Hi, it's Maija here, and today I'm doing one of those 5 star book predictions videos
that I've seen around on Booktube. I think the first one was made by Mercedes
from Mercy's Bookish Musings. I will link her original video in the description. So,
I have chosen (1-2-3-4-5) five physical books and I think three
ebooks that I think are going to be 5 stars or that I think that I am going to
like a lot, because I am very strict about my 5 stars -
I give 5 stars out rarely. If a book is 4.5 stars I most often round it down to
four on Goodreads. 5 stars means it needs to have some sort of spark, some sort of
emotion that I connect to, to really raise it above that level. So I'm hoping
at least some of these books on this list will manage to do that. I have a
couple that might be safer bets, let's start with one of those. So the safest
bet on my list is The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin. I have rated both of the
previous books in this trilogy 5 stars, I doubt the conclusion will be getting
anything less than that. Then I have another pretty safe bet, which is Fool's
Assassin by Robin Hobb. I'm saying it's "pretty safe", because I either give four
or five stars to Robin Hobb's books usually. It depends on which volume of that
particular trilogy I connect to the most. I haven't read a book from Hobb that I didn't
enjoy so far. So this is gonna get at least four stars and I hope for five, since
it has been, like, 15 years since I last read about the adventures of Fitz and
the Fool in the final book of the Tawny Man trilogy. Yeah, you're probably
wondering why I haven't read this one yet, and it's because I decided to reread
the Tawny Man trilogy and it took me ages for some reason to get the courage
to read the final book in the trilogy. And now I still need to read the Rain
Wilds before reading this one, because I haven't read the Rainwilds before. But
Robin Hobb is a pretty safe bet for me. Continuing with the authors that I've read
before, I also put Daughter of Hounds by Caitlín R. Kiernan on the list. Caitlín
R. Kiernan writes dark fantasy, sort of horror mix,
and this is the latest book of hers that I own that I haven't read yet. I
have really liked her newer works, especially The Red Tree, I think that was really
great. Daughter of hounds, I think, is loosely
part of a series, maybe the one that have Threshold and Low Red Moon before
that, so I think I need to reread Threshold and then read Low Red Moon and then
this one, even though I think it's more of a companion novel. I think I need to
start reading them, I feel so excited holding this book! So the next two
physical books are from authors that I haven't read before. The first is Miss
Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson. I got this as a gift last
Christmas from Elizabeth from Books and Pieces. I have seen the movie of this
years ago and I really enjoyed it. It was really fun and heartwarming, and just a
good cozy time. It's about this woman called Miss Pettigrew, she's a governess
and she gets hired by this nightclub singer rather than a household of unruly
children, and it's this one day that she goes around town with the nightclub singer.
It could be really good if it's super cozy and just so heartwarming that I get
all the feels, it might get five stars. Next I have a nonfiction, you might know
that I do not read a lot of nonfiction, but I have owned for years now
Tom Reiss' The Black Count - Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte
Cristo, which is a nonfiction book about the grandfather of Alexandre Dumas. And
I'm a big fan of the Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, so I just have
to read this. If this is a well-written and interesting non-fiction book, this
might get five stars just because I really love the subject matter. "Born to
a black slave mother and a fugitive white French nobleman, Alex Dumas was sold
into bondage but made his way to Paris, where he was schooled as a sword-
fighting member of the French aristocracy", and it's about him and his
life and him joining the army and rising in the ranks. It's just a really
interesting subject matter to me. So now we're moving onto the ebooks, and the first
of these is a safer bet again, because I have read this author before and I
really liked her writing, and that is Jackalope Wives by T. Kingfisher. This
is a collection of her short fiction including the winner of the Nebula Award
for best short story, Jackalope Wives, and the winner of the best novelette, I think
it was, in the Hugos of 2017, The Tomato Thief. And it's just a bunch of her fairy
tale themed short stories. I'm not quite sure if all of them are fairy tale
themed, but I think at least most of them will be. The previous short fiction
collection was called Toad Words and Other Stories, and I think it might be my
favorite thing of hers even from all of her novels that I've read. And I tend to
enjoy her writing, so I hope that one will be a five star one. I have read the
two award-winning stories and they were so good. Next I chose a horror book from
a new-to-me author, Gemma Files' Experimental Film. This is a horror book about
ghosts and movies, and I read the first chapter during a Try A Chapter tag - maybe
it was last year or earlier this year - and I was like: "This is the book that I'm
going to read next" and I still haven't read it. This is actually the book, apart
from The Stone Sky, that I most think will actually get the five stars, I don't
know why. It just sounds like exactly my cup of tea.
Also Thomas from SFF180 gave it five stars during his Halloweek
themed week last year and he doesn't really give five stars that often, either.
I hope this will be as good as I imagine. And for the last book I chose
Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer. This just won the John W. Campbell Award at
the Hugo Awards this year, and as with Experimental Film, I have read the first
chapter of this. I read it when I had it out from the library, but I didn't have
time to read it then, I had to return it because it had reservations, but I really
liked the first chapter. I think this philosophical science fiction book will
not be for everyone, but I really liked the writing style. It sort of mimics
these older writing styles. Like, when I read the first sentence I was blown
away, because it sounds exactly like a thing that I like to read. The first
sentence is so long! "You will criticize me, reader, for writing in a style six
hundred years removed from the events I describe, but you came to me for
explanation of those days of transformation which left your world the
world it is, and since it was the philosophy of the Eighteenth Century, heavy with optimism
and ambition, whose abrupt revival birthed the recent revolution, so it
is only in the language of the Enlightenment, rich with opinion and
sentiment, that those days can be described." So those were the eight books
that I hope will get five stars from me. I would say at this point that I will
make a video when I have read all of them and tell you if they got 5 stars,
but who knows when that will be! I'm bad at reading the books that I say I'm
going to read. TBRs don't work for me. So if you have read these books and think
that I would really like them, let me know, but also let me know if you didn't
like them. I'd also like to see a lot of these 5 Star Prediction videos, so if you
have done one, let me know and I will go check it out from your channel. That's
all from me, and I will see you in my next video. Bye!
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