Hey everyone and welcome or welcome
back to my channel. So in today's video I'm going to be going through all the
books that I am planning to read in July. So I will leave a link to the playlist in
the description if you would like to catch up if you haven't watched any of my TBR
games before but honestly the rules are pretty simple. I basically have a TBR game
that is very very loosely inspired by Cluedo so that is what I use to pick
books to read every month. Last month I added 6 books to my official TBR and I'm happy to say that I am pretty
confident that I'm gonna complete it because I've just started my 6th book and I
am filming this over a week early so I should be able to complete my TBR before the end of the
month. I'm pretty confident, it's all going well. I am still gonna take a punishment this
month because as I said I added 6 books to my TBR however I was also taking part in
whatever-a-thon throughout June and I haven't completed my whatever-a-thon goal. I originally
pledged 8 books for Whatever-a-thon and I don't think I'm gonna read 8 books. I think I'm going
to read 7, which I'm completely fine with because I've enjoyed all the books that I've read
this month. but I thought you know what, to even it out I think I will add 6
books to my TBR for next month as well. I think that's everything I needed
to say for this intro as I said I'm going to be picking 6 books so 6
rolls... let's go, roll number one. [Voiceover] So here we go with roll
number one which is a 6 which is thriller and the prompt is a mood read. So as you would have seen, roll number one came
up as mood read and the genre was thriller. So basically this means that I can read any thriller
that I want. I can mood read throughout July and as long as I do read a thriller, any thriller,
then that will count and fulfill this prompt. But I am going to add a book to my TBR that I
think I'm going to be in the mood for and the book is I Made A Mistake by Jane Corry which is a
book that was recommended to me by my cousin and I'm not really sure why she's recommended this to
me, I'm going to be honest. I think that she read it last year and really really enjoyed it and we
do generally have a very similar taste in books so I am going to trust her. I think that if she says
that she likes it and she thinks that I will like it then I probably will but the plot doesn't sound
like something that I would usually reach for. From what I gather this follows a woman who has
an affair or I think she has a one night stand with an ex-boyfriend and then the story goes from
there. I think it's one of those thrillers that has a very simple plot or it has a very simple
premise but once you actually get into it, it is very twisty and it's not what you're expecting so
if that is the case then I do think that there's a really good chance that I will enjoy this because
I do like twisty thrillers. Even though domestic thrillers aren't my usual sub genre of thrillers.
But yeah I do already own this on my Kindle so I have been meaning to get around to it because I
do have over 100 unread books on my Kindle that I need to read. So glad that I will finally
hopefully be getting around to this in July. [Voiceover] So here we go
with roll number two which is another 6 which is another thriller
and the prompt is Kindle or audiobook. As you would have seen for roll number two
I got thriller again and the prompt was to read a Kindle or audio book. So for this I am
going to be reading Take it Back by Kia Abdullah which is a courtroom thriller I believe and this
is another book that was recommended to me by my cousin and I'm pretty sure that I already had
it on my goodreads TBR so I must have heard someone else talking about it and it sounded
like the kind of thriller that I would enjoy. I believe this is about a teenage girl who
accuses 4 boys in her class of sexual assault and you're following the lawyer who is
representing this girl. I believe that the girl has some sort of physical disability
and the boys are all from immigrant families and so the court case does end up getting
quite a lot of attention from the media and I'm assuming that throughout the book you're
trying to work out who is telling the truth. Apparently this is the best book
that my cousin has read all year. She gave it 5 stars which my cousin
never gives books 5 stars, like, ever. I think she's only gave a handful
of 5 stars to books this year so that straight away has me really intrigued and
the plot for this does sound very interesting. It also has really good reviews on goodreads so
definitely interested to see what I think of this. [Voiceover] So here we go roll number 3 which is a
3 which is fantasy and the prompt is a new author. As you will have seen for roll number 3 I
need to read a fantasy from a new author. And this could be a debut author or it
could be an author that's new to me. So the book that I've decided to go for for
this is Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb because I've never read any
books by Robin Hobb before but I have been meaning to get into The Realm of
the Elderling, which, this is the first book for, so I'm really excited to finally get onto it
in July. As you might be able to see this is a library copy so I do need to read it soon because
I think it's due back within the next few weeks. I believe this first book follows a young boy
called Fitz who is the bastard son of the prince of this world and he ends up being trained to
become a royal assassin. That's all I really know about the actual plot but I have heard a
lot of people talking about this book and they always mention how it's very character driven and
it's very slow paced and it's also very political and it's also very sad and all of that is my kind
of thing it's... it's all stuff that I do love in fantasy. I love character-driven fantasies, I love
political fantasies, I love books that can make me cry and I've heard that this series does get very
emotional. I have seen that this is going to be a buddy read in the shelf space discord for July so
I thought that this would be a really good book to buddy read because if it does get very sad
then at least I'll have some emotional support, maybe? I mean we'll see how it goes but I do seem
to cry very easily at books and I've also heard that this has a really interesting magic system
which, again, is something that I always look for in fantasy and it's also quite short. I don't know
whether it is going to take me longer than I'm expecting to read but I think this is going to be
one of the first books that I do pick up in July. [Voiceover] Ok here we go roll number
4 which is a two which is young adult and the prompt is a beautiful cover. So for all number 4 I need to read a YA book
with a beautiful cover and the book that I've decided to go for is Felix Ever After by Kacen
Calendar. So from what I understand this is about a transgender teenager who is being bullied
and someone is sending them really transphobic messages and is threatening to release their
dead name and pictures of them from before their transition the blurb describes it as “an honest
and layered story about identity falling in love and recognising the love you deserve” so it does
sound like a really interesting book. I am going to listen to this on audiobook because I've
noticed that it's available on scribd and I'm sure that I've heard that the audiobook narration
is really good. I don't know if it's told in the first person perspective but I have found that
books like this that are told in the first person point of view are really good as audio books
because it feels like you're listening to someone telling you their story. I think that this
came out last year and I can remember seeing at the time that there was a lot of hype
around it and a lot of people were giving it 4 and 5 stars and I've seen some people recently
that have also been reading it and have also been talking about how good it is so I'm really
looking forward to getting around to it. [Voiceover] Here we go roll number
4... I think this is. Which is a 5, which is contemporary and the
prompt is a bookstagram favourite. So for all number 5 I need to read a contemporary
that is also a bookstagram favourite and I'm not gonna lie I really struggled with this one because
I couldn't think of any contemporaries on my TBR that are also bookstagram favourites or that
have been getting a lot of hype on bookstagram recently. However there is a contemporary that
I do want to read soon that I think I would count as a bookstagram favourite because when this
author's other books were released a few years ago they did get a lot of hype and I can remember
seeing one of their books in particular everywhere all over instagram and this was
before I even had my own bookstagram account. So the book that I'm gonna use for
this prompt is The Lucky Escape by Laura Jane Williams. I believe that this
follows a woman who is left at the altar but she decides to go on her honeymoon anyway
and she takes one of her friends with her, like, an old friend that she randomly bumps into and
decides to spontaneously invite on this honeymoon. So I'm not sure what I'm gonna think of this. I
did enjoy Laura Jane Williams's other two books so I think I'm gonna like this too, obviously,
otherwise I wouldn't be reading it but I do have an ARC of this book through NetGalley so I do need
to read it and review it. It has already come out, I think it came out a couple of weeks ago but I
am really behind on all of my NetGalley reviews so I do need to read this soon and July seems
like the perfect opportunity because it sounds like the kind of book that's going to give me
that summer feeling but we'll see how it goes. [Voiceover] So here we go with the
final roll which is a 4, that's romance, and the prompt is favourite author. So for my final role I need to read a
romance by one of my favourite authors and again I don't know if I'm cheating a little
bit with this but I'm gonna go for an author where I've only read one of their books but it was one
of my favourite books from last year so they could become a new favourite author. But the book that
I'm going for is People We Meet On Vacation by Emily Henry or is it called You And Me On Vacation
in the UK? I know that there's two different names and one of them is the UK name and one of
them is the US name but I will put a picture on the screen so you know which book I'm talking
about. I believe that this follows two friends Alex and Poppy who used to go on vacation together
a lot when they were younger and then something happened a couple of years ago and they've kind of
lost touch but Poppy gets back in touch with Alex and asks for almost a second chance or one
last holiday to try and make things right, and that's all I really know about the plot
but I have seen amazing reviews for this book so far. I've seen a lot of people saying that
it's really cute but the characters also have really good chemistry and that is something
that I like in romance so I'm hoping that I will enjoy this too and again it sounds like
the perfect book to read over the summer. So those are the 6 books on my official
TBR that I'm planning to read next month. There are a few other books that I would
like to get around to if I have time. The first is The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams
which I don't actually know a lot about this book but I heard Elliot Brooks talking about
it in a video recently I think. And the way that she was describing it, it sounded
like the kind of book that I would enjoy. Another book that I'm really hoping I have time
for next month is The Burning God by RF Kuang which is the third book in The Poppy War series.
I really really enjoyed The Dragon Republic when I read it in... June. I read it earlier this month
and it's one of my favourite books of the year to be honest and because of the way that the world is
described in this series and the world-building in general, I feel like I don't want to leave too
much time between the second book and the third book because I don't want to forget things
so I'm hoping to get around to that as well. And then the final book that I'm also hoping
to get around to next month is Burial Rites by Hannah Kent which I believe that Hannah Kent
is an Australian author but the book is set in Iceland..? I don't know a lot about this but this
is another book that my cousin has recommended to me and I promised her ages ago that I would do
a whole week where I would read 3 books that she's recommended to me and so that is my plan at
some point in July is that I'm going to do a week where I read the 3 books that she said that she
thinks I'm going to really enjoy and it's going to be a bit of an experiment to see whether she
does actually know my taste. I mean, these are all 3 books that she has read and that she's enjoyed
and we do have similar taste in books so I have high hopes for all of them and they are books that
I have been vaguely interested in anyway just from her talking about them, so this is the opportunity
for her to finally force me to read them. Otherwise the only thing I have left to do is
make a prediction. So because this is TBR Cluedo, and in Cluedo you make predictions about stuff, I
am going to make a prediction as to which of these books I'm going to love the most next month. And
last month I actually predicted The Final Empire, which I do have here. Last month I predicted
that The Final Empire would be my favourite book of the month but I haven't finished this yet.
This is the book that I'm currently reading so I can't actually tell you whether it was my
favourite book of the month but, I mean, I'm enjoying it so far and I'm about 85 pages in so
we'll see how that goes. But from my TBR for July, I don't know, I think the
People We Meet On Vacation might be my favourite book of the month
if I had to make a prediction, which I am doing because that is the whole point of this
TBR game, but, what am I saying. So yeah I have seen so many positive reviews of this book
and because of how much I loved Beach Read I'm pretty confident that this is going to be a
new favourite romance but we'll see how it goes. But that does bring me to the end of the video so
thanks for watching if you've made it this far. If you've read any of the books that I've
mentioned on this TBR then please let me know in the comments what you thought of them and
don't forget to give this video a thumbs up if you liked it and click subscribe if you haven't
already and I will see you next time, byeee.
