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 bleeds by stephen king. I've 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 that with you and let
you know my thoughts. If It Bleeds 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
stories 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 discuss which one was
my favorite & my thoughts on them so the
first story in here is
mr harrigan's phone so this one is based
heavily around technology
and it's about this older man who
moved to the countryside even though
he's kind of like a
he's a millionaire (stumbles over words), millionaire I
guess. People are kind of wondering why
he moved wondering  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 a boy named
Craig
who 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
his collection with but it was really
interesting i gave it a 3.75 out of five
and there's also references to like the
Shawshank Redemption in here
and 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 as 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 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 until 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 was I  can't believe i
didn't like
notice or pick up on things a bit
earlier but yeah the story's told
backwards so it's very uniquely written
this one has themes of  technology,
death, suicide
and a bit of like supernatural in here
too so
that's uh the life of chuck i gave it
3.5 out of 5 stars
The third short story is If It Bleeds
which is what this is
titled after as you can see if it bleeds
they
there 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 the 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
deals with more violence paranormal
death there's like a nice like crime
element a 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
it's just my favorite story i love being
back with the whole
like built like the whole gang and the
whole squad and
just everybody was together and it made
me really happy i felt like it was just
it was a little snippet
of some 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 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 goodreads 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 last 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 um the main character in this one
was a very his name was drew
very typical like SK (Stephen King)
character uh 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 have 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 um so that's why it
kind of reminded me of misery
in that sense and it was about writing
and it was in a cabin it just reminded me
of misery but
it was good it wasn't my favorite there
was um this paranormal supernatural kind
of component to it
with a rat and yeah i know it could be
symbolism for some different things
but i just didn't really like the last
story wasn't my favorite was my least
favorite
so i gave it three out of five stars
yeah that is the collection that is my
thoughts on the four short stories
i ended up really liking it i really
liked reading it with you guys and thank
you so much to
the people who decided to read it with
me and comment 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 it was spoiled in this one so i
was like we're gonna read it this next
because i've owned this one for a bit
so we're reading the outsider um our
thing ends i think 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 but yeah
we're reading this
right now but yeah if it bleeds was a
good collection in my opinion
not my favorite king obviously but the
third story made me so happy
so happy that i had a great reading
experience but yeah the
the tabs in this i think i did
characters references
themes um yellow was uh
certain quotes like i have quotes themes
characters plot and 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
it was really fun i overall ended up
giving this a four out of five stars
uh let me know if you guys have read
this and what you thought of it down
below
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uh it's just all this king books that i
reviewed or my collection or
any of that kind of stuff i'm also
wearing a new shirt i got and it's it
related
so look how cool it is i thought it was
super cool
and it has it always comes back
on the sleeve nothing on this side and
it has the creepy
pennywise i thought it was super cool
anyways again thank you guys so much for
watching and i'll see you super soon bye :)
