 This is one of the biggest book hauls that I've ever done and I'm very intimidated by it. Hi Loves, welcome back to my channel and welcome to an autumn cozy book haul. I am so excited. I'm so excited for this. I feel like in the UK the weather has just changed. It's become all autumnal and I'm totally feeling it. It's been a long time since I lasted a book haul. I always wait till I've got like 20 to 30 books and I did my last book haul four months ago because I've been trying to buy less books. So I think we've got just over 30 books here to go through and discuss lots of new releases, lots of mysteries, horrors, that kind of thing. But before we get into the video I want to say the biggest thank you to the sponsor of today's video which is Serious Readers. Now this is one of my favourite brands I've ever worked with because I love their products so so much and I need you guys to go check it out. It's amazing. Generally like listen, don't go away, stay with me. It's amazing. 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So firstly one that arrived a few days ago was The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman. Look at these special edges from what it says. Aren't they so cool? So excited. So a lot of you all know this is my favourite Murder Mystery series. I've wrote the first two and I gave them both five stars. We're following these elderly characters who live at this retirement village as they used to solve murders just in this little club. They had like unsolved murders try and solve them but then murder starts turning up on their doorstep and you find actually these lot they're actually very good at solving murders. They've got some special skills and it's just funny books, heartwarming, quick fun reads. I just love them so so much. So I don't tell you too much about this one because obviously it is the third one but on the back it says four unlikely friends, a murder with no body and trouble knocking at their door. Elizabeth it's one of the four characters and listen that girl's got a lot of history. She's got a lot going on in history and I think this one is another person from Elizabeth's past turning up but yeah I love this series so much. It's been announced I think Richard Osman has signed on for two more books in this series and also two more books in a new series which is a father and daughter-in-law who have a detective agency solving murders together so listen I'm ready for the Richard Osman literary world to just grow. Then we have oh listen she's the girlies are reading her. The girlies are reading her at the moment. It's Babbel by RF Krang. Let me hear you say it. That's what we've been waiting for. It's what we wanted all along. Oh I'm so excited to read this. I don't know too much about the plot. I know it's set at Oxford. I know it's to do with translation and language. So many people have been reading this and talking about how amazing it is and I'm actually gonna be reading it in about two weeks. Two to three weeks which I am so excited for. I really really am very excited to read this. For me I think this has been probably the most hyped book on booktube this year and I've of course got another one coming out in May next year. It feels very fast. Yeah I know this is gonna take me a little while to get through. It's got footnotes. I've heard the audio book is good so I've got that as well. I'm very very excited to read it and I'm hoping I'm gonna love it. Listen Dark academia this should all should be my vibe more so even than this trilogy which recently killed me. Like deceased I'm gone I'm dead so yeah definitely should love this. We then have Murder Before Even song which was spoken a little bit about. This is definitely inspired by Richard Osmond's success. This is by Richard Coles who is another celebrity in the UK. He's a famous reverend here in the UK and this just seems like a very cosy murder mystery. We've got a canon of a church who solves the murder. I always say I love I just love the inciting incident of the murder. One of the parishioners is found stabbed in the neck with a pair of sacrators. Like that is just so quaint cozy mystery. Like I just I love it. But yeah the idea of reading from you know a priest's perspective where those people specifically in a small town such as this are probably very close within the community. A lot of people are talk to them about how they're feeling perhaps confess something they've done so I think it's a very unique imaginative way to set up a murder mystery. I don't think this is going to be the greatest work of literature. I always say this that I've ever read but I am hoping I'm going to love it. Then we have another silver marina Garcia that I've bought. My third that I've bought none that I've read. No that sounds bad guys and forgive me for saying it. And that is the daughter of Dr Moro. I think this is going to be my first introduction to silver marina Garcia which is crazy that it's the third I've bought but I do have plans to hopefully read this in November. I don't know much about it other than it's about the daughter of Dr Moro and that's what I mean. I had to pre-order it because if you know in my favorite series ever one of the characters is Catherine Moro. She's like a creation of Dr Moro. She's not his daughter but like how do you compare to Catherine? I have to know like Catherine isn't she one of my favorite favorite. I mean I dream of Catherine like Catherine Catherine could kill me for when I am concerned genuinely. I adore her. I don't believe in the glorification of murder. I do believe in the empowerment of women. I have to see how this compares and I'm excited to try silver marina Garcia because I feel like first off Diction all of her books have that air to me but I have yet to read one. Next we have Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Dino Dawson. This was gifted to me by one of my lovely patrons Clara. I love the cover for this so much. Isn't she gorgeous? Like I just love the pink. I feel like pink is having a little bit of a moment right now and I just love the pink energy. This is one I really want to get to soon so it's about Her Majesty's Royal Coven which is like witchy secret coven working for the United Kingdom, working for the UK government but it's witches and it's a place for them to reach their full potential and develop their gifts. The greatest enemy comes from then oh I love this. I this year read The Rook by Daniel Malley which is another like secret government department with a supernatural edge to it book and I just think that's a little bit of a flavour that I enjoy and I like it. I think it's a little bit of a flavour that I enjoy. So yeah I've never read anything from Dino Dawson. This is gonna be my first but I just love this cover and I feel like oh my god the idea of this gets me so excited. And then two more new releases that I've got my hands on. We have Someone in Time which is an anthology. We have Shulma Guire in here, Alex Iharro, Theodora Goss but this is all about short stories about time travel and romance which for me feels like an interesting like for the whole for the whole anthology to be about time travel and romance like surely all the stories are gonna be on a similar similar line. Do you know what I mean? So I'm intrigued to see how the different stories differentiate. Obviously the ones I'm most excited for are those three which are three of my favourite authors together in one anthology Shulma Guire, Theodora Goss, Alex Iharro. You know what's the most exciting thing about winning? It's when you win. I love that feeling. But there's a lot of authors I've always wanted to try and hear like Sarah Gailey, Zen Cho. So I'm excited to see what I think of their ones and this is gonna be the first anthology I actually like rate each short story. I've never done that before but I think it could help me figure out what my average rating for the anthology is. So yes very excited for this and then the last one is The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D Jackson. Tiffany D Jackson, I've read two books, given them both three stars. This has to be a five star. Her synopses are always five stars, five stars, five stars for me. Like my favourite synopses ever to exist. This is a carry retelling. I've heard only amazing things about this so far. Everyone who I've seen reading this so far has been giving it five stars. A lot of you told me that the audiobook was great so I'm definitely gonna listen to the audiobook as well for this and this is gonna be the first one I gave to Tiffany Jackson to five stars. I'm saying it now and that makes it true. Next I don't think you guys are ready for this. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. I have three months of fairly boxes. I don't know how it got to this. I keep meaning I like to obviously save them. I don't open them without unboxing them on here for you guys and somehow we've got three months to unbox. So let's do this now because I'm excited to see what's in here. I think this is June, July and August boxes. I don't know which boxes which they've probably been messed about but let's just unbox together. This always feels like Christmas whenever I open Verily. I get very excited. They do send these to me but obviously I tell you guys what I think on what most excites me. So let's get into it. Oh my goodness. Okay so this is August. We have the theme of Tell Me Lies. What's the song? Oh my goodness. What is this? This is gorgeous. This is a jewelry box. Oh my goodness. What a height. This feels very high quality. It's like velvet. Like how gorgeous. It's like velvet. Oh my goodness. That is gorgeous. I don't tend to wear a lot of jewelry but the jewelry that I do own is always just like, it's not stored very nicely. So this is actually perfect for me. I've always, I'm one of those people where I don't wear a lot of jewelry so I've never bought anything to like store my jewelry. It's always just like put on my little cart over there very untidily. Oh my goodness. They've got a, oh come on. Not a tote. This gives me dark academia vibes. Like this tote, excuse me, autumn dark academia vibe. Oh my goodness. Whoa those two first items have been some of my favorite items that we've had in a while. Gorgeous. Okay wow. Constantly raising the bar for us all and doing it flawlessly. We have a pin inspired by Gilded. I've got to be honest the pins aren't like necessarily my thing. I don't know what to do with them. I like usable objects if I'm honest. I like things that I can use. So the pins aren't always for me but that one is really cute. We have Romeo and Juliet list pad. Cute. These are some of their foiled bookmarks they've been doing by mythology. Oh my god I love those. Especially the girly. How cute. What is her name? I don't know who these people are. Anancy and a pat, a paint? I don't, I have follow mythology. I don't know. I'm sorry I do not know that man. I mean he could be walking down the street. I wouldn't I wouldn't know a thing. Sorry to this man. I've been using these bookmarks a lot. Okay let's find out what the book of the month is. Oh we've got red sprayed edges. We've got a ribbon bookmark. Oh no I'm rubbing on the tripod. Oh my god everything's going wrong. What is this? Oh I haven't heard of this. Violet made of thorns by Gina Chen. Oh my goodness. Look at the ombre sprayed edges. Oh my goodness that is not fair. What is this about? It says it's a darkly enchanted fantasy about a morally grey witch, a cursed prince, and a prophecy that ignites their twisted fate destinies. Oh my god they've done this again like gorgeous illustrations on the end pages. They always do this to me and it's oh wait have we got anything? I don't know if they've done this before like artwork on the hard cover itself. Oh my god that is so gorgeous. Great start. We're off to a great start with this first box. The jewelry box and the tote bag are absolute highlights for me. Okay so this is chosen ones. June oh my god I like that art. That gives me good vibes. Oh we have a trinket dish. Oh my god RIN from the Poppy War get out. They know that that's just killed me. I swear to god how cute it's RIN. Love that. Okay oh we've got another book sleeve. Oh okay this is the Atlas 6 inspired which I have not read. Don't play on reading but I do love their book sleeves because I always say they have zips. I feel like book sleeves. Oh this one's got very nice lining on the inside. Well guess what people? I get excited about small things. Oh my god we have a paperback book. Get out. Okay this is Twin Crowns by Catherine Rubber and Catherine Doyle. I was worried both of their names wasn't Catherine and I was like putting the wrong name. I've heard such good things about this and look. Oh my god the foil? No. I just know it's about two sisters and a crown. I think they're like fighting for the crown. Don't really know but I've heard really good things about this and I like the kind of like fairy tale forbidden like castle like all of that kind of stuff. I do like that vibe. Oh these are cute. There's little tabs with daggers. I don't tab a lot so these aren't super useful for me but I know a lot of people especially people who read fantasy do tab a lot but I don't if I'm honest I don't know how much I'll use these because I do not really tab. I'm just not a tabby girlie. I just like to read and then get going. You know what I mean? And then let's see what the book is. Oh my god yellow edges. Oh how gorgeous that this vicious grace. A swoon rather romantic comedy set in an Italian inspired fantasy world where a young girl's gift can either save or kill. Oh my god can you see like the little the little stencil on the edge? How gorgeous. I need to stop saying gorgeous. I'm not got Mick. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. I love the brown. It's like a brown hardcover. Oh my god I love this. I love them doing these end pages now. I really love the design end pages. I think they're just so gorgeous. Wow. Love the sound of that as well. Okay final box my goodness. So this is July's. Oh it looks like a maze. Hang on what is this? Trials and retribution. What have we got? Oh we've got socks. Now I love getting socks because I always do socks. So I love getting socks and foliage. These are inspired by Gideon the Ninth. Oh we have one of these things. We have a pin banner inspired by Dance of Thieves. Now as I said I don't really use pins. I could put them on these but that's like another thing that I personally won't use but if you collect the pins that is a good thing to have. Oh my goodness what is this? A print album. It's like leather. That is a very clever idea because sometimes you get the prints and I'm like what am I gonna do with that as someone who like isn't gonna put them on their walls but that is such a good idea. Wow they like know what you need. Oh my goodness we have a letter opener. They always know how to design these. Look at her. We have some metal straws of various sizes. I'm always talking to my family about how I should or we should be more sustainable so I love that. And then let's see what the book is. Oh the Darkening by Sanya Mara. Look at that cover. Look at the foil. Stenciled edge. Let's look has it got the end pages? Ah! Oh my goodness that is so gorgeous. And look at that. God fairily just kill it every time. They said listen what are we supposed to do? Wow love that. Okay that is three great months of boxes from fairily. Okay now that is done. We finished that unboxing. Oh my god I'm like overheating. Let's talk about some books that I have been very kindly gifted so I've just realized this one's a 2022 release as well but when I was feeling ill a little while back one of my patrons Melissa gifted me a spoonful of murder for my amazon wish list. This is like another Thursday murder club. I don't want to call them ripoffs but like heavily inspired book. In this one we're following three retired school teachers who meet up at a garden centre which if you haven't been in if you haven't lived in the UK garden centres are a big place for people to meet up and have lunch. Like you go to my mum's very into going to garden centres. Yeah they bump into one of their ex-colleagues and then the next week their ex-colleague is dead and they have to figure it out. Very exciting. Now after I read The Glass Hotel and really really enjoyed it by Emily St. John Mandel someone gifted me Station 11 from my wish list. I don't know who. I asked on Instagram no one no one like you know volunteered that it was them so if it was you thank you so much please let me know who it was because I want to thank whoever got me Station 11 but I've always wanted to read Station 11 but especially after reading The Glass Hotel and enjoying it I want to read this even more. I don't know too much about it other than it's I know it's doing actors and actresses in like the apocalypse. I think like there's been a pandemic not apocalypse maybe but there's been like a pandemic essentially. I remember at the start of the pandemic there was the two camps like very very anti-reading pandemic books and people who were like finding solace through reading pandemic books. So I remember there being a lot of discourse like renewed discourse around it but I really liked Emily St. John Mandel's writing so I'm very intrigued to see what I think when reading this. Then after Connie Thomas became one of my favorite authors through giving her three five stars. I've now given her three five stars on one four star. Another one of my lovely patron Shanice gifted me Some Girls Art and All The Rage. These are two of her older books. Obviously I read Cracked Up To Be which was her debut and I loved it. So I'm intrigued to read these as well and kind of just see more of the journey of her books. I don't really know what these two are about but I mean like Connie Thomas books are always down a similar topic where you follow a girl who is facing up to the real terrors of the world that exist in some form of capacity and is going through something really difficult. So at this point I'm basically I was gonna say I'm guaranteed to have a good time. I mean I don't have a good time. Often Connie Thomas books are very heartbreaking to read but I enjoy hurting myself apparently. Stop it. Get some help. Then another one of my patrons Kayla saw these in a bookshop and thought of me and got them for me which was so kind. So we have The Mansour Park Murder and The Man in Black by Lynn Shepherd. This is a start of a detective series. One of these is a retelling of Mansour Park and the other is a retelling of a Charles Dickens novel but it doesn't tell me which one but yeah these are both murder mysteries. They're both new releases that I haven't heard anyone speak about. They've got like barely any reviews yet on Goodreads. So yeah excited to read both of these. It was so kind of Kayla to see these and think of me and I always love reading books that not a lot of people have read yet and seeing what I think because I think when you've heard a lot of people talk about a book it can kind of like you know color what you think of it or give you preconceived notions where I really like going into books that I haven't heard anyone read read yet or talk about yet and seeing what I think without anything that other people have said coloring what I'm thinking. And then finally oh I should have put this with A Spoon Full of Murder. Melissa at the same time also got me The Burning Issue of the Day by T. E. Kinsey. This is my favorite cozy mystery series, The Lady Hard Castle Mysteries. This one a journalist has been killed in a suspicious blaze oh my goodness. Everything points to a group of suffragettes oh my gosh exciting. I'm getting older. I don't know if I can if I want all this drama all the time if I'm being honest. Lady Hard Castle Mysteries are just a bit of a comfort read for me at this point. I really really enjoy reading them and just you know letting myself be taken into this world for a few hours. I really I think these are so readable, so fun, great writing, two horror books I just have to mention that I've recently heard. This Thing Between Us and Comfort Me with Apples I am reading them both this week. I have already actually read This Thing Between Us but I don't want to tell you what I think about it because that would be spoiling this weekend's video. This is about a guy whose wife has recently died and it's very much about his grief and very strange things happening to him. I don't want to give too much away and I don't really know what Comfort Me with Apples is about too much. I've been told by many people to kind of go into it blind. I know a lot of people have compared it to Don't Worry Darling in that it's dark and something to do with like a woman living in this kind of perfect suburbia community and something to do with her husband and everything not being as it seems. So yes reading a lot of horror this week excited to see what I think of this one. Let's talk about a few other books that I've already read actually. So you guys have heard me speak about these already but I bought them in the period since I last did my book haul. We have The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware which I read on a cruise and it's set on a cruise in the Norwegian Floors and I was on a cruise in the Norwegian Floors. It was such a great place to read it and I gave it five stars because of that. Our protagonist when she gets on this luxury cruise trip she sees a woman in the room next to her but is later told that no woman was there when after the night she hears a scream I think and then a body splash or what sounds like a body splash into the sea and I just love this. I know a lot of people don't like this one from Ruth Ware but I just thought it was a solid fun quick thrill out. I love Ruth Ware's writing it's just like I don't even have to think about if I'm drawing the writing I just enjoy it you know and just sink back into it. Another one that I gave five stars was Delicates by Brenna Thumna this is the sequel to Sheets it is a graphic novel it's all in these like blues purples and pink tones which I think is so gorgeous and I enjoyed Sheets but I loved this one so so much it tackles more about bullying about you know being different. It's a middle grade and I think I'm just thinking of how many kids could benefit from reading this when you know you're maybe like 11 or 12 and god like kids are horrible at that age. I hated year six at school I hated it and I just think reading stuff like this would have been so helpful. It also tackles grief in the series and yeah I hope there is going to be more none more none more Jesus Christ. Sometimes when I'm talking I talk so fast I don't realize what I'm saying. What would you do if when you okay so he said yes would go. And then one that wasn't as great I read for my patron book club was Final Girls by Riley Sager. I just think it's kind of boring it was three stars it wasn't bad like Survive the Night by Riley Sager is worse it's a worse book I gave it two stars but I had more fun reading it than I did this it was just fine like I maybe even was lower than a three star I don't know I don't know I just don't think about her anymore I don't think about her. It's about these final girls one of them dies in mysterious circumstances and then the other two kind of meet up and there's a mystery going on with like is something happening are they getting killed off what is going on yeah I just didn't like this and like the descriptions of sex in it were like a bit like okay you're a man like and then the final stack I have were the ones that I bought when I went to London and filmed a book shopping blog so I'm literally just gonna hold these up and say their names because this video has already been ten years long and you've seen me buy these say why I buy them and then haul them at the end of the video if you haven't watched that definitely go check it out I had so much fun exploring different bookshops in London. The It Girl by Ruth Ware which is one of my most anticipated thrillers I obviously love Ruth Ware stuff this follows a girl who found her best friend's body ten years ago a guy went away for the crime and now people are saying that maybe he did not in fact kill her. I got two graphic novels we've got saga volume two which is like a high fantasy sci-fi kind of series that I'm reading and I saw it and I thought listen I've read volume one I should actually try and make progress in the series so I got volume two. I also got The House of Lost Horizons which is like a murder mystery horror graphic novel maybe a bit supernatural it looks like on the cover so I've never seen a murder mystery graphic novel before so when I saw this I knew I had to get it. We've got The Three Dahlia's which I've never heard of before but it's like a classic murder mystery where these three women who have played this famous detective throughout the years come together at the authors the late authors estate for this party and they end up having to solve murders there. We have Carrie Soto is Back by Toe Jenkins Reid I loved Toe Jenkins Reid I've given all three of her the main New Era books because she has older books that we don't talk about as much but yeah New Era books I've given them all five stars I love them this one we're following Carrie Soto in the 90s who's a famous tennis player she had the record for most amount of slams but then someone equals her record and she wants to come back many years later since she retired and play again. We have Unraveler by Frances Harding this I don't know too much about the plot I gave one of Frances Harding's books five stars this year and also first of my dread from Frances Harding it says in a world where anyone can create a life-destroying curse only one person has the power to unravel them but I just feel like no one around me is experiencing this in the same way as me. Frances Harding has this beautiful fantastical fairy tale like writing so I read the first page of this and absolutely fell in love in a way that I don't often with like first pages and I knew I had to get it I got Gallant by V.E. Schwab which is one of the books that has been out for a while this year and I've been really wanting to get my hands on. What I know is that um this girl receives a letter from her uncle giving her his estate she gets there her uncle is already dead and the letter is years late and she has two rules don't go out after dusk and always stay on the right side of the crumbling wall so yeah I really enjoy V.E. Schwab's writing a lot of the time and a lot of people were telling me earlier this year that I'm really gonna enjoy this so excited to get to this and lastly I got Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert L. Stevenson and other books because obviously Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is quite a short book and I'm gonna be reading this in a video that I've got coming in November and I'm not gonna say anything else but yeah I never really thought I would read this I don't tend to read a lot of classics but I'm excited to read it for the video that I've got planned. Thank you guys so much for watching this book haul please let me know any books here that you've loved I always want to hear what you guys have thought about books that you've read and which books I should get to next so please let me know that down below let me know which books you would most like to see me read whether it's because you enjoyed them or because you want to see what I think of the book before you get it so that always helps me figure out which books to prioritize so please let me know down below if you got into the end oh my goodness what should we comment oh comment the spider emoji there's a lot of spiders on Unraveler and like this spider web on the cover so comment the spider emoji if you got into the end thank you all so much for watching and I'll see you very soon in another video bye