 Good morning. I know you can't see me right now, but that's because we love 5 30 in the morning shifts Here we go. Hello. Hello, everyone. My name is Laura. This is my channel Laura's Little Library and welcome to this week's reading vlog This is my second vlog of my spooky season reading extravaganza and this week's theme is dark academia And I have three books to read over the course of this next week I have how we fall apart by Katie Joe. This will be the first book that I am picking up I also have a lesson in vengeance and ease of spades But I'm starting off with how we fall apart because it's the one I'm really excited about Well, I'm excited about all of them. This is actually the one that I I got I got it from a friend So I want to make sure I get it read for them So I will be starting off with this one Yeah, as you saw it in the before this clip Today was my first and only day as I found out Where I had to start work at 5 30 in the morning So I was really really tired and I still am really really tired, but I've got a thing or two that I need to do today. I'm not doing too much work of my other job my virtual job today And I may or may not take a nap. I All day at work. I'm like I'm gonna get home. I'm gonna take a nap. I'm gonna be happy and now that I'm home I'm like, or I could just lay on the couch and read the book. I mean, that's still pretty restful So yeah, I gotta do one quick thing post my books to Graham and then I can start reading how we fall apart and Yeah, last week. Oh If you haven't seen last week's vlog, you should definitely check it out Otherwise, I didn't end up reading any more of the thrillers that I got I was just so tired last night and I had lots of editing to do So I didn't make it any further in those books, which just I'm just gonna hold them off until These vlogs are done in those couple of days before Halloween I will just renew my hold for the library with them so that they last but That's kind of the plan because I don't think I'll finish all three Dark academia books and then have significant time left over to read the thrillers if I have time left over I will but I think because I only finished two books last week and they were my two shortest books I'm a little nervous, but I mean at the same time like I'm a little bit more adjusted to my schedule now and hopefully I won't procrastinate reading as much not that not that I Didn't want to read. I very much wanted to read But it was very much the I could sit here and read or I could quick do this one tour or this thing I've been meaning to do and I would take that over reading until I just didn't read as much as I wanted to which was a bum Anyway, that's enough of me app-ing. I'm gonna do my stuff so I can start reading and I'm excited Hey guys So it is late What day was it today Thursday night, right first day of the blog really late at night way past my bedtime. Oh But I didn't read any of how we fall apart. I didn't even open the book See what happened was I did the thing I needed to do And then I took a two-hour long nap And when I woke up I was still really tired, but I lost all motivation to be productive So then I popped on a TV show that I love They got an episode or two into that and I was like, oh, I want to I want to play my billet journal for next month So I did that and that's basically all I did is I sat there And I watched my favorite TV show and I finished planning my October bullet journal spread though And I am really excited for it. I think it's gonna be even better So stay tuned for that early October Or you know, just subscribe now hit the bell so that an early October when it is posted probably the first Tuesday in October You know anyway Yeah, so I am in my pajamas I am in bed I'm going to read the first chapter of this Probably not works. They'll be super tired. Hopefully not less. I hope I can make it through chapter and That's gonna be my reading for today So I'll catch up with you guys tomorrow after work. We're all hopefully actually read this book. So As you can probably tell I did actually start reading asus babes I Still want to read how we fall apart, but the audiobook for asus babes came so I'm gonna read it a lot faster So I'm still gonna read how we fall apart just when I don't have since I don't have the audiobook I'm just gonna read this one first, but I haven't read Essentially at all in the past two days. I've read the first chapter of how we fall apart and I am interested in it It is good because it has already started to be blocked and I think it's going to be interesting in characters But I just I've been obviously really tired adjusting to a new Full-time work schedule where I'm standing all day long. It's just it's just been a lot for me But I Am 80 pages into ace of spades which on Goodreads It says that the book is 480 pages so it says I'm only 16% of the way through except in my copy. It's 415 pages So I'll just say that I'm on chapter 10 And um, and I'm I'm a little wait. I'm a little ways into it. I started it Reason today tonight you saw Wow, I'm so scattered brain for this clip how wonderful um The interesting thing is so obviously start academia week, but it's very interesting I think how we fall apart and ace of spades already has a cast of characters each with like Secrets that are probably going to be exposed So like in how we fall apart it's someone is murdered and they go around suspecting all these different people and figuring out Their dark secrets to make sure they didn't kill them and is the spades is at Very very fancy school and it follows like the two black kids at the school one who is miss perfect who is Striving to be the best to get into Yale to be the top girl Even if that doesn't always mean she is the nicest person and then we're also following The other character so the girl is Gia Maka and the boy is Devon and he is the complete opposite he's the Scholarship student who comes from a rough neighborhood and has lots of secrets of a get out They could literally end his life and Oh, no, the secrets are coming out through text messages to the entire school But the fun thing is is that these texts about the two of them separately are not being sent To them. So one of them shows up to school. Everyone's looking at them weird And they're like what's going on so someone finally tells them. Oh, hey Everyone got a text about this and it's like No, you don't say so I'm really liking it. It's it's moving. It's interesting because it's I'm reading it very quickly And I feel like it's moving fast, but then when I think about what always happened It doesn't seem like it's moving fast, but at the same time it kind of is so I'm liking it. I really want to finish it quickly obviously because I'm behind because I didn't read for two days I just sat there and watch TV like a lazy person because I'm also really big into TV And that does not mix well with reading But yeah, so this is going to be my main focus with How we fall apart as a close second I think how we fall apart is going to be like the book that I read like a chapter or two before bed But when I like sit down like this to do a chunk of reading for a few hours I'm gonna start off with this And then I'll go full-time to how we fall apart and then I'll end with a lesson in vengeance I am because I'm sitting here and loving this book and thinking about the two other books that I read last week I'm very much kind of sitting here like am I gonna love all these books because They're books that I knew I'd be interested in and I had heard a lot of good things about Or was it actually just good luck that I do like these books so far? It's probably the first one. So Yeah, Saturday night. I don't see I know so Yeah, we'll see how tomorrow goes. I have no idea what tomorrow is gonna look like I might have plans I might not I might read all day and I might not So yeah, I'll I'll try and catch up with you then I want to film More things to make it a more interesting vlog, but I just feel like my life is just not that interesting So it could end up being all like reading updates, and I hope that's okay But it also could actually have some fun clips and hopefully that's okay too. So I'll catch up up I'll catch up with you guys tomorrow after I've had some sleep and Maybe when I've had some progress or maybe when I'm about to make come to my kitchen so We obviously as you just saw we just took Haku outside and he had a lot of fun It was his first time outside. It was adorable. I mean at a neighbor. It was it was all wonderful My initial fall plans for this weekend kind of fell through a little bit like it's just it's just not gonna happen It's not a good weekend for doing things So I thought I would do some baking And I do a lot of baking at work But I've been really wanting to do more baking at home, and I really enjoy it Disclaimer though. So today I will be making blueberry muffins, but yes, I am using a box mix I don't normally like to use box mixes. I normally like to actually bake them from scratch But I didn't have a lot of time This is kind of one of the things that I picked up because it's fast and it's easy rather than like Or I'm actually gonna do a big baking project. So I Will be baking these today. I will be trying out our new little skull tin But since it only holds six and doesn't I have a regular muffin as well so Yeah, normally when I do baking in the future, I won't want to use box mixes unless I just Don't have time, but I need to bake something. This is also not the first thing I've baked in the kitchen, but It's the first time I've baked in this kitchen after we've moved in So this is gonna be a fun adventure and Yeah First thing you're gonna want to do is Find all the dishes you need and wash them if they need to be washed. I just did that Second thing we need to do turn the oven on So I'm gonna do that. How much do we need it for? I think 425 or 400 but because home ovens are crappy and don't actually get up to the temperature or maintain the temperature that you need 425 it is 425 So next thing the problem is is that there's no good place to put the camera for any of this So it's going to be interesting and that they give Disgusting and we tasted one and it does not taste like blueberry I smell more blueberry in this batter than I taste blueberries in here So I initially I have my own frozen blueberries that I was going to use but now I'm only gonna use those and ditch this because no No always use your own fresh fruit because this is ridiculous and disgusting So now the next thing you want to do Spray your pan. I don't care if you're using Like the muffin wrappers when you make your muffins Spray the pan Just always do it trust me Just spray the pan. It'll make them come out so much easier Because you're most likely because sometimes you overfill them and then they crust around the edge and then you can't get them out Spray So I move back over here because there's more space for everything But I am terrible at cleaning up after myself as I'm baking something but that's something to always try to do It's just so much easier So horrible little ball wrappers. They're so cute and so fun with little pumpkins and squashes on them So I will be using these for what don't fit in the skulls. I don't think this is gonna make a full dozen maybe mini ones But not not normal ones, but we'll see we'll see So now I'm setting a timer for 15 minutes because that's the minimum amount of time I always do the minimum check them and say if they need more I think they'll probably need more especially the ones in the skulls because I think those have more batter in them And I think if I didn't use the skulls, we probably could have gotten a dozen regular sized muffins like little but regular sized I wanted to do the skulls so and I think the skulls are gonna be a little full So they'll take a little longer to bake and we'll see how they rise It's first time using them. So it's going to be an experiment Timer now we have that going normally It's good to have both items on the same rack so that they bake at the same time because depending on where your heat comes in from your oven It will adjust which is hotter at the top or the bottom I think ours comes in through the top so I put the more The ones with more in them this goals on top and then the other ones on the bottom because there wasn't enough space Haven't I've only used this oven once the one time I baked in here And it turned out fine, but I'm still a little nervous. But yeah, why don't we wait though? It should wash the blueberry off my hands while we wait. Let me give you a reading update Try to wash the blueberry off my hands, but they still stayed a little blue So I'm a little nervous about touching the book, but I am reading Ace of Spades Um more than I am reading uh how we fall apart So I am 80 pages into this which Goodread says is 16 percent and Storygraph says it's like 8 percent But that is not true because there are only 450 pages so me being at 80 I'm a little under a quarter of the way And I am really enjoying it so far. Um, I think It's interesting because the the main moments of the book so far the like the texts that everybody is receiving happens so Short But then we focus so much on the aftermath of it that it feels like that part is a little slow I think this book also takes place over the course of two or three weeks I think um Just by how we're going through Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday because it says at the beginning of every chapter It's kind of nice Um, both of these kids obviously have really big secrets that we don't really know about but are being revealed One thing I thought that was interesting is so almost immediately you learn of something Really bad that Chia Maka did And she tells us the audience or like she's thinking about it. She gets a flashback And so we learn what it is But it's not something that was brought to light by ace's the person who is texting everything and I don't quite understand why We are getting information that aces hasn't revealed Whereas with the other person we're only getting most of the information Through aces and I like that more. I like The idea of I'm learning more through the character as their life is being more and more ruined So the fact that I already know something about Chia Maka that she's trying to hide and hope they don't find I don't like that quite as much. Um But I still think there's there's plenty to read and there's plenty still to go through um with these characters and So we'll just kind of have to see about if it continues where we're learning more than aces is teaching or if everything is going to be through aces um I really love the aesthetic though This is the vibe of this book is amazing because like just the imagery of the school How it's described as like looking old on the outside but being super modern on the inside. I think is such a beautiful balance um because it definitely and it definitely has such dark academia vibes because I mean Most everything happens while they're at school the texts Are happening in the morning or as they're in school So it really mostly takes place at the school, which is great if I I love it and obviously there are mentions to the theater department And characters in there. So I think it's just so much fun Like it's it's a it's a high end prep school But it's dark academia. So I think it's fitting really well. I think it's a great start to this week's reading I'm hoping to do a bunch more reading once these muffins are done so I have theories So I am just over halfway in the book. I'm at page 236 out of 415. So I'm just over halfway and I have theories. I I'm hesitant to share them purely because I don't want them to be spoilers And I don't want to put thoughts in people's heads Especially if I'm right and I would like to say if I'm right or not. So I won't share My theories other than I think there's obviously the possibility that aces could be more than one person So I'm gonna say I have specific people specific characters in my mind And I will let you know if I am right because if I'm right, that would be so cool And if I'm wrong, I'm super excited to learn. So I'm enjoying it. I think there are definitely scenes where I'm like But then something happens and I get excited all over again It's definitely capturing my attention So I feel like the book is happening over such a short amount of time so that when something new happens in their life I'm like, why are you why are you doing that? Why aren't you just staying home and focusing on homework? Why are you creating more dramatic content? Especially since it's only been like two weeks at this point But even like immediately after it happened they keep doing things unless really kind of annoying me and I feel like You know just be smarter to just Not so I'm gonna keep reading. I am liking this a lot But there are a few things that aren't quite clicking with me But overall the writing is really good and I'm enjoying it. So I finished ace of spades I finished it. It's incredibly emotional and it's a lot I there's no way I was gonna go bed without finishing this book So I will talk more about it tomorrow because I'm really tired and I want to go to sleep But first book of the week done It's okay. Hi all it's Tuesday. I didn't film at all yesterday I ended up working overtime and then because of that I had another event that we went to And I did not get home until like eight o'clock And that means I had been out of the apartment for Over 12 hours and I just really wanted to go to bed So I didn't do really any reading yesterday, but as I mentioned on sunday I did finish ace of spades and I loved it. I'm rating it four out of five stars There were a few things I didn't really like. I didn't like how the characters Kept creating dramatic situations for themselves and kind of being stupid and not really like Like obviously they took the threats seriously because it was pretty crazy from the beginning But they just kept making it really easy to incriminate themselves And that just that was the biggest thing that really kind of annoyed me But otherwise I loved the characters. I thought they were very unique and lovable in their own way Like they're definitely characters that stood out as like characters that have an attitude that have a personality That's different from other protagonists and other books and I really appreciated that Um, so I found them lovable in that way The twists and turns were amazing. Um I the prediction that I made that I'm not telling you I was somewhat right, but not near to the extreme that the bucket is like Like I was this much right So I was still right, but I was like this much, right? Um, yeah, I think the way it's described as gossip girl needs to get out is A perfect description of it. I've never seen gossip girl, but I can only assume that by the title It makes sense and especially with how this book is so Yeah, this is the setting to the atmosphere that it creates Is perfect because the school itself Just is so atmospheric such strong dark academia vibes But even when they're not at school you have that eerie sense of creepiness And it was it was just perfect highly recommend this for a fall read spooky or not like I highly recommend this so I just finished filming my finally fall book tag I woke up really late today because I was so tired I wanted to let myself sleep in slept in later than I thought I would but you know what? It's gonna be good for me. So I'm gonna update you on some of the things for today. I have a whole list of what I need to do today So almost dropped my phone also new phone case. Look, isn't it cute? I finally got a phone case for my phone. So I feel so much better Um, but yes, so my goals for today Include doing some cleaning which will allow me to listen to my audiobook Which is we free the stars by hot supplies all this is the second book in the duology after we hunt the flame I have just over an hour left in the audiobook So I would really love to do some cleaning in the apartment and finish that audiobook It's literally due in less than 12 hours So I kind of need to finish it today. Plus I'll be really happy to do that I need to edit the Uh, finally fall tag that I just filmed like 10 seconds ago I need to edit it and upload it because it's supposed to go up to today And my initial plan was because I have Tuesday's off from work. I can film edit and upload all alone Tuesday Um, which is great But now it's gonna be up a little later on Tuesday just because I woke up late So I will be doing that as well I have some work for my other part-time virtual job that I need to do But that's a lot of fun. So I'm excited for that And then that's pretty much all I need to do So then I am going to read we fall apart. Where is it? Oh, it's on my reading chair I want to read we fall apart today. I want to read that today so that I can then read Uh, a lesson of vengeance tomorrow, which also now I have Wednesday's off of work. So that's That's wonderful. So I'm thinking read a book today read a book tomorrow. I get my three books for the week done I made a mistake give me just a minute When I did the ginormous book haul and I went out and did the actual shopping for it at one of my favorite local book stores So when I've gone to for a little bit now, they told me Then I have two coupons For five dollars off a ten dollar or more purchase But that I think it would expire in 60 days I had a moment of weakness Um, I also found out that my boss at work loves to read as well And we have somewhat similar reading tastes And so he suggested this book to me, which was a book that I had been wanting to pick up as well. Um I've been wanting to pick it up for a long time. The sequel is about to come out. I believe this november Uh, that is a deadly education by Naomi Novik. So this is obviously dark academia It's literally called a deadly education. I'm pretty sure there's magic in it But I also I think it goes along the lines of you have to do well in school otherwise Deadly comes into play Um, it's it's a so much shorter book than I was expecting but the second book Um, the one about graduation I don't remember what it was called exactly. Um Yeah, because my boss recommended this to me and it's dark academia week and I had a coupon I picked up this so my idea is that if I am able to finish, uh, we fall apart Today and a lesson inventions tomorrow and still have extra time to read. I would love to read this Um, I think I could fit it in. I definitely think if I started this now I could finish it now, but I want to prioritize the books I already got for this readathon, but just know that this is kind of Added on to the end here We'll see how it goes and then because I had that the second coupon of the same thing I actually bought the inheritance games Uh by jennifernland barns and hold up. Hold up because I own so I've read this I read this over audiobook last year. I already own the sequel the Hawthorne legacy This is actually an arc. I received the arc of it from a friend right as the book came out so So I owned the second one, but I haven't read it yet So I was like I need to get the first one so I can have both of them and it can make sense so But I've been talking about it a lot in videos because I think this is a great fall read. It's very cozy very mysterious um So I was like, you know what if I'm gonna talk about it. I should actually own the physical book So now I have I have them both And it makes me happy So, uh, that's my moment of weakness. I just bought two more books. I'm sorry, but well am I really though? I mean I spent money that I didn't have to but at the same time I didn't want the coupons to expire Anyone else struggle with that Anyone else struggle with getting any sort of bookish coupon and having to use it immediately before it expires Because you can't just let it expire and save the money in the first place I hope I'm not alone. Anyway Yeah, so I'm just gonna go ahead and put deadly education right on top of less than inventions there Uh, yeah, so I'm definitely going to try and just read through we fall apart Yeah, and that's pretty much everything. So everything on my list is very doable I just need to actually sit down and do it. The other thing is we I might I might have a game night tonight with a co-worker friend Um, but that'll be later in the night. So it probably won't take as long not like last week Where we have or two weeks before that we have game nights every other Tuesday With a friend co-worker and he's been giving me manga to read So I've low key also been reading Also low keeping reading manga and I really want to watch the anime of the one I've been reading right now Which is only going to distract me from reading my spooky books, but the manga is adorable I'm reading horyama and I actually have purchased the first four volumes of that one But I'm waiting to get them in the mail and they're not going to come for a while Because I purchased them at the same time as buying spy x family, which is out of stock So I'm not going to get it until spy x family gets back in stock Anyway, yeah, there's your bookish update for Tuesday morning ish. I need to get to work. So what am I going to do now? Am I going to edit? Am I taking a shower? Oh, I gotta work. Yeah. Yeah, I got plenty to do. So Here we go. Okay. Hi. So updates on Tuesday night ish It's almost seven o'clock. So we are going to be starting game night pretty soon But I've started reading how we fall apart by Katie Zhao and the thing is is that I I like it But I think it's just really similar to ace of spades in that um scholarship student It's kind of being targeted like okay the scholarship student isn't the one who winds up dead It's the popular girl that ever class who winds up dead But it's from the view of the scholarship student and the threatening note that they found Was her note. So she's in trouble And like everyone has dark secrets and it's obviously dark academia But there is someone texting uh dark secrets Called and they call themselves a proctor and that's just that seems so similar to aces Where they're trying to expose things to kind of get ahead and Just right after reading ace of spades. I don't want to read the almost exact same thing Like it's obviously not the exact same, but they're really really similar. So I like it But I I'm a little hesitant about reading it right after aces. So I actually will instead Read a deadly education by Naomi Novik. This is because I got the audiobook for it So I can read through it much quicker and it is pretty short. So I would love to Read this tonight read a lesson a lesson in vengeance tomorrow and then keep reading how we fall apart Just yeah, I'm just not sure I'm ready for how we fall apart yet, but I I will get to it Um, you know, I only have two days left for dark academia. We'll get to it And like I said, I have tomorrow off So hopefully I don't have to do too many things tomorrow like I did today because I had to find some errands But we should be all good and oh look my video for today has finally Downloaded onto my computer. So it's going up later today than I wanted it to but that's because The very last clip that I filmed just refused to upload my phone did not want to upload it at all So I had to find some other method to download it onto my computer to edit it into the video And now the video is complete. So it will start uploading onto youtube. So That's why it's so late on tuesday, but yeah, I'll catch up with you guys after game night when I have started reading a deadly education Good morning is Wednesday morning. I have Done a terrible job vlogging. I am aware of that, but I'm sorry. So today though today I had a fully wonderful day planned with very little work and a lot of reading and then I remembered My uncle are coming into town and I haven't seen them In over a decade, I think they live in a different state and they live quite far away and it's just um So I will actually be having dinner with them, which is really really exciting. Um so I won't quite have as much time today as I thought I would for reading but it's gonna be okay So I just need to do a quick few things to Just to get some work done. But then I plan on reading pretty much the rest of the day. I'm going to Read a deadly education by neyman winovic. I read like the first five pages last night after game night Uh, not very much because I was really tired, but It definitely had an interesting hook and an interesting beginning that definitely sucked me in Uh, so Like it was one of the best first sentences I've read since like uglies by scott westerfield I don't know what it is, but I always remember that first line Because it compares the sky to cat bark. So I will focus on reading that so I can get that done. It should only take me about five hours and then From that I will decide whether I want to read how we fall apart or less an invention They're about the same length. I don't have an audiobook for either of them Uh, but I want to read them both, but I'm not going to be able to read all three books today As much as I want to I don't think I'll be able to but I'm certainly going to try so Let's get started shall we? Almost two o'clock some good progress in a deadly education by neyman winovic I am reaching chapter five, which is uh, like 80 pages out of 300 pages So I'm approaching a third of the book. I am loving this This is amazing. So It's the whole idea that which is wizard sorcerers whatever you want to call them go to school except the school that they're in Is trying to kill them Constantly and each of them has different infinities and so they all have different strengths and you can choose different coursework But at the end you have to survive through school, which is not a given And then you have to survive graduation, which is even worse. So we're following a main character whose affinity is the big dark spells essentially and I love her I love the magic system. The magic system is so unique. I love the school. It is such a like Whimsically creepy environment and it it's perfect. It's honestly perfect what I needed right now I needed something spooky but something that like Oh, it just makes me smile because it's so good. So I'm very much enjoying this so far Um, I'm gonna continue to listen to the audiobook as I do some editing and do some cleaning I will for sure finish this today. Um, it's just a question of whether or not I'll finish Another book today. I probably won't but I would love to get started on one. Um, I I hope to um update you one more time Tonight probably when I finish a deadly education so that it can be like fully within the vlog But then probably any reading I do after that We will have to watch next week's video to get an update on even though next week I will be switching to I think it's vampires um Or it's werewolves one of I Ship shifters I'm not quite sure. I'll let you know by the end of the video when I do film the final clip, but Yes, so Yeah, I I'm loving a deadly education and I'm going to continue Going through it. Uh, like I said, I love the characters. I love the setting um, I'm still kind of waiting for like a An overarching plot to appear but I'm okay with that just because we're doing so much world building and so much learning. Um So yeah, I'm gonna keep being productive and keep reading I did oh I did also want to mention that I am drinking a pumpkin spice latte Because it is national coffee day and I had my first one my first pumpkin spice latte yesterday I know I'm 21 years old and I hadn't had a pumpkin spice latte until now But uh, obviously I love them Um, but I just I don't buy a lot of coffee from starbucks I either just make it at home or get it at work because I work in Uh food service. So we actually have decent coffee So I don't go out and buy coffee, but since it's my day off a national coffee day, of course I had to um But yeah, so I'm just gonna keep going with my life and I'll update you Okay, so it's about four o'clock and I'm about 64% of the way through a deadly education Still loving it. I think it the plot isn't like The plot is a little different than expected, but I'm actually enjoying in the plot. It's just very much more like survive Kind of handle the challenges that are thrown at you and continue to figure things out Which I am actually really enjoying. I feel like in most other books I I would get annoyed and I actually need like a storyline But because there's so much information in world building I actually really appreciate that you're not trying to add in this big plot either Or I'm trying to put that on top and just confuse you um But yeah, so it's four o'clock So I'm gonna head out to have dinner with my aunt knuckle All right, y'all it is 10 o'clock Wednesday night Um, which does mean that I'm going to be up very late editing this vlog So it can be up on Thursday morning, but you know what? It's gonna be worth it because I finished the deadly education by Naomi Novik So And I loved it I loved this book so much again. I literally just finished it like a minute ago So I'm very much coming off of the completed high Also, if you hear someone talking very loudly our housemate is having a dnd session and she's very passionate. So Just ignore that, but I loved this book I loved how our main character was like one of those characters where like everyone hates her, but you love her I haven't read many books with that kind of protagonist. And so it was really refreshing I loved the magic system. I love the school system I oh I I love that the plot was like survival But it was like character driven. Normally I don't like character driven books But I loved this one and this very much encouraged me in so many ways in my personal life because the main character has to learn like so many different languages and that is a um A passion of mine outside of reading and just the whole like It almost encourages me to live a better lifestyle Like to continue studying and to continue working hard and oh my word and to like really appreciate things that I have but I just absolutely Adored this and I would highly suggest you pick it up if you've heard anything about it I really want to pick up the last graduate, which I believe comes out this November Is that is that true? Does it come out this November? I think it does Anyway, the last graduate is the second book and then there will be a third one as well I don't know if it's stopping at a trilogy like this kind of left off on a cliffhanger Which was kind of exciting, uh, because if you know me, then you know, I need a cliffhanger if I'm going to continue with the series um, so There was a slight cliffhanger at the end of this which which is enough of a cliffhanger to get me and keep reading On top of the fact that I love this book and I really want to read the next one So the last graduate I was I was very wrong It came out September 28th of 2021. Oh my word. Today is September 29th of 2021. So it came out yesterday Wow Great job, Laura Okay, this is also obviously going to be the ending clip of this vlog because This vlog needs to go up in less than 12 hours and I need to sleep and be at work and even less than that so I read two books this week, which I'm trying to read three a week and I haven't quite done that yet But to be fair some of these books have been chalky. I know that next week. I will read all three books I And here here's why actually No, I'll tell that after I Close out this section. So I read ace of spades and I gave this out of five five. I gave this four out of five stars 4.5 out of five stars Um, there were just a few pacing issues and a few character issues I had with it. But other than that, it was absolutely wonderful And then I read a deadly education five out of five stars right now as I'm coming off the high of finishing it And I loved it. I loved these two. I loved how different they were Yeah, because initially I was supposed to be reading how we fall apart by kitty Zhao next But it just was so similar to ace of spades that I wanted to break from that plot idea Um, so now that I've read a deadly education. I will continue reading this I However, it was also supposed to read a lesson in vengeance. So I substituted one of these books for a deadly education because these books were both longer um Uh, my little bit of time tonight I'm probably going to read a little more of how we fall apart, but I won't update you If I do I'll update you in next week's blog, but I'm still very interested in reading both of these um, but probably After or around the time I read the other thrillers that I didn't get to in those couple of days Uh after the vlogs are done, but before Halloween on Halloween and probably the beginning of November um Yeah, so now let's talk about next week. So It is the shape shifters week. And so I have three books. I only have three books I don't have any more uh one is hound of god and it's a very very short book So I expect I will finish that very quickly The another one is red wolf and I just got the audiobook for that one So that's going to help me read it even faster And then the last one is curses and I have a hold for the audiobook on that and I'm position number one On one copy. So I'm hoping that I'll get it in the next day or so So that I can have audiobooks for those two books And yeah, so I expect kind of god. I can probably read in a night Uh very easily and then because I read I read this all of this today I read like the first five pages yesterday and that was it. So I essentially read uh this 300 page book Today and so I believe I can read hound of hound of god in that time Then the other ones have audiobooks. So it should be pretty bad So so far the reading extra evergans has been going well even if I've only finished a couple books each week They've all been very highly rated books Which is great But I also know that these first two weeks contained the most books that I were I was predicting to be like five star reads Um, so as we go into other weeks, there are books that I don't know as well So I don't know if they're actually going to be five star reads but Yeah, that's exciting. I I'm gonna end that here. I think you know everything that you need to So subscribe if you haven't already as I release these vlogs every thursday And then I have bonus videos going up on tuesday during spooky season. So you still get regular content Yeah, comment down below if you've read any of these and what your thoughts are or if you have any other dark academia recommendations because I feel like dark academia is Perfect for spooky season But it's also one that I would love reading after spooky season just like in regular The rest of fall like november and even into winter just purely because they're cozy reads and Like I feel like fall and winter are such Uh academic heavy seasons just because when you get to spring all you think about is summer and just being done with the year Um, so I would love to continue reading dark academia even after halloween But yeah, so if you have any recommendations, leave them down below for me Otherwise give this video a thumbs up if you liked it and until I see you all in the next video I wish you a happy spooky reading You