 Hello, hello everyone! My name is Laura. This is my channel, Laura's Little Library, and welcome to today's video, which are my 5-star predictions for 2023. Last year where I predicted 10 books coming out in 2022 that I thought I would love, and then at the end of the year I went back, looked at all of them after I had read them, and realized how many I did and did not give 5 stars, and what that whole journey was like. I ended up giving half of them 5 stars and half of them not, which is pretty good honestly, but I did write very highly all the books that I didn't give 5 stars. They were still very good books, so I thought I would do this video again for this year because I just had so much fun doing it, and it's a great motivator. All the books that I have on this list will be coming out this year. So the first book I have on this list is Happy Places by Emily Henry. This is the new Emily Henry summer romance book. We have our main couple who I think they are actually already dating and things aren't really going so great. They have a friend kind of get together and it's a walk down memory lane and I think they kind of re-fall in love. So I'm very excited for this one. So hopefully it'll be 5 stars. Beach Read was 5 stars. Book Lovers was really close to a 5 star, so I think there is definitely potential here. The second book is Bring Me Your Midnight. This is by Rachel Griffin. This is the third Rachel Griffin book and I again I've loved her first two and they all kind of take place in the same style, like they're all witches whose magic is based in nature and the relationship with the human world and everything like that. Bring Me Your Midnight sounds so much more like intense I want to say. I mean because like the first book was really good and was intense. The second book was amazing but it was very like in its own kind of small little just between these characters whereas this one seems like it's gonna be on a much grander scale and it's gonna be a little different from the others. So who knows? It could definitely be a 5 star read. Her books are just so atmospheric that there is definitely lots of potential here. The fourth book that I could give 5 stars this year or I could see myself giving 5 stars this year is Immortality A Love Story by Dana Schwartz. So Anatomy A Love Story was by Dana Schwartz. I read it and I loved it. I gave it 5 stars. So Immortality is the continuation of this gothic romance and I think if it's as good as the first one then it's definitely a 5 star. So I have high hopes. I'm a little nervous but I have high hopes. A fifth book that I could give 5 stars to is A Slight of Shadows. This is by Kat Howard. This is the second book after An Unkindness of Magicians which also was a 5 star read for me. I loved it and I have been long-awaiting Slight of Shadows. It has been so long between these books. I think if it's even better than the first one that would be amazing. You know it's like secret society, competition, magician, trickery, and darkness and all that. So the sixth book on this list is The Stolen Air. This is by Holly Black. This is the new Faye series that she is going to come out with and I absolutely adored The Cruel Prince and I think this book definitely has potential. It sounds so interesting, like so much fun. Exactly what I need. More cruel prince-esque writing and storytelling which would definitely be a 5 star for me. The seventh book is The Mothkeeper. I believe this is a graphic novel. It's by Kay O'Neill. It just sounds so cute and so cozy and also a little emotional. It's definitely going to make me think and I think it's just going to be an adorable, like fantastical little book. So I have a very easy time giving graphic novels 5 stars, I will say. The eighth book on this list is going to be The Brother's Hawthorne. This is by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. This book is coming out as a companion to the Hawthorne Legacy trilogy. I'm sorry if you can hear my neighbor's dog barking. I really love the trilogy. The final book in the trilogy was a 5 star for me. The final gambit was 5 stars and I don't really know if The Brother's Hawthorne takes place before it, during it, or just is some sort of background, whatever. But I think because of how much I love the initial trilogy, this could be a 5 star read and I hope it is. I really hope it is. The ninth book on this list is The Darkness with NS. This is by Tricia Levinseller, who is my no favorite author of this year, just by the way. And I just loved all of Tricia Levinseller's books and so anything by her could be a 5 star. I'm going to read. I'm going to prioritize. So it's definitely on this list. And then the final book on my 5 star prediction list, book 10 is This Cursed Light. This is the second book of the Last Fenestra duology. The first one is called This Vicious Grace and it's by Emily Thied. It is a very Italian-esque fantasy and it follows this fenestra who is an amplifier for other people's powers but more often than not she ends up killing the people she touches rather than actually amplifying the power. And there was like a huge kind of twisty cliffhanger right at the end of the first book which I was not expecting. So because of that I'm like I need this second book now. I'm so excited. So because I have these feelings I'm like oh it could definitely be a 5 star. Like we could definitely get into some very interesting magical things in this book. Like I said, those are all the books on my 5 star prediction list for 2023. Comment down below any books you predict are going to be 5 star reads for you, whether they're books coming out this year or other books that you have on your TBR. I would love to hear about it. 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