EVERY BOOK I READ IN FEBRUARY (great horror, meh thrillers) | February reading wrap up

EVERY BOOK I READ IN FEBRUARY (great horror, meh thrillers) | February reading wrap up
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How to Lose an Extraterrestrial in Ten Days- amzn.to/42YpWBl
Unhinged- amzn.to/49QMNS5
Wuthering Heights- amzn.to/433Y7HW
The Silent Patient- amzn.to/49AVQGy
Red Velvet Vengeance- amzn.to/49rYhLr
Bone White- amzn.to/3wDCfad
The Black Farm- amzn.to/430o0YU
His and Hers- amzn.to/3wFWxji
The Hollow Dead- amzn.to/434QrVQ
Never Lie- amzn.to/3SY70hr
The Cement Garden- amzn.to/42XlDGt
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[@pandastrix4082]

If you get to it this year I still highly HIGHLY recommend checking out Iain Reid’s 3 horror fiction books: I’m thinking of ending things, Foe, and We Spread. He has a tangible style of writing that if you enjoy the first one you’ll love all three, if not then he might not be for you which is okay but his books are so thought provoking and profound and can be endlessly analyzed and theorized. I’m thinking of ending things was one of the first horror books I ever read and I still think about it to this day. I think it’s amazing and I need everyone on this planet to read it lol

[@MaryRose86]

I like thrillers because sometimes I want something silly and over the top that feels more like a made for tv movie

[@neontetra000]

I totally feel the same about thrillers!! They usually start out amazing and then the ending is so lackluster... I think part of it is that the explanation/mystery is usually incredibly mundane (to me). I love the feeling of figuring out what's happening, but I am admittedly kind of bad at it haha!

[@spicelord3006]

Black Farm was on my list for years, and then I randomly found it one day at B&N! And it exceeded my expectations. I thought it was going to be all gore--no story, but dude the worldbuilding actually blew my mind. This book covered pretty much all my fears and phobias and nightmares. It was horrifying and also fantastical in a way? I thought it kind of funny how the main guy sort of went from this lost, terrified soul, to John Wick of purgatory within the span of like fifty pages, but it was still bad ass and entertaining enough that it didn't ruin my immersion. I have the sequel but haven't started it yet. I rated it five stars!

[@ashtonmirai]

Black Farm is my favorite book!! The world-building really is so good :)

[@purplewitchapothecary]

The last line of never lie was adorable, actually. I love horror and thrillers that have a disturbing yet cute ending.

[@PariahKari]

You’ve quickly become my fav booktuber. I get a lot out of your reviews and really trust your opinions when choosing my next read 🤘

[@josephcossey1811]

A review of Wuthering Heights without a single mention of Kate Bush!

[@richardives4811]

I hope Fuck you Heathcliff becomes Anda’s new catchphrase 😅

[@amandalavery6282]

I love thrillers but in a thriller reading slump because I can ordinarily predict the ending. I can't absolutely can not stand a book I can predict. I just finished razorblade tears by S A Crosby. EVERYONE loves this book, I enjoyed it, it was written well and did enjoy fast paced, however, I figured out who the killer was early on. Am now reading the pain right now, only 15% in but so far I like it . I hope u continue to read thrillers and vlog about them. Very curious which ones catch ur attention and end up thoroughly enjoying. Thank u!❤

[@kleffgoeverafter]

Oh my gosh this perfectly prepares me for Wuthering Heights. Totally picked it up because it was mentioned a bunch in a book I was reading and decided to finally borrow it from my library

[@fischifischfisch7620]

I love Thrillers and I absolutely did not like The Silent Patient. The Ending was the one I thought about in the beginning and was like: "Hopefully it's not THIS" and then it was THIS. And I was so disappointed about the solution to why she was silent.

[@charlespeterson8659]

Thanks for the recommendation of Black Mouth. I really dug it.

[@jthutt5042]

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[@erincraig6169]

I feel about thrillers the same as you do. I keep reading them and am often disappointed. You nailed how I feel.

[@AndaKent]

It's so hard to find really great thrillers! But I can't stop trying 😂

[@WilliamWright-ls3nt]

The silent patient is in my stack..nice to see a review

[@ronnie2159]

If you're still wanting to read thrillers that have unpredictable but not out of nowhere endings, The Woman in Cabin 10 had a twist that really surprised me but it came together in a way that made sense

[@Genderfluidclown]

I'm also not much if a thriller person now but The Silent Patient was what kinda of guided me into horror so it will always hold a little place in my heart

[@kaitlynshuler4092]

Thrillers are my favorite genre to read. For me, it's a bit like riding a roller coaster. I might be able to see the track before I get on. I might be able to see what's coming while I'm riding it. But it's still fun because I'm just there to enjoy the ride

[@jessicafoster8738]

Hahah yeah it might be your countrymen that termed WH a romance! Maybe tragi-goth-romance lol. But yeah, in English lit it's thought of as a gothic tale. I'm surprised at this being your first read of it given that gothic element. I hope you can come back and read it again with a new gothic lense over it. :) Have you read any Lisa Jewell thrillers? By no means high brow but quite decent writing, popular modern British, often leave me in a weird headspace actually--maybe The Night She Disappeared. Although probably don't fit the brief of particularly different and more just quick reads for getting one out of a slump. McEwan is shoved down our throat in Eng lit too (here in Aus), for Atonement, and for good reason, so I often see him as very literary but I know he did stranger stuff at the start of his career so I will take the recommendation. :) I echo someone here's rec of Iain Reid, I want to read him soon too.

[@captainsquid790]

Most times when I read thrillers, I end up guessing the twists and who the killer is and such. And honestly I like when I’m right. I love to be proven right. But! If I’m wrong, I love it even more because there’s usually something I wasn’t expecting! Not every thriller is good and alot are predictable to a point of having no suspense or is very bland and those I feel like most people don’t care for but generally I think thrillers are great!

[@danaepyle8003]

Happy early birthday!🎉

[@TheWizardLibrary]

Since you mention liking grief fiction/horror I would like to recommend These Things Linger by Dan Franklin. It's a short little supernatural horror but it deals a lot with grief and loss of a parental figure and you might like it.

[@2377miller]

I am reading more books than I ever have in my entire life thanks to your recs and getting me into reading. February, I read Dead Inside, Carnie, Its me Charlie, Santasplotation, Maeve Fly, and The Christmas Morning Massacre, and Woom... I just started Not forever but for now, and want to do American Psycho and Fight Club for my next three... Did you know that The Christmas Morning Massacre writer Nasser Rabadi, the book is number one in a set of Raven Hill Butcher series? I want to read the other eight. Have you read them?

[@GeesebreathLive]

Still waiting for your Exquisite Corpse review! Definitely gonna be a love it or hate it reaction.

[@darkclaw3296]

I'm currently reading Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre for the first time as well!

[@nannersreads]

I just read The Collected Regrets of Clover about a death doula, and think you might really like it too. I highly recommend it ❤

[@lifewithlizzie1323]

Wuthering Heights is anything but a romance but l adore it

[@AndaKent]

It's a great read! I just didn't expect to STILL be thinking about how much I hate Heathcliff months later 😂

[@lifewithlizzie1323]

@AndaKent I feel Hindley is partly to blame for Heathcliff's personality, but he is an arrogant sod. Of all the classics, Mr Rochester will always be my favourite! I dont think any of the classics will beat Jane Eyre for me

[@12sweet]

My birthday is St. Patrick's Day too... yay!! ☘️🍀☘️

[@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk]

If you are looking for a good thriller, what about something older. Most books by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler are great. The Maltese Falcon is excellently written. Best wishes.

[@grey_wulf]

I'm currently reading The Immaculate Void by Brian Hodge. It's been quite a weird journey. Highly recommend for those who enjoy existentialism and cosmic horror.

[@MikeJH82]

Just to make a point about Wuthering Heights - and this isn't a criticism as I made this mistake myself for a long time - it's Wuthering Heights, not Withering Heights. The natural tendency is to take the title as meaning something like "dizzying heights", but "wuthering" means "windy" - or more exactly "with a loud roaring wind", which refers to the desolate, windswept environment of the Yorkshire Moors which is the novel's setting.

[@SKIUPOD]

Currently reading Bone White!

[@CharlestonSocietyOfHorror]

Do you have Goodreads where we can follow you?

[@steveralston8837]

The Wuthering Heights movie from 1939 with Laurence Olivier is pretty good and most famous adaptation. And it differs quite a bit from the book so it might make an interesting video comparison. I really liked the Last Man on Earth comparison

[@virginiaramirez8385]

If you want thrillers with surprising endings then read "Deep Storm" by Lincoln Child. Also, I recommend the short story horror collection "999". The Joyce Carol Oates story deals with a weird house and a very weird family. Also the Bentley Little story is messed up and shocking.

[@JdowgRocco]

All Your Little Raindrops by Mia Sheridan is right up your alley. It’s dark, twisted, and so much more.

[@JdowgRocco]

Go into it blind if you do read it. Do not read what it is about. It’s so much better going into it blind. I promise

[@payntale000]

Have you ever read The Night Parade by Ronald Malfi? That book gutted me and is one of my favorites this year!

[@AndaKent]

Yes! His books always destroy me a little.

[@seagull8415]

Ive tried a bunch of thrillers only for them to write themselves into a corner and then a big stupid coincidence happens to resolve things, im so fed up of it.

[@jamesanderson7060]

Any Mo Hayder book is my shout for good thriller

[@haleydarko2989]

I loved Wuthering Heights solely for the drama of it all.

[@bby.kaylamarie]

I agree I like when thrillers leave clues but at the end you can’t really guess or they end up making me surprised! If I can guess the killer or surprise I usually don’t like the book as much. Also how does someone have a relationship with a door lol who comes up with these books?😂😂

[@danieleigh6468]

Omg I love Nellie Steele cozy mystery I’m reading her Middle age is murder series book one is Moving is murder I love it!!! Check out her books she writes ghostly series too! This one I’m reading I absolutely love they should make a movie. I’m also reading Mortuary Confidential undertakers spill the dirt by Kenneth McKenzie and Todd Hara check that one out!

[@GabrielTheMagolorMain]

I got Gospel Singer by Harry Crews after you hauled it, I too am looking for more weird, more deep books, feeling like I’ve read every mystery/thriller type out there. So I wanted to recommend Ghost Radio by Leopoldo Gout, there are illustrations that I don’t think are necessary, they’re just cool, I didn’t even look at all of them cause they’re on every chapter, but the audio is by Pedro Pascual, and there are small chapters with a radio show so it’s perfect for audio. But that is a grief novel, when you mentioned that it made me think to recommend..grief and also just a different weird horror. Something on my radar is Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor, it seems every book by this author makes people uncomfortable 😊 I’m not an Alice Feeney fan, Daisy Darker was incredibly predictable, I was disappointed the author didn’t do more to cover the twist..her writing is like vibes, which I usually love, but I just don’t love how her plots are done for some reason.

[@user-sv6rw1uy2v]

I was recommended Silent Patent, enjoyed beginning, easy to get into. Quickly got ‘meh’. Read Mirror Land straight after (recommended same person) love it. “Fuck Heathcliff” is the best thing I’ve heard this year, the toxicity in the characters. ❤❤

[@ilFanEditore]

Regarding thrillers, I suggest something by Franck Thilliez. He's a french novelist notorious for convoluted plots and plot twists. I don't know if he's translated in English (I suppose he is, considering I read him in Italian), but I enjoyed the novels I've read.

[@Zwiftsushi]

I really loved the black farm. It was so unique. I wouldn’t recommend the second one though. The end was wild but the whole story was lacking

[@rvt_h3d]

wuthering heights is one of my fav books ever

[@josephcossey1811]

I discovered Ian McEwan at around the same time as I first read John Irving who seems to be sadly neglected on booktube. Impossible to compare the two although they both deal with challenging and often transgressive topics. The World According To Garp, The Hotel New Hampshire and The Cider House Rules are some of John Irvings best and warmly recommended.

[@nicolebegovic1483]

You didn’t get surprised by the Silent Patient? My mind was blown by the plot twist, timeline thing. Damn.

[@JohnSaxon-vw5vi]

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[@roseannbroz8131]

If you enjoy Ian McEwan writing and style you should try Atonement. Great novel.

[@pandastrix4082]

I got so much reading done this month, I was so proud of myself lol. 2024 is the year I finish the books I bought 🫡

[@annahuber2977]

Idk if they are thrillers or just suspenseful fiction (and it might just be that I loved him in high-school and early college) but I've always thought Herman Koch is great. I like The Dinner and Dear Mr. M by him. His work is less thriller like finding the bad guy, it's more like unraveling what happened and what the whole story is. But yeah Ive been struggling with thrillers haha. Also- "What in the snap crackle" 😅😅😂😂

[@josephcossey1811]

Ian McEwan is probably best known for his award winning novel Atonement, but for me his best work are the early short story collections especially In Between The Sheets.

[@jthutt5042]

Alex Michaelides new book The Fury is very good. Also good thriller: The Listener by Robert R. McCammon (actually anything by McCammon is a good read).

[@CarlyAlison317]

Aw we have the same birthday!

[@AndaKent]

No way! Happy late birthday!

[@coreyledin-bristol7068]

I've never been able to finish Wuthering Heights. The beginning is so chaotic and confusing that I just give up

[@AndaKent]

It's definitely told in a strange way. It took me a minute to get into too.

[@NamasteBbooktube]

I think you should read 'The Cuckoo's Calling' by Robert Galbraith (J K Rowling). Wild ending, cleverly laid down clues, cleverer red herrings. Fantastic detective novel that I read twice.

[@phillipayriss3608]

Or actually don't f**k Heathcliff, that would be poor judgement.

[@jeff8835]

I didn't like The Silent Patient either, i'd put it in the lesser category. Try out Val McDermid, she's good!!

[@josephcossey1811]

I recently read a thriller/mystery by a reputable novelist wherein one of the leading female characters turns out in the final few pages to be a male cross dresser complete with long blonde wig and high heels! I've never thrown a book across the room before but it was touch and go for a few moments!

[@richardives4811]

Anda reading Alice Feeney quotes 😂

[@Eucis93]

As I read more thrillers I’m realizing I only really like the more nasty/brutal ones. I went through my ratings and I tend to give the whodunit’s and “soft” thrillers 1-2 stars where as the more descriptive, gross ones get 4 stars. And I enjoy it more if the killer is extra fucked up lol So technically I guess I just enjoy thrillers because they include gore and body horror?

[@PariahKari]

Does Anda have a vid of her all time 5 star books?

[@MandalaBunnyhome]

I absolutely hated The Silent Patient, like i just dont understand why people love it so much, it was the biggest letdown.

[@MeghanReads]

Ma’am I just read ice planet barbarians coz I thought it would be silly and my brain is so co fused right now. Thrillers that’s endings make no sense-behind her eyes, the last thriller I ever read, the ending infuriated me

[@bg4801]

I do not like extreme horror/gore. The exceptions being Clive Barker and Edward Lee. That said when I read the Black Farm I absolutely loved it. It was a random read and I am so glad I read it. The sequel is very good as well. Just a well written story about almost hell.

[@TromsoNAM]

I really struggled to get through Wuthering Heights for all the reasons you've outlined. Can't fathom why it's so beloved. Thank you!

[@rainbowsquee7188]

To me, Wuthering Heights is about abusive relationships, toxic people, and toxic family/living environments. This was not a fun trip. A look into abuse.

[@leonlegend]

I read 1 book this month (not much of a reader) it's called Night Warriors. It sucked. The end. Ok, fine, I'll write about it. It's starts these eels that are born out of a human woman & begin to eat her from the inside. 3 people find the body on a beach & call the police. When the police get there & discover the eels, one of them bites half of 1 officer's face off. The book had a really good start but it all goes downhill from there. The writer tries to give an explanation of all religions & it reads like the author is an atheist. The eels are supposedly getting stronger the longer the live but they do nothing & only ever cause any kind of damage as freshly new borns. Their father who is the root of all evil was trapped in a box with an iron lock around which really makes you think 'wow, the all powerful lord of darkness sure is mighty.' And at the end of the book, he invades the protagonist's house while he sleeps. He newborn babies would bite people's faces off but he goes in with a surgeon's knife. He also starts pleading with the protagonist when he wakes up with booze & women that manifests out of thin air which implies that he can use magic but doesn't know how to use it properly. And the heroes suck , too. The quick & agile one of the group gets left behind because she could keep up with a 50 year old alcoholic & someone carrying something heavy. The protagonist doesn't really do much in the night (which is where they have there powers), he just acts like a battery to give his allies energy. Again, 50 year old alcoholic, how much energy can he possibly have? During the day however, he does pretty much everything, he literally takes a gun from one of his mates so he can shoot one of the eels at one point despite not having any experience with firearms or being in a better position. Also, when they weaken the evil being (who has a dumb name, I'm going to even try & type), he claims that he will hunt them down but then a time skip (in a book?) of 6 weeks pass with no sight of him. Again, really fearful & intimidating demon. 3 chapters are basically filler where nothing interesting happens except for the last of the 3 that is short & proves my point about the fresh new borns being more dangerous than the ultimate evil. There is also 3 instances where characters give up living instantly. It's alsmost comical, like somebody walks into a room, startles someone who inadvertently causes someone to blow their brains out. There are 20 chapters & I hate the 1st chapter was so good that it kept me reading through the bad chapters & at the point where I'm ready to drop it, another good chapter happened. Next time I got fed up, I had already read more than half so I might as well read it all. But you don't have to, so don't do it.

[@pandastrix4082]

I read the full length Flowers for Algernon novel by Daniel Keyes which was so fucking sad and I loved it - 10/10 I also finished We Spread by Iain Reid which was surrealist horror at its best, super trippy and super anxiety inducing - 8/10 Then I finished three extreme horror books Zola by D E Mckluskey, True Crime by Samantha Kolesnik, and Violence on the Meek by Stuart Bray, Zola was without a doubt the most disgusting book I’ve ever read and it makes Cows look like Cat in the Hat, it was funny but also so visceral and nasty and it ruined my week lol - 6/10 True Crime I hated and failed to connect with the characters or the story, it wasn’t a bad book per se I just think it wasn’t for me and failed to engage me in a massive way - 2/10 Violence on the Meek I loved, it was incredibly graphic possibly the most violent book I ever read but It was really funny with a hilariously detached main character that reminded me a lot of Dead Inside by Chandler Morrison, it wasn’t the best written and by no means was it literature but it was just a fun easy read that i was able to pick up and speed through it to the end - 7.5/10

[@pandastrix4082]

I also read the Resurrectionist by Wrath James White but I can’t remember if I read it late January or early February so I didn’t include it lol 😂. I really liked it, it got wordy and slow towards the middle of the book but it was a fun ride that I finished quickly and I liked how it ended - solid 7/10

[@CiardisInferno99]

Oh lordy, Wuthering Heights. I was 14 the first time I read it and hated it so much! As an adult I've come to appreciate the story more, but yeah it's not romantic in ANY way, shape or form! And I agree about The Silent Patient. Great concept, gross execution

[@sundaymorning9699]

i also read wuthering heights for the first time this month!! to be honest, heathcliff IS so fucking evil, but i kinda loved it. i felt so bad for baby heathcliff, and even worse that he ended up the way he did probably Because he was forced to be raised around this weird ass family in the middle of nowhere. it gets to a point where i cant tell if emily bronte was trying to tell a story about what it could potentially be like to be a child of color raised in a white family back in the old days, and how stunted the cultural divide left him- or if she actually was kinda racist and implying that he would have been that person either way Because he was a poc. either way, i agree that it isnt a romance, but i wonder if this type of toxic codependency story is its own subgenre of romance fiction. surely, there are Loads of romance books marketed as such that, upon closer inspection, are just as toxic and codependent. makes you think. i highly recommend the 2011 movie adaptation, very beautiful and goes a long way towards humanizing the both of them, without glossing over how fucked up they became as adults.

[@thedemonpigs5272]

I do love a thriller but unlike the rest of the world I hated The Silent Patient 😂

[@Matrichens]

Literally just finish Black Mouth… good shout! Shall be checking out more Malfi in future

[@kurtwoods7546]

If you want a really great thriller read "Stillhouse Lake" by Rachel Caine. It is probably THE best thriller book ive ever read.............

[@happybanana4421]

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[@lisapoe888]

I didn’t care for the silent patent either I think I threw it in the trash like I do with books that are meaningless 😅

[@em-635]

why throw them out? you can at least donate them

[@lisapoe888]

@@em-635 i usually give them to my brother or put in my friends corridor where they have some books you can leave or take. But no one wants my old horror books😭

[@jonreads366]

Silent Patient has my least favorite trope (to say what that is would spoil) but I thought it did it well and it made me mad when I actually liked it. I understand your complicated feelings towards it because mine are too haha Idk if it counts as a "thriller" but magpie murders by anthony horowitz and its sequel would be a good mystery/thriller for you to check out

[@mk-ur4cq]

I'd never have guessed but jane eyre is awesome. So so good. , I'll assume all bronte stuff will be great. Tried pride and prejudice after and couldn't finish it. For me it was awful. Did pride and prejudice and zombies instead. Much better than the original.

[@AndaKent]

I was definitely thinking of Jane Eyre when I read Wuthering Heights and I was surprised at how different they were! Both great but Jane Eyre is one of my absolute favorites.

[@mk-ur4cq]

Mine too! ​@@AndaKent

[@jesshughes776]

I LIKE YOUR COMMENTS ON LOVE. IF YOU WANT THE REAL DEAL CHECK OUT 1 CORINTHIANS 13. AMONG OTHER THINGS IT SAYS, Love suffers long and is kind;, does not seek its own; bears all things; endures all things....

[@buchdeckel1543]

You are living in california and i am living in Berlin Germany but we are one the same wave. I Just say f**k heathcliff. I totally agree. 😂

[@UltimateDrDoom]

So. Pedantry warning. Wuthering Heights is not a romantic novel. It’s a novel written in the Romantic Era.

[@rachellangella8595]

"Everyone is kind of a dick" pretty much sums up Wuthering Heights in general, but yeah, Heathcliff and Catherine are horrible people, and I don't like anyone except the clueless tenant who just wants to tea about why everyone is a dick.

[@garysscaryfaeries3046]

I was viewing number 666 😂