 Hello, hello everyone. My name is Laura. This is my channel Laura's Little Library and welcome to today's video Which is my April wrap-up 11 books in the month of April. It was another kind of slower month for me I just I have so much on my plate, but you know 11 books is still pretty good And for the most part I'm really happy with what I read. It was definitely like a four star Month, I would say. I had only one five star this month and it was actually a reread, which I don't ever reread books So the fact that I wanted to do a reread and that this book maintained its five star Writing it kind of blows my mind. I'm really happy about it though And that was the Bromance Book Club by Lisa K. Adams. So at the beginning of April was the beginning of Baseball season and I was just in such a baseball mood and in a romance mood So this was like the baseball romance that I have and that I love so I went back and reread this I still give it five stars. I still love Everything about it. I have a different kind of appreciation for everything that happened happened and all the character relationships and now having read like the other four books But yeah, like reading it first reading it last It's still five star book for me Then I had a whole bunch of four star books So let's get started on those First one I would love to talk about is Vera Wong's Unsociated Advice for Murderers This is by Jessie Q. Sutanto. This is her newest book that has just been released We follow Vera Wong Who is this old Chinese lady living in Chinatown and who owns a tea house And then one day she wakes up and finds a dead body on the floor of her tea house And so she takes it upon herself to solve the murder I okay, so I've read other books by Jessie Q. Sutanto and I know that She has a hilarious Murdery murder mystery writing style like dial A for aunties. I absolutely love but this was only 4.5 out of five stars because there were so many POVs and I wish I had gotten just more from Vera's point of view and more of the comedic moments of Vera trying to solve this crime Don't get me wrong I loved the found family elements that were in this book and the relationship between characters was amazing and they were such complex characters that Like Vera I grew to love but still I think the beginning was like the funny part and I wish it had been maintained a little bit better through the book but Otherwise 4.5. I absolutely adored this. Oh my goodness. It is so good You should definitely pick this up Then another four star book that I read this month was the fountains of science by ruta. Sopetis This is actually my first ruta. Sopetis book But I have a lot of her books on my tbr Like I want to read all of her historical fiction because she tends to Write from a different perspective or not just world war two So the fountains of silence actually takes place during the spanish civil war and it is kind of going back and forth between A spanish woman who is trying to protect her family and an american man who His mom is from spain and he goes to spain and he's trying to Win this photography contest about and show the true spain during the civil war So it was very heartfelt very touching. I had a few like little things like What kind of ending is this? This is a little ridiculous what's happening between characters But overall it was still like very heartwarming still like Kept my attention going because again, it's a it's a little bit of a chunkier historical fiction So the fact that I was able to just flip through it and read it so quickly Definitely was a bonus and then another 4.5 star read. I am so happy that this book was a 4.5 star read I was so nervous to read it. I knew I'd either hate it or I would love it And that is rise of the snake goddess by jenny elder moak So this is the second book and the samantha nox series It came out like last year or something and the first book Underwhelmed me. I was disappointed by it. So I was really nervous to read this one Because I desperately wanted this book to be better for the most part. It was The writing was much better the plot was so much better I was all the critiques I had of the first book were significantly better in this book however What stopped it from being a 5 star read for me was the relationship between sam and benet the romance I felt like the entire book they were just kind of on edge and I didn't feel any chemistry there Not like the first book where there was chemistry. There was just zero chemistry between the characters Even when they are disagreeing there was nothing between them and it made me really sad because I was like Oh, I'm losing the relationship here So that was the only disappointment for this one But I really hope more of these books keep coming out because I cannot wait To see or to read the next adventure. I did also read the next sarah j mess book In april I'm doing a whole separate vlog for that. So I won't talk about it here But I did also read that book four stars Comment down below if you have any guesses what book I'm at in the series that I rated four stars Moving on. I then read a magic steeped in poison by judy. I lin This is an asian inspired fantasy where basically your magic system is People who prepare tea also kind of do magic and they're kind of used together Tea has magical properties, but also you're the one who is doing the magic But you can only do it through tea But also tea is tea and you can add things to it for different properties, you know, kind of like how we have tea now of like Um sleepy time tea or like throat coat, you know We have different teas to help along with different things is that idea but also with magic confused So our main character has a younger sister who has fallen ill to this mysterious poisonous plague that is Kind of spreading through the land a little bit. So she enters in the competition to be the next like magic tea person for the emperess And it is very much like that. I I would say Like again, it's a four almost 4.5 out of five stars. It's the first book in a duology I cannot wait to read the second one And the romance in here I admire how it was done. I truly do so Very happy I got around to reading this because it was on my spring tbr and it's almost the end of spring I also read delicious monsters and this is actually a book club book And honestly, this was probably more of like a 3.5 Rather than four just because like There was so much thrown into this book and some of it was unclear I like I like a little bit different elements But just the way they tied together was a little fuzzy and I think could have been executed a little bit better And the writing could have been a little bit better And you're following two povs and the crossover characters can be a little confusing between the two But it was still like a good book. It was still thoroughly creepy. There are a lot of trigger warnings though so just If you are sensitive to certain subject matters such as sexual abuse or emotional abuse maggots body whore like Sacrificing animals There's a lot so just look up the trigger warnings before you Look into this book. Yeah, there is just so much Throne at us and I like I said I liked all the different elements of it It just was a lot And it was all very creepy But it also like made sense because there are some things that felt like oh, it's supposed to be a big reveal But I also kind of just figured that's what it would be. So there were some surprises and some non surprises And some that were like I figured it out, which was a surprise and then it was revealed later so then it wasn't a surprise, but It felt pretty good. You like haunted house stories This would be a good one another 3.5 out of 5 star book that I read was daughter of the moon goddess This is by su lin 10. I also read heart of the sun warrior, which is the second book in this duology So I read an entire duology this month. That's super exciting for me. Yay But I mean they were both kind of like three star For me what it was with these books was that there were certain parts of it that I loved like I loved kind of the middle of this one And then heart of the sun warrior I loved really just kind of like the beginning and the other parts I was like this is Slow or boring or I don't quite see how this connects or how it's important to the story um But overall it is a beautiful like lyrically written Book about the daughter of the moon goddess who is trying to set her mother free So she enters in a competition in order to study with the prince Study magic so that she can then gain the skills that she needs to figure out how to set her mother free lots of different um mythological fantastical elements Again, really love this chinese mythology It just the writing had some posse spots for me, but overall Really good. I'm really happy that I read both books in the duology. So fun Also, I didn't hate the love triangle. I mean, I didn't like it, but I didn't hate it Now the last three star book I read was beasts of ruin by Ayana gray This is the second book after beasts of prey and the second book in the trilogy We're still waiting on the third one. I think it's like beasts of war or something It kind of lost me for a bit. I loved the first book For like the first two thirds And then when it kind of started getting into the bigger plot and everything behind it all It kind of lost me and with this book. I was bored. It was putting me into a slump I was not motivated to read this until I hit probably two thirds of the way through like 60 to 70% may be more like other way through then I became invested I became reinvested into characters and in the plot I just think that we backtracked so much with what Was happening or just kind of what we needed to know. It was almost like we just ditched Majority of the first book and just went with the second half of the first book And like it was a weird switch. So Yeah, I had a hard time with this one. I I think I'll read the third one when it comes out But I really hope it's better. Otherwise, this is just going to be like a mediocre trilogy, which you know, isn't bad, but like But the size it is I wish it had been better. It could have been it could have been so much shorter Then the final book that I read in the month of april and my only two star this month Was the wicked remain by laura pole. So This is the second book and the grim rose girls duology. I read the first one and I liked it More than enough like I I enjoyed the concept of it. I just wish it I had I don't know It didn't quite give me everything I was hoping for Kind of the same with this one. Like it had the ending was like One of those like, oh, you would never see it coming. But at the same time I was like really That's what we're doing here. It was it was very disappointing. There are a lot of things about this book That was disappointing and it just left me feeling Like kind of annoyed and just like, okay, well, it's done. I finished it Especially for the idea of it being a fairy tale based dark academia in europe like there were just so many possibilities and so much potential there and I feel like It just didn't go In the best direction that it could have So it was a two star. All right, so those are the 11 books I read in the month of april if you like this video give it a thumbs up Otherwise feel free to subscribe and hit the bell so that you're notified when I post for the next couple months I'm just going to be going down to posting one video a week because I will be Insanely busy and also not in my home country for two months. 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