**A Month of Reads: January Book Review**

As I reflect on my reading journey this month, I'm reminded that there's always something new to discover. From magical worlds to romantic stories, January was a diverse and exciting month for me.

**The Plot by Nicole Yoon**

There's this race where you have to ride the seahorses overall. I thought the characters in The Plot were pretty interesting. I found it to be okay, slightly confusing honestly sometimes names were a little hard for me to follow which I usually don't have a problem with so I'm attributing that to just this book um but by far the strongest aspect of this novel was the writing. I really like Maggie st's writing I've read The Raven Boys by her as well I thought it was really engaging and I liked her metaphors and I just enjoyed the Ambiance that she created in this story. But like I said the plot and the characters were just like eh so I ended up giving this a four out of five stars it was good I would read it if you're interested.

**Slam by Colleen Hoover**

The next two books I read were entirely impulse reads I don't even own them I just bought them on my iPad. It is slammed and the sequel Point of Retreat by Colleen Hoover. What's it point of retreat Lord these are two contemporary new adult novels following a young girl named Lake which is ridiculous name who Moved somewhere else cuz her father died cuz you know I always have to have a tragic beginning in these stories she meets this super hot perfect man boy they go on a date they're like woo and then turns to find out he's her teacher and it's their story so if you didn't gather for how I described the synopsis these books are absolutely ridiculous I don't I think I'm just in the mood for something absolutely ridiculous and they were um they they were in fact absolutely ridiculous clearly this is like a new adult romance story. I thought it was pretty good in execution by I wouldn't say it's my favorite romance I've ever read in fact I wasn't really attached to any of the characters or their actual story and I actually had a problem with I felt like all the relationships romantic and not romantic in this book happened so fast like all of a sudden everyone was best friends and they were just like telling each other all of their issues and problems and family stuff maybe that's just me but like I don't tell people that like my first meeting with him I just thought it was a little weird how everyone was like instantly best friends or instantly in love but eh what are you going to do that being said though I flew through these I read them both in like less than 24 hours I literally just sat down and read both of them they're very addicting. I found the first novel Slam to be better than the sequel Point of Retreat I gave the first one Slam three stars and the sequel point of r Treat I was honestly just annoyed with all the characters all the time and I gave it like 2.5 Stars maybe two stars it was all right I mean if you're interested in Reading like a new adult novel read it but it's like okay in my opinion I know everyone loves Colleen Hoover but I was just like.

**A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab**

The last novel I read this month was very exciting and it is A Darker Shade of Magic by V E Schwab now this book isn't out yet it comes out the at the end of this month I got an arc from the author for Christmas and I loved it. This follows our main character named Kell and who he is a magician who hails from a place called Red London now he's a magician with a peculiar set of powers because he can travel between parallel Londons he can go to Grey London which is kind of I guess set in our reality and there's no magic his home Red London where there is Magic there's another London called White London which has magic but it's a little more corrupt and a little more evil and then there's another place called Black London which no one can go to cuz it is closed off cuzz that's where lots of evil things happen. This story was super fun and really fast-paced I love Victoria Schwab's writing I I've loved every book that she has ever written so like obviously I knew going in that this was going to be a great time the setting was so awesome I just love the idea of parallel worlds and magic and magicians just like hopping between places and it was just so great and I can't wait for the sequel I gave this book a 4.5 out of five stars if you're interested please do pick this up because I it's worth the read I would say definitely for sure plus it has the lovely hints of Victoria's dry humor and Sass in here that just makes you chuckle while you're reading it it's just a great execution for a novel vicious is still my favorite but this is definitely a close second so all right guys those are all the books I read this month.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enand this is weird now hey guys it's Reagan and today I'm going to be doing my January wrapup which is when I tell you all the things I read in January so in the month of January I read a total of eight things six novels two graphic novel Memoirs who knows what to call them it was a pretty good month anyway I'm just going to the first novel I read was actually a young adult book it is the wall City by Ryan growden so this novel is inspired by a true City wall city in China and this is also I guess kind of set in China it's kind of hard to tell but it follows three different perspectives of three youths in the city who are very much wanting to escape and their lives kind of start to intersect as they both all three try to work to leave the city um the thing that I most enjoyed about this novel besides the plot being really fast and gripping and the characters being really interesting I liked that the author especially young adult novel made bad things actually happen to the characters I know that seems like a silly thing to really enjoy but more times than not in young adult novels they'll be like a shitty setting like a dystopian World blah blah blah but nothing really bad happens to the main character or from the perspective that you're reading from but that's not the case in this book one of the main characters in this novel is a prostitute in a brothel and you have to read from her perspective and sometimes it's really really disturbing but it's also I think important to read from that perspective which sounds strange but I don't know I felt like it made the novel more powerful and much more realistic and I ended up really enjoying this book and I gave it a 4.5 out of five stars the next book I read this month was by far my favorite book of the month and it is the first 15 lives of Harry August by Claren North this book was so good I didn't know what was about going in which was probably for the better and it was it was so great um this novel follows a man named Harry August who has a peculiar thing going on with him basically he is born he lives his life and then he dies and then he is reborn ex like at the beginning of his life again with all of his memories from his past life so he just keeps living his life over and over again same thing uh retaining all of his past memories now in the middle of his 11th life he is approached by a young girl who tells him that the world is going to end and he needs to figure out what the crap that is all about and he needs to fix it this novel is so freaking good this novel is so witty and dry I actually part listen to the audio book for this because it is the man Harry August taking you through all of his lives and everything that's going on and he is so he's very British and just such a great narrator like I just loved him I just loved him and I actually quite enjoy the narrator in the Audi book itself so if you're looking for an audio book I'd recommend this this was actually my first audio book and I don't know there was just this book had a touch of Whimsy and science fiction and just time Trav things which I just enjoy like parallel life and existence stuff it was really great I gave it five stars you should read it next up I read two graphic novel Memoirs which is Mouse one and mouse 2 these are highly acclaimed graphic novel Memoirs following a man who is chronicling his father's time and life um basically leading up uh to World War II his his father's experience in oswit and then kind of after I didn't I didn't really know what to expect going in and obviously it famously has that whole thing where like the Nazis are the cats and the Jews are the mice um I actually really liked these I think they present a very interesting perspective on the Holocaust Memoir story and I actually found them to be pretty important and it the thing with these graphic novels is they kind of play with you because they address the reader directly a lot of times this graphic novel series obviously deals with art spiegelman's father's time in the Hol but it also deals that story is also paralleled with art spelman's like trouble and relationship with his father present day while he's writing the Memoir so it kind of gives you this weird window into uh like both the writing experience and kind of the relationship behind this glorified story I thought I thought it gave a really interesting perspective on like the hero of history and know I feel like these graphic novels were really really effective it was it's like part memoir part documentary part comic book like it's a very cross genre situation we have going on here and I think it really brought up some very interesting dialogues about how we perceive survivors and major I also felt the metaphor of the whole cat and mouse thing to be really effective I know some people I've seen who've reviewed these in the past kind of commented that they didn't feel like it was necessary I I felt it was I thought it was an interesting touch that I appreciated and I actually felt it to be very necessary I thought it was a cool thing to done anyway these are really good I can see why these are taught in school and stuff cuz they're they're quite thought-provoking and I gave them both five out of five star next thing I picked up this month was a book I've actually owned for like 2 years so I figured it was time to finally read it and it was a Scorpio racist by Maggie stot this was nominated for the prince award so I figured it was probably going to be pretty good I thought this book was pretty good like uh this follows a young girl and a young boy who live on this sort of weird magically realism island off the coast of England where horses come out of the sea every year that like eat humans and animals and there's this race where you have to ride the seahorses overall I thought the characters in The Plot were pretty interesting I found it to be okay slightly confusing honestly sometimes names were a little hard for me to follow which I usually don't have a problem with so I'm attributing that to just this book um but by far the strongest aspect of this novel was the writing I really like Maggie st's writing I've read The Raven Boys by her as well I thought it was really engaging and I liked her metaphors and I just enjoyed the Ambiance that she created in this story but like I said the plot and the characters were just like eh so I ended up giving this a four out of five stars it was good I would read it if you're interested the next two books I read were entirely impulse reads I don't even own them I just bought them on my iPad and it is slammed and the sequel point of retreat by Colleen Hoover what's it point of retreat Lord these are two contemporary new adult novels following a young girl named Lake which is ridiculous name who Moved somewhere else cuz her father died cuz you know I always have a tra have to have a tragic beginning in these stories she meets this super hot perfect man boy they go on a date they're like woo and then turns to find out he's her teacher and it's their story so if you didn't gather for how I described the synopsis these books are absolutely ridiculous I don't I think I'm just in the mood for something absolutely ridiculous and they were um they they were in fact absolutely ridiculous clearly this is like a new adult romance story I thought it was pretty good in execution by I wouldn't say it's my favorite romance I've ever read in fact I wasn't really attached to any of the characters or their actual story and I actually had a problem with I felt like all the relationships romantic and not romantic in this book happened so fast like all of a sudden everyone was best friends and they were just like telling each other all of their issues and problems and family stuff maybe that's just me but like I don't tell people that like my first meeting with him I just thought it was a little weird how everyone was like instantly best friends or instantly in love but eh what are you going to do that being said though I flew through these I read them both in like less than 24 hours I literally just sat down and read both of them they're very addicting I found the first novel slam to be better than the sequel point of retreat I gave the first one slam three stars and the sequel point of r Treat I was honestly just annoyed with all the characters all the time and I gave it like 2.5 Stars maybe two stars it was all right I mean if you're interested in Reading like a new adult novel read it but it's like okay in my opinion I know everyone loves calling Hoover but I was just like and the last novel I read this month was very exciting and it is a darker shade of Magic by V Schwab now this book isn't out yet it comes out the at the end of this month I got an arc from the author for Christmas and I loved it this follows our main character named Kell and who he is a magician who hails from a place called red London now he's a magician with a peculiar set of powers because he can travel between parallel londons he can go to gry London which is kind of I guess set in our reality and there's no magic his home red London where there is Magic there's another London called White London which has magic but it's a little more corrupt and a little more evil and then there's another place called black London which no one can go to cuz it is closed off cuzz that's where lots of evil things happen this story was super fun and really fast-paced I love Victoria Schwab's writing I I've loved every book that she has ever written so like obviously I knew going in that this was going to be a great time the setting was so awesome I just love the idea of parallel worlds and magic and magicians just like hoop in between places and it was just so great and I can't wait for the sequel I gave this book a 4.5 out of five stars if you're interested please do pick this up because I it's worth the read I would say definitely for sure plus it has the lovely hints of Victoria's dry humor and Sass in here that just makes you chuckle while you're reading it it's just a great execution for a novel vicious is still my favorite but this is definitely a close second so all right guys those are all the books I read in the month of January let me know down below the favorite book you read for this month and I will see you guys soon with another video soon goodbyeand this is weird now hey guys it's Reagan and today I'm going to be doing my January wrapup which is when I tell you all the things I read in January so in the month of January I read a total of eight things six novels two graphic novel Memoirs who knows what to call them it was a pretty good month anyway I'm just going to the first novel I read was actually a young adult book it is the wall City by Ryan growden so this novel is inspired by a true City wall city in China and this is also I guess kind of set in China it's kind of hard to tell but it follows three different perspectives of three youths in the city who are very much wanting to escape and their lives kind of start to intersect as they both all three try to work to leave the city um the thing that I most enjoyed about this novel besides the plot being really fast and gripping and the characters being really interesting I liked that the author especially young adult novel made bad things actually happen to the characters I know that seems like a silly thing to really enjoy but more times than not in young adult novels they'll be like a shitty setting like a dystopian World blah blah blah but nothing really bad happens to the main character or from the perspective that you're reading from but that's not the case in this book one of the main characters in this novel is a prostitute in a brothel and you have to read from her perspective and sometimes it's really really disturbing but it's also I think important to read from that perspective which sounds strange but I don't know I felt like it made the novel more powerful and much more realistic and I ended up really enjoying this book and I gave it a 4.5 out of five stars the next book I read this month was by far my favorite book of the month and it is the first 15 lives of Harry August by Claren North this book was so good I didn't know what was about going in which was probably for the better and it was it was so great um this novel follows a man named Harry August who has a peculiar thing going on with him basically he is born he lives his life and then he dies and then he is reborn ex like at the beginning of his life again with all of his memories from his past life so he just keeps living his life over and over again same thing uh retaining all of his past memories now in the middle of his 11th life he is approached by a young girl who tells him that the world is going to end and he needs to figure out what the crap that is all about and he needs to fix it this novel is so freaking good this novel is so witty and dry I actually part listen to the audio book for this because it is the man Harry August taking you through all of his lives and everything that's going on and he is so he's very British and just such a great narrator like I just loved him I just loved him and I actually quite enjoy the narrator in the Audi book itself so if you're looking for an audio book I'd recommend this this was actually my first audio book and I don't know there was just this book had a touch of Whimsy and science fiction and just time Trav things which I just enjoy like parallel life and existence stuff it was really great I gave it five stars you should read it next up I read two graphic novel Memoirs which is Mouse one and mouse 2 these are highly acclaimed graphic novel Memoirs following a man who is chronicling his father's time and life um basically leading up uh to World War II his his father's experience in oswit and then kind of after I didn't I didn't really know what to expect going in and obviously it famously has that whole thing where like the Nazis are the cats and the Jews are the mice um I actually really liked these I think they present a very interesting perspective on the Holocaust Memoir story and I actually found them to be pretty important and it the thing with these graphic novels is they kind of play with you because they address the reader directly a lot of times this graphic novel series obviously deals with art spiegelman's father's time in the Hol but it also deals that story is also paralleled with art spelman's like trouble and relationship with his father present day while he's writing the Memoir so it kind of gives you this weird window into uh like both the writing experience and kind of the relationship behind this glorified story I thought I thought it gave a really interesting perspective on like the hero of history and know I feel like these graphic novels were really really effective it was it's like part memoir part documentary part comic book like it's a very cross genre situation we have going on here and I think it really brought up some very interesting dialogues about how we perceive survivors and major I also felt the metaphor of the whole cat and mouse thing to be really effective I know some people I've seen who've reviewed these in the past kind of commented that they didn't feel like it was necessary I I felt it was I thought it was an interesting touch that I appreciated and I actually felt it to be very necessary I thought it was a cool thing to done anyway these are really good I can see why these are taught in school and stuff cuz they're they're quite thought-provoking and I gave them both five out of five star next thing I picked up this month was a book I've actually owned for like 2 years so I figured it was time to finally read it and it was a Scorpio racist by Maggie stot this was nominated for the prince award so I figured it was probably going to be pretty good I thought this book was pretty good like uh this follows a young girl and a young boy who live on this sort of weird magically realism island off the coast of England where horses come out of the sea every year that like eat humans and animals and there's this race where you have to ride the seahorses overall I thought the characters in The Plot were pretty interesting I found it to be okay slightly confusing honestly sometimes names were a little hard for me to follow which I usually don't have a problem with so I'm attributing that to just this book um but by far the strongest aspect of this novel was the writing I really like Maggie st's writing I've read The Raven Boys by her as well I thought it was really engaging and I liked her metaphors and I just enjoyed the Ambiance that she created in this story but like I said the plot and the characters were just like eh so I ended up giving this a four out of five stars it was good I would read it if you're interested the next two books I read were entirely impulse reads I don't even own them I just bought them on my iPad and it is slammed and the sequel point of retreat by Colleen Hoover what's it point of retreat Lord these are two contemporary new adult novels following a young girl named Lake which is ridiculous name who Moved somewhere else cuz her father died cuz you know I always have a tra have to have a tragic beginning in these stories she meets this super hot perfect man boy they go on a date they're like woo and then turns to find out he's her teacher and it's their story so if you didn't gather for how I described the synopsis these books are absolutely ridiculous I don't I think I'm just in the mood for something absolutely ridiculous and they were um they they were in fact absolutely ridiculous clearly this is like a new adult romance story I thought it was pretty good in execution by I wouldn't say it's my favorite romance I've ever read in fact I wasn't really attached to any of the characters or their actual story and I actually had a problem with I felt like all the relationships romantic and not romantic in this book happened so fast like all of a sudden everyone was best friends and they were just like telling each other all of their issues and problems and family stuff maybe that's just me but like I don't tell people that like my first meeting with him I just thought it was a little weird how everyone was like instantly best friends or instantly in love but eh what are you going to do that being said though I flew through these I read them both in like less than 24 hours I literally just sat down and read both of them they're very addicting I found the first novel slam to be better than the sequel point of retreat I gave the first one slam three stars and the sequel point of r Treat I was honestly just annoyed with all the characters all the time and I gave it like 2.5 Stars maybe two stars it was all right I mean if you're interested in Reading like a new adult novel read it but it's like okay in my opinion I know everyone loves calling Hoover but I was just like and the last novel I read this month was very exciting and it is a darker shade of Magic by V Schwab now this book isn't out yet it comes out the at the end of this month I got an arc from the author for Christmas and I loved it this follows our main character named Kell and who he is a magician who hails from a place called red London now he's a magician with a peculiar set of powers because he can travel between parallel londons he can go to gry London which is kind of I guess set in our reality and there's no magic his home red London where there is Magic there's another London called White London which has magic but it's a little more corrupt and a little more evil and then there's another place called black London which no one can go to cuz it is closed off cuzz that's where lots of evil things happen this story was super fun and really fast-paced I love Victoria Schwab's writing I I've loved every book that she has ever written so like obviously I knew going in that this was going to be a great time the setting was so awesome I just love the idea of parallel worlds and magic and magicians just like hoop in between places and it was just so great and I can't wait for the sequel I gave this book a 4.5 out of five stars if you're interested please do pick this up because I it's worth the read I would say definitely for sure plus it has the lovely hints of Victoria's dry humor and Sass in here that just makes you chuckle while you're reading it it's just a great execution for a novel vicious is still my favorite but this is definitely a close second so all right guys those are all the books I read in the month of January let me know down below the favorite book you read for this month and I will see you guys soon with another video soon goodbye\n"