 This is is ridiculous. Oh, whoa, what? No This is even better. I don't know what's wrong with me. Pressure's on clouds This is the last TBR for the year if you perhaps saw my announcements and plans and changes video directly before this one I Talked about how in 2022 I aim to have smaller TBRs, but we're still in 2021 so One last crazy hurrah for the years out. This is is ridiculous and Will I read all of these books? I'ma try I'ma try first things first. I got to tell you what they all are an alarming number of them are Obligation books, so Let's get into it before I drop them all Is there in the order that I've stacked them and I've more or less stacked them by size so that the stack had some chance of not toppling over So first things first half a war by Joe Abercrombie This is the third and final book in the shattered sea as of the filming of this video I've not yet finished the first two I finished to have a king and I am some part of the way through half the world hopefully in the next Very few days I have left that include Thanksgiving I will finish that along with the other books that are still on my TBR that I haven't finished yet If need be I will polish off half the world in the beginning of December so that I can read this because one of my most More recent additions to goals for the year is to read every book Abercrombie has published in 2021 So I'm very nearly there and I'd really like to say that I've done it So doing it and I'm freaking doing it next up. I have mad ship by Robin Hobb Mara and I have been Plugging on through the realm of the elderlings and next up for both of us is mad ship and we are both super excited This is the second book in the live ship trader series We both loved the first installment the ship of magic which we read in summer I think and I've been very much looking forward to when we'd be getting around to mad ship And I think both of us have heard a lot of people say that this is the best one in the trilogy And if the farce your trilogy is anything to go by Royal assassin in both of our opinions and I think in a lot of people's opinions is the best one on that trilogy What is the second one? So maybe I mean I tend to favor the second books and trilogies just generally But perhaps it's a thing with Hobb and in particular the second books in our trilogies are the best I don't know a sample size of two is hardly anything to go by but anyway I'm excited to get through this chill and keep look because her up and how books do not get shorter. They just get longer Next up I have fine by Francine tune. This is a Thriller that I heard about last year around wintertime and I thought dang it That looks like a great winter book, but it was like coming out of winter not it's ever winter where I live And I picked it up and have been wanting I've been sort of like hanging on to it as like um this winter I will read this I don't know too much about it except that I've heard really positive things about it It's been blurbed by a bunch of people the cover intrigues me. It sounded dark and vibey It's not terribly long and that's why I'm reading that it is the story Behind this next up I have holo pox the hunt from morrigan crow This is the third book in the nevermore series I've been buddy reading these with vish from books with the bee and we have both been loving with a capital l These books never more the first one. We very much liked and we both Finished very rapidly wonder smith, which is the second book and we're like This is even better. This is five star spoilers for my wrap up We were like, yeah, I mean we already planned to you know, read holo pox together in december But both of us are like immediately ready to go and wanted to immediately read holo pox So super excited to read this um, and then we're just gonna have to wait until the fourth book comes out Because there's going to be a fourth book and I believe it's slated to come out in the fall of 2022 So we have some time to wait. We kind of shouldn't have rushed through this I'm really loving this and I feel like these are really good books um for this time of year And they are a much better harry potter replacement than what I've read over for your Is my hot take but anyway super super stoked to read this and to specifically read it with vish So super hyped for this next up I have two books because blades and potters rippers as of our most recent live show We just decided spur of the moment Loki because of me To instead of just reading the one book which bethania chose in witch mark and she announced some time ago by cl polk Which is an edwardian mm fantasy mystery love story I just got to talking about and then we were like, why don't we read that too a marvelous light by freya mars marski marsk Which literally just came out which is also a sort of I don't think it's edwardian I think it's a victorian but also a um male male magical historical Romantic mystery thing so we thought Let's read them both and compare and contrast and see how we like them and see how they do things better or worse or just differently I heard this one specifically pitched As johnson strange mr. Norrell, which I love so much Meets red white and morel blue, which I've never read and I'm not super interested in because contemporary romance is not something I'm Ever really interested in Rarely interested in that so it is the john strange mr. Norrell side of things that I have caught my interest But I'm super down to see both of these books and how they do their things and this one in particular the cover She's real pretty so I really hope I like this because I would like to keep this book and just ogle it so Very much looking forward to both and looking forward to chatting with the ladies And I believe our live show in december is scheduled for boxing day So anyway, read the books and join us in the live chat to come hang with us It'll be very very merry festive bookish fun Next up I have a book that was one of my goals for the year Um, I had a bunch of goals for like series to start series to finish bloody bleed blue Um, so I can very pretty duably achieve this goal And that is to finish the lord of the rings trilogy with the return of the king by jr Tolkien I don't think I need to say a whole much about this. I've seen the movies more times than any human should I have been enjoying getting to know the actual source material And my good friend claus from the channel the contradictory in uh, he It had I very frequently agree and he keeps saying that lord of the rings the books are like, you know God to her for him and having her in fellowship and two towers. I'm like I think they're good, but I think they're quite dated and I think I like the movies better But he said that it was return of the king that made them god dear for him Not the first two so pressures on claus Let's see if we agree yet again Next up I have the book that my patrons have chosen for me to Vlog and review for them and that is a master of jinn by pete jaley clark And I'm super excited to read this I kind of wanted to read it last summer and then didn't get a chance to get around to it Um, I have been just hearing nothing but praise for pete jaley clark I did read the novellas that come before this full length novel, which I believe is his first full length novel. I wasn't wowed by the novellas, but I am intrigued by this world I would very much like to see because part of what those novellas Failed to do is just sort of Get me sunk into this world and the story enough for me to really go along with it I just felt like it kind of like we were in and out so fast that I was like, what? So I'm hoping with a full length novel. I'll actually really get to like sort of sink my teeth into it That's what I'm hoping for anyway. So another very very pretty book that I very much hope to like Purely because it's beautiful and I want you to keep it on my shelf and love it Next up I have another series finishing goal book and that is The High King by Lloyd Alexander This is the fifth and final book in the Chronicles of Pradain and I have been loving the pradain journey It started the end of 2020 I started reading the pradain books which I'd been meaning to read ever since I was a kid because I really Love the movie The Black Cauldron and these books have just been getting better and better with each installment And someone had warned me that the fourth book the one right before this which again spoilers for my wrap up Would kind of get a little more serious and be less of just kind of a whimsical adventure And it did and it was great. It was so good Anyway, so uh, I'm kind of I'm I guess I'm nervous to be done with this But I am also excited. I'm also excited to knock out one of my goals. So the High King Super looking forward to this next step. Again, if you watched my announcements planned changes video I talked about the fact that my friend Heather and I are going to be buddy reading and discussing on my channel The ringsworn trilogy by Howard Andrew Jones. So on my tbr I have the first book for the killing of kings and the second book upon the flight of the queen Both obviously by Howard Andrew Jones I will definitely read the first one and then aim to get through as much as the second one as I can So that I can finish the second one and then read the third one in january so we can chat about it Please please join us so you can come and chat with us aiming for like Mid to late january for a chat about all three books But let me know in comments down below for real if you would like to participate in this But that's too soon for you that like if that you would absolutely read this trilogy and come chat with us But like you need a little more time because I will absolutely chat with Heather about Moving things around a little bit if people would prefer that But for the time being Since I don't know yet what y'all are saying the plan is still january. So anyway, hence these books being on my tv We are super excited next up. I have another book that was in that video Because i'm participating in evie's winter night trilogy readalong I will be a co-host for the second book which is the girl in the tower But we are starting with the first book in december and that is the bear and the nightingale This will be my third time reading it. I think I read this in january of this year So I start the year with it and end the year with it if that's the case, which is kind of Kind of cool to bookend the year with it Especially because winter does bookend the year any who's east. I adore this book I adore it so much the second one's probably my favorite, but the first two are just chef's case So freaking good. So super pumped to read this Okay, next up I have a book of the month club book because I wanted to get through my book of the month club books And that is my third attempt at an evie done more book Portrait of a scotsman. This is the third in the extraordinary women series I keep getting these from book of the month and I keep not liking them So I don't know why I keep getting them. I don't know what's wrong with me I mean part of it is the first one I kind of actually liked Until it got to a point where there was this really really questionable consent And it's just kind of that kind of issue with the romance hit only and I was like Whoa, what no no no no no Because I thought it was actually kind of cute and quippy and I think the banter was fairly amusing up until that point It wouldn't wasn't like my absolute favorite. I still like to say there better But I was like this is kind of cute and then we got to that and I was like Excuse me. No, no, no no So then I got the second one and I didn't have any of those like consent issues, but it was just kind of It wasn't that fun or interesting. I felt very it was Very very meh So maybe third time's a charm Maybe we're finally gonna get absolutely wonderful consent and also a fun quippy bantery story And my probably my favorite has an air book If not my favorite then like one of my favorites is when a scott ties the knot So this is about a scotsman Maybe that's maybe that's a good sign. Anyway, I'm hoping that's the case. So I'll I'll let you know how I go Next up is the next book and the song rice and fire root along that I'm hosting with jimmy from the fantasy network And alex from alex nevus We are at storm of swords Which is the third book and the live show for this will be on jimmy's channel And I am so stoked and also Terrified to reread this book because this book is brutal It's because it's super super brutal. It's super super good So I also forgot how long it is I was putting my tbr together just now. I was like, oh god There's so many faces to read with the mops that has holidays in it Any hoesies regardless Come heller high water. I will read this and we will chat about it. And I am excited about it I just don't know where I'll find the time Second to last I have a radical act of free magic by hj parry. Um, again spoilers for my wrap-up Um, I put declaration of the rights of magicians on my tbr for november Um, thinking that I might like it. I might not it was sent to me by bethany for the reason that she did not like it And was like, are you gonna have it and sent me the second one as well and I Fucking loved it. Fucking loved it. So immediately want to read the second one I'm honestly like this was one of those times. I mean throughout I loved it and then at the end I was like talking out loud to the book, which is the thing I only do when I really like a book where I was like I bet it's this. I bet it is Oh, which out of context means absolutely nothing to you But if you've read the declaration of the rights of magicians, which is probably none of you Um, at the end when it's hinting at like what is going to be in this one Yeah, I was like, I bet it's gonna be this. I bet it's gonna be this I was talking to my dishes as I was watching them. I bet I'm right I haven't actually read this analysis of this because I don't want to know until I started But I'm super stoked I just hope that it's as good as the first one because the bar is high And last but certainly not least is another series that I aimed to finish in 2021 And that is the poppy war series with the burning god by rf qualm as of the filming of this video I have not yet finished the dragon republic though. I have started it I have not that many days left in november to accomplish that but Just like with the shattered sea I'll just tack on the end of the dragon republic in december And also read this because I totally have room to be finishing november books and reading the books on my december tv r Not but anyway, I really really really want to do this So just believe in me and that is what I aimed to end the year with Let me know in the comments down below your thoughts and feelings about the books that I have chosen for myself Or that were chosen for me Whatever you want to let me know I post videos on saturdays other random times as well definitely saturdays So like and subscribe join my patreon if you feel so inclined and I'll see you when I see Bye