 Hey guys it's Liana and I'm here today with my November wrap up. It's been a hot minute which I already said in my other video that I'm filming today but uh yeah. So November as predicted was not super consistent. I read a lot more than I thought I was going to. Almost none of it was from my TBR though so oops. I do still plan to read the books that I didn't finish the ones that I'm like part of the way through and then also the books that I didn't even get to on my TBR and uh I once again did not read Benchful so I don't know what's wrong with me. So yeah in November I actually mainly was listening to audiobooks well I think yeah legit half. I think half of what my reading accounts for is audiobooks and then I said in my TBR video that I was hoping to like do more writing and I did actually. I was kind of on a writing bender so it wasn't like NaNoWriMo. I don't know how many words I wrote. It doesn't matter because I wrote like 20 single spaced pages and then I was on a walk like two days ago and was like I have it. I have it. The thing I've been missing. I have to go back now and rewrite everything because I like figured out what I was missing which I'm really hyped for but also like man what a waste of my time. Like it's not a waste of my time because like I definitely learned about my own world while writing about it so I couldn't really have done this without having done that first. Anyway that's not why you're here to hear but well it's my November wrap-up. I did that in November so yeah then the other. It was obviously the holidays took time away from reading because I was like eating and hanging out with people as one does. Didn't do any Black Friday shopping because oh god I bought this camera online because I hate going shopping especially on Black Friday. People are crazy but yeah okay so like the biggest one of the biggest rains on my time this month is watching rant reviews of the crimes of Grindelwald. I was going to see that movie. I was definitely going to see it. I still kind of want to but like the day after it came out my feed just like filled up with rant reviews and I just have been binge watching them. I almost run out of I just keep like searching for new ones. I'm like there's gotta be more. Like I spent so many hours watching rant reviews. I could have just watched the movie. It would have saved me so much time. But so yeah I haven't been filming videos reading books or watching other booktubers because I've just been watching Crimes of Grindelwald rant reviews. So I highly recommend not the movie. I highly recommend watching rant reviews. It's a delightful way to spend days. So yeah let's talk about what I read. I haven't counted. I read one two three four five six nine books and then I'm about halfway through no I'm I am halfway through two others and then I'm literally almost done with another one so like it's technically I'm not done with it but like probably finish it today. I thought I was gonna finish it last night but then I didn't read anything like super close. So basically 10 books and uh yeah almost none of them were on my TBR so here we go. Like there's a lot of Witcher books. I just like went on a Witcher bender so let's buckle up. The first book I have is Sword of Destiny which was actually on my TBR. It was like the one Witcher book that was on my TBR and I was like already part of the way through it um when I put it on my TBR. So I finished it and immediately read more Witcher books. So not too much to say about this. I'm like flying through the series. I never been read series but I read like I'm reading them like back to back. I really love them. When I say reading I'm listening to the audiobooks. I read the very first one the last wish as a book book like in the beginning of the year and I liked it and then just didn't continue with it because you know life TBRs and then I picked up the audiobooks and the book is good like as a book but the audiobooks are so good. The narrator is so good. So if you like audiobooks then I highly recommend the Witcher audiobooks. I mean they're good books so I just recommend them generally. But if you're looking for your next audiobook the Witcher books are really good. I can't really talk too much about it because like it's just like there's like three Witcher books on this wrap up. So um it's just continuing the story. I'll probably when I finish the series I'll probably do a whole video about the series in general but it's really good Grimdark fantasy. It's quite funny. The representation of women is like strange but also surprisingly progressive and I'm like living for Goral's and Little Ciri. Like Little Kid Ciri. Oh my god. It's my favorite thing ever. So much love for that. Anyway yeah I like these books. You should read them. They're good so it's gonna be two more. So let's smooth this along. The next book that I read was Heart of the Faye by I think this is out of order. It's definitely out of order. Hold on I gotta shuffle these around a bit. I think that's in order now. Whatever. Whoa everything's fine. Oh I kind of bent it. Oh yikes okay everything's fine. Heart of the Faye by M.I.H.M. I still have a book wrong in here. I don't know why. Oh I do know why. I did not like this book like at all. Yikes. This is an indie author so like I always want to like give kind not to give a pass but like I get that as an indie author you don't have like the machine of the publisher behind you. So like if there's like grammatical errors, if there's like weird formatting issues, if it's like not as polished I'm like like I'll um not inflate but like I don't know I'll adjust my score accordingly like to like factor that in. I at very at like the first few pages of this book I was like I feel like I'm gonna like this. It went massively downhill from there. So I did actually give it a higher star rating than I would have if this was traditionally published. If this had been traditionally published I would film a rant review about it because it was that bad but because it was an indie author like I don't want to like I don't feel like attacking someone who's like not like if you have a huge publisher behind you I'm like there's literally no excuse like I don't understand who let this go and like at that point I feel like I'm not attacking the author as much as I'm like attacking the whole machine that allowed it to be published. When it's an indie author I'm like okay like this person just like wrote the story and put it out there for everyone and I think they should not have but like live your life it's fine and I think a lot of people do like this book so it's fine. I don't like it and I would not recommend it so I won't film a rant review because I just can't like morally justify that but like for people who care about my opinion and trust my opinion I don't want them picking up this book because they're like oh yeah I kind of liked it. I did not kind of like it. I think it was terrible. The world building was terrible. There was no chemistry in the relationship. The characters were extremely inconsistent like from page to page like in mid-conversation like it felt like the author just like needed them to say things so they would say them for the plot. It like didn't fit their characters and then the dialogue was weirdly modern but also like filled with like a bunch of like period-sounding jargon and it was just bad. It was bad. It's a fey version of Beauty and the Beast if you didn't know so yeah don't read this one. So because I was really super disappointed with Heart of the Fey and I had like been expecting to enjoy like a fun fantasy romance because I knew it would be that and it is that definitely is that very problematic romantic relationship too. Anyway enough about that one. I needed a palette cleanser so I reread all of Radiance that same night like into like three in the morning because I was this is shorter than the other one it's like 250 pages. I read this earlier this year and I was like ugh Heart of the Fey left a really bad taste in my mouth. I can't go to sleep after having just read that like I need to clear it so I was like what can I read and I was like Radiance. I just read the whole thing again and I I feel like I'm gonna read it again soon because I think Bethany just bought it because I've just been going on and on about this book so Bethany was like buddy read. I was like yes let's do it three times um so if she's planning to read this in December I'll totally read it again. It's so good. Like it is a fantasy romance but it's my favorite. It's so good. I just love it so much. I already talked about this like a few months ago and I read it the first time so I think I read it in May if you want to like look up when I talked about it but it's so good. I love you book. It's so good. Okay the next book that I read was um Ruin and Rising by Lee Bardugo which is the third Grisha book um so I'm done with the Grisha trilogy. I am such a Molina shipper. Everybody out there who ships Alina with the Darkling. The Darkling can choke. You can choke. That's ridiculous. I don't know what's wrong with you. Molina is forever its life. Um yeah I don't want to say too much about it because it's the end of the trilogy so I don't want to spoil anything where people haven't read it. I really liked it. Six of Crows is better still is better but I did really like the Grisha trilogy and it did flesh out some things for Six of Crows that made it made Six of Crows even better so like because there's a lot of nods in Six of Crows to the Grisha verse that just you can read the book and not get it which I did and I still love Six of Crows but now having read this like I really super enjoy the nods to the Grisha verse in Six of Crows which before we're just like and I'm so fucking hyped for King of Scars which is coming out like next month at this point yeah we're in December so January got my tickets to see Leigh Bardugo so freaking excited. Okay someday I will stop looking over there but that day is not this day and if you're confused I mean because I have a camera with like a viewfinder that I can look at and I can't not look at it I'm sorry. The next book that I read was another Witcher book except I don't know if you know but like this normal size you can't buy separately like two of the books you can't buy I don't know how they which ones it is but so I don't have the physical Blood of Elves so I just put a sticky note over Baptism of Fire which is the third book which I haven't gotten to yet because I don't have Blood of Elves. I did order a different edition so that I would have it. It's not going to match these which is aggravating but it's so weird they like you can only get like the mass market paperbacks of like two of them unless you buy a whole set and then it's it's so stupid anyway. Blood of Elves another Witcher book fabulous loved it great series I'm gonna probably read like five more Witcher books are there even five more for me to read whatever probably gonna read the rest of the Witcher series in December it's not gonna be on a TBR I'm just gonna do it. Next book that I read was A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness also an audiobook even though I do have the illustrated edition so I did look at the illustrations but I listened to the audiobook which is read by Jason Isaacs highly highly recommend and really upset I immediately look to see if he does other audiobooks he's he's done like one other audiobook and it's not a book I care about um if you don't know who Jason Isaacs is he's the actor that plays um Captain Hook in the live action Peter Pan and he's Lucius Malphoy in Harry Potter probably should have started with Lucius because you probably know him from that better. I'm just a Peter Pan nut. Anyway A Monster Calls I would not have read if my friend hadn't made me we have a deal. She'll read Golden Sun if I read Monster Calls President Bitch and The Lytree and I know my that's like three to one but Golden Sun is much longer than any of those three books so it's fine I agree to this so I read A Monster Calls I listened to A Monster Calls and it's so emotional I knew it would be that's why I never read this by choice it is brutal so if you want to die of feelings then read this book it's really good it's I knew it would be good I was just like why would I put myself through that it's about a boy whose mom is dying of cancer so he like his like fears and guilt over how he feels about this manifest themselves in this like monster that he's I don't want to say hallucinating but like that's like the way that it's it's not really magical realism because I'm pretty sure you're supposed to just that's how he's dealing with it he's like not compartmentalizing but yeah he's like invented this monster as like a way to like deal with his feelings and it's really beautiful and I died of feelings it's just too much so if you like to suffer then read this book because it's excellent five out of five stars audiobook five out of five stars but Jesus Christ why the next book that I read was another Witcher book this is the one the time of contempt because I have it um again listen to it on audiobook and it's freaking amazing so read the Witcher books it's all I gotta tell you to you or listen to them slobby books fab then I also read while I listened to six of crows belly bar do you go I after finishing the Grisha trilogy wanted to reread six of crows and the first time I read it but also as an audiobook I listened to it on the way up um to visit family for Thanksgiving so my parents were also listening to it and I talk about this book all the time so I was like you finally get to meet Kaz I named my car Kaz so to them Kaz is my car so now they got to meet the real mr. Brecker and um I think my mom is a little shook that I like Kaz so much because he's a criminal anyway um yeah it's amazing and I loved having read it having read the Grisha trilogy now rereading this and like it's I mean I just like the it's an amazing book so you should read it and it's great but I got even more enjoyment out of it because I read the Grisha book books recently so I like got all the like mentions and nods and homages and whatever and I'm gonna read quicker kingdom probably in December and then be ready for King of Scars the last book that I finished was Traders Blade by Sebastian de Castell I just finished filming a rant review which I'm pretty sure I'm gonna post before I posted this so if you've already seen it and then you already know how I feel about it if you haven't seen it then go watch it basically it's awful don't read this book like actively like it's not just not my cup of tea it's bad and I object to it existing you know so yeah don't read this it's high fantasy that's like bantry criminal type thing that I was expecting to be like my new lives of La Climora it's not it's garbage don't read it end of story okay then I have three books that um I have started um one I'm almost done with so let's start with that I I thought I was gonna finish this last night but I didn't read anything last night and that's Johannes Cabal The Necromancer this was recommended to me by Mara from Books Like Well and this is such like Pratchett vibes like Terry Pratchett Good Omens like it's very like tongue-in-cheek but like dark and kind of like British humor um it's like this guy who's made he gave his soul to the devil because he's a necromancer and so he thought it would help him and he's like experiments and studies to like be without his soul but he's like actually it's super inconvenient to not have my soul so I'd like it back please and he's like he being the devil is like um okay you can have it back if you in exchange for a hundred other souls so you get me those souls and give your soul back so this whole book is Johannes Cabal collecting those hundred souls by operating a carnival and in that carnival he's like going around collecting souls of people who come to the carnival and it's just so it's hardcore Terry Pratchett vibes honestly it's really funny but not in like a ha ha way just like in a it's very British humor which I like it's not for everyone but if you like that kind of thing like if you like the Good Omens if you like Hogfather I think you'd really like this book it's very much like that then I I'm about halfway through the dream thieves um and like last month this happened to I started the month in red halfway through the Raven Boys and then finished the month by reading the second half so this weekend I'll probably finish the dream thieves um like today or tomorrow but I really like it I just I don't know what it is about me like I have to read it like half at a time I don't know why but I do it's the second book in the Ravens like love you didn't know and I'm really liking it so I will finish it too and then I'm about a third of the way through Malfunction by Jay Prazi which I am also really liking but like I picked it up right in the middle of my writing bender and it's not an audiobook so the way I pushed through a lot of these was just like when I can't I'm usually listening to an audiobook during a time when I couldn't be reading something because I'm doing something else so it helps me to get through a lot of books that way but Malfunction is a it's indie published so and she sent me the book and I am really liking it but like I haven't had a lot of time to sit down and read and when I did I was writing sorry so yeah I do hope to finish this really soon because I am really liking it and yeah that's everything that I read in November that's everything I did in November let me know in the comments down below what you did in November if you've read these books you like these books you hate these books all the things you know whatever the jam and I'll see you in my next video bye