A Month of New Books: September Picking and Reading Update

These sound fun! I need to pick me up a Cassandra Clare book picked me up, I now have these on my shelf which I'm grateful for. So big shout out to Simon Schuster for sending these my way. I will never tire of a Shadowhunter's moment next book is a long-awaited sequel for myself and that is the Heart of the Flames by Nikki Powell predo this. The sequel to Crown of Feathers, which I read last year, and honestly feel like is one of the most underrated YA fantasy series out there. I don't see a lot of people talking about it but it's so good. It's a YA fantasy multi-perspective story following two sisters who essentially are very much at odds with each other. I would say they are opposites almost to an extreme sort of deadly way. They essentially come from a long line of Phoenix warriors that have since been very oppressed within this fantasy world and kind of killed off by the now ruling political body at the beginning of the story. Both girls are on a quest to try to hatch a phoenix to help reclaim their power back. Um, there's some complications in this and kind of tearing the two sisters apart and their destinies apart. We follow one as they kind of join a group of Phoenix warriors and the other as they try to enact their revenge. There's also a prince involved and some hiding in plain sight. It was such a good first book, I loved every second of it. I'm really excited to see how the story plays out in the second one, which is rather chunky. Um, I actually think I'm going to reread Crown of Feathers and then jump into this sometime soon but yeah, I really really enjoyed it. The Phoenix magic was awesome, the sisterly conflict amazing, so I'm excited to have the sequel and add it to my long list of books I need to reread because you know that's also a thing.

Next up, I just generally have to give a shout out to Instagram and YouTube for talking so much about it, and then me finding out about it through that. And that is from Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout. This I believe is like a romance-focused fantasy novel, so I think it's like very romance-centered but in a fantasy setting which appeals to me at every sense of the word. I didn't even know this was a thing, I mean I kind of knew it was a thing because Sarah J. Maas books are pretty romance-centric but I think this is like romance romance in a fantasy setting and I was like yes please obviously. I read a lot of romance this year and really enjoyed it so I was excited about this prospect. I actually have read quite a few Jennifer L. Armentrout books and really liked them, so I honestly don't really know too much about this. I'm assuming yeah, a maiden, a duty, a kingdom, so I'm guessing some sort of girl who has a destiny she must fulfill, some sort of probably soldier who will need to protect her is my guess, and then a kingdom kind of like tearing them apart. Don't even know if that's accurate let me read the synopsis to make sure. Yep, I was 100% right and I'm not gonna lie, I'm here for every single second of it so yeah, I am thrilled to have this. I feel like it's gonna be so entertaining, I think it's gonna be a great time and I think the sequel's coming out very soon as well, so I bought this and I'm pumped for it. I think I'm gonna try to do a reading vlog for this too, tbd though.

Last but not least, I picked up a work of nonfiction, which is The Inconvenient Indian Here, by Thomas King. This is a work of nonfiction and Thomas King is a very well-known and beloved author specifically known for his writing in terms of indigenous and Native experience. Personally trying to continue and also expand my non-fiction reading that I've been really focusing on over the past four or five months, but this is specifically supposed to be a curious account of Native people in North America, and I think it's looking at specific historical events, but kind of reworking the perspective from actually the indigenous and Native people impacted by these historic events. I hear Thomas King is ruthlessly honest and at times humorous throughout this. I do plan to read more works by Thomas King but I thought I would start here. But yeah, I did pick this up and I plan to read this in the next month or so. Definitely on my incoming TBR for non-fiction, um, reading as well.

That's all the books I picked up in the month of September. Let me know down below some books you've gotten recently, because I would love to know, and I will see you guys soon with another video soon goodbye.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: eneveryone it's regan and welcome back to another video today i am back with another book haul i'm not gonna bore you with a long intro as to why i've been buying a lot of books i've just been buying a lot of books indie bookstores the whole shenanigans there's just so many book releases coming out that are already out that i just need to buy and i'm happy to support the authors and the stories i love by buying them so here we are another book haul before i dive into the books themselves i did want to give a shout out to this video sponsor which is book of the month as you guys know i have worked with book of the month a very long time back in june i did actually suspend my partnership with them i mentioned and went into great detail as to why in that video i also mentioned in that video that they had released a statement and i was actually pleased with a lot of the next steps that they were going to be taking as a company to ensure that their selections were more diverse moving forward since then i have been evaluating their monthly selections and i've really loved a lot of the books they have come out with to be very clear and transparent this will be a partnership i'll be taking month to month and i'll be evaluating all the selections before deciding if i want to move forward but i'm excited to support them if they continue to prioritize not only diverse genres and book releases but also supporting a diverse set of voices and authors that they select every month and i'm not exaggerating when i say their september releases look exceptional and i'm really excited about all of them but before i jump into the titles themselves a quick overview of the service if you're not familiar book of the month is an online subscription service that allows you to get new release hardcover books sent right to your door at a really affordable price of 14.99 you can easily skip a month if you're not interested in any of the titles you can add up to two extra books at 9.99 each book selections are always really amazing and again they always run the gamut of a lot of different genres i have found some really amazing books through this service and if you use the code so good you can get your first book for only 9.99 but without further ado let's go ahead and dive into the books for this month first book is winter counts which is a thriller novel set on a native reservation in south dakota this book sounds incredibly gripping one that'll definitely be a page-turner follows main character virgil who is a local enforcer and when an incident occurs he's actually hired because the american legal system and the tribal council both failed to kind of act and pursue justice for this incident so begins virgil's investigation and tried to like piece together elements of this crime the synopsis is very vague as to exactly what is going on which i think is definitely to its benefit given that it is a thriller element but it also says that as virgil starts filling pieces together he must also face his own demons and reclaim his native identity this sounds really gripping really intriguing and i honestly think a really good book to pick up in the fall winter it tends to be the time of year when i personally love to read thrillers so definitely excited to have this on my shelf next book just is like a title of my life and that is anxious people by frederick bachman i've actually never read a book by frederick bachman which is wild because i feel like he's generally speaking one of the most beloved authors he writes charming and lovely stories following all sorts of different types of people and i just hear they're very compelling and lovely to read so his new release definitely appeals to me in that way and honestly i just really want to pick up a book by this author the overall synopsis of this also sounds peculiar in the best way and essentially follows a crime that never actually took place a would-be bank robber and eight very anxious people that all of a sudden become tied together in this story it sounds funny and witting and i love a story that kind of follows lots of different threads of people's lives and how they're ultimately connected and brought together and also this like would be almost bank robbery definitely want to learn more about that as well so again frederick bachmann i feel like is like a light-hearted type of author and i really need to pick up his books and i'm excited to have this and check it out soon next book is another really highly anticipated novel for myself and that is transcendent kingdom by yaa gassi this is the most anticipated sophomore novel by this author after a release of reverse novel homegoing which was widely acclaimed very beloved and this book sounds equally as compelling and heart-wrenching this essentially follows our main character gifty who is currently enrolled in the phd program at stanford to study neuroscience she immigrated with her family to america at a young age from ghana and essentially they have since been kind of stricken with unimaginable tragedy her brother died tragically from a drug overdose her mother is currently depressed and unable to leave her bed and our main character gifty kind of turns to science to try to uncover why this is happening and try to also find a solution this is said to take a deep look at race within america also about a woman trying to reckon with generational trauma this is a book i know myself and many others are really excited to pick up i've heard excellent things about this author i'm thrilled to have this in my hands and i also feel like i'll be reading this soon the cover is also really stunning in its simplicity i just also felt like i needed to call that out the next book is the last story of meena lee it's said to be a deep and poignant look not only in a relationship between a mother and a daughter but also said to illustrate the devastating reality of being an immigrant in america this follows both margot and mina mina is the mother of margot and emigrated to america from korea and her early 20s the beginning of the story margot is confused why her mother is not returning her phone calls and goes to visit her mother at her apartment only to find her to have suspiciously passed away margot then begins to kind of dive into her mother's past kind of trying to pull all these invisible strings not only to piece together what has happened but also to learn more about her mother and her life this story and this search of margot trying to uncover her mother's past is paralleled with mina's story of immigrating to america and her first year actually living in l.a kind of trying to find her place and possibly falling in love again this is said to be an intimate story of a mother and a daughter this sounds both devastating and beautiful and one that i'm again also excited to have on my shelves i wasn't kidding what i said i was really excited about the titles this month the last book i'm gonna show off is another book i've only heard incredible things about and one that has been kind of lauded as a must read for everyone and that is cast the origins of our discontent and this i'm honestly just going to read a section of the blurbs i think it just describes it best is a brilliant book where the author gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in america as she explores through an immersive deeply researched narrative and stories about real people how america today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system a rigid hierarchy of human ranking beyond looking at the modern structures within american society she also looks at history as well as other cultures and countries as well as influences for this book but yes this is said to be eye-opening and revealing and said to kind of re-examine what we know about america and kind of what actually lies beneath american society this is one i definitely hope to get to in the next couple of months i hope to try to get my hands on the audiobook to read along just to make sure everything is permeating my brain but yes this is the last book for the september selections from book of the month all right those are all the book of the month titles i will have the coupon code and a link down below if you guys are interested in learning more and now let's move on to the rest of the books i have picked up this month because there are many the first book i'm going to talk about is a highly anticipated release i'm so excited to have it and that is the memory of babel by crystal davos this is book three to the mirror visitors series which is one of my all-time favorite y fantasy series it is so original so unique and i love the first two so i hope you're reading this i hope to be picking this book up this month as well but this follows our main character ophelia who has a set of unusual powers she can travel through mirrors and she can touch objects and kind of see their entire history and past and the first one she is essentially married off to a far away spire yes this world has like floating spires in the sky and she travels there to meet her new husband despite the fact she has no interest in getting married the politics in this new spire are incredibly cutthroat i would describe like versailles means russian court politics it's also desolate and cold and everyone uses glamours to try to trick people into seeing things that aren't actually there it is magnificent it has so much vivid imagery i love every second about the first two books and i'm really excited to see how the story continues into book three so yes pumped to have this i love how they're all so illustrated these books are just everything next is another very anticipated release and that is cemetery boys by aiden thomas this is a queer why a fantasy love story that just sounds so charming and i've heard amazing things about this from every early reviewer out there but this follows our main character yadriel whose family is having a hard time accepting his gender so to prove that he is a real brujo him and his best friend and cousin decide to summon a family ghost from the dead and basically try to solve that mystery and put this ghost to rest however he accidentally summons the wrong ghost and instead summons the resident school bad boy julian diaz who has no interest in leaving yadria alone he wants to know why he's dead and the boys inexplicitly become drawn to each other and closer i hear this book is full of charm and adventure and romance and i've heard such lovely things about it this also feels like a perfect fall read given the ghost reality of it all i'm pumped it's finally out in my hands the next book i picked up the synopsis is just singing to me and that is ray bear i believe this either has like a love to hate or i love to friendship element at its core and the synopsis is just so intriguing to me it follows our main character tari sai who is raised in a very remote area and the only person she really knows is her mother who is called the lady she's been raised for essentially one task and purpose and that is to eventually travel to the heart of the kingdom try to get on this very powerful council and once she does and gains everyone's trust to then kill the crown prince whom she's supposed to serve however when she accomplishes this task she finds herself actually very drawn to the crown prince so now she has to reconcile with the path that she must take is she supposed to follow what her mother wants or is she going to choose a different path for herself won't lie this sort of trope in setup within fantasy always sings to me i read it i want to get it immediately i also just sort of love this carving one's own path in destiny kind of fighting against what you've been raised to do was always something i really appreciate from a narrative perspective as well early reviews very strong this came out in august so had to pick this up i will hopefully be reading this soon though my tbr is forever long but i really am excited about this one next is a much anticipated new release and that is vicious spirits and this is the sequel to wicked fox which i read last year and loved so much this is a series i would kind of describe as like if a kdrama met anime turn twilight on its head like it's extremely dramatic but in the most entertaining way that will just keep you flipping the pages it will just like also just suck you into the story itself but i think you have to kind of know going in structurally what kind of story is going to be and that is one that it's all about plot twists and like wild things happening um but it's so entertaining because of it this is a story where we followed two characters one of which is half a guamo and half human and as a guamo she essentially like sucks the souls out of living humans and she has lived with her mother and kind of has always isolated herself from humanity her whole life but one day she meets a boy and this boy is the other perspective we follow and he basically falls head over heels for this girl that's why i kind of related to twilight but like changed because the girl is sort of this soul-sucking vampire-esque character and the boy is sort of chasing after her despite this um it's a really interesting story it has lots of action it's rooted in a lot of korean folklore there's a lot of family elements and food and again it's so entertaining i flew through the first one i read it in like one day and it was highly anticipating this sequel so pumped to have this was a pre-order and now it's here next step is a book i picked up which is race to the sun by rebecca rohnhorst part of the rick riordan presents which if you're not familiar are essentially own voices mythology middle grade series which i have read many of and loved so many of it's well-known i'm a big fan of middle grade but i've particularly been obsessed with these uh rick riordan presents because one i have been learning a lot about different cultures and mythologies and two i just love adventure at a good time the story we follow our main character nuzoni and her brother mac and zoni's always been able to detect monsters and at the beginning of the story nezoni encounters this man who should detect who she detects as a monster who's actually her father's boss at the oil and gas company and she begins to get concerned once he gets increasingly interested not only in their navajo heritage as well as his increasing interest into the legend of the hero twins nozoni knows he's a threat but unfortunately her father doesn't believe her but when her father mysteriously disappears the next day leaving a note that just says run her and her brother as well as their best friend go on a mission to try to save their father to do this they have to partake in a bunch of trials to get help again this just sounds like an imaginative and adventurous middle grade story i've been wanting to check out books by rebecca rohnhorst and i'll be reading other books by her as well um i have one pre-order that's coming out later this year but i thought this one really spoke to me because i love middle grade adventure so i'm excited to add this to my shelf as well i have two books that were sent to me by simon schuster and that is first the red scroll of magic and the lost book of the white by cassandra clare and wesley chu these are like side stories i think that are following magnus bain which i love magnus bane so i'm excited about a possible other stories that follow him i'm not sure these are actually short stories following magnus and alec i think as they live in paris kind of set between uh the two different series but yeah these sound fun if i need to pick me up a cassandra claire picked me up i now have these on my shelf which i'm grateful for so big shout out to simon schuster for sending these my way i will never tire of a shadowhunter's moment next book is a long-awaited sequel for myself and that is the heart of the flames by nikki powell predo this the sequel to crown of feathers which i read last year and honestly feel like is one of the most underrated y fantasy series out there i don't see a lot of people talking about it but it's so good it's a y fantasy multi-perspective story following first two sisters who essentially are very much at odds at each other i would say they are opposites almost to an extreme sort of deadly way they essentially come from a long line of phoenix warriors that have since been very oppressed within this fantasy world and kind of killed off by the now ruling political body at the beginning of the story both girls are on a quest to try to hatch a phoenix to help reclaim their power back um there's some complications in this and kind of tearing the two sisters apart and their destinies apart we follow one as they kind of join a group of phoenix writers and the other as they try to enact their revenge there's also a prince involved and some hiding in plain sight it was such a good first book i loved every second of it i'm really excited to see how the story plays out in the second one which is rather chunky um i actually think i'm going to reread crown of feathers and then jump into this sometime soon but yeah i really really enjoyed it the phoenix magic was awesome the sisterly conflict amazing so i'm excited to have the sequel and add it to my long list of books i need to reread because you know that's also a thing next book i have to show off i just generally have to give a shout out to instagram and youtube for talking so much about it and then me finding out about it through that and that is from blood and ash by jennifer l armentrout this i believe is like a romance focused fantasy novel so i think it's like very romance centered but in a fantasy setting which appeals to me at every sense of the word i didn't even know this was a thing i mean i kind of knew it was a thing because sarah j maas books are pretty romance centric but i think this is like romance romance in a fantasy setting and i was like yes please obviously i read a lot of romance this year and really enjoyed it so i was excited about this prospect i actually have read quite a few jennifer l armentrout books and really liked them so i honestly don't really know too much about this i'm assuming yeah a maiden a duty a kingdom so i'm guessing some sort of girl who has a destiny she must fulfill some sort of probably soldier who will need to protect her is my guess and then a kingdom kind of like tearing them apart i don't even know if that's accurate let me read the synopsis to make sure yep i was 100 right and i'm not gonna lie i'm here for every single second of it so yeah i am thrilled to have this i can't wait to read it i feel like it's gonna be so entertaining i think it's gonna be a great time and i think the sequel's coming out very soon as well so i bought this and i'm pumped for it i think i'm gonna try to do a reading vlog for this as well tbd though and the last book i picked up is a work of nonfiction and that is the inconvenient i'm gonna say native here and this is by thomas king this is a work of nonfiction and thomas king is a very well-known and beloved author specifically known for his writing in terms of indigenous and native experience personally trying to continue and also expand my non-fiction reading that i've been really focusing on over the past four or five months but this is specifically supposed to be a curious account of native people in north america and i think it's looking at specific historical events but kind of reworking the perspective from actually the indigenous and native people impacted by these historic events i hear thomas king is ruthlessly honest and at times humorous throughout this i do plan to read more works by thomas king but i thought i would start here but yeah i did pick this up and i plan to read this in the next month or so definitely on my incoming tbr for my nonfiction um reading as well so i did grab this alrighty guys those are all the books i picked up in the month of september let me know down below some books you've gotten recently as i would love to know and i will see you guys soon with another video soon goodbyeeveryone it's regan and welcome back to another video today i am back with another book haul i'm not gonna bore you with a long intro as to why i've been buying a lot of books i've just been buying a lot of books indie bookstores the whole shenanigans there's just so many book releases coming out that are already out that i just need to buy and i'm happy to support the authors and the stories i love by buying them so here we are another book haul before i dive into the books themselves i did want to give a shout out to this video sponsor which is book of the month as you guys know i have worked with book of the month a very long time back in june i did actually suspend my partnership with them i mentioned and went into great detail as to why in that video i also mentioned in that video that they had released a statement and i was actually pleased with a lot of the next steps that they were going to be taking as a company to ensure that their selections were more diverse moving forward since then i have been evaluating their monthly selections and i've really loved a lot of the books they have come out with to be very clear and transparent this will be a partnership i'll be taking month to month and i'll be evaluating all the selections before deciding if i want to move forward but i'm excited to support them if they continue to prioritize not only diverse genres and book releases but also supporting a diverse set of voices and authors that they select every month and i'm not exaggerating when i say their september releases look exceptional and i'm really excited about all of them but before i jump into the titles themselves a quick overview of the service if you're not familiar book of the month is an online subscription service that allows you to get new release hardcover books sent right to your door at a really affordable price of 14.99 you can easily skip a month if you're not interested in any of the titles you can add up to two extra books at 9.99 each book selections are always really amazing and again they always run the gamut of a lot of different genres i have found some really amazing books through this service and if you use the code so good you can get your first book for only 9.99 but without further ado let's go ahead and dive into the books for this month first book is winter counts which is a thriller novel set on a native reservation in south dakota this book sounds incredibly gripping one that'll definitely be a page-turner follows main character virgil who is a local enforcer and when an incident occurs he's actually hired because the american legal system and the tribal council both failed to kind of act and pursue justice for this incident so begins virgil's investigation and tried to like piece together elements of this crime the synopsis is very vague as to exactly what is going on which i think is definitely to its benefit given that it is a thriller element but it also says that as virgil starts filling pieces together he must also face his own demons and reclaim his native identity this sounds really gripping really intriguing and i honestly think a really good book to pick up in the fall winter it tends to be the time of year when i personally love to read thrillers so definitely excited to have this on my shelf next book just is like a title of my life and that is anxious people by frederick bachman i've actually never read a book by frederick bachman which is wild because i feel like he's generally speaking one of the most beloved authors he writes charming and lovely stories following all sorts of different types of people and i just hear they're very compelling and lovely to read so his new release definitely appeals to me in that way and honestly i just really want to pick up a book by this author the overall synopsis of this also sounds peculiar in the best way and essentially follows a crime that never actually took place a would-be bank robber and eight very anxious people that all of a sudden become tied together in this story it sounds funny and witting and i love a story that kind of follows lots of different threads of people's lives and how they're ultimately connected and brought together and also this like would be almost bank robbery definitely want to learn more about that as well so again frederick bachmann i feel like is like a light-hearted type of author and i really need to pick up his books and i'm excited to have this and check it out soon next book is another really highly anticipated novel for myself and that is transcendent kingdom by yaa gassi this is the most anticipated sophomore novel by this author after a release of reverse novel homegoing which was widely acclaimed very beloved and this book sounds equally as compelling and heart-wrenching this essentially follows our main character gifty who is currently enrolled in the phd program at stanford to study neuroscience she immigrated with her family to america at a young age from ghana and essentially they have since been kind of stricken with unimaginable tragedy her brother died tragically from a drug overdose her mother is currently depressed and unable to leave her bed and our main character gifty kind of turns to science to try to uncover why this is happening and try to also find a solution this is said to take a deep look at race within america also about a woman trying to reckon with generational trauma this is a book i know myself and many others are really excited to pick up i've heard excellent things about this author i'm thrilled to have this in my hands and i also feel like i'll be reading this soon the cover is also really stunning in its simplicity i just also felt like i needed to call that out the next book is the last story of meena lee it's said to be a deep and poignant look not only in a relationship between a mother and a daughter but also said to illustrate the devastating reality of being an immigrant in america this follows both margot and mina mina is the mother of margot and emigrated to america from korea and her early 20s the beginning of the story margot is confused why her mother is not returning her phone calls and goes to visit her mother at her apartment only to find her to have suspiciously passed away margot then begins to kind of dive into her mother's past kind of trying to pull all these invisible strings not only to piece together what has happened but also to learn more about her mother and her life this story and this search of margot trying to uncover her mother's past is paralleled with mina's story of immigrating to america and her first year actually living in l.a kind of trying to find her place and possibly falling in love again this is said to be an intimate story of a mother and a daughter this sounds both devastating and beautiful and one that i'm again also excited to have on my shelves i wasn't kidding what i said i was really excited about the titles this month the last book i'm gonna show off is another book i've only heard incredible things about and one that has been kind of lauded as a must read for everyone and that is cast the origins of our discontent and this i'm honestly just going to read a section of the blurbs i think it just describes it best is a brilliant book where the author gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in america as she explores through an immersive deeply researched narrative and stories about real people how america today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system a rigid hierarchy of human ranking beyond looking at the modern structures within american society she also looks at history as well as other cultures and countries as well as influences for this book but yes this is said to be eye-opening and revealing and said to kind of re-examine what we know about america and kind of what actually lies beneath american society this is one i definitely hope to get to in the next couple of months i hope to try to get my hands on the audiobook to read along just to make sure everything is permeating my brain but yes this is the last book for the september selections from book of the month all right those are all the book of the month titles i will have the coupon code and a link down below if you guys are interested in learning more and now let's move on to the rest of the books i have picked up this month because there are many the first book i'm going to talk about is a highly anticipated release i'm so excited to have it and that is the memory of babel by crystal davos this is book three to the mirror visitors series which is one of my all-time favorite y fantasy series it is so original so unique and i love the first two so i hope you're reading this i hope to be picking this book up this month as well but this follows our main character ophelia who has a set of unusual powers she can travel through mirrors and she can touch objects and kind of see their entire history and past and the first one she is essentially married off to a far away spire yes this world has like floating spires in the sky and she travels there to meet her new husband despite the fact she has no interest in getting married the politics in this new spire are incredibly cutthroat i would describe like versailles means russian court politics it's also desolate and cold and everyone uses glamours to try to trick people into seeing things that aren't actually there it is magnificent it has so much vivid imagery i love every second about the first two books and i'm really excited to see how the story continues into book three so yes pumped to have this i love how they're all so illustrated these books are just everything next is another very anticipated release and that is cemetery boys by aiden thomas this is a queer why a fantasy love story that just sounds so charming and i've heard amazing things about this from every early reviewer out there but this follows our main character yadriel whose family is having a hard time accepting his gender so to prove that he is a real brujo him and his best friend and cousin decide to summon a family ghost from the dead and basically try to solve that mystery and put this ghost to rest however he accidentally summons the wrong ghost and instead summons the resident school bad boy julian diaz who has no interest in leaving yadria alone he wants to know why he's dead and the boys inexplicitly become drawn to each other and closer i hear this book is full of charm and adventure and romance and i've heard such lovely things about it this also feels like a perfect fall read given the ghost reality of it all i'm pumped it's finally out in my hands the next book i picked up the synopsis is just singing to me and that is ray bear i believe this either has like a love to hate or i love to friendship element at its core and the synopsis is just so intriguing to me it follows our main character tari sai who is raised in a very remote area and the only person she really knows is her mother who is called the lady she's been raised for essentially one task and purpose and that is to eventually travel to the heart of the kingdom try to get on this very powerful council and once she does and gains everyone's trust to then kill the crown prince whom she's supposed to serve however when she accomplishes this task she finds herself actually very drawn to the crown prince so now she has to reconcile with the path that she must take is she supposed to follow what her mother wants or is she going to choose a different path for herself won't lie this sort of trope in setup within fantasy always sings to me i read it i want to get it immediately i also just sort of love this carving one's own path in destiny kind of fighting against what you've been raised to do was always something i really appreciate from a narrative perspective as well early reviews very strong this came out in august so had to pick this up i will hopefully be reading this soon though my tbr is forever long but i really am excited about this one next is a much anticipated new release and that is vicious spirits and this is the sequel to wicked fox which i read last year and loved so much this is a series i would kind of describe as like if a kdrama met anime turn twilight on its head like it's extremely dramatic but in the most entertaining way that will just keep you flipping the pages it will just like also just suck you into the story itself but i think you have to kind of know going in structurally what kind of story is going to be and that is one that it's all about plot twists and like wild things happening um but it's so entertaining because of it this is a story where we followed two characters one of which is half a guamo and half human and as a guamo she essentially like sucks the souls out of living humans and she has lived with her mother and kind of has always isolated herself from humanity her whole life but one day she meets a boy and this boy is the other perspective we follow and he basically falls head over heels for this girl that's why i kind of related to twilight but like changed because the girl is sort of this soul-sucking vampire-esque character and the boy is sort of chasing after her despite this um it's a really interesting story it has lots of action it's rooted in a lot of korean folklore there's a lot of family elements and food and again it's so entertaining i flew through the first one i read it in like one day and it was highly anticipating this sequel so pumped to have this was a pre-order and now it's here next step is a book i picked up which is race to the sun by rebecca rohnhorst part of the rick riordan presents which if you're not familiar are essentially own voices mythology middle grade series which i have read many of and loved so many of it's well-known i'm a big fan of middle grade but i've particularly been obsessed with these uh rick riordan presents because one i have been learning a lot about different cultures and mythologies and two i just love adventure at a good time the story we follow our main character nuzoni and her brother mac and zoni's always been able to detect monsters and at the beginning of the story nezoni encounters this man who should detect who she detects as a monster who's actually her father's boss at the oil and gas company and she begins to get concerned once he gets increasingly interested not only in their navajo heritage as well as his increasing interest into the legend of the hero twins nozoni knows he's a threat but unfortunately her father doesn't believe her but when her father mysteriously disappears the next day leaving a note that just says run her and her brother as well as their best friend go on a mission to try to save their father to do this they have to partake in a bunch of trials to get help again this just sounds like an imaginative and adventurous middle grade story i've been wanting to check out books by rebecca rohnhorst and i'll be reading other books by her as well um i have one pre-order that's coming out later this year but i thought this one really spoke to me because i love middle grade adventure so i'm excited to add this to my shelf as well i have two books that were sent to me by simon schuster and that is first the red scroll of magic and the lost book of the white by cassandra clare and wesley chu these are like side stories i think that are following magnus bain which i love magnus bane so i'm excited about a possible other stories that follow him i'm not sure these are actually short stories following magnus and alec i think as they live in paris kind of set between uh the two different series but yeah these sound fun if i need to pick me up a cassandra claire picked me up i now have these on my shelf which i'm grateful for so big shout out to simon schuster for sending these my way i will never tire of a shadowhunter's moment next book is a long-awaited sequel for myself and that is the heart of the flames by nikki powell predo this the sequel to crown of feathers which i read last year and honestly feel like is one of the most underrated y fantasy series out there i don't see a lot of people talking about it but it's so good it's a y fantasy multi-perspective story following first two sisters who essentially are very much at odds at each other i would say they are opposites almost to an extreme sort of deadly way they essentially come from a long line of phoenix warriors that have since been very oppressed within this fantasy world and kind of killed off by the now ruling political body at the beginning of the story both girls are on a quest to try to hatch a phoenix to help reclaim their power back um there's some complications in this and kind of tearing the two sisters apart and their destinies apart we follow one as they kind of join a group of phoenix writers and the other as they try to enact their revenge there's also a prince involved and some hiding in plain sight it was such a good first book i loved every second of it i'm really excited to see how the story plays out in the second one which is rather chunky um i actually think i'm going to reread crown of feathers and then jump into this sometime soon but yeah i really really enjoyed it the phoenix magic was awesome the sisterly conflict amazing so i'm excited to have the sequel and add it to my long list of books i need to reread because you know that's also a thing next book i have to show off i just generally have to give a shout out to instagram and youtube for talking so much about it and then me finding out about it through that and that is from blood and ash by jennifer l armentrout this i believe is like a romance focused fantasy novel so i think it's like very romance centered but in a fantasy setting which appeals to me at every sense of the word i didn't even know this was a thing i mean i kind of knew it was a thing because sarah j maas books are pretty romance centric but i think this is like romance romance in a fantasy setting and i was like yes please obviously i read a lot of romance this year and really enjoyed it so i was excited about this prospect i actually have read quite a few jennifer l armentrout books and really liked them so i honestly don't really know too much about this i'm assuming yeah a maiden a duty a kingdom so i'm guessing some sort of girl who has a destiny she must fulfill some sort of probably soldier who will need to protect her is my guess and then a kingdom kind of like tearing them apart i don't even know if that's accurate let me read the synopsis to make sure yep i was 100 right and i'm not gonna lie i'm here for every single second of it so yeah i am thrilled to have this i can't wait to read it i feel like it's gonna be so entertaining i think it's gonna be a great time and i think the sequel's coming out very soon as well so i bought this and i'm pumped for it i think i'm gonna try to do a reading vlog for this as well tbd though and the last book i picked up is a work of nonfiction and that is the inconvenient i'm gonna say native here and this is by thomas king this is a work of nonfiction and thomas king is a very well-known and beloved author specifically known for his writing in terms of indigenous and native experience personally trying to continue and also expand my non-fiction reading that i've been really focusing on over the past four or five months but this is specifically supposed to be a curious account of native people in north america and i think it's looking at specific historical events but kind of reworking the perspective from actually the indigenous and native people impacted by these historic events i hear thomas king is ruthlessly honest and at times humorous throughout this i do plan to read more works by thomas king but i thought i would start here but yeah i did pick this up and i plan to read this in the next month or so definitely on my incoming tbr for my nonfiction um reading as well so i did grab this alrighty guys those are all the books i picked up in the month of september let me know down below some books you've gotten recently as i would love to know and i will see you guys soon with another video soon goodbye\n"