 Hey guys it's Leana and I'm here today with my April TBR. I was preparing to explain why my TBR looks smaller than usual but it doesn't actually look smaller than usual even though it should because I'm actually working on a secret TBR project this month so I was in theory putting less books on my TBR in order to leave room for those books but then uh like this is the stack that I ended up with. So these books do not include the secret TBR books. FML. So okay first things first before I forget it because I only have it on Kindle, don't have a physical copy of it. A Heart of Blood and Ashes by Mila Vane, pretty sure is the name. This is the Blades and Bodies for Brutus Book Club book for April and the live show for it will be on Bethany's channel on the last Saturday of the month which uh is possibly the 20 something. It's the last Saturday at 11 a.m pacific time so yeah it is another Bodies Ripper. Well it's a barbarian romance so I guess there will not be bodices per se but it's gonna be sexy times again. What Joy is Mine. Then the next two are also books that I will be reading with Mara. So I mean I'm reading this with Mara because she's in the book club but the next two this uh I will be reading Jamaica Inn by Daphne de Morier with Mara books like well as well as Ellen from the Library of Ellen's Andrea. The three of us represent like three completely different corners of book two basically in terms of what we regularly seek out and gravitate but we discovered that the teeny tiny little center of our Venn diagram just just barely crosses over at Daphne de Morier. So the three of us will be reading Jamaica Inn. See how this goes. And then while I was looking for a book to fit the Venn diagram um I stumbled on a Viking middle grade mystery so me and Mara are going to read it because Vikings plus mystery equals Alina and Mara buddy read. This looks super cute. It is illustrated which is cool uh so yeah I'm excited I don't I think I mean this shouldn't take super long to read so we just kind of last minute stuck it on the old TBR. Then this is also a buddy read. Oh my god everything I'm reading I'm reading with somebody nearly very nearly. So me Jesse and Joshanna are concluding our Grisha Long uh rereads of the Grisha trilogy um so the third and final live show will be on Jesse's channel on the 17th of April at 2 p.m. Pacific time uh so yeah we'll be discussing Ruin and Rising which is the third and final book in the Grisha trilogy uh to which purpose I must read Ruin and Rising before that occurs uh then my patrons and I will be buddy reading The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin. Originally I had intended my next Jemisin book to be or my next Jemisin uh books to be the Dreamblood duology um but my patrons chose The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms so The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms it will be and I mean if you would like to buddy read it with us join my patreon or alternatively just also read it and then uh comment on my wrap up at the end of the month this is a very solid alternative option anyways I'm excited about this I love love love the Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin and I'm excited to read more from her so I uh I'm trying to keep my expectations like moderate because like I can't be as good as the Broken Earth nothing can be so I'm just expecting it to be solid and another buddy read Bethany and I we started rereading the Sort of Truth books two years ago um and we stopped at Wizards First Rule um we originally intended to read on and we just didn't because you know schedules being schedules and priorities being priorities and booktube always dumping more books on us so we got to talking about it again and we were like weren't we gonna read Stone of Tears we were like we were gonna read Stone of Tears I might have come up because frequently it's been coming up uh if you don't know Terry Goodkind's ghost is my roommate um so if you ever hear things rattling around it's Terry Goodkind so Bethany and I will be rereading Stone of Tears and I don't know if I'm supposed to say or not so sorry Bethany if this is a secret but at some point we will we intend to be recording a podcast episode about Sort of Truth books so I'm excited I did love these Sort of Truth I am I want to say I'm not ashamed to I'm a little ashamed to admit it but but I stand by it then another reread Besser of Cold by Joe Abercrombie as you know I am rereading all of the first law books in anticipation of the release of the third and final book in the age of minus trilogy which comes out in September the Wisdom of Grounds so next up is Besser of Cold and I can't wait because until I read the New Trilogy or until I started reading the New Trilogy this was my favorite Abercrombie book so I'm soups excited about this one then as I mentioned also before like I'm trying to keep up with my Book of the Month Club books by reading the previous month's book of the month in the following month so last month my March Book of the Month was The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner and heard very mixed things about this I've heard some people say they adore it and other people be extremely let down by it so I don't really know what to expect I hope I like it because it's a real pretty book and I hate when I don't like pretty books it feels like a betrayal and then last but not least is actually another Book of the Month Club book and that is Fireborn by Rosario Munda I this is on my list of series to pick up this year and in the video that I posted in December of like series to start in 2021 so this was on there and I believe the sequel either just came out or is about to come out I think it just came out but if not it's about to come out um I think it's called Firefall or something I figured now's a good time as any if I'm planning to pick this up and then I'll pick it up it now pick it up it now pick it up now I'm given to believe that this is pretty solid YA debut that it has a lot of historical influences uh it's had dragons in it um everyone seems to be obsessed with the new covers but as per usual I don't like the new covers I like this cover and I'm very upset that a second book will never be released and I power like this so if I want a matching set I have to switch over to this new cover design do not like the new cover design the new cover design looks so generic it doesn't look any different from every other YA fantasy this stands out and given that I'm also um I understand that there are some like Russian revolution influences also in this world or in this story and that being the case this like the style of this almost being a nod to like Russian propaganda I I don't know if that was the intent but that's how I'm reading it and I like that I like my books to reflect the material in them the new cover it just it looks like basic YA fantasy again if you like the new cover I'm really happy for you but I don't so yeah those are all the books that I intend to be well that's not true those are most of the books that I intend to be reading in April there are other books that I can't tell you about I don't know why I can't tell you about them I mean I do know why but I don't know why this is a new thing for me and I'm not exactly sure why the secrecy is necessary I don't know what that adds to the to the experience but apparently that's how these things are done who am I to question it let me know in the comments down below if uh you're reading any of the books that I'm reading if you will be reading them now that I've told you about them if you have read any of them and you hate them and want to discourage me from reading them even though I've already committed to it don't join my patreon which I already plugged once am I allowed to plug it again um it's an option let me know all the things I post videos on saturdays other random times as well but definitely saturdays so I can subscribe or don't whatever I'll see you when I see you bye