 Hey guys it's Tilly and I am cursed. I swear I've actually been cursed with the worst reading slump that I have ever encountered and the worst part about this reading slump is that every time I try to force myself to get over it I get delivered with a really really average book that just sinks me further into this reading slump. So today I'm going to give you guys my wrap up from May, June, July, August, September until this very present time. It is going to be a pretty average wrap up. I have got eight books in front of me and none of them I absolutely loved, which really really sucks but I can say that right now I am currently reading Nevernight by Jay Kristoff and I am also reading Gerard's Game by Stephen King and I'm enjoying both even the Gerard's Game is like really really weird. So I know that my reading slump will turn around and I shall read many books once again. I really hope so anyway. So let's get started. These are in no particular order and I'm just gonna jump straight into it. First up we have Lullabies by Lang Lee and this is a short collection of poetry that isn't actually that short. There are a few poems in this book that I really did like and enjoy but a lot of them I found myself just skipping over. I couldn't really connect to it as much as I kind of hoped I would and I don't know who it was just because I was in the reading slump or I read it at the wrong time but I just I didn't really fall in love with it as much as I hoped that I would. Time, you are the one I wanted most to stay but time could not be kept at bay. The more it goes the more it's gone the more it takes away. That's the poem on the back there so I kind of liked that little poem but yeah the rest of it just didn't live up to what I was hoping. This next book is a real highly anticipated book that I wanted to read because I really really enjoyed the first book but once again I'm not sure if it's the reading slump or if it's just me as a reader but I find that I'm kind of leaving the middle grade area behind so when I read Magnus Chase and the Hammer of Thor by Rick Rodin I didn't even finish the book. Actually I don't even know if I did or did not finish it. Like if I think about it now I can't remember the ending of this book. I just I couldn't keep on reading it. Like I didn't find that I was interested in the storyline as much or the characters and I just I couldn't do it and I really do love Rick Rodin so I kind of hope that maybe it was just the reading slump because I do want to continue reading his books but I don't think that I'm going to pick up the next one in this series unless you guys really think that I should like tell me if like the ending was really really bomb and that like I should continue to read it but I just couldn't do it. These next chunk of books are what I call my go-to reading slump books. I am someone who's absolutely trash for romance novels especially new adult romance novels where like they're a little bit steamy a little bit sexy and you get these like mysterious men and these smart ass women and they just make mistakes throughout the book but you kind of know it's going to be a happily ever after in the end anyway so I started to flick through those. The first thing I picked up was Lick by Kylie Scott. My mom likes to read these books as well and she has like an entire shelf full and so I kind of thought hey there's like a half-naked guy in the cover. I'm sure I'm going to enjoy this but instead I found myself rolling my eyes every few chapters because some of the characters just made really really stupid decisions. I did finish the book and I did not rate it as high as I have seen other people rate it but I'm also not going to continue on with the series so in this book you have Evelyn Thomas and on her 21st birthday in Vegas she ends up getting married to some really big rock star. I can't remember his name. David, the lead guitarist of Stage Dive and they went to get an annulment and then things go wrong or whatever and they don't get an annulment but they end up falling in love with each other and yeah that was the main storyline. Yay! I then read Remind Me How This Ends by Gabrielle Tozer. I have heard many great things about this book and although I did enjoy it it wasn't exactly like amazing or wow or one of my all-time favorites I managed to rate it from beginning to end within I think about a week which was pretty good timing for me in this reading slump. So in this book you have Leila and bad things happened to her in this little town including her mother passing away. She has problems with her dad and she doesn't really have very many friends and she moves back to the small town after a few years of away and trying to like forget her past and she comes back to the small town and she ends up running to her old best friend Milo where he kind of helps her to accept the past and what happened with her mother but also they kind of like have like a little maybe spark happening but they both have boyfriends and girlfriends so it really should be forbidden but that's that book. It was good um there were some parts that I did like there's pretty cutesy parts in it. Probably one of the best that I have read during the reading slump though. These next two books were rereads and it's because I knew that I would really enjoy them and the first one is Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover and the second one I currently have out on loan is November 9th. Both of these are like books that I really enjoyed by Colleen Hoover. I think they're my two favorite ones by her and I reread them because I annotated them for a friend of mine and um I just kind of fell in love with the stories all over again. If you guys do like new adult romances I definitely recommend Colleen Hoover. She just writes amazing books with characters that you're gonna fall in love with. So in this book you have Tate Collins who is the sister to a pilot and she goes to move in with her brother who is the pilot and he also lives in this apartment with all these other pilot friends including the mysterious Miles Archer that backstory you figure out along the way and of course a little bit of a spark is gonna happen between these very two attractive people and um things go on and there's mystery and you guys will have to unravel that mystery and there might be tears and definitely a bit of heartbreak and you guys will thoroughly enjoy it. And November 9th is about this couple that meets on November 9th and they decide to meet up every single year for the next five years on the November 9th. Of course things just aren't gonna be that easy. They do fall in love very quickly and waiting a whole year without contact from each other can cause a few problems. Next up we have The Green Mile by Stephen King. This book I did enjoy. I have watched the movie before I read the book so I found that a lot of it was just kind of like glancing over chapters that I had already pretty much watched which I know is like the biggest cheat that I really could possibly do so I guess I am a cheat but I did really really enjoy this book. I did feel good to have a bit more insight on the characters and the storyline as well. If you'd enjoy it and I did finish it so that's definitely something because I don't tend to read a lot of like adult fiction so I'm branching out guys. I'm branching out. The second last book that I read was Marsh and Me by Martine Murray. This is a very very easy read but once again it was a bit more of like a middle grade book so I did find myself not enjoying it as much as I probably should have. Once again I hope it does just come down to the reading slump but yeah I still gave it I think like a three and a half star rating. It was very cute and I don't like the idea of the book but I just don't think it was really for me. In this book you have a young kid called Joey who is wanted to be a musician. He's very happy to be on his own and then one day he finds that someone has been a treehouse in his favorite tree. She's apparently a very strange girl that he has a lot of mystery and Joey really wants to find out who she is. And as for the last book that I read I don't know where I have placed it but it is the book that I read for my Dimmicks Book Club group and it was called The Bumps That Brought Us Together by Brian Conaghan. I really loved the concept of this book. I would have very much enjoyed it more if it wasn't for the main character of the book. It was really really annoying and I could not stand reading from his point of view and there was just a few other problems in this book. Like the side characters were a little bit more interesting than any of the main characters. The main characters made loads of stupid decisions. The writing in it was a bit like up and down. Some parts I really enjoyed and other parts it just fell flat. I wasn't really sure who the target audience of this book was for because it read very middle gradey but then they would have swear words and talking about like balls and stuff in it which I don't think is like really for like younger kids if that makes sense. I know it was a pretty weird book to read. I didn't finish the book though. People have told me that the ending of the book is the best part ever but I just didn't get around to it. So there you guys have my wrap up. Hopefully I will be back next month with a way better wrap up. I mean I've already got Nevernight on the list so it's going to be fantastic anyway because I'm really really enjoying that book. Hopefully you guys enjoyed this video and I shall see you guys again soon. Thank you for watching and have a lovely bookish day.