Welcome back to my channel. I'm just getting back into doing these YouTube again. This
is probably the first time in any of this that I've reviewed some actual books. Last
week it was a really quick look at a movie, Jungle Cruise, and before that I did a tag
So now, hopefully, you will follow along to see what I've got to say about two brilliant
books, one by Matt Hay and one by Minerva Kerrigan. I want to make sure I get that name
right. So, maybe consider subscribing to my channel or making some comments below about
the books. Anyway, here we go. Now, let's start with Minerva Kerrigan, who
is a Belgian pharmacist who wanted to write a book which was LGBT plus friendly. She was
prompted by a competition originally when she wrote a short story version that she then
expanded. This one is about a Belgian and a knight who get along and actually have a
kind of friendship. It is a kind of how-to-go-lucky, quite a tearful story, and I think it was
already known to you. Definitely a great chef, definitely things to deal with on the way
but it's been no way horrifying. It's actually been really heartwarming, but nonetheless
exciting. So, it's called The Blood and the Spinners. I hope I pronounced it correctly
It's about a village where somebody has been, or something has been, chasing things like
clothing and rich possessions, and the local knight, who was very talented, but hadn't
really done anything nicely, was sent on a mission to find them. And he found them in
a bloody cave, and every time he went there, he kind of formed a basic friendship with
this garden. Actually, it was quite a friendly garden. Later on, some of the individuals
went missing, the baker's wife, or maybe the baker herself, I think. And they went to find
out where she'd gone, and that's where the adventure took us on an interesting journey
This short book, on my iPad, it was 65 pages, but it really held my attention. It was a
very, very positive book. It was an endearing book, but nonetheless, like I said, it had
these adventurous qualities, and there was some excitement, and there were some spiders
in it, as well. Luckily, these spiders weren't the huge Harry Potter type, but nonetheless
they were nice, originally. Anyway, it's a story well worth checking out, and yeah, I
really felt good after reading it. And every time I turned the page or had a look at some
more of it, I was really impressed. It had a lot of speech in it. It had something to
say. It had some motivation behind it. It was about acceptance. There was a lot of stuff
about acceptance in there. And I was definitely, if you want a quick read, and you want to
feel happy at the end of it, well, go with The Burden of Sin
Okay, let's follow that with some Matt Hayes. Now, I'm often reading Matt Hayes' nonfiction
books, and I particularly enjoy The Midnight Library. This was a fiction book, which is
now going to be made into a movie. But let's think about The Freeman. This one caught my
eye, and it's not an overly long book, maybe 250 pages, something like that, but it's a
brilliant book. And there shouldn't be a cut there, because it's got all this good in it
But at average length, it's about the perception in terms of whose body was inhabited by some
kind of alien. And the alien was sent down because the professor got to know too much
about mathematics, and it proved a theorem which could be quite damaging to life-forms
on other planets, because it gave him a lot of knowledge that could be used later on for
travelling distances and understanding more about quantum physics and all that stuff that
I know nothing about. Anyway, the point is, he inhabited a body, and quite funnily at
the beginning he actually was naked water gun, so he pretended to be a professor, got
on his knees, eventually he found his home, and got to know his wife and his son, and
he realised that they had issues, as every family does, and he started to look at it
as an alien, sort of analysing the things that humans do, thinking how particularly
weird they are, how peculiar, and how they perhaps don't make sense to outsiders. But
he started to warm to humans and realised that there was more than just being robotic
about your life, and it was interesting to develop friendships and to start to care about
people and to be cared for and loved. So he really got his team on, he had some mission
and had to do, and the mission was to take out anybody who knew anything about this theory
eventually even having to get rid of his own wife and his own child, although they weren't
he was obviously just taking them for a coffee, but you know what I mean. But he started to
warm to this family and said, well the other side is insane, hang on here, and quite liked
humans, even though they've got a short lifespan, they've got something interesting to say
and they have hearts and they have patterns. So it's kind of like a real violin going on
and you get his inner voice talking a lot. So yeah, it's really descriptive, it's quite
quickly moving, and for me it was very moving overall. So yeah, the humans by Matt Hayes
explores what it is to be a human, how that might seem to outsiders if there were other
life forms, and indeed the problems that occur, and this particular alien has been given a
task to get rid of a certain amount of knowledge, causing a lot of pain at the same time, and
how that fits with him as he develops sensitivity. So yeah, it's a really interesting book, it's
fun, it's easy to follow, it's very intended, you know here, and I hope you recommend Matt
Hayes' book called The Human. Now just to wrap things up, I'm going to go and have a little
break by the sea pipe, but I hope that I'll see some comments below, and perhaps some
of you might subscribe. These are my first book reviews that I've done in a couple of
months, and I hope they were interesting, definitely well worth reading. I'm really
super conscious about those of these books. Anyway, for now, have a great week