 Today we have another big book haul. I did to them. I am in love with them. I actually feel, I feel no shame. This time I feel no shame for this book haul because quite a few of these books actually are books that I got before Christmas but I didn't have enough books to do like a book haul before Christmas. So quite a few of these I've been waiting a while to haul. Now we have a lot to unbox. I'm debating that we start with that. What should we start with? Oh my god, how exciting. I think, no, let's start with some new releases that I got like really recently, 2022 releases. Then we'll get into unboxing then we'll get into like other books essentially. First we have The Monarchs by Cas Morgan and Daniel Page. This was very kind of gifted to me by one of my patrons Kendra. This is a sequel to The Ravens which is like a sorority college fantasy book which I read towards the end of last year and I actually really enjoyed it. I was kind of shocked. I was kind of like, I kind of didn't think it was for me. Do you know what I mean? I kind of didn't go into it thinking oh my god I'm really gonna like this but I really did enjoy it and it's a duology so I'm super excited to own this so I can finish the series off. As you know, your girl's finishing series this year and I actually feel like I'm doing really well so far. Like I feel very positive about how many series I'm finishing. You're so jealous of me. You really are so jealous of me. It's so sick. Like get a hold of yourself. Like I definitely think I'm going to hit my goal of having 26 or less, was it 26 or 16? 26 or less series I think? Yeah on the go by the end of the year. I think I'll definitely reach that so yeah this is another series that I will be able to finish and I'm very intrigued to see what direction this book is going to go in. I think it could get really dark and I'm kind of hoping it does. Then I ordered A Sarm of Storms and Silence by Roseanne A. Brown. This is another sequel in a duology. Can you tell anything? Can you tell something might be upcoming? This is like a very like vivid fantasy world inspired by like African folklore where in the first book these two main characters they wanted to kill each other. But not because they didn't like each other but because they both had a goal that was very important to them that could only be achieved by killing one another. I enjoyed it. Maybe not as much as I enjoyed the Ravens but I am so excited to like finish off the duology. It has beautiful world building, beautiful prose. Great gowns, beautiful gowns. And so yeah it's just another series I can take off. That's the main reason why I prioritized getting it. No one can be mad at me because it's like really my biggest goal this year is to finish series and to make that a habit. So yeah that's literally why I bought this is to finish this. Then one day I was just like I was spinning down you know. I was spinning a little bit. I was spinning a little bit in the you know that's really sad. So I bought a few books to cheer myself up. The first one was No Filter and Other Lies by Crystal Maldonado. This is Crystal Maldonado's second book. The first is Fat Charles Charlie Vega which I read last year and was one of my favorite like contemporary romance YA books I've ever read. I really liked it. I really liked her writing. I thought it was a very relatable book, a very touching book, a very like a book that you really got into and understood and was just really really well written. So I knew I wanted to support Crystal Maldonado's next release. This is about a main character who basically like lies online for clout. Like that's like a fake Instagram where they pretend to be someone else. But then those lies start to come out. Basically they start to be revealed. And I just think this is really fun because I just it's a very unique premise. I feel like often YA is scared to have flawed main characters. It's scared to have characters who have fucked up a little bit or have made mistakes. And like I feel like this book is really going to look at maybe some iffy decisions that a main character has made coming back to bite them in the butt. And then I've spoken about this a lot so we're going into it. But we have The Long Weekend by Julie McMillan. We have A Couple's Holiday where I think three pairs of couples are going on a holiday together. The girlies are very fast and a note appears telling them, yeah that's what we need. One of your husband is dead. He's dead. I do think it sounds like a really fun thriller. It sounds you know isolation. I'm hoping it's going to go a bit crazy and everyone's going to start dying. So yeah I feel like it's going to be like dark, twisty. And I just really like the premise. Again I think it sounds like a really fun premise. But this other one isn't a new release. But let's talk about it briefly. I put it in the wrong part of this book right now because I'm so excited. It's so stupid you guys. It's stupid. So we have The Windsor Knot by S.J. Bennett. Now listen I bought this because it was like two pounds. Basically it is the Queen of England solving murder mysteries. What I love garbage. Girlie is out here on a perfect spring morning at Windsor Castle. Queen Elizabeth II will enjoy a cup of tea, carry out her real GTs and solve a murder. I mean it's ridiculous but I'm hoping for a bit of like camp fun from there. It's just something a bit stupid. I don't know. Ruth Ware is on the front. A pitch perfect murder mystery. I think I could do it like this. I'm really getting into like cozy mysteries more and kind of wanting to read them. Yeah Miss Queenie. Miss Queenie is going to solve a murder mystery. Okay then we have a lot to unbox. We have a lot of fairy loot boxes to unbox because I've gone three months without showing you guys. I don't really know how that's happened. But let's get into it. I have two other packages first. I think I know what this one is. Okay so this is Until the Last of Me by Sylvain Nouvelle. It is the sequel to A History of What Comes Next. This series I kind of didn't expect to be a series. I kind of when I read A History of What Comes Next I thought it was a stand-alone and lo and behold we have a sequel. This book, this premise is fucking crazy. It's always so hard to like describe or to pitch. But basically our main character and her mother are part of a lineage who try to influence historical events to suit their personal aims. I really forgot on the first book what's a spoiler and what's not. But they're very weird books. They're told in a strange way where there's no like speech marks. It's just like dashes for every time someone speaks. We're following a space race in the first one. Obviously we've got like a rocket and I just really enjoyed it. I really have enjoyed all of Sylvain Nouvelle's writing. The first one wasn't like super popular but I'm very excited to get to this one. I think it's like fun unusual imaginative sci-fi. I'm excited to read this and hopefully I can get more people to read A History of What Comes Next because I think it's a very unique sci-fi that gets a bad rep but I don't think, I really don't think it deserves it. Okay then we have this box which sounds like it's got a lot in it. Oh my god. There's a box from Hotkey Books about Family of Liars by E. Lockhart. So they've sent both We Were Liars and A Family of Liars and I read We Were Liars many many moons ago and when they contacted me I was like you know what? Yeah I'm interested in how this is going to go. Obviously this has been so popular on TikTok but firstly that is Tumblr erasure. Moral. What are you dancing for? Cause I know I'm right. Everyone calling this like the TikTok classic you know. It's so popular on TikTok. Like you forget. You forget the chokehold this book had Tumblr in. Everyone was obsessed. The girlies were eating it up so this isn't a new thing. TikTok can claim all at once but it wasn't a new thing. I read it because I think it was super popular on Tumblr and I enjoyed it but I'm intrigued to see how this is going to go considering it was always supposed to be like a standalone. I'm very very intrigued to see how it's going to go. So when they asked me if I want to receive it I was like yes from a scientific perspective I am intrigued. So let me know if you be interested in like a vlog maybe where I reread If We Were Liars. This comes out in May so maybe in April. I could do this where I reread this and then read this because I would be intrigued and what else have they sent? Okay so we've got a postcard from E. Lockhart. We have got oh my god we've got a mixtape. We've got a mixtape with a QR scanner. Oh my god that's so much fun. Ah I'm getting so excited we've got a bookmark. We have got oh fuck off. Tissues in. I cry every time at everything but they've sent, listen oh I just knocked you, they've sent some tissues. Oh my god they've got a they've got a letter saying open after reading Family of Liars. Oh my god we've got a cookie. Okay thank you so much. I'm very excited to give this book a go um because I feel like it's a book also that a lot of you will be interested in that's coming out. I don't know what to expect because it's like going back to how I read when I was 13 and I don't know if if that's a good idea or not. Right then we have three fairytales. I don't know how this happened don't be mad at me. I don't know which months are which so let's just like go with it. I'll try and fly through these quick but I love fairytales. I feel like at all book boxes they have some of the best like personalized books. They have some of the best items like I just love them. I absolutely love them. So book numero uno. In Spanish we say por ejemplo bitch okay this is what I'm doing. Por ejemplo. Oh my god okay so this is January's our theme is monsters we're there. Oh we have a scythe enamel pen oh my god cute it says love remains mortal. Cute. I did like scythe that is like one of the only series I finished. No I think I finished like in my life like 12 series. We're gonna amend that this year though so it's okay. Then what do we have? Oh my god we have a metal bookmark. We have a metal bookmark. I cannot tell you how much I love their metal bookmarks. They are my favorite bookmarks that I own. What is this one inspired by? It features a character from the book that's in the book box today. Get out. Get out. Oh my god it's so gorgeous it's like a blue and there's a mermaid on it. Oh my god oh my god I'm like I love a good tassel. See what I mean they just get it that is going straight in my bookmark pot. Then we have a trinket dish inspired by James Herondale. Listen I know he's a Cassie Clare boy I've never ridden Cassandra Clare but here we go oh my god he's cute. Maybe I get it now. Maybe I get it. Maybe I get James Herondale. I've got a book he's got the spender one. Listen I get it. I get it. Then we have monsters of verity puzzle. It features this dude. This dude he is from this savage song by V.E. Schwab which I again have not read but I do want to read more V.E. Schwab. I've read like Vicious Vengeful, Adi LaRue. Is it City of Bones? City of Ghost? I can't remember. I've read like the first book in her middle grade. I haven't read any of her other ones but that looks cute. I love a good puzzle. Then we have the tea tower cards this month inspired by Red Rising and we have a tea towel oh my god we have a tea towel inspired by these hollow vowels which I own but again I have not read. So cute. Okay let's see what the book this month was. Oh my god it's got purple sprite edges. Oh it's called the stencils of the earth. Okay what is it? Only a Monster by Vanessa Len. Oh my god look how cute she is. Okay wait wait wait wait. Oh my god there's like end pages with art on it. When they do a design on the hardcover isn't that just so gorgeous? Oh my god that's incredible. What is this about? It's a YA contemporary fantasy set in London filled with monsters with hidden powers, monster families with cruel legacies, magical underworlds and a swoon worthy romance. Oh my god that looks so much fun. Anyone obviously because I've taken ages to unbox these um if you have read this please let me know what you thought of it because that looks very interesting and fun oh my god that is so gorgeous look at the sprite edges. Okay next box I'm far too excited. Okay oh my god okay so firstly this appears to be a box where we have two books so the first one is the paperback. It's called The Coldest Touch by Isabelle Sterling. It's about a girl who every time she touches someone she experiences how they will die and she meets up with a vampire and then like they're trying to stop a teacher's murder. Oh my god this sounds like so campy and fun. Doesn't it look like 80s like campy fun? I haven't heard of it but I'm immediately very excited for it. We have I love a good book sleeve and like I say it again I love that their book sleeves have zipped at the top because I want to put stuff in it and I don't want it to fall out so that's like you know that's what I need from a book sleeve it's like you know bare minimum but only they seem to do it. It's a these violent delights book sleeve I can already tell which I didn't love. I didn't love these violent delights but that is a very beautiful book sleeve. This is December's box by the way. We have two more tarot cards inspired by Red Rising. We have some gorgeous mythology foil bookmarks inspired by Hades and Persephone. Oh my god they're gorgeous going straight in my basket. That's going straight in my bookmark pot. We have a keychain inspired by law very very cute. We have an iron on patch inspired by We Hunt the Flame and then what is the book for this man? Oh my god what is this? Year of the Reaper. What is this again? Ah they just get it they just know. They know what I want. They know I want a man on foil on the front and it's called gorgeous. Oh my god gorgeous design on the dust jacket. It's an unforgettable mystery fantasy with ghost romance and so many fantastic characters for you to root for. Oh my god they listen they just they just pull it out of the bag. Okay and then we have our last box. This one feels super heavy. It feels way heavier than the others so I think this is February's box. The theme this month is To the Moon and Back. What do we have here? What do we have here? We have a crescent city pendant apparently. Whoa oh my god it oh my god that's gorgeous. Okay maybe I will start wearing jewelry. That's such a fun thing for them to put in a book box. I think that's such a fun item because I like bookish merch that you can wear without people realizing it's bookish merch because I'm not like that girly he wants to wear a bookish merch but I think that's so cute. Oh my god I love that. I love that. Oh my god is this a tote bag? Oh my god we have a moon goddess tote bag inspired by the book this month. Whoa that's such a good item to get like a whole ass bag. What the hell? I love that. What next? No we don't. Oh my god the items. These are like a top tier item. No you are kidding me we have celestial bookends. Look at these. Oh they're joined together. I've needed more bookends. Oh my god look at them. So like obviously you put the books there and you line them up. Look at those. Look at those. I've needed bookends here they just get me. Oh my god that's so pretty. I have needed more bookends. I have been in like a great need of more bookends so I am so happy. Oh my god that's so great. We have the starless sea socks one of my favorite books. I love gang socks. I wear my fair release socks all the time. I think there's such fun things to get. Okay let's see what the book is. It's one of my most anticipated releases of the year. It's only one of my most anticipated releases of the year. Oh my god daughter look at the edition. Actually stop breathing. I just actually stopped breathing. Look at the stencil. I'm not ready to look at more. Look at the the special cover of this. It's absolutely gorgeous. Daughter of the Moon Goddess. No get out. Not the designed end pages. I'm not ready to even look at the front of the book to see if there's something. Oh my god I love it. Those end pages are like the most gorgeous thing I have ever. Excuse me. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. They have beyond pulled it out of the bag. Oh my I mean just this is one of the most gorgeous books I own and do you know what they every few months they make me say that. Every few months they make me say this is one of the most beautiful gorgeous books that I own and and I always think they can't top it and yet they do. Oh my god. So this I know is about a girl whose mother is the moon goddess but she was exiled and it's her trying to like fight for her mom and save her mom. I'm so excited. I actually can't get over how gorgeous this book is. I can't get over it. I can't get over it. So listen as always I will leave Fairy Loot link down below. You can go check them out. I'll leave a link down below. Yeah I I'm actually I'm actually in shock. I can't believe what a gorgeous incredible edition this is. Okay so now my room is a mess with all the Fairy Loot stuff. I need to tidy up after I film this but let's quickly go through the other books because I can't really tell this video as long. So let's go through other books that I have. So the other day I popped into my charity shop where they sell books for a pound. I can't get the stick off the front right now and I saw Mrs Death, Mrs Death. Now I only picked this up because I heard Kayla talk about it and I remember Kayla liking it and I thought for a pound why not? Treat yourself 2011. I know it's about Mrs Death and she meets like a writer called Wolf and it's about their relationship or something. I heard it's like a strange book and I feel like it's been a while since I've read a strange book that I've really like gotten my teeth into. Like I always want something to replicate Catherine House, like the fuckery with your mind that it has but like how great it is. So yeah I picked this up because it was a pound basically. Then one of my patrons Sophie gifted me not one but two books. The first was Ring Shout by Peach Jelly Clark which I am so excited to get. I've heard it's like you know it's like a horror novella that is very relevant to now kind of around like the Clue Clarks clan and stuff. I've wanted to try it at Peach Jelly Clark for so long. I've just never managed to pick up one of his books and then Sophie also sent me one of their favorite books which was Before You Knew My Name. So I think this is very much like about victims of serial killers or women touched by male violence and it's about you know murdered women and giving a voice to those women and it just sounds absolutely incredible. Sophie said a twist on a murder mystery focusing on the victim story not the killers. Hope you love it as well. So I really felt like something I'm gonna love. I typically do a lot of non-fiction about women as victims of male violence or male society you know I think of the five and stuff like that. So I definitely felt like this is something I'm gonna really enjoy. Then from Claire I got this as a birthday gift but I got it after my birthday so it wasn't in my birthday hall but it was A Lorde Edgewear Dies by Agatha Christie. So this is the not the next Agatha Christie I need to read but the one after that. So I have the next three I need to read actually because it's this one and then it's murdered on the Euronexpress so I'm gonna reread that. So I have my next three Agatha Christie that I'm gonna read. I again I can never tell you the plot of these other than Lorde Edgewear Dies. She's so fucking stupid. I don't really know the plot of these going into them because I'm literally just reading the Urquiparo books in order. I feel like I'm about to get into like one of like the peak Urquiparo years like with Murder on the Express, the ABC murders, Murder in the Muse, Cards on the Table, Death on the Nile. Like I feel like that section of Urquiparo is like the most famous years so I'm really excited. I feel like I need to hopefully in April I'm hoping to read Perilla Endhouse and hopefully I will get up to Murder on the Express this year. I'm hoping to read probably three Agatha Christie's this year. Then one of my patrons, Shanice, gifted me a picture of Murder by T. E. Kinsey. This is the fourth in the Lady Hardcastle series. A lot of you know this is my favorite cozy mystery series. I absolutely adore it. I love it. Like it's just amazing. I feel like it's the perfect way to get into cozy mysteries. We're following obviously Lady Hardcastle and her made flow as they get into some kind of escapades in their town. The last book went out of their town. I'm hoping this one is in the quaint English town again because that's the setting I really love. I think they're going to see like a film. They're going to see like a moving picture and there's a murder at the end of the night or something like that. I just love them. These these are like their hot girl shit. Do you know what I mean? They're girlies. The girlies they get it. You know what I mean? I love them. Then I popped into a shop called The Works here in the UK where they sell books and you can get three for five pounds. It's usually not like super like you know sort after books. It's like the dregs from other shops I would imagine. Don't be fucking rude. Are you kidding me? But I thought you know why not. So I saw one that I really wanted and that is Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laney Taylor because I have the second in the series. I wanted to grab this one so I have all of the series and I can like you know pick pick up the series whenever I want and finish it. I think I will finish Muse of Nightmares first before I then try and finish this series but then I'll finish all my Laney Taylor series and it'll be great and we'll all be happy. And then I was like okay I need to like pick up two other books to get this deal. So I've already spoken my thriller video I did recently. I Got the Whisper Man by Alex North with the hideous UK cover that's absolutely disgusting. Absolutely vile. Makes me feel sick. It's about like a dad and a son who moved to a sleepy town. Years ago there was a serial killer there but then the murders started coming again. And I also picked up I keep checking the books on my bed don't worry. I also picked up The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey. It was the only other book there that I really knew the name of or like recognized. This is one that I know Kayla liked so again that's kind of my reason for picking it up. I just know that it's like women who are very they look very similar and it's like the old wife and the new wife and the new wife's pregnant and it's all very confusing. And again I've heard it's weird that's why I really picked it up. I want strange at the moment. I feel like I'm in the mood for weird shit and to get my brain a bit messed up. And then another one of my patrons Melissa gifted me the Inugami Curse by Toshi Yokomizo. This also gifted me the Forest of Stolen Girls but that's wrapped up now. This is a series I really like an ongoing series of this Japanese murder mystery author whose works are being translated. This was the second one that's translated. I now have is it the eight what is it? The Village of Eight Graves. The Village of Eight Graves. I now own that one as well but I'm really excited to get through this. Like this isn't a series I'm gonna complete. I think they're like there's like 70 books in this guy's series and they're kind of translating them as we go. I just found these very unique and like I enjoy reading murder mysteries from other cultures so I'm very excited to get to this. And then a few books that I've shown in vlogs already so we'll literally just show them to you. My friend Nicole gifted me Aggie Morton Mystery Queen which is like Agatha Christie as a child reimagined. I love it. I mean I'm so passionate about it. With her friend Hector Perot and it's a middle grade basically inspired by Agatha Christie and like her as a kid solving mysteries. So yeah I just absolutely I just I think it sounds like such a fun premise. I feel like it's gonna be so much fun. And then finally back before Christmas Waterstones is doing like a triple stamp sale. No it was doing 50% of hard covers. That's what that's what it was. And again I've already spoken about these in a video but I I got pressured into hauling Song of Achilles by Madeleine Miller. The special edition. This is 20 pounds. I would never have bought it for 20 pounds. It was 50% off it was 10 so I was like I can justify that. Just about. I can justify that. So I picked that up. I got Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Dohert. I absolutely love Like We Cannot See. And so although I'm intimidated by this because it's hella long I knew I had to pick it up because Like We Cannot See was one of the books that got me back into reading a couple years ago. And then I got a few penguin cloth found classics. I got Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Sandra Tyn by Jane Austin because I collect my Jane Austin books in a different format but they don't have this one and I love I absolutely love the Coffin Classic of this one. I think it's absolutely gorgeous. So yes oh my god I feel like I've been talking at a million miles per minute. That is all of my book haul. Oh my god that was crazy. I hope the video isn't like 10 years long and I actually managed to edit it in time for this video to go up. But let me know which these books you're most interested in. I feel like I've got some really solid books. I absolutely for me the highlight without a shadow of doubt I don't know where it's gone. I was here is Daughter of the Moon Goddess. Like I absolutely love it. Like I think it's so gorgeous and beautiful and like one of my favorite editions of a book ever. So hopefully I'm gonna read this soon but I still need to read one of my other favorite editions of a favorite book which is Six Crimes and Cranes. I need to like get around to all these but I feel so lucky because this is just absolutely gorgeous. So yeah let me know please of what you think of any of the books that are on this list. I would love to know. If you've gotten to the end comment a space emoji. I think I'm looking right until the last of me. It's like a rocket emoji or a star emoji because the series is called Take Them to the Stars. And yeah thank you so much for watching you guys. I love you guys so much. I love you. I feel so thankful to have this position and my channel and I just love making videos so much. I'm so lucky that you guys watch them. I hope you have a good rest of your day and I will see you soon. Bye!