 Hello everyone, welcome back to my channel. I hope you are well. Today we're going to be doing a video which I have been excited to do for such a long time. That is, I'm going to be giving you book recommendations based on my favourite Pokémon. Yes! Yes! So as a kid I was never into the games. I never watched anything, never played anything but when I started going out with Tom, he's a massive Pokémon fan and we started playing the games together. Today I'm going to be taking you to my favourite Pokémon. I'm so excited. I'm going to tell you why I named them. God, you don't know how excited I am for this. I'm so hyped. As you can see, I thought I'd film in front of this. We have like a little Pokémon shrine. Let's zoom in. So we've got Eevee, we've got Totodile, we've got Dragonite, and we've got a Pokeball, then we've got Celebi, then we've got Poplii, and we have two other Pokémon that are usually up there but they're two of my favourites so I've got them down here and I'm going to hold them up when I talk about them. Okay, shall we go? Okay, so my favourite Pokémon, my favourite Pokémon ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever. My favourite Pokémon ever is Drifloon. Now, I actually- For Christmas one time or something, I made Drifloon for my boyfriends. This is how Drifloon, I made it. Well, I made it with help of my grandma because I'm not like super good at making stuff person, do you know what I mean? But I'm pretty proud, like I think Drifloon looks cute and look at her little heart, right? My Drifloon is just called Floon because I think if her name is good, then don't change it. The same way I just called my Wulu Wulu, I think Floon is the perfect name. So this is my Drifloon. So on its Pokédex, Drifloon is described as famous for dragging people away to die. Look at this face, how can it- Isn't it the cootiest thing? How can it be dragging people away to die? And an old folktale calls it a signpost for wandering spirits. So when I was thinking about this, I thought, what's like a wandering spirit book or whatever? And I thought, I have the perfect theory. So I've spoken about this a few times on my channel, but my recommendation, based on Drifloon, is the Wayward Children series by Shorland Maguire. So this is a short series of novellas about children who go through doors to worlds that are like perfect for them. They feel completely at home in these worlds, but then a lot of them have returned to our world and are having to kind of come to terms with living here and learn how to live in this society again because when they live in their world, there's often really strange rules that are very different to our society. So one girl, she learns to stand very still. She has to stand very still in this world that she goes to. So she moves very slowly when she's back in our world or some have nonsense worlds where the rules of logic completely go out the window. And so I just feel like this being a signpost for wandering spirits, those kids are all kind of wandering spirits and they're all just having to learn how to live here again. And some of the books follow them in their respective worlds, which I also think is so flune. Like their worlds are just so like, I can just imagine little flunes of floating about. Are you on drugs? Are you f***ing on drugs? I don't think I can explain to you my love for flune. What was the, baby? What was the game flune was in? Generation 4, you know, the Pokemon Diamond Perlin Platinum. You meet it outside the Valley of Wind. Yeah, the wind works. The wind mills are cute. You can only catch it on Fridays. You can only catch it on Fridays. You can only catch it on Fridays and there's this little girl who you rescue and there's Mission and she talks about how there's this balloon Pokemon she goes around making like the sound of it and I was like, oh, I remember it and I was like, oh, it's a Monday. So we're gonna have to wait while it's the Friday. Sometimes it didn't work when making this game. So I had to keep engineering the situations that I was like, oh, we've got to come back here. Oh, there's something to do here on Fridays to make it sound like there's an emigrant on the account of the same girl. What is this? It was the first game I actually finished. I like played all the way through and I remember the final battle was like, it was so long, wasn't it? Yeah, we were there for about 40 minutes. We were there for so long for the final battle and flune just pulled through and like, oh, it was just such a good team. Everyone in that team would just love. When I play Pokemon, like, I don't catch Pokemon if they're not going to be in my team. Like, I feel guilty about it. So like, my team is a very select few that I build over the course of the game and like, I kind of know going into the game. Well, Tom usually has a list of the Pokemon he thinks I'm going to want in my team and then we build it up as the game goes along. My next favorite Pokemon is Rultz. I don't think it's so cute. And then as you, as you like evolve it into its evolutions, like, they're just, it's just such a good Pokemon. Like, it's just such a good Pokemon. My Rultz is called Katia after the drag queen. So Rultz is a psychic Pokemon and it senses the emotions of others. And I was thinking, okay, what have I read where maybe someone's psychic or something? And I thought of something and they're not psychic, but essentially I need to exchange what the book is. The book is The Girl of Fire and Thorns. This whole series I'm doing a read-along for with Nicole, Simone and Ishii and I really enjoyed this series. And our lead character, Elisa, she is a godstone in her Bemi button. And that means she's like the chosen one and all these religions want her as like a martyr. Oh, really? That sucks. But part of what the godstone is, is that if there's danger ahead or like someone's gonna die or something, the godstone turns to I so she can tell when, when maybe her and her friends are approaching a dangerous situation, she can warn them. And if she's trying to figure out what the correct decision to make is, the godstone will often go warm. And like telling her that's the right decision. And so I thought this was really similar to like kind of being able to sense the emotions of others. And I was so surprised that I enjoyed this series like when Nicole asked me to, I think I said this before, but when Nicole asked me to do this read-along with her, I was like, yeah, okay, but I never heard of the series. And I'm so happy that I've done it because it's actually a great series and I never would have read it otherwise. And I think that the kind of magic system around our protagonist is so interesting. The relationships with everyone in the, in the story is really interesting. The world is so vivid and really well built up. And so, yeah, I would really just recommend that series. I think it's a really great one. My next favorite Pokemon is my first ever Pokemon. The first ever Pokemon I ever caught and was my Pokemon. I didn't catch it, but you know what I mean? My first ever Pokemon was Torchic. Don't you love his feet? I love when you see it. I'll try and put animation in when he runs. Oh my God. So Torchic is called Theo and I was trying to figure out last night why I called him Theo and Tom just thinks he just told me to call him Theo. At the beginning, Tom often named my Pokemon. Now I'm Boulder and I come up with great names. Amazing names. But I did tell a bit of a lie there. Torchic says in the Pokedex, inside its body is a place where it keeps a small flame. Hug it. It will be as warm as a hot water bottle. Torchic is a firefighting type, right? Firefighting type. Yes. Firefighting type. And I was trying to think of something that feels like kind of aggressive and like fiery and full of action. And I thought of, are we surprised the Illuminati series? This is the second in the series. Oh my God. This series is so action packed. So I don't think there's actually much, is there fire? Oh, maybe there's fire. I don't want to spoil anything, but maybe there's fire at some point in the series. And it's so fast paced. Every page there's a new reveal. More information is revealed and the characters have to adjust their course on what they're doing. The first book, I don't want to describe this one because there'll be spoilers. Well, that's actually not really spoilers because we follow different characters in each book. But the first book in the series, we follow a couple who have just broken up, like a teenage couple, they've just broken up and their planet is invaded and they have to escape on these kind of warships. And they are on separate ships and they're communicating to each other through like the backlogs of the internet. The story in, I'm sure you've heard me go on about it loads, but these stories are told through multimedia format. So you have pages like this. Oh, hang on. That's a good example. In this Gemini one, one of our characters draws a lot. So we have a lot of her illustrations. It's told through surveillance, camera footage. It's told through the AI being aware of certain things and talking. And it's just so good. I've given both in this series five stars. This, along with the Heart Stopper series, are like the only things I've really given five stars this year so far. And it is just incredible. You read it and you are just like shell shocked. You just really, it's just an experience. And you're, you are so tense throughout all of reading this that you are just sitting like, and after you finished it, like it takes a little while to like calm down. But I love the way in which this is told the multimedia format is like incredible. So my next Pokemon is Meryl. I love Meryl. Meryl is like out here. So my Meryl is called Bob after Bob the drag queen. And one of the best, one of the best features of Meryl is that he has thick fat. It's so pudgy. But like, because it's fat, it's like so strong. It doesn't look strong. You look at it and you go, he's so cute and purgy. But like, he is strong. He is like, there's so much muscle underneath that. The book I'm going to recommend based on Meryl is Ninth House by Lee Bardugo. This is because like, it's kind of hard to get through just like, you know, it's got that thick fat just like pop. I didn't expect it to have such an emotional hit, just like I didn't expect roll out to hit you like that. So in 9000 we follow Alex Stern, who has lived a kind of troubled life up till now, but she and she's the sole survivor of like a triple homicide or something like that. And she gets a chance to turn her life around and come to Yale and kind of supervise all the secret societies there that are doing some dark magic, some really dark magic. This book is very dark. There's a lot of trigger warnings for it, which I'll try and leave a link below. I think Meltz and Annie did a blog post where she went through all the trigger warnings because I think you should be very aware of all of them before going into the book. There's definitely one of the earlier scenes is where one of the secret societies is doing blood magic and I was very uncomfortable reading that. So if you know that's a trigger for you then be careful. But this book is just so good. Not everyone loved it but I loved it. It does take a bit of time to get through. It's not going to be a quick read and that's not necessarily because it's length. Some books are just a bit more dense with kind of the information they've got. I felt very connected to Alex Turner as a character. I felt very connected to a lot of the characters and I think it's a really great look at kind of the rich and poor in society and how much your life can be dictated by the circumstances you're born into. That's not something I see people talk about a lot with this book. I think it's a really, you know, Alex Turner has lived a really troubled life and she's very much a product of the life she's lived and I think that it's just a really, really great look at that and kind of the people that she's known in her past life before coming to Yale, how they were affected by their circumstances as well. So I really enjoyed that aspect of it and if you haven't picked up 9th house yet like trust me it's good. I did a vlog on it which I'll link as well. If you want to know a bit more about it that's non-spoilery. I don't think it'd be scared off by what some people said because I was always scared off but I loved it. I loved it so much because it was one of my favourite books I read last year. You haven't been naming the type. You didn't name what type Bob was. You didn't properly name what type Katya is. I said Katya was psychic. Yeah but it's psychic fairy type because the overall thing of all your picks mate is that you like fairy type. I do like fairy type Pokemon. Bob is water fairy type. That's your psychic fairy. Yep. The upcoming Pokemon is also fairy type. I do love fairy types. I'm just drawn to fairy types because they're cuteness. Altaria is dragon fairy. Dragon fairy. Okay. My next favourite Pokemon is I just said it but Altaria. Altaria is called Sasha after the dragon queen Sasha Balor. One of the Pokedex entries for Altaria is that they sing melodies. I think they're like calm people or something by singing melodies and a book that I associate a lot with music but not only music like that kind of melodic like floaty eerie music. It would be The Winter Night Trilogy by Catherine Arden. Really I just wanted to mention the series again because I don't feel like I've spoken enough about it and not enough of you are telling me you've read it. So it's one of my favourite series of all time. We follow, oh my god why have I forgotten her name? We follow Vassia as she kind of learns more about magic and oh I don't want to I don't want to spawn anything but she lives in kind of the Russian wilderness. It's set in old Russia. She discovers that she has powers and it's her story of her saving first her town and her city and then her world and it's all about the magical beings and creatures that are in old Russian folklore and it's just the most magical book and special book I've ever read. It reads like a fairy tale and I I don't really know how to explain it to you like it's fully like you are being told an old Russian fairy tale. It's some of the best writing I have ever read and you just are completely taken along by the story and just like you know some books you feel like you can you know it's a book you know it's a story and so part of you is reading it going I wish the ending had gone that way or I wish that had happened that way. With this series it doesn't feel like something that could ever be changed by you it feels real it feels so real. Sasha just gives off winter night trilogy vibes like just when I see Sasha like floating on these like clouds I think of like the snow but also like I just think of that kind of like old Russian music. I don't know that sounds really weird but I just love this series and I want you to go read it and um yeah Sasha definitely reminds me of it. So my last hope Pokemon is a very new Pokemon from the newest Pokemon game um and that is Sobble. I love Sobble. My Sobble is called Mr. Meeks after my cat Miko um just because I think when Miko was a kitten I'll put a picture in he looks really like Sobble. Sobble is just the cutest Pokemon ever so Sobble cries a lot and I just love him like I just want to protect him and he just he walks when you go in this game you can set up tents and when you set up the tent and he's like the he's Sobble he hasn't evolved yet and he's walking around he walks around so slowly and softly. I just love him so much his pokedex description is when scared this Pokemon cries its tears pack the chemical punch of a hundred onions and attackers won't be able to resist weeping. I just love him so much just the best Pokemon ever and when he evolves he has this move is it Snipeshot? Snipeshot he has this move called Snipeshot and he goes that was finger and he goes and he's just like I just love him he's just my son that I need to protect anyway so for this I knew I had to come up with a book that made me cry a lot if you watched my 24 hour readathon video which I'll link as well you know I cried a lot to a monster caused by Patrick Ness I think a lot of people cried to this book essentially in this book our main character his mum has been diagnosed with cancer and he starts getting these nightmares but not nightmares because they're real where this monster turns up so if I show you some of the pages it's very dark the illustrations but that's kind of what they looked like or if we've got any others that's one of the monster there the illustrations are amazing in this and I sobbed so much at the end like the last I don't know how many pages loads of pages I was just sobbing and sobbing it's a really special story for kids as well learning to deal with you know those in our lives being ill and with the prospect of death and like teaching kids about that it's such a great great book and I really want to read some more of Patrick Ness when I was like younger like very very young like 12 I did pick up the knife of never letting go and didn't like it but I was 12 so maybe something went over my head but I would just recommend this book if you want to cry like the sobbing oh god it's so sad it's such a sad I mean I we've learned I cry a lot of books crazy I mean I cried at Gemina and that's not even really that sad but I just cried at it so this book is something that have made a lot of people cry and even just thinking about it I get a bit sad so yeah definitely definitely pick this up if you want a cry like so there we have it that is all of my recommendations based on my favorite Pokemon let me know down below who your favorite Pokemon is and if we share any of the same favorite Pokemon and let me know if you've enjoyed this video I'd love to do it again I've got many other favorite Pokemon that I'd love to introduce you to and recommend books based off of so yeah let me know if you liked this video and I'd love to do it again I like doing really niche book recommendations based on your shows or games I like so let me know if you enjoy that and yeah I'll see you very very soon with another video and I hope you are well until then bye