 hey guys it's juliette and welcome back to my channel and for today's video i'm going to be bringing you guys my october wrap-up what's up here i have ramona blue by julie murphy so this is about a girl named ramona who lives in mississippi and she's a lot going on in her personal life right now she feels very certain of who she is um she lives in a trailer with her father and her sister and her sister's pregnant and then along with ramona she has um bright blue hair long bright blue hair and she's identified as a lesbian for a long a little while now when she meets a guy she kind of starts to doubt who she is again and just with all the other complications going on in her life this just becomes a lot for her so yeah that's what this plot is about julie murphy i think last month or the month before and i like got it signed and everything so i'm so happy i got it signed because i hadn't read it when i went but now that i've read it i love it so much and something that people don't know about this is this actually deals with her kankrich her kankrich katrina why can't i say that i loved this so much i gave this a 4.5 out of 5 stars i loved it so much i thought it was amazing the characters and the writing were amazing like i didn't want to stop reading it i didn't want it to end um and that's always a good sign it literally crushed some gender roles there's a representation for a person of color and for a bisexual wrap in this book as well so that was just really nice to see i can't speak on those two things like i can't speak on them um but from my knowledge like she's educated plus she is a she is a bisexual author so this is her own voices for her in that in that specific category so yeah um i love this a lot i would highly recommend it except here i read a poetry collection and i read bone by yoursa dally ward this is a super set of works i kept seeing it everywhere it has very high good reads ratings and i thought it's gonna be really good and the back says you will come away bruised you will come away bruised but this will give you poetry so it's like okay cool i'll buy it i'll read it i didn't like it unfortunately um so basically i only liked a few poems in this which not a good sign i didn't like the writing parts dragged there was just so many things that were just overly described like pages of poems like i remember these poems are pretty like stretched out to sometimes and i just couldn't get into it at all or also i want to mention this i don't it didn't have to do anything with my rating but there is a religious element which i thought people would want to know about so that's in there um so yeah i gave this two stars and i thought i'd love it so that's pretty sad next up here i have the sun and her flowers by ruby core which this book i thought i would hate and i loved it um my opinion on milk and honey if you haven't heard i gave it like a okay rating it wasn't my favorite and especially from all the poetry i've read now i still don't love that milk and honey that much and i know some people love it and i'm glad you loved it don't get me wrong but um i want to pick up her new book because i love poetry so whatever i can get my hands on i'll read it typically and this was so amazing like i was so impressed from like this dealt with so many important issues dealt with heartbreak to rape to immigration to police brutality it talked about a lot of important topics it just loved the overall message and i thought it was just so well written and well talked about so yes i gave this a solid four point two five out of five stars and i would definitely suggest it and if you didn't like milk and honey i think you will quite enjoy this one we're gonna undo my jacket because like i'm warm and i still have my runes on because they refuse to come off in the shower so i don't feel like scrubbing them so they're there next up here i have the godfather by mario puzo this book is a mafia adult book and it is about this guy who is the don his name is vito coreleen core line literally everyone told me pronunciation but i got like 20 different pronunciations and i was like oh my god so corleone i tried sorry this basically is about it deals with it's just so complicated i'm talking so much about it i made a whole entire book review so i'll link that up on the screen but i loved it a lot it was great and i gave it four stars then i read so disappointing so i read wrote a riverdale which i think people kind of pissed off that i didn't like this one because on one of the videos that talked about it it got a lot more dislikes than my usual videos so i i think this is why um basically this is a what it says it's a riverdale comic if you haven't watched the show you should it's good show um but i read the first and the second volume of these because they had a sale on them so i bought them and i didn't like them i think i'm not trying to bash like the original archie comics guys i'm bashing these because i think like i wasn't i don't know okay not the point writing not the writing the art in this one is absolutely beautiful like a plus like great but the story lacked it was jumpy it was cringe worthy it's this dog narrative with i love animals like don't even try to tell me like that i don't love animals but this was so juvenile that this whole thing was narrated by this little dog and i'm like like it wasn't cute like just leave and then in the second one the art lacked and i believe the first one it was either the first one or the second one that had uh few one staples illustrating which i love those parts because she's a great illustrator she illustrated saga um but they were just boring like i didn't care and it was really disappointing i gave them both two stars they probably deserve less but then i read some good things so i read denman wonderland seven through ten this is a great series it's about a boy named ganta who goes to a prison after his whole class is murdered and he's the only one that lives who they automatically assume he were the killer you're the only kid here and yeah i sent him to the dead man wonderland prison which is a amusement park kind of looking prison it looks really weird um but people go to watch entertainment from the prisoners so they play games that ended death and everyone just watches and chills and it's like cool let's kill them i don't know uh but these are amazing i love this series so much i just recently got 11 through 13 which are the last ones and then i have to wait like each year for them to be released which is so sad but these were amazing i love them um it was 3.75 4 4 and 4.25 so these are great i'd have they recommend this series especially if you want to get into manga up here i read slasher girls and monster boys edited by jenny b tuchoke basically a big y a anthology full of horror short stories that all range from different topics from like paranormal to murder to this to that it's just surprising to me like for some reason i didn't think it'd be that creepy because it was y a now that why your books aren't creepy but i just didn't think it'd be like horror like so scary because i don't know adult doesn't scare me so i'm like why you can't scare me which this didn't book didn't scare me but there was some solid stories in here that i was really happy with it's for kary ryan's um megan shepherds christof and mary lou they were fantastic one of the stories i think it was kary ryan's was about alice in wonderland and i still think about it like it was so interesting to me so definitely pick this up it was a lot of fun and i think certain stories in here are fabulous some are not so great but a lot of them i was just generally surprised at the whole collection i was like these are pretty darn good so i ended up overall giving this a 3.5 just that's just what my average came out to be but i would suggest it if you're interested for like a spooky kind of read last but not least so we have none of bad notes so this is another one that people might be upset about but whatever um the dreadful tale of prosperity by alexandra brocken i didn't like it at all i ended up dnfing it 75 percent of the way through which guys i read 75 percent like don't don't come at me um but i gave this one star i thought it was disappointing i thought it was juvenile i thought the story was going nowhere like literally the first few chapters i knew like i hope this gets better because it's not going to be good writing if it doesn't which it did it like i know the ending was starting to pick up but i couldn't care less about these characters about this plot there barely was a plot to me like a lot of it was just there like i'm like i don't care um so yeah i wouldn't suggest it i don't know how like a middle grade i don't know how like a kid could pay attention to this because i was bored i was bored and i pretty i have a pretty good intentions of n2 and with reading i'm pretty patient but this bored me so much nothing was happening it was just underwhelming so yeah i wouldn't recommend it i gave it one star and i dnf'd it 75 percent of the way through but i guess it just wasn't for me i don't know but my thoughts on the books that i read this month i know with some of them i didn't like them so please don't be like oh my god you hate my favorite book on subscribe blah blah blah like dude suck it up people had different opinions dude girl whatever i just say dude like off of uh instinct but like come on everyone had different opinions so keep that in mind um but that was my cover wrap up thank you guys so much for watching let's see you very soon in the new video bye