 Hello, hello, everyone. My name is Laura. This is my channel, Laura's Little Library, and welcome to today's video, which is my summer TBR. Some TBRs this year because I felt like monthly TBRs were just too pressure-filled and I'm a mood reader, but I still like to have some semblance of books that I am excited to read and interested in reading, and when I look at my shelf, I see, ah, yes, I shall read that book. So I have selected this time quite a few of those books. So this is a very large TBR for just for a season in general, but also for this particular season, because I don't know how much reading I'm gonna get done this summer. I'm certainly gonna try, but this is a big TBR. So I'm not expecting to read all of them, but I'd love to read as many as possible. So let's get right into the TBR. I have really only two books that aren't fantasy. Like, I'm planning on having a very fantasy-heavy reading season this summer, but the ones that aren't fantasy are This Delicious Death by Camel Cunningham. This is a sapphic-very-queer summer horror, so this takes place at some sort of music festival, and it's a very summery event, and they're cannibals, which is gonna be a very new thing for me, and I don't know how excited I am, but I am actually very excited because I read this author's debut novel last year, and I really enjoyed it. And yeah, I think it's a good, like, horror summer book, so I'm definitely gonna give it a try, and I'm excited. And then in the almost completely opposite vein, the other non-fantasy book that I cannot wait to read this summer is, of course, Happy Plays by Emily Henry. This is Emily Henry's newest book. It just came out, and it's definitely, like, summer vacation vibes. Like, a lot of her books are. So we are following a second chance romance where this couple dated for a really long time, and they're gonna go to, like, this, like, beachy kind of vacation with their friends. However, they haven't told their friends that they have broken up. So they're going back to this place, and they are pretending that they are still together, and I think they're just gonna get back together again anyway. But I love the bright pink solid color on the cover, and it just screams summer in every aspect of this book. And I've been a big fan of Emily Henry's other books, so I'm really excited to read this. I hope that I can just fly through it, and I'm ready. I'm ready to do this. Let's go, Emily Henry. Let's go. Now we can get into the fantasy based. So a lot of this... Okay, some of them are, like, good fantasy to read in the summer, and some of it are just, like, I want to read this fantasy. I want to devote time to it, and summer is the best time for me to devote time to it. Like, I'm going back to school in the fall. So I'm about to start having homework again. Ooh, yay. So I want to get as many of these fantasy series and books done before that as I can. Starting with a great summer fantasy, The Adventures of Amina Al-Sarafi by Shannon Cekroborty. And this follows a female pirate who's, like, ready to throw in the hat to retire to be done. But then a friend of hers is like, hey, someone, like, kidnapped my daughter, will you go get her back? So Amina Al-Sarafi says, yep, I got you. And so I think it's just going to be a great summer piratey fantasy. So I'm very much looking forward to this. It's gotten quite a bit of hype since it's come out. And even before it came out, people were getting all hyped up and excited for it, and that eventually won me over. So this is the book that I will bring with me on my vacation. It's definitely going to get read. Then I have an entire trilogy here that I want to read. City of Brass by S.A. Cekroborty. And like I said, I have the entire trilogy here. I have been wanting to read this for a very long time, pretty much. Like, I think this has been on my TBR for at least as long as I've been on Booktube, and that's been a few years now. So it's about time that I actually read this trilogy. I think it's going to be a great summer read because it is a desert. And actually in the month of May is the desert-a-thon, desert-a-thon, not the desert-a-thon, desert-a-thon. And so that's very much putting me in the mood to read a desert fantasy, which I think is great for summer because it's hot and sunny and summery, I guess. So I'm going to try my darndest to read as much of this trilogy as I can, if not the whole trilogy, but we will have to see with these Junkers. But I know a lot of people love this books and a lot of friends of mine and people really like them, so I'm excited. I also have two other very like aquatic-y style fantasy books that I want to read, one being Crown of Coral and Pearl. Again, this has been on my TBR for so long. I know it's some sort of mermaid type fantasy, but when you go on my Goodreads and you go to my TBR, scroll all the way to the bottom to like first books added, this is the second book on that list. The first book is Journey to the Center of the Earth, but that's not important. This is the second book on that list and my Goodreads TBR is huge. So I don't even remember what this book is about. All I remember is that it's mermaid fantasy, so I've been wanting to read it in the summer. I just haven't gotten my hands on a copy of it yet. So hopefully, hopefully this year will be the year. The other like very obviously summer fantasy is Skin of the Sea. This is like a siren fantasy where sirens are a real thing, but it's very much like our world plus sirens type of book. And there is actually another like companion book following one of the characters that influences a character in this book. So if I want to read that book, which I kind of do, I should probably I want to start with this one. So I should read that one. Then I also really want to read the Guild series. This is a four book series. It is a King Midas retelling. So everything they touch is gold and it focuses on this girl. And it's gotten like surprisingly good reviews for like it's a romance kind of. I don't know if it's like a dark fantasy romance or if it's not dark, but I'm intrigued. I was very intrigued by the summary of it at first. And then I heard people like reading it and they're like, oh my word, this is so much better than I thought. And now I'm just all kinds of excited and ready to read it. So hopefully another good summer fantasy I want to read is Mirage. I believe this is a standalone, but it's another desert fantasy style. So there we go. Now this next one is another one that's been out for quite a while and I can't believe I haven't read it. And I'm sure a lot of you can't believe that I haven't read them. But the Ember and the Ashes series, I haven't read any of those. I want to, I think it's another desert fantasy style. I don't know. All I know is that it got a whole like new cover release a while back and it has like, I believe the South Asian main character on the cover and that's super exciting and super awesome. And a lot of people loved it. So I got to hop on that train. I got to do it. I just got to leap right into the series and go. Speaking of South Asian main characters in fantasy, the Jasmine Throne is a chunky fantasy that I want to read. I think. Yeah. Yeah. Honestly, I don't know much more. All I know is that it's on my TBR. And so as soon as I have access to it, I will read it. And the final book on my summer TBR. This is such a huge TBR. I'm so screwed. There are so many good books on here. That is Witches, Steeped in Gold. I believe this is like a Caribbean mythology esque or I think specifically Jamaican. I'm not super sure. But yeah, I mean, how exciting, right? And the second book just came out. I don't know if it's a duology or trilogy or what, but there is another book. So I need to get on this ever since it's come out. I've had my eye on it and I've been wanting to read it. So those are all the books. Again, so many series. I think personally, I would prefer to start and finish one series than start like most of these. I want to be able to kind of just do start to finish. That's why I have the entire Dave Bad trilogy here. Not just the first one. It's like I want to read the whole trilogy just because I don't want to be in the middle of like 10 series. Again, even though that is still my true for my current situation. But I don't want to make it worse. So I'm going to try and read series at a time. So wish me luck because I'm definitely going to need it. 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