Hey there! It's Olivia here from Olivia's
Catastrophe. And today I'm here to give
you
a book haul. So you have seen my
afrofuturism haul. But this is actually my post-buying ban
hau. I did put a post up on twitter like:
I finished my buying ban,
guess what comes next? And you would
think it was by all the books but as you
can see in my counted
books video I decided I'm only allowed
to buy two books a month. However,
Hannah from hannahreadstoomuch also
lives in the same country as where I am
right now
and she was unhauling a lot of books. And she messaged me saying
do you want some of these books? And I
was like: there's a lot of books that are
on my tbr that are in this pile. Would you like to send them? And she said
yes. So Hannah is absolutely amazing and
she has a beautiful bookstagram account
with loads of great pictures
you can see pictures like this one. Or
pictures like this one! Or pictures like all of these if you
head over to her account. So please check the link that's down
below and go and give her a follow on
instagram.
I've got one book here to quickly haul
in and that is A Song of Wraiths and Ruins
by Roseanne A Brown. This one was sent to
me by my good friend
Taylor from Iridescentblaze. She's just
started her bookstagram. So I'll also
leave a
link to that down below and she's really
really truly lovely. And I was so excited to read A Song of
Wraiths of Ruins. It's one of my
most anticipated releases for the year
and yeah! I've actually already started
this one. We are buddy reading it
together
and it follows these two characters. One
is Malik and the other one is Karin.
Karin is a royal and then Malik is
somebody who
is a refugee. And he gets into the city
in a dodgy way
and as payment for that his younger
sister is captured. And he strikes up a
deal to get his sister back
which involves something to do with
Karin the royal. And
drama ensues, fantasy stuff ensues. I am ready to read this book. I can't
tell I'm really bad at giving synopses
for books I haven't quite read yet so
I'm not gonna try
and give synopsis for the rest of them.
I'm just gonna say why I'm excited about
them and why I got them.
So from hannah I also got Truthwitch
and also Windwitch by Susan Dennard.
And these two I primarily got because I
know that Vendi and
Cara from Wilde Book Garden and Vendi
from Caught Between the Pages.
Both really enjoy these books and have
recommended them time and time again
either to everyone as Vendi does or to
me in particular, as Cara did. And I know
it's got to do with witches. I know it's
got a really good friendship
representation in here. And the magic system sounds really
really cool. So I'm looking forward to
giving these ones a try and I'll
probably be
buddy reading them with Hannah whenever
she's ready. Then she also sent my way
The Diviners, Liar of Dreams and Before
the Devil Breaks You by Libba Bray. I've been told by Jade from Jaded Reader
that I should give this series a chance. And I've heard a lot of things about
them on booktube. And these ones have
covers that I've just
i've never seen anywhere before have
people seen these covers
of them because I just tend to see like,
the hardcover covers and I don't know if
these are the covers for all the
paperbacks
or if they're the old covers. But all I
know about these ones are that they are
big and that they are long,
but that they are going to be worth my
time. So just quickly scanning the back
of The Diviners. It involves murders, a
murder investigation,
and also the underdogs of the cities
such as Evie who is a pickpocket. So I don't really know too much about
the series other than people generally
seem to really like it and be
disappointed
by the end of the series. But I've still
got a while to go before I get there. And
I'm looking forward to
enjoying the beginning, hopefully. Then I
have a book I can tell you positively
nothing about. And that is Muse of
Nightmares by Laini Taylor. I've been
told
that as I love The Raven Cycle I'm going
to really
really enjoy this series. However, I don't
have
Strange the Dreamer. I've really wanted
to get the books with
these covers. So I was waiting
to buy Strange the Dreamer. And then she was
like: I've got Muse of Nightmares that I'm
unhauling and it was in the cover I
wanted so I thought I would just
snag it up and then go and get Strange
the Dreamer
seeing as it's only two books. So I hope
that
soon in my 'I can buy two books a month' I
make the effort to buy Strange the Dreamer
and find the cover
that I really want. That might take some
time because I don't know if they sell
it
in this series. See I've done no research
into how I can find the cover I want. But
with Strange the Dreamer because I think
I'm gonna love it, I'm gonna try and look
for the cover that I really want. I don't always do that but with this one
I'm gonna do that. We're gonna break away
from the fantasy and get into the
romance and the contemporaries I got
from Hannah.
The first one is The Hating Game by
Sally Thorne.
I have heard that this is a kind of
competing for a job
that they both want and they're enemies in
that form. And a romance ensues because
it's the enemy's to lover's trope. I do like romcom every now and again. And
it just --
it's something I've heard good things
about. And it's been recommended so I'm
gonna give it a go.
We have A Llist of Cages by Robin Roe. This is one that I gifted to Madisyn
from Madisyn Green. And she really really
really enjoyed this one. And there's mental
health rep in this. And because she
enjoyed it so much I put it on my tbr
so now I'm excited to get to it because
she
really convinced me that it's probably
going to be one that I would really
enjoy. I think the mental health rep is
that Adam has ADHD
and then we've got these two brothers. So
there's Adam and then there's a foster
boy, a foster brother of his that he
hasn't seen in five years. And they get
reunited. And I think it's about what happens when
they're reunited. Then I got some Morgan
Matson books. I got
Since You've Been Gone. And also Save
the Date. Again, I don't know too many
things about each of these in particular,
but I have heard that Morgan Matson's
contemporaries are ones not to miss if
you do like reading young adult
contemporary. Which I do when I make the effort to
read it. So I'm looking forward to
giving it a try. Especially Since You've
Been Gone as that is the one
I've heard the most about. And I think
that there's going to be friendship and
family as focuses
of her young adult contemporaries. Then
we've got Tash Hearts Tolstoy
by Kathryn Ornsbee. The first time I
heard about this book was right when it
came out
because Lekeisha from Lekeisha the Book
Nerd who
has a instagram lbooknerd which I'll
link down below. She really really enjoyed this one when
it came out and I remember reading her
blog review back when she was blogging
and I thought
I need to read this book. I put it on my
tbr and it's been there for literally
years. And now I've got a copy I know
that in this one we have an asexual main
character.
In this one it's about a main character
who writes a web series which is
inspired by
her favorite classic writer, Tolstoy. Leo
Tolstoy. And
it gets nominated for an award. And I
think everything spirals. And it's about
that
I'm just looking forward to reading it. I
think it's going to be a good time.
We've got
Love, Hate and Other filters by Samira
Ahmed. And this one
is about a young girl who dreams of
going to New York. And
falling in love. But when a terrorist
attack happens it kind of changes her
whole world as she knows it and also how
she experiences the world. So I think this is going to be a
light-hearted book. But it's going to
have some really deeper themes running
through it. And I'm just curious to see
what it's going to bring to the table.
Then we have Under Rose Tainted Skies
by Louise Gornall. And this one is about
a main character who has agoraphobia. And she's just living within her house
because of agoraphobia. And then a boy
moves in next door called Luke. And I
think it's about a romance ensues. But also
how she experiences agoraphobia. So I saw a review for this on goodreads
by Inge. And Inge blogs from Of Wonderland. And she
is own voices rep for agoraphobia. And
she mentioned that the representation of
agoraphobia in this one was really
really well done.
And she also felt like the romance
wasn't used as a ploy which I don't
like seeing in
mental health books. Where, you know, they
fall in love and suddenly they're better. And she said it wasn't like that. And it
was also very good representation. So I did want to give it a go based on
her review. And I'm
looking forward to reading it. So I
bought my two books that I'm allowed for
the month in July.
And I was so excited. So I'm allowed to
buy one book that's read
by me previously and one book that's
unread. So for my unread book I got
The Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales by the
Grimm Brothers.
And I got the edition that
I liked. I spent a lot of time looking at all
the editions and comparing. And I really
loved this leather bound edition
with the gold edged pages. And I'm so
excited to read this one. I've already
read a few of these short stories
because
last year I took a fairy tale class
which was breaking down the fairy tales.
And we read fairy tales from Wilde,
from the Grimm Brothers, from Hans
Christian Anderson. And then also from
like Charles Perrault and some of the
other
original fairy tale creators when they
wrote them down because fairy tales were
spoken beforehand.
But I was so interested in the fairy
tales we were reading that I wanted to keep
reading the rest
of them. So I decided to get this
collection of Grimm's fairy tales and
read all the ones that I didn't get to
read. Which are quite a few. There's quite a lot of fairy tales. And
I'm looking forward to just reading a
couple
here and there and reading my way
through this collection. And then
for a book that I already read and
really wanted to own.
I got... I'm so excited about this even
though I've read it before.
And that is For Real by Alexis Hall. So
For Real is a book that I have loved
since
like, ages. I think it was the first
Alexis Hall book I've ever read. And I'm
such a fan of Alexis Hall.
I don't tend to have favourite authors. I
tend to say I have favourite books over
favourite authors. However, with a new adult genre I have
favourite authors over favourite books. And Alexis Hall is one of my favourite
authors. For Real is a book that I have reread
countless times. I can quote you
maybe whole pages? Whole lines? I think
there was one year where I reread this
book every two months?
It was intense. I really love this book. I
should tell you what it's about
because I haven't reread it in a while. So this book is about...
it's about Toby and Laurie. So Laurie is
middle-aged man
who is into the BDSM scene. And he went
through
a very serious relationship. And then he
went through a really bad
breakup and he is not over it. Then
comes Toby. He's 19 years old. He's
into the BDSM scene and he's kind of new
to it all. But
nobody takes him seriously as a dom
because he is 19 years old. And everybody
on the scene is older than him. Laurie and Toby meet. There is an age gap
romance in this. The age gap is quite big and usually I
don't like age gap romances. But Alexis Hall. He does it and he does
it well. Alexis Hall's writing in this one is
absolutely amazing. The characters are
just so realistic
and so real. It's also got lots of common
new adult themes, especially with Toby
being 19 years old. About the future and where to go in the
future and what to do. And it was just everything I need in a
new adult romance. And the steamy
scenes
are so steamy. As the wise words of the
Muses in Hercules,
it is so hot it makes steam look cool. Aand it's just everything I want in a new
adult romance and more. And I think this is my favourite new
adult romance of all time. M/M. We've got two gay characters. I can't
wait to read this
in physical copy for the first time
because I've just been reading my e-copy
over and over and over again.
And there you have it. Those are all of
the new books I have recently
received and bought. I say that for the
first time in a long time.
So please let me know in the comment
section down below. What was the last
book you have either bought,
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