**Breaking All the Rules: A Month of Unconventional Reading**

This month, I decided to break all the rules and read books that didn't fit my usual reading schedule. I started with "The Dating Plan" by Sarah Desai, which is a companion sequel novel to her previous book "The Marriage Game". I liked the first book more than this one, but I still enjoyed it immensely.

"The Dating Plan" follows the story of Daisy, a smart and talented software engineer who loves Marvel and DC Comics. She works at a company called Organic Care, where she really likes her co-workers and wants to do right by them. When she runs into someone from her past named Liam, an old flame from high school, they decide to be fake engaged. The reason behind this decision is that it would benefit both of them, but things quickly get complicated as they try to navigate their feelings for each other.

I loved Daisy's character - she's Indian-American and loves her family, including her big, boisterous family with lots of aunties who are always involved in her life. She also has anxiety, which is represented beautifully in the book. Her dog, an anxiety dog, helps her cope with her stress and anxiety. I appreciated how smart and caring Daisy was, and how she didn't compromise her values to fit into societal expectations.

Liam, on the other hand, is a toxic character who comes across as arrogant and overconfident. He's got a lot of baggage from his past relationships, but he's trying to turn over a new leaf. As I read through the book, I couldn't help but feel frustrated with Liam at times - he was like a big, hot mess! But despite his toxic tendencies, there's something charming about him that makes you want to root for Daisy and Liam together.

One of my favorite aspects of "The Dating Plan" is the family dynamic. The author does a great job of portraying the complexities of Indian-American culture and the importance of family in one's life. I loved how Daisy's parents were always pushing her to get married and have kids, while also wanting to protect her from getting hurt. It was a beautifully nuanced portrayal of cultural expectations versus individual desires.

Overall, I gave "The Dating Plan" four out of five stars because it was a delightful read that had everything: steamy romance, lovable characters, and a healthy dose of humor. While it wasn't my favorite book of the month (that honor goes to Rachel and Solomon's "X-Talk"), I still adored Daisy and Liam's story.

**A New Favorite Author**

One of the most exciting aspects of reading is discovering new authors who can captivate you with their writing style. And that's exactly what happened when I read "The Dating Plan". Sarah Desai is a new favorite author of mine, and I'm so excited to dive into her other works. Her writing style is witty, engaging, and relatable - everything I look for in a good book.

**A New Favorite Romance**

I also fell head over heels in love with the hate-to-love romance trope in "The Dating Plan". There's something about watching two people start out as enemies and gradually develop feelings for each other that just captivates me. And let's be real - who doesn't love a good fake engagement? The chemistry between Daisy and Liam was palpable, and I loved how they slowly began to trust each other.

**The Power of Podcasts**

One thing that really stood out to me about "The Dating Plan" was the incorporation of podcasts into the story. As someone who loves podcasts, it was amazing to see them represented in a novel. The idea of a podcast dedicated to relationship advice is genius, and I loved how the author wove it seamlessly into the narrative.

**Seattle Setting**

Another aspect of "The Dating Plan" that I adored was the setting - Seattle! Who wouldn't want to read about the Emerald City, with its stunning natural beauty and vibrant cultural scene? The author did a great job of capturing the essence of Seattle, from the coffee shops to the music venues. It's clear that she's done her research and is passionate about the city.

**The Future of Reading**

As I look back on my reading month, I'm grateful for the unconventional choices I made. "The Dating Plan" may not have been my favorite book, but it was definitely a highlight. And who knows - maybe next month will be brighter and more full of promise. Until then, I'll keep exploring new genres and authors, always on the lookout for that special something that makes me excited to read.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone and welcome to all the books i read in january i read a total of nine books i think honestly it was kind of a rocky start to the year usually i start off the year like up and running i'm ready to read all the things and i'm just really enamored and i just want to read this year was different i think seasonal depression really hit me hard this year um especially with kovitz still going on and ramping up especially where i live and also with just how bleak it is where i'm living as well it's just i didn't feel like reading so i only read nine books which in retrospect is a lot but some of the books i read this month i just did not enjoy so there's that as always i'm going to start out with the book i like the least working up to my favorite book of the month and if i talked about any books in a review i'll leave it down below i think i did like one review this month so i'm just failing on all fronts here you know sometimes you start off the year strong sometimes you don't either way it's okay the first book i want to talk about is if i disappear by lazy by eliza jane berger so i was really excited for this book um it was in my most anticipated books of the year and i just i love a good mystery letter where it's like has a podcast centered around it this one just let me down so mentally much i gave it a three overall i might put it to like a two i don't know i still have to think about it so this book is all about a character named sarah and she has been through a lot she's had a failed she's had a failed marriage she has also had a miscarriage there's trigger warnings for that so she's just feeling really just not happy and she really finds joy in listening to this one true crime podcast run by this girl named rachel she just really loves it and she knows it's preparing her for something and then one day she learns that the podcast hosts rachel actually goes missing so sarah knows that she is meant to find her like this has been why she's listened to her podcast she just knows that this is her sole purpose so she like drops everything and she goes to where rachel lives which is like in this really like big ranch like up in the mountains in the middle of like nowhere like no cell reception no nothing and she like disguises herself and gets a job at um rachel's parents like ranch and starts to try to figure out things and that's kind of what the book is about overall i thought it was boring i really didn't like the setting it just there wasn't a lot happening the ending was really good though i think i i did enjoy the ending the ending is one that's going to slap you in the face so i did like that but other than that i just didn't enjoy it i didn't have a good time you know i don't know it's with me i either really love a mystery thriller or i don't like it there's no in between for me usually i'm not one to be like it was okay i just i didn't enjoy this one i don't know i could be alone i haven't read a ton of reviews on it so if you liked it or not let me know but sadly i didn't really enjoy it next is an ebook that i read which is called much ado about you by samantha young this is about a character named evie who lives in chicago and again like our last character she's just kind of at a crossroads in her life where she's not happy at all and somehow she gets the whim to like move to england and so she goes to england and goes this really small town in england and she gets a job at this like bookstore where she can actually live and also run the bookstore like it's a dream come true really it's like a store called must do about books too and there she falls in love with the village she also really falls in like with this rugged farmer named ron and it was cute it wasn't my favorite romance i liked the character evie but also didn't like her she would be in everybody's business all the time she would try to fix situations and ultimately she was doing the right like ultimately she was doing good she would try to help somebody but i just felt she meddled too much in people's lives but yet when something like they were with romance books i feel like there's always like you get your romance and then you get one big confrontation and that kind of really breaks things up and then things get back together you know it's kind of the generic formula it's okay i love romance so i don't hate it but this one in particular the big blowout i was like this is so overly dramatic it that was blown up way out of proportion i just didn't enjoy it so i would give this a three if you like love romance love books about bookstores definitely check it out but it wasn't one of my favorite romances i've ever read i will say that next up is another ebook i read it's called it's kind of a cheesy love story by lauren morale this is in a this is a y contemporary i read this one because i was feeling slumpish and i had my neck alley and i was like let me just read a wide contemporary to get me out of the funk and those always work for me so this one is about this girl named beck who was literally born in like a pizza place like her mom went in there to have dinner one night and what do you know she's in the pizza bathroom giving birth to a baby so she's known as always the pizza girl and she goes there every year gets her picture taken and now she's 16 17 and she needs a job and so she gets a job at this pizza place and it's all about her working at this pizza place while also trying to you know meet new friends her co-workers because they're much more geekier and she's much more cool and so she's got two different friend groups and she feels like she has to be two different people like she can be herself the geeky self with her co-workers but she has to be somebody completely different when she's with a real friend so the whole book is about her trying to figure out like who she is and to embrace the real her to embrace the geekiness i could understand because i felt that way a lot in high school but it was cute it was a typical y contemporary book i would give it a three i like the fact that i was told in pizza place because who doesn't love beets but i mean it was it was just what i needed at the time those are like books that i will read to get me out of a slump a surefire way too so at three it was solid it was cute there's something more i could say about it stop is an adult romance shipped by angie hoffman this is about um a character henley who works as like a cruise marketing director for this really really small cruise line and she's up for a promotion and she really wants it but it's up with her and this other guy named graham that she works with who lives in another state he like kind of teleworks and they loathe each other pretty much and so the promotion's up and their boss decides hey you know why are you guys going to get this promotion if you've never even been on one of our really small cruises like it's a really small cruise so they both go on this cruise to the galapagos islands and of course things happen it's a typical hate to love romance that i really enjoyed i would give it i'm bringing half stars back this year because rules are being thrown out the window apparently i would give it a three and a half it was cute it's definitely a great summer read obviously you know it's about the galapagos islands and them going on all these different like destinations and things like that it was cute um it does have a lot of workplace in it so if you want a book that has to feature a woman that's really like loves her job and wants to do great in it this is a great one to read i love reading a strong female that knows what she wants knows what she wants out of her career and things like that it was cute um i probably should have read it in summertime but maybe if i read it in the bleakest of winter it'll give me some hope for summer i don't know why winter's affecting me so much this year but it is but regardless it was cute like most of the books i read were kind of average this month next up is another summary read you have a match by emma lord sama lord wrote tweet cute last year which was one of my favorite y contemporaries and it's one of my favorite white categories of all time so i was very excited to read her sophomore book and it was okay i it's kind of like the parent trap also um it takes two by like mary kate and ashley olsen it really reminded me of because they both take place in camp and i just love that camp atmosphere so the atmosphere and setting was there it's about this one girl named abby and her friends decide to randomly sign up for this like dna test just you know for fun and so she does it as well and then she learns hey she has a full-blooded sister out there that she has never known about and lives like a few towns away from her so they start talking online and they decide to meet up at this summer camp that one of them works at and so she goes there and she meets her sister she's very different from that and the whole book is about them trying to figure out why their parents gave you know her sister up for adoption like what was the story behind that and i did like the sister element a lot to it i think this book is a typical you know why contemporary where you have a really confused teen of where they want to go in life what love decisions they want to make also watch drawing with family and sometimes with those books i can really love them and identify with them even though i'm 32. am i 32 i'm 30 something but this one i definitely felt like our main character what is her name abby was very juvenile like i had a really hard time like she would make these situations because she also had a crush on her best friend and it was so clearly evident that he liked her too and i'm just like let's say something but you know when you're 17 you don't do that stuff because it's scary and i you know i get that because if i like now i'm like very honest i'm like if i got something to say i'll say you know to somebody that i love but when i was 17 no i wouldn't do that never never never so you know the more i think about it you know it's kind of hard to separate my age from the y contemporary aspect of these characters but overall it was cute it takes place like i said in a camp and it's like in seattle so you get the pacific northwest vibes to it and it was adorable i loved reading about the sisterhood also the romance that finally came into fruition and just her journey she was a little bit i want to say unbearable at times but sometimes i just didn't enjoy her as much but i didn't like this one as much as tweet cute that's for sure but i would give this three and a half it was solid again if you like reading summary books read that in summer because camp time perfect time except i have this big behemoth from blooded ash by jennifer l armentrout so this one is an adult it's labeled as an adult romance i'm putting as a little romance fantasy paranormal whatever i don't know if there's so many different categories so this one i read because it won the goodreads award last year for romance and everyone was talking about it especially a lot of people were recommending it to me because vampires you guys know my love for vampires you're not wrong at all but i read it and i enjoyed it i gave it a 4 out of 5. but this is way too lengthy it was so so so info dumpy i was like this is ridiculous so the way i can describe this is about this is about a girl named poppy who is a maiden and basically she has to wear a veil she can't expose any skin she's never meant to be touched to be looked at to be talked to because she is being saved for the gods for like ascension and things like that and that's kind of our whole plot of this book and basically the whole book kind of starts off with her you learn about her and you learn that she gets this new bodyguard called hawk and oh hawk and poppy are very attracted to each other what could happen and then you learn things there's vampires involved like werewolves things like that but it's a guilty pleasure read and i don't hate those at all i read plenty of them i mean they're not really guilty pleasure books i just enjoy them but it's just they're addicting ones like i ain't gonna get much out of them but a good time it was steamy it was fun it had vampires in it i definitely will be continuing out the series i'm not in any rush because good lord this is insanely thick um but i might give it a four um i know the second book came out the third book's coming out this year so i should probably get on it but i don't know i just i wish it wasn't so and vote up and it wasn't so long i don't think it needed to be that long maybe it's just me maybe i have a huge aversion to long books now who knows 2021 me is just a vastly different person apparently next up is a y contemporary a faux love story by lonely fun fact i wasn't even planning to read this till next month and i was like i was just still in a slump and i'm like i just need to read another cute white contemporary and i read this and i really enjoyed it i'm not surprised i was i knew i was gonna like it so this is about two characters hopefully i pronounced them right about bao and lin and basically they um they have neighboring restaurants they live across the street from each other their parents their parents restaurants are across the street from each other and like your parents hate each other they have faux restaurants and they're kind of rivals and so they're not allowed to talk to each other it's like a romeo and juliet situation they go to the same school not allowing each other and then one day they get paired up on an assignment and they start talking they learn that they would really like to be friends and dot dot dot something more and they just learn more about their families of why their families really despise each other like there's history there and also it's about their family it's a great book i loved reading about these characters and also about their parents and how they traveled from vietnam to here and how they've done a lot for their family and a lot of books where it has asian american characters a lot of it has family because they have a lot of um respect and honor for their parents because their parents have done so much for them and so you know you're supposed to do that for your parents obviously and i loved reading about that the dynamic between them because lynn wanted really to be an artist but she knows that her parents probably would not respect her decision but she still wants to respect her parents a lot and honor them so it was just a really cutesy book with great food great atmosphere great family great representation it was just adorable a perfect book to read near valentine's day i disliked it a lot like i uh i loved the whole aspect of it i gave it a four did i say that it was really cute another book i was supposed to read in february i just decided to break all the rules this month was the dating plan by sarah desai so this is the companion sequel novel to the marriage game which i read last year i liked i will say i like this one a lot more so this book follows a character named daisy who is very very smart she's like this what is she exactly she's a software engineer and she loves marvel and like dc comics and all that stuff and basically her company is about to go under she works at this company called organic care and she really likes her co-workers and wants to do right by them and she runs into somebody from her past named liam and liam was her brother's best friend when they were in high school she had a crush on him for forever in fact that he was supposed to go to prom with her and that was supposed to be like their big you know night out and things like that and he ditched her and he never talked to her again until he runs into her 10 years later and so they run into each other daisy obviously still has a lot of animosity towards liam somehow through a turn of events you just have to read the book they decide to be fake engaged because it would benefit them both and so they do just that and of course things get rocky from there i really enjoyed this book i love daisy daisy is a character she's indian-american and she really loves her parents and her family she has a big family with lots of aunties and she really loves them and she wants them to accept her love life and kind of also not pressure her so much with her love life loved how smart she was how she cared about other people and also her anxiety she has like an anxiety dog she has a dog that helps her with her anxiety which i thought was just amazing representation when it comes to anxiety um liam as a character he was just like he was such a very masculine kind of toxic guy where he was like i'm so like he knew he was attractive he knew he was hot he knew that you know he was also very like if any guy looked at daisy he was like don't look at her don't go home with him all this other stuff like he was just very like over the top like he was he was full of himself he was cocky that's the word i'm looking for and it got to the point where she's like like get over yourself like i don't think you're in that great but i really like daisy and him together and i think he did kind of mellow out but he's still i think i was going to have that cocky demeanor ugh i don't know but overall it was super cute i really enjoyed it it was steamy it was i love the family aspect of it i love the romance and it was just adorable i did like this one more than the marriage game which is why i'm giving this a four out of five and i really love the writing my favorite book of the month was actually an e-read and that is the x-talk by rachel and solomon you guys know how much i love her she's written like three wide contemporary books that i love and adore and this is her first foray into romance and so this one is all about these two characters named dominic and shea they work at npr in seattle and their station's not doing so good and so shea pitches out this idea for a new radio show podcast called the x talk where you have two x's and they just literally talk about the relationship and give relationship advice and things like that um and the boss is like great you and dominic can lead it but they're like we're not exes so they have to fake the whole thing that they were in a relationship though they're not together anymore and it's kind of all about that so load each other so with another hate to love romance my favorite trope of all time who's surprised there and it was just adorable i love the npr fact the podcast element i love that i love the setting of the book i love the steaminess of it i love the hate to love romance i just i was here for it not surprised at all i gave this five out of five because i love rachel and solomon and i'm very excited that she's going into different genres because i think she did really well with this one those are all the books i read this month here's to hope in february would be a little bit brighter even though february is so bleak i'm just not even looking forward to it whatsoever but here's to hoping i would love to know if you read any of these books or what you read this month thank you guys so much for watching and i will see my next video bye youhello everyone and welcome to all the books i read in january i read a total of nine books i think honestly it was kind of a rocky start to the year usually i start off the year like up and running i'm ready to read all the things and i'm just really enamored and i just want to read this year was different i think seasonal depression really hit me hard this year um especially with kovitz still going on and ramping up especially where i live and also with just how bleak it is where i'm living as well it's just i didn't feel like reading so i only read nine books which in retrospect is a lot but some of the books i read this month i just did not enjoy so there's that as always i'm going to start out with the book i like the least working up to my favorite book of the month and if i talked about any books in a review i'll leave it down below i think i did like one review this month so i'm just failing on all fronts here you know sometimes you start off the year strong sometimes you don't either way it's okay the first book i want to talk about is if i disappear by lazy by eliza jane berger so i was really excited for this book um it was in my most anticipated books of the year and i just i love a good mystery letter where it's like has a podcast centered around it this one just let me down so mentally much i gave it a three overall i might put it to like a two i don't know i still have to think about it so this book is all about a character named sarah and she has been through a lot she's had a failed she's had a failed marriage she has also had a miscarriage there's trigger warnings for that so she's just feeling really just not happy and she really finds joy in listening to this one true crime podcast run by this girl named rachel she just really loves it and she knows it's preparing her for something and then one day she learns that the podcast hosts rachel actually goes missing so sarah knows that she is meant to find her like this has been why she's listened to her podcast she just knows that this is her sole purpose so she like drops everything and she goes to where rachel lives which is like in this really like big ranch like up in the mountains in the middle of like nowhere like no cell reception no nothing and she like disguises herself and gets a job at um rachel's parents like ranch and starts to try to figure out things and that's kind of what the book is about overall i thought it was boring i really didn't like the setting it just there wasn't a lot happening the ending was really good though i think i i did enjoy the ending the ending is one that's going to slap you in the face so i did like that but other than that i just didn't enjoy it i didn't have a good time you know i don't know it's with me i either really love a mystery thriller or i don't like it there's no in between for me usually i'm not one to be like it was okay i just i didn't enjoy this one i don't know i could be alone i haven't read a ton of reviews on it so if you liked it or not let me know but sadly i didn't really enjoy it next is an ebook that i read which is called much ado about you by samantha young this is about a character named evie who lives in chicago and again like our last character she's just kind of at a crossroads in her life where she's not happy at all and somehow she gets the whim to like move to england and so she goes to england and goes this really small town in england and she gets a job at this like bookstore where she can actually live and also run the bookstore like it's a dream come true really it's like a store called must do about books too and there she falls in love with the village she also really falls in like with this rugged farmer named ron and it was cute it wasn't my favorite romance i liked the character evie but also didn't like her she would be in everybody's business all the time she would try to fix situations and ultimately she was doing the right like ultimately she was doing good she would try to help somebody but i just felt she meddled too much in people's lives but yet when something like they were with romance books i feel like there's always like you get your romance and then you get one big confrontation and that kind of really breaks things up and then things get back together you know it's kind of the generic formula it's okay i love romance so i don't hate it but this one in particular the big blowout i was like this is so overly dramatic it that was blown up way out of proportion i just didn't enjoy it so i would give this a three if you like love romance love books about bookstores definitely check it out but it wasn't one of my favorite romances i've ever read i will say that next up is another ebook i read it's called it's kind of a cheesy love story by lauren morale this is in a this is a y contemporary i read this one because i was feeling slumpish and i had my neck alley and i was like let me just read a wide contemporary to get me out of the funk and those always work for me so this one is about this girl named beck who was literally born in like a pizza place like her mom went in there to have dinner one night and what do you know she's in the pizza bathroom giving birth to a baby so she's known as always the pizza girl and she goes there every year gets her picture taken and now she's 16 17 and she needs a job and so she gets a job at this pizza place and it's all about her working at this pizza place while also trying to you know meet new friends her co-workers because they're much more geekier and she's much more cool and so she's got two different friend groups and she feels like she has to be two different people like she can be herself the geeky self with her co-workers but she has to be somebody completely different when she's with a real friend so the whole book is about her trying to figure out like who she is and to embrace the real her to embrace the geekiness i could understand because i felt that way a lot in high school but it was cute it was a typical y contemporary book i would give it a three i like the fact that i was told in pizza place because who doesn't love beets but i mean it was it was just what i needed at the time those are like books that i will read to get me out of a slump a surefire way too so at three it was solid it was cute there's something more i could say about it stop is an adult romance shipped by angie hoffman this is about um a character henley who works as like a cruise marketing director for this really really small cruise line and she's up for a promotion and she really wants it but it's up with her and this other guy named graham that she works with who lives in another state he like kind of teleworks and they loathe each other pretty much and so the promotion's up and their boss decides hey you know why are you guys going to get this promotion if you've never even been on one of our really small cruises like it's a really small cruise so they both go on this cruise to the galapagos islands and of course things happen it's a typical hate to love romance that i really enjoyed i would give it i'm bringing half stars back this year because rules are being thrown out the window apparently i would give it a three and a half it was cute it's definitely a great summer read obviously you know it's about the galapagos islands and them going on all these different like destinations and things like that it was cute um it does have a lot of workplace in it so if you want a book that has to feature a woman that's really like loves her job and wants to do great in it this is a great one to read i love reading a strong female that knows what she wants knows what she wants out of her career and things like that it was cute um i probably should have read it in summertime but maybe if i read it in the bleakest of winter it'll give me some hope for summer i don't know why winter's affecting me so much this year but it is but regardless it was cute like most of the books i read were kind of average this month next up is another summary read you have a match by emma lord sama lord wrote tweet cute last year which was one of my favorite y contemporaries and it's one of my favorite white categories of all time so i was very excited to read her sophomore book and it was okay i it's kind of like the parent trap also um it takes two by like mary kate and ashley olsen it really reminded me of because they both take place in camp and i just love that camp atmosphere so the atmosphere and setting was there it's about this one girl named abby and her friends decide to randomly sign up for this like dna test just you know for fun and so she does it as well and then she learns hey she has a full-blooded sister out there that she has never known about and lives like a few towns away from her so they start talking online and they decide to meet up at this summer camp that one of them works at and so she goes there and she meets her sister she's very different from that and the whole book is about them trying to figure out why their parents gave you know her sister up for adoption like what was the story behind that and i did like the sister element a lot to it i think this book is a typical you know why contemporary where you have a really confused teen of where they want to go in life what love decisions they want to make also watch drawing with family and sometimes with those books i can really love them and identify with them even though i'm 32. am i 32 i'm 30 something but this one i definitely felt like our main character what is her name abby was very juvenile like i had a really hard time like she would make these situations because she also had a crush on her best friend and it was so clearly evident that he liked her too and i'm just like let's say something but you know when you're 17 you don't do that stuff because it's scary and i you know i get that because if i like now i'm like very honest i'm like if i got something to say i'll say you know to somebody that i love but when i was 17 no i wouldn't do that never never never so you know the more i think about it you know it's kind of hard to separate my age from the y contemporary aspect of these characters but overall it was cute it takes place like i said in a camp and it's like in seattle so you get the pacific northwest vibes to it and it was adorable i loved reading about the sisterhood also the romance that finally came into fruition and just her journey she was a little bit i want to say unbearable at times but sometimes i just didn't enjoy her as much but i didn't like this one as much as tweet cute that's for sure but i would give this three and a half it was solid again if you like reading summary books read that in summer because camp time perfect time except i have this big behemoth from blooded ash by jennifer l armentrout so this one is an adult it's labeled as an adult romance i'm putting as a little romance fantasy paranormal whatever i don't know if there's so many different categories so this one i read because it won the goodreads award last year for romance and everyone was talking about it especially a lot of people were recommending it to me because vampires you guys know my love for vampires you're not wrong at all but i read it and i enjoyed it i gave it a 4 out of 5. but this is way too lengthy it was so so so info dumpy i was like this is ridiculous so the way i can describe this is about this is about a girl named poppy who is a maiden and basically she has to wear a veil she can't expose any skin she's never meant to be touched to be looked at to be talked to because she is being saved for the gods for like ascension and things like that and that's kind of our whole plot of this book and basically the whole book kind of starts off with her you learn about her and you learn that she gets this new bodyguard called hawk and oh hawk and poppy are very attracted to each other what could happen and then you learn things there's vampires involved like werewolves things like that but it's a guilty pleasure read and i don't hate those at all i read plenty of them i mean they're not really guilty pleasure books i just enjoy them but it's just they're addicting ones like i ain't gonna get much out of them but a good time it was steamy it was fun it had vampires in it i definitely will be continuing out the series i'm not in any rush because good lord this is insanely thick um but i might give it a four um i know the second book came out the third book's coming out this year so i should probably get on it but i don't know i just i wish it wasn't so and vote up and it wasn't so long i don't think it needed to be that long maybe it's just me maybe i have a huge aversion to long books now who knows 2021 me is just a vastly different person apparently next up is a y contemporary a faux love story by lonely fun fact i wasn't even planning to read this till next month and i was like i was just still in a slump and i'm like i just need to read another cute white contemporary and i read this and i really enjoyed it i'm not surprised i was i knew i was gonna like it so this is about two characters hopefully i pronounced them right about bao and lin and basically they um they have neighboring restaurants they live across the street from each other their parents their parents restaurants are across the street from each other and like your parents hate each other they have faux restaurants and they're kind of rivals and so they're not allowed to talk to each other it's like a romeo and juliet situation they go to the same school not allowing each other and then one day they get paired up on an assignment and they start talking they learn that they would really like to be friends and dot dot dot something more and they just learn more about their families of why their families really despise each other like there's history there and also it's about their family it's a great book i loved reading about these characters and also about their parents and how they traveled from vietnam to here and how they've done a lot for their family and a lot of books where it has asian american characters a lot of it has family because they have a lot of um respect and honor for their parents because their parents have done so much for them and so you know you're supposed to do that for your parents obviously and i loved reading about that the dynamic between them because lynn wanted really to be an artist but she knows that her parents probably would not respect her decision but she still wants to respect her parents a lot and honor them so it was just a really cutesy book with great food great atmosphere great family great representation it was just adorable a perfect book to read near valentine's day i disliked it a lot like i uh i loved the whole aspect of it i gave it a four did i say that it was really cute another book i was supposed to read in february i just decided to break all the rules this month was the dating plan by sarah desai so this is the companion sequel novel to the marriage game which i read last year i liked i will say i like this one a lot more so this book follows a character named daisy who is very very smart she's like this what is she exactly she's a software engineer and she loves marvel and like dc comics and all that stuff and basically her company is about to go under she works at this company called organic care and she really likes her co-workers and wants to do right by them and she runs into somebody from her past named liam and liam was her brother's best friend when they were in high school she had a crush on him for forever in fact that he was supposed to go to prom with her and that was supposed to be like their big you know night out and things like that and he ditched her and he never talked to her again until he runs into her 10 years later and so they run into each other daisy obviously still has a lot of animosity towards liam somehow through a turn of events you just have to read the book they decide to be fake engaged because it would benefit them both and so they do just that and of course things get rocky from there i really enjoyed this book i love daisy daisy is a character she's indian-american and she really loves her parents and her family she has a big family with lots of aunties and she really loves them and she wants them to accept her love life and kind of also not pressure her so much with her love life loved how smart she was how she cared about other people and also her anxiety she has like an anxiety dog she has a dog that helps her with her anxiety which i thought was just amazing representation when it comes to anxiety um liam as a character he was just like he was such a very masculine kind of toxic guy where he was like i'm so like he knew he was attractive he knew he was hot he knew that you know he was also very like if any guy looked at daisy he was like don't look at her don't go home with him all this other stuff like he was just very like over the top like he was he was full of himself he was cocky that's the word i'm looking for and it got to the point where she's like like get over yourself like i don't think you're in that great but i really like daisy and him together and i think he did kind of mellow out but he's still i think i was going to have that cocky demeanor ugh i don't know but overall it was super cute i really enjoyed it it was steamy it was i love the family aspect of it i love the romance and it was just adorable i did like this one more than the marriage game which is why i'm giving this a four out of five and i really love the writing my favorite book of the month was actually an e-read and that is the x-talk by rachel and solomon you guys know how much i love her she's written like three wide contemporary books that i love and adore and this is her first foray into romance and so this one is all about these two characters named dominic and shea they work at npr in seattle and their station's not doing so good and so shea pitches out this idea for a new radio show podcast called the x talk where you have two x's and they just literally talk about the relationship and give relationship advice and things like that um and the boss is like great you and dominic can lead it but they're like we're not exes so they have to fake the whole thing that they were in a relationship though they're not together anymore and it's kind of all about that so load each other so with another hate to love romance my favorite trope of all time who's surprised there and it was just adorable i love the npr fact the podcast element i love that i love the setting of the book i love the steaminess of it i love the hate to love romance i just i was here for it not surprised at all i gave this five out of five because i love rachel and solomon and i'm very excited that she's going into different genres because i think she did really well with this one those are all the books i read this month here's to hope in february would be a little bit brighter even though february is so bleak i'm just not even looking forward to it whatsoever but here's to hoping i would love to know if you read any of these books or what you read this month thank you guys so much for watching and i will see my next video bye you\n"