 Hey guys, it's Tilly, and today I am here with my December book haul. I bought books, I received books, and I am just a very happy person in general. And the first one is The Star Touch Queen by Roshani Chokshi. And this one I am also currently reading. I am like 100, no I'm not, I'm like 70 pages in and I'm kind of like stuck on it. So if you guys have read this book, please let me know what it is like so that I can know if it gets better or not, so that I can hopefully be encouraged to read more of it and sooner. I was told to read this by a few people because apparently it's very similar to the Wrath and the Dawn, and because I love the Wrath and the Dawn so much, I wanted to pick up something very similar to it, so I did. Next up, and I have to thank my friend Sam from Sam Barnes. He is Oz fanboy. I'll leave a link to his YouTube channel below. He is funny and sassy, and I love him so much, so go and check him out. He bought me this book, Branded, which is part of the Sinner series by Abbey Ketner and Missy Calakiki. This is one of his favorite books, I believe, and so I hope that I'm going to enjoy it. Fingers crossed that I do. So thank you Sam for giving me this book, and I will treasure it forever, and I love you loads. I bought these next two books on my birthday that kind of like a treat to me. I've been eyeing for quite a long time, and I have never actually seen them in hardcover. So when I did, I decided that I was going to buy them, and that is Van Gogh Book 1 and Book 2. So Book 1 is Between Sky and Earth, and Book 2 is A Prince Without a Kingdom, and these are by Timothy D. Fumbel, and I'm very very excited. I have, like I said, been looking at these for quite a while, and I've heard really good things about them too, and their covers. I just love them. Everybody has been hyping this book up, and I have been avoiding buying it because I think I saw like one bad review, and I was like, gee, should I get it? I don't know, but I decided that I'm gonna buy it, and that is The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon. Not only is this book stunning, but you know, I have heard a lot of good things about it. So hopefully I'll get around to reading it. I should do, hopefully sooner rather than later. I'm kind of like one of those people that have like contemporary moods every once in a while, and I'll just read like 20 contemporary books in a row, and then I'll even look at them for like a few months, so contemporary time should hopefully be coming around soon. I got this next one for my birthday, it's from one of my really good friends, and I actually really love this book, and that is How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You. I also bought The Beginning Woods by Malcolm McNeil, and I have heard amazing things about this book, and I really am into those simplistic covers at the moment, so of course I like am such an aesthetic person, so I went and bought it for its beauty, and hopefully it's storyline. It is a mystery book, and I haven't read a mystery in quite a while, so hopefully I will enjoy this one. I got this as a Christmas gift from my lovely friend Lisa who came over for Christmas. The first one I've got is How It Works, The Cat, and this book is actually like really really funny. A pet can be great fun. Cats are warm and fluffy, like cuddly toys, and their owners give them lots of time and affection, and just like cuddly toys, they do very little in return. Over thousands of years we have developed a special relationship with the animals that share our homes. Dogs have evolved to serve many sorts of human needs, and humans have evolved to serve many sorts of cat food. 11 out of 10, fantastic book. These next three books are all by Margaret Atwood. It is a trilogy I'm pretty sure. I'm not actually 100% sure what order they go into, but we have The Year of the Flood, Mad, Adam, and Oryx, and Craig. I thought that I was just there pronouncing all the names, but it turns out that I'm also bad at pronouncing book titles. Second last one is The Rose and the Dagger by Renee at Hay, and if you guys follow my Goodreads story on this, I finished The Wrath in the Dawn, and I was waiting at the bookstore before it even opened to get this book because I desperately needed to read it. I finished this one already, and I absolutely loved it. I'm trash for these books to be honest. And the last book that I got in December was from the YA Chronicles, and that's one is Finding Wonders by Janine Atkins. And yeah, I really can't wait to get around to reading this one. It was like a poetry collection centered around three girls who basically find the wonders in the world. So there you guys have the book haul for December. I hope you guys all had a lovely December, a lovely Christmas, a lovely month, depending on whether you celebrate Christmas or not. And if you didn't have a lovely time, I hope that you guys have a lovely bookish day instead and that many great things happen to you. A quick shout out though to a family friend who couldn't be here for Christmas, you were dearly missed, and you just have to have your Christmas present when you come back in February. So I turn to you guys to help encourage me to read more, and it's Christmas work, so I'm pretty happy with that. Let me know if you guys think I should do it for the same thing as January.