 Hello, hello, everyone. My name is Laura. This is my channel Laura's Little Library and welcome to this week's vlog It is the witchy vlog I'm in a very witchy mood today this Monday on October 3rd because I have I have my Halloween socks and I just watched hocus pocus 2 and then I started watching the reunion thing they did for the 25th reunion I'll probably watch more of that later, and then I also saw this drags drive again set thing. That's like super Halloweeny So I might watch that but that's not what I'm supposed to be talking about in this intro It's witchy week so many books here that I can read I'm gonna start with the group book, which is spells trouble. I believe this is your good old-fashioned Salem witch story So I'm gonna start off with this one Deep obviously get the group book done and but me over to 300 points to get me to that Goblin Queen status Yes, I am still sick That's why my voice is like two octaves lower than it normally is and I've become minelto instead of a soprano Which is always the funniest thing That's the one thing I actually like about being sick It's all of a sudden I could hit all these low nuts that I could never before anyway I'm just gonna quick through go through all the other Books I have in this ginormous stack here of potential books I can read now this next book Was not when I was planning on reading for the witch week I wasn't planning on reading it for spooky season But it looks like it's gonna be our November book pick for my book club and it's a witch story So I thought well if I'm gonna read it, I should read it now. It's why on this a witch by Rachel Griffin Oh, it's such a beautiful book. I wasn't really gonna plan on reading it because it's not like spooky witch It's like environmental seasonal save the world kind of which but you know it all works It's something I wanted to read soon anyway, so That's another one. I will need to read Soon and then like all these books are from the library because I love the library I have the X hex by Aaron Sterling. I have payback so which by Lana Harper I have go hex yourself by Jessica Clare These witches don't that burn by Isabelle Sterling, which we read the coldest touch by Isabelle Sterling for Vampire Week It's the group book. I have the witch haven by Sasha Payton Smith and the second book to this coming out soon And finally I have the monarchs by Cass Morgan and Danielle Paige It's the sequel to the Ravens which I read last year and I own and I love so That's probably the order I would prioritize them in just cuz it goes from smallest to largest just so I can try and read as Many as possible But you know you never really know so Yeah, that is two three four five six seven eight books that I could potentially read this week if I Don't finish all eight, which I definitely won't finish all eight I am gonna keep the books until they are due back at the library just in case like Another week I finish all the books that I wanted to then I have these to fall back on Because I do want to read them all I do but yeah, so that is this week. Like I said, I'm sick So I'm just not doing much I would like I thought I went to a library. I have filmed Three videos. I have one more yet to film. I just don't have the motivation, but I know once I get it done I'm gonna be so happy. It's my bullet journal Which my bullet journal videos is probably the video that's most at risk of being cut next year just I'm not a creative person. So coming up with different Spreads and themes for every month is a little difficult for me So let me know if you want me to continue doing bullet journal videos because if you want me to I will gladly I'm not saying I'm gonna stop keeping a bullet journal I'm just saying I'm gonna stop making it look nice and therefore stop making videos But anyway, not the point. We're gonna read I'm gonna start by reading this I feel would you let the magic begin. It's Wednesday, it's almost two o'clock. I have taken today and yesterday off Sick days because I am quite clearly sick I am going through tissues like nobody's business and on my third cup of tea today So I am uploading the last of my I look disgusting. I'm so sorry. I am uploading the last of my videos that I had Filmed my voice was sounding better just a little bit ago. So hopefully it's not too bad on this video, but Then I've got lots of videos done and I am very happy about that. Oh My word. I really want to go back to work tomorrow But we'll just have to see because this is ridiculous. Anyway reading. Let's talk about reading because you know sick days Reading I initially was gonna start spells trouble But I just wasn't super in the mood for it Like I don't want to force myself to read it just because it is the group book I don't want to read it first So I'm gonna put this on pause for a minute and I'm actually picking up wild is the witch So it's another witchy book. That's totally fine. Just feeling the more natural witch vibe So I've started reading this one. I'm just on chapter three I'm hoping I can actually finish it today I feel like awake and alive enough that I can actually like read which is kind of nice I also have the audio book for this which also really helps So I'm gonna read wild is the witch by Rachel Griffin and we're gonna see how that turns out today And then I will put spells trouble next So but I have so many like contemporary witchy books. I'm excited to get to as well I feel like I just want to sit down and read them all so I I've got a lot of plans and ambitions this week, and it's already a Wednesday Yeah, so I'm sorry for how ugly I sound Well, let's read so I am a little over halfway through wild is the witch by Rachel Griffin There are a lot of things I love about this book. I love the atmosphere. I love the plot I love the location of course I never knew that I would like the Pacific Northwest until I started reading Rachel Griffin books But one thing I will say is that while the banter in this book is good, you know It's not the best banter I've read, but it's definitely not the worst. I'm enjoying it I am really getting sick of the whole enemies to lovers where the love interest the guy is like an ass before She starts to sit like our main character starts being like oh Maybe he's an ass because there are other parts of his life that I don't know about I feel like you don't have to do enemies to lovers and because like it's a very tame enemies to lovers because they work together on the reservation that her mom owns like he's an intern and she works there and so They're co-workers, but they they don't like each other and so I don't know It's not like my favorite that I've read but I do really like a lot of things that are happening so the premise of this book is that our main character is a witch and She gets really frustrated at the guy and she's had a lot of trauma in her past regarding Like her friend and spells that they're not supposed to do and so she gets really frustrated at him And she decides to curse him to be a mage, which is illegal, which is why she didn't actually cast the curse But then the owl took it There's an owl and so now they're hunting the owl together And he doesn't know what's going on because he doesn't know she's a witch and he doesn't like witches so Very quickly that's the plot and I'm really enjoying it so far Just the vibes are all there. It's it takes place in spring but it's like in the woods in a rainy kind of You know Pacific Northwest so like it's it's a spring book But it's not too out of place Right now. I mean the sun is shining but like fall can be kind of dreary as well So this would be a good rainy day read Okay, I finished Wild is the Witch by Rachel Griffin and I gotta say My standards for five stars is pretty high but my standards for like four and four point five stars is not near as high but I Gave Wild is the witch four point five out of five stars, and I think it deserves it I it was so good so focused on like the atmosphere my only issues were with What I mentioned earlier about just not being quite as invested in the love interest as I wish I had been as well as I think There were some parts of it that were a little repetitive like she would literally explain the same thing a second time a little bit later And I didn't quite think it was necessary But other than that it was an amazing book and I loved it just like I love the first one I do think it is better than the first one Nature which is her first book. I do think it's better than that one. So There's that so I finished it and I am now in the mood for spells drop. I think that Wild is the witch was more witchy than I was expecting it to be and I do really want to read this I also downloaded the audiobook for this. I thought so I have two libraries on my Audiobook app the one and from my hometown and the one where I currently live and I knew I had it on hold For one of them, but I realized I didn't look at the other one and it was available So I have the audiobook so I am starting this and I am going to get going on it I'm only like two chapters inside I have like no thoughts other than these characters feel like dumb high school 16-year-old teenagers and Like good, but also I Will be starting this one. I probably won't be able to finish it today Although I do want to but we'll see how far I get I'll update you tomorrow in terms of my health I feel like I keep getting better and then getting worse and then getting better I've had so much tea today. I really want to go to work because I hate not Like doing things, but we'll see anyway I probably will update you again tonight unless I have like substantial feelings on this book. So There you go. All right It is Friday. I am feeling better I'm gonna go to work today It's gonna kick my butt. I'm gonna feel absolutely terrible, but I'm gonna do it But yesterday My partner stayed home with me all day and really helped me like feel better and I finished spells trouble And I didn't really like it. I'm giving it two out of five stars The writing I did not like the writing at all. I felt like the Characters like they tried so hard to make the characters seem like teenagers and it was just cringy I don't like how more of the book came from the drama of their lives rather than like the actual story plot like I felt like they prioritized boyfriend over like Closing the gate that resulted in their mother's death Which was insane it just didn't feel right and I just didn't like how it went I felt like there was a very slow moving like the plot took forever And then it ended up being super basic and like there's an epilogue that gives it the cliffhanger for a second book But I'm not gonna read the second book. I just I was not a fan of this at all. So I Finished the group book. So I've already finished two books this week Hopefully I can finish one or two more the next one. I'm gonna pick up is the X-Hex So I'm excited. I've heard good things about this one. I just got home from work. So it's low past 7 30 I was gonna start the X-Hex this morning I started the prologue and then I just decided to take a nap because I wanted to be well rested before work So I I want to read this because I've heard lots of good things about it And it's kind of next on my list of which you booked. I want to read But also in final season of Dairy Girls drop today on Netflix binge that as well and Then also wave two of the prompts for spoofathon just came out. So Maybe that'll motivate me to read. Oh, no Like I really want to read but also Dairy Girls like I do need to watch that one Yeah, so that's just where I'm at right now The other thing is I do really want to read as much of this tonight as I can because tomorrow I'm super busy. I have two sets of plans after work and then Sunday We're gonna go apple picking and go to a football game a soccer game So Sunday's pretty booked and then that's the end of the witchy week and I still have you know like I still have like six books That I can read and obviously I'm not expecting it to get to the mall, but I want to finish at least two more But I need to sleep because I'm still in recovery from being sick. I am feeling better though, but I'm still very much in recovery So hopefully I'll read this. We'll see. I watched all of Dairy Girls. I Want to cry I'm gonna cry Hello It what days it's Saturday. I have not done any reading, but I am heading out to a couple of parties My first college party woo-hoo So the theme of the first party is emo God. So I Think we pull it off pretty well for people who never had emo phases in high school. I mean, I did lessen You didn't do this. No anyway, so do that and then we have a geography department Bar crawl which is which is the nerdiest way you can get drunk possibly So we're gonna be with a bunch of cartographers drinking a lot and going from place to place Yes, we will have different outfit changes Gotta dress like maps It's gonna be a blast. It's Sunday and Brandon is horrendously hungover. I am starting the x-hex And I will probably do some reading of it tonight. We're also gonna play a board game Yeah, I'm 50 pages into this. I'm not very far in but I gotta say there's a lot of hype around this book Like a lot of people really liked it But I'm kind of confused a little bit just because the hex that they seem to put on him I don't see how it's affecting him yet. And it's kind of a ridiculous hex like I can appreciate it But just for the amount of hype. I was expecting it to be something a little bigger We'll see so just like you know, I'm starting this The witchy week is officially over but as you saw last night I did start reading the x-hex and actually I did finish it. So that's another 25 points Which means I got a total of 125 points this week I read spells trouble, which was the group book the x-hex and wildest the witch which now puts me at 325 375 points, so I'm well into the Ruler of goblins or the goblin queen and I am working my way towards the final tier and Prist of the underworld Anyway, so the x-hex I feel like This so I had eight Witchy books that I could read this week and I prioritized this one over all of the other Kind of contemporary witchy books, you know this one versus paybacks a witch go hex yourself You know those the other books that are just pun names Because this was the most Hyped of all of those types of books. This is the one that I've always seen people talk about and really really like I Gave this two out of five stars. I did not enjoy it near as much as other people did I thought well first off. I thought it was overhyped second off. I didn't like how the curse Happened like I thought it was hilarious and it was very fun But in the end I was not satisfied with how the fact that they cursed and was specific things Was not at all how the curse was played out and I thought that was like very misleading It did not like the chemistry between the characters I feel like it was purely physical and there was no emotional attachment like I don't Believe that the characters grew to love each other again because it's a second chance romance. I Just felt like I just didn't feel an actual connection there I thought they just had a lot of sex and then on top of that like they have two weeks to Lift the curse before a lot of really bad things happening and bad things are happening during this time But like it all felt ignored like the characters Just sat there and had sex for two weeks rather than Solving little problems or trying to get the curse lifted and it made zero sense as to why Like there were a couple things that happened at the beginning of the book That was like, oh no these are the results of the curse and then it was dropped like nothing else in their lives went wrong It was like they almost weren't cursed except for the fact that they had to figure out how to lift the curse I just I Wasn't a fan and I also really didn't like the writing of the book I didn't honestly the sentence structure I felt like there are so many sentences that did not have a subject or a noun at the beginning and that's not how My brain likes to read it like just saying Wanted him to blah blah blah like I know it's talking about Vivian our main character I know it's she wanted But it trips me up not to have the she at the beginning to not have The subject at the beginning and that was all throughout the book Like I felt like this was a not well edited book and then on top of all that on top of not liking the writing Thinking the book just wasn't edited like it would constantly take me out of story I would have to stop and reread the sentence to figure it out Even though like the writing itself wasn't hard. It was very Basic and just like not super impressive and then it just wasn't edited well or put together well And it just it bothered me so much and then One of the characters names was misspelled later in the book Like I saw it and I went that doesn't look right that doesn't look familiar And I went back into earlier in the book and I was like, yeah, they didn't spell the name correctly At this time in the book and it just like You gotta pay attention to details like that. You gotta spell your characters names the same way throughout the entire book So it just I had a lot of issues with it. I Can see why other people like it? I still think the vibes of it was really good Like it's basically its own version of Halloween town, but with only witches and not everybody are witches But witches are like a secret thing like half the town is Like witches and the other half are normal people that don't know the witches exist But everybody who is normal is even into witchy things So like nobody thinks it's out of place and like the town gets super excited about Halloween They have multiple festivals and the atmosphere was great for fall and Halloween And I liked one of the side characters, but that was about it And I liked the idea behind it and I think it was a good idea I just think it needed more development And I didn't like the ending how things were just so easily resolved There are a couple of times where I was like this is kind of plot convenience like cuz that Makes no sense why I ended up how it did other than it just is something to be dropped and not focused on ever again Like the ghost just disappears once they got the information from it like No, you I thought you you needed to bind the ghost so it didn't come back But now that you've gotten your information from it. It just disappeared like I Just had a lot of issues with it and it took away from my overall enjoyment of the book so much You know, I know it could have been such a good book. So Yeah, it's a two out of five stars I was pretty disappointed in this one like I said I read three witchy books this week It is the end of the vlog because it's Monday now. So Thank you very much for watching if you liked this video Let me know by giving a thumbs up and feel free to subscribe. 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