 the vibes of this. Hi everyone, welcome back to my channel. I hope you are well. Today I am going to be doing a video which I'm frankly ashamed I've never done before in my year here on BookTube. Thank god you're here. Where have you been, bitch? Where have you bloody been? But I'm going to be doing if you like this, you'll like this book recommendation video. So I have picked five really popular books and or series and I'm going to be recommending you alternative. I just knocked the camera don't hate me for the for the change in angle. The level of unprofessionalism far too much. So my first recommendation is if you like the Shadow and Bone trilogy by Lee Bardugo. Really popular YA trilogy. Everyone and mother has read it. It's kind of average if you're honest. I think I gave it like three stars 2.52 maybe? I love Lee Bardugo's other writing. I love Night Pals but they just ain't it. But if you're looking for something that's really high fantasy, high concept, a lot of traveling, a really interesting fantastical world, I would recommend The Girl of Fire and Thorns Trilogy. So this is like a forgotten trilogy almost. Like barely anyone has read it or remembers it. It's kind of from the same era as Shadow and Bone which is why I think it's a good recommendation because it's that kind of fantasy. We're following a young girl. I can't actually remember her name. Alyssa. We're following Alyssa as she marries into this kingdom. She becomes a queen and she has a godstone which is like a kind of jewel in her belly button. That means kind of she's the chosen one. She's gonna perform something incredible. There's a lot of traveling that goes on throughout the trilogy to get to certain places to fulfill certain strategic objectives. And I just love Alyssa's character. She's a really amazing young adult heroine particularly for the time that this book was written. In the first book she struggles with her weight a lot. She's overweight when the series starts and just her journey with that and her journey from point A at the start of the first book to point C, point B, point C. I was saying point C because it's the third book but the place that she ends up by the third book is so amazing and I just love the environment, the court politics, the romance that happens in it. Romance is so much better than the Shadow and Bone romance. Let me tell you. Same kind of vibes, like same kind of, I don't want to say it because it's a spoiler, but like same kind of situation we've got going on there. But the romance, so much better. So much better. Me refusing to listen to anyone who says either of the Shadow and Bone romances are good. Excuse me please. And I just think this is the kind of series that more people need to read. It's an oldie but it is a goodie. Okay next is If You Liked or If You Wish You Had Liked. Talking Jack the Ripper by Kara Menescalco. I gave this three stars. I didn't hate it. I still want to read the rest of the series. I just haven't gotten around to getting the second one yet. But also I feel like this is a great autumn read so I might just buy it for myself. Like because I feel like when I'm back in Leeds and it's cold it's the kind of book I'm gonna want to read and be in the mood for. So like maybe I'll just do it even though I didn't love this. If I don't love the second one then it's like it's over. So this is about a girl. Her name is Audrey right? She wants to cut up dead people like as a job. Not as Talking Jack the Ripper. But obviously that's very taboo for a lady of her time and this is about Talking Jack the Ripper. Starting to kill people. She thinks she can figure out who it is along with Thomas Cresswell who is like the YA book Twitter book community booktube. He's their bitch. Thomas Cresswell is book Twitter's bitch. I cannot grow a day without seeing that man's name on my Twitter timeline. I get it. He's hot. When I've seen Fanart yeah he's hot. He's got a bit of a shit trim in a lot of Fanart. I'm not gonna lie. Looked while they get it. But personality is just so average anyway. But I read this book. The next book and I was literally like it's everything I want from Talking Jack the Ripper but better. And that is The Strange Case of the Alchemist Daughter by Theodora Goss. This is the second one in the series. I don't own the first one physically. I will do one day. One day when I can justify buying a book I already have read. I've spoken about this so many times but literally when I read it for the first time I was like why? Why does Talking Jack the Ripper all this hype? When this is literally it but a much better vibe. The vibes of this. So this is about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde's daughters and lots of other female versions and female daughters of famous men from kind of Victorian classic literature. It's murder mystery kind of. It's just them and their found family and solving murder mysteries and gallivanting through the streets of Victorian London and Sherlock and Watson are there helping them and it's so good. Strange Case of the Alchemist Daughter carrying young adult Victorian historical fiction on its back. I don't need to see a fucking Cairo actor after this. It's so good. It's everything I want from Victorian YA historical fiction murder mystery. Just give it all to me. Just give it all. I cannot wait to read this second one. Now I've finally got my hands on it. On the Orinic Express. I just looked at chapter five and it's called On the Orinic Express. Right I'm so excited to read this and something I love about this. I listened to it on audiobook originally and the girls there's like a lot of girls like six of them who are all friends and this found family and one of them Catherine is writing the story of what they get up to. This is her writing the story. At certain moments they cut in and it's like a script of them reacting to what is being written about them and the one thing I'm nervous about reading this physically the second one is that when you're listening to the audiobook you never know when those parts are gonna come. You never know when the girls are gonna cut in so it's really unexpected and like suddenly takes you out the story and I feel like it has that kind of dramatic element to it whereas obviously when I'm reading I'm gonna be able to see when they're coming up on the page but I think I'm gonna like listen to the audiobook and read along at the same time. Yeah if you want that Victorian dark but YA vibes murders people trying to solve those murders this series please please please read it and tell me what you think because I cannot wait to read the second one. We need this this is essential this is a crisis. One that I really did like a popular book I really did like was Daisy Jones on the Six by Taylor Jenkins read this is a semi-autobiographical account of the band The Six and Daisy Jones on the Six in the 1970s and their story and the story of the friendships and fallouts within the band and I love this this made me stop this made me cry this is so good and my comparison isn't direct but if you want another book with like a musical band element that deals with some heavy hitting topics I'm gonna recommend I was born for this by Alice Oseman so this is kind of in my opinion like the YA equivalent of this the YA modern equivalent of this it deals with heavy topics but in like a young adult fashion so it deals a lot with mental health and anxiety and friendship and stuff like that there is this really really famous boy band one of whom is trans and it's also about one of their fans as she kind of gets swept up in this whole drama to do with the band it's really really good really unexpectedly good I think if you love Daisy Jones on the Six and kind of want a young adult version that's a little bit lighter a little bit more of a contemporary I think I was born for this is a fantastic choice oh shut up just hearing you makes me flesh crawl next another one I loved was becoming by Michelle Obama now we have to stand we have to stand she's an icon she's a legend and she is the moment now come on now this book was just such a lovely read I think I want to reread it at some point I think it's definitely the kind of book that I'll come back and reread in the future just learning about her life and kind of the difficulties that she's been through her experiences and as a child and as a mother and as a wife just oh it's just incredible I really really loved it I hope Michelle Obama like writes other stuff in the future if you want a similarly hard-hitting emotional really deep autobiography I would have to recommend all boys aren't blue by George M. Johnson again a memoir about George's life and his experience being a black gay man and a black gay boy growing up in America all of the stuff he's been through and it is so emotional and so hard-hitting and such a wonderful read and it's told kind of through personal essays so I think for my remember it's not really chronological it's told more through subjects and his family really come alive in this book I think he does a really great job of bringing these people to life that we don't know you know we know a lot of Michelle Obama's family but we don't know his and the way he brings him to life is wonderful and I'd really recommend the audiobook he narrates it I just loved it I really really loved it I think it's just so emotional and deals with so many important topics and tackle some really difficult and really hard to talk about topics that like it would just be easy to avoid but he doesn't he really tackles them head on so if you haven't picked this up yet I'd really recommend it I know it got some hype when it first came out a couple months ago but I feel like it's kind of died down and I think more people need to read it it's such a wonderful memoir autobiography okay I've got two more quickly the first is if you love my pride and pride place joy the starless sea by Enmore oh shit we'll just ignore that let's just pretend that it hasn't happened I don't know if you love the starless sea like I do one of my favorite books of all time in need of a reread at some point the starless sea is about this magical world full of books and mystery and the starless sea and strange things occurring it's wonderful it's wonderful it's a really great book for book lovers our main character Zachary finds a book where he himself is in it and something is happening in the book that he never told anyone about and he doesn't know how anyone could possibly know and it kind of takes us through their two underground libraries with cats caught up in tiny nooks and it's just wonderful similarly to the Daisy Jones and the six recommendation I'm gonna recommend a book in a completely different age range and if you want a book like the starless sea that loves books and it's just unashamed about creating that kind of magical world I honestly think pages and co by Anna James is the middle grade equivalent of the starless sea it's set in this cozy book store in London which titties grandparents own and it's about book wandering so being able to travel into books and experience these magical worlds and again about underground libraries and completely secret bookish wonderful things I honestly think it's like the starless sea in that regard and like if you love the starless sea and want a younger relative or even yourself to experience that magic that bookish magic I think pages and co does a wonderful job of it it is brilliant American literature and I don't care what anybody it is it's it should be taught in schools and lastly I'm just gonna do this one really quickly because they're very similar books you've probably heard this recommendation a hundred times but if you loved the nightingale by Kristen Hannah one of the most popular historical books to come out in many many years I haven't got my copy right now because I've lent it out I enjoyed it but I didn't love it and I honestly think the superior world war two book that will put your heartstrings more that is a much better written book is all the light we cannot see by Anthony Doher so this is about a blind girl in Paris who has to flee Paris and it's also about a young German orphan and it's such a heartbreaking story you know that they're two parts are gonna meet somehow at some point when I read this I wasn't that big a reader like I was just starting to get back in the habit of reading a lot it was so late at night and I was like Tom I'm sorry I have to stay up and read it so I kept him up until like two in the morning reading this book and sobbing like I cried so hard there's this one scene even the thought of it chokes me up I don't often read books of that war it's not something that I love to read about but if that's something that you do want to read about or maybe you haven't read a book like that in a long time all the light we cannot see is just so touching so heartbreaking and just one of the best written books ever I loved it so there we have it that is all of my if you liked this book you should read this book recommendations let me know what you thought of my recommendations I think with some of these I did a pretty good job the best one is the stalking jack theroper one because they're so similar in vibes but one is so obviously better so yeah let me know what you thought of my recommendations make sure you like the video if you did like them and I will see you very very soon in another video bye