 Hi everyone, welcome back to my channel. I hope you're all good. Today is my birthday! I've got a big book haul to do. I can't even hold all these books up. This isn't even all. I can't... Oh no, I'm about to... Don't fall please! I've been super lucky and you guys have sent me loads of stuff, loads of books for my birthday and we're gonna unbox them all and open them all together. So I'm so excited to get into this. Thank you for all the birthday wishes and love and it's just been amazing. There was a video made by some booktubers and by my friend Nicole wishing me happy birthday and I just feel so lucky today and I can't wait to open all of these books. I don't know what ones to start with so we're just gonna grab them and see what happens. Ooh! Okay, who are these from? These are from Claire and she has sent me two romance books actually that I had on my wishlist which are Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade and Get a Life Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbet. If you watch my channel you know I don't tend to read a ton of romance but one of my goals this year was to read more. These are the two that I had on my list. Everyone says to read Talia Hibbet and I know this is like a series that we follow sisters so this is Chloe Brown. This one... Wait, I know what this one's about. Hang on, wait. It's almost hurtful to me to watch her be so dumb. This is between like a famous guy from TV and like a plus size Instagrammer I feel like. I don't really know but I've heard a lot of great things about this one. I just hoping to get more into romance this year and these seemed like good places to start so thank you so much Claire. Let's go for this one next. Who is this from? Okay so this is from Darian. Thank you so much. This, oh my god, this is Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno. I am so excited. Recently I read You Must Not Miss by Katrina Leno and like I was straight away obsessed. Like I loved it so much. It's one of my favorite books of last year. I read it right at the end. It was just like this perfect story of revenge and anger like anger within a girl. It just made me straight away want to read everything Katrina Leno has written and will ever write. I believe this is like a sapphic romance by the sea. I could be wrong on that front but I'm pretty sure that's right. Oh my god, I am so excited. I've also heard this is sad. Am I right in saying that? Like I feel like I've heard a lot of people say it makes them cry a lot and it's actually really short as well which we always love to see. We always love to see a short quick book. I'm not gonna lie. Thank you so much Darian. Oh my god, let me know if you've read this because I know it's one that a lot of people have read. Okay, we've got a couple big packages so I guess let's open one of them next. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. If I had a wig I would throw it. Okay, so this package is from my grandparents. So, oh my gosh. Okay, signed. Oh, we got a signed copy. First we've got Watch Over Me by Nina Lacour. This is one that I have heard so many good things about recently. Like a lot of people read this and loved it. I didn't know it was so diddy. Like it's quite like a short hardback. I believe this is about a girl, I think she's like lived in care through a lot of her life and she gets a chance to go to this farm to like work there and it turns out it's haunted I think but you kind of don't know if it's actually haunted or if she's like imagining it. It gives me similar vibes. I'm not sure if it's because the covers remind me of each other but it gives me similar vibes to Katrina Leno in that kind of like weird YA with beautiful covers. I think this is a lot about grief and it's like a very touching story that has a lot of like you don't know what is real and what isn't real kind of stuff to it. So really excited this one. Thank you so much. Then we've got The Night Sweep by Megan Golding which I'm so excited to finally have my hands on. This is a thriller that focuses on like this woman who has a true crime podcast and she uses her true crime podcast to follow a ongoing rape trial that is happening but then I think someone ends up contacting her about a murder that has happened in the same town and so you're following like the two cases and I think it has like a lot of courtroom stuff to do with the rape trial that's going on. I've heard that like the true crime podcast element and this is really great and that both stories are carried really well. This is like one of the thrillers I heard a ton about at the end of last year and just really wanting to get my hands on. It definitely seems like my kind of thriller like I feel like this is a thriller a lot of people have recommended to me so I'm so excited to finally have it. What's the last one that they have sent me? Hello? Can I open? How do I get into this? There we go. Oh yay! Oh my god that's so okay so next we've got The Language of Thorns by Lee Bardugo. Isn't this gorgeous? This is short stories from The Grisha Vast but oh my god it's like illustrated on the inside so every page has like these borders to it with these illustrations I did not know that. I'm in love with it. Oh my god look at the big pages with the illustrations. I mean look look this is lovely isn't it? I love it. Okay I have only read Shadow and Bone we've talked about this I'm reading King of Crows and Cook Kingdom soon and hopefully I will get to this pretty soon as well. I'm like I just want to make my way through the whole Grisha Vast before the Netflix Shadow and Bone series comes out which can we talk about all those pictures like weren't we all gagged? Like oh my god I cannot take it. I just want to own everything by Lee Bardugo and I'm really excited to read this. I feel like this will be great for like a read-a-thon or something like that because it's short stories so you can maybe read like a few every day and it's not very long either but the illustrations in here are just like absolutely gorgeous like what is going on. How did I not know about these illustrations? I just could stare at this all day. Wow thank you so much I'm so excited to finally own this. Let's open another one. This is from my aunt and this is hashtag No Escape which is like a book in this series but it's not like you don't have to read them in order this series. I heard Emma from Drinking Mind Myself talk about this. This is a series called Murder Trending which is murder stories told in really strange ways so I believe this is like an escape room. Yeah this is an escape room where where contestants are getting killed off like oh my god I love escape rooms. I love them so much like it's so much fun and so imagine doing an escape room but if you get it wrong out of time you're killed off. Oh my god I'm so excited. This is disgusting. I like it though. Emma says these are like simple to read but fun murder books. I don't know if they're murder mysteries necessarily. As soon as I heard her talk about this series I was like well I have to get it. It sounded exactly like the kind of thing I would enjoy. Okay what's in this one? Yay I'm so excited to have this. Oh thank you Lexi. This is from Lexi. This is The Radium Girls by Kate Moore so this is non-fiction that I've wanted to own for so long and it's about these women who worked in factories and over time they would find themselves with like really horrendous diseases and illnesses and elements. It was the radium paint they were using was poisonous so they'd been using for years and years been painting without any kind of protection and it's about them like fighting for justice and for their rights and I think it's a series of interviews and diaries and letters and this is just one I've just wanted for so long like I've wanted this for so long. I know it takes me ages to get around to non-fiction but I am so excited to get to this. It sounds so interesting and a piece of history we don't hear enough about. What's in this one? Oh my god I feel so happy. This is so lovely. Oh my god. Oh my god Jesus Christ. Check out the label. Okay so this is from Riley. She has sent me Snow White Lens of Witchcraft by Theodora Goss. Now we share a love, such a deep love for the Athena Club series. This is by Theodora Goss. This is like a series of short stories and poems. Oh yeah eight short stories and 24 poems and it's retellings of different fairy tales so it says the brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, Oscar Wilde and it's recentering women and empowering them. This just sounds so good. Like the way that Theodora Goss honours the women like the historical women in the Athena Club and gives them power and gives them agency. She just treats that so well like reimagining Victorian literature with women at the centre and women powered so I just love her so much. She is exquisite. I love her. I love her and I love her even more. I think she's incredible. Like one of my favourite authors. Probably one of my favourite authors at this point like up there like everything I read from her. Oh my god. Don't get me... I'm already emotional about the Athena Club. Let's not talk about it. Let's not talk about it yet. Thank you so much Riley. I can't wait. I can't wait to read this and again it's quite short so this is another one that would be great for a readathon. I feel like I'm trying to stack up on them at the moment. I want to take an interlude to open something that I know isn't a book my mum sent this to me and she was like you might want to just open it in the video where you unbox all your presents and then you can just cut it out if you don't want to keep it in there. Oh my god I just cut my finger. No we're good. So we're just gonna see what this is. I have no idea. She said it's like something small. Actually how do I... how am I supposed to get in? It's the T-Jackin Society card game inspired by the book by K.O.Neal. Oh my god. Wait. So if you know me you know I loved the T-Jackin Society. I haven't read books two... well three isn't out yet. I haven't read book two yet but this is a card game inspired by it and look how cute the T-Jackin... oh my god I'm not ready. Oh my god. Oh my god there's loads of... I'll do a close-up. Oh my god it's loads of cute cute cunts. It's so much. I can't wait to play that. This is like the cutest creatures in the world and I love them. Oh my god that's so cute. I love it so much. Oh my god I'm so happy. Okay back to the books now. Where is this? This is another one I wanted. Oh my god Jasmine. This is from Jasmine. I'll leave her channel linked down below. Oh my god I'm so excited. Okay so this is and the tree's creptin by Dawn Kurtigich. I have heard really good things about this. I heard Kayla talk about this and it's about two sisters who arrived at their aunt's home to like live there I think but the woods are like creeping in as the book goes... oh my god. The woods are like creeping in closer as the book goes on and it's kind of like horror and very strange like a very weird book and this is just one I've been like eyeing up. This has been one of the books I've been most excited to get my hands on and I am so thankful to finally own it. Like something about the cover like you can't really see because of the ring light but I really love it and I just want something that's like dark twisted spooky strange or other good things so thank you so much Jasmine. Oh my god that's such a good one. Okay next one. This is from Molly and this is split tooth by Tanya Tagak. If you ask me to tell you what this is about I don't know. I don't have an explanation for you and you may not get one. That's it. As far as I'm concerned the issue is dead. I'm moving forward. Again it's on that Kayla has spoken really highly about. It's a book that's told through many different forms like it's told a lot through poetry and then more prose sections it's got illustrations. I know that the audiobook has throat singing in it because the author is a Canadian Inuit throat singer. It's a kind of semi memoir semi fiction about a girl growing up in this small community in the 1970s and I just heard that it's very very powerful so I'm gonna get or have I already got the audiobook? I'm either gonna get or have already got the audiobook for this. I think I've already got it. Super duper excited to get to this one. Oh this is also from Molly. Okay thank you so much Molly. This is The Luminous Dead by Caitlyn Starling. Basically there's two characters so our main protagonist is having to like go on this expedition underground and it's like a really scary unknown situation and the only person she has contact with is the person in her ear and it's kind of like a relationship between them but also you don't know whether you can trust that person in her ear and it's a horror book so like things just start going wrong and tension and unease starts building the deeper they go into this like cavern underground. I know Riley has spoken really highly about this that's why I wanted to read it but I'm trying to get into more horror this year along with romance so this is one that I really think I'm gonna love. It seems really atmospheric. The horror that I love most is when it has this feeling of unease and like daunting throughout and when it sustains that like I think that's really hard to sustain like that building. I just want my skin to be crawling by the end of it so thank you so much Molly can't wait to get to that one. This is another big package oh my goodness oh well okay so these are all from my aunt as well. Firstly we've got the Obelisk Gate by NK Jemisin so this is the second in the fifth season. I'm so excited to own this I cannot wait to get around to it like I can't wait. I just feel like I need to get back into this series straight away like I can't spend a year away before I read the second one because I won't I won't remember a single thing like I just won't I won't remember a single thing. But stupid you're not smart. You're not smart. This world is very difficult to describe but it is kind of like this the fifth season is happening in the first book where the world is ending like the world ends in seasons and humanity kind of goes and hides away and regroups and comes back. We're following different characters as they navigate their way through this and this world where there's these origins who have power over like the earth and energy and they're very kind of shunted and discriminated against in society and so it's following that storyline. It's so hard to describe and especially I think once you finish the fifth season because of reasons that I can't explain it's very hard to describe the series like in retrospect without spoiling anything so I'm like gonna keep my mouth shut. The book like it made me feel so dumb. It definitely is one of the more complex fantasy books out there and so I feel like I need to read this book ASAP just to like retain all my knowledge of the series so thank you so much for that Debbie. Then we have also got Murder Trending so Awab actually bought me No Escape but this is like the first book in the series but again you don't I don't think you need to read them in chronological order of publication. I believe this is about the killings in the society are like live streamed like it's like a big form of entertainment through TV and internet and I think like you can vote you have like a lineup who's up for possibly being murdered and they like vote like the public vote on who they want to be killed and so it's kind of like Hunger Games vibes but again very like dystopian murder. Again I put this on my list because of Emma and I'm so excited to get around to it and then these jet bloody eyes on these high quality goats. We have got Grown by Tiffany D Jackson so I haven't actually read anything from Tiffany D Jackson but I feel like I'm going to love it. This is about a girl who is like up and coming in the music industry. Her manager kind of his body is found dead. It's whether she killed him and I think it's a lot about the story of abuse in the media industry and being taken advantage of and how that feels and just like a lot of conversations around abuse of power in the music industry particularly towards young girls so I've had so many good things about this and I really want to get into all of Tiffany D Jackson stuff. It's like contemporaries that read like thrillers is what I've heard like Monday's not coming is another one I want to get into. Thank you so much I'm so excited to own this and I love the cover of it so much. We've got one more Amazon parcel and then we've got a few from my mum and dad. Oh okay who's this from? This is from Ramona. Thank you so much. Okay we've got Big Little Lies by Leanne Moriarty. Now listen this is like one of those classic thrillers like this is one of those thrillers that almost everyone has read. I have not. I don't want to know too much about the plot because I feel like I've almost been spoiled about it at some point but then I successfully blurred out my memory. No I don't remember that. Like you know sometimes you're spoiled. Like I know some spoilers I know for like Cookie Kingdom I know spoilers. I can't forget them but sometimes, sometimes I successfully forget spoilers. Like I I managed to just get it out of my head. I feel like we start off knowing that someone's been murdered and then we go back in time to find out how that happened but it's told in like this suburban kind of environment with all these like white women suburban moms and there's a murder I think. That's all I want to know. Don't tell me anything else about it because something could jog my memory and the spoiler could just come back. Okay this is another one from my grandparents. Yes! Oh my god yay! Drowned Country by Emily Tesh. This is the sequel to Silver in the Wood. These are really short novellas. This cover I don't know why but it's one of my favorite covers in existence. Like I just love how haunting and like mysterious it is. I really love it. Like it just appeals to me so much. It's fashion meets... It's fashion. It's excuse me. It's fashion. Wait what is it? Fashion. It's fashion. So this is fantasy set around these woods and this man who's lived in the woods for hundreds of years and I don't really want to say too much because I don't want to spoil anything but in this I think we're going to be following the two male characters that we followed a lot in the first book and their relationship. I love woodish fantasy. Like woods greenery. The woods being alive. Like that kind of vibe I think is not written enough. Like we need it more. Okay we have three more from my parents. Oh yay! Okay so we have got The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin. So not much to say about this but it is the third book in the fifth season trilogy. So I want to read the back because I feel like it will spoil the third one for me so don't want to look at it. I'm very excited that I now own them so I can just like binge my way through the series hopefully. She says will that happen? We don't know. Okay so this is The Hunjin Murders. Someone just mentioned this in my comments the other day and I was straight up like okay I'm adding this to my wishlist. So this was written I think in like the 1930s in Japanese. Oh no I'm wrong. I thought it was 1937. It seems like it's 1973. I'm sorry I was wrong. I got the numbers wrong the wrong way. This was written years and years and years ago but I think it's only been translated recently. There's actually like 70 books in this series but only two of them have been translated. This is like a classic Japanese murder mystery like detective. Like kind of like a cuporo kind of length of series. Like there's so many books only two of them have been translated into English quite recently but someone just recommended this to me and I ate it straight up. Like I definitely want to read more translated works. A murder mystery Japanese detective story? Yes please. Like doesn't that just sound like so much fun straight up? Oh my god I'm so excited to get to that one. That's like I'm surprised because I only just added that to my wishlist. Okay and then what's our last book? Yay! Oh my god yay. Okay so this is What Mama Left Me by Renee Watson. If you watch my channel a lot you know that I love Renee Watson. I'm very excited for Love is a Revolution her latest book coming out in a couple days really. Oh I should mention Savine has ordered that already for me as a birthday present so I can't put it in this haul but I know it's coming in like a week. Savine has very kindly ordered that for me. I don't know too much about this. I believe this is middle grade. I could be making that completely up like I could that could be in my head but I feel like this is maybe it's not middle grade. Is it middle grade? Um who knows? Who knows? Who knows? Who knows? Renee Watson's writing is so powerful and really I feel like is one of the authors I've read that really captures like what it feels like to be a kid or a teenager and be going through difficult stuff. It really tackles race and gender and the intersection of them so well and social justice and social activism it covers a lot as well so I'm so excited to get to this. I really love Renee Watson's writing and I just want to make my way through her entire backlist which I think I'm not too far off doing now. I think maybe there's like one more book so there we have it. That is all of my books. There's 20 books there. We've got 21 things if you include the card game. I'm not even gonna try and pick them up because I don't know I'll drop them but thank you so much. Oh my god I feel so incredibly lucky. Um these are all books I'm so excited for and oh my god I'm just so happy. Like this is so amazing so thank you so much to any of you that did get me anything for my birthday and just for all the support like that is the greatest gift in the world like Booktubers made me so happy and given me so much joy and I love it like I love doing it so much and I just want to thank you all for like any comment. I love chatting with you like anytime you've chatted with me in a live stream like anything it means the world like it's so incredible so thank you so so much for everything thank you for all the books and thank you for all the birthday wishes. I'm gonna go thank you so much thank you for everything I love you okay bye