**The Science of Frankenstein**

We follow the great niece of Frankenstein who has not really heard about what her uncle has been up to before his death but she has naturally fallen into the sciences. She has been since she was little, very science-minded. And lucky for her, her husband is also the same. So they're kind of collaborators on all of their kind of scientific articles and illustrations and stuff like that. They are involved in the science community at this time - in the 1800s? And a series of events occur that leaves them kind of broke. They've got to pull something off in order to survive in the world as they know it. So when our main character finds the journals of her great uncle and is like wait he brought something to life? Sounds like something we could use. So they go forward and try to reattempt Frankenstein's original experiments and bring something to life in order to get recognition in the scientific community. And well, how do you think it goes? How do you think it goes? But I just thought it was really wonderful. There were so many layers to it.

I recommend this book but also - I forget where I bought this...oh okay this bookmark helps. I don't know if I got this at Kramer books in DC but that's where the bookmark is. Look at this version of Frankenstein! It is it's not a graphic novel, it is actually just Frankenstein but isn't that just fantastic? I just had it on my shelf. If I can find this Edition I'll link it down below but yeah Frank, oh Frank.

**Dark Fairy Tales to Read Alone in the Woods**

So this is one that I read recently and I will talk about it soon. Technically I believe this takes place in the summer but The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black. This is a book by the one and only Holly Black who just writes really great dark kind of off-putting fairy tales. This wasn't my absolute favorite of hers but I think that it does give off a very specific feeling that I haven't found in a book in a while. It kind of reminded me of how I felt when I would read a book when I was younger.

It is about a town that, for as long as anybody can remember, has had a boy sleeping in a glass coffin in their forest. He's a fairy prince and nobody can wake him up, nobody can break the coffin until one day he disappears and hits the fan. I don't know how to explain it. We just follow three high school students who are trying to save the world basically. Yeah again it wasn't my favorite of hers, like I don't think I felt the depth like the the attachment I have to the characters from The Cruel Prince or even from Stolen Heir - I didn't feel quite as attached to them but it just had the vibes so if you're okay with that, it all takes place in a forest. So if you want to read it alone in a forest and hopefully, well hopefully not, or hopefully wake up a 100-year-old fairy prince from his crystal coffin, there you go.

**The Language of Thorns**

I would highly recommend reading this. This is midnight tales and dangerous magic. I believe it is six - I did this last time too, last time I talked about this I was like 'oh my God there's photos in here,' anyway that's a fun surprise, baby me - yeah I believe it is six different stories. They are illustrated, they're just dark little fairy tales and they're very just the classic fairy tale, you know.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enHello, how are you? Hi. Welcome to another video. My name is Cari. Today is - so, weather  update. Welcome to the channel. Yes. It is still a whopping 28° out however something about...ohit feels like 30° because of the humidity excuse me. This morning I woke up really early and I went  outside and there was a hint, a taste, that lil something in the air - I feel Autumn coming. It might  be my brain hallucinating because I want it so bad. It inspired me. I've been in the Autumn  mood for since July. So I want to talk about Autumn books and I asked you guys to send me  some specific requests, some recommendations and I have compiled them. I know, I'm trying to be at  peace with this, I know the second that I finish filming this and I finish editing it I'm going  to think of a thousand other books that I want to talk about so this is by no means the be  all end all list of autumnal recommendations but I had fun with it. So I had a lot of responses  but I'm going to do...I think I have about 20 that I'm going to do? I might edit them down  depending on how long this gets. I put them in the order in which I read them on Instagram. Here we go -  are you ready? We're just jumping right in. Happy September to all who celebrate. Okay here we go.First one - and I got a lot of similar requests was - Studio Ghibli but make it eerie. And okay.I have two for you. Number one, first one that came to my mind is, Lonely Castle in the Mirror. I could  absolutely see Ghibli remaking this because it does hit the kind of intense struggles that children  face but it has this magical realism very whimsy kind of story to it. So it is about a girl who is  severely bullied and has a lot of anxiety issues related to that obviously, she doesn't feel safe  going to school. As she is staying home from school, she finds this magical mirror in her room and when  she goes through it, she enters this castle and there are other kids her age there. There's also  this mysterious figure who wears a fox mask. It's not necessarily found family but it's definitely  like this sort of awkward friendship and sense of belonging and a sense of community that  they form. I just absolutely could see it - it actually is being adapted so I'm very excited  to see the adaptation but that was first thing that came to mind - Studio Ghibli but make it a little  eerie. And after that, this one I was supposed to Google this before I started... this is a book that  I read so many times when I was a kid, like this was just a book that I had the  whole series and I would just pick up any book, any page. And I don't actually remember what it  was about so...the series begins with the first book called The Children of Green Knowe. It's a series of  six children's novels (oh it was illustrated by her son, I didn't know that!) it features a very  old house called Green Knowe. I don't know how to explain it. It's just this kid goes to live with  his great-grandmother in this house that has these incredible gardens and he ends up meeting - I think  it ends up being, I don't think it's a spoiler but like he's somehow related to some of these spirits  and they just go on these adventures and yeah I just have these really vivid...I would say murky  murky memories from the book but I just remember them feeling so borderline creepy because there  are like rocking horses that move by themselves but at the same time so comforting and wholesome  which I feel like is truly an eerie Ghibli vibe and I want to reread them. I should get my hands on  a copy but - The Children of Green Knowe. Next up - a lot of questions similar to this: books for you  are standing in a forest during an autumnal storm. And I couldn't really think of a good one for this  but one that just felt like the chaos of a storm and very autumnal and very in the forest and one  that I just think is a great Autumn read is the Last Tale of the Flower Bride. I really loved it.  It is about a friendship between two girls who are very drawn to fairies and witchcraft and  just the darkness in the forest - what is on the other side of the veil. And so they live their  lives as if they're preparing to return to their rightful place as Queens of Fairy. It is just very  dark and kind of like a storm - you kind of feel the story coming at you from all angles. It takes  place, a lot of it takes place in the woods. It just feels like chaos, something brewing I think  is what I felt reading the whole book. Yeah I I don't want to tell you much more than that but  if you like dark fairy tales, a bit of a Gothic vibe, a mystery, there's a bit of time jumping -  the Last Tale of the Flower Bride. This one I'm going to intentionally misunderstand you. This  was a request books that make you want to curl up in bed in the dark and I feel like you maybe  wanted something cozy for that but I'm going to go the spooky route because I want to talk  about these two books and I had nowhere else to really put them so in case you want to read a  book where you're curled up in bed in the dark scared - I have two recommendations. The first one  being the Silent Companions. I've recommended this book many times. This was this is a gothic horror...unsettling little story. Genuinely had me kind of freaked out, like goosebumps while I was reading  it. And it's about dolls or like cutouts of things which I'm not scared of dolls - like the whole what  like Anna Belle? Or like Chucky? Like none... this one got me. This one there were a couple jump  scares and I was very freaked out. So it's about a woman - very young, very recently widowed. I  believe she basically like got married and then the groom passed away so she is being taken off  to his manor where he is like some kind of not Lord but some guy with a Manor okay? She's never  met his staff, she's brand new and then they just lost their employer whatever. So she  moves into this house. At first I thought it was going to be kind of Rebecca-esque. It is a little  bit but it's just eerie and I recommend it. Silent Companions. And then the next one is the  Hacienda. This is another gothic story, very Rebecca-inspired but it takes place with the backdrop  of the Mexican Independence. Our main character marries a man who had a previous wife just  like Rebecca and she moves in with him. He's got this huge swath of land and it's just, I mean, I I  mean it's Rebecca inspired so what are you going to do? I don't want to tell you too much more about  it. I remember not loving it but I feel like also maybe I just need to reread it. Definitely had the  spooky vibes but also with a lot of historical references to it that I found really interesting.Curl up in the dark with that one - the Hacienda. Also I feel like this person submitted this simply so  that I could talk about it and if you did, thank you. Someone asked for Autumn classic adjacent  and I just finished reading Our Hideous Progeny. This is not a retelling but this is a Frankenstein  inspired book and it is so good. It's a debut novel. What do I have to say about it? We follow the great  niece of Frankenstein who has not really heard about what her uncle has been up to before  his death but she has naturally fallen into the sciences - she has been since she was little, very  science-minded. And lucky for her, her husband is also the same. So they're kind of collaborators  on all of their kind of scientific articles and illustrations and stuff like that. They  are involved in the science community at this time - in the 1800s? And a series of events occur  that leaves them kind of broke. They've got to pull something off in order to survive in the world as  they know it. So when our main character finds the journals of her great uncle and is like wait he  brought something to life? Sounds like something we could use. So they go forward and try to reattempt  Frankenstein's original experiments and bring something to life in order to get recognition  in the scientific community. And well, how do you think it goes? How do you think it goes? But I  just thought it was really wonderful. There were so many layers to it. I recommend. But I also recommend - I forget where I bought this...oh okay this bookmark helps. I don't know if I got this at Kramner books  in DC but that's where the bookmark is. Look at this version of Frankenstein! It is it's not a  graphic novel, it is actually just Frankenstein but isn't that just fantastic? I just I had it  on my shelf. If I can find this Edition I'll link it down below but yeah Frank, oh Frank.  Next up, books to read alone in the woods. So this is one that I read recently and I will talk about  it soon. Technically I believe this takes place in the summer but the Darkest Part of the Forest.  This is a book by the one and only Holly Black who just writes really great dark kind of off-putting  fairy tales. This wasn't my absolute favorite of hers but I think that it does give off a very  specific feeling that I haven't found in a book in a while. It kind of reminded me of how I felt  when I would read a book when I was younger. It is about a town that, for as long as anybody can  remember, has had a boy sleeping in a glass coffin in their forest. He's a fairy prince and nobody can  wake him up, nobody can break the coffin until one day he disappears and hits the fan. I  don't know how to explain it. We just follow I would say like three high school students who  are trying to save the world basically. Yeah again it wasn't my favorite of hers, like I don't think  I felt the depth like the the attachment I have to the characters from the Cruel Prince or even  from Stolen Heir - I didn't feel quite as attached to them but it just had the vibes so if you're  okay with that, it all takes place in a forest. So if you want to read it alone in a forest and  hopefully, well hopefully not, or hopefully wake up a 100-year-old fairy prince from his crystal  coffin, there you go. And after that I have the physical, I have the physical! Language of Thorns.  I would highly recommend reading this. This is midnight tales and dangerous magic. I believe it  is six - I did this last time too, last time I talked about this I was like 'oh my God there's photos in  here,' anyway that's a fun surprise, baby me - yeah I believe it is six different stories. They are  illustrated, they're just dark little fairy tales and they're very just the classic fairy tale, you  know, \"the moral of the story is...\" They're really good, they really set the mood and so if you  find your - why am I, it's really dark right? - this would just, if I were sitting in a forest, I would  want - I would want Leigh Bardugo to somehow come down from the heavens and read this to me but the next  best thing would be to read these to myself. So Language of Thorns. Next up - books that scream  revenge is best served cold. I just finished it, look at that! Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong.  This is a Anthony and Cleopatra retelling. Chloe Gong loves the Shakespeare retelling. But it is set  in this like not modern day, but not past anyway this unknown time period - they have cell phones.  This unknown time period which is set in Hong Kong - specifically the Kowloon, I believe it  was called like the Walled City. So it's just one of those those cities where everything is connected  and like you can reach out your window and touch the building next to you and like it's this Maze  of staircases and hallways and stuff so I loved the setting. It's also a fantasy because there is  a certain gene that people have that allows you to hop bodies. Your qi, you can like throw your  energy into another body. It was cool. I think the more that I think about it the more that I like it  but in terms of the revenge element - we follow quite a few different people but mainly we follow  princess Calla who, all we know about her is that she killed her whole family - like just beheaded  them. So, starting off strong. But she didn't manage to kill her uncle who's currently the king and so  she has bided her time, training, waiting for the chance to enter this game that they have  in their capital city where you basically fight to the death. There's 88 competitors and whoever  is alive at the end gets all the riches, they like win the lottery, they get to shake hands  with the King whatever. And she's like Bingo - shake hands with the King? More like cut off the king's  head right? We follow her and a few other people who are involved in this and yeah. Me and  Chloe Gong - her writing style is not necessarily my favorite because she tends to make scenes that  I feel like are really important, really short. The ending of this book - it's a duology by the way,  an unfinished duology. So this is the first of one. The ending of this book is just like so quick, so  quick! So the reading experience, I'm happy that I absorbed the story but it's more  like now after having read it and sitting with the story and thinking about it, I like it a lot  more. But it's just quite - she does things quite fast. So that being said a lot happens in here  but if you want like a revenge tale - Immortal Longings. Once again not finished. Then anotherbook that I read recently that I still want to talk about is Blood Debts. This is technically  about revenge but it is not necessarily about how revenge is good. This is a - I  believe it's a debut fantasy. That takes place in Louisiana around New Orleans and we follow these  twins who come from a magical family who has been knocked from their pedestals. They used to be kind  of like the head of their royal witch group for lack of a better word, I forget. When their  grandmother allegedly killed her best friend and ever since then they've been kind of shunned you  know? But for these twins, when their mom gets sick and they realize that maybe someone is cursing  the family and setting them up and maybe their grandmother was innocent - things get a little  bit messy. And this is also a duology I believe, if not a series. But it was really good. I really loved the  magic, the imagery, it's very much like moonlight and potions. It had so many elements that I liked  so definitely pick up Blood Debts. I forgot to give a shout out to Dowery of Blood which is also very  stone cold revenge heavy but check the trigger warnings! This video is going to be really long isn't it? So  I'm going to be, I'm going to be kind of quick. Somebody asked for crunchy leaves - so many peopleasked for crunchy leaves. How am I supposed to.... what? A book that feels like crunchy leaves?  I did my best. So the Stolen Heir. Another Holly Black. It takes place in the forest. It's all  about crunchy leaves. I'm pretty sure everybody has leaves in their hair, leaves in their clothes,  leaves in their shoes. It's just a lot, it's a lot of nature and I'm pretty sure it's crunchy. So I  again I don't want to make this video too long but this is a series that comes after a Cruel  Prince. Technically you don't need to have read the Cruel Prince to start this series but it willmention characters from the previous series so it will kind of spoil it but yeah I don't want  to go into too much but it's basically fairies on an adventure in the woods. That's all I got sorry.And then after that I would also recommend A Far Wilder Magic. This was such a fun little book. It's  a standalone, it's about a magical competition. It's a little bit of not enemies to lovers but  certainly not friends to lovers. Also forests. Our main girl lives in a little cabin in the woods  far from everyone and I'm sure the leaves crunch. Yeah someone asked about California Autumn and  I'm going to get dark here for a second. The two books I want to recommend for California Autumn,  October in California, is number one - Life As We Knew It. This is a catastrophic post-apocalyptic  book. October in California just reminds me of wildfires, unfortunately. Of getting ready  to pack up your house at any time and standing in your driveway with your neighbors waiting for the  call to evacuate while watching flames all around you on the hilltops. So Life As We Knew It -what  happens if an asteroid hits the moon and brings it just a little bit closer to Earth, changing  the tides, changing the weather patterns? What would happened then? I remember reading this book whenI was younger and after finishing it, I felt like I wanted to go to the store and buy canned foods  because I was so scared. And then of the same vein, maybe the adult version of this book would be then  Station Eleven which is another post-apocalyptic book and also reminds me of packing up my house and  getting ready to run. So shout out to California Autumn - I hope you guys are staying safe. I hope  you guys have a box. I feel like if you were born and raised in California you know to have a fire  box but if you have just recently moved, please make sure that you have a box in your home with  all of your important documents and family photos and things that you absolutely  don't want to lose along with some water bottles and some granola bars have it so you can grab it  and throw it in your car, unfortunately. So that is my bleak recommendation for a California Autumn.  These two, really quick - the request: Spooky girl gets spooked. These are both the second books in  serieses. I think you need to - spooky girl doesn't get spooked that easily you know? So you need to  wait and usually it's the second book where we hit things where spooky girl get spooked. So I  will recommend Hell Bent and Harrow the Ninth - both of which have necromancy. At least this one has  demon stuff. This has a lot of bone, weird stuff - we do bones! Which, the first book would be Ninth House  and Gideon the Ninth, which I love so much. Next up, someone just said mushrooms romance gothic. I gotyou. So first one being What Moves the Dead. This has mushrooms - not so much romance but definitely  Gothic Vibes. There's a lot of creepy ass mushroom stuff going on and it's very short. T Kingfisher  always writes incredible wonderful short books and this was definitely one and it feltvery...Yeah. Another one which has I would say mushrooms ROMANCE gothic, would be EmilyWilde's Encyclopedia of Fairies. This has so much wonderful nature but also fairies but also like  kookie academic stuff. Loved. If you haven't heard me talk about it before, welcome. I love,  loved this book. And then finally the one that I think actually has mushrooms romance and gothic  atmosphere all the same font size is House of Roots and Ruin. I read this really recently. This  is the sequel to a House of Salt and Sorrows but I do not think, as long as you're okay with spoiling  House of Salt and Sorrow in terms of deaths and romances, you don't need any of that background  information to read House of Roots and Ruin. It will just be, you know, the names will be kind  of spoiled for you. House of Roots and Ruin - it's got creepy green houses and poisonous plants and  romance and things going bump in the night and hallucinations and yes yes yes yes yes. This one  got me. Someone asked for a quick book to read in between studying and crying for my tests.  I've got you. Okay so first one I would like to recommend Thorn Hedge. Again, I recently read  this. This is also by T Kingfisher. It's also very short. This is such a cute quick fairy tale  literally just about a fairy guarding this tower for unknown reasons. Does she even know? We don't  know. And this Knight comes up and is like hi it's my job to rescue the Damsel in Distress and  like check this tower - can I come in? And fairy is like I have to scare this man away. And the story  goes on from there. It's like a hundred something pages - really quick, really cute, wonderful. However  I've also got this for you. Did you see that dust? Haven't touched this in a bit. I haven't  talked about this - I used to talk about this all the time when I started my channel. I love  these books. This is The Moth Presents: All These Wonders. The Moth used, still is, a community  in which they will pick different cities, it's a traveling event and they will have speakers -   anyone, it could be like a celebrity, it could be just a person who walked in off the street - anyone who has a story to tell that is true that coincides with the theme, whatever theme has been  set for that particular talk. They also made a podcast of it but this is some of the best  stories recorded. There's this one and then there's also Occasional Magic. So these are  all really short, like all the stories could be anywhere from like three to 10 pages long. They  just kind of restore your faith in humanity. Some of them are very sad, some of them are very funny  and so if you are just you just need a break and you need to like remember that there is a world  outside of your study cubicle at the library, check this out All These Wonders, The Moth.  Easy peasy, this one, books that feel like you're in Forks Washington, I have two for you real fast.  Number one being The Wicked Deep. This has witches and drowning boys and technically the summer but  it doesn't feel like the summer because it's in the Pacific Northwest. Pacific Northwest small  town, houses on islands, morning mist, so on and so forth. Mysterious boys. And then the second one  is Spells for Forgetting. This is, this also I believe takes place in the Pacific Northwest  it's like an apple farm - I thinking of the right book? Anyway yes, it's very like returning to this  tiny town nestled in the apple and pine trees of Washington. Very Forks-y vibes. It's very like  cool toned, you know what I mean? You know what I mean. I just want to talk about books  for longer and this video is going to be hours long. Books where the love interest keeps looking  back and forth between the main character's lips and eyes - which is my favorite thing, my favorite  thing. I'm going to give you two. First one the Queer Principles of Kit Webb. So funny. This  book is so dumb, so funny. It is about - how do I even explain what it's about? I don't want to  tell you what it's about. But the vibes go as this - there is a retired highway robber, there is a  son of a Duke, there is a cafe where all the goes down, it takes place in the 1700s  so there's a lot of like waistcoats and grumpy versus sunshine and the banter is so great and  it's - the Queer Principles of Kit Webb. Second one is Heart of Stone. This one is also taking  place in the 1700s, it's a lot eerier, it is about vampires.Particularly one vampire and and his new secretary.Need I say more? Okay this one also easy peasy - Fantasy krama? The Girl Who Fell Beneath the  Sea. It's all you need to know. Done. A book that will feed my emo heart. This is difficult. I will  say just because I want to talk about it all the time - One for My Enemy. Weird Romeo and Juliet kind  of retelling. I know that the writing style is going to be really hit or miss for some people.  I loved it. Dark, gritty criminal underworld of witches who live in New York City. There are  two families always fighting. I can't tell you much more but it was so good. It's maybe one of  my favorite books of the year, I really loved it. I understand why people don't, but I did. One for  My Enemy. It's got roses and knives on the cover, of course it's an emo book. Books about  elite pretentious academics that were not We Were Liars or the Secret History I believe  is what you said. If We Were Villains - easy. It follows a group of theater students as they  put on a series of Shakespearean tragedies and does perhaps life imitate art? Does art  imitate life? What happens when somebody ends up dead? Books about tea - A Magic Steeped in  Poison. It's literally about tea magic. And it is so descriptive. It's a duology. I did not  love the second one but I did enjoy the first book. So descriptive in terms of the actual tea  but also the food - like it just, I really like the first one. It is about a competition  for who's going to be the royal tea master and this is the only way that this girl can get an  audience with the emperor in order to ask for help because her mother and now sister seem  to be dying of this strange poison and she needs to get to the bottom of this.Great. Also oh my God the author of We Free the Stars has been teasing me with this book  for it feels like years, it's probably been months, but it feels like years - a  new book coming out hopefully soon called The Tempest of Tea. Hold on, what's it about?  Let's talk about this because I'm waiting for it. Expected to come out February 15th.  This will be a duology. \"On the streets of White Roaring. Arthi Casimir is a criminal  mastermind and collector of secrets. Her prestigious tea room transforms into an  illegal bloodhouse by dark, catering to the vampires feared by society.\" Please! Look at thatcover. Okay. Books about tea that I haven't read yet, the Tempest of Tea - go pre-order it. The person whoasked for these kind of books, you are my kind of person - a book that feels like a gut punch and  a warm cup of coffee on a rainy day at the same time. Yeah so I'm not going to talk about it again  but One for my Enemy definitely felt like that. I will also say The Binding. This is a fantasy but  it is told - it feels like it's two different almost three different books in one because  of how the plot goes. But in the beginning it's very much like our main character is learning  how to be a book binder so it's a lot of imagery of like mornings in the workshop and just like  making books - like it felt very ASMR in the beginning. And then it does punch you in thegut real hard, real hard. That's the Binding. And then of course we need to talk about Divine  Rivals. Yes, everyone - I'm so excited that everybody is seems to be enjoying this. I didn't think, it  was my favorite book of the year, but I did like it and I'm excited for the sequel. Divine Rivals  follows two journalists who are fighting for - they have an internship together -  and they're fighting for the one spot at the newspaper, but their society is being torn apart  by war and there's also this magical cabinet where our main girl can send letters and she  thinks she's sending them to her brother and he never answers back but somebody else is receiving  them and someone finally answers back and it is just this cute little romance and then ithurts.Divine Rivals. Next up, very specific: ancient spells, magic talking trees, weird forests, shadows in the  corner of your eye. Did you know that I just read the Raven Cycle? Because that is that's the Raven  Cycle. I put the Raven Cycle and then also the Bear and the Nightingale. I think also had  elements of that. And also the Black Witch even though I'm really upset at how the series has  continued - the first two books were good. So if any of those striked your fancy, there you go. Lots of  requests for creepy forests and the Raven Cycle is the only thing on my mind right now because I  literally finished it last night and I am a broken human so that will be coming out next week by  the way, if you want to watch me break. Haunted castle on the hill? Gilded. I read this a while  ago and I did not love it. I reread it in order to read the second book and I liked it a lot more.  I don't know what changed - was it me? Gilded is a Rumplestilskin retelling but there are fairies  and a haunted castle where the walls bleed and the tapestries change and things only come out  every full moon. It yeah, I liked it a lot more the second time. I will also then recommend to you  a House of Salt and Sorrows which is very much more like a haunted castle creepy vibe for you  which again, I didn't love but I think that I need to reread it based on how much I enjoyed  House of Roots and Ruin. And then last but not least, this isn't a castle and I personally  didn't love it - there's also Lakesedge which is about blood magic and a lake and a moody boy  who doesn't share his feelings when he really should and everyone could just help each other  if we just communicated okay? Last two requests. First one being melancholy books for Autumn.  My two recommendations will be Sea of Tranquility - this is by the same author of Station Eleven. this  is very much, again, kind of post-apocalyptic. It's about time travel. It's very sad and surreal and  futuristic. I believe we live on the moon now - don't remember. But I just remember it was very  kind of slow and sad and short but beautiful so yeah, Sea of Tranquility. And then one of my  favorites from last year - Our Wives Under the Sea. So good. It's got that very eerie feeling but  it's really beautiful but definitely leaves you feeling quite melancholy. This is about a woman  whose partner is a researcher that involves her going into submarines and she disappears for a  long time and when she comes back something's not quite right. And it was was just so good  and I really liked it so I will always recommend Our Wives Under the Sea. Okay last one. I promise, I  promise. A fantasy romance that will make me kick my feet and giggle. I've got yo,u don't worry.I mentioned Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Fairies - I do think that that is a very like subtly Howl's  Moving Castle coded, goofy romance that I loved. But for two new ones I will recommend Garden of  the Cursed which is the first book of a unfinished series but it's really funny. We follow a girl who  used to live in kind of the royal circle but then when her mother (who I think was like a guard or  something) when her mother disappears, she then leaves and goes back to live not with royalty.  And she has a reputation of being a curse breaker and so she's like basically a freelancer and she  will - the magic system is really cool, I don't want to go to too far into it but she can break a curse  for you if you need her to. And so when her kind of ex-best friend shows up at her doorstep to ask  her to break a curse, she finds herself wrapped up in this fake dating, hilariously weird little  scheme that I really enjoyed and I thought the banter was really funny. I really liked it. So  a Garden of the Cursed. And then last but not least I would recommend Half a Soul - this is  part of a series that I have not read the rest of them. They're all like standalones but in the same  world. I haven't continued them simply because I know that I would love them and I'm saving them  for like a rainy day when I'm in a really bad reading slump and I could just happily read  those books. Half a Soul is very Bridgerton coded. It's this short little story about a girl who is  kind of cursed and she goes to help her cousin join the social season in London and she gets  in a little trouble and I thought it was just really cute and again it's pretty much a  standalone. I really enjoyed it and so if you just want like a cozy quick Autumn fantasy romance - Half  a Soul does the job. So like I said, I know that there are books that I want to put on this list  that I have forgotten about but I hope that this gave you something new to read maybe. I  know that I talk about like - I'm the kind of person that I have books that are my favorites and I will  recommend to everybody so I tend to repeat myself but I hope you found something new or it pushed  you to finally read a book that I have talked about for ages. But I'm going to let you go now  because we've talked for too long. You should get up and you should stretch and you should  get a drink of water please. Not coffee, not juice. Water. Go drink some. Okay love you always - I hope  you're having a good Autumn. For my Southern Hemisphere folks, sending you some Autumn Vibes  and I'll see you guys next time okay? To watch me lose my mind over the Raven Cycle. Okay. Bye!\n"