 Hello friends! Welcome back to my channel and welcome back to TBR Cluedo! I haven't filmed TBR Cluedo in so long because I pre-filmed February's and March's and it's made me nervous. It's made me feel very nervous. Please don't make me think too hard about it because I don't know what I'm expecting and I just want it to be great. Yeah, it's made me feel kind of nervous being out of the loop, having not filmed one in a while and giving my reading fate over to TBR Cluedo. But welcome! This is my TBR game that we use to pick some of the books I read every month. There's different rooms that relate to a genre and then there's books that relate to a prompt and then I have to read a book that is that genre and fulfills that prompt is the way that it works. I'm really enjoying my reading at the moment. I'm having a lot of fun with my reading and so I'm excited to see what books we end up pulling for TBR Cluedo. So yeah, we're gonna hand over to TBR Cluedo to fit quite already this month but before we get into that I want to chat to you guys about something I'm going to be doing throughout April actually, a little challenge I'm doing that some of you may be interested in. So I've been saying recently coming into springtime I start to feel myself defrost. I start to feel myself feeling happier, my mood is coming up, I'm sleeping better, I feel more rested, I feel more energetic during the day and I often find that my motivation to do things that take care of myself, that take care of my well-being kind of return at this time and I want to take full advantage of that and so I'm going to be doing a challenge where I do meditation every single day for 30 days and I'm going to be using today's video's partner Aura to do so and so if like me you want to take advantage of this new feeling I challenge you guys to come along with me try doing this 30 days of meditation challenge and use Aura to do so I cannot recommend Aura enough, I love it. Aura is a new mindfulness and sleep app that has thousands of meditations and stories and so much more like CBT, life coaching, breath work and it has made such a big difference to me. 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So make sure you check it out because I think they're going to go quickly. So yeah join me this journey, feel free to DM me or tag me if you're using it, if you're trying it out. I cannot recommend enough, I can already feel I've been doing some meditations the past two days in terms of gearing up for this 30 day challenge and I've already found that it's making a huge difference to the way that I am living my life. Okie dokie, let's get into TBL video and let's get into roll one. Okay, time for roll one. Why do I feel so nervous? Okay, person number four which is pink up here in horror. Let's see how many we roll. Ah, I got, oh that was a four. I rolled it over. Please forgive me. I got two and a four. Okay, I am just going to go one, two and that is number 11 and that is a book with plants or an animal on the cover. Roll number one was a horror that has plants or animals on the cover and I'm going for Ask for Andrea by Noelle W. Ily. I'm not sure how I pronounced that last name but we have got plants, your honor. We have got plants. This is an interesting book. I don't want to talk too much about my journey with this book because it's coming up in a vlog soon that like I've begun but I think is going to be a little bit delayed. So I don't, I think the journey, I'm just going to do a tease, I'm going to be reading this book in the next, next amount of time and I'm very very excited. We're following three women, I'm not sure if this class is more through a lot of horror, I think it's kind of like straddling the line between the two but we've got three women who were all murdered by the same man. He hunted them online, mass-creating as an eligible bachelor, then he played the perfect gentleman, then he killed them. So I think we're reading from them as like ghosts but also maybe them in the past and like the story of him wooing them. This has been pitched to me as very similar to no exe which you know, for me, one of the perfect drillers but I think this has got like that paranormal maybe a bit more of a horror aspect to it. I'm really excited to see what I think of this. Like I said, I'll explain more why I'm so excited on a vlog that's coming soon but I've got a lot of reasons to believe that I could enjoy this and you know, this is kind of like, I think it's self-published or at the very least it's very much like indie published and so I'm excited to give a book like this a go. I'm very, very, very, very excited to see what I think of this one. Roll number two. Person number seven which is brown up here in mystery. Oh my god, I'm like knocking everything over today. What is wrong with me? Let's see how many we roll. We've got a three or a one. Let's go. What can I get to in that? Let's go one, two, three, four and that is number seven which is a book with under six thousand ratings on Goodreads. Roll number two was a mystery with under six thousand ratings and this is the role that I gave to my patrons to vote on. They vote on one round of TBL Cluedo every month and that ends up being our book club pick as well. So the options I gave them were Murder Holly House by Denzel Mayrick, The Death I Gave Him by Mx Lou, The Village of Eight Grays by Sashi Yokomizo and The Headmasters List by Melissa Dila Cruz and the winner with almost half of the vote is The Death I Gave Him by Mx Lou. I'm very, very excited for this one. I'm I think she's excited for fucking everything. You know, that meme. Roll it. I think she was just genuinely excited about fucking everything. This has been a book I've wanted to read since before it came out is one I think it was in my like most anticipated releases when I put those out. This is a hamlet retelling. It's sci-fi, locked room, murder mystery and it's got and it's got footnotes. I just remembered the footnights. So we've got a character whose father is killed and it's like in a locked room with a lab on lockdown and this character is trapped with four other people who one of them is his father's killer and he has to figure out like what is going on? How do I find out the secrets of this building? Oh my god. This is like giving me heart palpitations. Oh, the footnotes. The footnotes are so Gagatronja. You know what I mean? The footnotes are so Gagatronja and there's an artificial intelligence who is the protagonist's dear friend, dear god. So this has had, you know, a little lowest ratings. I think it's got like a 3.4 average rating which isn't super high but I do think it could be just some people not getting it, you know? Some people not getting the vibe. I regularly read books that have got super low average ratings and I love them. I love them. So I think it's just some people failing to get the vibe and failing to like be one of the girls, you know what I mean? So I'm really excited for this sci-fi, locked room, murder mystery. I believe this is a debut so we'll give it like a little bit of leeway in terms of that but I think this is going to be a very exciting book to read. Oh my god, I'm getting up on my tippy toes. I'm so excited. I'm intrigued to see how this kind of ambitious project comes to fruition. Okay, row number three, person number three which is read up here in historical. See how me roll? I've got one and two. I'm just going to go one and I'm going to get the magnifying glass which means recommended by a viewer. Row number three was the magnifying glass which means I have to go on my most recent all my unread books video which I lasted in November. I have to randomize the comments and the first comment I get, recommending me a book, I have to read it. Anyway, so I'm in control but I'm out of control and I'm also um controlled so in a way I'm everything. I don't do this one very often because I find it a bit scary but I guess we're doing it. Shall we just do it? I've got a random YouTube comment randomizer thing up. What am I hoping for? Who knows? Honestly. Okay. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Throwback by Maureen Gu is one of my favourite books of this year. It was so good. Come for the time travel hijinks. Save for the intergenerational trauma and complex parent child family dynamics. Oh my god. Oh my god. Thank you. Leanne? I'm assuming it's where, where, sorry. I'm like, I'm stressing out by the fact I have no idea where that book is. Okay, we've got it. I am so, this was such a result. This is a book I've been like looking at recently and thinking oh I'd really like to read that. How am I going to fit that into a video? What a result. What a result. Thank you so much. So this book throwback I got because when I did my video with Courtney Summers who is if you guys know one of my favourite authors, I did a video where Courtney picked what I read and she recommended this book to me personally. She was like I think you're really going to enjoy this book. It's about a girl who wears his butt heads with her mother and she travels back in time to the 90s alongside her 17 year old mother. So it's like time travel and I guess her figuring out you know her mother and then bonding and understanding each other. And listen, if Courtney Summers has recommended me this book, we're gonna, we're gonna enjoy it. We're gonna love it. I, this is such a result. Oh my god. I'm with like ones like this where it picks randomly what I'm gonna read. I'm always worried that it's gonna be a book that I'm not as interested in but this is one I'm so currently interested in. So thank you so much for the pick. I think this is gonna be a great pick and I cannot wait to read it. I think it's gonna be emotional, fun, light hearted but like serious. Oh my god. Yay! Okay that's so exciting. Row number four. Person number one over here just green. I do quite a lot of fantasy to read. Oh dear. We've got a one and a four. Let's just go one, two, three, four, five. That is number three. What is number three? I have to scroll up in one second. Number three. Oh fuck. Row number three is start a new series. Okay. Row four was a fantasy and I have to start a new series. You're joking. Not another one. Oh for god's sake. I can't honestly, I can't stand this. And I'm going to be reading She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker Chan. This is one I've kind of forgotten the synopsis because I think it's kind of just like chosen one fantasy kind of. I think it's about a girl who's always been told that her brother was the chosen one and there's an attack or something and he passes away and she disguises herself as him or as someone similar to him or as a boy and is cast into this war-torn world. I'm intrigued by this one. I feel like a lot of people who have enjoyed this have loved it. I feel like enough time, I used to, I got the hard back and I might have even pre-ordered this. I don't remember. I feel like enough time has passed between me being interested in this initially and now present reading it that I'm kind of going into it as like a fresh book. Do you know what I mean? I'm going into it with fresh eyes. I'm not necessarily like expecting anything in particular and I think that might actually work well with me in this book. So this is a series. I can't remember if it's a duology. I feel like it's a duology but it could also be longer. Thank you. Thank you Megan for that insight. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Please let me know what you thought of this one because it's one that I'm excited to kind of reintroduce myself to when reading it. Okay, okay, roll number five. Pass on number two. That is purple in romance. Let's see how many we roll. We've already got two or one. So I think we've just got to go one. And that is number 14 which is all a favorite author. Okay, I know what I need to pick for that. Okay, okay, roll number five. Favorite author, romance. I think we all know what I had to choose. I didn't really have a choice in the matter. Love Theoretically by Annie Hayes. Do I have plans to read this? No. Am I going to try and read this at some point? Oh, of course it's on the TBR. I have to. This book I almost read for my first book of the year. Didn't. I almost read for you guys pick what I read. Episode of Year of Wrex. Didn't. So I think it's going to be third time a charm with me in this book. I read the first chapter of this for that first video of the year. I loved it. I immediately was like kicking my feet, giggling at the chemistry between these characters. This one is about this woman who's like dating for hire and she's fake dating this guy's brother. And so she's introduced in the first chapter. She's introduced to his family as his brother's girlfriend and he's sussing it out. He's like, you're not dating my brother. He like catches her out in lies. And I was like, it was so much fun. It was so much fun. So I love Allie. Okay, I love Allie. I've given all the books five stars. I've upped love on the brain to five stars. I've given every Allie Hays what I've read apart from the novellas five star. And I just think this is going to be five stars as well. It's time. It's time. I need to get a grip and like accept that it's time. I am so beyond excited to read this. I love everything you do Allie. I love you. Like no one gets the romance like you do apart from maybe Abby Jimenez is a new one up there for me. Abby Jimenez a new Allie. Oh, the things you do to me. She just gets it. She's that girl, you know? You're that girl. I knew you were. I just used that in a different video. That's what's on my brain but like not music again. Anyways, I'm so excited. I love Allie. I love everything she does. And I'm so excited to read this book. And our final roll person number seven, which is Brown up here in mystery. Okay. Let's see how many we roll. We've got five and a six. Okay. How can we, what can I do? What can I get to in the room? Sometimes when I have too much joy I'm like what the fuck? Let's go. One, two, three, four, five, six. That is number 12, which is all a title with alliteration. What can I, what can I do with that? And then the final book on our TBR was, what was it? A mystery. Oh, with alliteration, the title. I got lucky. I got lucky in this because I think this is a difficult prompt, a very, very difficult prompt to fulfill. And we're lucky that I have something on my TBR that I've been delayed in reading. I've been delayed in reading it. I've had to push this video back and I'm reading it this coming month. So it's kind of worked out well. So I'm going to be reading Pride and Premeditation by Terza Price. I put this, I think, on my spring TBR. So I've spoken to you about this quite recently. It's a murder mystery, Pride and Prejudice retelling. Aren't we all so excited? Yes, it's YA that the writing is where we could fall down. But in terms of the plot, oh my God, has a book ever been more perfect for me? I don't think so. So Lizzie and Darcy and this are both working as lawyers at opposing firms and there's a murder and they're both trying to solve it. I'm so excited. And so this is part of a wider series where there's two other Jane Austen retellings that are murder mysteries. And then I think she's doing a spin-off series of this book. So I'm kind of starting two series by signing this. But let's forget that. I have a lot of hope for this one. I'm loving reading Jane Austen, Inspired Things, a Jane Austen murder mystery. Oh, it just sounds absolutely perfect to me. I love the cover. I am so, so, so, so excited for this. I have very, very high hopes for it. So there we have it, everyone. A nice orange and green. Apart from Austen and Dre, it's kind of throwing the vibes off. But like pink, orange, green, nice. Let's just take Austen and Dre out for a second because I really like the color coordination of this TBR. I'm like kind of eating it up. So yeah, please let me know what you thought of any of these books because I'm going to be reading them all very, very soon. If you've gotten to the end of the video, comment at orange or green heart emoji. Remember to check out my link down below to start your challenge, your meditation challenge with Aura. Are you going to be doing along with me? Let me know. Let me know if you are. Thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you very soon in another video. Bye.