Here is tomorrow. Hi guys, it's Julia and welcome back to my channel and for today's video I'm going to be doing a book review and today I'm going to be reviewing if it leads by Stephen King. I have been meaning to make a book review video and a Stephen King book review for a while, but finally I buddy read this with a bunch of you guys on my Goodreads group and I'm excited to talk to you guys about it today. I have a bunch of tabs and I have some notes made so I'm excited to kind of go through with you and let you know all my thoughts. If it leads is a collection of four short stories that all range in topics from technology to addiction and paranormal, there's so many kind of topics and just little things that these collections explore. Some of the stories talk about more paranormal, some talk about addiction, technology and the list kind of goes on from there. I'm going to be going through the four stories and like which one was my favorite. My thoughts on them. The first story in here is Mr. Harrigan's phone. This one is based heavily around kind of technology and it's about this older man who moved to the countryside even though he's kind of like a very, he's a millionaire, I guess. People are kind of wondering why he moved, why he's not living a more luxurious life. Well in reality he's kind of just like more isolated and wants to live in like small town, like countryside kind of thing. In this story we follow Boyd and Craig who is kind of develops like a bond, like kind of like a little relationship with Mr. Harrigan and it's kind of just about them and how he views him and all those kind of things. It does talk about bullying and grief along the way but it was a really interesting story. It's definitely not what I expected and not what I thought he would start its collection with but it was really interesting. I gave it a 3.75 out of 5 and there's also references to like the shopping redemption in here. It also Castle Rock was also mentioned in here which I thought was really cool. I love finding those little references to different king books. I really liked the country kind of setting like I do live in the country so I was just really refreshing reading about that. We have the life of Chuck so this is one that a lot of people seem to really really like which is it wasn't my favorite but I can see why people would like it. The life of Chuck has an interesting perspective on death specifically and grief and it's a story that's told backwards which I did not realize till later but it is told the other way so it's flipped and that's just a really interesting way to tell a story and I was just, I can't believe I didn't notice or pick up on things a bit earlier but yeah the story is told backwards so it's very uniquely written. This one has themes of like technology, death, suicide and a bit of like supernatural in here too so that's the life of Chuck. I gave it 3.5 out of 5 stars. The third short story is If It Blades which is what this is titled after as you can see. If it blades they are spoilers in this story for the Bill Hodges trilogy so please keep that in mind if you don't want to be spoiled for that entire trilogy maybe don't read that short story yet. There's also spoilers for the outsider which I have not read so I did see some spoilers in there for during that story. It deals with more violence, paranormal death, there's like a nice like crime element of mystery component. It's I love this one. So in this one we follow some of the characters from the Bill Hodges trilogy which is one of my favorites so we follow Holly in this story and just my favorite story I love being back with the whole like the whole gang and the whole squad and just everybody was together and I made me really happy. I felt like it was just it was a little snippet of some of the stuff in the Bill Hodges trilogy almost like it just was like a little add on and we got to see more of like Holly and Jerome and like all those people and it was so fun. I had a great time reading this one. So it was it was amazing being back with the characters which is why I think the third short story if it bleeds was my favorite and when I was in the good race group a lot of people also really enjoyed this one so that was really nice to see and people who have read the Bill Hodges trilogy seem to enjoy it a lot more. Blast story in this collection is called Rat. So this one kind of gives me like misery vibes. I don't know if people agree with that or if that's like a common thing to think but whatever. Kind of gave me some misery vibes. The main character in this one was a very name was Drew. Very typical like SK character just kind of grumpy loves writing. He wanted to go to a cabin stay away from his family so he could finish writing the book that he's been working on. So he goes to stay at a cabin pretty far away and there's some bad weather involved too and he's not the nicest to his family at all but it gives me misery vibes because we get that insight to the main characters like writing in their writing process and we just get to hear more about that. My favorite thing though almost about this was like the eerie cabin vibe that this story had so that's why it kind of reminds me of misery in that sense and it was about writing and it was just more right to me in misery but it was good. It wasn't my favorite. There was this paranormal supernatural kind of component to it with a rat and yeah I know it can be symbolism for some different things but I just didn't really like the last story. It wasn't my favorite. It was my least favorite so I gave it three out of five stars. But yeah that is the collection that is my thoughts on the four short stories. I ended up really liking it and I really liked reading it with you guys and thank you so much to the people who decided to read it with me and comments on our like discussion boards and stuff. It was so much fun and yeah I'm really excited to do another buddy read which right now we are reading the outsider because they was spoiled and this one so I was like we're going to read it this next because I've owned this one for a bit. So we're reading the outsider. Our thing ends on the 20th of August but if you need more time go for it, take the time you need. All the discussion boards are up, they're not locked, they don't get closed. The Goodreads group will be linked down below if you want to discuss this book. It's I separated the Goodreads discussions into the sections that this has in it so that you can kind of comment when you read a certain section or just read it all and give your final thoughts. I don't know. Whatever you want to do. Right now but yeah if it leads was a good collection of my opinion, not my favorite king obviously but the third story made me so happy, so happy. I got a great reading experience but yeah the tabs in this I think I did characters, references, themes, yellow was certain quotes. Like I have quotes, themes, characters, plot, in the darker colored tabs were the little king references that I found throughout this collection which I love looking for those little goodies and Easter eggs and that kind of thing. That was really fun. I overall ended up giving this a 4 to 5 stars. Let me know if you guys have read this and what you thought of it down below. All been doing well and staying safe and there's so much going on in the world right now so I hope you guys are all doing okay and hang in there. Backlight's matter, trans rights, trans rights movements and also the explosion that occurred in Lebanon. 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