 Hello, hello everyone, my name is Laura, this is my channel Laura's Little Library, and welcome to my spring TBR. Spring. There are definitely other books that I want to read as well, but I have been mentioning them in a lot of previous TBRs, and I haven't gotten to them yet, so I don't know how I'll get to all these books, but hopefully I will. So the first one is a little bit more of a wintery book, and I think I'm going to get to it soon just so that I can kind of finalize the end of winter right before we move into spring, but that is the Crowns game, and this is by Evelyn Sky. This is a fantasy novel that takes place in Russia, but we are following two characters, and basically the Tsar of Russia is kind of panicked because the Khazakhs are going to attack, and so they decide they need a new enchanter, and so they initiate the Crowns game, and that's where the only two enchanters in all of Russia are going to compete to become the enchanter to the royal family, and yeah. Obviously there's going to be some friendships and loves, we'll see, I think there's some mysteriousness to this. I'm intrigued, I assume it's going to be like wintery because Russia is always kind of cold, but I got intrigued because it actually mentions the Khazakhs. I love Khazakhstan, it's a very beautiful place. If you can hear Haku in the background, I'm sorry, he just won't stop. I love my tortoise, but he's interesting. The next book that I'm going to talk about is the most recent book that I have purchased, and that is The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea. I talk about this more in the mini haul that I recently uploaded, but this is a beautiful book. I just love this color. This cover gives me such strong spring vibes, which is why I really want to read it other than the fact that I just bought it, but I love all the flowers and the light colors. This is loosely based on Korean mythology, and this follows a girl whose brother's love of his life is about to be sacrificed to the sea god in order to try and stop all of the storms, but she decides she's going to go instead, so she volunteers to be sacrificed to the sea god only to discover he is not angry, he is actually asleep. So she needs to travel through the spirit worlds to figure out how to wake him up in order to save her town. It's also a really short book. This is one that I'm definitely hoping to get to soon, hopefully now in March, and I love books based off of mythology, so this will get read this spring. I can pretty much almost guarantee it. Moving on to a book I've actually already started. I started this book, and the only reason I put it down was because I'm afraid that when I pick it up I'm going to finish it, and then there isn't going to be any more. There is another book by this author coming out soon. I don't know if it's a sequel or a companion, or just another book by this author, but I am glad that there's something else coming out. But that is Curse of the Specter Queen by Jenny Elder Nook. I'm in love with this. So this is basically Female Indiana Jones with Irish, or with Ireland as a backdrop, and that's all I needed was Ireland, Indiana Jones, and then the female main character just made it even a bonus. So I guess it's kind of like Lara Croft, but yeah. Like there's a little one here, and there's a book coming out that looks like this that's blue, so I'm really hoping that it is actually the start of the series. Why would it have a one if it wasn't? So as the second book is coming out or has come out, I really do want to get a move on and finish this one, and I am really excited. Plus I just love the shady green. This is my favorite color, by the way. This next one is called Spindle and Daggers, and this is by J. Anderson Coates. So this book follows our main character who, both of her sisters, die by the hands of this like evil lord thing, but she manages to lie to save her skin and say that if he protects her as like she is a saint or something, then, you know, good things will happen. And so she is perfectly content just being able to be treated like royalty, like having food in her belly and a safe roof over her head. But then as the lord goes and takes over this other village and takes this other woman and their children hostage, she kind of wonders that this is the best thing to do or maybe she should do something about it. Again, it's not a long book. I feel like Spring is a great time to like read the shorter books that I want to and just kind of catch up on all the shorter books just because like it's a transitional season. And I feel like the weather changes so much where I live that it's like you kind of just can't stick with one thing, you gotta like be able to move on. So I am choosing quite a few small books to just kind of get them read as well. I also feel like Spring is a good time for fairy tale retellings and lots of like light magic like that. And so I will be reading Briar Heart. This is by Mercedes Lakey and this is a Sleeping Beauty retelling. This basically follows her older sister who is supposed to keep Sleeping Beauty safe in every way. She is both trained in physical combat and in magic in order to protect her half sister who is Princess Aurora. This says it's an arc but I got it after the publication date so it's already out, don't worry. Moving on to a political fantasy that really captured my eye is The Glittering Court. And this is by Rochelle Mead and okay I love this cover. Normally I don't like covers where there are humans on them like real humans but I actually really like this. So this follows a countess who is trying to escape her life and kind of get out of an arranged marriage. And so to do that she escapes to another kingdom but because she is no longer a countess she joins The Glittering Court. And I believe that court is to prepare young ladies for the life of court in hopes that they can catch like the prince's eye or someone at court, someone wealthy at court so she kind of has to re-go through stuff that she already knows. And I think it's going to be very fascinating. Ever since I saw this it's caught my attention and I am ready to pick this up. The final book that I have on this list is a historical fiction. I also recently hold it in my mini-haul. And I have this one and one other historical fiction that I own that I haven't read yet. So if I read this one this spring, the next one in the summer, I'll be all caught up and have all of my historical fictions read. And I'm really happy about that. So the one that I've chosen for spring is Magic Lessons and this is by Alice Hoffman. This is book one in the Practical Magic series. So it's historical fiction but obviously it has a magical twist. This place in the 1600s and our main character is from England and has learned magic but then when she gets betrayed she moves to Salem, Massachusetts. And I think we all know where that's going to go. But which moves to Salem, Massachusetts? I am in to read the story. I am excited. There is love. There is sadness. There is witchcraft. I am excited to pick this up. And also look at the gold cover. It's also another very pretty cover. Spring is also the season I feel like you need to pick up all your really pretty cover books just because everything is becoming so beautiful like the flowers are blooming. Nature is becoming a major theme. Like, it's gorgeous. So I would definitely, I am picking up some of my prettiest books. I also hope to pick up, like I said, just some other really short books. I will hopefully do my Disney Twisted Tales reading vlog soon. I'm really excited for that. So stay tuned. 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