hello!

Welcome to a cozy,
book discussion afternoon;

well, discussion I say discussion

but it will basically be me
ranting about the books

that I read last year,

so I read 80 books last year
(celebration buzzer)

and I put them all in a thing--

Is this first time I'm doing
like a ranking thing,

I think I did it right?

so we're going to go through these,

they're not in any order;

I just saved all the templates
from Goodreads.

How--

Why would anyone make red S tier

here is it me am I the weird one but for

me that doesn't make any sense green to

F I don't know if I'll put any uh yeah

I'll put a couple books in

F I'm very excited also I'm reading such

a [ __ ] boring book right now I don't

know why Paul tramble is so popular this

is my second Paul trembl book and I

hated them both so this is separate from

2024 but I think the reason I don't like

him is because he's playing it too close

to reality I just want Balls to the

walls ghosts horror Gore as far as from

reality is possible I just want the

weird stuff also this is going to be

very interesting cuz I've read so many

books that some of them I'm like what

happen again I don't really remember the

ending I am very particular and very

neurod

Divergent I'm very weird in how I like

my things so I wouldn't say this is

going to be a good Insight do I Read

Manga not much I did read a jiito book

like an Omnibus this year and it was in

my good reads but I figured for the

ranking CU it's manga it's kind of like

almost two different from the other

books so I took it out I also had like

two three self help books in there that

were kind of just garbage now that I

have more time to process it well

there's a couple fancy books but I've

never done a ranking thing before and

I'm I'm mentally preparing myself that

people are not going to agree with me of

course but I also don't in any way mean

to be like if I say like I didn't like

this book I'm not saying this book is

bad I'm just saying that I it didn't gel

with what I like everyone's like so you

know you have a preferred writing style

you have a preferred way things develop

in books if a horror book ends with it

was all in your head kill it I hate it I

just will immediately dislike the book I

need like the people that are experience

experiencing these things to like be

validated in the end but yeah I've had

some good experiences I've definitely

had it's been really nice recommending

some books or saying like these books

are really good and then seeing like

months later a comment on YouTube or

someone in chat who's like I read this

book by the way and I did really like it

I'm like Oh yay that's great it's nice

to think that you can be like I really

like this and then someone coming back

with like me too the G book CL yeah it's

finally

happening okay okay so these are all the

books I have read for

2024 um I tracked them in good reads I

have a public profile if you want to

keep up to date with what I'm reading

when don't have to I don't accept friend

requests just saying that but you can

follow the account I think if you're

interested but fair warning I basically

only read

horror with the occasional dip into

fantasy or science fiction will it be

spoiler-free yes yes of course ideally I

would like you guys to pick up some of

these and read them for yourselves uh

these are not in any particular order

they're not in chronological order I

think for the most part they're

alphabetically just because that's how

my folder organize them um so I guess if

it's not in any particular order maybe I

should just start um with the first one

in the row which is not I read this one

fairly recently I think a Botanical

daughter now where would I put this I

think it's a b one I think it's a B for

me B for Botanical so it's like two guys

who live live in a a greenhouse together

like they have an estate one of the two

is filthy rich basically and the main

they had a mainous and a big Greenhouse

Victorian I would say gay couple in a

huge

Conservatory um kind of like hiding away

from the world cuz obviously Victorian

England the gay couples weren were

frowned upon to say to put it very

mightly they want a daughter so they

make one out of plants and a dead body

that's the gist of it that's the setup

and then of course stuff goes goes uh

yeah well I'm not going to say anything

other than that so the premise

definitely drew me in and I I really

loved the the couple and I loved the

daughter as well and I really grew

attached to her but the ending the fact

that the reason it's in be is because

the ending I kind of was just like oh

that is not where I thought it was going

to go yeah gay necromancy pretty much

yeah overall I really enjoyed it do not

listen to the audio book holy [ __ ] it's

bad it's a guy just narrating but then

when he does the gay couple's voices he

puts on an eror like this and it totally

pulled me out of the book every time he

spoke is really really

bad um okay then next up for Christmas I

read Christmas

Carol EST such a good book I'd never

read it before I am my favorite

Christmas movie is Muppets Christmas

Carol I watch it every year so I knew

the Christmas carol story through the

Muppets and I was like you know what I

should read it I've been reading a lot

this year I should read the original and

I was a bit apprehensive cuz of course

the story is like what 170 years old now

or something but despite knowing the

movie so well the book still added a

touch of like

um what's the word

sentimentalism I think I can say to it

um um it made Scrooge a lot

more he was more of a softy on the

inside and more he showed his emotions

more in the book which kind of like

almost made me cry at one point it

really stands the test of time and it's

still really really good I

think okay lonely broadcast oh that's

I'm so excited for part two this is a

really good one if you like the Reddit

no sleep stuff you will love this book

um it started out as a story and then

the author built it into a b a book has

to be a it was I really enjoyed it I

can't wait for part two it's that

perfect like isolation this woman gets

hired to run the radio station at the

edge of the forest and it's very

important that the radio station

broadcasts at all times because it's the

frequency is holding a monster at Bay

basically stuff happens and they have to

like rush back to the tower make sure

the broadcast stays on that kind of

stuff and super exciting she tries to

find someone in the woods cuz she cares

for them and she's like wait I have

their phone number and then calls and

just stands there in the forest and then

hears the phone ringing that kind of

stuff [ __ ] love it that was so

good oh another Christmas one oh yeah

cuz of C I guess Christmas ghost

story not F obviously not F but I'm

going to say C or

D just because throughout it was really

fun and witty and I liked how it was

building up to something but it

completely [ __ ] up the landing for me

it really felt more like a jokey if you

if you go into this one next year maybe

for Christmas knowing it's like a jokey

Christmas horror story then you might

like it more than I did and it's a very

short read so like it's it's just a fun

one oh my

Bono definitely deter holy

[ __ ] this is the one where I was like I

have stories to tell oh my

God so the author herself recommended

this book to

me left a YouTube comment saying like I

think you like this book I didn't know

it was the author I think at the time I

think you like this book cuz it's like

Yokai takes place in Japan um and then I

read the synopsis and I was like it's

like basically a bunch of YouTubers

travel to Japan to like Vlog the haunted

forest or a haunted Shrine or something

and then obvious stuff goes wrong and I

was like oh I kind of like that setting

I love I love when people go to like a

haunted house or a location trying to

film things that I I really love that

setup that's why I like Grave Encounters

so much um so I was like okay the

premise like is really fun I'll give it

a shot like it was a really short book

uh maybe 100 200 pages I don't remember

but I remember it was a short read I was

like I can just take a break and from my

usual books and I'll take it I'll take

the

recommendation so I don't want to be too

presumptuous but I think the characters

in the book are based on me Sean Felix

and Mark I started reading it and once I

realized I was like this is so weird to

read it was like one of the characters

lived in Japan had lived in Japan one of

the characters lived in Japan had a baby

all these things fell into place and I

was like wait you're not actually wait

and then I was like wait am I reading

horror fanfic right

now and the reason I'm not putting it in

F tier is because aside from that I

actually enjoyed it I feel like the the

author has talent I think she can be a

very good author it's just that I don't

think she should have

base the characters on

us especially cuz there was a Kaa in it

and you know what Kaa do with anuses

they suck your soul through your anus so

that happened uh to one of the

characters and I was like oh God this I

don't I don't know how to feel about

this

book if she just hadn't based it on us I

would have really liked it I think Emma

if you're watching this it was very

awkward but at the same time you do have

talent so please just write something

something that doesn't use YouTubers and

I think you're on to something okay

black tide this one um Sean gifted to me

and I really really liked

it but did I like it as much as lonely

broadcast no I think I'm going to end up

with a lot of beat here black tide is

like uh it didn't go in the direction I

expected something crashes from the sky

it's this main girl who is just like

house sitting at the beach at a beach

house basically Alien Invasion end of

the world but right at the start of it

and how are they gonna and I really

enjoyed it I was it was really tense at

one point but at the same time a lot of

it I was just like I guess some books

you kind of can't help but feel like I

would do it this way you know so there

were a couple things where I was just

like not really jelling with it but

overall it was really tense and really

good so if you like Alien Invasion stuff

then this book is definitely a good

recommendation

kudagra um C here Sophia Sophia Azam

very short read if you like back rooms I

would recommend this it's like a guy on

the subway who gets off what at what he

thinks is his station he ends up in like

a back rooms subway station that just

has no end I thought it was very good

but the reason I'm putting it in C tier

is cuz it was kind of depressing really

and I'm I'm not a huge on like it was

just it made me feel really sad

um Sean wouldn't like me putting it in C

tier because of that because he likes we

always get into this like little

argument about I'm like I didn't like it

I feel too sad like this will I'll carry

this with me for like a while before I

start feeling better but sha is like no

if stuff makes you feel things that's

good like he likes when books and movies

and everything tug at his emotions but

I'm a bit more like it really [ __ ] me

up so I kind of like it upsets me for

like a good week the character has like

Suicidal Thoughts so fair warning for

that um but yeah just so i' loved the

back room setting but it was very

sad uh ooh Craven Manor I read this one

recently definitely eight TI cuz it's

Darcy coats Darcy coats is my favorite

author at the moment absolute favorite

she's so good I love everything she

writes um it's just very good this is

more of a Dark Fantasy rather than

horror I would say I don't want to give

too much away but it's like uh okay the

premise is um this guy gets a

handwritten letter under his door that

is like do you want to tend to The

Gardens of this manner we'll pay you

handsomely weekly and then they don't

give an address they say turn left at

the Oak Tree basically he wouldn't

accept it except for that he's about to

kick get kicked out of his apartment

he's kind of like living living paycheck

to paycheck already like taking cleaning

jobs wherever he can but no contract so

he starts like clearing the the gens

around the

manor um but he's not really allowed in

the house there's like certain weird

rules like between midnight and Morning

Sun you have to stay in your in your

little shed close the curtains do not

answer anyone who knocks at the door

that's the setup and I was just like oh

I [ __ ] love Darcy coats I love that

kind of stuff

then what is this one called again

God something of the Moon

spider I'm gonna put it in C as well

Crypt of the Moon spider yeah this one

is wild I did really like the setup it's

like Victorian England but it's on the

moon so it's like Victor Victorian like

steampunky sci-fi Victorian but sci-fi

and the main character this woman

suffers from Melancholy so she's just a

little depressed and obviously back in

those days it's like oh God what do we

do with her send her to a sanatorium and

hope for the best isolate her for a good

well that'll make her feel better um but

it's on the

moon and

um yeah I think that's all you need to

know and

spiders I loved the balls to the balls

ending and I saw on good read that it

was a part one so I'm excited for part

two but both of these books are very

short reads they're like novellas

basically so so that's why I think I put

them a little lower cuz you don't really

have much time to get attached to the

story and the characters if that makes

sense I kind of just read it in the day

and then it's like that was cool and

then you kind of move on yeah but I do I

do really I loved the weird setting and

it took me a while to be like wait we're

going to the Moon cuz in my head they

were like sitting in a carriage all like

Victorian F Victorian England

like um so I liked the little Whiplash

to sci-fi very very very unique setting

and very powerful ending which I

liked oh diava oh my gosh so

good will I make it

Ester yes I still think about her a lot

I think about the main character a lot

it's a family traveling to Italy and the

Airbnb is haunted i h honestly felt more

[ __ ] up about the family Dynamics than

the actual haunting the family Dynamics

are written so well and you just kind of

like want to punch them all in the face

the family is just so annoying it's so

realistic and it really like got under

my skin to be like God I [ __ ] hate

this family and I felt so bad for the

main lady the ghost was really

interesting as well very unique so if

you have any

like irritation with your own family

give it a read I think I think you will

like it I think it'll really resonate

with you but I think about very specif

specific things that happened in this

book still and I've read so many books

the fact that I can I was so into it and

I can recall so many things that

happened and how it went um this really

stuck with me so I think that's our

first proper sere aside from a classic

Jennifer Thorne who wrote diaa perfect

it's very good now this one from below

is the only Darcy coats book I did not

really gel with so I'll put on C

tier it wasn't bad but I just didn't gel

with the setting like the diving uh it's

basically a shipwreck at the bottom of

the ocean that's haunted and she does it

really well she does like really well

the most exciting bits are when they go

down and they really have to like manage

each other's oxygen levels and keep an

eye on each other but they're all kind

of like there's only one really in

really experienced diver on the team so

it's kind of like they kind of Rush the

whole team together and it's not really

good um but they have to go down there

and they have to get recordings done for

a documentary I would say half of the

book would be in a tier and half of the

book would be in C tier it goes between

the divers and what happened on the ship

before it sank and the the bit all the

memories of before the ship was sinking

were so good and I was so into it but

the diving I just couldn't imagine it I

think that was my problem like I I've

never I have zero diving experience I

just don't really know what it would be

like and when stuff really started

happening and like was going on in the

ship I just had such a hard time getting

into it cuz I couldn't really picture

what they were doing so this is like the

weakest rating Darcy will ever get for

me a c

tier D tier for sure Dark

Matter maybe an F for me

I only read it because Sean wanted me to

read it and the TV show was coming out

black matter by Blake Crouch I felt like

the character Dynamics were so shallow

it really felt like this

guy didn't know how to read or Blake is

Blake a woman or a man I'm not sure but

it felt like they couldn't write the ma

male character he gets thrown into a

parallel Dimension and he needs to find

his way back to his one he wants to find

his way back to his wife and child his

personal parallel Dimension where

everything fits basically he wants to go

back home and the whole book is about

him trying to find his way back but what

irked me about this book is that

whenever it was the wife's perspective

every now and then she seemed to

understand him and she was like oh like

the way he puts this toothbrush in his

cup or the way he likes his coffee she

had all these little details that she

knew about him but then when it came to

his perspective and what he liked about

his wife it was always only like her

beautiful hair her beautiful eyes I was

like is is it is this a trophy wife or

what like do you not like the way she

smiles the way she talks to you the way

she respects you I did that just didn't

I couldn't gel with that and then it did

get pretty cool towards the end I liked

the ending uh a bit more but I think you

could argue that it's character

development for him that sees his wife

in a shallow somewhat shallow way in the

beginning and then the longer he's away

from her the more he starts like

realizing the depths of their

relationship maybe it's not that it's

written badly but I just didn't like it

you know Gallows Hill Esther baby I

think this was maybe my first Darcy

coats that I read perfect book I have no

notes every little thing that comes up

in the book throughout the book comes

back for the ending every little like

crumb of information leads up to like a

big conclusion absolutely perfect

haunted Vineyard awesome uh Ghost Camera

is a bit more

tricky I'd say b or c cuz it's like

short stories and I just personally

don't really like short stories that

much cuz again you don't really have

much time to get into the story I feel

there's not really that much depth to

the characters because it's just short

one story literally gave me goosebumps

though so it's definitely good but they

weren't all good so that's why I'm

giving it C teer I don't remember how

she gets the camera but it's like the

setup of like every time she takes a

picture oh the beep every time she takes

a picture she sees ghosts and every

picture she takes they become more aware

of her and like aggressive so the more

pictures you take the more [ __ ] you

are hi baby you come and heat me up cuz

I'm

cold hey so yeah that one was really

good there's some really good there's

good there's less good stories in it so

that's why I'm putting it on C just

because I'm not huge on short

stories ooh ghost virus

ah what do I think about this book c d h

I do want to read the other books so

this is series there's like four or five

books in the series and it's like two

cops um in

London and they they're basically xfiles

like they get put on the cases that

people can't

explain um ghost fires by gray masterton

yeah I do really like masterton actually

overall yeah no I think I put it in C

then oh yeah there are some scenes in

ghostes that I was like as I was reading

it like really like oh nasty people are

dying in awful ways in that book and it

also does not go easy on the death

counter lots of people die and it was

like really quick succession and I think

I'm putting it in C tier and not B

because I did feel like the cops were

kind of just like fumbling about and it

was

like it's almost like you know a serial

killer where people are the cops are

kind of just hoping that someone else

dies because they need more evidence in

the gore and death of it a bit too long

before actually putting together what's

going on and how they resolved it in the

end I was like oh but I am I am excited

to read the other

books I found a lost hallway in a dying

mall that's a long title I did really

like it I would say

be I love I just love the setting of it

it was like an employee the mall is

dying all the shops are shutting down by

one by one there's a bigger Mall being

built nearby that people are going to

you know so the mall is dying the shops

are like on their last legs half of them

are already shut down um so it's very

quiet in the mall it's it I think it's

creepy pasta origin yeah it definitely

feels like that it feels back roomsy

which I

like um and it's just like an employee

her

here's someone shouting down a hallway

where all the all the stores in that

Wing are already closed there's no one's

supposed to be there but they they kind

of get tricked into thinking it's like

some someone they know from before who

used to work in the mall but then had to

quit because of dementia I think so

they're worried that that person is like

out there and needs

help um and that lurs them deeper into

that wing and then they have to find

their way out basically the spooky

setting the mannequins are very spooky

really really good it's a short very

short book um the pay off again is like

I don't know if I agree with that but

sure I think you could I feel like you

could have I'm better but for what it is

super fun oh he wants to leave

again he just wants to check what I'm

doing and he's like oh that's it okay

well bye then I'm not interested in the

Miso soup h f I did not like this one

it's it's a weird one I got it gifted

from a by a friend because it takes

place in Tokyo in Japan um and it's like

about it takes place in the darker like

sex the underworld sex industry of Tokyo

I can't say why I don't like it because

it would be spoilers but it's basically

just a thriller it's not like I don't

see it it's nothing Supernatural about

this it's just a

thriller um and I think the main

character makes really dumb choices um

really thinks about

himself and I don't really understand

his

motivations so putting it an

F Kill

Creek oh I did like this one a I think

this is an a because it's a haunted

house nothing new about that I love

Haunted House books uh Kill Creek by

Scott Thomas thank you this rich person

brings four horror authors together to

stay the night in a haunted house to

promote whatever they want and I was

like okay they're going to like they're

going to be in the house [ __ ] starts

happening they're all going to die

that's basically what I thought was

happening going to happen but they spend

the night and go home like in the first

third of the book and I was like what

the [ __ ] is happening how is is it not

about the house and after that the Real

Horror starts so it it's very very

good lock every door by Riley Sager I'm

trying to think which one this is this

is not home before dark which is another

Riley Sager I read okay this is um a

girl who gets hired to house it an

apartment um very rich like millionaires

apartment basically

um that is neighboring Central Park I

like this one and I like the twists but

it didn't really go into the direction I

was

hoping yeah should I maybe put it in a c

then yeah I think it SE is better but

there's other Riley sagers that I like

more I don't know if I read them this

year we we'll find out later but um as

Riley Sager goes the other ones I've

read I liked more uh my favorite Sager

is the house across the lake loved it um

that's my favorite one it's very um

Disturbia you know the movie where a guy

is like spying on his neighbors and then

thinks he sees a

murder very good I like it my throat an

open grave O A has to be a maybe even

s this one yeah maybe even s cuz I

really carried this book with me for a

long time after finishing it

I gave it five stars it was good but in

hindsight you know hindsight's 2020 I've

I have read so many books and I'm

ranking them against each other as well

so the book these are good but just

compared to some other stuff I read you

know Tori balino yes it is

Tori uh Tori balino this book is more

like a dark fantasy I would say it was a

pretty short read I think but there is a

sub theme in the this book about I can't

say too much because I would spoil the

twist but there's a there's a very

realistic undercurrent in this book

which is a genuine problem for women in

this world I can't say too

much um that once it was really revealed

to me at the ending at the end of the

book How deep this problem went

throughout the book um I spent like a

good week after I finished this book

just being like I kept bringing it up to

Sean to be like oh and this is so good

because this means this and this and

like I kept thinking about this book and

being like Oh my God it's just so good

as you're reading it it really feels

like a lighter read like the main

character feels very like young and

withdrawn

um but then as you get further into the

book and then the ending is just like

holy [ __ ] it's so

good um yeah one of the best books I've

read this year I

think Naomi's room

Jonathan aiff uh this is an old one this

is a classic it's like an ' 80s or '90s

book I think it was good but it's like

it was good at the time you

know it's one of those things where at

the time it probably would have been

very shocking but I think uh our current

Day movies books everything everything's

been done before so I I think at the

time it probably would have been it's

it's a good twist but I read it and I

was like yeah whatever you know it's

like I didn't I didn't I didn't think

about it much it was just like it's good

it's um it's a married couple whose kid

gets abducted and how they deal with the

loss uh ooh psycho another classic uh

Robert is it Robert block is that the

name I would say B

b or a honestly I mean obviously

everyone knows the twist I won't say it

just in case you don't but usually

everyone psycho is very famous everyone

knows the twist the haunted motel blah

blah blah I read a couple Classics this

year so I was uh giving it a shot and

seeing what it was like and I I'm giving

it B tier because it's an old book I

think it's from the ' 50s Robert I think

did an exceptional job of writing a good

female

character and the fact that it's like

the 50s or something I was like how the

[ __ ] like I read um I think we'll get to

that as well the rats I think is it yeah

the rats is in here as well um the rats

definitely has that 80s 70s 80s problem

of like women should be in the kitchen

you know and psycho didn't have that

which was very surprising the

ending I think is transphobic but then

again it's like in the ' 50s so it was a

very like how do you say that like

people just didn't even know it existed

probably at that time or like in media

it's like I think the ending aged very

poorly but then again it was from the '

50s and I was so surprised how well the

female character was written so I guess

give it a w where it's due and an L

where it's doe um it's a classic for

sure and I was um surprised how

digestible the writing style was cuz

usually the older the book gets the

stuffier the English you know

1959 yeah it's

old

um oh this is a Brandon Sanderson should

I go to one first where where is he way

of Kings there we go so I read The

Stormlight

Archives um maybe we should do these all

together cuz they're they're an arc

they're they're a

series and I read through the whole Arc

this

year and the wave of Kings is the first

one

probably

s yeah the Brandon Sanders is just a

very very good fantasy writer the books

are massive every book is like 1,200

pages I didn't like all of them equally

but the way of kings and where is

it rhythm of War they're my favorites um

so one and four so they're five books in

the series one and four were my absolute

favorites because rhythm of War gets

more into the the rhythm of music and

song and how that's

powerful which is also a reason why

sabriel is some of my favorites sabriel

is all about musical

magic um so I just love that kind of

[ __ ] so that's why I love these two so

so much oath ringer

was I'm going to put that on d o ringer

was such a struggle to get through it

took me three months I think to get

through this one and it only redeemed

itself 90% into the book and then and I

was like okay finally it redeems

itself uh this was such a SLO like if it

wasn't for these other books I wouldn't

have liked this one at all which one is

this Words of Radiance that's

two I did really like it not as good as

these but a rank and then the fifth one

is uh wind and

Truth see I did not have a great time

with win than truth I read it in two

weeks so I was I was very into it but

some characters just kind of like get

murdered in a way they don't die but

like they get completely swept under the

rug um I I think cuz he just has too

many characters that he doesn't know

what to do with them

anymore uh yeah I won't I won't spoil

anything no worries um but that's how I

felt about this book and it's still Arc

one of two I think so there's still more

to come so maybe once Arc finishes maybe

I'll put it higher but the way things

stand right now there was just like too

many Avenues in the book where I was

like basically all I cared about was

adelyn ADN

rules um yeah so I'll put that on C I

think Hark the Herald Angels

scream D or F these are short

stories like I can't even really

remember if

I what they were about I don't think

they were that good otherwise I would

have remembered them oh the Chimney

Sweeper oh that's this one the little

boy that has to crawl oh no wait that

that one was actually good I'll put it

in D just because most of them I was

just like yeah whatever like they're

Christmas stories they don't really lead

to anything and then the chimney one was

good Chimney Sweeper boy was actually

really good yeah I like that one so I'll

put it in D for that story alone that

story saves the book

um hidden pictures oh hidden pictures is

good isn't it I really loved it uh great

twist hidden pictures by Jason re recul

rulc um woman who is hired to babysit

the kid but the kid is very like quiet

and withdrawn uh but draws pictures and

it shows the pictures in the book that

the kid draws throughout the book so

it's really it's really nice to actually

see the drawings and like

take a page to really like analyze what

the kids drawn and the twist is great I

love this

book uh oh God what is this I think it's

smother

Moss it's an F I think I think the title

was smother Moss by

Alisa Al ring it wasn't

bad and it definitely has some really

interesting if you like folklore horror

I think you will like it it has some

really interesting folklore stuff stuff

and it was good in the sense that me and

my friend who read and exchange books

once we both read it we kind of like had

a we could discuss a lot about it and

like kind of like realize things that

had

happened um but personally for me this

is this is only like the books these

books are obviously I say it every time

but it's not like these books are pure

trash they're good books obviously they

won't be published

otherwise but I just didn't really like

it because I have a personal peef pet

peeve where I don't like reading from

the perspective of a

kid I there's something about it that

just irks me when it's like an adult

trying to write the Simplicity of a

kid's mind and it kind of like switches

between two sisters one is like 17 and

the other is much younger uh I did get

some Chuckles out of the younger sister

though she was very funny but it's as I

was reading it I was kind of maybe D

actually I don't know it's like

DF I might rearrange a couple of D's

um once we get further into

it now Stargate F tier for sure no doubt

um I love the Stargate movie love it so

much uh I watch it every couple years

one of my favorite Sci-Fi movies so I

was excited to read the book because I

love the movie so much but then I found

out as I was reading it I was like this

is just exactly the movie and it's not

really adding anything and then I found

out that the book was only written after

the movie so the book is the book is

based on the movie not the other way

around and it's just it's just the movie

but poorly

written so I do not recommend this if

you want to know more about Stargate

just watch the movie it's amazing it's

great if you like fifth element that

kind of stuff you will love

Stargate um yeah it's just not that good

of a

book gas station I had fun reading this

one I would say

beer um it really grew on me um between

that and night Veil night Veil is an F

for me as well um gas station and night

Veil are very similar it's it they both

have that Vibe about them of

like we're in the middle of nowhere and

weird [ __ ] [ __ ] happens all the time

and we kind of just work our way around

it to live our lives that's like the if

you've read either of those you kind of

know what I'm talking about Tales from

the gas station it there's four in the

series I think now and I read the first

one and it's just this like dude that

works at a gas station he works like the

night shift and it's just like he starts

a Blog to like tell people about cuz his

psychiatrist or something is like you

should you should try journaling that's

good for you so he starts a Blog to talk

about what happens at work and it was

really it really was funny and I liked

how it went and it was just like it's

just like comedy [ __ ] I would say a

cult in the woods around the gas station

he's like oh yeah that's the cult like

whatever and like one of the cult

members keeps coming by to try and

convert him and they have this like

witty banter back and forth I I really

enjoyed this one then welcome to

nightville is kind of the same where

it's like everything is weird but

nightville for some reason didn't click

with me at

all it was it was almost too much like

every little thing didn't make sense

which became too much for me they'll

start with like a little radio

intermission that will bring you the

news or something and then the news is

like um blah BL blah blah High School is

having a really serious tarantula

problem right now and then and then you

think okay and then it says um so many

of them are dropping out and not

graduating high school and it's like

okay funny I get it like he I didn't

expect that and it's like I don't know

it just rot me the wrong way like

everything every little thing they say

is quirky probably because I haven't

listened to the podcast and just dove

into the book so I was kind of just like

thrown into the deep end um and I just

didn't like it because of

that ah

dorto

um probably eight here honestly I really

enjoyed this one uh delorto and Chuck

Hogan brought out a little miniseries

through Amazon

Prime uh there's six mini books um so I

only put the first one in my good reads

cuz it felt unfair to put put them in as

six separate books when really every

book is like 30 pages like it was really

really short I read the whole thing in

two days I think um but it was I really

liked it cuz I love the thing it was

like the thing and Doc soldiers had a

baby I really liked it it was like uh

just a cool setting it was like a bunch

of soldiers crash land in a snowy

environment and they have to shelter

somewhere and they find a temple and

then have to survive it really made me

think of the white vault as well if you

like the white Vault the podcast you

will love this like really recommend it

if you like snowy survival settings it

was great and really

short last

days I'm going to say

B uh this is Adam Neville um it started

out so strong first like something

happens 90 pages in that I was like holy

[ __ ] this is going to be [ __ ] amazing

and then it kind of like it kind of like

Fizzles out throughout the book for me

and then by the end I wasn't really into

it anymore it's a great book still I

mean I'm putting it on B um Adam Neville

is amazing such a good author really

love him uh his favorite of mine is no

one gets out alive and the vessel I

really liked as

well Devil Makes

Three so this is another chori balino

from my throat in open grave

probably D I think my throat in open

grave gave me two high expect

expectations for Devil Makes 3 and this

really just read like kind of like a

clumsy young

adult um it was still good I liked the

the ink magic in it it's more like

fantasy Dark Fantasy I don't know it was

fine but it didn't wow

me ooh

Elementals uh this is the guy who worked

on

Beetlejuice I think what's his name

McDow or

something um I liked it though but BC or

D I would say it did something unique so

I like it for that uh Elementals by

Michael McDow thank you yeah Michael

McDow I think worked on a couple things

let me see screenwriting credits Beetle

Juice Tales from the Crypt Tales from

the dark dark site Nightmare Before

Christmas yeah that was it Nightmare

Before Christmas oh thinner as well I

love thinner as well great Stephen King

movie yeah nightmare for Christmas

Beetlejuice guy wrote the Elementals

which is like an 80s horror book about

three it really feels like Tim bertony

as well it's like three massive mansions

built on a coast on a peninsula

completely isolated from everyone

conserved in time there's nothing you

can do there the houses don't even have

power the families just go there every

summer who own the houses um and just

like sit around in the heat maybe lie on

the beach a bit maybe do a puzzle or

something read a bit in the book but

it's like they come there and really

like slow down and nothing happens and

there's three houses two families are

really close together and own the two

houses come there every summer and then

the main character is kind of like one

of the daughters

um and it's her first time there and

she's like who has the third who owns

the third house and they're just like

don't look at it we don't we don't

interact with the third house don't look

at it just ignore it and everything will

be fine you'll have a great summer and

and the third house is slowly being

consumed by the beach so the sand is

like halfway through the house basically

like swallowing it it was just such a

unique setting I did really like it um

and the way the family like interacts

with each other really made me feel made

me think of like Knives Out you know

that family how they talk to each other

and kind of like half insult kind of

don't really like each other but they

all get along

anyway um it was really fun yeah putting

it on C because it's like on par with

these other ones I would

say oh we found another

F1 um little sister death by William

Gay is a book I found out that got

published after his death which was kind

of creepy that made it a little

unsettling um basically after his death

they found a bunch of unpublished work

in his house and then decided to publish

it

anyway but reading it I was like it's

probably a reason this didn't get

published it was very boring it's an

author who wants to do research to write

a new horror book so he goes to

location um and the house is supposedly

haunted but nothing really it's like the

flashbacks kind of like show that there

was a lot of superstition around it and

it might have been haunted maybe a bit

of voodoo but it kind of like just ends

on a wet fart like nothing really

happens and it's like is it actually

haunted we'll never know and I was just

like yeah whatever [ __ ]

that um Haunting of Blackwood House s

tier baby Darcy coats does it again it

was so fun I love this one

um the main character comes from um a

family where they were very

superstitious

and believed in divination hand reading

card

reading um but because she grew up like

that her parents kind of like

traumatized her by putting in her into

her head like demons and ghosts are

watching us at all times blah blah blah

so she kind of like breaks away from her

family becomes super like atheist like I

don't believe in any of that [ __ ]

everything has a rational explanation

um and then she gets an offer to buy

Blackwood house um and for very cheap

and it's just like it's this perfect

push and pull between like a house

that's obviously

haunted uh and a woman who really wants

to live in this house and is like trying

to really rational it out um yeah just

very good and her boyfriend is the

cutest HBO

ever um if you like a if you like himbo

romance he's just such a puppy dog he's

she's so sweet he just only wants the

best for her he's really like muscular

and big uh but he treats her so gentle I

loved

it I loved everything about it I loved

the ending it's just the perfect

book House of 100 Whispers AER another

really good one I thought I was

constantly I could not figure it out

like what the [ __ ] is going on like I

couldn't figure out what kind of

Haunting it was and how it was being put

together what was going on and it wasn't

until

like the book actually was like this is

what's going on I was like holy [ __ ] uh

House of 100 Whispers by gry masterton

yeah I know not many people liked it but

I [ __ ] loved it and I loved the

ending of it as well um I feel like a

lot of these books that make it to my S

or a tier is just because they stick The

Landing you know the ending is just like

yes so [ __ ] good um House of 100

Whispers is one of

those I think this is Haunting of Hill

House by um Shirley is it Shirley

Jackson or something I forget this is a

classic putting in an F tier I did not

like this book I love haunting a Hill

House the TV show I love The Haunting

the bad '90s naughties movie I forget

when it comes out

I thought I was going to go into it

liking the book and then I realized that

the ending [ __ ] sucks I kept hoping

it would lead to something and then it

just another wet fart ending that I was

just like [ __ ] hell I just wasted my

time reading this book it really made me

feel like I wasted my time with how bad

the ending

was house on Colt Hill is kind of f

tier it was fine but it was kind of

boring it's weird because it takes place

in Brighton it has a really strong

opening really really strong opening and

then the rest of it just is

like the hours before Dawn oh this is

another classic I read I I'm going to

say f tier I think it wasn't as bad as

little sister death or House on Haunted

Hill but it's one it has one of those

old book problems where it was kind of

just like Stuffy the hours before Dawn

by CIA friendin thank you cuz I did not

remember the it's like it's an old book

it's like 60s

50s I should look it up what year it

came out oh

1960 f for fart

yeah um I it definitely got a couple of

good Chuckles out of me it was like a

housewife struggling taking care of her

kids

um like it was really relatable on that

aspect like she was always tired and

like her husband was asking way too much

of her she was super relatable I can

tell you that the main character was so

relatable she was like always tired

doing everything in the house like all

the cleaning the cooking was on her and

the guy just like goes off to work and

then comes back and it's whatever like

he's not taking any part in the stuff at

home and it's just like can you shut her

up like the kid's too loud like one of

his kids like at home so it's like that

setting made her super relatable cuz

then she was so misunderstood and she

was really struggling with like keeping

on top of the house she had like a

really annoying neighbor I remember a

lot about this book she had a really

annoying neighbor who was just

like who call who just kind of like is

not in control of her kids and she's

just like yeah I'm just teaching them to

be independent you know one of those

mothers and then her husband is like oh

he seems so overworked uh you know what

I know what to do let's go out to dinner

and it's like that doesn't solve any of

my problems like the husband should help

with the housework that would make her

feel better um so that kind of stuff was

super relatable

but yeah maybe it's a deter maybe f is a

bit too harsh cuz I was really into it

um but yeah the story is that she

they're not really making ends meets so

they rent out a house in the like for a

guest a guest room basically they rent

out a guest room for someone to stay

there and then the the person they

rented out to is really creepy basically

but she was super I'm putting her in

deter because the woman was just so

relatable and it was so well written but

at the ending I can't even remember the

ending I think it really like got un

unhinged at that part and it didn't

really slot in nicely with the rest of

the book I wouldn't really recommend it

to anyone you

know the house that horror built

Christina Henry I love Christina Henry

she's good do you see how equally

divided I am between Tears by the way

holy [ __ ] I am way

more like organized than I

thought um how's the horror build I

really liked it I like Christina Henry

everything I've read so far of her I

really like this lady is a cleaning lady

and she gets hired to clean a really

recluse um retired director movie

director's house and it's kind of like I

imagined it like del Toro's house it was

it's completely riddled with like movie

props and then there's one prop in

particular that she's just so creeped

out by and it was so well written like

every time she came into into the room

she felt like it was like um a a wolf

mask um that was used in one of his

movies where someone died I don't

remember exactly the specifics but like

there's bad luck tied to that mask and

she from the moment she starts working

there she hates that mask and being in

the same room and she feels like it's

always looking at her and stuff it was

just so well written that I felt so bad

for her like she was a single mom they

were really like tight on money she was

just making 's meat as a cleaning lady

uh trying to do the best for her son

putting him in school and everything and

the Sun is so sweet as well and he knows

that they're kind of poor and that they

can't really that they can't afford nice

things it was just so well written like

even the start of it my my heart just

like achd for her um yeah it's just very

good Christina's just very very

good last house on needless

street I'm going to say f i saw through

the twist like from the start and then

it's just not that fun to

read uh the

rats this is another classic it's from

the'80s I think um I had a bit of a Time

culture shock when uh God it's so

painfully dated when the couple like

wake up in the morning morning they're

in bed together that's like the start of

the book and I think he smacks her on

the ass and is like now go rattle those

pots and pans for my breakfast and she's

like yeah let me go make you breakfast

now it's like [ __ ] shoot me now God so

very painfully dated but the rats are

still kind of cool if you can get past

like the 70s 80s like I'm a white man

and I'm powerful and I will save the day

kind of mentality I loved I loved the

chaos I could just see it all in my head

like just waves of rats like [ __ ]

gnaw on people and like overwhelming

them and yeah that was cool but uh very

dated gender

wise ooh The Troop Nick

Cutter I'm going to say C I'm not

actually a huge fan of Nick Cutter

anymore he's almost too much for me like

he's too gross also there is a cat

torture scene a kitten torture scene

that goes on way too long in this book

um that really really like [ __ ] me up

so fair trigger warning there is animal

torture in this book and it's so drawn

out that it really like that would that

alone would make me want to put in I'll

put in a d tier yeah that doesn't that

doesn't deserve C tier it's there only

to shock you and it literally doesn't

add anything so it's so uncalled for

aside from that like so it's um it's

kind of like

a a

bioweapon person escapes with facility

and then has to continuously it's almost

like thinner like he has to keep eating

and eating and he just wants to eat

anything like he's always hungry um

until of course at some point you start

eating people and it's it it is

infectious so it's like it's like a

bunch that's the setting it's like a

bunch of kids on an island and then that

guy kind of like makes his way to the

island I think asz he's trying to

isolate himself but he doesn't really

realiz that there's a bunch of kids like

um Scouts like doing like a survival

weekend on the island that in itself is

was cool but it has it has a huge amount

of like animal torture and animal

killing um they try and kill a turtle at

one point as well this book kind of put

me off Nick Cutter a bit more my

favorite Nick Cutter book actually is a

book that he didn't write himself alone

this one he wrote this he co-wrote this

with

someone uh this one I loved yeah the

handyman method this one is a very

modern kind of

book which I really liked um I like Tech

horror I've realized haunted media is

what they call it um this is like a

couple moves into a house together and

um but there's like little bits the the

dad of the family gets really irritated

at little bits in the house that are

like wrong with it like he'll find like

a closet a w wall closet but then he

finds out that there's just a hole in

the wall but they didn't see that when

they bought the house cuz the closet was

closed so he's like [ __ ] now I have to

like fix this [ __ ] hole in the wall

and I'm going to do it myself and then

he finds a YouTube channel um so the the

haunted thing is like the YouTube

channel so it's super specifically

geared to him so the YouTube is like how

to fix a hole in your wall and then the

hole in the wall is literally the hole

in the wall that he has in his house and

then the guy in the YouTube video shows

him how to do it what kind of stuff he

needs to

buy um and then slowly starts taking him

over and he wants to do more and more

around the house and he needs to buy

more stuff and he gets completely like

lost and possessed kind of like into

this like I have to fix everything

mentality it's really good and the the

reveal of what's actually like going on

in that house and stuff just so good

also

anyone in chat who's read multiple Nick

Cutter books have you noticed that every

time a man gets scared in his books he

talks about his balls retracting into

his body I I'm not Shing you every book

every Nick Cutter book I've read the guy

gets scared and he feels his balls

retracting and I just can't I mean

obviously as a woman I have no idea how

to picture this and every time he writes

it into his books I'm like oh there it

is again there's one for my ball

Bingo yeah and I asked Sean I was like

is this a thing that actually happens

for men like do you feel like your balls

go like back into your body and he's

like [ __ ] no what the [ __ ] is

this yeah it's so weird and at this

point I'm wondering if he realizes

realizes that he

doesn't it's really weird

yeah okay MJ Mars the suffering H I

really liked this one but I I don't

think I can put it on a a tier it's not

of the same caliber I would say but I

liked this book because it didn't [ __ ]

around um it's a Halloween book perfect

for Halloween it's a bunch of students

uh University students for Halloween

they want to do a seance in their

haunted haunted their house has a

history they're totally fine they just

live in it nothing happens um but they

know people have died in that house in

the past so they're like it's Halloween

let's do a seance let's [ __ ] do it um

they're all drunk you know they don't

think anything's going to happen that's

literally the first 10 pages of the book

like it just goes straight into the

action uh which is why I love it it

doesn't [ __ ] around it's just like bunch

of kids are stupid they do a seance and

then um ghosts attach themselves to them

because they kind of like opened a

Gateway and then have to deal with the

consequences that's literally it it's

really straightforward I love it it was

great um would be great for a movie I

think this one it felt very movie like

but it also felt a little like I think

this is her first book or some of her

first like Standalone books for this

author I followed her on good reads cuz

I'm like I'm going to keep an eye on you

I want to see what else you're going to

write um so super strong book but just

not on the same level as for enjoyment

as these other ones last row

okay now gar wrote We do not welcome our

10-year-old Overlord that's the

title it was it's just a Nolla it's

there's not much to it GNX wrote sabriel

my favorite absolute favorite book ever

I think that's like my number one book

of all time in my entire life so I love

garnick so I was like oh he put

published a novel I'll get into it but

it

just I didn't really it felt kind of

like stranger things like a bunch of

young kids um I think that's one of it's

definitely a me problem I just don't

really gel well with books when the main

characters are like 10 years old I just

I don't know I don't know why I can't

really explain it but I just don't

really like following kids from a kid's

perspective um and that's just what this

is like it's just stranger things they

kind of like they find this glowing orb

that's like kind of like an

alien

um yeah it it was wasn't bad but I just

didn't really gel with it you

know we used to live here this I I read

this very recently

um I want to say d just because again

for me I I realize now that talk I've

never actually talked about all the

books I've read like this before and I'm

starting to realize that for me my

rating really comes down to whether it's

a satisfying ending or not the book was

so tense and

unsettling um throughout but then the

ending I was just kind of like wait what

and it got it got really confusing the

further we went where I was just like

what the [ __ ] is

happening um which it's good God it's it

it's really really tense it's like that

perfect social anxiety book where like

people kind of like invite themselves

into your house and then won't go away

so it's really unsettling and it really

like freaks me out um but then after

that it's kind of just like

what's going

on maybe C I should put it in C I think

the moment I finished it I was

like but then the days after it I would

like discuss it with other friends who

read it and just like kind try and like

piece together what actually happened

but there's a couple there's a couple

Avenues in the book that don't get

resolved at all that could you could

have just taken out of the book entirely

and it would not have made a difference

so I'm kind of like I don't really like

that I like when every little piece

comes back for the

ending another Darcy coats where he

can't find you a

tier so this is a really unique book

where um the whole town is basically

being haunted technology doesn't really

work everyone has to like use bicycles

cuz cars are really really

unreliable um it is kind of stranger

things Z but a bit just a bit older like

they 17ish I think that people show up

all the [ __ ]

time um but the cops don't really know

what to do everyone's kind of like stuck

in that

town um and trying to save up money to

survive and get away from the town

basically and um it has some really

claustrophobic like crawling through

dirt tunnels scenes that really like oh

stuck with me yeah the mom was so

[ __ ] scary yeah that that's this is a

good

book o Nas veratu Joe

Hill I want to put it in F tier so

bad this is the book that put me off of

Joe Hill to the point where I will never

read a Joe Hill book again and it's not

even that the book is entirely terrible

but the way he handles Dutch people just

[ __ ] made me angry ah it was so

insensitive I oh God I'm I'm getting I

had to talk about I had to talk about

this book in therapy cuz it made me so

angry the story itself the haunted

element of it is great kids getting

kidnapped and being brought to Christmas

land which is cool like I loved that

part there's a guy who lives across the

street he's like kind of withdrawn he

paints figurines he's just like a nice

elderly guy basically who sticks to his

stays in his Lane he doesn't really he's

like nice but he doesn't really interact

with anyone so this is purely my problem

with this book right on multiple

occasions they say he has a Nazi

accent uh which okay can you even say

that anymore about German people

nowadays like that is so rude but then

the thing that makes it even worse is

that the guy the grandpa is Dutch so he

doesn't have a Nazi accent a Dutch

accent is not a Nazi accent and I just

got so upset that saying that Dutch

people sound like Nazis is like you are

completely blowing over the fact that

Dutch people were also under German

occupation during the war my

grandparents fought off Nazis because

they were trying to steal [ __ ] from

their houses like I we have a statue in

the center of town like thanking the

Scottish for coming in after a German

occupation

ended like there's there's a lot of

history there that is very sensitive and

then there's his grandpa who just like

does his own thing paints his figurines

and everyone is like oh yeah his Nazi

accent and I'm just like

dude that made me so angry and then they

they put a a little bit of Dutch in the

book as well they tried but it's so

obviously Google translate and he was

supposed to say something in Dutch and I

was just looking at it like I'm Dutch

but I can't figure out what he's trying

to say he was in distress and then

started speaking Dutch here and there

that was the IDE yeah Deutch versus

Dutch yeah so I'm like how can you be

author and not do like 5 minutes of

research to realize that Dutch people

aren't German a Dutch accent is

different from a German accent you you

can't even call a German accent a Nazi

accent nowadays that is so insensitive

and then to use Dutch sentences but just

throw it into Google translate and not

even have anyone fact check it like just

tweet about it throw it online to be

like hey I'm trying to say this in Dutch

how do you say that you can get the

answer literally a minute obviously I'm

very sensitive this because I'm Dutch

but I that is such a massive pet peeve

of mine when someone is Dutch in one of

these books and like it just doesn't add

up and it's like just do 5 minutes of

research

dude oh it makes me so angry yeah so for

that alone I would want to put him in F

tier but the whole bit about Christmas

land and Nostra outu is actually good it

was just that one thing really soured me

on the

book okay spite house

um I'm going to say

C it was it's cool because it's an all

black cast so that was um that was very

fun that was new cuz there is honestly

not a lot of black people in these books

so it's a dad and two girls and they're

kind of on the Run they're kind of like

keeping a low profile so they get a hous

hter job as well

um and it has an interesting

ending actually let's put it in B cuz

it's it's pretty strong throughout and I

did really like it and it was very

unique it's called the spite house

because it was built to spite the people

living close to the house so they built

the house very like thin and Tall just

so and on the top of a hill so that

people in the neighborhood could see it

basically to spite

people ooh

cuckoo I did not like this book

you know what it's better than nosu in

my book so nosu gets kicked to F and

Kuku will be D I really I have such a

soft spot for the characters so Kuku is

um is a book about kids who are sent to

one of those Christian camps where they

have to pray the gay

away so I felt very bad for the kids

obviously so there's like trans kids in

it there's gay kids in it cuz the

parents obviously want to just just put

the kids hide the kids away and be like

not my problem um but there's like

monster stuff going on in the background

at the camp um well the title is CUO so

you can you can guess what happens um I

don't want to give too much away but the

reason I didn't gel with this book was

because there was a lot of angry sex in

it which just felt so out of place like

I was all for like kids were following

falling in love and like realizing like

oh I'm falling in love with this person

what does it say about me and I was all

for that but then they get out of this

like traumat super traumatic stuff that

happens and then immediately have sex

after they have an orgy

afterwards and I was reading this like

am I reading this right like why are why

are they having sex right now and it it

I think it kind of explains it like they

have a certain like Bond because of how

they were affected with the monster they

kind of were they I think their brains

all connected or something but I just

don't see how that leads to sex I guess

but I also as a straight woman I just

don't really I think it dealt with

themes of like repressed sexuality so

then it has to come out I think that's

what it was and I think the author

herself is

trans so I was very interested in

reading it but for me it just I felt

really bad for the characters and I

really wanted them all to fall in love

and be happy together but that was not

what I was getting out of this

book ooh Tender Is the

flesh ooh that's a hard

one this is a hard one because it is a

really good book but I also did not like

the main character maybe just put it in

d uh yeah Austina

Basera she's definitely one to keep an

eye on the book is very good but at the

same time I think she just wrote the

characters to all be so unlikable that I

kind of just came out of it

like like I don't I don't care about

these people they're all bad people it's

the same kind of with Nick Cutter like

sometimes I think authors are trying to

just be shocking for the sake of it and

then because it's shocking people are

saying it's good but I'm like the shock

Factor doesn't make books good for me

it's a really weird world it's like the

world runs out of meat and then they

turn to cannibalism and then it's like

legalized cannibalism so there's like

human factories like people used for

breeding just to be eaten yeah it's very

oh yeah it's a very like a book this I

think if I could give just one book an

s+ ranking it would be the haunting of

Lee Harker I think this is my absolute

favorite book of the year it's another

Darcy coats it had so many twists I

didn't see any of them coming and I was

just like into I read it in two days I

was just glued to the book I could not

put it down I loved every second of it

and it made me really emotional it made

me text my parents to be like I hope

you're

okay this one really like tugged at my

heartstrings and I I I won't give

anything away cuz it would give away

some of the twists um but it has very a

very beautiful relationship between a

woman who's about in her 20s and like a

granny very good twists

it gets quite gruesome at the end where

I was like oh yeah just perfect perfect

book from s+ we go to F tier Joe Nesbo I

was really excited to read Joe nbo's the

nighthouse because Joe nespo is a really

good thriller author and I was like oo

his first Fay into horror I'm

excited um yeah it just wasn't good they

keep it to too grounded almost like it

kind of becomes too grounded to the

point where it's kind of boring I just

was not impressed by this book ooh

September who we're going like way back

and forth here um [ __ ] love the

September house it's a horror comedy it

is so

good uh ending goes Balls to the walls

[ __ ] loved it Carissa

Orlando so good if you want like a bit

of more of a haunted house with like a

bit of a like more comedy lighter easily

digestible very

fun uh it's about a couple who buy a

house which is literally their dream

house they put all their money into it

as you always do with haunted

houses um but then the haunting stuff

happens and they just learn how to deal

with it because they love they're just

like no this is our house we're not

moving out it's like we we just have to

get along cuz we're not moving out and

it's so funny and they're just

like it's September this is the month of

the year where the the walls start

bleeding and they're kind of just like

trying to like they put buckets around

the house and you know there's a bunch

of ghosts in the house that they kind of

just know what to deal how to deal with

them if it's the little boy don't look

at him if it's the the maid she's

friendly she kind of like tries to help

around the house even though she can't

do much she's nice it's like that kind

of stuff and it's so funny I loved it it

gets a bit more serious towards the end

of the book um which is probably why

it's so good there's a lot of depth to

the character the main characters I

remember one scene that really made me

laugh was uh periodically birds will fly

into the house and kill themselves like

they just fly into the you know how in

horror movies and stuff birds will fly

into the window and it's like a bad Omen

because it's a haunted house that

happens periodically bunch of birds will

just fly into the house and kill

themselves so the woman has to the house

owner she has to to go through the yard

and gather all the birds and then she

she burns them basically to get rid of

them so she's looking at these birds on

the

barbecue cuz she's like she just burning

them on the barbecue and she's just

standing there with her ghost mid next

to her and she's like how about some

roast chicken

tonight it's just so funny I really

liked

it um writing Retreat ah that was a good

one Julia

Barts it's like a writing Retreat so

there's this really recluse like very

famous

author who once a year invites like four

people I think it's four I'm not sure

four or five to a writing Retreat to

come stay at her mansion and you'll

basically be forced to write a book the

main character is like a she has a

writer's block but then someone on her

behalf without telling her submits one

of her older stories and she gets she

gets allowed into the retreat but she's

like [ __ ] but I've had writers block for

like years now I can't write anything

for [ __ ] and then these people come

together in this house and um the the

author lady the world famous author lady

is just such a weird person and it it

gets it gets like super like high stakes

with like we have to write I have to

write I have to do this if I don't right

now I'm [ __ ] getting kicked out um

and really good twists as well I really

enjoyed that

one uh Christmas Guest deter it's really

short Nolla has like a Twist where

you're like yeah whatever I don't know

it was fine but I also I read a lot of

Christmas books this year I also read

the Christmas jigsaw

murders which I'm probably going to put

on the as well do you guys know um the

Thursday what's the book called again

Thursday Murder Club or something where

it's like a bunch of old people and then

old people

home and they try and solve murders

they're like at home detectives together

the Christmas jigsaw murders is very

much like that it's like an a granny

who's really bitter she's kind of funny

she's kind of like Scrooge um she's

really bitter she does she hates

Christmas she makes a living making

jigsaw oh not jigsaw U cross word

puzzles for the newspaper and then

someone has an obsession with her and is

saying like he he gives her little

jigsaw he sends her jigsaws in the mail

um and then being like I'm going to kill

three people until so I'm I'm only now

realizing it's Christmas Carol I'm going

to kill three people before Christmas

and you will have to put everything

together to stop me but it was just like

uh it's Christmas Carol but modernday

grumpy bitter gay

Grandma see she was really funny I love

it was just this old old bitter very gay

grandma

and she has a gay son or not her son she

has a like it was it's a nephew but she

adopted him to take care of him um and

he's gay as well it was just very funny

gay humor so for that is going on C here

I did really enjoy

that ooh Mr

Mercedes oh it's D or an F for me I read

it because I want to read more of this

series so this is a whole series with a

character called Holly in it but I feel

like I'm going to put it on F because I

felt like he didn't really properly go

about like well there was no character

depth

anyway but I think he came out later

saying that she is autistic and I think

nowadays people really like her

character but this is like her first

appearance and I feel like it kind of he

kind of made her too shallow and too

stereotypical which I didn't really like

I feel like

she felt like a very dysfunctional

person and I feel like and probably

people like it I haven't read the other

ones yet I am going to um and I think

she has a lot of character growth and

now she's a great character but I feel

like how he portrayed her in this book

was disappointing yeah same with Joe

Hill just do your [ __ ] research like

have you ever spoken to an autistic

person I don't know maybe if I read the

later books I can go back to this one

and be like actually I would put it

higher now but at this point I've only

read Mr Mercedes yeah I would say that's

kind of oh here's the ginger one

hey so I don't know if I should put this

in here because it's a manga and it's so

different from everything

else um I'll just put it on B tier I I

barely remember it I I would have to

leave through it to see which stories

are in this one particularly again but

Junito is always good like he never

really misses it's just good po manga if

you're into the mood for it

Mr Magic another media

horror I think C tier I liked it um it's

like a one of those there's a couple of

Channel Zero season 1 is like it I think

control the video game has an Avenue

that's like this a bunch of people

remember seeing a TV show when they were

kids but then no record of that TV show

ever being made or aired

exist um that's what this book is about

and then

there's like five four or five like kids

who were on the show and then they're

they're being called back together for a

podcast um so that was interesting I

like that Mandela effect yeah that's

what all these books talk about as

well uh we're talking about Mr Magic by

Kirsten White I think it is I really

liked it I thought it was and the ending

is actually really good

too put be I really like that one yeah

and I love I love haunted media I love

it speaking of haunted media oh my God

ghaster a here this was such a surprise

this book definitely isn't for everyone

and I think that's why I like it so much

cuz I went in with really low

expectations it's so weird I think I

like it as well because it takes place

in

Brighton um and it's so weird to like

she goes to the pier she sees the

zipline she go she has dinner at places

where I have dinner and then describes

the place and I'm like yeah that's the

place it's just it's so funny to see to

read a book that actually takes place

where you

live um so this

lady uh meets someone they get along

really well but they live a bit far away

and then they're like [ __ ] it let's move

in together so she quits her job

and goes to move in with him but then

when she gets to his place the apartment

is [ __ ] empty

there's nothing there she can't get a

hold of him she's ghosted but she's also

like I know I didn't know him for that

long but there has to be more to it than

this right and then she starts to like

investigate um and I know a lot of

people had issues with this book because

they were like well why would she

[ __ ] stay there just like go back

like move back you didn't even properly

move yet just keep your stuff in boxes

and move back and just give up on him

but I I really liked his I I could

really see her reasoning like she was

just so desperate and she felt very

lonely she finally found someone she

really connected with um so i c i could

I could understand how her

desperation made her like she wanted to

really just understand what happened so

she really wanted to like dive in and

find she just wanted an answer and

that's why she stayed there so I get it

I really like that book that was one

part also that made me really laugh out

loud was she cuz he goes to her she's

like is he is he alive or is he not is

he a huge dick or is he actually like

was he actually really nice and um

something bad happened to him and he was

like she was like this is typical

schinger

[ __ ] and then just made me laugh so hard

Schrodinger's [ __ ] is he actually a [ __ ]

and or is he it's did something actually

happen to him I don't know I the I

really gelled with the writing

style um The Watcher

is probably D I've seen the I saw the

movie

first um and then read the book because

there's a sequel coming out this year

2025 so I was like ooh sequel I'm

definitely down for sequel I thought the

book kind of like butchered the ending

the ending for the movie the movie the

ending for the movie didn't really make

sense and I was like what the [ __ ] is

going on it's like a

very good setup bad payoff kind of

movie but I was like you know sequels

coming out I I was enough into the

concept that I wanted to see if the book

was much better and then I can read the

sequel later um I also have a very vivid

imagination I listen to

like when I like to read and I really

like want to cut out sounds I listen to

like a train with

like um like some Melody like some notes

that go likeo

it's like uh it's like sleep audio or

something I like to listen to that as I

read and this book I very vividly

remember I found a particular track

that on Spotify like every time I listen

to that I think of this book now because

that's the first time I listen to it it

was good but I think I would have

enjoyed it much better if I hadn't seen

the movie you know I think the movie

kind of like skewed my view of the book

I think if you have haven't seen the

movie and then read the book you would

probably like the mystery of it a lot

more um so I'm putting it in D because I

I kind of [ __ ] up seeing the movie

first ooh her little flowers beer that

was a good one um kind of like a witchy

Haunted House book all about

like the main

character

is super versed in Botanical things and

she likes to to attribute certain

flowers to certain people which I really

fondly remember she's like oh my my

sister is definitely a dandelion or

something it's not that but like you

know that's how she would say it in the

book um almost like astrology like she

would be like you're that kind of

person uh by Shannon Morgan yes the

house is haunted but she makes do and

she lives all by herself the main

character but she's struggling for money

so she she decides to rent out how a

room in the house to two carpentry guys

construction guys construction workers I

resonated with her a lot because she was

very awkward and like with drawn and to

the point where she was like how do you

even interact with people how do you

talk to people was really endearing to

me I really liked I could really um we

were on the same page let's say that but

it's very sweet and then one of the one

of the construction guys like sees

everything wrong with the house um and

offers to help out and like fix the

house and stuff and that's what I mostly

remember about the book let alone the

haunted

aspect it's kind of like um the TV show

for Haunting of Hill House where it's

like you have the adult person and then

slowly like the memories come through

and you piece together what happens to

the family that used to live there so it

was good it was definitely strong

throughout what feasts at night uh I'm

going to say D this one was kind of a

Miss for me which was weird because I

really liked the first one I forget what

the first one's called This is king

fisher what moves the dead yes I

absolutely love what moves the dead so I

was very excited for this one but what

moves the dead was just great such a

good little Nolla and I was excited to

see more of it but what Feast the night

it was it wasn't bad it was still good

but

I I don't know it just wasn't as good of

a haunting this time which was a bit of

a shame I do really like the world

but silver nitrate ooh that was a pretty

good one I'm going to say C cuz I liked

Mexican Gothic way more speaking of what

moves the dead I thought what moves the

dead and Mexican Gothic were very

similar but yeah that Mexican Gothic

author Sylvia Moreno Garcia she wrote

silver nitrate as well this is another

haunted media book um so they're talking

about like an a snuff film that was

filmed on silver

nitrate um so the reels are very

flammable um and like it goes about like

trying to finish the film or and edit it

properly or something it's like an

unfinished project that they find that

they kind of like but by finishing it I

think they summon something it's

something like that um I I liked it but

I it's hard to explain without really

giving away like the ending you know um

but I like Mexican go Gothic more I

would say ooh ghost

Tre definitely B maybe a I really like

this one this is another Christina

Henry uh ooh do I like it more or less

than the house that horror built that's

the

question definitely not more I have more

of a soft spot for this one cuz I just

like the idea of the props being haunted

the ghost Tre was more like a Coming of

Age witch story so more like Dark

Fantasy I would say and it's still good

I would put them both on B tier I would

say yeah I think that's better um I

really enjoyed it it was really good

Christina Henry is [ __ ] great um but

yeah coming of age which Story haunted

town um kind of like where he can't find

you kind of similar like the whole town

is kind of like in its

grasp um and then it has to come to a

head GH station

I'm going to say

d it was good but it wasn't great sa

Barnes I've read essay Barnes which one

did she so she wrote Dead Silence which

I absolutely loved between if you want

to read any barns I would say go for

Dead Silence death silence was way

better I think death silence is

basically Titanic in

space I'll let you mul that over for for

a bit she wrode ghost station after that

and it was okay although I didn't really

gel with the main character that much

and then the reveal at the end again

obviously like anything I put in D dfer

is like the ending didn't stick to

reveal of what was going on I was just

like

oh delicate

condition I think this book would gel

with you a lot more if you are a mother

if you have been pregnant in your

life I'm going to put it on D just

because I obviously have no idea um it's

kind of like Rosemary's Baby yeah it's

like a modern Rosemary's Baby I would

say with a better end well better ending

Ros baby is

great um but I I did stick The Landing

but I put it I'm putting it in D just

because I I I don't know what it's like

to be pregnant I just couldn't imagine

any really anything of it and

the whole thought of being pregnant I'm

just like eh um preggers yeah so I I

only read it because I have this book

subscription service and they give me

like three books a month so I try and

read the ones they give me at least one

of the three every month um and that was

one of them and I did like the ending

but yeah the the theme of it I was just

I'm just not really into

that ooh Dead Lake um hm that Lake it's

going to be C tier I think it is Darcy

coats and the reason it's in C tier it's

like I think it's four or five short

stories the first two are so [ __ ]

good the first two short stories Ester

they're so good like I literally I felt

like my heart beating in my chest when I

finished the first story it was such a a

tense like um cat and mouse kind of like

story um that was it was just so good

but then the last two I felt were really

really weak and they kind of like put

the book

down the shadow half remains going to

put that one in D as well kind of like

forgettable it's kind of like Bird Box

where you can't look someone in the eye

wait that's bird box right you can't

look at things in Bird Box um your

Shadow half remains is like a Nolla

about you can't look someone in the eye

or you go crazy and the main character

like lives at a lake cabin super

isolated um drones deliver your

groceries so the world kind of still

functions but you can't look anyone in

the eye and then um someone moves in

down the street basically and then she

has to wrestle with like I'm so lonely

but I have to isolate myself um so it

wasn't terrible but I was just like yeah

I didn't really gel well with

it zombie ducks

what am I going to do obviously it's not

that great but it wasn't

bad oh God I'm putting so many books in

detail I might have to move some stuff

around um I'm going to put it in D

because obviously it's just a jokey it's

like 50 pages it's kind of like a jokey

books about toys becoming zombies

they're

evil um I kind see here I kind of

enjoyed it you know it was just like a

really short funny story

no I can't do that it's it wasn't

terrible like a here's NF to end it

on this book is by Clay McLoud Chapman

okay so yeah it reminded this I loved

the twoth thirds of the book were

great um it had can it reminded me of

the gift which has canar and um Kate

Blanchet in it I love that movie I know

it's kind of like a 7 out of 10 movie

but I really like it she's like a cart

reader AR cart reader she reads people's

fortunes for money that's kind of like

how she gets by in the

movie um and then a murder happens in

the town and she gets visions and then

she helps solve the murder so if you

haven't seen that movie I recommend it

it's pretty good I like it um and what

kind of mother really reminded me of

that it's like a woman as well who does

cart readings to get by and she does she

lives in a motel and kind of just like

tries to pay her rent or it's not really

rent if you live in a motel but she she

kind of like stays in the place just by

doing her cart readers cart

readings um and I love that setup so I

was really into it but

then the the last third of the book I

was like what the [ __ ] are you doing

this doesn't make any sense um yeah I

did not get along with the character's

motivations at all that's everything

okay let's see if I need to rearrange

something um I think the S tier is

pretty solid I think that's that's good

it's mostly these lower tiers I think I

might have

to maybe rearrange

something um I'll put Botanical daughter

on C it's just cuz like when books get

horny and I'm just not in that horny

space myself I just really am like what

the [ __ ] is going on should I put wind

and Truth in deter no no no not win a

truth oathkeeper oh oh yeah oathbringer

is there okay that's good um let's put

Poon on after I'm

sorry weird ending predictable twist

boring barely remember it oh this is the

Chimney Sweeper yeah yeah yeah kind of

too young

adulty don't remember the ending gender

problems animal torture for no reason

too sexy for no reason too horny for no

reason well probably repressed sexuality

I get it but also I couldn't

understand too shocking for no

reason saw the twist coming seen the

movie already not as good as the first

one um Noz go is the first one I can't

imagine what it's like to be pregnant

predictable it's zombie ducks I can't

really say much about it I think F tier

is pretty good I'm I might be a little

too on the overlord one but at the same

time I like I don't you wouldn't really

you're not missing out on anything by

not reading this book you

know I think I think that'll

do

yeah who knew D tier would be like the

most populated tier okay let me um just

here okay so now you can see it a bit

better um so eser is kind of like it for

some reason sent it to the next line I

have no idea why but we're just going to

have to live with

um so yeah Dio diavola Gallow Hill my

throat in open grave Brandon sanderson's

Stormlight Archives in general Blackwood

house The Haunting of Lee Harker so

that's three Darcy coats in s tier I a

huge fan obviously September house those

are my biggest

recommendations uh for 2024 and my

number one is going to be the haunting

of Lee Harker yeah like I said this one

not only has great twists but it made me

um text my

parents so it was really it's really

good um oh yeah this is everything so

you can see everything you can see it's

not high quality but you see them a

little better

now yeah that's

it any questions for class any books I

haven't finished I've definitely hate

finished some books as well like uh

little sister death was just a struggle

throughout into the so soup I really

didn't like I mean I used to not finish

books but I think this year I've kind of

like forced myself to finish everything

have I read House of leaves that is one

that I haven't been able to finish but

that was like years ago since I tried so

not for

2024 I have no reading goal for this

year um I so I read 80 books and I don't

think I want to push myself to read more

than that um I also don't want to be

like I'll try and read 50 this year cuz

who knows maybe something comes up um

Sean and I picked up path of XL2 and

it's been really fun so maybe I'll game

a bit more this year my free time

instead of reading who knows um so I'm

going to like I've also had quite some

neck issues cuz I like read like this a

lot and then I'm like oh sit up

straighter and then I just sink back

down again so I might have to just ease

it up on the reading a little

[Laughter]

bit I

yeah what is it like 95 5 96% horror and

then a touch of fantasy and sci-fi but I

prefer sci-fi horror as well so I read a

couple fantasy books and more like dark

fantasy like my favorite is necromancy

fantasy I love like sabriel raising the

dead fighting the dead this cool have I

tried audiobooks uh I sometimes pick up

an audiobook version of whatever I'm

reading so if I go on a walk alone I can

listen to it as I'm walking I do that

sometimes times I'm trying to get more

rowing in I roded half an hour um 30

minutes the other day and I wasn't too

sore so this is a good sign I think it

can row more and more now um cuz my

traps are so like tense and they give me

migraines a lot so I had to build it up

very slowly and very carefully but now I

reached a point where I think I can

start pushing myself more again um so

when I row I've now started listening to

audiobooks as well so just yeah just row

away and listen to a book you know some

books I just read on Kindle especially

like Brandon Sanderson those books are

so heavy and so big I just read it on

Kindle for

convenience um but I do read a lot of

these paper as well so then I can

exchange them with a friend so

basically I buy a book and it always

goes to a friend or back to like a

recycle shop or something um but I I

have like one friend

who I exchange books with so that way

like we kind of like save money in that

way like we buy books and then one of us

reads it and then the other person reads

it so that's how we kind of like do it

right now new grd Hendrick books yeah

grd Hendrick is great have I I I haven't

read any gr Hendricks this

year that was all 2023 I guess um his

horror store book is one of my favorites

and um the one with the little dolls how

to sell a haunted house house yeah he's

great I also um I think it was like 2

years ago when I kind of like got into

reading more that I was like you know

what I'm just going to read what I want

to read I'm just going to read horror

all the time I'm not going to read a a

book just because it's like a popular

book right now I realized that I'm just

really into specifically haunted house

horror and like supernatural horror and

once I like like surrendered myself to

like okay I just just like this I

started reading so much more like once

you just kind of like find your your

genre that you're

into yeah then you start reading a [ __ ]

tone screams from the void good sci-fi

horror ooh yeah maybe I'll read a Sci-Fi

hor again from for two years in deep

space the frighter Deiter and small crew

have collected Botanical life from other

planets it's a lesson in patience and

Hell mechanics and sign Raina is ready

to jump ship if only because her abusive

ex is also aboard as well as her

overbearing boss it's only after a

foreign biological creature sneaks

aboard and wreaks havoc on the ship and

crew that Raina must find her grit to

survive H sure is much to read I also um

want to read Dracula soon another

classic um after NOS ratu I [ __ ]

loved nosu man I watched it on January

1st and I was like is it too early to

call out my movie of the year I loved it

so [ __ ] much so good love me a good

classic vampire so I might want to read

um Dracula this year but yeah that was

it actually I guess it is 5:30 I should

go because Sean uh is leaving in a bit

as well so I want to say bye

properly um what an unusual stream

a um I'll post this picture

in Discord and on socials but I hope you

guys liked it I know it's very different

from the usual and not everyone is into

books obviously not many people want to

be big

readers um but yeah that's all I read

last year quite a bit I don't know how

much I'll read this year I'm I so again

I feel like I'm taking it slow but slow

is like I still read a book in like 5

days so I got to finish up my uh boring

Paul trbl book that'll be a rank f for

sure next year see you guys there next

year put them right in FD

again anything that I've put in F tier

it was good enough to get published

obviously it's just that I didn't gel

with it um I'm sure there's people out

there who love those books that I put in

F tier so it's all very personal isn't

it I'm very particular in what I like I

know that I'm very particularly and very

specifically into Haunted House books

and I'm sure there's people out there

who are like oh Haunted House books are

so [ __ ] boring so TW each your own

you know