February TBR!!
**Regan’s February TBR List: A Dive into Books, Fantasy, and Escapism**
As February rolls around once again, Regan shares her ambitious reading plan for the month. Known for her love of fantasy, romance, and a touch of cozy escapism, Regan has curated a list of books that promise to keep her entertained—and stressed—throughout the month. Here’s a breakdown of all the books she hopes to dive into:
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### **Carry-Over Books from January**
1. **The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan**
Regan is currently 300 pages deep into this third book in the *Wheel of Time* series, which she describes as a classic quest-style fantasy story. The audiobook adaptation has been a great companion for her while playing video games. This month, she plans to finish it and continue enjoying the immersive world-building, magic system, and character development that have kept her hooked since the first book.
2. **A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki**
Regan picked up this dual-perspective novel near the end of January and is eager to delve deeper into its interconnected storylines. The book follows two characters—one in modern-day Japan and another in post-tsunami Tokyo—connected through a mysterious lunchbox. Regan praises Ozeki’s writing style, calling it "absolutely incredible," and can’t wait to see how the story unfolds.
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### **New Reads for February**
3. **Akata Witch Series by Nandi Okorafor**
Regan is thrilled that the final book in this series has just been released. She plans to marathon books two and three, which follow Sonny, a young girl with latent magical abilities navigating a world of secret societies and ancient prophecies. The first book left her captivated by its world-building and magic system, and she’s eager to see how the story concludes.
4. **The Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb**
Regan is diving into the next installment in Robin Hobb’s *Rain Wilds* series. Set on a mysterious island with a rich history of magic and politics, this book promises to explore new characters and locations while potentially reuniting her with some favorites from the *Liveship Traders* series. She describes Hobb’s writing as "untouchable" and is excited for the adventure.
5. **Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mabalia**
Regan has been waiting to dive into this middle-grade fantasy series, which follows Tristan Strong, a seventh-grader dealing with grief after the death of his best friend. When he accidentally creates a portal to a strange world called Midpass, he finds himself embroiled in an epic battle. With glowing reviews for its captivating storytelling, Regan is ready to lose herself in this adventure.
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### **Cozy Reads and Mysteries**
6. **Arsenic in the Adobo by Mia P. Manasala**
Tired of intense reads, Regan is craving a cozy mystery—and *Arsenic in the Adobo* fits the bill perfectly. This culinary-themed whodunit follows Lila, a young woman returning home after a breakup, only to find herself caught up in a murder investigation involving her ex-boyfriend and her family’s restaurant. Regan is excited for a mix of humor, food, and mystery.
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### **Intense and Gripping Reads**
7. **Far from the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson**
This sci-fi thriller set on a colony ship promises to keep Regan hooked with its gripping plot. When crew members discover that many passengers won’t wake up after years of travel, they’re thrown into a sinister mystery spanning political and ethical dilemmas. Regan describes it as a "gripping" and "dark" story she can’t put down.
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### **Romance and Fantasy**
8. **The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern**
A fan favorite, *The Night Circus* follows two young magicians competing to take over a magical traveling circus—but their growing attraction threatens to unravel it all. Regan is drawn to the book’s lyrical writing style and enchanting story of romance and magic.
9. **Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop**
Continuing her journey through this urban fantasy series, Regan dives into book two, where protagonist Meg adjusts to life in a world of supernatural creatures. With a slow-burn romance and rich world-building, Regan is excited to see how the story unfolds.
10. **House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas**
The second installment in the *Crescent City* series brings Regan back to a world of vampires, angels, and dark magic. After Bryce’s life takes a tragic turn, she teams up with Hunt in an epic battle against evil forces. Regan is eager to see how Sarah J. Maas develops this richly detailed world further.
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### **Final Thoughts**
Regan’s February TBR list is a mix of intense fantasy, cozy mysteries, and romantic escapism—perfect for a month that feels both exciting and stressful. Whether she’s enjoying the magic of *The Night Circus* or getting lost in the whimsical world of *Tristan Strong*, Regan has no shortage of stories to dive into.
If you’re looking for book recommendations or just want to share your own TBR list, drop a comment below! Happy reading this month!
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi guys it's regan and welcome back to another video today i'm gonna be chatting through my february tbr now for the month of february i do have a rather ambitious tbr i am still in the midst of a few books carried over from january but i will say february is a month i do always kind of get the craving for reading some romance and this month i am especially craving some urban fantasy romance personally also the month of february is a bit of a stressful month clay and i have a lot going on behind the scenes so i also wanted to read a few books that could act as escapism cozy fun romance just like easy to get through reads though i still have quite a few intense books that i'm also really looking forward to picking up but without further ado let's go ahead and chat about all the books i hope to read this month the first two books i'm just going to quickly mention as they are my carry-overs from the month of january the first is the dragon reborn by robert jordan this is book three to the wheel of time i am about 300 pages through this book is just under 600 pages so i read just over 50 of this in the month of january i'm currently listening to the audiobook which i am really enjoying this continues to just be an extension a classic kind of quest structure following a variety of characters from this very small remote town as they get thrown headfirst into a quest in prophecy in this book we do learn a lot more about the i sedai and the magic system and rand himself also kind of begins to confront more of his own individual magic and purpose this is truly like a classic quest style story at least from what i've encountered in the first three books it's still a series i'm continuing to enjoy it's not one that's necessarily blowing my mind but i do find it to be a really classic sort of cozy fantasy experience and for that i do find it rather charming um yeah it's kind of like a coming-of-age fantasy in a lot of ways as a lot of the characters are younger and kind of having to confront their own power their own lives their own decisions and growing up and kind of fighting for themselves but yes i do plan to finish book three this month continue listening to the audiobook which i really enjoy doing while playing video games so that's the first book on my tbr the second book is a tale for the time being by ruth ozeki i started this near the tail end of the month and for sure want to continue it and finish it in the early parts of this month i have about 60 of this book left so still a rather large chunk so i will not be giving you like general confirmed opinions about this but so far the writing style has really captured me just the quality of it has already begun to move me but this is a dual perspective story kind of connecting two characters through time and space our first main character is ruth and she basically stumbles upon a lunchbox that washes up on the shores of her very remote home and in the lunchbox is a collection of very strange items and includes the diary of a young girl that she realizes must be living in japan at the time of the tsunami and then the other character we follow is no and she lives in tokyo after recently relocating there with her family she's very lonely and is also bullied in school he does find a lot of solace documenting the life of her grandmother um and these story lines begin to obviously interconnect and intertwine and i love stories that kind of reach out through time and space and again ruth ozeki's writing is absolutely incredible so far so i'm looking forward to finishing this book in the month of february as well next is a why fantasy series i'm so excited to continue and complete this month and that is finishing up the akata witch series by nandi okorafor i read akatawich a few years ago and now that the final book came out a cat a woman i want to marathon books two and three within this series if you're not familiar akatowicz follows our main character sonny and she and her family just move from new york back to nigeria sunny herself is having a hard time fitting in in her new home as she's not allowed to participate in a lot of the activities that the other kids do particularly playing a lot of time outside as she does have albinism at the beginning of book one she actually discovers that she has latent magical abilities and she's actually a free agent and from there she's basically thrown headfirst in a new magical world she makes friends she has to go on quest she has to work to save her town from evil outside forces i was delighted by the first book i loved the world building i loved the magic system and just the overall quality of it was so transporting if you love like magic society secretly existing alongside humanity sort of magic school vibes this is a great series to check out and the third one just came out near the end of january so obviously it just makes it a perfect time to finish the series up and i truly cannot wait i love nanetti okorafor's writing i've read many of her books and short stories are just all incredible so this is a top tier must read this month and i truly cannot wait next up i have decided to start the first book to the next robin hobb series i plan to read this year the first one being the dragon keeper by robin hobb this brings us back to the rain wild kingdom which i'm really really looking forward to i'm actually not entirely sure what characters we follow within this particular quartet i'm actually hoping we're going to be introduced to some new characters but this particular location absolutely enchanted me when we encountered it within the ship of magic or the liveship trader series so i'm really curious to one learn more about this particular location as it does have a rich history of magic and just sort of its connection to the past as well as its current very important connection to the current political reality that's sort of shaking the world around us as we have seen in all of the series leading up to this i love robin hobb's writing obviously this is kind of a no-brainer in terms of picking it up i've heard some excellent things about this from you guys i know many of you really enjoy this it doesn't have fits or the fool i don't think but i am hoping to re-encounter some of my favorite characters in the live ship series and also again meet some new ones i love robin hobb's writing i love her character arc she kills me every time i pick up a book but she is just untouchable incredible stuff it's gonna be great next up i have a middle grade story which i had a goal of reading more middle grade this year as it's just some of my favorite kind of stories to encounter and that is tristan strong punches a hole in the sky by kwami mabalia this is a series i've heard literally nothing bad about i have all three books so if i read this one i do plan to kind of marathon the rest of the books throughout the next couple of months but this series i just hear is so well written and just captivating and such a wonderful middle grade fantasy story and this follows our main character tristan strong who is in seventh grade and at the beginning of the story he is feeling nothing but strong especially after he blames himself after the tragic loss of his best friend after they both are in a bus accident at the beginning of this book he travels to his parents kind of remote farm in alabama their family hoping by giving him a little more space he'll be able to start confronting his grief however shortly after arriving a strange sort of creature appears in his window and steals the journal of his best friend which is the only thing he has left to remember him tristan begins to chase this creature through the night and ends up at a very strange tree on the property of his grandparents farm and there he accidentally punches a hole in the sky creating a gateway to a place called midpass which is a volatile place with a burning sea haunted bone ships and iron monsters that have been hunting the inhabitants of this strange world and there he finds himself in the middle of a war this left the black american gods exhausted and from there i believe we follow tristan as he tries to overcome and survive this new very intense and scary place and also work to get his way back home it just sounds so good i love middle grade fantasy again and i can't wait to pick this book up this month next up i was craving a cozy mystery novel and i just felt like this one fit the bill perfectly that is arsenic in adobo by mia p manasala and this book is described again as a cozy mystery which i'm wanting to read more of this year because i love whodunits and the idea of like a cozy armchair mystery just truly calls out to me in every single way and the synopsis of this book just sounds honestly hilarious and i feel like it's going to center family and food which i also just really enjoy this is actually the first book to a series which all centers kind of culinary mysteries which hopefully i love this and i'll have a whole bunch of additional books to check out but this follows our main character lila and she has recently come back home after a tragic and unfortunate breakup that kind of falls into every rom-com bad trope and now she's home and she's been tasked to save her family's restaurant unfortunately a food critic comes to visit which also happens to be her ex-boyfriend and shortly dies after visiting the restaurant and now lila finds herself and her family kind of in the center of the investigation so she decides to try to solve it herself again the synopsis just sounds really cute while also being a little like obviously thriller focused i love that it centers food and family i'm just hoping this is fun and funny and also just intriguing something that will get me flipping the pages this is a book that i've had on my shelf now for a few months and i have been dying to read it so i feel like it's a perfect book for this month the next book on my tbr is another intense option but it sounds like a sci-fi thriller in space that will just absolutely grip me and that is far from the light of heaven by tayde thompson and honestly just the synopsis of this book absolutely hooked me as one of those auto buys once i read like the first few lines but this is a story set on a colony ship called ragtime and this ship has been traveling light years to bring its 1 000 sleeping passenger safely to a new system to go live about their lives however when one of our main characters michelle a crew member on the ship wakes to do sort of a routine check she realizes that many of the passengers will never wake up again he quickly sends out a distressed signal to an investigator and from there they begin to try to unfold this very sinister plot but as they begin to dive deeper into this plot they realize that the reach of this investigation is going further than they could ever imagine again this just sounds like a gripping sort of sort of like a whodunit larger political scale mystery story in space i like that it is a sci-fi story but it's also kind of condensed to this one particular ship it sounds like it's gonna be very dark but i'm hoping again it'll be a book that i will not be able to put down my last selection of books are all kind of in the romance category they're all like romance and fantasy books the first one particularly i'm so excited for because i know so many of you guys love this book so much it's definitely like a fan favorite across the world like it's a bookstore favorite as well and that is the night circus by erin morgenstern i'm so excited to finally pick this book up i've read the starless c by her and really really enjoyed it just her writing style i love stories written with a heavy hand lyricism metaphor flowery give it to me and the overall synopsis of this just sounds very enchanting it basically follows a magical circus that kind of appears and disappears the next day and we follow two apprentices who are like sorcerers and training who are competing against each other to take over this circus but i think they fall in love which also creates a disaster within the circus itself this is the book that made aaron morgenstern famous and this is the book that so many people say is one of their favorite books of all time so we will see how i feel about it but i'm hoping it's romantic um and enchanting so yes this is a book i for sure hope to read this month and then the next book i want to get to this month is murder of crows by anne bishop this is book two to the other series i read book one back in december and really enjoyed the sort of introduction to this many book urban fantasy romance world this is a story that basically follows our main character meg at the beginning of book one she is essentially escaping a compound she has been trapped in her entire life because she's a blood prophet basically her skin is sold because once it's cut she can kind of see the future because of this she has very little exposure to the outside world so she's very naive and kind of having to learn on her feet as quickly as she can at the beginning of this book she flees and travels to a place called the courtyard and in this world humans and supernatural creatures have been living alongside each other in very tenuous peace that often is war and then goes back to peace and the reality is the others kind of control the natural resources while the humans congregate in cities and kind of create the technological advancements which exist near the city centers themselves which are these huge swaths of land and kind of allows for the others and the humans to interact in some basis mega flees here because human law does not apply and so she'll be able to hide from her previous captor slash employer uh if she stays within this courtyard book one is very much about meg kind of getting acclimated to the world getting acclimated to the courtyard it's honestly very slow moving and really kind of character focused it does have some intense moments of action but because this is a many books series it's really not in any rush it also begins what i expect to be one of the slowest burning romances out there which i like i love a slow burn romance i love that i have to wait forever for anything to happen maybe it's because i love kdramas so much i just love like literally hanging on by a thread for them to like touch hands or something but yeah i'm excited to see how this series continues to unfold i've also read this one many many years ago but i've forgotten everything so i'm excited to re-encounter it and then continue on with this series i liked the first one and i'm looking forward to the second one and then the last book that's on my tbr should be no surprise and i'm sure a lot of you guys are getting to it this month as well and that is crescent city book two or house of blood and earth crescent city world i actually don't even know but the second one is called house of sky in breath and honestly it feels like just the book i have been craving to pick up i have been wanting escapism i want an absurd urban fantasy romance i know sarah j maas is going to deliver that in spades i'm really curious to see where this particular story is going to take off i went into this first one with incredibly low expectations but i ended up really enjoying it i do feel like sarah j maas has created a really interesting urban fantasy world this series is essentially set in a place called crescent city which is a world in a city which is a world in a city where a bunch of supernatural creatures all live together but they're kind of living in different corners around the cities and therefore they're kind of controlled by different powers within each quarter like there's a vampire section an angel section you get the idea our main character bryce at the beginning of book one is living her best life it's honestly a little annoying in book one um but after a tragic event happens to her she finds herself in the middle of an investigation and also meets our other main character hunt and they basically begin working together but they also have this tension of will they won't they will they won't they where they are just unbelievably drawn to one another um and a lot of stuff sort of spirals from there it does have some great steamy romance has great and very entertaining combat again sarah j maas is not my favorite author of all time but i do feel like she can write an entertaining fantasy story and they do really keep me engaged and also kind of take over my life for that moment i'm looking forward to see where the world goes in book two um kind of acknowledging her pattern i feel like there might be an interesting twist thrown in there but who knows so yes i will be picking up the second book to the crescent city series um and i'm looking forward to it and i'll try to vlog it as well alrighty guys those are all the books i hope to read in the month of february let me know down below some books you hope to get to this month as i would love to know and i will see you soon with another video soon byehi guys it's regan and welcome back to another video today i'm gonna be chatting through my february tbr now for the month of february i do have a rather ambitious tbr i am still in the midst of a few books carried over from january but i will say february is a month i do always kind of get the craving for reading some romance and this month i am especially craving some urban fantasy romance personally also the month of february is a bit of a stressful month clay and i have a lot going on behind the scenes so i also wanted to read a few books that could act as escapism cozy fun romance just like easy to get through reads though i still have quite a few intense books that i'm also really looking forward to picking up but without further ado let's go ahead and chat about all the books i hope to read this month the first two books i'm just going to quickly mention as they are my carry-overs from the month of january the first is the dragon reborn by robert jordan this is book three to the wheel of time i am about 300 pages through this book is just under 600 pages so i read just over 50 of this in the month of january i'm currently listening to the audiobook which i am really enjoying this continues to just be an extension a classic kind of quest structure following a variety of characters from this very small remote town as they get thrown headfirst into a quest in prophecy in this book we do learn a lot more about the i sedai and the magic system and rand himself also kind of begins to confront more of his own individual magic and purpose this is truly like a classic quest style story at least from what i've encountered in the first three books it's still a series i'm continuing to enjoy it's not one that's necessarily blowing my mind but i do find it to be a really classic sort of cozy fantasy experience and for that i do find it rather charming um yeah it's kind of like a coming-of-age fantasy in a lot of ways as a lot of the characters are younger and kind of having to confront their own power their own lives their own decisions and growing up and kind of fighting for themselves but yes i do plan to finish book three this month continue listening to the audiobook which i really enjoy doing while playing video games so that's the first book on my tbr the second book is a tale for the time being by ruth ozeki i started this near the tail end of the month and for sure want to continue it and finish it in the early parts of this month i have about 60 of this book left so still a rather large chunk so i will not be giving you like general confirmed opinions about this but so far the writing style has really captured me just the quality of it has already begun to move me but this is a dual perspective story kind of connecting two characters through time and space our first main character is ruth and she basically stumbles upon a lunchbox that washes up on the shores of her very remote home and in the lunchbox is a collection of very strange items and includes the diary of a young girl that she realizes must be living in japan at the time of the tsunami and then the other character we follow is no and she lives in tokyo after recently relocating there with her family she's very lonely and is also bullied in school he does find a lot of solace documenting the life of her grandmother um and these story lines begin to obviously interconnect and intertwine and i love stories that kind of reach out through time and space and again ruth ozeki's writing is absolutely incredible so far so i'm looking forward to finishing this book in the month of february as well next is a why fantasy series i'm so excited to continue and complete this month and that is finishing up the akata witch series by nandi okorafor i read akatawich a few years ago and now that the final book came out a cat a woman i want to marathon books two and three within this series if you're not familiar akatowicz follows our main character sonny and she and her family just move from new york back to nigeria sunny herself is having a hard time fitting in in her new home as she's not allowed to participate in a lot of the activities that the other kids do particularly playing a lot of time outside as she does have albinism at the beginning of book one she actually discovers that she has latent magical abilities and she's actually a free agent and from there she's basically thrown headfirst in a new magical world she makes friends she has to go on quest she has to work to save her town from evil outside forces i was delighted by the first book i loved the world building i loved the magic system and just the overall quality of it was so transporting if you love like magic society secretly existing alongside humanity sort of magic school vibes this is a great series to check out and the third one just came out near the end of january so obviously it just makes it a perfect time to finish the series up and i truly cannot wait i love nanetti okorafor's writing i've read many of her books and short stories are just all incredible so this is a top tier must read this month and i truly cannot wait next up i have decided to start the first book to the next robin hobb series i plan to read this year the first one being the dragon keeper by robin hobb this brings us back to the rain wild kingdom which i'm really really looking forward to i'm actually not entirely sure what characters we follow within this particular quartet i'm actually hoping we're going to be introduced to some new characters but this particular location absolutely enchanted me when we encountered it within the ship of magic or the liveship trader series so i'm really curious to one learn more about this particular location as it does have a rich history of magic and just sort of its connection to the past as well as its current very important connection to the current political reality that's sort of shaking the world around us as we have seen in all of the series leading up to this i love robin hobb's writing obviously this is kind of a no-brainer in terms of picking it up i've heard some excellent things about this from you guys i know many of you really enjoy this it doesn't have fits or the fool i don't think but i am hoping to re-encounter some of my favorite characters in the live ship series and also again meet some new ones i love robin hobb's writing i love her character arc she kills me every time i pick up a book but she is just untouchable incredible stuff it's gonna be great next up i have a middle grade story which i had a goal of reading more middle grade this year as it's just some of my favorite kind of stories to encounter and that is tristan strong punches a hole in the sky by kwami mabalia this is a series i've heard literally nothing bad about i have all three books so if i read this one i do plan to kind of marathon the rest of the books throughout the next couple of months but this series i just hear is so well written and just captivating and such a wonderful middle grade fantasy story and this follows our main character tristan strong who is in seventh grade and at the beginning of the story he is feeling nothing but strong especially after he blames himself after the tragic loss of his best friend after they both are in a bus accident at the beginning of this book he travels to his parents kind of remote farm in alabama their family hoping by giving him a little more space he'll be able to start confronting his grief however shortly after arriving a strange sort of creature appears in his window and steals the journal of his best friend which is the only thing he has left to remember him tristan begins to chase this creature through the night and ends up at a very strange tree on the property of his grandparents farm and there he accidentally punches a hole in the sky creating a gateway to a place called midpass which is a volatile place with a burning sea haunted bone ships and iron monsters that have been hunting the inhabitants of this strange world and there he finds himself in the middle of a war this left the black american gods exhausted and from there i believe we follow tristan as he tries to overcome and survive this new very intense and scary place and also work to get his way back home it just sounds so good i love middle grade fantasy again and i can't wait to pick this book up this month next up i was craving a cozy mystery novel and i just felt like this one fit the bill perfectly that is arsenic in adobo by mia p manasala and this book is described again as a cozy mystery which i'm wanting to read more of this year because i love whodunits and the idea of like a cozy armchair mystery just truly calls out to me in every single way and the synopsis of this book just sounds honestly hilarious and i feel like it's going to center family and food which i also just really enjoy this is actually the first book to a series which all centers kind of culinary mysteries which hopefully i love this and i'll have a whole bunch of additional books to check out but this follows our main character lila and she has recently come back home after a tragic and unfortunate breakup that kind of falls into every rom-com bad trope and now she's home and she's been tasked to save her family's restaurant unfortunately a food critic comes to visit which also happens to be her ex-boyfriend and shortly dies after visiting the restaurant and now lila finds herself and her family kind of in the center of the investigation so she decides to try to solve it herself again the synopsis just sounds really cute while also being a little like obviously thriller focused i love that it centers food and family i'm just hoping this is fun and funny and also just intriguing something that will get me flipping the pages this is a book that i've had on my shelf now for a few months and i have been dying to read it so i feel like it's a perfect book for this month the next book on my tbr is another intense option but it sounds like a sci-fi thriller in space that will just absolutely grip me and that is far from the light of heaven by tayde thompson and honestly just the synopsis of this book absolutely hooked me as one of those auto buys once i read like the first few lines but this is a story set on a colony ship called ragtime and this ship has been traveling light years to bring its 1 000 sleeping passenger safely to a new system to go live about their lives however when one of our main characters michelle a crew member on the ship wakes to do sort of a routine check she realizes that many of the passengers will never wake up again he quickly sends out a distressed signal to an investigator and from there they begin to try to unfold this very sinister plot but as they begin to dive deeper into this plot they realize that the reach of this investigation is going further than they could ever imagine again this just sounds like a gripping sort of sort of like a whodunit larger political scale mystery story in space i like that it is a sci-fi story but it's also kind of condensed to this one particular ship it sounds like it's gonna be very dark but i'm hoping again it'll be a book that i will not be able to put down my last selection of books are all kind of in the romance category they're all like romance and fantasy books the first one particularly i'm so excited for because i know so many of you guys love this book so much it's definitely like a fan favorite across the world like it's a bookstore favorite as well and that is the night circus by erin morgenstern i'm so excited to finally pick this book up i've read the starless c by her and really really enjoyed it just her writing style i love stories written with a heavy hand lyricism metaphor flowery give it to me and the overall synopsis of this just sounds very enchanting it basically follows a magical circus that kind of appears and disappears the next day and we follow two apprentices who are like sorcerers and training who are competing against each other to take over this circus but i think they fall in love which also creates a disaster within the circus itself this is the book that made aaron morgenstern famous and this is the book that so many people say is one of their favorite books of all time so we will see how i feel about it but i'm hoping it's romantic um and enchanting so yes this is a book i for sure hope to read this month and then the next book i want to get to this month is murder of crows by anne bishop this is book two to the other series i read book one back in december and really enjoyed the sort of introduction to this many book urban fantasy romance world this is a story that basically follows our main character meg at the beginning of book one she is essentially escaping a compound she has been trapped in her entire life because she's a blood prophet basically her skin is sold because once it's cut she can kind of see the future because of this she has very little exposure to the outside world so she's very naive and kind of having to learn on her feet as quickly as she can at the beginning of this book she flees and travels to a place called the courtyard and in this world humans and supernatural creatures have been living alongside each other in very tenuous peace that often is war and then goes back to peace and the reality is the others kind of control the natural resources while the humans congregate in cities and kind of create the technological advancements which exist near the city centers themselves which are these huge swaths of land and kind of allows for the others and the humans to interact in some basis mega flees here because human law does not apply and so she'll be able to hide from her previous captor slash employer uh if she stays within this courtyard book one is very much about meg kind of getting acclimated to the world getting acclimated to the courtyard it's honestly very slow moving and really kind of character focused it does have some intense moments of action but because this is a many books series it's really not in any rush it also begins what i expect to be one of the slowest burning romances out there which i like i love a slow burn romance i love that i have to wait forever for anything to happen maybe it's because i love kdramas so much i just love like literally hanging on by a thread for them to like touch hands or something but yeah i'm excited to see how this series continues to unfold i've also read this one many many years ago but i've forgotten everything so i'm excited to re-encounter it and then continue on with this series i liked the first one and i'm looking forward to the second one and then the last book that's on my tbr should be no surprise and i'm sure a lot of you guys are getting to it this month as well and that is crescent city book two or house of blood and earth crescent city world i actually don't even know but the second one is called house of sky in breath and honestly it feels like just the book i have been craving to pick up i have been wanting escapism i want an absurd urban fantasy romance i know sarah j maas is going to deliver that in spades i'm really curious to see where this particular story is going to take off i went into this first one with incredibly low expectations but i ended up really enjoying it i do feel like sarah j maas has created a really interesting urban fantasy world this series is essentially set in a place called crescent city which is a world in a city which is a world in a city where a bunch of supernatural creatures all live together but they're kind of living in different corners around the cities and therefore they're kind of controlled by different powers within each quarter like there's a vampire section an angel section you get the idea our main character bryce at the beginning of book one is living her best life it's honestly a little annoying in book one um but after a tragic event happens to her she finds herself in the middle of an investigation and also meets our other main character hunt and they basically begin working together but they also have this tension of will they won't they will they won't they where they are just unbelievably drawn to one another um and a lot of stuff sort of spirals from there it does have some great steamy romance has great and very entertaining combat again sarah j maas is not my favorite author of all time but i do feel like she can write an entertaining fantasy story and they do really keep me engaged and also kind of take over my life for that moment i'm looking forward to see where the world goes in book two um kind of acknowledging her pattern i feel like there might be an interesting twist thrown in there but who knows so yes i will be picking up the second book to the crescent city series um and i'm looking forward to it and i'll try to vlog it as well alrighty guys those are all the books i hope to read in the month of february let me know down below some books you hope to get to this month as i would love to know and i will see you soon with another video soon bye\n"