Been looking forward to this video and I completely echo your thoughts! The family drama erasing the climate crisis was so hauntingly real, and is such a brilliant and brave choice because it can only work if the audience relates to the reality of a mundane apocalypse. Maybe that's why we're both British and loved it lol
Private Rites is probably my most anticipated book of this year, and the only reason it took me a week to read was because i kept going back and rereading sections, i absolutely adored it, this book is going to haunt me for years
I have my copy in hand but am saving it till after I have surgery in a couple of weeks, my most anticipated read of the year. Some may think it a bleak choice but it’s because that haunting feeling is exactly what I cherish from my most loved books. Our Wives did it and so did In Ascension. I’m happy to be bound to their pages forever. Love your videos Willow. 🖤x
Oh thanks for the reminder! I totally loved Salt Slow and Our Wives Under The Sea and didn't keep track of recent publications. I'll definitely buy this book for the weekend
Our Wives Under the Sea haunted me and was one of my favourite books of last year. I couldn't read anything else afterwards because nothing matched up to how that book made me feel. I cannot wait for Private Rites to release in India. An amazing review as always! Sending you love and hugs, Willow 💓😊
Our Wives Under the Sea is on audiobook at my local library and will be next up for me. Just watched I Saw the TV Glow. It’s one of the best movies I’ve seen in awhile. I believe you’d enjoy it.
I've been waiting for your review after crying so much to finish reading "our wives": those memories being slowly lost forever really got to me, so I know I'll love this too, thank you once again. stunning thumbnail, btw. 💦
So that's going straight to the top of my TBR. ^_^ Halfway through the video I was reminded of the manga series "Yokohama Shopping Log". It's a slice of life/Iyashikei sci-fi series that focuses on the day to day of an Android running a coffee shop. The setting is also very mid-to-post apocalypse with major cities and towns fully under water. Surprisingly delightful and calm read. I look forward to inhabiting that kind of setting again with a far more intense and haunting approach. Thanks!
I'm excited for Private Rites to stay with me like Our Wives Under The Sea has. I'm 6th in the queue at the library so unfortunately I think I'll have to wait a while
If Our Wives Under the Sea prophesied the Titanic submersible disaster, does that mean the drown world apocalypse is not far off? Time to grab an inner-tube.
Interesting about your experience of Irene, I saw Julia Armfield talking to Eliza Clark about Private Rites and Eliza said she's an Irene. I wonder if this means Julia has nailed writing sisters, there's always one you don't get and it's different for everyone or is Irene underwtitten. All this said as a sister with only a brother 😂 I'm starting Private Rites tomorrow so love hearing your thoughts.
I absolutely hated Diavola by Jennifer Thorne, so the idea of another family drama/horror sounds to be a nightmare for the wrong reasons lol I didn't love Our Wives Under the Sea either, I thought it was completely fine but nothing amazing. Not sure this would be a novel for me, but enjoyed hearing your take on it. Thanks as always!
@@WillowTalksBooks there are people who really enjoy it, but it isn't the gothic haunted house story it's being sold as. If you do read it, just be prepared. I also don't consider it a horror novel either
Sounds like a great book; however, it’s likely too depressing for me, as the story seems to depict capitalist states going precisely as many of have been predicting-unrelentingly continuing to move into the maelstrom of its destruction
Been looking forward to this video and I completely echo your thoughts! The family drama erasing the climate crisis was so hauntingly real, and is such a brilliant and brave choice because it can only work if the audience relates to the reality of a mundane apocalypse. Maybe that's why we're both British and loved it lol
Private Rites is probably my most anticipated book of this year, and the only reason it took me a week to read was because i kept going back and rereading sections, i absolutely adored it, this book is going to haunt me for years
I have my copy in hand but am saving it till after I have surgery in a couple of weeks, my most anticipated read of the year. Some may think it a bleak choice but it’s because that haunting feeling is exactly what I cherish from my most loved books. Our Wives did it and so did In Ascension. I’m happy to be bound to their pages forever. Love your videos Willow. 🖤x
I hope you love it, and good luck with the surgery!
Oh thanks for the reminder! I totally loved Salt Slow and Our Wives Under The Sea and didn't keep track of recent publications. I'll definitely buy this book for the weekend
Our Wives Under the Sea haunted me and was one of my favourite books of last year. I couldn't read anything else afterwards because nothing matched up to how that book made me feel. I cannot wait for Private Rites to release in India. An amazing review as always! Sending you love and hugs, Willow 💓😊
Just started it tonight! I loved Our Wives under the Sea.
Our Wives Under the Sea is on audiobook at my local library and will be next up for me.
Just watched I Saw the TV Glow. It’s one of the best movies I’ve seen in awhile. I believe you’d enjoy it.
The themes you discuss sound haunting. Will humanity end not with a bang but a whimper? Sounds like an excellent read.
Our Wives Under The Sea is one of my favorite novels ever! I already got Private Rites and I hope I can read it in July.
I've been waiting for your
review after crying so much
to finish reading "our wives":
those memories being slowly
lost forever really got to me,
so I know I'll love this too,
thank you once again.
stunning thumbnail, btw. 💦
so excited for this, thanks!!
I loved Our Wives Under the Sea and now I'm really looking forward to reading this one
I loved Our Wives Under the Sea. I am looking forward to reading Private Rites even more now.
Humans will be humans, no matter the circumstances or setting. I'm so excited to see how this book explores that!
So that's going straight to the top of my TBR. ^_^ Halfway through the video I was reminded of the manga series "Yokohama Shopping Log". It's a slice of life/Iyashikei sci-fi series that focuses on the day to day of an Android running a coffee shop. The setting is also very mid-to-post apocalypse with major cities and towns fully under water. Surprisingly delightful and calm read. I look forward to inhabiting that kind of setting again with a far more intense and haunting approach. Thanks!
I'm excited for Private Rites to stay with me like Our Wives Under The Sea has. I'm 6th in the queue at the library so unfortunately I think I'll have to wait a while
love Apocalypse novels. I'm looking forward to reading it. It sounds enthralling.
If Our Wives Under the Sea prophesied the Titanic submersible disaster, does that mean the drown world apocalypse is not far off? Time to grab an inner-tube.
I love apocalyptic fiction, so I can’t wait to read this! 😁
Her first book salt slow was brilliant too.
Yup
Thank you the recommendation
I can't wait for this one!!!
Interesting about your experience of Irene, I saw Julia Armfield talking to Eliza Clark about Private Rites and Eliza said she's an Irene. I wonder if this means Julia has nailed writing sisters, there's always one you don't get and it's different for everyone or is Irene underwtitten. All this said as a sister with only a brother 😂 I'm starting Private Rites tomorrow so love hearing your thoughts.
Fascinating!
Now I feel like listening to “Drowned World/Substitute for Love” by Madonna.
I absolutely hated Diavola by Jennifer Thorne, so the idea of another family drama/horror sounds to be a nightmare for the wrong reasons lol I didn't love Our Wives Under the Sea either, I thought it was completely fine but nothing amazing. Not sure this would be a novel for me, but enjoyed hearing your take on it. Thanks as always!
I’m glad you said this because I’ve come close to picking up Diavola several times in bookshops
@@WillowTalksBooks there are people who really enjoy it, but it isn't the gothic haunted house story it's being sold as. If you do read it, just be prepared. I also don't consider it a horror novel either
This sounds very interesting
Sounds like a great book; however, it’s likely too depressing for me, as the story seems to depict capitalist states going precisely as many of have been predicting-unrelentingly continuing to move into the maelstrom of its destruction
That’s fair, it is incredibly bleak