Excessive Violence & Felon Housemaids | Weekly Reading Wrap Up #22

Hey ya'll! It's time for #22 wrap up of 2024. In Weekly Reading Wrap-Up #22, I'm wrapping books that have excessive violence and some that have felon housemaids. Let me know what you've been reading in the comments down below.
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0:00 Introduction
2:19 Picture Books
6:11 Graphic Novels, Comics, & Manga
6:52 Afternoon on the Amazon & Sunset of the Sabertooth
9:38 Outlander
20:11 We Got the Beat
25:41 The Son of Neptune
30:16 And Then There Was Us
37:03 The Housemaid
44:28 The Teacher
50:23 The Oath
57:53 Currently Reading
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[@shalalala4875]

I appreciate hearing your thoughts on re-reading Outlander. I still have not been able to get through the book or TV show due to the excessive and extremely graphic sexual violence.

[@JoshsBookishVoyage]

I loved the magic tree house as a kid. I've been considering doing a binge read through like the first 50. It was something that got me so excited to read.

[@lonesomedovecall822]

I've read eight books by Freida McFadden (so far) and I've learned that I NEVER know where she's going with her stories, LOL. She's definitely the Queen of plot twists, for sure!

[@trailofdebris]

I've been in a reading slump for a while, but your videos are still so interesting and entertaining. i really value your opinion

[@moustik31]

Freida McFadden is one of my favorite "domestic thrillers" writer. I like, how she features imperfect to downright villain protagonists and her plot twists are always entertaining! She is really fun to read, despite the plot holes.

[@TorturedBookClub]

Loved your thoughts on The Housemaid, I just finished the second one literally today and also within a day or two and you're so right about the readability of it as well as the how unexpected the twists are!

[@Tia_MB]

The Oath is my fave romance this year so far! I want to re-read it soon!

[@ohladysamantha]

I saw your review for the Oath on Goodreads and it immediately went on my TBR.

[@ashleys_space]

I’m in the minority with Frieda McFadden. Her books are very choppy, predictable, and YA driven. I wish I knew just how bad The Housemaid would trigger me. Everybody avoids explaining because they feel like they can’t without giving away too much, but it’s not that difficult. Idk, but I wish I knew just how much gaslighting ,manipulation , a verbal abuse Millie was going to have to take before I read it. That wife was unnecessary abusive all because she had her own plans. Then she left Millie to deal with it. I cried many times in the books from the abuse she was giving Millie because I just left a situation similar to the way she was treating Millie. She was just as bad as her husband but we were supposed to say “ oh, it’s okay because of her situation “. Nope! Maybe I wasn’t in the right head space for that book but it was full of triggering domestic violence from the wife (mostly). 😭

[@neecey1249]

I'm so happy and validated by your outlander opinion. I am a bookseller and a very sweet elder regular bought it for me because it was her favorite book. I ended up dnfing it because i couldn't make it through the sexual violence. Male and female throughout the errr 35 percent i read.

[@MsKatze]

I read the Outlander books, and I totally agree. The sexual violence was way too much, and I had to skip over those parts. I also didn't like how she seemed to so easily fall out of love with Frank.

[@TheWordN3rd]

I don't think we talk enough about how Rick came in and took his series from something that was solidly MG to something that blurs the lines between MG and YA. He really nailed having the books growing up with the characters.

[@pinkpearlpages]

i love watching your videos while working- your videos are so soothing, and you have such insightful and thoughtful insights that i learn a lot from! thank you for all of your effort and emotional energy that you put forth for these videos, and thank you for calling out the homophobic rhetoric in Outlander

[@dawndiscusses5685]

You've sold me on The Oath. I wouldve never picked it up from the premise alone but you made it sound divine.

[@heyimsasa]

literally my face literally changing with each beat as you described 'the oath' 😱🤨😮🥵 LOOOOL

[@AndiBfishbowlwoman]

I tried hard to like Outlander, but I just couldn't get past Claire's *very* quick pivot from her husband to Jamie. Didn't even get far enough to be upset by the overuse of SA, thankfully!

[@Angelareadsalot]

You voiced beautifully the issues I had with The Teacher. I couldn’t even rate it after that epilogue. I was like…”Girl, I was rooting for you! And now you completely ruined it!” Freida…🤷🏼‍♀️

[@needleshooksandbooks1332]

We read The Teacher for my book club in May and none of us really liked the book (for the reasons discussed) but it was also one of the best book club discussions we've ever had. So much to talk about...especially with that last twist. I was the only one in our group who thought she KNEW...and it bothered me because I felt the writing then wasn't ok because there's no way she wouldn't have been thinking about what she knew. I spent way too much time thinking about this book...but it was a good one for our book club and what came from those discussions.

[@parmahmac6073]

Now Miss Ashley. I have bought so many books this month. I am trying to start a low spend budget on July 1st, but I’m not supposed to be buying anymore books for a while. I hurt my finger pressing so hard and fast on my tablet buying The Oath. 😂😂😂

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[@Neil-writer-author]

I’m reading Lethal Agent by Kyle Mills.

[@jalondradavis1565]

Please read The Next Mrs. Parrish next to the Housemaid. Freida McFadden’s books are readable as hell but I think she be plagiarizing books and I see no one talking about it…it’s not the only one that’s very similar to another previously published thriller.

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[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

Freida McFadden's books have so many McTwists it is difficult to talk about the books without giving spoilers. The Housemaid was the first I read of hers and the subsequent books I read (The Inmate, The Wife Upstairs and The Teacher) by her I was expecting some twists because that seems to be her modus operandi.

[@andreawatts5224]

I am a big fan of the Outlander series and I also read the first book when I was 18. I have reread them through again over the years and the first book frankly isn't my favorite nor do I think it's the best written. There is a ton of violence and sexual violence and this does continue throughout the series. Jaime fights in multiple wars, slight spoiler( his daughter and later in the series Claire are both raped in different books). Thinking on it again, perhaps this is a failing of her writing style since it is so detailed and she wants every bit of anguish and gore to come at you full force. There is also a companion series about Lord John, kind of a morally grey gay character who falls in love with Jaime and pops up multiple times throughout the main series. I can see why this would be very off-putting to some readers. As far as the watching the show, I do think there's too much sex shown for it to be tasteful, so I usually recommend the books because you can always skip a few pages.