 and the offer does a really good job of kind of constra- constraining? Constraining? Why am I like this? Hi everyone, welcome back to my channel. I hope you are well. Today we're just gonna do a really chill, simple, easy video because uni is ramping up a little bit and I'm a bit stressed so I just needed something easy I could come talk about and also we've been doing a lot of work getting the Thousand Doors Rudathon ready which starts this weekend on Sunday so I'm really excited for that I've done all my prompts they're all ready to go so I've been a bit busy I'm not gonna lie I'm a bit stressed Me after being back at uni for five weeks LMAO Oh my god! So what I really wanted to come today and chat about is the books I really want to read before the end of the year the books I'm really excited for that I really want to read that I'm looking forward to most there's eight books here in total and four of them are books that I have plans to read they are planned for different reading vlogs I've got planned and the other four are ones I don't currently have any plans to read and want to fit into reading vlogs and stuff like that somehow so I think we're gonna alternate between one and the other and yeah let's just get started So the first book I really want to talk about is Six of Crows by Lee Bardugo I have been meaning to read this for like years, years it's kind of bad that I've never read it Are you not ashamed of yourself? Are you not embarrassed? I'm gonna be doing a reading vlog where I read Six of Crows and Cooking Kingdom together and I'm really excited about that so I hope you are too At one point I did think like maybe I'll do like a read-along for this but I don't think this book needs any more hype which I mean I don't think it needs me doing a read-along for it but what I know about this is that it's written by Lee Bardugo who is an icon as someone who wants to get into writing like this that's not really going well between BookTube and uni well it's not really happening but I've been watching quite a few like writing videos and I've watched Lee Bardugo talk a lot and I just love the way that she talks I just love her kind of outlook on writing and I loved Ninth House by her Shadow and Bone Trinogy like we don't really need to speak about her we like we don't it's fine we can just pretend I don't know her I don't think we need to pretend it doesn't exist it's not that bad but it's like not Ninth House standard I loved Ninth House Ninth House is incredible so I'm hoping this will be a kind of like similar vibe just in terms of like the quality of writing to Ninth House I know we have kind of like a group of misfits we have Kaz who else we have Nina I can't remember any of the ones but it's also it's a heist novel so I think that they it's like a lot about kind of like sleight of hand and then tricking their way into situations and like working together and I know that Kaz has a cane as well because I've listened to Lee Bardugo talk about how it kind of mirrors her experience of having to use a cane as well so this is just like a booktube classic everyone and their mother has read this and I haven't I think it was very popular in the time that I wasn't on booktube and wasn't reading and it's just time it's just time so I should be reading this in November very excited I love the collector's editions so much it's so prissy I love it like with my I love books like this where there's no sleeve and the the hard cover is just beautiful so I don't need a filter I'm naturally gorgeous hoping that I'll love this as much as Ninth House so the next book is when I don't currently have plans for and it is when no one is watching by Alyssa Cole so if you watched my last video which was my book haul I hauled this in that video this is by Alyssa Cole I just said that thank you Megan but she's traditionally a romance author but this is her first thriller and I just heard so many people saying really really good things about this it is a thriller kind of based on the idea of gentrification where this woman lives in Brooklyn and she notices that all of her black neighbours are moving out white people are moving in but something I guess more like thriller-y and sinister is at play as well I just had so many wonderful things about this I definitely want to read it before the year is up I feel like I just want to read through it as way more during like winter times and I just got so excited when I saw this in the book stock because I didn't think I'd be able to get it in Waterstones in the UK like I just thought it was that kind of booky one stock but I saw it there and I was gagged a reenactment I was like so excited to read it so hopefully I'll find a way to fit this in before the end of the year okay so the next book I really want to get to before the end of the year is European Travels for the Monstrous Gentlewoman if this is a big boy it's like it's basically 700 pages it's 700 pages and you're going to be shocked when I tell you I think this is going to be the first book I read for the Thousand Doors read-a-thon now obviously you guys can't plan what you're going to be reading but I know what the first prompt is obviously I don't know what path I'll take from there depending on what I think of my books but I know what my first prompt is and this in my opinion fits my first prompt so I think I'm going to be reading it for the read-a-thon and it's 700 pages I do have the audiobook as well but like am I shooting myself in the fit for my own read-a-thon I don't know I think my plan is in the read-a-thon to read this and then read loads of like 100 page books like really really short books and then I'll finish it easily lies lies and more lies and lies on top of lies that is the plan I don't know how well that's gonna work out but this is the second in a series oh I'm also gonna be buddy reading this with Mariah Lee Marie she read the first one like a couple weeks ago on my recommendation and she gave it five stars she loved it so we're gonna be buddy reading this bad boy together so this is the second book in a series the first is the strange case of the alchemist daughter when I found this book it was such a shock I've never heard anyone speak about it I've never seen it anywhere I picked it up completely on a whim the audiobook and it's incredible it's basically the daughters and female versions of a lot of classic Victorian male figures so we have Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde's daughters we have I think the female Frankenstein we have Beatrice Rappuccini Catherine Morro and they basically in the first book it's them coming together in this found family element and there is there's like a murder mystery element but it's not major but they are also trying to figure out this kind of secret society that their fathers were part of where these very strange experiments took place and they're trying to get to the bottom of that they're trying to basically get to the bottom of who their fathers and the men around them really were and Sherlock and Watson are also in this and I think the author does a really good job of having them in it having them be really familiar figures but not have them overtake the story it's still the girls story Sherlock is such a big character and such a well-loved character he could easily kind of become the star of the show and he's such like a overwhelming character you know he's so like concerned only with himself and the author does a really good job of kind of constraining constraining this there's a really good job of constraining him to allow the other characters to shine I think all of the characters in this series are brilliant like all of the girls bring such a different thing to the table they each have such cool personalities another thing I love about this is that the story is being written by Catherine and so as she writes they'll cut in like you can't really see that but like a script complaining about what she's writing or saying I don't think it really happened like that and it's just such an engaging part of the story it's such a surprise and I think it really helps bring the characters to life so I'm so excited to read this I'm hoping it won't take me too long like I flew through the first one so hopefully it won't take me too long but it is a big big big boy I'm probably gonna read this for like six days of the readathon and in the last two you have to read four more books this is kind of on a along a similar topic so the next book I really want to read for the end of the year that I haven't got any plans for right now is The Five by Halle Rubinhold so this is a non-fiction book and I really haven't been reading enough non-fiction but I really want to and this is about Jack the Ripper's victims his five victims and it's talking about their lives and who they really were because these women often are so ignored and so forgotten everyone just like only cares about Jack the Ripper no one cares about these women and this story is really trying to bring them to life this story this like book is really trying to bring them to life I really love reading about like forgotten women in history and who they were because women have like not been written into our history books if this is something you're interested in I would really recommend the series Forgotten Women by Jing Sheng I've only read one I've read The Leaders but I loved it I'm really excited to learn about these women's stories and who they were so hopefully I can find a way to fit this in somewhere next is a book I'm gonna be reading very soon it's actually kind of the next book I'll be reading and it is Home Before Dark by Riley Sager so obviously I am gonna read this before the end of the year but I'm just so excited for this I also hold this in my book haul so excited to read this Riley Sager also everyone always thinks it's a woman it's a man I didn't know that originally I think it's intentional because it is a pen name and I often find that like men when they're writing thrillers they often take on like female sounding pseudonyms like who is the guy who um the woman in the window the guy who's really dodgy and like is a serial liar is it AJ Finn? that kind of sounds like female and then in other fields when a woman is writing like certain genres like I don't know science fiction they take on a pseudonym to sound like a man it's really interesting but Riley Sager is a man but it's not his name I've said in my book or it really reminds me of Haunting of Hellhouse which is just there's the power that that has the intelligence that that has it reminds me of Haunting of Hellhouse because there's this family who lived in this house and they only lasted 20 nights before fleeing in the middle of the night something ghosty has happened and our protagonist's father writes this really popular ghost horror book about it but she doesn't remember it she doesn't think that what he's written actually happened but then she has to go back to the house and order to I think sell it I know that it alternates between the story that her father wrote and her story and I'm just so excited I am so excited I think this is gonna be such a quick read Riley Sager's books I've only read Lock Every Door but that was definitely a quick read and they feel like the perfect books to read like in October, November, December do you know what I mean like at the end of the year I think I read Lock Every Door in December and it was so perfect so I'm hoping this will be a good time to read this as well and yeah very very excited hello I literally just said that next let's talk about a book I haven't currently got plans to read but really want to and it is Wild Beauty by Anna Marie Mackamal I have literally wanted to get into their books for so long like for so long I'm really ashamed I haven't read this yet when I bought it I was like oh my god I'm so excited I gotta read this straight away then I haven't I've just found it difficult to fit into a vlog I actually don't know much about the plot I know that this book is magical realism so it's going to have that kind of fantasy in our real world setting and I just asked on Twitter where should I start with their books and I think it was Kayla from Books and Lala who said Wild Beauty is the best place to start so I got it when I've watched people talk about Anna Marie Mackamal's books they're often a bit difficult to describe in terms of plot but I think this is just going to have such beautiful magical writing that kind of just wraps you in this like fairy hug what really so badly want to get to this so that I can start reading all the other books but I currently haven't got plans so we've got to fit it in somewhere and then the last book I do have plans to read is The Seven Deaths with Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Tarleton if you watch my vlog you know that I bought The Devil in the Dark Water recently and I probably should have read this before doing that but a lot of you told me in the comments you think I'm really gonna love this so that we're off to a good start what I know about this is that Evelyn Hardcastle has been killed at this party that her parents are throwing and our protagonist is every day waking up in a different body as one of the guests so he's waking up as one of the different guests at the party to try and figure out who has murdered her I love a good murder mystery as you all know I've heard this is very confusing but I like confusing books and I'm just ready I'm really ready to read this I've been putting it off long enough and I'm hoping that I'm really gonna love it I really hope I'm gonna love it because I've bought like his book his next book and it's really expensive it was therapeutic for me I don't regret it I have heard some mixed things I have heard that there are some fat phobic elements in this like just in a way that like fat bodies are described is really like gross like the way that language is used in this so that does make me feel a bit nervous about reading it I'm reading it for video we'll see how it goes I really want to love it and then the last book that I don't currently have plans to read but really want to is The Raven Boys by Maggie Stevewater now if you watched my bookopoly reading vlog where I did bookopolathon in two days I actually started this I read I think up to like the first 100 pages but then I knew I wouldn't be able to finish it in that video and I wanted to complete bookopolathon so I sacked it off and read Silver in the Wood instead but I do really want to get to it I was really enjoying it but I just felt like I was rushing it at the time so hopefully if I have a bit more time to read it I won't feel like that basically we have these four friends who are like obsessed with these lay lines like things called lay lines and there's something about King Arthur like the ancient King Arthur I was very confused it's not fat I don't get it when I was reading the book they had just met Blue who kind of lives in this family of witches and she has been told that the first boy she loves if she kisses him he'll die and she also in like one of the first scenes sees a spirit of one of the boys in like the cemetery meaning he's gonna die soon because I have read some of it already I just kind of want to like get it read like I just want to read it I've had this for over a year now I think so there we have it that is the eight books I want to read most before the end of the year let me know let me try and hold it up oh okay yeah let me know if you've read any of these what you thought of them which ones you think I would like the most if you know my reading taste thank you very much for watching I will see you very very soon I hope you're joining us this weekend for the Thousand Doors readathon it starts midnight UK time on Sunday the 1st of November I'm so excited you're gonna have so much fun it's so cool what we put together and yeah hopefully I will see you soon bye