 Bad people's personalities, all the people's personalities you've ever seen. I'm not gonna even stand up for that one. That's enough. Hello friends, welcome back to my channel. I hope that you are well, I hope you're keeping yourself well, both physically and mentally at the moment because it's very stressful, obviously. I don't want to get too much into it because I want this to be a place where you can come to escape everything that's going on but I just hope you're really taking care of yourself and taking all the precautions that you need to at the moment. Anyway, anyway. Today I wanted to change myself and since I'm back with all my books I wanted to ask you guys for specific book recommendation requests that you want. Something you've always wanted to see more in books, you've always wanted to read more of books like but just struggle to find them and I'm gonna see if I can tell you any books that fill that recommendation. I don't know if I am because I feel like I haven't read a lot compared to some people on here. I've only been reading a lot, really the past year and a half so I'm scared. I'm just gonna stand in the middle of the road and if a car comes I ain't gonna move. And if I can't come up with something I'm just gonna try and recommend a book that fits that similar vibe that gets as close to the request as I can but this is either gonna go really well and be great and I'm gonna give you loads of recommendations I've never given you before or on the flip side I'm gonna, you know, struggle to come up with recommendations. Let's go and see. I'm gonna scroll and I'm gonna click one randomly. Okay. Oh, okay. So this is a bit easy in the sense that like, I feel like I've got a lot of scope to work with but what I don't wanna happen is I give a book recommendation that I later wanna rely on. So, okay, I'm gonna have to think about that. Anyway, Rachel says book for a mum with two kids who's tired as f- AF, me. Okay, Rachel. Let me think. I use your imagination. Okay, so I've come up with a recommendation and I don't know if Rachel reads graphic novels so I'm hoping this will still apply but I think if you're tired and maybe struggling to read a lot then graphic novels are a really great way to read more, read stuff quicker and feel like you're reading quicker and so then you do actually read quicker. Now, there's a graphic novel which I'm sure we all think of that I'm gonna recommend, right? I talk about it all the time. If you're a regular on the channel there's a certain graphic novel series I talk about all the time but I can imagine I'm gonna wanna recommend that later for a more specific recommendation. So, for now, I have gone with Laura Dean keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero O'Connell. This is a female-female romance graphic novel where our lead character, Freddie who is the one here is dating Laura Dean and loves her in that kind of like adoration-obsession kind of way but it's a very unhealthy relationship Laura Dean keeps breaking up with her keeps pushing her to the side and you feel for Freddie you feel so much for them and you just want them to not be in that relationship. I hate Laura Dean so much but this really is a story about learning yourself worth and a story about friendship as well I really love Freddie's friends in this for me they're like a real highlight of the book and so I just think this is a really quick read you can probably read it in a day especially as most of us have stuck at home now and I love the illustration style to just give you a sense I wanna find a page that really is like amazing okay that's a nice page so it's all in this colour scheme of like black, grey and pink so if I like click through it you can see that pink is on every page and it's just I really enjoy when graphic novels have a really cohesive colour scheme like this I think bloom is all blue I haven't read that I really want to though I think this is great if you're tired and just want an easy read so that's my first recommendation okay I feel like this is going okay right I'm gonna scroll again oh Keras I hate you this isn't part of the deal this isn't fun slow burn enemies to lovers with secret hidden secret slash hidden slash unknown identities like renegades but not renegades can I recommend you arch enemies the sequel to renegades I don't think I read a lot of enemies to lovers hang on I'm really trying to think so Keras knows I love this this series and it's a series I try to be quite vocal about I'm constantly trying to recommend it and some books I recommend and people go okay Meg I'm gonna read that like loads of you I've never made a mystery video loads of you said you'd read the guest list still haven't had any opinions but loads of you said you're gonna read the guest list right I speak about this series endlessly and still none of you are telling me that you're reading it so like what's the situation so I've gone with winter of the witch by Catherine oh no hang on this is the last book I'm holding up cause I don't have the first book with me third bit oh my god what is that the winter night trilogy this is the final one in the series in fact only really the Bona Nightingale fits this request I don't want to give too much away but the love interest in the Bona Nightingale for a while you are not completely sure of their identity of what their I don't want to give any spoilers but what their identity encompasses like truly who they are and you're really not sure if you can trust them you have a very also what I'm looking for it's just a very tenuous relationship to begin with you're really not sure if the love interest is a person that you can trust and like and I didn't really like the love the relationship initially because like there's certain things that may be a bit iffy about it like age maybe anyway um so this is a fantasy series set in old Russia where Vasya discovers her magical powers and she has to first save her town in the first book then her city and then this one she's trying to save the entire world it's based a lot on old Russian folklore and when you read it you feel like you're reading old Russian folklore you feel like you're reading a fairy tale like someone's reading you a fairy tale it is some of the best writing I've ever read and I really want to try and get to rereading it this year or maybe next year I don't know maybe at the start of next year I'll reread it because I only finished it summer of last year so it's been about maybe 7 months since I finished it and I already want to reread it it's a bit of a weird recommendation it doesn't quite fit it because you know Vasya's identity she doesn't have a hidden identity but the love interest is a bit of a weird one it's a bit of a unique one but in the end I like it a character driven and or slice of life with a mum character what date is Christmas Day traditionally celebrated each year Wednesday okay when she said mum character I don't know if she means a character that acts like a mum like is caring in the friend group or a mum but she put like a face with heart emojis as if like the mum is really kind and we love the mum but in this book the mum is a bit of an antagonist anyway so my recommendation is going to be Poe X by Elizabeth Acevedo I literally just read this I didn't vlog it I just needed something to read that wasn't very heavy at the time and so I just kind of let myself not do it and she probably noticed I missed a few Sunday uploads recently but I don't know if anyone else is but I'm struggling to read a lot with everything that's going on at the moment I feel like I'm just about to get back into the groove of it but I've been struggling a little bit if I'm honest this in this we follow I think her name is pronounced Xiamara I don't want to pronounce it wrong hang on let me look up how I pronounce it Xiamara yeah I was right so we follow her as she's kind of navigating her relationship with her family but her mother in particular her mother is extremely extremely religious and Xiamara kind of wants to explore life in New York a lot more she wants to meet boys she wants to have fun and she wants to write poetry she writes poetry every day and the whole story is over quite a short space of time so that's why I think it fits the slice of life prompt not a lot happens which is why it's very character driven and the whole story you've probably heard this but the whole story is told through the poems she writes so it's basically our look through her art at her life and the mum is definitely a big character in this and Xiamara have a very troubled relationship where you kind of have to act like everything's fine and she's not really able to speak up to her mum that the relationship isn't working for her and is really controlling I don't think it's the wholesome mum energy you wanted but in terms of the words themselves that you gave me it fits the prompt okay last night this is Meg like hey oh I clicked my neck then I don't know if you heard last night I really just wanted a book that featured a cute boy in a band but not in a mega famous way I couldn't find something that wasn't totally cringe for life of me so I haven't read a whole lot of boys in bands fiction but the first one that comes to mind and it doesn't fit not in a mega famous way because they are mega famous but it was I was born for this by Alice Osman so I listened to this in an audiobook we follow essentially it's dual perspective one is Jimmy who is in a band and they're super famous and then we follow Angel who is a really big fan of the band and basically they're passed into time in a really cool way Jimmy really struggles with anxiety and it's kind of him falling out of love with fame the whole story and Angel kind of learning that everything is what it seems when you love a boy band in a way that people love one direction or love five seconds of summer there's a lot maybe in those people's lives that isn't great and that is hidden from you and as a fan you sometimes try to ignore that I love Alice Osman I love everything she writes and I really like the audiobooks for her novels so I'd recommend picking up like that okay so Nicole says adorable sibling relationship siblings who would take a bullet for one mother in terms of ones I've recommended the Bear and the Nightingale I really like the sibling relations in that and the Poget X has a great sibling relationship as well oh okay sorry to keep recommending Alice Osman but I didn't love Solitaire by Alice Osman but I think for me the highlight of that book was Tori who is a protagonist and Charlie who is her brother their relationship as many of you know Charlie is the protagonist in the Heartstopper graphic novel series and I definitely love that a lot more than Solitaire, Solitaire wasn't great to me but I think that the sibling relationship in that is really good I've connected the two dots you didn't connect shit but I've connected them some supernatural dark academia new adult or adult that is borderline horror and has an air of mystery like a murder or a heist a book like Ninth House or the Library of the Unwritten well I just want to recommend Ninth House to you I feel like everyone loves Dark Academia but it's actually hardly only Dark Academia books or at least books that are really popular okay so this isn't necessarily there's no academia in this but I'm just going to say it so look every door by Riley Sagan this in this book we have an apartment sitter who stays goes and stays at this old New York apartment and for me that's where kind of the dark academia vibe comes in because the way that the apartment complex is described with like all the gargoyles and the kind of architecture it has I think it's very similar vibe to dark academia in terms of the way it visualizes do you know what I mean I think that sort of architecture is the sign of kind of architecture that I imagine in dark academia and so they just give me similar vibes in terms of the supernatural element I don't want to spoil anything but in this I guess one of the there's a lot of I don't want to spoil anything but there's kind of tied into the ending but there's a lot of theories of what is going on and the supernatural one is it supernatural? I'm going to have a little bit of space okay because in a minute you might see a tear I refreshed myself with what happens and there are a lot of theories about what is going on and a semi supernatural one is one of the theories of what's going on I'm not going to say anything more than that because I don't want to spoil anything but essentially in this apartments it is keep going missing at the apartment that lead character is staying at and you are not allowed to have anyone over to stay you're not allowed to spend any nights away stuff like that it's a really weird situation that this girl's in but she's poor she needs the money she needs a place to live and so she takes it and it definitely seems too good to be true and so even though it's not set like in a school or in any kind of academia setting I think it definitely gives off that same dark vibes and it's a thriller so it's definitely got a really strong mystery element so a few people asking for time travel have I read any time travel stuff? this is just showing me how little I read so for other people if she asks time travel and Nicole asks time travel and there may be some dispute there's dispute over all my recommendations because I'm really stretching what you guys are saying I'm going to recommend the Starless Sea by Erin Morgeson which many of you know was my second favourite book of last year I adored it I wouldn't say there's necessarily time travel like I don't know what I think intentional time travel but the laws of time especially more towards the end start to bend and start to get very confusing so I think if you're looking for a time travel book that is a bit all over the place people aren't turning their clocks and going I want to go back 5 days you know what I mean it's not that kind of thing but the laws of time the laws of reality definitely start to bend if you don't know the Starless Sea is a story about I have to give it in concepts because I can't even describe the plot to you but a man a boy somewhere in between Zachary finds a book that one part of it actually describes part of his life in great detail and he doesn't understand how anyone could have known that could happen he was the only one who knew it had happened and he soon gets sucked into this underground world of libraries and cats and the Starless Sea and you don't have to kill why are you shouting at me tangled stories and it's so good this book is a bit of a mind mess up it messes with your brain a bit but it's just so good someone said I'm sitting on the floor a slow book with an interesting concept or romance I'm just gonna say a secret history just read it just read the secret history I don't even just say anything other than that because I speak about this book every bloody week but it's my favourite book ever I'm hoping to reread it soon and it's incredible and it's messed up and it's got a murder between friends and it's just the best look at people's personalities bad people's personalities I'm not gonna even stand up for that one that's enough why does everyone say enemies to lovers someone else said a book that weaves books cozy, beautiful writing, lovely characters an amazing story all into one perfect reading experience you have just summed up the Starless Sea as well so go read it honestly the fact that people still haven't read this book things like the secret history I can excuse because it's been out forever and like if you're not interested in it you're probably not gonna be interested in it but the Starless Sea like guys this is we're all in self isolation right now let's be honest and this is the perfect book to just be in your pyjamas light a candle and just like feel the happiest you've ever felt my guys, my guys it is so good and someone else said pirates this is a pirate in it the first line let me give you the first line if you've watched my first sentence video with Tom you'll know there is a pirate in the basement come on and the next line is the pirate is a metaphor but also still a person the basement could rightly be considered a dungeon the pirate was placed here for numerous acts of piracy nature considered criminal enough for punishment by those non-pirates who decide such things get out! honestly everyone else get out there has never been a better beginning to a book get out, get out I had faith fame grief fame grief romance in one incredible book if that is what you're looking for you probably have read it already but I have to recommend the 7 husbands that Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins read this is a wonderful book about this starlet and this amazing green dress which I wish I owned Evelyn Hugo who is one of the most famous actresses kind of of the old Hollywood 1950s to 80s period for her that was when her career spanned it's about the 7 husbands that she had it takes you through all of them and in that way taking you through her life and you learn who her true love was and it has fame and it has grief and it has romance it has it all Taylor Jenkins read can write characters and in that way the grief and the romance just come out so strongly in the series her series is really play emotion lead not even character lead character lead sometimes implies to me thoughts motives whereas this is all led by emotion and what people are feeling if you're looking for fame in books both of her books are really good Gabi said a story taking place in a very remote location where they are cut off from the rest of the world she said bonus points if it has magic paranormal elements but sis I don't read that that often so for the rest I just don't get bonus points I have to recommend the guest list by Lucy Foley I just read this in my murder mystery video which I will link and boy is this so good this is a murder mystery there is a wedding on this very very remote Irish island no one has lived on the island for years and years but now a couple have kind of done up the stately home and are hosting wedding events there and a super rich couple are having an event a wedding there and we find out at the beginning that the body has been found on the island and so we switch between all of the members of the wedding parties POVs everyone has kind of dark secrets and you are trying to work out who has been killed for most of the book you don't know who has been killed and then you are trying to work out who the murderer is and it is so good I think they are remote less of this location it's something Lucy Foley seems to do in both of her kind of thrillers so far her murder mysteries very Agatha Christie and the remoteness just really kind of amplifies a lot of the characters decisions and amplifies a lot the emotions and you would hate so many of these characters I think something that is good about the guest list and something that the hunting party by Lucy Foley needed I didn't like that one as much is we have at least one character who is kind of our eyes into everything the plus one Hannah is very normal and so you feel like you can trust what she is saying but everyone else are mad they are not good people but I haven't read a book in a long time where I have not liked the people and been okay with it as much as I am in this so yeah if you are looking for a remote location you can literally not get more remote than this and I want everyone to read this a lot of you have said you are going to read it so that makes me so happy I just want to start hearing what you think but yeah I love the guest list that some of those have been good recommendations let me know down below if you want another video like this I would love to give you more specific recommendations just don't ask me for paranormal stuff again because I don't read that I don't read anything paranormal really as I've read is it Tunnel of Bones by V.E. Schwab I didn't even really like that I am interested in reading more paranormal I guess the divine is paranormal but I don't think that will fit any of the paranormal requests so anyway long story short I hope I've done an okay job and yeah let me know down below if you have any other book requests book recommendations request that you want because if you leave them down below I could use that for another video so yeah I hope you enjoyed this video and yeah keep yourselves really really well I will see you very very soon and keep well until then love you lots bye