Hey, guys! My name is Chelsea and welcome
back to my channel. For today's video, we
have my July and August
book haul.
So, the whole reason
for me doing a book haul, usually, every
other month
is because I really thought I wasn't
going to be buying
as many books this year as I have in
years past.
I had a rule for myself which was for
every
two new books that I read, I could buy
one
new book that I have not read. There were
some exceptions to that rule.
However, that rule
sort of got forgotten over the last
couple months.
I'm not saying I found loopholes. I just
did not consider
my buying versus my reading. Now, I have
been reading a ton. I read like 20
something books last month
and I'm already, like, over 12 books
for this month with some more days left
in the month. I'm in the middle of like
two or three books right now. So it's not
horrible.
But I have 36 books to show you guys for the last two months.
I also just can't believe it. I have an
entire cart here
full of books where only one shelf was
supposed to be
hauling books. It just-
There's so many good book releases
lately that I have been having trouble
keeping it down. That's- That's what we're
gonna go with. I just
forgot my own rules. So,
a lot of these I'm just going to
quickly give you what I know about them.
Not all of them I know a lot about. I
do
have a lot of these like on my TBR on
Goodreads, but
I am that person that forgets a lot of
synopses.
And I don't need to know a lot about a
book in order to want to read it.
But we're going to start with all of the
July books first
and then move into August. So one of the
first ones they actually have here is
Where Dreams Descend by Janella Angeles.
And this was actually
the Owlcrate book for June; however, it
did come in
late, after I had already done my like
June book haul.
And so I think, maybe even at the
beginning of July, I don't fully remember,
but we're including this. This is some
sort of
circus fantasy. I believe it is. And
obviously Owlcrate edition. Very very
gorgeous.
And here's our end papers. Then we have
the July Owlcrate, which is
Goddess in the Machine by Lora Beth
Johnson. Again,
beautiful Owlcrate edition. Gold edges.
And
this is some sort of YA sci-fi
where, I believe, our main character goes
into some sort of stasis
expecting to be shipped somewhere and
woken up
pretty recently but instead is, I believe,
in this stasis for at least a couple
hundred years,
maybe more. I- it's been a while.
Okay, no, she expected to wake up in a
hundred years. She wakes up in a thousand.
But she ends up being sort of
portrayed as
a goddess or something to the people
that are there currently.
I don't know much else. I love the cover.
I love sci-fi.
I need to pick it up. Then, we're moving
on to some of the ones that I,
you know, just purchased on Barnes and Noble
trips. We have Keeper of the Lost Cities
by Shannon Messenger. This is a middle
grade
fantasy that I've heard nothing but good
things. When I used to work at a Barnes
and Noble, one of my co-workers this was like
her favorite middle grade series. And
I picked it up. We also have another
middle grade this
is Twinchantment by Elise Allen. I don't
know much about this one,
but again, it was one that I saw and
thought was
gorgeous so I had to pick it up. In this
world
anything that is deemed magical is
banned.
That includes, like, black cats and twins.
So, because of that, these two, technically
princesses here,
Flissa and Sara, are having to act as
one person. But I do believe somebody
figures out that they actually are twins
and stuff ensues from there. Then we have
The Boyfriend
Project by Farrah Rochon. This one
I didn't know much about when I picked
it up, but it is an adult or new adult
romance. But after being "catfished" her
and two of the other girls that were
catfished at the same time
sort of decide to swear off of guys. And
our main character
is trying to develop an app. Is it a
dating app? I'm not entirely sure. Some
sort of app.
And one of the people she ends up
working with is going to be our love
interest
and romance from there. Then we have some
graphic novels.
I picked up Fence Volume 4: Rivals. This
is by C.S. Pacat and Johanna the Mad.
This is a graphic novel series. Comic
bindup series?
It used to come out in comics and I
think now they're more like graphic
novels because they're all coming out as
what the bind up is. This is
an LGBTQ focused
story with fencing as well. I loved the
first
three and so obviously I had to pick
this one up. I also picked up
Locke and Key Volume 1: Welcome to
Lovecraft. As well as
Volume 2: Head Games. These are by Joe
Hill
and Gabriel Rodriguez. I really really
loved the show on Netflix and so I
picked up the first two volumes of this.
I really do like to read
multiple volumes, if at all possible, of
comic bindups,
graphic novels, manga, because they just
go by so quickly.
And in order to really determine if I
like it, I need more than one volume. So I
picked up both of these.
I have a feeling I'm going to try and be
reading these in October because, you
know,
spooky vibes. Then we're getting into
some of the things I've already read.
Some of these things I read previously
to purchasing them, and then some of them
I've read
already. One is Check, Please! Book 2:
Sticks and Scones by Ngozi Ukazu. This I
actually read as it was a webcomic
and this is the last volume we need.
And I needed to complete my collection,
so I had to pick this up.
Absolutely love this series. I also
picked up Boyfriend Material by Alexis
Hall. I had an ARC of this
that I read in June, I believe it was,
because this came out at the beginning
of July.
Absolutely love this. 5 out of 5 stars.
This
is a male/male romance that I just
absolutely love. It's definitely a fake
dating trope
in here as well, which was done perfectly.
I loved our main characters,
and I gush about this every time. This is
not the review. I will leave my wrap
up for this down below. Then we have Home
Before Dark by Riley Sager.
This one I actually ended up reading in
August. So this will be in the August
wrap up.
But I have read all of Riley Sager's
books
except for Lock Every Door. I don't have
that one yet. But I did read
Final Girls and The Last Time I Lied. And
so
this was the Literally Dead Book Club
pick for
August. So I had to pick it up. Really
happy that I did.
We also have I'll Be the One by Lyla Lee.
This one I also read in August for the
Diversify That Shelf Readathon, which I
will leave
linked down below as well. Because I
definitely go into this book.
But this one follows our main character
of Skye who
is fat. Plus-sized. And she is going to
compete in a competition to try to,
I think it's just win a trip to
Korea to see like the K-pop
industry stuff. So she sings and
dances and
it's really really good. It does have
some fatphobic stuff in here
and some stuff talking about the
differences in cultures between the US
and South Korea. But I had to pick this
up when this came out.
I also had pre-ordered,
a couple months before July, I don't
fully know. But I had pre-ordered this
off of Book Depository.
It is a nice fancy set of The Hobbit
and The Lord of the Rings trilogy by
J.R.R. Tolkien.
I have definitely read these before. I
actually ended up
reading The Hobbit, I think was in fifth
grade. And then The Lord of the Rings was
in seventh or eighth grade.
And this is really heavy, that's why
I'm not like fully holding it up.
But these are gorgeous. They have
illustrations and everything in them as
well.
They are nice hardcover books. So like
here's
The Hobbit. We have our map
as the endpapers. They also have the
maps in the Lord of the Rings ones.
And then, like I said, they do have
illustrations as well.
Which are done by Allen Lee.
I spent a lot of money on these books
and they're definitely
worth it. The Lord of the Rings books I
have right now, I have a couple sets
besides
this one obviously, but they're all mass
market sized. Because
that's what I have. I actually have
my original ones from eighth grade as
well that have the movie covers.
You know, so fancy. But yeah,
I spent a lot of money on these and I do
not regret it at all.
When I do a reread of this series, I do
think I'm going to be using these ones
because I want to see
all the beautiful illustrations. And then,
the last couple things that we have
for July are going to be Paper Girls
Volume 1
and Volume 2 by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff
Chiang.
So these are the first two volumes of a
six volume series
that follows 12-year-old paper girls
from, I believe it's, 1988.
There is time travel elements and
very weird elements. It- I've read these
two already.
It definitely ends, not necessarily like
open-ended, because it is part of a
comic series. Obviously, they end with you
knowing that there's going to be more,
but because of the time travel elements
and the fact these girls are just thrown
into this situation and we are thrown in
with them.
It gives us more questions than answers
sometimes,
but I really really want to continue on
with this series.
Which is why I purchased the last four
volumes
in August. So we're now moving into our
August books. But
we have Paper Girls Volume 3,
Volume 4,
Volume 5,
and Volume 6.
Like I said, I read the first two. Really
enjoyed them.
Don't know much else about these ones.
But there's only six volumes total so I
bought the rest of the series so that I
can read them.
Next we have Vicious Spirits by Kat Cho.
This is the
sequel and finale, because it's a duology,
to Wicked Fox.
I picked this up on release date, which I
believe was August 18th. And I'm very
very excited to get to it.
This one is a like fantasy
world based on korean mythology, gumiho's,
that kind of stuff. I absolutely loved the
first book and so I'm very excited to
get to this one.
And it doesn't hurt that this cover is
so gorgeous.
Then I have You Had Me at Hola by Alexis
Daria. This
is an adult or new adult romance.
I don't know much else about it. I do
believe there are telenovela
elements because I do think.- Yeah, there's
soap opera darling Jasmine Lin
Rodriguez
and then Ashton was also killed off
on his telenovela. So
I'm very excited about this. I've heard
really really good things.
And I love the cover. I'm a very big
cover buyer, if you
haven't been able to tell. I'm very
excited for it. Then we have Heroine
Worship by Sarah Kuhn. This is the second
book in the
Heroine Complex series. I don't know if
that's the full
title of the series but that was the
name of the first book that I really
really enjoyed. I do believe I read that
one in July so
wrap up will be down below. But it was
sort of a tongue-in-cheek,
superhero, B movie-esque
type of book that I really enjoyed and
so I had to pick this one up.
I mean the covers, again, are gorgeous.
And it was a wild ride in the first one
so I'm very much
expecting more of that in this and I'm
ready for it.
Then we have Cinderella is Dead by
Kalynn Bayron.
This, I'm very very excited for. I
don't
know a ton about it, but it is something
to do with
like the descendants of Cinderella,
and some sort of ceremony
thing that they have to go through. I- I
don't know but
our main character doesn't really
want to do that because she
likes another girl instead of
you know the prince, I believe it is. So
this
is a female/female romance in here. It is
a YA fantasy.
I'm very much looking forward to it. And
this is the beautiful
UK edition that I had pre-ordered. Then
we have
The Faceless Old Woman who Secretly
Lives in Your Home
by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor. This
is a Welcome to Night Vale novel. This is
the third one.
I read the first one, I own the second
(which is I think It Devours),
and I could not pass up the third one in
the store even though I haven't read the
second one yet.
But these are based on the Welcome to
Night Vale podcast
which I absolutely love. And
they're very weird. That's really all I
can say. If you've
heard the podcast, you know it's weird.
And...
yeah, I'm very very excited for it. I- I
just
could not pass it up. Then I also picked
up Seven Devils
by Laura Lam and Elizabeth May. This is
an adult sci-fi.
Don't know much about it. I love the
cover. It's been on my Goodreads TBR for
a little while
and I had to pick it up. Yeah, I don't- I
don't even really want to read the
synopsis right now.
I just know I need to get to it. I love
sci-fi. Sci-fi
is my favorite right now. Then I picked
up The Immortal Crown by Richelle Mead. I
picked this up
second hand off of a friend's Depop
store where they sell their unhauled
books.
And this is the second book in the Age
of X
series. I do have the first one, Gameboard of the Gods.
Have not read it yet. This sequel is the
last book
for now. It is supposed to be more in the
series;
however, it did not sell very well and so
the third
books page on Goodreads basically does
say that Richelle Mead
wants to continue the story but based
on sales
the publisher is not doing that. So I
think she needs to wait for copyright or
something to expire
if she is ever going to go back into
this world. It is an adult series by her
and I'm just- I had to pick it up. I need
to know what all this is about.
Then we have the August Owlcrate book
which is Star Daughter by Shveta Thakrar.
This one is another gorgeous Owlcrate
edition and is a fantasy book about a girl
who is the daughter of a star. As she's
growing older and getting more into her
power she does
accidentally end up injuring her father
with some sort of star power.
And only a full star can heal him. She's
a half star.
And so she's going on some sort of
adventure to find,
I'm pretty sure, a full star to help heal
him. I am, again, loving these covers.
That's the reason this book has been on
my TBR for a while. Owlcrate
kept the same beautiful art and just
changed like the main color scheme.
But I'm so excited for this. Then we're
getting into books I've already read. So
the first two books we have here...
*banging on the walls*
The baby's being a little loud. But the
first two books that we have here
are The Iron Fey series. So the first one
is The Iron King,
the second one is The Iron Daughter by
Julie Kagawa. I read these books
way back when they originally came out.
But I love these covers
and I had to pick them up. I believe
these are the only first two covers that
are out so far.
The third and fourth books and whatnot I
don't think have their covers out yet.
But these are absolutely gorgeous. This
was the first series I ever read by
Julie Kagawa.
Fell in love with it. And
I need to get the other covers. I love
her work but this
definitely deals with fairy. Fey. And
if you have not read these, because they
are an older series,
definitely consider picking them up. I- I
thought they were great.
Then we have a very shiny one. A Quiet
Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard. This is
another book that I
ordered and had come in in August,
obviously,
but I read it for the Diversify That
Shelf Readathon.
Again link down below. Really enjoyed
this one.
This one has to deal with a lot of
different disabilities.
Our main character of Steffi is
selective mute and the reason she is
has to deal a lot with an anxiety
disorder and
shyness and introversion. And then our
love interest in this book, because it is
a YA contemporary romance,
is Rhys who is deaf. So I
really enjoyed this one and the sort of
real look it is
into both physical disabilities
and the mental disabilities,
you know things that people have to go
through, especially since these are teens,
that they had to go through. And I really
really enjoyed this one. And it's a very
beautiful shiny cover.
Then we have the Illumicrate edition of
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab.
This is a gorgeous gorgeous edition. I
did an unboxing of this on my channel as well.
And I read this book series earlier this
year.
Fell in love with it. And so had to pick
up
this gorgeous gorgeous book. Again, I had
pre-ordered this
a few months ago but it came in
in August. Then we have Midnight Sun by
Stephenie Meyer.
I do just want to preface this by saying
that I ended up
also donating the price of the book to
the Quileute
tribe. I will leave the link to that
donation page down below so you can
check that out. It is basically to get
them out of a tsunami zone, and
because of the fact that Stephenie Meyer
and the publishers
and everything that we know about them
have not donated to a people
they have used in her book, I just felt
it was something that I, personally,
wanted to do. I actually got Midnight Sun
on sale because I had pre-ordered it
months and months ago.
And so this, while it is a, like,
$28 book, I think I got for
closer to $18 or $19,
and I did donate thirty dollars to the
Quileute tribe.
This I will again talk about in my
August wrap up.
And then finally. Last but not least.
We have The Space Between Worlds by
Micaiah Johnson.
I had an ARC of this that I read in
July because this came out in August. So I
will leave my July wrap up, I think I've
said July wrap up at least once, down
below. But
this is one of my absolute favorite
books of the year.
It was so well written. This is a debut
adult sci-fi book that deals with
multiverses.
Our main character of Cara is able to
traverse
multiverses through her job because she
is dead on most other universes. Because
you can't have two instances of yourself
in, you know, one universe. It was
beautifully written. There was so much
diversity in here. Diversity with race,
diversity with sexuality, diversity with
gender.
I fell in love with this. The writing
style was gorgeous.
It does look a little bit thinner than
what I was expecting
when I was reading the ebook, but that is
not a detriment to this book. It is a
standalone.
I thought the ending was beautiful. This
is one of my favorite books of the year.
And so, obviously, I had to pick up a
finished copy
when it came out at the beginning of
August.
Now, we can see part of this but can we
like look at
that. No self-control. I have no
self-control.
I have no excuses even to myself about this.
Books bring me joy. I am definitely
a collector of books as well as a reader
of books.
My entire living room is basically my library.
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