 Hey guys, it's Killie and today I'm here with my August book haul video. I bought nine books this month which is really good compared to my normal book buying habits and in fact I've actually read all of them, I think maybe one or two I haven't, but I've read the majority of them. So I'm going to jump straight in and tell you guys a bit about each of these books. Firstly we have Palladero, The Writers of Thunderrealm by Stephen Lockring. And when I first heard this book I thought it was a ridiculous concept but at the same time I have been looking at it on the shelf since it has come out and I finally decided to buy it because I think it's going to be a Percy Jackson series and like a fun and quick read that you're going to really enjoy. So it is what a young orphan calls a Joss who basically wants to be Palladero. So Palladeros are people who herd dinosaurs when it's like the peacetime and then fight for the war when it's not. So Joss decides he really wants to be one and so he and his trusty raptor A's off go on this quest to find this egg that would make him become a Palladero while also discovering secrets about the country that they live in. And I just, I can't really wait to read it. I'm very excited so let's see how that goes. And I'm pretty sure that everybody has heard of the next book which is Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K Rowling, John Tiffany and Jaffa Thorn which is going to be a play or is a play. One of those, it's new either way and basically this is the eighth book in the story and it's reaching around all of the kids. I've read it and I liked it. Also disliked parts of it. Like there's a lot of bad for a lot of good and I mean I just, I was very torn. Like I love reading scripts. I just did not like the story and the plot very much but the characters are like a new cinnamon. We also have the memory book by Lara Avery and I pretty much bought this inside of reading it. Almost immediately it's one of those books that looks bright and happy and colourful but has completely solved the string and sad and it just, I was so close to tears, so close. It is about a girl called Sammy and she has Neiman Picket Type C which is kind of similar to dementia where she starts to have blank spots in her memory and eventually she will forget almost everything. And also her body function stopped working and it's rare because a girl, her age has never had it before, it usually affects young children or older people. And so it's kind of on the line of whether she'll survive this disease or not. And so she ends up writing the memory book which is for her to write down what she does in her everyday life, what she was doing so that when she does have a blank spot she can reread it and see where she was without having to be too worried about what happens. And this book was really hard hitting and it's just, it's so heady but it's also good. I know if you guys have seen the trailer for this up and coming movie but I saw it two days ago, two days ago and I absolutely went crazy for it which is nerve and it features like Emma Roberts and Dave Franco and just, I'm so excited for it, it looks like it's going to be amazing and so of course I went and bought the book who is by Giann Ryan. Now I am going to say this, okay, I believe that the movie will be better than the book because reading this it was good but it wasn't anything amazing. So basically it features around a young protagonist called V and basically she is that innocent girl who's been overshadowed at school and basically she's just someone that lives in shadows. And so when the game nerve begins and she decides that hey I'm going to impress this boy at school and I'm going to do one of these dares so she does it and then she became really popular because a bad misfortune with a white t-shirt happened and so she was given a second dare by nerve and so she decided to complete it and met the irresistibly hot Ian who becomes her partner during nerve. Nerve is a game that is like truth or dare but with only dares and once a month they decide to do live rounds where they will have like cameras and watches, people who bring their phones to come and video certain players of this game and they have to do these crazy dares and they accept it and get prize money so I think she got like a pair of shoes for doing the first dare which is crazy and I would totally do it if it was a real thing but this is like a crazy adventure and honestly if you guys haven't watched the movie trailer do it now it seems so action packed and slightly thriller as well so I'm so excited. I have to thank Books By The Dozen for this next book I will leave a link to Instagram below. She sent me this amazing book and it's so beautiful and a bunch of other book merch as well which I'm so thankful for because it was like it was like a birthday and it isn't even my birthday. So she sent me this savage song by Victoria Schwab and it was amazing so basically this is a world that is divided in two like two separate gangs so you have the Flynn side and then the Harker side and then you have the two protagonists which you have Kate Harker who is this vicious mean girl who isn't actually mean she's a sweetheart but you know underneath that mean demeanor she is and then you also have August Flynn who is actually a monster so he is a snide which means that he's like a soul-eating monster so he plays some beautiful music on his violin and the person who has a bad soul he can only eat bad souls stops and loves his music and then he sees the red of the soul pretty much come to their skin and then he can walk up to them touch them and eat their soul and they die but it's like I said it's only bad people that he can do that too so I guess it's kind of fair Kate and August have their lives thrown together when August is goes to her school trained to be human and just to get closer to her until there is an assassination attempt on Kate and they pretty much have to run for their lives together but there is no romance in this book so you know it's pretty amazing. Next up we have the Atlias which I have also read but I will talk about that in my wrap-up video so basically this is kind of supposed to be a mystery thriller about a girl called Wiley now she has been in a tragic accident where her mother unfortunately passed away which you find out like the first chapter so it's no spoilers there and then her friend Cassie has gone missing so Cassie's mom barges into the house demanding if she's seen her and when she realizes that they haven't she freaks out a bit and then Wiley's dad and Cassie's mom and they're going to go and look for her daughter and in the meantime Cassie's boyfriend Jasper he comes to the house and he's like okay we need to follow this text message that she sent me without telling anyone about it get in the car drive across state and they go on this huge trip try and find Cassie and it's just absolutely crazy but yes all is not what it seems in this book you know obviously gonna be secrets and twists that will keep you on your toes and because I am total romance and Colleen Hoover trash I read it ends with us which came out recently and this book was so good I loved it so much it deals with matters that need to be talked about more often and dealt with the way that she deals with it in this book so if you guys haven't heard of Colleen Hoover she's a wonderful new adult romance writer and she just changes my mood all the time like if I'm in a reading slump I read one of her books and bam I'm back so this book is about Lily who has not had an easy past and at the beginning of this book she has just come back after being her father's funeral she's on the rooftop and then out comes this attractive man who starts kicking chairs around because it's had a terrible day at work as a neurosurgeon and surprise surprise he becomes love love interest of Lily and great things happened for quite a while in this book until they decided to add a bit of you know flame to this book we've got to have a bit of controversy and so Lily's old love interest atlas comes into the book that is a boy that she knew when she was just 17 or 16 or 17 and she was at school and he was a homeless boy that lives next door and so she kind of look after him and you find out about their past through the letters that she wrote to Ellen DeGeneres and it was just so so good and I just loved it but it's a beautiful book we awakened by Callista Lynn which is another absolutely breathtakingly beautiful book I just absolutely love this cover and the story itself is quite amazing so one of the main plot-selling points of this book is that it deals with asexuality and that is like a rare thing that is in YA books so this book is about a girl called Victoria who's had a pretty rough going her father died in a car accident her brother is in a Kometo state and for her there's not much happening in her life besides her dream of going to a dance academy until one day she starts to dream about this girl called Ashlyn who sends her messages from her Kometo's brother and when those dreams keep getting more and more she finds out that Ashlyn too is asexual and helps her to discover more about it and when she really needs Ashlyn's help Ashlyn takes up the form of a human and comes and spends the day with her but unfortunately that can't last for too long and stuff happens and it's just a really beautiful book that gives you a lot more information and background onto asexuality and you just kind of have to like it. These next two are poetry books which I have had the pleasure of reading this month and they were both so amazing and I just absolutely adored them. The first one we have is Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaurkar. I just know I'm doing that wrong but you guys can see it on there and this is like a very heavy yet wonderful book of poetry it makes you think and it makes you feel and that's kind of the best you can get when it comes to poetry. So as it says on the back here this is the journey of surviving through poetry this is the blood sweat tears of 21 years this is my heart in your hands this is the hurting the loving the breaking and the healing and it just is amazing. And next up a few of you guys might know who this one is but this is a princess saves herself in this one by Amanda Lovelace. I was so so excited to hear that Amanda was writing a book of poetry and I finally decided to buy it because I don't really buy through Amazon very often because to Australia it's like a ridiculous shipping price but it was totally worth it. This book captured my heart and I just I felt so much and it was so good and it tells basically Amanda's story in four different parts. So you have the princess the damsel the queen and then you and it was just it was so good. You guys have to read them they're both amazing especially if you guys are looking for a poetry book to start off with like I don't read much poetry but both of these are amazing and I'm definitely going to read more. So there you guys have the books that I bought this month. My pile of slightly backwards books because I can't stack books apparently. So like I said I have read the majority of those so I will be posting my book wrap-up video in a few days maybe a week I'm very unorganized I will just see how that goes. Thank you for watching and hopefully I will see you guys again. Let me know what books you guys bought this month and maybe give me recommendations so that my pile next month can be bigger than it probably should be. Bye!