January Reading Wrap Up- First Wrap Up of 2024! • Thriller • Horror • Feminist Fiction

[@douglasseugene]

I have no business being awake right now, but KZbin has blessed me with this video. Who am I to decline?

[@ReadingWryly]

😂 🙌🏻❤️

[@jessicaw1839]

I'm glad you didn't edit out the corgis!! 🤗

[@katrinabrown]

I didn't know Pamela Schumacher was going to write her own book! I would read that! I loved Bright Young Women!

[@ReadingWryly]

That’s what I’ve heard, of course I haven’t researched it myself, so technically it’s heresay.

[@alexingram4942]

👹 my copy of monstrilio just got here and I’m having to use all my willpower to wait until my homework is done before I start! Love your reviews as always!

[@ReadingWryly]

😂 Good on you for getting that homework done first!

[@rebeccaflynn5204]

Fabulous reviews!! Fabulous 👹

[@ReadingWryly]

Thank you!

[@kirstenhamann4930]

👹 I always enjoy the monthly wrap ups!

[@ReadingWryly]

Thank you! ❤️🙌🏻

[@jreadingbooks]

Love your videos! From a fellow thriller reader/corgi mom 😊

[@ReadingWryly]

Yay! Thank you!

[@ash.s_bookshelf]

The live show for Bright Young Women was so awesome. And I love all three of y’all’s channels! I’m trying to get through Monstrilio so I can watch the live show too. I’m often too late for the live, but I watch it later. Work always gets in the way of my reading lol

[@ReadingWryly]

Thank you! That’s completely understandable. Thanks for participating in whatever way works for you! ❤️🙌🏻

[@literatelyalees]

I appreciated your synopsis of Monstrilio!! I’m about 70% of the way through it right now and not really sure where I stand with it but that recap was amazing and now I’m excited for M’s pov 😄

[@ReadingWryly]

Yes!!! It’s gets wild.

[@literarylove123]

Great wrap-up! I really enjoyed the live show discussion of Monstrilio. I look forward to seeing what's in store for the rest of 2024👾

[@ReadingWryly]

Thank you for joining the live! And me too. 🙌🏻❤️

[@MlleGhoul]

I think you've convinced me to give Everything the Darkness Eats another try! Maybe it's because I was doing the audiobook, I don't know, it just didn't grab me for whatever reason...but everything you've said here makes me think maybe I'm missing out...!

[@isamar3301]

Your description of monstrilio and the 2 books you compared it to 😱 to interesting!

[@jessieartsdaily]

🧟‍♀️ awesome video.

[@ReadingWryly]

Thank you!

[@aprilhutchens2105]

I thought "Dead of Winter" was unspeakably predictable. I knew immediately who the villain was.

[@ReadingWryly]

That’s valid

[@claire890]

Thanks for this video. I really enjoyed your thoughts here -- and on Gabby's channel -- on Bright Young Women. It was such a good well written book -- I did give it 5 stars. But it is true that you cannot help but feel slightly uncomfortable about the fictionalisation of the trauma that they suffered. In a way it would have been much better to write that same book without the defendant being based on a real person. Monstrilio while it sounds interesting I now know is not a book for me. 👾👻

[@sherip1593]

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[@ReadingWryly]

😂🙌🏻

[@jennafra]

The woman who Pamela is based off of did write her own book. It is called A Light in the Dark: surviving more than Ted Bundy and her name is Kathy Kleiner Rubin.

[@ReadingWryly]

I’ve heard that said a few times now. It looks like I may have been wrong on that distinction. I apologize. Thanks for the info!

[@teresarollen7425]

Always love your Wrap Ups. I also just recently read Bright Young Women and Monstrillo and gave them both 4 stars. 👾

[@ReadingWryly]

Thank you! Love that!

[@leapanda2467]

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[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

Ooof Anna O was on my TBR… now I’m not so sure

[@greeranelson]

I think I’ll give it a try this summer. Even if it doesn’t work out, I like trying a book with an interesting premise.

[@ReadingWryly]

By all means, I’d love to hear other opinions!

[@soda_fairy]

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[@susiekidd9183]

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[@ReadingWryly]

That’s an awesome compliment. Thank you! 🙌🏻

[@sophhnavarro]

Everything the Darkness Eats made me cry so yes, def look content warnings! Also my lowest rated book by them because the ending did not land for me either.😅 otherwise interesting characters, themes, and loved the weirdness of what was going on with Ghost's plotline.

[@ReadingWryly]

It definitely went off the wall toward the end! lol. I get that.

[@cathiesimpson6593]

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[@michaelmyerslovesbooks]

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[@LisaK1075]

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[@abagby1869]

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[@jyotikaurlife]

I read the 'Fury' and I also found the narrator monologue very annoying! I just wanted him to be quiet. I think the twists and turns in the end were fun but nothing super memorable about the overall book. It was an interesting concept though so overall I liked it but not memorable in that it made me really think or say 'wow, what a book!'

[@ReadingWryly]

I agree with all of that! 🙌🏻❤️

[@MichaelaPreece]

Pamela Schumacher is a fictional character. The survivor called Kathy Kleiner released her own memoir 'A Light in the Dark' around the same time as Bright Young Women. I don't believe Jesscia Knoll should be cashing is on a real life case, it should of been completely fictionalised. She has made no effort to direct people to Kathy's own story, to give a bit of context A Light in the Dark has 202 ratings on Goodreads and Jessica Knoll has nearly 60,000. Extremely icky

[@ReadingWryly]

Knoll at least spoke with Kathy in the writing of the book. She has written that Kathy helped her. But that is interesting that she’s already written a book!

[@brandim1230]

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[@alli956]

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[@kathyohara333]

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[@TurnbasedBooks]

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[@tealahiggins]

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[@GothicBookLover]

I'm reading 'The Fury' now...and to me, the trope I'm finding annoying is the narrator that isn't unreliable, but is deceitful. How am I supposed to get into the story if the narrator keeps throwing out hints that he isn't being honest. If a narrator is unlikable then that dooms a story. For the writing alone, I am giving it 3.5 stars...but I just finished Act 2 so my rating might go down once I read the final 100+ pages. We shall see

[@ReadingWryly]

I like reading certain “unlikeable characters” but not this one.

[@GothicBookLover]

@@ReadingWryly I finished the book and it was 3 stars. I should also add that this is the first book I read of his so that could be why I didn't DNF it lol.

[@hospitalfood6621]

My daughter just bought Dead of Winter for me today! I love Darcy Coates but everything I’ve read so far from her has been about haunted houses, which I do love. So I think this is going to be a different Darcy for me. ❄️🪓🔪😱

[@ReadingWryly]

Love that! Happy reading! ❤️🙌🏻

[@sonyablanchard]

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[@ladylovesteadreads]

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[@BRhymesss]

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[@meridithcurran3092]

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