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Oh, I can't wait. I'm gonna have to pick up a, pick up a tube of that or whatever. All right, I will dive in to our latest reads and. Okay. All right. I'm so excited. My latest read is one that Hannah, you would love. It is Greedy by Cali Kazumi. This is horror and it was so freaking good, you guys. I loved it so much. Okay, all right. This I would call an Eat the Rich type story. And it is horror. It's. It's sort of a horror slash dark thriller. But I would call it on the lighter end of horror. It's more psychologically manipulative. It's not overly graphic. And let me tell you what it's about. You are following Edward Cook. Edward Cook, he is a British man living in Japan with his wife and their two year old daughter. He has a gambling problem and he owes the Yakuza, which is not great because they are going to beat him up and go after his wife and kid if he doesn't pay up. So it's not a great situation. He is unemployed, but then he stumbles upon an unusual ad. Says chef wanted. Private chef for a high profile businesswoman. 1 million yen per day. And he decides to try out. It's one of those things where you have to try out for it, but you get paid for your time. He's in debt, man. He is struggling. So he's like, I used to be a. A chef back home. Sure, let me try and try my hand at this. Now he knows his way around a kitchen, but better than that, he has discretion. And he's also pretty desperate. All of these things appeal to the enigmatic and reclusive Hazeline Yamamoto. She is a disgraced socialite with very peculiar tastes and a very discerning palette. And so essentially, she is hiring somebody to be her private chef. And she is somebody that wants a chef who will be able to be discreet and also push the envelope. And so he ends up living there for a lot of his days. You know, he sort of lives on. On campus, if you will. She lives in the sprawling mansion. And he realizes, hey, she's pretty loyal to her staff. So I just have to keep my head down, do what she's asking of me, and I'll get out of debt in no time. And then he realizes that there are worse monsters out there than gangsters. And he starts feeling like things are gonna get darker than he would have ever imagined. And I will leave it sort of vague. You might guess what I'm alluding to, and I will neither confirm nor deny. This book is so clever. It is so clever. And it's one of those that goes along at a really nice pace until you get towards the very, very end and you're like, oh, buckle up, baby. We're going to be in for a good ride. I really liked it up up until the last chapter. And then I loved it in the last chapter, the last, like three or four pages. I'm like, hell, yeah, this is really good. I would re. I would be remiss if I didn't acknowledge, though, this is a book with a lot of billionaires and really, really rich people doing really crappy things, horrifying things. And I wanted to read this as a silly, fun time. And it was a silly, fun time. But I was also like, this probably really happens because, you know, people are terrible. So it was almost difficult to extract the real life horrors that I think exist from the fictional ones. It didn't distract me enough to where I didn't want to read it, but I was like, huh. I could see this happening. Anyway, I highly recommend this book. It is a really good story, it's clever and I will say her debut, Claire Darling was not my favorite. I actually DNF'd it. I did not like it. So I'm so so glad to have read this one. I did it on audio. Audio was great. Thanks to Penguin Random House audio for that copy. But overall I definitely think if you like horror slash psychologically manipulative books, get this one on your radar. It's Greedy by Kali Kazumi I was