As far as BookTube goes I posted a bunch of new videos this week and have some planned for next For Better and Worse (watch that here), my November wrap up that was incredibly fantasy heavy (watch that one here), a negative spoiler free review for Girls of Paper and Fire (see it here), and finally my Friday Reads video which actually includes my Book of the Month unboxing for December (right here). Sunday my November book haul will be going up. I ended up acquiring eight books last month, a good mix of YA and fantasy. Then Tuesday my spoiler free video review for Malice will be going up. Further in 
week already. For a quick recap I put up a spoiler free review of
My BookTube watching habits have definitely been changing in the past couple of weeks. I first noticed that I wasn't keeping up with the channels I'm subscribed to as much as I had been for the past couple of months. I am even avoiding some of the creators that I used to watch more regularly. It occurred to me that this may be related to my reading habits moving away from a YA focus and more so towards adult fiction. Most of the channels I'm watching regularly have creators closer to my own age and reading high fantasy and adult fiction. I'm interested to see if this trend continues into 2019.
I've also been fairly active on here in the past week. First I put up a my review for For Better and Worse. Click here for that one. Then I went through my Goodreads account and put together my November wrap up, which you can see here. If you're looking for a holiday themed read that is kid friendly I definitely recommend check out my review for Letters from Father Christmas here. It is a great collection of letters that J. R. R. Tolkien wrote for his kids as Father Christmas. The letters and accompanying illustrations are gorgeous. Finally, I got a review up for Nine Perfect Strangers from last week's Friday Reads post. If you're looking for something quirky check out that review here.
Overall, it's been a great week for reading and sharing book reviews! I've already read two books this week and if you check out my Nine Perfect Strangers review you'll see that I had a bit of a hiccup midweek because of a book hangover. Below check out the books I'll be reading this weekend, including the one that completely destroyed my reading slump and one not included in my video!
Happy reading!
Title: No ExitAuthor: Taylor Adams
Page Count: 333
Progress: Finished
Format Read: BOTM Hardcover
Genre: Thriller
Keywords: Kidnapping, Heroes, Blizzard
Kid Appropriate: No
Synopsis from Goodreads:
A brilliant, edgy thriller about four strangers, a blizzard, a kidnapped child, and a determined young woman desperate to unmask and outwit a vicious psychopath.
A kidnapped little girl locked in a stranger’s van. No help for miles. What would you do?
On her way to Utah to see her dying mother, college student Darby Thorne gets caught in a fierce blizzard in the mountains of Colorado. With the roads impassable, she’s forced to wait out the storm at a remote highway rest stop. Inside, are some vending machines, a coffee maker, and four complete strangers.
Desperate to find a signal to call home, Darby goes back out into the storm . . . and makes a horrifying discovery. In the back of the van parked next to her car, a little girl is locked in an animal crate.
Who is the child? Why has she been taken? And how can Darby save her?
There is no cell phone reception, no telephone, and no way out. One of her fellow travelers is a kidnapper. But which one?
Trapped in an increasingly dangerous situation, with a child’s life and her own on the line, Darby must find a way to break the girl out of the van and escape.
But who can she trust?
With exquisitely controlled pacing, Taylor Adams diabolically ratchets up the tension with every page. Full of terrifying twists and hairpin turns, No Exit will have you on the edge of your seat and leave you breathless.
My thoughts so far:
So this was in my Friday Reads video and I had just barely started it...I finished reading this in 3 hours! I will be posting a review for it this weekend so look out for that, but for now this book doesn't seem like much on the surface but oh boy does it hook you in! Fast paced, twisty, and a bit gory! Great thriller if you're looking for a distraction.
Title: One Day in DecemberAuthor: Josie Silver
Page Count: 393
Progress: 12
Format Read: BOTM Hardcover
Genre: Chick Lit
Keywords: Love at first sight, Friendship, Fate
Kid Appropriate: No
Synopsis from Goodreads:
A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick
“Get ready to be swept up in a whirlwind romance. It absolutely charmed me.” —Reese Witherspoon
“Josie Silver writes with a warmth so palpable her characters sneak their way into your heart and stay for a long time.”—Jill Santopolo, New York Times-bestselling author of The Light We Lost
Two people. Ten chances. One unforgettable love story.
Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic...and then her bus drives away.
Certain they're fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But she doesn't find him, not when it matters anyway. Instead they "reunite" at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. It's Jack, the man from the bus. It would be.
What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness.
My thoughts so far:
Just started this one and I was originally very excited to start it. I haven't read a good love story in a few months and was hopeful this would break that streak. It is definitely cute in the first few pages but I'm a bit apprehensive about how the triangle with the friend Sarah is going to work out and hope that I'm not left revolted by our main characters.
Title: Nos4a2Author: Joe Hill
Page Count: 692
Progress: 22
Format Read: Paperback
Genre: Horror
Keywords: Christmas, Evil, Children
Kid Appropriate: No
Synopsis from Goodreads:
NOS4A2 is a spine-tingling novel of supernatural suspense from master of horror Joe Hill, the New York Times bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box and Horns.
Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether it’s across Massachusetts or across the country.
Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2 vanity plate. With his old car, he can slip right out of the everyday world, and onto the hidden roads that transport them to an astonishing – and terrifying – playground of amusements he calls “Christmasland.”
Then, one day, Vic goes looking for trouble—and finds Manx. That was a lifetime ago. Now Vic, the only kid to ever escape Manx’s unmitigated evil, is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx never stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. He’s on the road again and he’s picked up a new passenger: Vic’s own son.
My thoughts so far:
I saw this originally on the BookTube channel myreadingisodd. I knew as soon as Natasha started talking about this Christmas themed horror novel that I had to give it a try.
If you didn't know, Joe Hill is Stephen King's son. I have been a King fan for years and I had remembered that his his sons were also writers but other than things they had cowrote with him I didn't think too much about it. I really should have paid more attention. There is definitely a similarity in their styles that I have picked up as I am making my way through Nos4a2 but it has its own addicting quality that I don't normally experience so early in a King novel.
I'm absolutely hopeful that this will become a horror favorite.
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