 Who's ready to do some sleuthing? Sleuthing? Of TBR? It's my TBR game that is inspired by Cludo or Clue if you're American. Which picks would I read? If you want to know all about the rules and everything I'll leave the playlist down below where you can find the first video which has all the rules. I want you guys to know I only have I think two books from all my previous TBR Cludos of the year which I haven't read yet so we're almost caught up. I've run a lot of books in April and I feel like in May we will get a hundred percent caught up so I'm no longer going to be behind, I'm no longer going to have to feel bad about not taking punishments because like my soul can't take it. So May I've got some really exciting videos planned so I want to try and fit in as many books for those videos as I can. I do need to read a lot of mysteries this month it just so happens that the videos I've got coming a lot of them are going to be books with mysteries in them so we want to get into the mystery room as much as we possibly can. Does that sound like something you want? Yes. Well let me tell you you'll never get it. So yeah let's just get into roll one and see what it brings. Okay time for roll one. Person number eight which is blue over here in contemporary. Oh okay let's see how many we roll. Oh we've got a six and a five. Okay that's good um I don't think I've got any contemporaries I really want to read this month maybe but maybe let's try and pick one. Let's go maybe one two three four five which is number 13 which is a TBR veteran. Alright so oh no this has now gone downhill. Roll one was a contemporary book it was a TBR veteran and when I saw this I was like oh oh god because I obviously didn't have anything even remotely that could fit this on my like books I already wanted to read and get to this month. What is going on? Excuse me. So what I decided to do was this is going to be at the round that my patrons vote on if you don't know they vote on one round of TBR Cluedo every month and that picks what our book club book is the link is always down below if you want to come join us. If you join the team Rority you get some of the little TBR Cluedo books that have the numbers on them you get some of them and one with like a cat paw print on just won't let you know just won't like remind you in case you didn't know they had to vote on a contemporary it was a TBR veteran and the options I gave them by the way this coming up is a prompt made me realize how many contemporaries I have on my TBR that I put off. I don't think I'm actually very good at reading contemporaries in a quick amount of time so the options I gave them were My Dark Vanessa I can't believe I have not read this yet actually shameful um Shine by Jessica Ying The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel and What Mama Left Me by Renee Watson. Now I pretty much knew when I posted the vote it was going to be very tight between these two but I thought this would win but The Glass Hotel one so that's going to be our book club pick for May. I actually was really surprised maybe it's because more people have already read this I feel like a lot of people would have already read this so maybe more people wanted to get to this. I actually I've always tried to learn a plot and I never have any idea. I think it's quite a confusing plot it's about like this glass hotel and there's a lot of different interweaving stories and we're looking at the lives of lots of different characters there's a bartender, a financier, a shipping executive and like the bartender goes missing on the deck of a ship and there's a glass hotel it's very confusing but I've never actually read any Emily St John Mandel before I've always wanted to and obviously a lot of people would probably say like start with station 11 but this is the one that I own and I'm excited to read it and hopefully we'll have a lot to discuss in the book club. Time for roll two. Person number five which is white. Let's see how many we roll a four and a one okay let's just go one two three four and get the wand which is a book I need to read for a reading vlog. So round two was a book that I need to read for a reading vlog I got the wand now the special items are not constrained by the genre what room they're in they can be any genre so I got a mystery and denier I've got mysteries to read we're gonna be reading Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie so a lot of you know I've been reading the Poirot books in order and this is not the next one to read in order but I do need to read this for a vlog and this is probably one of the Agatha Christie books I've been most excited to read I'm actually quite nervous to get to this because I think it probably is quite most similar out of all of her books to murder on the Orin Express which was the first Agatha Christie I ever read and is still probably my favorite I'm gonna reread it hopefully sometime this year and so I've been really excited to get to this we're excited because the movies come out so I want to watch that my favorite kind of history is always like trapped closed circle isolated matter mysteries where like all of our characters are trapped in that place and we know it's one of them who did it and it's about figuring that out so I'm really really excited what does the what does the quote on the back say if you open your heart to evil evil will come it will enter in and make its home within you interesting I absolutely love this edition as well HarperCollins do some of these special editions there's my murder on the Orin Express one and I absolutely love them I'm gonna like buy every single one that they do in these special editions so I think they're just so gorgeous and yeah a bit nervous because it's not I wasn't expecting to read this for quite a long time but we're gonna get to it and we're gonna see how much I like it okay we're not doing very well in the mysteries so far let's see what's next okay person number one which is green let's see how many we roll oh we've got one and two oh my god um okay so it's one of the two closest let's just go one two three which is number seven which is something with red on the cover next is a fantasy with red on the cover and I have chosen The Rook by Daniel O'Malley which app would you like to use excuse me so this is like a fantasy mystery which I had never heard of and I've got to read for a video on the back it says a woman awakens on a London park dripping wet and surrounded by corpses wearing latex gloves in her pocket is a letter from her previous self Rook Thomas a superpowered operative in Britain's most secret of secret agencies and then someone tries to kill her again oh it sounds very interesting I've spoken a lot I love fantastical mysteries they're really like a favorite kind of sub genre of mine I think they're really difficult to do because once you introduce magic into the equation the whole point of a fair play murder mystery or mystery is that like you're given all the information to figure it out and so you never want the fantasy the magic to kind of give like an easy way out like an easy solution or like an unexpected solution so your kind of magic system has to be quite constrained which I think makes for really really interesting books so I'm super excited to dive into this it looks very intriguing and I can't believe I never heard of it before I'm like where have I been so yeah we're gonna be reading this this month roll number four still mystery I'm getting a bit nervous we want like one of these three people up here person number two who is that oh my god it's purple thank god oh no I moved it that's number two let's see how many we roll we have a two and a two let's just go one two which is number 14 which is oh my god a book with all the letters of your name in the title oh my god I don't have any of the mysteries on my teeth on like the tbr I want to read this month have that how come I finally got mystery and then it wasn't mean to me right roll four we finally got into the mystery room right and I was fucking buzzing I was like oh no I've done it I've done it and then I got the prompt a mystery with all the letters of my first name Megan in the title and I was like well bye bye I just like I don't know if I have anything on my like whole owned 200 book tbr that could fulfill that I always get really nervous when this prompt comes up but we tend not to be very lucky in a book but I was debating reading this month debating whether I'd get around to now I guess that my fate has been sealed does have all letters my first name in the title and that is the winteringham mystery so this is like a golden age of crime mystery I really love these editions they're by really by Collins crime club I might get a few more I think this style is super cool all I know about this is kind of the context behind it which I don't really want to talk about because it'll kind of give away some of my plans to deal with it but this was like originally a 30-part like newspaper episodic so back in the day a lot of times different authors like Agatha Christie did this a lot would like publish stories in kind of short stories in newspapers or kind of chapters in newspapers and I didn't like the big four which is Agatha Christie is one of them that was like readapted from newspaper stories that she'd done but this was a pretty like popular and like a story everyone was talking about when it came out I know that someone disappears and then there's a mysterious death and we're kind of at this decaying manor house all the kind of vibes I really really like so I'm very very excited to get to this it's blurred by Agatha Christie queen and yeah I'm excited to read more like golden age of crime mysteries because I just kind of read Agatha Christie from that period and I would like to you know branch into other popular authors from that time as well roll number five person number two which is purple again oh my god yes let's see how many we rolled oh we got a six oh my god I moved it we had a six and a three okay where should we go let's go one two three four five six which is number 19 which is a book I have hauled recently then we had another mystery and this time it was one that I have hauled recently and this one I've hauled so recently I haven't even shown you that I hauled it yet and it is The Broken Girls by Simone St James so hang on let me get her down I did not expect this to be the first Simone St James I ever read it's one of her older books I thought the first one I would start with was either the Sundown Motel which I don't know but probably The Book of Cold Cases which is one of my most anticipated releases of this year but we're not reading that we're reading The Broken Girls we're following a journalist whose sister was murdered 20 years ago and then the school in this town is being renovated and another body is found during the renovations so Simone St James I've always heard is a very very unique and interesting mystery author because her books always have a little element of like the paranormal or the unusual or like you know a strange element a strange kind of speculative element to them which I don't think I've read enough mysteries like that I tend to read fantastical like straight up fantastical different world or like fantastical world mysteries or like you're straight up normal mysteries you know and this one I feel like isn't necessarily fantastical what I've heard of Simone St James but more like speculative a little element that is unusual um and so I'm really really excited so actually James is probably one of the authors I've never read before that I most want to read like all of her backlist so I'm very excited to get to this this month and hopefully I will get to The Book of Cold Cases sometime soon okay our last roll person number one which is green again and roll a six and a five okay okay okay let's go I'd quite like to read some romance actually so let's see where we can go let's go one two three four five six okay that's perfect that is number two which is a series I'm part way through okay I can work with that then our final round roll six was a romance and it was perfect actually the prompt was a series I'm part way through which was I was hoping something would fit this book and it's stuck with you by Ali Hazelwoods this is like a series of novellas that Ali Hazelwood has published there's three in total this is the second one I just finished the first one and because I'm trying to get through series I'm not you know have loads that I'm reading this year I want to kind of finish this as soon as I can I might even read the third one this month if I can get to it which is below zero I think we're following like there's like a friendship group of three girls and we're following a different one in each book this one I think we're following kind of like the sarcastic friend like the kind of like take no shit friend which I'm really excited I gave the spoiler alert for my wrap up because I didn't vlog it but I gave um what is it under one roof the first one 4.5 it was quite good especially at the end I'm not gonna lie Ali Hazelwood just kind of gets what I want from romances she gets the kind of dynamics that I want she gets like the romantic scenes that I want I just really really love her she's by far my favorite romance author I've ever read I mean like the only romance book I've ever given five stars to is a love hypothesis so I'm really really excited to get to this one as well they're really fun really short audiobooks listen to and yeah it would just be a fun kind of palette cleanser to read at some point in the month so there we have everyone that is my May TBR hang on let me grab the books so we've got these five plus uh stuck with you I'm feeling pretty good about my TBR this month I've got a four oh my god no absolutely not absolutely not I've obviously got a few other books I would like to read but I'm really excited for all these they're all kind of like five star predictions like books I'm very very excited for so please let me know what you thought of any of these if you have read them um if you've gotten to the end comment down below they're a boat emoji I'm assuming there's a boat emoji come in there down below if you've gotten to the end thank you so much for watching I hope you enjoyed this like comment subscribe if you haven't already I love you so much and I'll see you very soon in another video bye