 Let's uncover the mystery of what I'm going to be reading in August. So cheesy. My channel and welcome to another episode of TBR Cluedo! This is my TBR game if you don't know inspired by Super Cluedo and we have all the different rooms but they are genre themed. I'll link the full playlist down below where in the first video you can go through all the rules. But essentially it picks six books that I read as a prompt and genre rooms is essentially the idea. I don't have an explanation for you and you may not get one. How are we all doing? I am so excited for August. August I have some of the most exciting videos coming, some of the most exciting reading coming. I literally can't wait like I literally can't be contained. Today we're going to be seeing how kind TBR Cluedo was in allowing me to fit in while I was already excited to read in August or whether I'm having to read other stuff entirely. We're going to find out together and yeah I'm just very excited for August. I feel like we're on an upswing. I feel like life is great. Let's all be positive. You know life's great. So I think that's all I have to say to you. Let's just get straight into the roles. I'm really really excited for this month. Okay time for roll one. Person number five which is white over here in magical realism. Let's see how many we roll. I've got a four and a three. I'm just going to go one, two, three. That is number 12 which is a favorite author. That's going to be tricky. Roll one was in the magical realism room which I can also read like fabulism. Anything kind of along those lines. And the prompt was a favorite author and I have picked Switch by ASKIG. This is one of the releases that came out last year that I have just been so excited to read. I can't believe it took me this long to get round to. ASKIG is one of my favorite authors. Dig and please ignore Veeradids are some of my favorite kind of fabulism books that I've ever read. I am just so excited to get to this. I literally can't wait. So time has stopped. Our kind of protagonist lives in a house with a switch that no one ever touches. A switch her father protects every day by nailing it into hundreds of progressively larger boxes. But she's got a crowbar and one way or another she's going to see what happens when she flips the switch. It's crazy. It's crazy. I think this is crazy. It's told in a lot of like really short, you can't really see like really short sections with these kind of headers to it. And here's the thing. I said this before ASKIG either give five stars or 2.5. This is going to be one of them. Like this is going to be literally known between. I know with ASKIG I either love or don't really like her books. So it's I will just say the video I'm reading this for this month it is funny that I got this prompt. I will just say that. I will just say that it's funny that I got this prompt. I'm very excited to go into the mind of ASKIG. Just the craziness that is ASKIG's mind. And I always have a fun time reading her books even if I don't like them. They're just they're just something different something interesting. So I'm very excited to read this this month. Roll number two person number three which is red over here in historical. Let's see how many we roll. Okay we've got a six and a three. Can I get into mystery with that? But quite a few mysteries I would like to read. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. There we go. That is number 16 which is a book with four or more words in the title. Next is a mystery and you just heard the prompt but I haven't written it down. I knew what book I wanted to read straight away for it. Is it four or more words in the title? I'm pretty sure it was. Okay you're gonna scream are you ready to scream? Are you ready to scream? Are you ready to scream? The book that I'm reading for this prompt, The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Asen. I'm excited for reading this. If you watched some of my videos you'll probably know that Thursday Made a Club was one of my favorite books I read last year and I just can't wait to read this. I've been waiting for the perfect time and the perfect time is now. I'm just so excited. So this is a Murder Mystery series following this group of friends who live at retirement village and every Thursday they had a murder club where they would try to solve cold cases. That was kind of their hobby but then a murder happens on their doorstep. It's kind of like mainstream cozy mysteries. I wouldn't say it's like a pure cozy mystery. Do you know what I mean? Like something like the Lady Hardcastle mysteries which I love are but it's got this coziness and this quaintness and this uniqueness to it that I really love. I loved the writing. Usually I'm quite against celebrities you know becoming mainstream authors and taking over the book chart. I love David Rylian. It's like I don't really like it but I will make an exception for Richard Osman. Usually I'm quite against you know celebrities getting these massive advances when authors other authors are struggling but I really feel like Richard Osman can write and can write really well. He's the kind of person that I thought would always kind of want to write a book and I just loved the first one so much and so many people have said this one is so much better it made them cry. The first one made me cry. So if this one made everyone else cry what is awaiting me? I'm really nervous. I'm not gonna cry. Maybe I'll cry. This is one of my most anticipated books to read. I am just so excited and yeah I'm finally gonna be reading it. I'm actually reading this next after I finish my current read and I just can't wait. Okay next roll. Oh number six which is yellow here in Thriller. Let's see how many we roll. Whoa. Shit. Not the destruction that just reaped. Let's just go one which is number four which is a book that I bought because of a booktuber. Roll three was a thriller I bought because of another booktuber and this is a round that I gave to my patrons to vote on so if you don't know my patrons get to vote on one round of tbrcuda every month and then that book becomes a book club pick which we have a live show for and I do an exclusive reading vlog over there for. So the options were Sleep by C.L. Taylor which was my vote. I'm not gonna lie I'm very excited to read this. I bought this because of Mara from Books Like Woe. Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian. I bought this I think because of Mara as well. I heard Good Things. The Whisperman by Alex North which I feel like I can't find my copy of it. It's somewhere back there but I feel like not a lot of people ended up liking this but I bought it because a lot of booktubers hold it. I think like Kayla and Chandler and then Final Girls by Riley Sega. I would say I've just bought because of like wider booktube love for Riley Sega but people like Gabby I think has read it. I actually liked it. I can't remember but I just you know you hear people talk about it a lot so you get it. And the vote was super close. It kept changing. I think Crystal one of my pictures actually commented like this poll is giving me anxiety because every time I come back it's different. Like the poll kept going up and down but the one that ended up winning the vote was Final Girls by Riley Sega. I'm very excited. This is my final backlist final. This is my last backlist Riley Sega that I have to read. Why did a whoopee Goldberg blurb this? She said it was fantastic. I just wasn't expecting that. Yeah this is my last backlist Riley Sega so I'm very excited to get to it. After this I'll only have his new release House Across the Lake which I haven't read. I'm so excited to read this everyone. I feel like we're gonna get some really fun discussions and really interesting discussions so yeah this will be our book club pick. Oh the font is much smaller than I expected. So yeah if you want to come join us come join my Patreon come read this with us. There'll be an exclusive reading vlog of me reading this over there and discussion live show which always so much fun. I sometimes get some of my patrons to come onto the live as guests. We have like a really good discussion so yes very very excited to read this for the book club. Next one roll four person number five which is white over here. See how many we roll. Whoa a three and a five. Okay I think I'm gonna go into fantasy. Let's go one two three four five six seven eight which is number two which is a series I'm partway through. Next was a fantasy that is part of a series that I'm partway through. This is probably I'm very nervous. I've been putting this book off for a long time. I actually can't believe I'm finally reading this. We're gonna be reading The Dragon Republic by Ivequan. Yes we are. This is a reason to celebrate. So I read Poppy Poppy War probably was it in 2020? It was in 2020. I read the Poppy War in 2020 and then I've been putting off finishing the series. My dad has read the whole series. He loved it and it's time. It's time now they're very long. I am a bit nervous about that but I feel like the kind of books you read really fast. The only thing is I don't like, I don't know why, I don't like the audiobook narrator for these. I don't have anything against it but I'm listening to the audiobook narrator. I don't dislike her but then I've gone back and I look back at all the books I've read that she narrated and I rated them low so I don't know what's going on there so I can't listen to the audiobook to help it make it quicker for me. Yeah I'm you know excited to be back with Rin. Obviously a lot of you all know the Poppy War is this Asian-inspired fantasy where it's set during a war. I forget what's a spoiler or what's not. Rin is very morally gray as a character and I'm just so excited to see where the series goes. And obviously Babble is coming out by Ivequan I think in September. I have it pre-ordered I'm very excited so I'd be really happy if I can finish her other books and then get to Babble. Okay roll number five. Person number one. Let's see how many we roll. A one and a three. Okay so I can't go very far so let's just go one two three which is number 26 which is a book I've been scared to read. Roll five was a fantasy another fantasy that I've been scared to read. Dragon Republic can work for that as well but I'm gonna be going with King of Scars by Libar Dugo. I told you I've read in some heavy hitters in August. I'm sorry this is making me so excited. Isn't life great you guys? Isn't life great? Isn't it only blessed? I've been scared to read this because I loved Six of Crows on Crook Kingdom so much. I really did. I gave them I think a 4.5 and a 5 star. I really enjoyed them. I've been scared to continue because I don't want this to be Shadow and Bone season Storm Ruin and Rising vibes. I want it to be Six of Crows' Crook Kingdom vibes and I'm scared as to which direction is going to go in. Yeah I'm scared that I don't know like the Grisha verse I'm scared to enter it again but I am excited. This is another obviously a geology that I'm starting so I will have to try and finish it um this year hopefully but yeah I'm excited to be back with these characters but I'm scared because they are majority of the characters from I think Shadow and Bone trilogy versus Six of Crows. I think it's Zoya, Nikolai and Nina so obviously one from Six of Crows two from Shadow and Bone. I'm scared but hopefully I am going to enjoy it and love it and fingers crossed everyone pray for me. Okay final roll person number six which is yellow again over here let's see how many we roll oh my god a two and a three uh let's just go one two three which is number 22 which is a book which has a title with three words in the title and then our final roll was a thriller with three words in the title and I just need everyone to take a moment okay we're all ready we're gonna be finally reading I'm the Girl by Courtney Summers this is an arc I have of it it comes out in September I think towards like the end of September and I'm finally gonna be reading it this month I'm so excited you know this is one of probably my most anticipated release for this year I love Courtney Summers so much she's an icon she's a legend and she is the moment now come on now I've loved Sadie and the project for Courtney Summers which I've read so I am so excited to get to this Courtney Summers has pitched us as being inspired by the Jeffy Epstein case following three girls one girl is murdered she's 13 and this other girl and the girl who's been murdered sister team up to try and figure out what's going on and I think you know it's a story about power about money about control I'm just really excited to enter the world of Courtney Summers again I'm ready for my heart to be broken it's very nerve-wracking I feel pretty sick thinking about it but I am really excited to enter this world again and to just fall in love with this book even the font the Courtney Summers font like looking at that stars up a feeling in me I don't think you understand like it makes me feel a certain kind of way so yeah I have no doubt I'm probably gonna give this five stars I already feel like that like if this isn't five stars there's a bit a shift in the world's balance do you know what I mean that's generally how I feel so very very excited to read this I absolutely can't wait and we will see what I think of it so there we have it oh my god the books are sliding around but that is my tbr for August I want you guys to start getting excited because I've got some really exciting videos coming this month I'm just I just can't wait I feel like there's a lot of good ticks in here a lot of good variations so I am so excited if you got into the end what should we comment or comment the dragon emoji comment the dragon emoji for dragon republic comment that if you got into the end thank you guys so much as always watching and I will see you very soon in another video bye