Hi guys welcome back. Today I am here
with my November wrap up.
Because of Thanksgiving and traveling I
am a little bit late filming this
but I have a lot of really great books
to talk about today. If you are new to my
wrap ups the way that I do this is I
start by talking about my stats for the
month then I talk about all of the books
that I read starting with my DNFs
or books that I did not finish, my lowest
rated books, moving up to my highest
rated books. 13 of these books I talked
about in detail in my mid month wrap up.
Those were books that I read in the
first half of the month. So if you want
to hear my thoughts on those I am going
to link my mid month wrap up up above. In
this video I won't be going into detail
on those books because I already
discussed them there. I'm just going to
be mentioning the name and the star
rating. In the month of November I read a
total of 24 books for a total of nine
thousand two hundred and eighty-three
pages. And that page count does include
my audiobooks.
I am definitely happy with that.
Obviously I did read more books in the
first half of the month than I did in
the second half of the month but I read
a lot of really fantastic books this
month I'm done with the holidays at the
end of the month
I didn't finish quite as many. But this
is great.
This month i DNF'ed two books and
eighteen of the books that I read this
month were either advanced reader copies
or books that were sent to me for review.
Again, like last month, we're kind of
getting closer to the end of the year so
these numbers are trending higher than
usual as I'm trying to kind of get
through things that I have left on my
plate. In terms of the goals that I set
for myself at the beginning of this year
I did read at least one indie published
book. I in fact read - one that was
self-published and one from a small
indie press. I also read one nonfiction
book. It is nonfiction November and I
intended to read more. Unfortunately I
wasn't able to finish the other main
non-fiction book that I'm getting
through. It's taking me longer to get
through than I anticipated but I am
enjoying it and hope to finish that one
in December. And no one is surprised, I
did not read any translated fiction this
month. In November I read one graphic
novel. I did not have any rereads.
I read seven library books and I
listened to eleven audiobooks. So in
terms of audiobook statistics: this month
all 11 of those audiobooks were books
that I term shelf which means that I
owned physical copies on my TBR shelf
and by listening to them got them off of
the TBR shelf in that way.
Normally this number is not quite
so high. I think this partly has to do with
the fact that I'm trying to get through
review copies and get to some of my
backlist
ARCs and other things I've just been
wanting to listen to for a while. In
terms of where those audiobooks are
coming from, this month seven of them
were from my library. Two of them were
from Scribd.
Two of them were from the Penguin Random
House Volumes app as audio advanced
reader copies. And none of them this
month were from Audible. Moving on let's
talk about the age breakdown. In November
eleven of the books that I read were
targeted at an adult audience. 11 of them
were targeted at YA audience and two of
them were targeted at a middle-grade
audience. Again this is exactly on point
with what I'm looking to see, with about
a 50/50 split between adult and YA
and a little bit of middle grade
sometimes thrown in for good measure.
Okay next let's talk about genre
breakdown. Unsurprisingly my top genre of
the month was fantasy. Is anyone
surprised? Probably not. This month I read
eleven fantasy books, four romance, two
historical fiction, two literary fiction,
two mystery, one nonfiction, one
paranormal, and one sci-fi. And in terms
of star ratings this was an interesting
month. I did not have any one star reads.
I had 1 one and a half star read, 1
two star read, 1 two and a half star
read, 1 three star read, 3 three and
a half star reads, 7 four star reads,
no four and a half star reads- that is
unusual, I don't know when that happened.
I didn't have that any four and a half
stars out which is kind of odd this
month.
Nine books got five stars and one book
this month got six stars and in my
personal reading scale a six star rating
means that it is a favorite of the year or a
favorite of all time. In this case I am
happy to say it is definitely a new
all-time favorite which is super
exciting. All right with that said let's
go ahead and talk about the books. First
up I DNF'ed two books this month or chose
not to finish them and I do talk about
both of these books in my mid month
wrap-up. They are Not the Girl you Marry
by Andie
J Christopher. I also DNF'ed Queen of the
Conquered by Kacen Calendar. This one
was really disappointing. I wanted to
love this but sadly it was not for me.
The book that I gave one and a half
stars to I do talk about in my mid month
wrap-up. That is The Monstrumologist by
Rick Yancey. If you want to hear my
thoughts on this book go ahead and check
out that video. Moving on I had one book
that I gave two stars this month and
that was an e-ARC of Deadly Little Secrets (*Scandals)
by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. This is the
follow-up to Little White Lies which I
read last year and really enjoyed. I
think I gave Little White Lies four
stars last year. Sadly this one just did
not do it for me for several reasons.
Little White Lies I thought was fun. It's
a mystery set in the American South with
these debutantes and lots of scandalous
secrets beneath the surface.
Unfortunately this one definitely lost
me. In this case there were three
different timelines, which I found to be
overkill and really confusing. Especially
in the past timeline. I normally don't
have too much trouble keeping track of a
large cast of characters but for some
reason in this case I kept mixing up who
the characters in the past timeline were.
I don't think she did a great job of
signposting who they are and why they
matter and why we should care about them.
They were the parents of some of the
characters of our main modern-day
timeline and I just had such a hard time
keeping track of all of them. And I
didn't really think that the multiple
timeline thing added much to the story.
It was just too much and it was a little
bit all over the place.
All of that might have given this like a
two and a half to three star rating.
However, when we got near the end of it
the twists and turns just got to be so
over-the-top and so ridiculous, I just
could not with this. When we get to the
point that I need like a serial killer
style diagram just to explain all of the
different weird connections and scandals,
and parents of who's a parent of who, and
possible incest, and all these like weird
over-the-top bizarre things that happened
at the end, I was like "No you lost me.
This is just too much. I can't do it." I
ended up giving this one two stars.
Next I had one book that I gave two and
a half stars to, and that was The
Heartwood Box by Anne Aguirre.
This is another one that I talked about
in my mid month wrap-up, so again if you
want to hear why I gave this one two and
half stars go ahead and check out that
video. This was an ARC that I won in a
giveaway from Tor Teen. I will say with
this your mileage may vary depending on
the tropes you like, but this really just
didn't work for me. Then I had one book
that I gave three stars to. Again this is
one you're gonna find in my mid month
wrap-up. And this is my one nonfiction
book and graphic novel of the month. This
is Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of
Immigration by Bryan Caplan and Zach
Weinersmith. Then I had three books that
I gave three and a half stars, and
apparently I talked about all three of
them in my mid month wrap-up! So I guess
we're gonna be talking a lot more about
four and five star reads in this video.
The first one that I gave three and a
half stars too was Blackwing by Ed
McDonald. I also gave three and a half
stars to Say No to The Duke by Eloisa
James. This is a historical romance. And
finally I gave three and a half stars to
The Deep by Rivers Solomon. This was an
e-ARC from NetGalley.
Moving on let's talk about my four star
reads. There were seven of them and four
of them are books that I talked about in
my mid month wrap-up. The ones that I
talked about in that video include Find
Me Their Bones by Sara Wolf, Strange
Waters: a anthology of short speculative
fiction by nine indie authors edited by
EB Dawson. Get a Life Chloe Brown by
Talia Hibbert. And finally The
Guinevere Deception by Kiersten White. All
four of those I talked about in my mid
month wrap-up. Moving on let's discuss
the three that I did not talk about in
that video. First up I gave four stars to
a book that completes a trilogy that
I've been working on reading for a while.
This is The Winners Kiss by Marie
Rutkoski. So I finally finished this
trilogy in pretty quick succession
because I'm planning on reading the
first book in her new duology next month.
It's coming out in 2020, it's set in the
same world, and I'm really excited to
read it. So this was an interesting
series for me. In some ways I wish that I
had known how much it focused on sort of
war and military stuff before I picked
it up. For some reason with the way that
people talked about it I assumed that
this was much more heavily a fantasy
romance. And while it does have that...
"Mama!" Hey baby. "Look, look I got a cheese stick!" You got a cheese stick?! Yum.
"Mama I want to sit with you"
You want to sit with me? "Yeah" Okay. Sombody's ready for bed! "Yeah"
Gonna eat your cheese stick? I have a reindeer to join me
for a little bit. I don't know how much
of him you can see but *laughs* So I kind of wish
that I had known that this focused so
much, at least in the later two books, on
like intrigue and battle and stuff like
that. Because like I think I kind of
went in expecting it to be much more
heavily a romance. And the first book is.
I think the first book is probably my
favorite of the trilogy. But then the
rest of it is partly this super super
slow burn romance between these
characters, but mixed in with like a lot
of strategy and battle scenes and
different things. And it's well done. Like
I don't have a lot of complaints per se.
I like the heroine. I think she's smart
and it's interesting. Sometimes it
dragged a little bit for me. Overall I
would probably give the series four
stars.
I liked it. It's not a new favorite, but I
am glad that I read it. I also gave four
stars to a middle-grade book. This is
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in The
Sky by Kwame Mbalia. This is one of the
newer books in the Rick Riordan Presents
imprint. *child trying to repeat imprint* Are you talking? "Mmhmm!" *nodding*
Mmhmm I
think you gotta go well brush your teeth
mister mister. "I am not a mister mister!" You're not a
mister mister?!
"No, I'm a Jojo!" You're a Jojo? "Yeah"
Okay Jojo well I think you gotta go
brush your teeth. Okay say bye people.
"Bye people" See you later! "See you later!" Okay here, take this. Bye!
So this is one of the newer books in
the Rick Riordan Presents imprint. I kind
of love that this exists. All of the
books in this imprint are bringing
marginalized authors to tell stories
within their own voices mythology. And
this book draws from West African
mythology and African-American mythology.
And it follows a young boy from Chicago
and includes mythical figures like John
Henry, Brer Rabbit, and Anansi the spider,
among others. So in a lot of ways I think
that this book is really smart and
really well done. It's definitely
action-packed, there's a lot of adventure.
It's interesting because there's also a
lot of symbolism involved that kind of
draws on the African-American history of
slavery and oppression. For example
there's a type of monster in the world
that this boy falls into you called
Fetterlings. You can see them here.
They're basically like, you know, chains.
And sort of the big bads at the end of
this have to do with enslavement and
greed. So obviously there's a lot of
symbolism here but it still doesn't
focus too heavily on that and manages to
maintain a pretty light tone throughout
the book. I just think with this that I
am not necessarily the right audience
for it. Which is fine. This was not a book
that was written for me. This was written
for a middle-grade audience and it
solidly feels that way. There were things
that I thought were funny. I think most
of it was well executed. In terms of my
personal enjoyment, I would probably give
this more like a three or three and a
half star, but given the way that it's
executed for the audience that it is
intended for, I ended up giving it four
stars. Because I do think there's a lot
to love here and I think a lot of middle
grade readers will really enjoy this and
see themselves represented here. So yeah.
Definitely recommend it if you were
looking for something with that kind of
mythology for a younger reader. And the
final book that I gave four stars to is
a YA historical fiction called Across
the Broken Shore by Amy Trueblood. So
this book is set in 1930s San Francisco
and follows a young woman who is Irish
Catholic. Whose family is set on her
becoming a nun, but she secretly dreams
of becoming a physician and getting
into medicine. And so when a serious
accident with her brother puts her in
contact with a female physician who
offers her a job as her assistant, she
decides to lie to her parents and take
this. And has to decide the path that she
wants to take for her life. There was a
lot that I really enjoyed about this. I
will say that especially in the early
part of the book the dialogue sometimes
felt a little bit stilted with
historical facts kind of pushed in there
more than was necessary. But by the end
of it I was really rooting for the main
character and I thought that the ending
was really strong and well executed. I
also think that this is a book that does
a good job of being historically
accurate but also being relevant to
modern concerns. It really gets at things
like poverty and privilege and sexism.
And religion, and the complicated nuances
of the ways that some of those things
can intertwine and I think that's pretty
well handled. I will say that there's
gonna be some content warnings that you
may want to check out. I do have an
in-depth review with a lot of content
warnings for it in there. And it does
tackle some more sensitive content as
well including the issue of abortion. I
thought it was handled in a way that was
sensitive and nuanced but some people
might be a little bit uncomfortable with
that depending on their feelings with it.
But overall I really liked this. I think
this is a really well executed YA
historical fiction that's part
coming-of-age story with a little bit of
a romance plot that's really about a
girl finding herself and learning to
find her voice and stand up for herself, 
but also has a lot of other rich
thematic content woven into it. So if
that's something that sounds interesting
to you I would recommend checking it out.
Moving on we're gonna talk about my five
star reads and honestly I think this is
where a lot of this video is gonna be
happening. Because I had 9 five
stories this month and only 2 of them
are books that I talked about in my mid
month wrap up. So it was a really great
second half of the month. The two books
that I talked about in my mid month wrap
up are The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa
Kay Adams and Girls of Paper and Fire by
Natasha Ngan. I also gave five stars to
The Princess Plan by Julia London. I
really enjoyed this book. It is a
historical romance with a mystery
subplot to it. Honestly I don't feel
like the cover is a super accurate
depiction of what the book is about, but
I really really enjoyed this. I thought
it was a whole lot of fun. It was
definitely the kind of romance that
tends to be more up my alley.
It follows a woman who is a spinster.
She's in her late twenties and so she
kind of doesn't care so much what
society thinks anymore. And she runs,
along with her sister and best friend, a
women's gossip paper. And so she goes to
this ball, partly to get fodder for this
gossip paper, and ends up meeting the
prince of a foreign nation who is very
self-involved, is not used to anybody
telling him no. And they kind of have an
interesting interaction, or a couple of
interesting interactions, and end up
working together to try to solve a
murder mystery. And I just really enjoyed
this. I tend to like these sorts of
things where you have stuck-up royals or
privileged people coming into contact
with regular, normal people who kind of
put them in their place. I find it to be
really entertaining. This also has a lot
of pretty great political intrigue
involved in it which I enjoyed and has
an interesting mystery plot. So yeah, this
was just a lot of fun. I think I was kind
of sick when I read this and it was
exactly the comfort read that I needed.
So five stars to this one. It came out
in November and is available now if you
guys are interested. This was an ARC that
was sent to me for review by Harlequin. I
also gave five stars to a book that is a
little bit controversial. It is a
critically acclaimed book but it does
certainly have some problematic elements
to it and some things that I think can
and should be criticized. That said I
also kind of loved it for a lot of
reasons. So this is The Goldfinch by
Donna Tartt. This is a tome. It is almost
eight hundred pages long. It is a very
in-depth character study with a little
bit of a mystery plot to it. And it is
literary fiction that won the Pulitzer
Prize. It follows a young boy from the
time that he is like 12 or 13 and loses
his mother in a terrorist attack, all the
way up through adulthood.
Now some people just don't like this
because it is very long and very slow
and they think that it is boring because
it is quite detailed in the descriptions.
I, as some of you may know if you've been
watching this for a while, do you tend to
love that, and in this case that really
worked for me. One thing that I will say
which is a criticism, and a valid
criticism that I have seen with this, is
that there are a lot of very racist
character descriptions in this book. I
completely understand why some people
just don't want to deal with that and
have DNF'ed it because of that. That is
for sure something that is in here. I
will say that with this sort of book it
is sometimes a little bit difficult to
suss out what is coming from the author
and what is coming from the characters.
But regardless, I think that some of the
descriptions at least are for sure
racist, others I think are a little bit
more gray. Other things that you may find
in this are things like some fatphobia,
There is homophobia. Although I would say
that that is more something internalized
by characters rather than something that
I feel like is coming from the
authorial voice. But there are definitely
things in here that could be offensive.
There's also a whole lot of trigger
warnings and content warnings for this.
So if you want to check out my review, I
put a lot of those in there. But there is
a lot of explicit addiction, drug use,
alcohol use, violence, murder,
stealing, parental abuse, there's just...
suicide... there's like, there's a lot, a lot,
a lot of content in here to be aware of.
That said, um I kind of loved it. I
completely understand why this is called
a literary classic. I especially loved
the ending and the last part of the book.
It really really resonated with me. This
is a book that I could see myself
actually revisiting and rereading. And
it's a book that I think is gonna
stay with me for a long time. So while I
think there are valid criticisms to be
made here and while I also think this is
just not a book that everybody would
enjoy, I really loved it. And even the
parts of it that I didn't necessarily
enjoy reading, coming to the end of it I
recognize that they were important to go
through for the sake of character
development and for getting where we end
up.
So yeah I do have an in-depth review of
this if you want to hear more thoughts,
but I loved it. I was actually surprised
at how much it resonated with me.
Especially towards the end of it. I think
it has a lot to say about beauty and art
and love and grief and toxic
relationships and just so many things. I
think it's a really really rich book, and
pretty brilliantly written. But also
really not the book for everyone. I also
gave five stars to Shelter by Jung Yun
and this is a book that you're gonna
hear more about in another video so I'm
not going to talk too much about it here.
But this was a very very pleasant
surprise. It is a domestic literary
thriller that deals with things like
racial identity and family and abuse and
cycles of abuse and... a lot of things. I
really loved it. Really really loved it,
more than I think I expected to and
would definitely recommend checking it
out. I do have an in-depth review on
Goodreads but again, because this is
something I'm gonna be talking about
more in a different video, I don't want
to say too much here. Um but yeah this
sucked me in and I could not put it down,
basically. Uh yeah. Lots of content
warnings though so check that out.
My next five star read is one that
honestly surprised me. Um I did not
expect to love this as much as I did.
It's a few years old. This is a very
hyped book, especially on booktube, and I
didn't necessarily think I would love it.
I... yeah. But I did! So this is Caraval by
Stephenie Garber. So for some reason I
thought that this was like a carnival
book and it's really not. Um
I listened to this on audio. I thought
the audiobook was fantastic and this was
just a whole lot of fun. This is
definitely the kind of thing I like from
my YA fantasy. It's kinda dark, it
involves magical game where you don't know what's
real or who to trust or if you can even
trust your own emotions. It also involves
a sibling relationship where a girl is
trying to save her sister.
It has a forbidden romance, it has lots
of twists and turns, it's got really
vivid, lush descriptions and poetic
language, and I just like devoured this
book. And can't wait to jump into book
two! I love this world so much and I was
surprised at how into this I was. It's
definitely kind of dark, a little bit
soapy. Um it was so fun and so
interesting. I ended up giving it five
stars. Color me surprised. Honestly I
didn't expect to enjoy this as much as I
did but yeah, I'm a fan. So I will be
moving on and probably will be listening
to book two in December. So look forward
to that. I also gave five stars to a book
that was sent to me for review. This is
The Caged Queen by Kristen Ciccarelli.
This is kind of another pleasant
surprise. This is the second book in a
trilogy of companion novels set in the
same YA fantasy world, with plots that
somewhat link together, but each follow
a different character. The first book was
The Last Namsara which I read a
couple years ago and liked, and was
interested enough to want to read on
when I was offered the last two books in
the series. But I didn't expect to enjoy
this one as much as I did. I will say The
Caged Queen is much more a fantasy
romance than the first book is. I also
felt like for me, it was just much better
executed than The Last Namsara. I
thought this was really really good. I
gave it five stars. I think that if you
like fantasy romance this is worth
picking up.
It involves a royal marriage of
convenience and a love triangle. A girl
marries her childhood friend who is also
the new King in this country, in order to
try to save her people from starving, and
in so doing abandons the boy that she's
been in love with. And there's lots of
political intrigue. There is violence in
here. There's also a strong sibling
relationship, if you're looking for that.
It deals a lot with grief. Her sister
died when she was pretty young and then
came back as this bird 
who stays with her and it's, it... some of
the other themes of this book are about
grief and loss and learning to let go.
And I just thought it was really really
great and beautifully done, so I would
definitely recommend it if that sounds
up your alley.
Alright so there were two more books
that I gave 5 stars to. The first one is
another book that was sent to me for
review, this one by Penguin Teen. This is
A River of Royal Blood by Amanda Joy. So
I was really thrilled when they reached
out to me and offered to send me a
finished copy because this was something
that I was already excited to read. I
followed the author on Instagram, and this
sounded right up my alley.
It is a North African inspired debut YA
a fantasy story. And this was just like
so much fun! I had such a good time with
this book, and it is basically everything
that I want from my YA fantasy. It was
very engaging and fun and easy to read.
It follows a girl who is a princess who
was born with a rare and dangerous magic
of marrow and blood. And this world is a
queendom,
but queens are not born. They earn the
right to the throne. If there are sisters
who are rival heirs, they have to fight
to the death once they're of age in
order to determine who gets the throne.
And so Eva is coming up on her 17th
birthday when she will officially be of
age for her older sister to challenge
her. And she has some really complicated
family relationships. She's got kind of
an estranged relationship from her
mother, her parents are separated, her
older sister- they used to be really
close when they were kids and now
they're not anymore, and her sister is kind
of her mom's favorite and she's kind of
her dad's favorite. And this is quite a
dark and brutal world. There is a lot of
violence. She is not afraid to kill off
characters and the stakes are really
high, which I kind of love. Because
sometimes YA authors will kind of pull
their punches on that, and she definitely
doesn't. There is a bit of a forbidden
romance in it, although that never really
takes center stage, but I enjoyed it. I
liked the development of it and I just
loved Eva as a main character. I thought
her story was really interesting. This
had a lot of twists and turns, it had a
really rich mythology, and
magic system. The world was really great.
It's kind of casually diverse, which is
nice.
People have different skin colors and
different sexual orientations and it's
just kind of casual. It's not a huge deal.
The place that it does deal with
systemic oppression is in the way that
they handle a different people group, and
it doesn't really have to do a skin
color. But that is a theme that you do
see here, among others. But also it's just
a really good story and really fun and
I'm so excited to read book 2. So yeah!
Definitely recommend checking this one
out. I think she is one to watch and I
will for sure be picking up the second
book. Very very excited about that one.
And the final book that I gave five
stars to is also my very first 2020
book that I have read. This one was
requested by one of my patrons. Every
month my patrons are entered into a
raffle and one of them gets to select a
book that they want to see me read and
review. And so for November the book that
was requested was The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu. This book is coming out in
March of next year through Penguin Teen.
And it is a historical fiction book with
elements of fantasy and magical realism.
And obviously I gave it five stars. I
really really loved it. In general I like
Marie Lu a lot. I have loved most of her
writing, it really works for me. This one
is super interesting because it is quite
different from anything she has
published so far, but also in some ways
it definitely feels like her. And this is
also the first book that she wrote and
sold, it just kind of never found a home
before now, and so I'm really glad that
this is now going to be out in the world.
Like I said this is historical fiction.
It follows the story of Mozart's sister,
who most people didn't know existed.
Apparently she was also a musical
prodigy and someone that Mozart looked
up to quite a lot. And this entire book
is told from her perspective. Part of the
inspiration for this is that we know
that when they were children and on the
road to go on tour a lot, because they
toured together as children, Wolfgang
Mozart and his sister Nannerl, which was
her childhood nickname, made up this
magical alternate place called The
Kingdom of Back. And so Marie Lu kind of
took some of that and then imagined what
if it was a real place. So there is this
fairy prince and this magical alternate
world, but the reason that I would call
this magical realism is that the story
is really very much grounded in the
historical fiction aspect of it. And the
primary relationship in this book is
really the sibling relationship. And I
just think it is so brilliantly done. It
does such a good job of unpacking the
way that sibling relationships can
sometimes be really complicated, with
deep deep love, but sometimes also can be
complicated with resentment or jealousy,
especially in situations where one
sibling is being preferred over the
other. And in this case it's for gendered
reasons and sexist reasons based on the
way that the world was set up during
this time period. But there's also this
deep love and this strong relationship
throughout all of it, and it's really
really beautiful. I think the sibling
relationship in here is so well done. I
also think the way that The Kingdom of
Back and the magic in this is done is
really interesting, because it often
mirrors things that are happening in the
real world. And so that's why I would
call it, again, more magical realism.
You're not spending most of your time in
this alternate world that is in some
ways a parallel to the real world and
the dangers and the perils of life
during this time period, with things like
smallpox, and infectious disease, and you
know, lack of vaccinations, and the ways
that those types of things could really
devastate people, and poverty, and
parental abuse in ways that are a little
bit less obvious. So I really really
loved this. I think it is beautifully
told. It's angering, it's inspiring, it's
touching. And yeah, I love this. I think
that this is gonna be a huge hit next
year. I would highly recommend checking
it out. This is definitely one that I
would consider purchasing a finished
copy of. Also the cover, I mean let's
just appreciate, the cover is absolutely
stunning. But yeah The Kingdom of Back
was really really great. I, I knew that I
would probably enjoy it because I
generally enjoy Marie Lu's writing, but I
think this has a lot going for it and I
think a lot of people are gonna love it.
So yeah, five stars for this one. And the
final book that I read in November is
the one book that got six stars. And this
is a new all-time favorite for me, and
this one that I actually have an
individual video review for if you want
to check that out, which I will link up
above. This is The Starless Sea by Erin
Morgenstern. I was surprised at how much
I loved this and while I know this is
definitely not gonna be the right book
for everyone, see that review video if
you want to hear more, I felt like this
was kind of my perfect book. Um I'm
obsessed. I do hope to reread it, maybe
via audiobook in December if I can find
the time, but I loved it. New all-time
fave guys. It was
amazing. So yeah, really really happy to
find a new favorite book this month. So
there you have it. Those are the 24 books
that I read in November. In general it
was a really really great reading month,
and I feel like the second half of the
month, as you can see, I had a lot of
great books. I was just, feel like I was giving five
stars to so many things, but they were
well-deserved. Really really awesome. So
I'm hoping that the final month of the
year finishes out just as strong and I
read a lot of really great stuff. Um talk
to me in the comments down below. Let me
know any of your thoughts or feelings on
any of the books that I talked about, and
for your question of the day, let me know
what is your favorite genre or your most
read genre? What do you gravitate
towards the most? Obviously as you can
see, fantasy is clearly my favorite. It is
what i gravitate towards most often and
really love, even though i like reading a
lot of other things as well. Let me know
in the comments down below what your
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