 That did it for me. I love it. I love it. It gives me that buzz. It feeds exactly what I want to do. Hi friends, welcome back to my channel. I hope you're doing well. As you may notice, I am now back home. For those of you that don't know, I lived with my boyfriend's family a bit in lockdown and obviously we can't go back and forth between houses so we lived there for a couple months and now we've moved back into my house so I'm back with my burgers. I recently finished all my uni work a couple days ago and it's put me into a reading slump. So what I thought we would do is I'd recommend some books for you if you're in a reading slump. I've seen quite a few people at the moment saying that and a bit of a slump but these books are just easy books to read that you'll want to just fly through and I love them all dearly. I'm hoping this is going to get me out of my slump vicariously by recommending these books. Old me a couple weeks ago was like Oh my god, as soon as I finish my uni work all I'm going to do is read. And then, apparently not. Before we start, make sure you subscribe if you haven't already and hit the like button. Also hit the bell so you're notified of whenever I post because why wouldn't you? I'm actually getting really close to 3K and I want to do something really, really fun for 3K so let me know down below if you have any ideas. So the first books I have to recommend I don't think it will be any surprise that it is the Heartstopper Graphic Novel series. This series is everything to me. I adore these books. I love them so much. Everyone always says and I'm like why not? If a book is great, I want to shout about it. In the Heartstopper Graphic Novel series we follow Nick and Charlie as they essentially fall in love. It's not a spoiler. You know what you're getting into but it's just the story of them being young and in love and figuring themselves out. It also deals with very heavy topics or important topics so volume 2 is very much about Nick coming to terms with his sexuality and figuring out what his sexuality is and then number 3 is about Charlie struggling with his relationship with food and eating so they definitely tackle difficult topics but they're graphic novels so sis you're gonna be flying through these. I read them in like an hour to two hours and Alice Oseman just does something brilliant with these characters. Alice Oseman is really great with characters. I think that's shown through the popularity of Radio Science for example but Nick and Charlie just do something to me. And when you read it they have the cutest facial expressions in the world. Oh my god I cry. I think graphic novels in general are great to get you out of a reading slump that you finish something really really quick and like okay I'm on the move I'm on a roll and so I'd recommend any that you have in your collection but if you have been thinking about picking up the Heart of Stopper series it's time. So definitely definitely pick up Heart of Stopper if you're on a reading slump it'll get you straight out of it you'll want to cry, you'll love you'll just love these characters I laughed, I cried a number of times I sweat, I danced, I got a shot, I ate and I had many epiphany. And also if you're from the UK it's set in like a UK high secondary school and it took me back like the vibes it was just how I remembered it there's so many little touches in this graphic novel series that just like elevate it beyond any other graphic novel I've read like it's out of this world Alice O's Men we stan, she's a queen an icon, a legend my next recommendation has to be Wilder Girls by Rory Power now I know this is a bit of a controversial one because not everyone seems to love it but I loved this, this was like a 4.5 to me it was so close to being a 5 star in this we're following a group of girls at a secondary school where the tox has taken over and a lot of the girls are either dying or they are kind of mutating in some way and we follow three girls Reese, Byer and Hetty as their kind of best friends but then one of the girls goes missing and the other girls are like well we have to go looking for her so that's what they do and so much happened it's kind of like a conspiracy mystery freaky book, it's so good I said recently I was doing a live show with some of my friends someone asked like what book would you love to see turn into a film or like a TV show and I would love this to be like a Netflix TV show I think with the gore and the freakiness it would just be so good the vibes of this book are honestly unparalleled like no one is doing it like Rory Power the eeriness and I don't know it's just so good there is a section where I'm not going to say who but one of the girls is following her POV and she's kind of like drifting in and out of consciousness and it's written in a really weird way and I just that did it for me I love it it gives me that buzz it feeds exactly what I want to do it's short and the font is big so listen it's not going to take you that long it's a quick, eerie, weird read and I think it's just perfect to get you out of a reading slump I think it's just what the girls are looking for but honestly if you've heard bad things about wilder girls I would honestly pick it up because I loved it and I can't wait for everything else Rory Power puts out I just think in terms of the atmosphere of it it was really really unique and like something I'd read before now the next book I want to recommend is an old favourite I haven't spoken about this in a while but it is Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha and Yang it's like a top tier book for me I gave it 5 stars I didn't love the second one as much I don't think anyone really loved the second one as much did I lie did I fucking lie this really ignited a love for reading for me at the time this was before I had my channel and I remember I bought it in Florida it went into a bunch of noble and there were loads of books I'd picked up that I'd wanted for ages but this one I kind of picked up on a whim I'd had Kayla mention it once out of that collection I picked up and it just stirred something in me I think if you're looking for fantasy that will get you out of your reading slump this is quite a unique fantasy in terms of the topic we're following a group of girls who are forced to have sex with the king they are of the lowest caste oh my god everyone gives me grief everyone always gives me grief for getting the wrong one caste or case it's caste but they are of the lowest kind of group in society the king is of the highest brilliantly in this is show the girls different reactions to that trauma some get filled with anger some go into the depression some try to act like everything's fine and some fall in love with the person who is abusing them and I think she really did that so so well in a really natural way but showing all these girls have different reactions to such a terrible situation and we follow particularly Leigh her story is told kind of from her perspective and she ends up falling in love with another of the paper girls and it's the story of their love it's the story of finding love in such a horrible situation and the world seems so so vivid to me sometimes I read fantasy like I recently read the whole Shadow and Bionic Trilogy just so I can get round to Six of Crows and Cook Kingdom and for me that world felt very uncompleted it felt like I never knew the wider world you know what I mean it didn't feel vivid whereas in this one I feel like I know so so well the fantasy world that we are in and the way the power dynamics work and shift in this world I think it's just so good really really give this a go if you haven't already I know it's like a favorite for some people but I feel like not many people are picking this up now to continue reading it I still haven't taken my sticker off whoops but I know who you are I've seen it up close and personal girl you make me so ashamed you'll fall in love with these girls you'll fall in love with so many of the characters and ahh it's just so so good so there's something just so so magical and special about it that I think it's really unique in terms of the YA fantasy genre I feel like it's really pulling on emotions and topics that not a lot of YA fantasy is covering at the moment so I love it and then the next book I think would be great to pull you out if you are in one is Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo so this has literally just come out so if you're a gal who loves to read new releases then this is the one for you I literally just read this in last week's vlog so I'll link that up above if you wanna check it out so if you don't know Elizabeth Acevedo's books are told in verse so if I just give you an idea of one of the pages that's what it's gonna look like and so it reads so fast so if you're looking for a book to pick up that will literally just like be so quick to read then this is perfect for that in this we followed two girls whose father dies and then they find out that they actually had the same father he had kept both of them secret from one another and it's the story of them coming to terms with their grief coming to terms with their loss and learning what this new discovery how that impacts on them and who they are as a person I think what was so great about this book is you see them both come to terms with that they loved their dad they loved their dad so much but he wasn't a perfect person he had flaws he made mistakes he hurt people in his life and to see them coming to terms with that is really really powerful in my opinion we feel like we're in the girls' heads and oh my god ok oh my my eyes got blurry then at the end of the day all I wanna say is thank you Lady Gaga it doesn't have a lot of plot so you gotta be ok with that you've gotta be ok with not a lot happening but it's very focused on them as characters on them as people and them making journeys in themselves in a very short space of time not a lot happens like you've just gotta be ok with that going into it but in terms of something that's gonna be a quick read that's gonna get you out of your slump sometimes I think a book that A will read very quickly because it's told in verse but B will make you feel emotions because you are so tightly connected to these characters is just what you want you know what I mean sometimes you want a really fast pace in terms of plot and sometimes you want something that just really makes you feel something really makes you connect and I think that's what this book does so pick up any Elizabeth Acevedo I still really want to read with the far and high I've read this and the Poe X but I think she's a great author to like a book that is a bit of a palette cleanser a book that is fast pace in terms of the writing style and a book that really touches on important heavy issues and makes you feel so connected to her characters and then the last book I want to recommend is a Youtube favourite but I think sometimes reading a book that maybe you've been putting off I don't know who's been putting this book off to be honest this is why I left it to last because I think most of you will have read it but sometimes reading a book you've been putting off that is a really hyped book so you've seen a lot of people you like talk about it is great so there's seven husbands at Evelyn Hugo in my opinion there is not a better book to get you out of a slump than this book I think the way that it's told the way we come to understand Evelyn and the way that it's structured in the sense that you kind of learn her life through each of the seven husbands it keeps the story really structured and moving in a way that I think is helpful when you have a slump because it gives you clear objectives like you can like be like oh I'll read to the end of the next husband and it keeps the story moving at a really great pace so in this we're following Evelyn Hugo who is telling the story of her life to a really small journalist Monique and Monique is like girl why did you pick me to tell your story and that's part of the mystery in itself but we're learning the life of the infamous actress Evelyn Hugo and basically the seven men she was married to and who the love of her life is kills me every time Taylor Jenkins Reid is brilliant at getting out of slumps because her books are just books you want to devour I remember I read evidence of the affair by her which is like a 70 page novella kind of thing and I just devoured it in like half an hour that is also brilliant if you're in a slump reading a really short oh my god my voice reading a really short novella just spices things up the flavour oh my god it's so real like and that book is spicy that's told through letters between two people who discovered that their other that their partners respectively are having an affair and it's them talking oh my god the tea the tea is strong in that one but in terms of the seven husbands they're having Hugo I mean I don't really say much about it everyone loves it but Evelyn is one of the most well-rounded characters that I have read in a long time Taylor Jenkins Reid is a master at her characters being so complex well-developed having motivations that you may not agree with and being flawed characters but kind of admitting to their flaws and I just love it so I don't want to spend too long on it because I don't want to but if you haven't this is the perfect thing to get out of a slump like literally go pick it up now pick up the audio book pick up the book pick up the physical book if it's sitting on your shelf and you still haven't read it so there we have it that is all the books I recommend to getting out of your reading slump let me know down below what some of the books you think would be great to get out of a reading slump are because Lord knows I need the help I hope you enjoyed the video and I will see you very very soon with another one bye