 Hello friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome back to this month's episode of TBR Clue. So if you're new here, this is my TBR game which I play every month which decides what I read. How exciting. I know, we're all just so excited. So, July. The situation. Can you see books here? Can you see? Yeah, you can. Get them out of here. Get them out of here. Get them out of here. Get them out of here. July. I'm going on holiday in like a couple of days at the start of July. So I am going to hopefully be reading three books whilst on holiday I have got a video planned. But yeah, there's a few books in a few videos I'm also making in July where I'm catching up on videos that were supposed to be in previous months and I just had to delay and delay. So I don't want to pick those books again, they've already been in TBR Clue Day. But I think I've done pretty well but there's a few books which I don't know or at least one, not the notebook, that I don't know what I'm going to be reading yet. So we'll figure that out in a sec. So, that's all the news for July. No real news. So let's just get into what the first roll is. Okay, roll number one, person number four, which is pink up here in horror. See how many we roll. Six and a five. Okay, I think I'm going to go through a door. Because I don't really have any horror to read. So let's go one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. How many have I used up? Seven. How many did I have? Seven. Then where can I go? Eight, nine, ten. Eight, nine, ten, eleven. Eight, nine, ten. Shoot! I can't do it. Maybe eight, nine, no. Eight, nine. Ten. I can't do that. Okay, we can't go through that. So, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Oh my god, eight, nine, ten. No. One. Okay, which is number five, which is something with blue on the cover. So, first roll was a fantasy with blue on the cover. And I'm going to be reading The Perishing by Natasha Dion. Very blue. A lot of blue. Probably one of the most blue covers I own. This book has very, very, very, very mixed reviews. Honey, you've got a big storm coming. It currently has a 2.86 rating on Goodreads. But, right, I once did a video where I reacted to the lowest rated books that I've read. And one of them was Catherine House, which was a five star for me that I absolutely loved. So, I can really love books that the general population just doesn't get. They're just, they're not the girls. They're not the girls. Whereas I am the girls. So, I actually have not necessarily high hopes for this. That's maybe a bit far. But I am really, really excited to read it and see what I think of it. So, this is set in the 1930s in Los Angeles with this black woman who wakes up with no memory of how she got there or where she's from. She meets this guy who, like, she has no memory of her meeting but she's been drawing his face for years. And it's very strange. Apparently, it turns out she might be immortal. I don't know. I get the sense it's going to be a very confusing book. A book that you can't really, like, give much of a synopsis for that is very confusing. But I'm really excited to read it all the same. I actually have pretty high hopes for this one. Role number two. Person number one, which is Green. I really love to get the rose prompt. I can. So, got a three and a five. Great. We can just go one, two, three and get the rose prompt. Okay, role two was the rose prompt, which is always so exciting as this is the one where my patrons pick what I read. So, if you don't know, I have a patron and whenever anyone joins, whatever tier you are, you get to pick two books off of my own TBR or the audiobooks I have access to to pick for me to read. And they go into this pot. It's very full now. And when the rose prompt comes up, I reach in and I pick one of the books out of here. Just so that you know, the other TBR Cludeau really is a benefit that you get. With my patrons, if you join the top tier, you get two of the TBR Cludeau books sent to you. One with your number, which you are, that you joined that tier. And one with a cat gold paw print on the back. And it's very cute. So, anyways, let's reach into here and see what we get. And then I'll let you know which patrons picked it. I'm trying to reach through and get a good one without spilling too many on the floor. Okay, let's give this a go. Let's see what this is. No, the whole thing just fell on the floor. Oh, shit. And I just dropped the one that I picked and I don't know which one it is. Oh, no. It's a mess. Life could be worse. No, not really. This is the worst. This is the worst. This is the worst. Yeah. Do you ever just want to cry? Because that's me right now. I don't deserve this. I really don't. Okay, okay, okay. We're going to... Right, we're going to have to pick another one because I lost whatever one I picked. What does that say? Cracked up to be? Okay. Cracked up to be by Courtney Summers. Oh my God. What do I do with this information? Oh my God. Who picked this? We have certain books that like 20 people have picked, like Finley Donovan. Who picked Cracked? Cracked up to be. Anna. Anna picked Cracked up to be. Anyone else? Just Anna, I think. Yes. I'm so excited. So this is Cracked up to be by Courtney Summers. I'm so happy. I'm genuinely so happy. This is one of Courtney Summers' backlist books. Oh my God. It's so short. Yes. It's only like 220 pages. Thank you so much, Anna. So I don't know much about this. It's one of... Is it her first book? Yes, it is. It's her debut. And it's about this girl who's like the perfect girl and something terrible happens to her. I don't really need to know much else. I'm excited to see what I think of a debut Courtney Summers. Perhaps I'm not sure if I'm going to expect five stars from this because it is her debut. I mean, like, I mean, it might be five stars. But I'm not sure if I'm going to quite expect that. But I'm really excited to read this. Oh my God. What a treat. What a treat. Roll number three. Person number eight, which is blue over here in contemporary. See how many we roll. A one and a six. Okay. Let's go. One, two, three, four. Okay. Can't do that. Oh, I can. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, which is number eight, which is a 2021 release. Roll three was a romance that is a 2021 release and I picked Love and Other Natural Disasters by Misa Seguria. Misa Seguria, I've read one book from. This time will be different. And it was just kind of like fun contemporary romance YA. That's just like a palette cleanser. So I'm hoping this will be the same. I don't know too much about this. I have an arc of it, which I didn't get to. So I'm very glad that we're finally going to be reading this. No, no, but it's not the funny. The end of the day. Is it? It's serious. Basically what I know is what it says on the back. Nozomi has all planned out a summer in San Francisco, the perfect internship, fake dating the girl of her dreams. So I think Misa Seguria's writing and YA books always have this just like easy, comforting YA romance. Kind of like the summer of teenage love vibes. And I'm very excited to get to this. I feel like it's the kind of thing I really need right now. I'm just so glad I'm finally getting to it because it's an arc that I have from last year. I'm so happy to be finally reading it and just kind of having a bit of a palette cleanse. I feel like is what this book gives me. Roll number four. Person number seven, which is brown over here in historical. Let's see how many we roll. We've got a two and a four. Okay. Let's just go one, two, three, four, which is number one, which is a new to me author. Next was a historical that is a new to me author. And I have picked the fatal crossing, a fatal crossing by Tom Hindle. This is a debut. I actually did some good reads. It's only has like 300 ratings. Like not a lot of people have read this and it sounds so good. So I'm excited to read it myself. See what I think. And then I can make all of you read it if it is good. But it's a very Agatha Christie inspired mystery. November 1924, the endeavor set sail with 2,000 passages and a killer on board dot, dot, dot. How many people are scared? Me too. I was really, really scared. And I've always said, when I've spoken about this, I've spoken about how excited I am to read this quite a few times. I'm so glad that I'm finally getting to it is that the author is a big fan of Agatha Christie. I've seen him reading a lot of nonfiction about her and that fills me with like, I feel safe. I feel like it's not just someone being like, I'm going to write like Agatha Christie but not really understanding what that means and level of detail and knowledge that she has in her books. Oh, look, I mean, I just looked at the front. Oh, we have a fucking character list. I love it. A list of notable passages and crew travelling on board the endeavor compiled by the ship's officer, Timothy Birch. I can't even speak. I'm getting overwhelmed. Oh, I love that. I love that. I love that. I love that. Set the scene. Set the scene from the first go. I'm just, I'm going to fall in love. I'm going to fall in love. Roll number five. Person number four, which is pink again. So we're in here. Let's see how many we roll. Four and a one. Uh, let's go one, two, three, four, which is number 15, which is a book that a booktuber hated. That's a fun one. So I have to find a book that a booktuber hated. Next was a fantasy that a booktuber has hated. I found this so hard. I've never gotten this prompt before and it was like impossible. I had so many books that I know that have been unpopular that like book Twitter or like the general readership it hasn't been popular with. But finding one that a booktuber has hated was so hard. It was so hard. It was like impossible. I was like really struggling. I looked at all the books that I first thought of would come into this and I was like none of them work. And then I thought who can I count on to read fantasy and give a low rating? And I said, it's Aaron. It's Aaron. Aaron is so strict with her ratings. Like legit five stars once in a blue moon. Like once in a blue moon. Like genuinely. So I was like, okay, it's gonna be good luck. So I went on Aaron's Goodreads. I went on her red shelf. I sought it by rating and I was like scrolling through her one star ratings until I found a book on my TBR. And I found The Deep by Rivers Solomon which I've been so excited to read. I've had the audiobook for this on Audible for like 10 years. It's very short. Well guess what people? I get excited about small things. I don't know why Aaron didn't like it. But I just know she rated it one star. So that's enough for me. So we're going to be reading The Deep. This is about mermaids creatures who are descendant from women slaves who were thrown overboard on the ships on the slave trade. And one of them carries all of the trauma of these women of these generations. I'm very excited to read this. I've heard the audiobook is wonderful as well. A little known fact is that in my intro when that screen pops up and I have words in the background I just did that. I was around my boyfriends at the day that I was making that. And I just did it with the books I randomly had with me that day. So half of it is the Seven Deaths of Evan Hardcastle and half of it is this. There were the two books I had with me that day. I've read obviously Seven Deaths of Evan Hardcastle. That's why I ended up reading that day. But I still haven't read this but it's always on my channel. It's there like every day. So I'm excited to see what I think of this, what I think of the audiobook as well. I'm thinking these two books I don't have planned in any video so we might have to do like a 24 hour read-a-thon. I feel like this is very, very feasible for me in a 24 hour read-a-thon and maybe a graphic novel as well. Does that sound like something you want? It is. Well let me tell you you'll never get it. That would be good because I'm still very behind on my Goodreads goal. So I feel like that would be a good thing to do maybe later in the month if I have time. So yeah, excited to read this and this. Maybe together. Final roll. Let's see what we get. Oh! Person number two which is purple up here in mystery. Let's see how many we roll. We've got a two and a four. Let's just go one, two. So that is a mystery. Number nine that's a book under 6,000 ratings. And then finally the final roll was a mystery with under 6,000 ratings on Goodreads so it's like a less popular book, a less red book. And this is the round that my patrons voted on. So if you don't know my patrons vote on one round or two per clue day every single month and the book that they vote on the round they vote on ends up being our book club pick for the month. So the options I gave them for this were Girl on the Walls by A.J. Genuse The Key in the Lock by Beth Underdown The Inugami Curse by Sashi Yokomizo and The Forest of Stolen Girls by June Her. And it was incredibly close between two of them but in the end the winner was The Forest of Stolen Girls by June Her. So I actually know barely anything about this. One of my patrons, Melissa very very kindly got this for me which was just so incredibly kind and I know it's one of her favourite books. It says oh 1426 I didn't know this was historical. Our protagonist Sally has never been the same since she and her younger sister went missing and were later found unconscious in the forest near gruesome crime scene. Years later Detective Min I'm gonna butcher the pronunciation because it's the first time you're reading it. Wani's father turns that 13 girls have recently disappeared from the same forest that nearly stole his daughters. He travels to their hometown on the island of Jeju to investigate only to vanish as well. Determined to find her father and solve the case that tore their family apart Wani returns home to pick up the trail. As she digs into the secrets of the small village and collides with her now estranged sister she comes to realise that the answer could lie within her own buried memories of what happened in the forest all those years ago. I'm really excited this is gonna be such a fun read for the book club. I love that. I absolutely love love love love the cover. Hello. I love the cover. I just think it's so gorgeous with this kind of like illustration style. So yeah, we're gonna be reading this in July for the book club. It's like not too long either. It's about 370 pages. So I think that's a pretty good book club length for us to have a lot to discuss. And I'm just so excited to read this to everyone. I've never read in June her so I'm very very excited. There we have it. That is my July TBR Cluedo TBR. And I'm really excited to read all of these. I feel like this is gonna be a really really good month of TBR Cluedo. So please let me know what you're gonna be reading in July. I would absolutely love to know. If you got into the video comment a flower emoji for the forest of certain girls cause it's all just like flower illustrations. Well, I cannot get over how much I love this cover. Comment that down below if you got to the end. Let me know what's on your TBR for the month and I'll see you very soon in another video. Bye.