 It's time to open my birthday present! Hello, my loves! How are we doing? I hope you're all good. Today we're doing a big birthday unboxing haul. I'm very excited. You guys have sent me some presents it looks like for my Amazon wish list and my parents have got me a couple books. I've also got a book that's just arrived that I feel like we hit unbox now as well that I purchased. So this is just gonna be an unwrapping. We've got a lot over here. Oh my god. Jesus Christ. Check out the label. I feel very lucky. I'm very thankful and we're just going to get into it. But I do have to confess something. Do you have to confess a sin? So my birthday was last Saturday. It's currently the next Saturday. The weekend I was just actually really busy doing something with my family. I kept thinking I was going to film at the weekend. It just didn't happen. And then Monday I felt ill and I've been ill all week. I mentioned this in my video on Thursday and then I managed to get that video up on Thursday and then I was ill again like I felt shh again yesterday and then today I feel like okay let's put it together. I've been waiting a whole week to unwrap these. I've just been waiting and waiting and waiting hoping that I feel better enough to film this video because I'm so excited to film it. Oh there might be a lot of sniffing. I'm sorry. But so yeah it is a week after my birthday but I haven't opened them. I haven't peeked. I haven't you know I've waited. I think we should all be thankful for that. Okay let's just get into it. First we have something like a gift wrapped. Who is this from? Oh it's from Lauren, one of my patrons. Thank you Lauren. Let's see what it is. Oh my god I always get so nervous opening these. I love seeing what you pick though. Ooh exciting. Okay okay okay. So this is Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert. This is a new release. Thank you everyone who gets to be a new release because it means I don't have to buy the new releases so that I have more new releases like I read. This is Talia Hibbert's YA debut which I'm very very excited for. I just know one of them is they think like a social media star and one of them's like a sporty guy I'm really sure. Yeah star football player and I just love Talia Hibbert. Talia Hibbert's pretty my second favorite romance author after Ali Hazel work. They're the two that I have the most luck with. I really like the Brown Sisters trilogy and so I'm super excited. Thank you Lauren. This is so exciting. Oh my god wait we haven't put in, I don't know if I've put it in yet but we need to run. It's a birthday video. We need to run the Lisa Barlow clip of her being like I don't want anyone to make a big deal of my birthday and then going It's my birthday. It's my birthday. It's my birthday. It's my birthday to me. And I think this came the same package if I remember correctly. It's from Lauren as well. Yes thank you Lauren. Lauren is the sweetest. Let's see what else Lauren picked. Oh sometimes I find these Amazon raps really hard to get. It's like beyond my capabilities. Okay. Okay we have got Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater. I just know this is like cosy fantasy. The girls have been grouping this in rid the cosy fantasy books and I need more cosy fantasy in my life. I think this is kind of romance so it was very short arms. It's difficult to find a husband in Regency England when you are a young lady with only half a soul. I'm excited. Regency England. I love Jade Austin Regency. Like I do his thing right. I as a kid was super into history. Like I loved Victorians, Tudors, Regency you know and as an adult I just want you to like create the feeling. The feeling that you get as a kid like watching Pride and Prejudice or like going I don't know if anyone else had this but like going to like a historical like where they re-enact history or whatever. Like I want you to give me that magical feeling that being transported to another time can do and I feel like this is gonna do it but fantasy. Oh I'm very excited. Thank you Lauren. I'm gonna do all the ones said by you guys first then we'll get there's two that my parents have got me. So oh my god oh my god oh my god what is this? What is this? This is one that's been on there for a long time. Who is this from? Shanice! Happy birthday make this a five star read from me as well. Thank you Shanice. Okay so this is Night Film by Marisha Pessel. I have been so excited. This is long but this is mixed media baby. Let me hear you say it. Mixed media baby. I love mixed media. So I have been so excited to read this. This has been recommended to me. Oh my god. I've never looked inside this. I am so excited. I feel like this is gonna give me like true crime story like that kind of vibe. I'm always looking for more mixed media particularly like mystery thrillers. So it's about a death that was ruled as someone taking their own life but an investigative journalist suspects otherwise and we're looking into it. Oh my god I am so excited. Thank you Shanice. I love when I get a book as well that has been on my wish list for a long time and I'm like oh finally finally you're in my hands. Next we have a very little little parcel. I wonder what this could be. Oh who is this from? Louise. Thank you Louise. Happy birthday. Your YouTube channel is one of my absolute favourites and I always look forward to your videos. I heard so many good things about this book and can't wait to read it myself. So we have got In the Dream House by Carl Maria Machado. I've never read anything by this author. I think this is the one. I get confused between this synopsis for In the Dream House and this. No sorry this isn't the Dream House. Oh boy he's in the fancies on this. But I think this is the one that is almost a memoir about a abusive relationship that she was in with another woman and I've just heard a lot of wonderful things about this. This is like I think one of the highest rated books ever exist. I've just heard such great things so I'm nervous to read this because I think this is another memoir that's obviously going to be very heavy hitting but I have literally, it's one of those books I've never had a bad thing about. So thank you so much Louise. I have heard such good things. I cannot wait to read this. Again you guys are giving me like a lot of short books. I feel like you're aiding me. I feel like I get through my short books quickly because I'm like yeah let's just read a short book. So you're replenishing my stack. Next oh I need to go get some scissors. We've got a big box here. I wonder oh my god okay. Okay we're in. Oh my god. Oh my god there's a lot. There's a lot here. There's a lot here. So this box is from Melanie. Thank you so much Melanie. Okay everyone calm down. Calm down. Calm down. So the first night. Happy birthday Megan. Thank you so much for your content. I wish you the best birthday. These are three books I also want to read this year. Okay we've got two in here. So another package somewhere is Melanie. First oh my gosh I am very excited for this. We have got the Enigma of Room 622 by Joel Dicker. I have heard such wonderful things about this. I did not realize how long it was. I said like oh my god you guys are giving me short books and this appeared. So we're at this hotel and there is no Room 622 because of an unsolved murder that happened. I've heard this is a very like complex twisty mystery. I love, I just love the cover. Like I just think this is going to elicit a feeling. I'm interested in reading more mysteries set at hotels. I feel like it's a recent trend. I feel like some do it better than others. Yeah I feel like this is going to be a very complex. It reminds me almost I've heard when people speak about it of like Stuart Turton's mysteries where they're clever. They're intense. They're complex. They're like an onion that you have to peel apart. So thank you so much Melanie. I'm very very very very excited for this. That is a release. I think this was a last year release that I really wanted and it's pitched as fans of Ruth Ware and Lucy Foley. And then we have got another book. Oh my god I am very excited for this one. I've heard some really good things about this recently. So we've got Keeper of Enchanted Rooms by Charlie N Holmberg. This is another cosy fantasy. Okay it's not the cosy fantasy. I'm trying to stock up on cosy fantasies because there's not a lot of them out there. I honestly don't know much about the book. Magic has made itself at home. Rode Island 1846. It's about a home being trapped in this house. I'm very excited. I mean look at the cover. Cosy fantasy babes. I just fall in love with cosy fantasy and I want 20 more. We have three more packages from you guys. Oh interesting. Okay well this is another one from Shanice. Another five star read House of Hollow. A lot of people have told me I'm gonna love House of Hollow. I've almost bought this book so many times that I've been in Waterstones. So many people have told me that I'm gonna love this. I think it's about these sisters who disappeared, reappeared a month later with no memory of what happened and then one of the sisters goes missing again. I think it's weird, body horror, that kind of thing. I love people have pitched this as similar to Wilder Girls. So I'm very intrigued. Fairytale, haunted, weird, icky. Oh I'm very excited. This is one of the books that like people in the comments are like how haven't you got that yet? How have you not read that yet? Like how have you not done that yet? So thank you so much Shanice! This is another book from Melanie. Oh books I've wanted the most. Okay Slew Fet by Brav. I have heard so many good things about this. I feel like everyone who reads this loves it. Oh my god no. There's like pictures in the middle. Oh the note is flying. Connecticut 1666. An ancient spirit awakens in a dark wood. A lot of my friends have read this the last year and loved it and I just feel like it's my kind of thing. Like weird, horror, spooky, historical. Thank you so much. This is one of the books I've wanted the most. I'm gonna be honest. Oh my god I'm so happy. Witchcraft, fairytale, devilry. You guys are so weird. Oh my god you guys are so weird. I know. Everything is weird. I'm so lucky. Thank you so much. Oh my god. Okay final closing time. Who is this from? Oh it's another bigan. It's another bigan. Sarah! Oh my god thank you so much Sarah! Okay we have got a book I've had a lot of good things about. We have got The Skeleton Key by Erin Kelly. I know that it is kind of about like a book that was published 50 years ago and there's like a treasure map to do with it. I think it's about like these families meeting, tension between them, spooky, icky, gothic. I'm really excited. I've heard a lot of good things about this. A lot of my patrons have been speaking about it and another book I've almost bought many times in Waterstone. So I'm very, you guys have given me like long books or short books. Not many middle books. So thank you so much Sarah that is so kind. Okay wow I feel so lucky. Okay so finally we've got three books left. Two, look at the look at the book wrapping paper my dad got me. And we have three books left, two from my parents and then this is actually one I bought myself from Fairy Lee. This is the sequel to Daughter of the Moon Goddess and I wanted the matching Fairy Lee edition. So I thought let's just open it together now. Why not? Oh my god. Heart of the Sun Warrior. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Fairy Lee can't miss. Look at the art. I haven't read Daughter of the Moon Goddess yet but I love my Fairy Lee edition of that so much that I knew I had to get the matching edition. Look. I love it. But she's beautiful. Right. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I'm so glad I got it. So now I have the whole geology. I have to read it ASAP. Look at the like spine. Okay and finally two books from my parents. Let's see what they got. Oh yay okay we've got Before the Coffee Gets Cold Tales from the Cafe by Toshi Kazukawa Gucci. Now I have this whole series. Another one I can finish. This is really short. This is 175, 190 pages. So yeah this is about a cafe where you can time travel within the cafe if you drink the coffee there but you have to come back to the real world, our timeline before the coffee gets cold. Otherwise something bad may happen. And I have the third one so now I have the second one and I can read them all in one go. Aren't we happy? Well I've read the first one. It's there somewhere. And then let's see the final book that my parents got me. Oh okay I know my mom picked this. So we've got Honey and Spice by Bolly Babalola. My mom picked this because it's a romance. My mom is only reading romances at the moment. She just wants happy books and I'm like well she used to read all my thrones and mysteries. Anyways I've heard so many good things about this. I love following Bolly on Twitter. I've followed her for like many many long time. It feels like one of my favorite people to see tweets from and I've heard so many good things about this romance. I feel like it's my kind of romance. I have to be selective with the romance books that I pick up. And yeah I've heard so many good things about this. I know Kayla said it was her favorite romance of the year and I'm always up for a good romance if it's one that I'll enjoy. I feel like I'm slowly like I don't want romance to ever be one of the genres I read the most of but like when I hear about one that interests me I know I have to get it because for it to interest me it means it's special. So good pick mom. She will read it before me. That's why she got it. So there we have it. That is my birthday book haul. Thank you so much to anyone who gifted me anything. I am so thankful. It's just very very kind of you. So thank you so much to anyone who gifted me a book. Thank you to my parents for giving me books. Thank you for watching this video. I hope you enjoyed it. What a wild ride. I'm wrapping book haul. This gets me over excited. If you got to the end comment any like birthday related emoji balloons party poppers anything like that comment it down below. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you very soon in another video. Bye.