 It is the end of the year, but I have a lot of reading to get done and I bet TBR Cludo is only gonna make it harder for me, so let's go! Hello friends! Welcome back to my channel and welcome back to TBR Cludo! That's what Christmas is about, isn't it? Yeah. If you don't know, this is my TBR game, themed off of Super Cludo. We have different rooms, we have different books which have different prompts on them and it picks what I read as essentially the idea. I'll leave the full playlist linked down below and the first video has the full run-through of the board, but how are we everyone? December is here, it's cold and chilly, and I have a lot of reading to do in December. I have a lot of books to read, but also a lot of books that I couldn't put in TBR Cludo and I'm just gonna have to read more books because of TBR Cludo. Wrapped up is back! If you haven't watched the announcements video, go check it out for how Wrapped Up is gonna work this year because it's very fun at my expense. It obviously was wrapped up. I don't know what books I'm gonna be reading because I just unwrap them and have to read them. That's the whole idea. And then I do have a big vlog planned like around the middle to end of December which requires me doing a lot of spreadsheet-age and research and I haven't done that yet. I'll probably do it next week, but I haven't had a chance to do it yet, but I want to film this for you. So yeah, not great to do TBR Cludo in those conditions when I can't plan what I'm gonna be reading, but hey-ho! Anyways, I'm super excited. I love TBR Cludo. Should we just get into the roles? I don't think I have anything to tell you. Yeah, let's get into our first of the six roles and TBR Cludo will pick what I'm gonna be reading. Okay, time for role one. Person number seven, which is Brown over here in horror. Let's see how many we roll. We've got a three and a five. Okay, so I'm just gonna go one, two, three and get number 28, which is a book I've never seen on Booktube. So, role one was a horror that I've never seen on Booktube and this book came up recently, but I haven't seen anyone mention it and it is The Rest of the Stark by Erica Waters. I'm really excited for this book. I'm really excited. It's pitched as Sadie meets wilder girls in an unnerving mystery that will haunt you to the end. So I think it's almost like a mystery horror kind of vibe. It's shelved as horror on Goodreads. We're following three girls. There's a serial killer who I think is now dead and a true crime podcast is hosting a contest to find his bones and these girls all have secrets. I think one of them was almost a serial killer's final victim. I've never read anything by Erica Waters but I've always heard good things so I'm really excited and I love the cover. Is the camera gonna pick it up? I mean look at that. Isn't that gorgeous? But she's beautiful. Right. But she's beautiful. So I'm hoping this is gonna be my thing because I gave Sadie and Wilder Girls both five stars so I feel like by that logic this should be five stars. So we shall see but I'm very very excited to read this. I'm actually gonna be reading it. Start next week. By the time you see this I'll probably be about starting it. So very very very very very excited. I'm hoping for great things. Roll number two. Person number four. Let's see how many we roll. We've got a five and a three. Okay I'm just going to go one two three which is number one which is a new to me author. Roll two was a thriller that is a new to me author and I have picked Wrong Place Wrong Time by Julian McAllister. I've never read anything by Julian McAllister. What are some of her other books? I don't recognize any of them. I've got to be honest. A lot of people have been talking about this slightly and hyping it up and it's like time travel kind of. I think it's about this woman who wakes up every day the day before her son commits a murder and I think she's trying to change what happens but can't. I haven't read a ton of like Groundhog Day time uh time what's what I'm looking for? Time travel. Time travel thrillers but I'm intrigued and everyone has been hyping this up so we'll figure out if this kind of thing is to me if like kind of I guess thrillers or mysteries with a speculative element can be for me and I know Julian McAllister is a very popular author but I've never read anything by her. I literally don't recognize any of these books. Yeah me he could be walking down the street. I wouldn't I wouldn't know a thing. Sorry to this man. I don't recognize any of them so we shall see what I think of this. Okay roll number three person number three which is red over here in historical let's see how many we roll we got a four and a five okay so let's go one two three four five six where can we get to seven eight nine which is number 16 which is a mystery with four or more words in the title. Roll three was a mystery with four or more words in the title and I have chosen the book of cold cases by Simone St James. I've been waiting all year to read this and I finally made time to do it. I'm so excited. I read The Broken Girls by Simone St James earlier this year and it's probably going to be my top 10 I would think pretty high in the top 10. I loved it. I thought it was such a good mystery. It had this speculative element that I feel like no one does like Simone St James in that it's like ghosts and I feel like this might have ghosty vibes. I don't know it's never said if it's 100 real or 100 not that's the vibe I think Simone St James goes for where it's like there's just this little hint of like creepy you know that's what I've heard about this as well. So there was a murder in 1977 in this small town and this woman was very much suspected of it but she was never convicted and now this girl who runs a true crime website in the present day is interviewing her and they meet at the woman's mansion that she's kind of secluded herself in for interviews. It says I had to move when she's not looking and she could swear she's seen a girl outside the window. Oh my I'm so excited. This is probably one of the books I'm most excited to read this month. I feel like it's going to be my thing. Yes it has split timelines but I feel like I can vibe with it because you know I feel like we're going to be fine everyone. And yeah very very excited to read more Simone St James because I feel like she could be a new favorite author for me. Roll number four. Person number four which is Pink again over here. Let's see how many we roll. We've got a one and a three. Let's go one two three which is number eight which is a 2022 release. Roll four was a thriller that is a 2022 release and I'm going to be reading already Five Survived by Holly Jackson. I am so excited for this. It comes out I think like the 10th of December. I think this is already out in the US which like that's not fair. Holly Jackson's a UK girlie. So yeah this is Holly Jackson's new release. I am going to be doing a dedicated reading vlog for this at some point in the month because I just I can't wait. I can't wait to read it and I don't know. I'm nervous. I'm really nervous because obviously a good girl's guide to murder by Holly Jackson. My favorite YA mystery series right? It's mixed media and it's mystery. Two things that Five Survived is not. All I know about Five Survived is that it's set over about eight hours and we're following a group of friends and I think only five survive. They're on like a road trip or something. So I am nervous because it's more thriller based but I'm hoping I'm still gonna love it but I feel sick a little bit because I feel like this is a test for me and Holly Jackson. You know I've loved a good girl's guide to murder but like can we go that one step further? You know what I mean? And like I love everything. Am I gonna love something outside of this universe? I don't know. I feel very nervous about it. So yeah I am going to be reading that this month and we will see. We'll see what I think of it. I'll do a dedicated vlog for you guys. Roll number five. Person number three which is red over here again. Let's see how many we roll. We've got a three and a one. I'm just gonna go one two three which is number five which is something with blue on the cover. Roll five was a mystery with blue on the cover and this is the one that I chose for my patrons to vote on. So if you don't know they vote on one round of TBR Cludeau every single month and that book that they vote on ends up being our book club pick for the month and I asked them in our discord I asked like in a perfect world what would we read? Right what would we read for the book club? Because obviously I can kind of like go towards certain rooms if I roll them or whatever. Like I can try and do what they want to some extent. Sometimes I don't ask miss every month but I feel like spreading the Christmas spirit and at first I said cozy fantasy and I was like I have no cozy fantasy on my TBR. Like I've got nothing for us to read and then some of them were like cozy mystery. I was like okay I can deliver on giving us a cozy mystery. So the options that I gave them were Death and Cossence by Ian Moore, The Windsor Knot by S.J. Bennett which in my defense when I was looking on because obviously I look on Goodreads I look through my mystery shelf of all my unread mystery books and I looked at the US cover which is like entirely blue but I would say that still has blue on the cover. Would like the handbag? No? Okay the deadly mystery of the missing diamonds or something like that the one by T.E. Kinsey that's the start of the companion series to Lady Hardcastle or Murder on the Aurine Express which of course I read but it would be like a reread for me and a read for everyone else. And the one that flew away with the vote was Death and Cossence by Ian Moore which I was not expecting. I've gotta be honest with you I really thought Murder on the Aurine Express would take it but no we're gonna be reading Death and Cossence by Ian Moore. This is a cozy mystery about a man who runs like a B&B in France. One of his older guests disappears and he's like okay right something weird's going on but like you know it's just a disappearance but then someone kills one of his hens not the hen. I don't know I think it's just gonna be a really fun enjoyable cozy mystery for us to cuddle up with and read in December. I'm very excited it's not too long it's literally under 300 pages. The audiobook's on script like I think it's pretty accessible and pretty short and fun. So yeah if you want to come join us my Patreon link is always down below. I do a live show we have sectional discord for us to discuss the book and I do a dedicated reading vlog for the book as well. So yeah I'll leave that link down below come join us if you want um and yeah I love a good cozy mystery. Okay time for the final roll. Person number eight which is hang on my notes have this close blue. Person number eight is blue okay let's see how many we roll we've got five and a five okay maybe let's go into romance so let's go one two three four five which is number 23 which is a book under 300 pages and then the final roll was a romance that is under 300 pages and I'm so glad that I got near the romance and got to go into romance because I'm gonna be reading wrapped up in you by Talia Hibbet. So I bought this ebook like two years ago now I meant to read it that Christmas but I decided this is gonna be my Christmas day boxing day read. It's about the Christmas spirit it is about the holiday season. Only like 127 pages it's kind of like a novella and I'm gonna be pretty busy this Christmas with family and stuff and with Tom's family but I do like to read something Christmassy on Christmas. Last year I read Christmas at the Grained which is a Lady Hardcastle short story and I read uh Midwinter Murder which is like Christmassy short stories from Agatha Christie. So I knew I wanted to read something this year but I wouldn't have as much time and I feel like this is a really good choice. I'm also gonna be reading a lot of mysteries throughout the month like I've just got so many mysteries to read because I feel like it's also mystery season I love to read mysteries when it's cold outside but um yeah I feel like a romance is a good pick to like break it all up and this is like a cute Christmas romance. I mean come on it's cute. I love Talia Hibbet. Talia Hibbet's probably my second favorite romance author so I feel like I'm in good hands. I'm gonna enjoy it that is my Christmas day boxing day read so I'm glad I got to go into romance at the end there. So there we have it everyone that is my December TBR plus wrapped up in you and Five Survive as well. Let me know if you wrote any of these books which ones you think I'm gonna love which ones are excited for me to read. If you got to the end comment a Christmasy emoji down below right it begins. I thought about wearing my Santa hat again but I literally just wore that in the last thumbnail I feel like I need to pace out Christmas hats like listen I just love Christmas. I get excited okay but I had to restrain myself so I went like wintery cold today you know like um so yeah comment a Christmasy emoji down below or a cold emoji like a snowflake anything like that and wintery emoji down below. Thank you guys so much for watching I love you so much and I'll see you very soon in another video. Bye!