 Hello friends! Welcome back to my channel and welcome back to TBR Cluedo! You might be thinking, Megan, you're not home. I'm pre-filming this, so I didn't have to lug this massive board with me. But TBR Cluedo is my TBR game. It took a month off in January, partially because I was ill. And by the time I was making videos again, the time had gone. Time had passed and I didn't know how many vlogs I actually knew what I was going to be reading yet in January, so it just didn't make sense to do one. But we're back and TBR Cluedo has had a little bit of a refresh, which is very exciting. I have redone with the help of my patrons some of the prompts for TBR Cluedo, which I'll take you through in a sec. So I've kept some of the old prompts, but we have redone a lot of the prompts. If you've watched TBR Cluedo before, you know that a book goes on all of these little spaces here that have a little logo on them. They each have a number on them and that number corresponds to a prompt. And so I asked my patrons for ideas for new prompts and they delivered. We've got some exciting ones. So I have got a lot of fun videos coming up in February, so shall we just get into it? Shall I tell you what the prompts are? Let's go through the 30 prompts quickly of TBR Cluedo before we get into finding out what the books I'm going to be reading this month are. So like I said, some of these are from previous prompt lists and some of them are new. Let's go through them. Number one, a new to me author, two, a series I'm partway through, three, start a new series, four, a standalone book, five, a 2023 release, six, a book published before 2020, seven under 6,000 ratings on Goodreads, eight above 12,000 ratings on Goodreads, nine, a book recommended by Goodreads, 10, a book not set in the UK, 11, a book with plants or an animal on the cover, 12, a title with alliteration, 13, a gifted book, 14, a favorite author, 15, an e-book or audiobook, 16, a book blurred by a favorite author, 17, a book with multiple audiobook narrators, 18, own voices author, 19, a book that matches one of my favorite memes, 20, a five star prediction, 21, a TBR veteran, 22, a book rated three point something on Goodreads, 23, a book rated four point something on Goodreads, 24, a book you've never seen on Booktube, 25, a book I've hauled recently, 26, a book a viewer didn't like on my all my unread books video, 27, a book that has A, the, and or of in the title, 28, a book with an even number of pages, 29, a book with an odd number of pages and 30, wildcard. All of the weapons or items have stayed the same. Shall we just get into it? I'm very excited. Let's see if TBR is kind to me this month. Okay, it's time for roll one of February's TBR Kudo, our first episode with our new prompts. I'm feeling a little bit nervous. Okay, let's get into it. Roll number one, person number six, which is yellow over here in thriller, what we roll, we've got a four or six. Okay, interesting. Okay, I think I'm just going to go one, two, three, four. And that is number 27, which is a book that has A, the, and or of in the title. So roll number one was a thriller that has A and and or of in the title. And this is the one I decided to give to my patrons to vote on. They vote on one round of TBR Kudo every single month. And that also decides what our book club pick is going to be. So they're voting for our book club pick and around TBR Kudo in one. Now, I haven't had time to do the poll before I'm leaving here. So let's switch to feature Megan to find out what the poll I put up was and what won the poll. Okay, turn jump. I have now posted the poll and the poll has run for quite some time. And the options I ended up giving them for this poll were the list by Yomi Edogeke, death of a bookseller by Alice Slater, the things we do to our friends by Heather Darwin and a slow fire burning by Paula Hawkins. And the winner with like an outstanding amount of the vote, 64% of the way was a death of a bookseller by Alice Slater. So this is going to be our book club pick for this month with the book club picks on the patron because I don't talk about this all the time. With the book club picks on the patron, we have a discussion section on the discord where the book is broken up into three stages and people can chat about their progress in the book. Then we also have a discussion live show where sometimes it'll just be me talking on the live show and patrons talking on the chat. But sometimes I do get people on as guests on the live show as well, like patrons can come on and be on the live show, like on video. And then there's a reading vlog that goes up that I do about it. So I will be doing a reading vlog for this over there. I'm really excited for this one. This is an interesting book because this got a huge marketing push here in the UK at a startup last year. Like it had special displays, like it really was a book that the publisher was pushing. It's published by Hodron Storton. Who is that imprint of? Her shirt? Yeah. I'm getting good at knowing my imprints. Yeah, good. That's cute. You're so clever. Oh my God, you're so clever. But it hasn't had a big push in the US. Also, the US cover is like ugly. I'm like, is it self-published? Like what is going on over there? What's going on? But this one, we have got Roach, who is a bookseller, loner and true crime fanatic has no interest in making friends. She has all the company she needs and her serial killer books, murder podcast and her pet snail bleep. That is until Laura joins the bookshop. With her cute literary tote bags and sunny smile, she is everyone's favourite bookseller. But beneath the shiny veneer, Roach senses a darkness within Laura and same darkness Roach possesses. As curiosity blooms into morbid obsession, Roach becomes determined to be part of Laura's story, whether Laura wants her in it or not. I think this is going to be a very interesting debut thriller. I'm getting the sense that it's going to have like weird female relationships, kind of like the writing of a tree or like bunny. I get the sense it's going to go off the rails a bit. I'm really excited to read this with everyone. I think this is going to be a really interesting discussion piece. This one is Blood by Julia Armfield, Catcher and Award. Like I feel like we can get the sense. It's going to be a little bit weird. It's going to be a little bit dark. It's going to be a fun thriller. I'm really excited for this one. Also, I love the UK cover. Often we do not have the better cover, but I think in this situation we do. So also it's set at a bookshop, which is so fun. I love a thriller set with characters who work at a bookshop. Absolutely. Absolutely. So yeah, we'll be reading this in February as our book club pick. And I'm really excited to get into it and see what everyone thinks. I'm hoping for really good things for this one. Roll number two. Person number seven. Who is that? That's Brown, a poo and mystery. Okay, that's a good one. We've got a two and a four. Okay, I am just going to go one, two. That is number two, which is a series I'm partway through. Roll number two was a mystery of a series I'm partway through. And I am going to be picking up The Jeweled Moth by Catherine Woodfine. This is the second in the Sinclair's Mysteries, which are like Edwardian mystery middle grade series. It's a bit of a mystery. I enjoyed the first one. I didn't love it, but a lot of people have told me that this series improves as it goes on. And I want to love it, right? It's set in this department store. Think like Harrods or Self-Regears, like that kind of thing. I also, that's something I'd love to learn more about. There's certain like niches of history I'd love to learn more about. I'd love to know about like how when department stores like sprung up in London. I think that'd be such an interesting. I feel like I learned about it when I was younger. I'd like to learn about it again. Anyways, in this one, we have got The Puzzling Disappearance of the Jeweled Moth. I think a fancy dressable. And so we're mingling with like the highest in society. And I'm just excited to make progress in the series because it's been so long. It's like been like four years since I read The Fast Fun. I don't remember, I don't remember love. I don't remember at all. I really don't because I know for a long time ago. So there's many of these series I need to either make progress in or we leave in the past and we say goodbye. We wave and thank them for their service and we say goodbye. But I'm going to make progress in the series this month and I'm really looking forward to it and we'll see whether I want to continue on in the series or leave it with these first two. But like Edwardian Mystery, I just love that time period. Edwardian, if you don't know, is just after the Victorian times. I don't know if like that's like a unit. I suppose it's not. I feel like a UK term for that time in history because it's when King Edward, right? Edwards, was there one Edward? Georgian, there were four Georges. That's history. It's right after the Victorian period. So yeah, really, really excited to get into this one. Okay, role number three, person number seven. Did we just have that? Oh, yeah, Brown on a Hoon Mystery. Okay, that's good. Let's see how many we roll. We've got a, oh, that was a two. I swapped it. Got two and a three. Let's go one, two again. We keep just sliding to the right, two. That is number 13. What is that? That is a gifted book. Role number two was a mystery that is a gifted book and the book I've chosen was gifted to me by the publisher. I think that counts. Gifted is either one of you guys said it to me, my family gave it to me or I think a publisher can count because I haven't got a prompt that's like sent by the publisher. So I think, I think that counts. The rules don't apply. And I am reading Helly and Death by Oscar Jensen. I've spoken about this a few times recently and I'm very excited. It is a country house snowed in murder mystery. I think I'm going to love it. Like I said in my most anticipated books video, it's got a floor plan. What, what are we if not fans of floor plans? I love floor plans. I think this is going to be very classic murder mystery. It's published by the same publisher in the UK as the Janice Hallett books, who I really love those mysteries and the way they represent the mystery genre as a whole. And I'm really excited by this one. It's pitched as like scandy cozy and there's like a group of old university friends reunited for a 10-year anniversary and someone dies, they're snowed in, they're cut off. And our main character is I used to draw on the tips and tricks and methods of golden age of crime detectives. I'm really excited. I think I'm going to love this. I think I'm absolutely going to love this. I think it's going to be very much a throwback and pink homage to like Agatha Christie style mysteries. So I can't wait. Roll number four, person number three, which is red up here in historical. Let's see how many we roll. Oh my gosh. We've got a one or a five. Okay, let's go one, two, three, four, five. That is number 14, which is a favorite author. Roll number three was a historical by a favorite author and I am reading, technically you guys are going to be like, Megan, that's a mystery, it's historical, which is Rotten to the Core by T.E. Kinsey. This is the, I want to say ninth in the Lady Hardcastle. No, I think it's the eighth actually. The eighth in the Lady Hardcastle mystery series which is one of my favorite, well it is my favorite cozy mystery series, definitely. Where we follow Lady Hardcastle and I made flow. You guys have heard me give this spiel so many times if you're a regular here. But yeah, Lady Hardcastle made flow as they have moved this little town of Litter and Cotterall to a retire, but turns out it's the murder hotspot of the world and they're just solving murders. And I love them, I love them. And it's historical, it's set in 1911, some of the time period to the George Moth actually. That's kind of crazy. This one that is a heat wave that engulfs the quiet town of Litter and Litter and Cotterall brings about an early harvest. The villagers are thrilled but events quickly turn sour and one of them turns up dead and an apple orchard stabbed through the heart. It's camp, it's camp, I don't know what to tell you. And then the second side of related murder takes place. These are so fun, these books are so funny. I always say, I mean I get the physical because I love them so much but if you are interested in this mystery series, read the audiobooks. Listen to the audiobooks, the audiobooks are so good. The audiobook narrator does an incredible job of like all the voices and bringing real life to the characters. One of my favorite audiobook narrators I think she's absolutely incredible. So I'm excited to make progress in this series. I'm doing quite well guys. We've already got like two on this list that are progress in the series. Do we have any more? No, spoiler alert, we don't. But yeah, I can't wait to sink my teeth into this one. Oh my God, apple, my talent knows no bounds. I think I'm going to love this. I think I'm going to love it. I've got quite a lot of fantasy in the tree this month but we have not even gotten close to that yet. And I'd like to use some of the items but I haven't really been near any of them. Easily accessible. Okay, number five which is white over here in nonfiction. I do quite get a nonfiction tree as well. Four or five. How can we get to some of the nonfiction in four or five? Let's go one, two, three, four. That's not going to work. Where was I here? One, two, wait, one, two, three, four. Oh, there we go. And that is number one, which is a new to me author. Run number five was a nonfiction by a new to me author and I am going to be reading The Wager by David Grant, a tale of shipwreck mutiny and murder. So this is nonfiction about this ship, The Wager. This ship is split into two. There's two groups of survivors from a shipwreck. There's like one group of 30 men and there's another group of three men and they've got different stories. And it's the true story of what happened basically. Oh, and it's got pictures. That's exciting. Oh, I love some pictures in nonfiction. Absolutely. I've heard really good things about this. Listen, it won a Goodreads Choice Awards Award. Was it just the general nonfiction? Was it historical? I can't remember what nonfiction categories they have anymore. I'm going to be quite honest. But also I've spoken to some people in my real life who are readers, but not like booktube level readers. Like you don't watch booktube just, you know, reading their own life. And they've read this and really enjoyed it. I think it could be dense, but I think I could enjoy it. I'm not sure yet. I'm going into this one a little bit tentatively, but I think it could go either way. And I always love like a nonfiction that looks at a real life event and kind of takes you through it like a story. One of my favorite nonfictions like that is, is it Dead Mountain? The story of the Dilatov Pass incident. I really, really love that. So I'm hoping this would be along a similar lines to that one. Okay, last chance for one of the items of horror fantasy. Let's see what we roll. I think green is number one. Oh, oh my God, it's number one. Ah! Thank you. Okay, let's see what we roll. We've got a three or a six. How many is it to that? One, two, three, four. Oh, that's five. Can we just get to that using the three as well? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. There we go. That is number four. What is that one? That is a standalone book. And then roll six was a fantasy that is a standalone, which is, you know, sometimes that seems impossible nowadays. Like every fantasy is a series. But I am reading Thorn Hedge by T. Kingfisher. It's a lovely little novella that came out last year by T. Kingfisher. This synopsis, I always am like, what does that mean? But what does that mean? Right, what does that mean? I'm confused because... We meet Toadling, who's stolen from her family by fairies as a baby, raised, happy as a happy life, is asked to return to the human world and offer a blessing of protection to a newborn child. But then centuries later, there's a knight and he heard there's a curse and he's breaking, but it's a curse Toadling will do anything to uphold. It's a very unclear synopsis. It's not being very obvious with what's going on. But I love T. Kingfisher. I've read three T. Kingfisher now. I have yet to give T. Kingfisher a five star. I think I've given them all four 4.5s. So I would love a five star for me and T. Kingfisher. And that would be lovely, wouldn't it? If me and T. Kingfisher could get a five star. That would be such a dream. Me and T. Kingfisher. So maybe this will be it. I'm really looking forward to it. And I want to read... And I love kind of like dark fantasy. I feel like T. Kingfisher's writing is kind of split down the middle in like dark fairy tale fantasy and more horror. This is one of her dark fairy tale fantasy and I'm very excited to get into it. So there we have it. That is our February TBR plus whatever the book is for the book club. That's wonderful. I am so excited to read all of these. Please let me know if you've read any of these and what you thought of them. Let me know which ones are most excited for me to get to. And I'll see you guys soon in another video. Bye.