 I'm just wanting to make my way through all of her books. No, I don't think you understand. I'm upset. Hey friends, welcome back to my channel. I hope you're doing well. If you're new here, my name is Megan and this is my booktube channel. And today we have got such an exciting video. We are doing a book haul. Oh, I'm for that. I'm all for that. This is all the books that I have bought since about probably the start of February. So we've got 21 books to get through and we've got a really good mix of ages, of genres and so what I thought we would do is we would just kind of go like middle grade YA adult and there's a few that fit into different categories so we'll go through them. I've been going to this video for a long time. I just spoke so fast you probably can't understand a single thing I said but every day I've been like oh wait no we actually have 22 books. We have 22 books. One more. I'm excited. First I thought we'll just quickly start with middle grade because I've got three here. I don't typically read that much middle grade. The only time I would read middle grade is if I'm like reading old childhood favourites but the Belethathon happened a couple weeks back and I don't know it just made me jealous seeing everyone helps to read middle grade and there's been a few series I've been eyeing up for a really, really long time so I think these are the only ones I get to really fast. One that everyone was talking about during Belethathon was A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison so all I know about this is that it's like three sisters who have an ancient curse over them and it's a story of their kind of adventure together that they go on together but this is one that literally every single person was reading for Belethathon and they all gave it pretty, pretty high ratings so I think it's one that I'm gonna really enjoy and I just want to get back into that magic of reading middle grade. You know there's something so unique and so special about middle grade that I feel like I'm missing out on by not really reading it so that's the first book. Next time I grab a middle grade I've actually been eyeing up for quite a while which is Pages and Co by Anna James this is the first book in the series and I think this is about a girl who like goes into books or her favourite book characters appear in the bookshop that she works at with her not she works at but you know lives there. She's got a 11 year old like stacking the shells That would be like illegal Oh my god even just looking at it it takes me back to being a kid and I just want to feel like a kid again quite frankly. Growing up is fucking scary I've again heard so many people on Booktube speak about this and again it's just one I've been eyeing up for ages I've had so many good things about it and so many times I've popped into water stones and gone maybe I should get it and so I finally did. And then the last middle grade I grabbed was one I haven't heard loads of people on Booktube talk about this is probably one of the oldest books on my want to read on Goodreads and it's The Clockwork Sparrow by Catherine Woodfine so I about to expose myself What have I fucking done Okay so back in the day before I watched Booktube my choice of entertainment on YouTube I loved productivity YouTube channels is this weird it's a bit weird like I watched people do study with me and that it got me through my levels it was what I needed to get me through that time. There's a productivity YouTube book called Ruby Granger her vibe is very unique her aesthetic is very unique but she spoke about this book a lot and at the time I was like okay I have to read it we've got all these ladies in there Victorian Vez I think it's set at a department store called Sinclair's and just something about this I feel like it's going to give me Sherlock Holmes vibes I love mysteries as you know mysteries are kind of fast becoming my favourite genre especially murder mysteries but I don't believe a middle grade is going to be a mud. Give me that great Catherine Woodfine Enter a world of bonbons hats perfumes and mysteries around every corner the daring theft of the prices Clockwork Sparrow, tremble as the most dastardly criminals in London enact their wicked plans Garth was our bold heroine Miss Sophie Taylor and Miss Lillian Rose break codes devour ice burns and vow to bring the villains to justice a splendid adventure awaits you I just love the sound of this I love the vibes and so it's fun I really cannot wait to get to all these middle grade I think I might do a week where I just read middle grade soon I just feel like I need it in my life quickly before we get into YA let's just talk about two graphic novels I've bought the first is Bloom by Kevin Panetta and I've heard a lot of good things about this I think it's about a boy who is working in the family bakery and then another boy comes and starts to work there too and it's kind of just like their romance but what I love about this is that it's all blue sorry that was a very obnoxious blue I don't know who I think I am I love when graphic novels have a colour scheme Lord Ink he's breaking up for me had a brilliant pink and grey colour scheme and this one it just doesn't I'm so I'm so excited to read this it looks so cute look at them needing the bread I love bread as well I'm a big bread fan so anything about bread gets for you what a sad little life Jane anyone else love bread and then the second graphic novel I got is the tea dragon society by Katie O'Neill again this is one I've heard so many great things about on booktube and I think it's queer by the way apologies if you hear any cat snoring they are sitting in a wardrobe like culled up into one another snoring really loudly so apologies if you hear that okay yeah so I think we have a male male romance in this and there is also a queer disabled character if I'm remembering rightly but this oh my Gideon oh my god tell me that isn't the most beautiful thing you've ever seen I had to get it I had to get it I had to get it you can't blame me okay so let's get into YA there are some I'm quickly going to haul that I have read but listen if I spent money on these books I'm going to include them in a haul I don't have a lot of money so like so first is Cup New Land by Elizabeth Acevedo I read these in my reading new releases video that I put out and this is by Elizabeth Acevedo the queen the icon the living legend is told in verse and it is about two sisters who have the same father but they don't know each other exists and the father often I think he spends about four months of the year with the one living in the Dominican Republic and then he spends the rest of his time living with the other girl who believes kind of like that she is his only family if that makes sense one day when he's on the flight to go visit his daughter in the Dominican Republic the flight crashes and he dies that leads the girls to discover that one another exists it's so hot hot wrenching it is a really great study of character it's a very character focused book there's not a lot of plot it's a beautifully written book it is incredible so this is what I would really recommend that you pick up I'm so good I read it like when it came out it's a really fast read and so hard hitting and so beautifully written it's a really really great book and then the other book I read in that new releases video was the empire of dreams by Ray Carson so this is a new companion book to the girl of fine thorn series and this is about a young girl who we meet in the last book in the original trilogy and this is about her trying to get adopted by the queen and when that falls through she becomes part of the royal guard and it's about her being the first girl in the royal guard about her figuring out who she wants to be the kind of person she wants to be and then we have a live show for this with some of my friends with Nicole Simone and Ishi and we discovered that the villain kind of the person who comes back at the end and has a really big part in the plot and is in this big end scene since they died in the first book I don't understand I don't understand page I don't understand this book just tries to pretend they never died but they died and we were all so confused in the live so originally I think I gave like 3.5 maybe but it's probably a 3 or maybe even a bit lower because how can you have that bigger plot point where this character died was never seen again was never heard of again big plot points happened because they had died like people inherited certain lands whatever and then you're just back as if nothing has happened I have emailed Ray Carson to try and get an answer but this ain't giving us the information for a book to be published you've spent a lot of time planning this you never thought at least I have to have an explanation for why you all thought she was dead maybe she just hopes it's been years and years since anyone read the book they'll just accept that that's what happened well I read the book like 2 months ago to prepare myself for this coming out and you gave me a dead character as the villain and then the last book that I've already read is The Never-Tilting World by Rinchepeko I read this where cats picked my TBR and I enjoyed this but I gave it 3 stars and this is about a world which has stopped turning and so half of it is permanently in light and so is like a desert and the other half is permanently in darkness and so is super icy and cold and each land is ruled by a goddess who has a daughter who is also a goddess who eventually become THE goddess this was for perspectives and 2 different storylines essentially and I've just discovered I don't like it when books have 2 different storylines I like us to have one story the only one that really actually worked for me was Clap When You Land I didn't mind it in that one because we were so focused on the characters in this one so this is literally on how each of these girls are feeling and so it felt very connected it felt very conjoined because they were united by this same event whereas in this one it's plot heavy and so we're following 2 different heavy plots if that makes sense and I just don't like it I just don't think I like that in books and so I need to be careful in the future getting books that have that feature because I just don't think it's something for me I think Rinchupeco is a great writer and I would love to read anything else by her I don't know if The Bone Witch has that same feature if not I'll probably will read it ok and then the YA that I haven't read yet I've got Ask The Passengers by AS King I'm slowly working my way through all of AS King's stuff I love her stuff I recently read Dig by Her and that was a 5 star and so I was just kind of figuring out what books do I want to treat myself to and I knew I wanted to have another AS King I read 2 of her books, Please Ignore Viridit and Reality Boy on audiobook and I just think actually that she is the kind of author I want to read physically I don't know why there's some authors I want to read audibly and some I want to read physically because often her stuff is very complex and can have hidden meanings and so I just want it to be something that I can read over this is about a girl I think who talks to the passengers in the airplanes oh honey I don't know what you're talking about and with AS King's stuff sometimes it blurs a line of like is this actually happening is the character imagining it or is fantastical elements bleeding into real life which I really like and then the last way I book that I got my hands on is Wild Beauty by Annemarie Macklemore so I've heard so many brilliant things about their stuff I don't know much about this plot all I know is that I've heard a lot of my favourite booktubers speak so highly of Annemarie Macklemore's work and so I asked Twitter like where would be best to start with Annemarie Macklemore's books and a lot of people said Wild Beauty and so that's the one I'm starting with that's the one I've gotten first I don't really know what this is about all I know is that it's a beautiful cover I'm loving Magical Realism at the moment it's a genre I'm really falling in love with much like Murder Mystery they're kind of two of my favourite genres at the moment I assume this is a quote from the book and that this was a thing he'd learned that setting his girl this was a thing he'd learned that setting his hand on a girl's back and that girl letting his hand stay led to fairy rings and ponds full of stars even in its first faint traces love could alter a landscape it wrote unimagined stories and made the most beautiful forbidden places love grew such strange things tell me that does not oh that's beautiful wow ok I cannot wait to get into this ok so now we're going to get into all my adult stuff that I've bought this is the majority of the haul actually we have one two ten ten of them are adult ok let's just get the embarrassing one out of the way so like don't judge me you need to be locked in prison for a very long time you need the internet taken away from you you are a danger to society but I got someone to send me the book of the month copy of the guest list by Lucie Foley a couple months ago so you all know that the guest list probably maybe unless you're new here but the guest list by Lucie Foley is one of my favourite books of this year so far it is a murder mystery set on this remote island between this couple the bride is the head of this kind of like elite magazine and the groom is a fashion tv star kind of like, what's his name, Bear Grylls I think he's kind of like Bear Grylls equivalent but like prettier, a bit of a pretty boy we find out on the first page the first chapter that someone has been killed and we don't know the majority of the book who it is we jump around in time between before the wedding, during the wedding and after the wedding, it's told through multiple perspectives which I really enjoyed with this one it's told through the eyes of the bride the plus one, the best man, the wedding planner and everyone has secrets the way that they are revealed slowly is wonderful and the way that they're revealed also makes you doubt different people at different times, like at certain points you trust some people and others and you're like oh no I then I trust this person and not another person ugh, one of my favourite books and then when I saw that it was a book I went up to pick a couple months ago, I was just like does anyone want to send it to me and someone that I meet just onwards has said yeah I got a spare credit, come on then let's do it, and so I now have two copies of it I don't actually have my other copy with me, I've lent it out, I'm going to do a reread I think soon with this copy I've never done this before where I have two copies of a book that I loved but I just felt like this one deserved it because it's so good and it's really ignited a love for me of murder mysteries let's talk about the thrillers that I have first is The Chalkman by CJ Tudor I just received this yesterday from Molly who is the loveliest person in the world she has a youtube channel, a booktube channel which I will link down below which you should definitely go check out she's incredibly kind and lovely and wonderful and when she got me this I just could not believe it, I was so shocked this is one that has been on my wishlist for a long time even my radar for a long time I remember I think I first heard people talking about it when I was in Florida I have a vivid memory of being in the bath okay I think I was watching Kayla's vlog or someone talking about this I was like that sounds amazing I need to get that and that was over a year ago so it's been on my radar for a long time I think there's some kind of game going on to do with The Chalkman but then someone is killed and then we kind of are going backwards and forwards in time I believe trying to figure out what happened I think there's kind of like a group of kids that know the truth or know parts of the truth and the next thing that I got was The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware Ruth Ware is fast becoming one of my favourite authors I've given both of her books I've read so far Five Stars, I've read The Turn The Key and the book that is coming out in I think it's October or November it may be October in the US and November in the UK I could be wrong but one by one I read an arc of that and adored it Five Stars it's a closed circle murder mystery which is my favourite thing but this is another one of her books The Death of Mrs. Westaway I'm just trying to make my way through all of her books no I don't think you understand I'm obsessed so this is about a girl who learns that she's received a big amount of money from her grandparents right so she's in the money honey honey but she her grandparents died and she's like sis this woman ate my grandparents I need the money so I'm gonna come and play along I think shit starts going wrong essentially it's a thriller it's a Ruth Ware thriller what more do we expect so the girl is like I'm gonna get some dollar and then stuff starts going wrong the next book I got is The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman so I think it was Riley I heard Riley Marie I heard talk about this quite a while ago and I think it's about girls fighting in like boxing in underground Bristol I think in kind of like Victorian era I love Victorian era I don't know why I love reading books about Victorian England so much I don't tend to read loads of historical fiction but when I do I really enjoy it so I'm excited to get into this one I've spoken a bit about buying this book already but I also bought Little Women by Louisa May Alcock women I bought this immediately after seeing the film I ain't original I went to see the film and I loved it I've heard mixed things some people say it's as good as the film and others say no the film is way better than the book the book ain't that good so I'm a bit nervous about it I'm sure you know the story of Little Women I don't need to tell you what this is about there's about four sisters it's about them growing up it's about them figuring out who they are the kind of people they want to be and I really love the story behind this of like Louisa May Alcock rebelling against her publishers and stuff like that I like seeing how the real Louisa May Alcock and Joe blend together in this and the books are kind of fantasy the rest of the adult books I've got the first is The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin I have heard so many wonderful things about this book I can't articulate the plot do you are you dumb are you dumb are you dumb are you dumb are you dumb I have just been seeing so many people the past few months reading this and just loving it I've been giving it four and five stars I've heard that it's a little bit complex like it's quite a complex high fantasy book but sometimes I'm craving that and oh I just stumbled across a sex scene I saw the word Lou and I was like the next book I got is Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith so this is about how any books left unfinished are like filed away in this library and there is a librarian whose job it is to kind of keep the protagonist of I think of the book from ever meeting their author but then one of the heroes escapes and so it's like a great chase to try and get the hero back in their book I think before they meet their author because I think bad things happen if the two collide this is another book which a lot of people have been speaking about recently and it just sounds like my kind of thing it's Blurred by Shawna McGuire favourite authors so it can only mean good things it can only mean good things so very excited very very excited to get this one this is one which I think I will be picking up very soon and then the lovely Nicole who I speak about all the time my favourite person in the world she sent me the lovely war I always thought it was the lovely war is it just lovely war she sent me lovely war or the lovely war by Julie Berry so this is about Aphrodite telling the story of Second World War I think through two love stories so I'm a bit nervous about the whole split time thing we'll see how that goes I have heard a few people say recently it does have a racist slur in it and so I am a bit wary to go into this book because of that reason but that's just something I want to be upfront about now to tell you about that because I don't think I should just pretend that doesn't exist it's one I've heard people like Riley speak about a lot from Aphrodite Reads have spoken about this loads I think it's one of her favourite books ever and so it's just been one that's been on my radar for a long time and I love the cover isn't this pink like my vibes I love it I love it so much and then a purchase I feel very guilty for to this day I feel awful for this purchase but I brought the Illuma Crate versions of Nevernight and God's Grave so I placed the order for these like I think probably in December or November last year they only just came through a couple weeks ago do I regret it yes because these were like 50 pounds but it's past Megan's mistake I can't be angry at myself for it now we live and we learn we move on we become better people and I can't even really tell you what the book is about this is so humiliating I know it's about a girl called Mia who I think trains become like an assassin maybe I mean it's signed at least I paid for that eh I do love the covers though I love the black spray ledges I love the vibes of the covers and I love the illuminatiles by Jay Kristoff and Amy Kaufman and so they are authors I'm very excited to get to however I keep looking at these and going Megan you could have bought so many other books I'm very excited for the footnotes like in the books that explains part of the world building I love the idea of footnotes that flavour I love the idea of footnotes I know some people hate them when they read the book I don't think that's going to be me I think I'm going to love them but yeah I bought these and I'm sorry and then lastly I also picked up two nonfiction books the first of which is Not That Bad by Roxanne Gay so I recently read Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay which is hiding away somewhere here now I'm not like you can see it but this is about rape culture and it is edited by Roxanne Gay it has tons of essays from so many different women Roxanne Gay's writing and her collections of essays and stuff is something that I really want to read all of it but I get the sense this is going to be a very hard read but a very necessary read in Bad Feminist she spoke really impactfully about the sexual assault that she suffered when she was younger stuff like this is something that we should all be reading and the last book of this book haul is The Five by Halle Rubinhold so this is about the five women that Jack the Ripper killed and it takes you to their lives it takes you through their lives and gives their lives voices and I've always been very interested in history as a kid I love Victorian history and that's something that obviously is stuck with me a little bit like I thought I was it because I knew Victorian history like I was the class expert you know I used to be one of those people okay this is going to sound so dumb but like if you stay to the end of this video you don't care okay comment a stack of books if you heard this story so I know how many people have embarrassed myself to but I so you like you had like themed days when you were a kid right and one thing they did at my school when you went into year five so like you were nine or ten and so we had someone come to our school and pretend to be like a Victorian teacher like a really harsh Victorian teacher and he was really mean to us and I was like that about to be my job so for years I wanted to be someone who went round schools and pretended to be a Victorian teacher I was so weird you are so corny I love books that tell the story of forgotten women throughout history and this is definitely one of those and I just can't wait to get to it I think these women are people who need their stories told people who need their voices heard they are brutally murdered by this man and yet the one that everyone remembers is him and it's just so unjust I think trying to elevate the voices of these women who have come before us and whose history has eradicated and erased is so important and so I cannot wait to get to this one so there we have it that is all of the books I've recently bought let me know if there's any here that you have loved let me know what your favourite is let me know if you've hated any of them as well cos I like to know what I'm getting myself in for but yeah let me know especially if you've loved any of them thank you so much for watching as always I hope you're having a good time and I will see you very very soon bye