**The Most Hyped Up Books of 2020**

As we reflect on the past year, it's clear that there were some books that truly stood out from the rest. For many book lovers, these titles were not only highly anticipated but also generated a significant amount of buzz and excitement throughout the year.

One book that was consistently mentioned alongside the most hyped up books of 2020 is **The Shadowhunters Series by Cassandra Clare**. Although I hadn't read a Shadowhunters book in forever, I had thought maybe because it's historical, but I don't think I actually will - I have way too many other books that I want to read. However, there was like a sequel that came out, **The Lost Book of the White**, and that one is about Magnus Chase - or should I say, Magnus Bane? I was getting it mixed up with Percy Jackson, but yes, it's all about him and Alec Lightwood. Honestly, if there's a Cassandra Clare book that comes out in a year, like you know that one is definitely going to be on this list - it just makes sense.

Another book that made the cut for the most hyped up books of 2020 is **From Blood and Ash** by Jennifer L. Armentrout. I hadn't really heard of this book before, but so many of you had this one as your answer too, so it's true - an adult fantasy romance with a main character who is a maiden destined for a solitary life of not experiencing joy or pleasure. It sounds like an interesting setup for a romance, and there's a guard that she ends up with, things start changing a little bit.

For those who love **Such a Fun Age** by Kiley Reed, you'll be excited to know that it made the list too. This one is about a girl who calls her babysitter, who's black, to watch her toddler because she's like really overwhelmed and needs a break - but when her babysitter ends up taking her son to the market, there's a security guard who accuses her of kidnapping, and the whole situation is just completely mismanaged. I believe this one deals heavily with performative activism and allyship, so it feels like the premise for it is like super cool.

Next up is **Blend & Honey** by Shelby McCurrin, which is the sequel to **Serpent and Dove**, a witchy story that came out last year and got a ton of hype. I read it and thought it was just okay, but I know so many people loved it, so it makes sense for the sequel to be just as hyped up.

**Red White & Royal Blue** by Casey McQuiston is another book that made the list, and it's no surprise why - it's a super adorable romance between the first son of the president of the United States and Henry, Prince of Wales. It's an enemies-to-lovers story, and chef's kiss is definitely in order.

Finally, I added **The Henna Wars** by Adiba Jaigirdar to my list, which is a sapphic romance about two girls who run rival henna businesses. The setup sounds like the perfect recipe for something adorable, and I'm definitely looking forward to getting to this one soon.

For those interested, I'd love to hear - what was the most hyped up book of 2020 in your opinion? Was it **The Invisible Life of Addie Larue**, which seemed to be everywhere all year long?

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: eneveryone it's haley and today is bookmas day 11 so i'm going to be talking about the most talked about books of 2020. yesterday for bookmas day 10 we played a little game where i picked a best and a worst book for each month so i'll have that link down below and just in case you missed it as well as the whole bookmas playlist so you can get caught up if you are a little bit behind but today is a video that i've done i think two bookmases now this will be the second or the third i can't really remember but i think it's a really interesting one i love looking back on the year and thinking about the books that i just heard about non-stop the entire year now obviously this isn't like an authoritative list or anything these aren't the number one like the only books that were talked about a lot it kind of depends on where you hang out in the book dinette and you might have a different book that you couldn't hear about like you couldn't stop hearing about rather but i've maybe never heard of it so what i did a little bit differently this year though is i actually asked you guys which books you were hearing about the most because i felt like that made more sense than just talking about my personal list now i do have a couple of personal editions here but i did find that a lot of you guys hit on the ones that i feel like i just heard about non-stop 2020 is a little bit different than other years a number of reasons but i feel like i also have forgotten about a lot of the books that came out early in the year and a lot of you guys have as well just because there has been so many distractions and so much that has happened but if you guys actually wanted to hear about some of the books that are a little bit more underrated i will be doing that on a later book miss day i think it's day 17 i'm not entirely sure but i will be talking about some 2020 releases that i really haven't heard that much about but without further ado let's get into the ones that everyone was talking about this year so first off ninth house by leigh bardugo quite a few of you guys said this book which kind of surprised me because i feel like it was talked about a lot in 2019 but that hype can sometimes carry into the next year and i do think that is true of ninth house i think because it came out in the latter half of 2019 a lot of people didn't get the chance to get to it so i personally was one of those people and it definitely is a book that i had been talking about quite a bit this year because i kept including it on tbrs but i have finally read it so yay but this is an adult novel and it's leigh bardugo's first adult novel she's the author of the grisha verse books which are so amazing so this is very different for her it is set at yale and it deals with secret societies ghosts numerous trigger warnings so definitely be warned about that going into it next is a ballot of songbirds and snakes by suzanne collins so this was the highly highly highly anticipated hunger games prequel and i'm still avoiding opinions so i really don't know anything about him but it is all about president snow so you're getting a little bit of a villain backstory here and i feel like it came out and no one was really talking about it just because it kind of came out at a very inopportune time but it definitely is still one that a lot of people had been really looking forward to next is a song of wraiths and rune by roseanne a brown i also heard about this book a lot this year and it definitely is one of the things that made me want to pick it up because it does sound really really good so it is a west african inspired fantasy and the main character's sister is abducted and he makes this plan or not a plan but a deal in order to get his sister back but that plan involves killing the princess now the princess though she has some other plans she is trying to resurrect her dead mother but in order to do that she needs the still beating heart of a king so that's gonna be interesting next step is of course crescent city house of earth and blood by sarah j maas this came out really early actually in 2020 and i haven't gotten the chance to read it yet but it is a new adult fantasy by sarah j maas who's the author of throne of glass and then also i'll include it now oh it's on the bottom of the pile but a lot of you guys also replied saying that you heard a lot about a court of thorns and roses which i think is funny because maybe it's just because i have like just i'm used to hearing about that book all the time but i don't really consider it like a really hyped up one this year but a lot of you guys replied with just like all sarah j maas books and a lot of you guys were really annoyed about it too there were like eye roll emojis and everything which i think is really funny her books are definitely very very hyped up so i can't understand if you're not interested how it would get a little bit annoying hearing about them all the time now like i said this one is her first adult book and while her first actual adult book like categorized as that but i digress this deals with a main character who all of her friends are murdered by demon and then she like she sets out to avenge their death and find out what actually happened because the suspect is behind bars but the killings are still happening and there's also a fallen angel so angels and demons and all of that next up is a book that i feel like i'm responsible for a big part of hyping this up and that is lovely war by julie berry this was my number one favorite book that i read this year so obviously i do think that it totally lives up to this hype it is just such a beautiful love story set in world war one and you follow two different love stories it is narrated by the greek gods so it's mostly aphrodite but you also have the god of war in there you have just all of the gods chiming in to tell these two beautiful heartbreaking love stories i just absolutely fell in love with this book so i i love the fact that a lot of you guys responded with this one and i do think that's partially my fault but i'm not even sorry about it conversely next is the flat share by beth o'leary this book i think it came out last year and there was a lot of hype in the latter half of the year and then i feel like early in 2020 it was talked about quite a bit and i was interested in it partially because of the hype because i had heard nothing but good things about it but also because the concept sounds really cool it's about a girl and a guy who ends up sharing an apartment but they're not together or anything it's just he's on midnight so while he's at work she gets the apartment and then while she's at work he gets the apartment so they come to this agreement but then they start to communicate via post-it notes and they fall in love now this was on my worst books of the year list unfortunately so i didn't really like it i didn't think it really lived up to the hype but i don't think it's a bad book by any means i understand why it is talked about so much and it might appeal to a lot of people next is rey bear by jordan ifuko this is a fantasy and it follows a main character who has never really experienced the warmth of family and really wants that but she was raised in isolation by her mother who she never sees is very absent who is known as the lady and she ends up being sent to this competition to compete with these people to be one of the princes chosen 11. i tend to really enjoy competition stories so i do get why this one has a lot of hype and i am super excited to see if it does live up to it next up is of course beach read by emily henry i feel like this was one of the first books in the midst of march and that time of year where is really really just wild that i heard about a ton this one and a one i'll get two a little bit later but this is an adult romance that follows two characters who are writers and they end up switching what they write for the year the one is a literary fiction writer who's going to write romance the other is a romance writer who's going to write literary fiction and there's obviously i mean it's a romance so there's romance there but there's also a deeper level to it so this was one of my favorite books of the year so once again one that i do think lives up to the hype i did like for a while i was like maybe it's a little bit over hyped because i think my expectations were a little too high but the more i thought about it after i read it i was like no i did really really like that book and i understand why so many people are talking about it next is you should see me in a crown by leah johnson this sounds like such an adorable sapphic romance and i'm so glad that it was so hyped up so i was able to hear about it because i hadn't heard about it until it just it was everywhere so then i was like yes i need this but you follow the main character who wants to be a doctor but her financial aid falls through so she finds out that if she wins prom queen she will get a scholarship so then she sets out to try and be a prom queen but there is also a new girl who is kind of changing things for her next up is take a hint danny brown by talia hibbert this is the latest installment in the brown sisters series i think that's what it's called but the first book was get a life chloe brown which i have read and this one is the next one and i do really want to read this one soon so danny brown is not really interested in romance but she does like the steamy part of it so she sets out to try and find a friends with benefits arrangement next up is a deadly education by naomi novik this is one that came out pretty recently so i feel like it's one that has been around a lot recently but this is by the author of uprooted and spinning silver which are both really hyped up books in their own right i still haven't read either of them but i do have this one now so it's set at this school where it's like a competition you can't really trust anyone there's monsters that lurk in the halls and basically the way that you graduate is you survive so the stakes are high next is the betrothed by kiera cass obviously this is a book that was highly anticipated because it's by the author of the selection series which is a super popular y.a dystopian mostly it's romance series and this sounds quite similar to it so i was really excited for it but if you watched my worst books of 2020 video then you know how that turned out unfortunately but you follow lady hollis who has been living at court and she's hoping to win the king's affections and then he chooses her but then she realizes she might not want to actually be queen next is legend born by tracy dion this is one that the hype definitely got me for this one it made me want to read it like so badly but i just ran out of time so definitely one that i'm going to try and prioritize going into next year but this is about a main character who is a high school student but she goes to a resident program i don't know what you would actually call it but it is at a university but when she's there her first night there she ends up witnessing a magical attack and the perpetrator tries to wipe her memory but instead ends up awakening a magical power within her i think this seems really cool i've heard amazing things about it from all this hype so oh i just i wish i had gotten to read it also this cover is beautiful and deserves all the hype on its own honestly next is what i would say was the most popular book for when i asked you guys for this on instagram this is the book that literally pretty much all of you mentioned and that is the invisible life of addie larue by v.e schwab this book was like very unanimously the most hyped up book of the year i feel like and i think part of that is because it has come out recently so it definitely like the hype is right now so it makes sense that so many of you guys think that this is like the most hyped book of the year but i agree like i've heard nothing but good things about this book i have just heard about it so much it has been everywhere leading up to its release and now after it's just it's all over the place but va schwab is a very beloved author so that makes sense and also this is a book that she has worked on for a very long time you can see that if you follow her on twitter she's talked about it quite a bit but i unfortunately once again wasn't able to squeeze this one in before the end of the year but it is about addie larue who makes a pact with the devil so she will get to live forever but the consequence of that is that she will be forgotten by everyone she ever meets oh it gets me every time i do understand why so many people are talking about this book because it like it's a super cool concept but i'm trying to go in with lower expectations because i don't want to be disappointed because of that because that can happen next is felix ever after by case and calendar once again guilty of really hyping this book up but it totally like exceeds all the hype for it to be honest so in this you follow felix who is a transgender teen he's dealing with transphobic bullying at school and he also ends up finding himself in a quasi-love triangle which he's not exactly sure how to deal with because he has never been in love before so it's just a great beautiful story so much character development absolutely love it believe the hype because it totally is worth it next is cemetery boys by aidan thomas totally agree that this one was hyped up a lot but once again one that is for good reason this one also follows a transgender teen who is determined to prove his gender to his conservative latinx family now in doing so he ends up summoning a ghost who then refuses to leave and oh it's just it's a great and beautiful story and there's a reason so many people are talking about it and raving about it because it deserves it next is the king of crows by libba bray i actually don't think anyone gave this as an answer this is just kind of an addition of mine i think the reason that no one really talked about this one is because it came out in february so it can seem like that was ages ago and like it was last year i understand that entirely but this is the long-awaited highly anticipated finale to the diviners series so definitely one that i heard a ton about but i do understand why it kind of felt to the wayside especially because right now i feel like everything is like addy larue deadly education so it's like are there any other books right now next is tweet cute by emma lord this is the other book that i was talking about when i mentioned beach read one of the books that i feel like those two i kept on hearing about so much in conjunction with each other like i think it was just around the same time they seemed to blow up but this is a why a contemporary about these two rival like it's basically a twitter war between a big mcdonald's sort of like fast food chain and a smaller deli because the big guys steal the recipe for grilled cheese from the little guys and little do they know that it's actually two teenagers who are running these twitters and they are in this meme war it's super witty lots of fun next is clap when you land by elizabeth acevedo elizabeth acevedo is such a talented writer and this is her second novel in verse she has three novels total but the second one that she wrote is in prose but i loved this story it is following two sisters and the one is living in the dominican republic and the other one is living in new york city and they don't find out that one another exists until their father dies in a plane crash so super emotional obviously but so fabulously done so that was the last of the books that i actually own myself so the rest i have on my phone here as a little list because i either just haven't picked them up yet or they're not exactly my taste so next is mexican gothic by sylvia morano garcia this is obviously a gothic story but it is set in 1950s mexico which is super cool it features an isolated mansion a charming aristocrat and a brave socially exposing secrets in 1950s mexico that sounds so great actually and i think it is one that i should kind of look a little bit more into i'm not like i kind of have mixed feelings on gothic sometimes but that does sound like an interesting one next is the vanishing half by britt bennett this is about two twins and they grew up in this black community but it is a light-skinned black community this story deals with colorism a lot so the one twin ends up marrying a darker-skinned man and the other twin ends up marrying a white man so she ends up growing and passing as white for the rest of her life so you just kind of are dealing with this community where darkness is vilified and lightness is revered and the difference between the lives of these two twins it sounds really cool i actually haven't really known what this book was about because i just i generally don't really gravitate towards adult books unless they're fantasy or historical fiction but this one does sound like it's very interesting of course this list would be incomplete without midnight sun by what is her name why am i blanking on that stephanie meyer so this is the long awaited twilight from edward's perspective which she wrote like started writing back in the day but now it has finally been released and it's definitely it's not something i'm ever going to pick up but it does exist now for you twi-hearts out there and i'm happy for you next is the poppy war by rf quing this one i kind of debated picking up but there are like a lot of trigger warnings for it so i'm not sure if i will actually pick it up but it is an asian inspired fantasy and you follow a war orphan who aces this empire wide test despite everyone like everyone's very confused on how she does that because nobody ever who is from kind of like a lower class as she is has ever been able to do that and she's accepted into one of the most elite military schools but because of her status and standing and even the color of her skin she is being just targeted right from the outset and also it's a very war-torn country so very interesting i've heard like amazing things about these books so i might actually end up picking it up we'll see next is the house on the cerulean sea by tj clune this i just like for some reason after hearing so much about it it has made me want to find out more and actually like get myself a copy so i did or pre-order actually the paperback copy of it so this is an adult fantasy and it's about a magical island and the main character works for the department that like oversees orphaned children also the children have magic that is definitely worth mentioning but you end up getting sent on this special mission i really don't know what to expect from this book at all honestly the synopsis i was kind of like there's a lot going on here but like it's very very hyped up so we'll see next is chain of gold by cassandra clare this is of course the latest new series it's the last hour series by cassandra clare in the shadowhunters world i haven't read a shadowhunters book in forever this one i kind of thought maybe because it's historical but i don't think i actually will i have way too many other books that i want to read but definitely very hyped up along with there was like a sequel that came out the lost book of white i believe and that one is about magnus chase magnus chase is that his name no magnus bane i was getting it mixed up with percy jackson but magnus bane and alec lightwood so it's all about them honestly if there's a cassandra claire book that comes out in a year like you know that that one is definitely going to be on this list it just makes sense she has a huge fan base next is from blood and ash by jennifer l armentrout i hadn't really heard of this book before but so many of you had this one as your answer too so it's i believe an adult fantasy romance and the main character is a maiden she is destined for a solitary life of like not really experiencing joy not like basically not having anything i don't know if that really makes sense it's like you're never supposed to be touched or experienced pleasure obviously that's an interesting setup for a romance so there's a guard that she ends up you know things start changing a little bit there next is such a fun age by kylie reed so this one is about a girl who she's a white blogger and she calls her babysitter who's black to watch her toddler because she's like really overwhelmed she needs a little bit of a break and she's like take him to the market whatever so when her babysitter ends up taking her son to the market there is a security guard who comes and accuses her of kidnapping and the whole situation is just completely mismanaged i believe this one deals heavily with performative activism and allyship so i feel like the premise for it though is like super cool definitely a really bad situation and it definitely is also a really relevant topic next is blend and honey by shelby mccurrin this is the sequel to what is it called i can picture the cover serpent and dove which is the witchy story that came out last year and got a ton of hype and i read it and i thought it was just okay but i know so many people loved it so it makes sense for the sequel to be just as hyped up next is red white and royal blue by casey mcquiston this for sure was a super super hyped up book last year but a lot of you guys still had it on your list for this year and i do think it's a book that like will pretty much always be hyped up and for a good reason because it's such an adorable romance it is between the first son of the president of the united states and henry prince of wales and it's an enemies to lovers just chef's kiss so good and finally is one that i actually added on here and i think it sounds so good so i'm also really looking forward to getting to this one soon but it is the henna wars by adiba jai girdar this is a sapphic romance actually that is about two girls who run rival henna businesses and that just sounds like the setup for something so so adorable and i definitely do want to get this one soon so those are all the books that i wanted to talk about today that you guys and i also agree were the most hyped up and most talked about books of 2020. i think it was a really great year for books honestly even though there has been you know a lot going on there were a lot of amazing books that came out so that's a plus and i'm hoping next year will be the same we'll see what ends up on that list but please do let me know what you think the most hyped up book of the year is i think that the most typed up book was the invisible life of addie larue because i mean maybe it's because it just came out recently so it's just it's a lot right now but i do think that it just seemed to be everywhere all year long honestly but tomorrow for bookmas day 12 i'm going to be talking about the books that surprised me and the books that disappointed me this past year so don't forget to click that subscribe button so you won't miss that and you can also click that notification bell so you will be notified whenever i post as i will be putting up a new video every single day for the month of december so you don't want to miss any of those but i hope you guys enjoyed today's video thank you so much for watching and i will see you tomorrow with another one bye youeveryone it's haley and today is bookmas day 11 so i'm going to be talking about the most talked about books of 2020. yesterday for bookmas day 10 we played a little game where i picked a best and a worst book for each month so i'll have that link down below and just in case you missed it as well as the whole bookmas playlist so you can get caught up if you are a little bit behind but today is a video that i've done i think two bookmases now this will be the second or the third i can't really remember but i think it's a really interesting one i love looking back on the year and thinking about the books that i just heard about non-stop the entire year now obviously this isn't like an authoritative list or anything these aren't the number one like the only books that were talked about a lot it kind of depends on where you hang out in the book dinette and you might have a different book that you couldn't hear about like you couldn't stop hearing about rather but i've maybe never heard of it so what i did a little bit differently this year though is i actually asked you guys which books you were hearing about the most because i felt like that made more sense than just talking about my personal list now i do have a couple of personal editions here but i did find that a lot of you guys hit on the ones that i feel like i just heard about non-stop 2020 is a little bit different than other years a number of reasons but i feel like i also have forgotten about a lot of the books that came out early in the year and a lot of you guys have as well just because there has been so many distractions and so much that has happened but if you guys actually wanted to hear about some of the books that are a little bit more underrated i will be doing that on a later book miss day i think it's day 17 i'm not entirely sure but i will be talking about some 2020 releases that i really haven't heard that much about but without further ado let's get into the ones that everyone was talking about this year so first off ninth house by leigh bardugo quite a few of you guys said this book which kind of surprised me because i feel like it was talked about a lot in 2019 but that hype can sometimes carry into the next year and i do think that is true of ninth house i think because it came out in the latter half of 2019 a lot of people didn't get the chance to get to it so i personally was one of those people and it definitely is a book that i had been talking about quite a bit this year because i kept including it on tbrs but i have finally read it so yay but this is an adult novel and it's leigh bardugo's first adult novel she's the author of the grisha verse books which are so amazing so this is very different for her it is set at yale and it deals with secret societies ghosts numerous trigger warnings so definitely be warned about that going into it next is a ballot of songbirds and snakes by suzanne collins so this was the highly highly highly anticipated hunger games prequel and i'm still avoiding opinions so i really don't know anything about him but it is all about president snow so you're getting a little bit of a villain backstory here and i feel like it came out and no one was really talking about it just because it kind of came out at a very inopportune time but it definitely is still one that a lot of people had been really looking forward to next is a song of wraiths and rune by roseanne a brown i also heard about this book a lot this year and it definitely is one of the things that made me want to pick it up because it does sound really really good so it is a west african inspired fantasy and the main character's sister is abducted and he makes this plan or not a plan but a deal in order to get his sister back but that plan involves killing the princess now the princess though she has some other plans she is trying to resurrect her dead mother but in order to do that she needs the still beating heart of a king so that's gonna be interesting next step is of course crescent city house of earth and blood by sarah j maas this came out really early actually in 2020 and i haven't gotten the chance to read it yet but it is a new adult fantasy by sarah j maas who's the author of throne of glass and then also i'll include it now oh it's on the bottom of the pile but a lot of you guys also replied saying that you heard a lot about a court of thorns and roses which i think is funny because maybe it's just because i have like just i'm used to hearing about that book all the time but i don't really consider it like a really hyped up one this year but a lot of you guys replied with just like all sarah j maas books and a lot of you guys were really annoyed about it too there were like eye roll emojis and everything which i think is really funny her books are definitely very very hyped up so i can't understand if you're not interested how it would get a little bit annoying hearing about them all the time now like i said this one is her first adult book and while her first actual adult book like categorized as that but i digress this deals with a main character who all of her friends are murdered by demon and then she like she sets out to avenge their death and find out what actually happened because the suspect is behind bars but the killings are still happening and there's also a fallen angel so angels and demons and all of that next up is a book that i feel like i'm responsible for a big part of hyping this up and that is lovely war by julie berry this was my number one favorite book that i read this year so obviously i do think that it totally lives up to this hype it is just such a beautiful love story set in world war one and you follow two different love stories it is narrated by the greek gods so it's mostly aphrodite but you also have the god of war in there you have just all of the gods chiming in to tell these two beautiful heartbreaking love stories i just absolutely fell in love with this book so i i love the fact that a lot of you guys responded with this one and i do think that's partially my fault but i'm not even sorry about it conversely next is the flat share by beth o'leary this book i think it came out last year and there was a lot of hype in the latter half of the year and then i feel like early in 2020 it was talked about quite a bit and i was interested in it partially because of the hype because i had heard nothing but good things about it but also because the concept sounds really cool it's about a girl and a guy who ends up sharing an apartment but they're not together or anything it's just he's on midnight so while he's at work she gets the apartment and then while she's at work he gets the apartment so they come to this agreement but then they start to communicate via post-it notes and they fall in love now this was on my worst books of the year list unfortunately so i didn't really like it i didn't think it really lived up to the hype but i don't think it's a bad book by any means i understand why it is talked about so much and it might appeal to a lot of people next is rey bear by jordan ifuko this is a fantasy and it follows a main character who has never really experienced the warmth of family and really wants that but she was raised in isolation by her mother who she never sees is very absent who is known as the lady and she ends up being sent to this competition to compete with these people to be one of the princes chosen 11. i tend to really enjoy competition stories so i do get why this one has a lot of hype and i am super excited to see if it does live up to it next up is of course beach read by emily henry i feel like this was one of the first books in the midst of march and that time of year where is really really just wild that i heard about a ton this one and a one i'll get two a little bit later but this is an adult romance that follows two characters who are writers and they end up switching what they write for the year the one is a literary fiction writer who's going to write romance the other is a romance writer who's going to write literary fiction and there's obviously i mean it's a romance so there's romance there but there's also a deeper level to it so this was one of my favorite books of the year so once again one that i do think lives up to the hype i did like for a while i was like maybe it's a little bit over hyped because i think my expectations were a little too high but the more i thought about it after i read it i was like no i did really really like that book and i understand why so many people are talking about it next is you should see me in a crown by leah johnson this sounds like such an adorable sapphic romance and i'm so glad that it was so hyped up so i was able to hear about it because i hadn't heard about it until it just it was everywhere so then i was like yes i need this but you follow the main character who wants to be a doctor but her financial aid falls through so she finds out that if she wins prom queen she will get a scholarship so then she sets out to try and be a prom queen but there is also a new girl who is kind of changing things for her next up is take a hint danny brown by talia hibbert this is the latest installment in the brown sisters series i think that's what it's called but the first book was get a life chloe brown which i have read and this one is the next one and i do really want to read this one soon so danny brown is not really interested in romance but she does like the steamy part of it so she sets out to try and find a friends with benefits arrangement next up is a deadly education by naomi novik this is one that came out pretty recently so i feel like it's one that has been around a lot recently but this is by the author of uprooted and spinning silver which are both really hyped up books in their own right i still haven't read either of them but i do have this one now so it's set at this school where it's like a competition you can't really trust anyone there's monsters that lurk in the halls and basically the way that you graduate is you survive so the stakes are high next is the betrothed by kiera cass obviously this is a book that was highly anticipated because it's by the author of the selection series which is a super popular y.a dystopian mostly it's romance series and this sounds quite similar to it so i was really excited for it but if you watched my worst books of 2020 video then you know how that turned out unfortunately but you follow lady hollis who has been living at court and she's hoping to win the king's affections and then he chooses her but then she realizes she might not want to actually be queen next is legend born by tracy dion this is one that the hype definitely got me for this one it made me want to read it like so badly but i just ran out of time so definitely one that i'm going to try and prioritize going into next year but this is about a main character who is a high school student but she goes to a resident program i don't know what you would actually call it but it is at a university but when she's there her first night there she ends up witnessing a magical attack and the perpetrator tries to wipe her memory but instead ends up awakening a magical power within her i think this seems really cool i've heard amazing things about it from all this hype so oh i just i wish i had gotten to read it also this cover is beautiful and deserves all the hype on its own honestly next is what i would say was the most popular book for when i asked you guys for this on instagram this is the book that literally pretty much all of you mentioned and that is the invisible life of addie larue by v.e schwab this book was like very unanimously the most hyped up book of the year i feel like and i think part of that is because it has come out recently so it definitely like the hype is right now so it makes sense that so many of you guys think that this is like the most hyped book of the year but i agree like i've heard nothing but good things about this book i have just heard about it so much it has been everywhere leading up to its release and now after it's just it's all over the place but va schwab is a very beloved author so that makes sense and also this is a book that she has worked on for a very long time you can see that if you follow her on twitter she's talked about it quite a bit but i unfortunately once again wasn't able to squeeze this one in before the end of the year but it is about addie larue who makes a pact with the devil so she will get to live forever but the consequence of that is that she will be forgotten by everyone she ever meets oh it gets me every time i do understand why so many people are talking about this book because it like it's a super cool concept but i'm trying to go in with lower expectations because i don't want to be disappointed because of that because that can happen next is felix ever after by case and calendar once again guilty of really hyping this book up but it totally like exceeds all the hype for it to be honest so in this you follow felix who is a transgender teen he's dealing with transphobic bullying at school and he also ends up finding himself in a quasi-love triangle which he's not exactly sure how to deal with because he has never been in love before so it's just a great beautiful story so much character development absolutely love it believe the hype because it totally is worth it next is cemetery boys by aidan thomas totally agree that this one was hyped up a lot but once again one that is for good reason this one also follows a transgender teen who is determined to prove his gender to his conservative latinx family now in doing so he ends up summoning a ghost who then refuses to leave and oh it's just it's a great and beautiful story and there's a reason so many people are talking about it and raving about it because it deserves it next is the king of crows by libba bray i actually don't think anyone gave this as an answer this is just kind of an addition of mine i think the reason that no one really talked about this one is because it came out in february so it can seem like that was ages ago and like it was last year i understand that entirely but this is the long-awaited highly anticipated finale to the diviners series so definitely one that i heard a ton about but i do understand why it kind of felt to the wayside especially because right now i feel like everything is like addy larue deadly education so it's like are there any other books right now next is tweet cute by emma lord this is the other book that i was talking about when i mentioned beach read one of the books that i feel like those two i kept on hearing about so much in conjunction with each other like i think it was just around the same time they seemed to blow up but this is a why a contemporary about these two rival like it's basically a twitter war between a big mcdonald's sort of like fast food chain and a smaller deli because the big guys steal the recipe for grilled cheese from the little guys and little do they know that it's actually two teenagers who are running these twitters and they are in this meme war it's super witty lots of fun next is clap when you land by elizabeth acevedo elizabeth acevedo is such a talented writer and this is her second novel in verse she has three novels total but the second one that she wrote is in prose but i loved this story it is following two sisters and the one is living in the dominican republic and the other one is living in new york city and they don't find out that one another exists until their father dies in a plane crash so super emotional obviously but so fabulously done so that was the last of the books that i actually own myself so the rest i have on my phone here as a little list because i either just haven't picked them up yet or they're not exactly my taste so next is mexican gothic by sylvia morano garcia this is obviously a gothic story but it is set in 1950s mexico which is super cool it features an isolated mansion a charming aristocrat and a brave socially exposing secrets in 1950s mexico that sounds so great actually and i think it is one that i should kind of look a little bit more into i'm not like i kind of have mixed feelings on gothic sometimes but that does sound like an interesting one next is the vanishing half by britt bennett this is about two twins and they grew up in this black community but it is a light-skinned black community this story deals with colorism a lot so the one twin ends up marrying a darker-skinned man and the other twin ends up marrying a white man so she ends up growing and passing as white for the rest of her life so you just kind of are dealing with this community where darkness is vilified and lightness is revered and the difference between the lives of these two twins it sounds really cool i actually haven't really known what this book was about because i just i generally don't really gravitate towards adult books unless they're fantasy or historical fiction but this one does sound like it's very interesting of course this list would be incomplete without midnight sun by what is her name why am i blanking on that stephanie meyer so this is the long awaited twilight from edward's perspective which she wrote like started writing back in the day but now it has finally been released and it's definitely it's not something i'm ever going to pick up but it does exist now for you twi-hearts out there and i'm happy for you next is the poppy war by rf quing this one i kind of debated picking up but there are like a lot of trigger warnings for it so i'm not sure if i will actually pick it up but it is an asian inspired fantasy and you follow a war orphan who aces this empire wide test despite everyone like everyone's very confused on how she does that because nobody ever who is from kind of like a lower class as she is has ever been able to do that and she's accepted into one of the most elite military schools but because of her status and standing and even the color of her skin she is being just targeted right from the outset and also it's a very war-torn country so very interesting i've heard like amazing things about these books so i might actually end up picking it up we'll see next is the house on the cerulean sea by tj clune this i just like for some reason after hearing so much about it it has made me want to find out more and actually like get myself a copy so i did or pre-order actually the paperback copy of it so this is an adult fantasy and it's about a magical island and the main character works for the department that like oversees orphaned children also the children have magic that is definitely worth mentioning but you end up getting sent on this special mission i really don't know what to expect from this book at all honestly the synopsis i was kind of like there's a lot going on here but like it's very very hyped up so we'll see next is chain of gold by cassandra clare this is of course the latest new series it's the last hour series by cassandra clare in the shadowhunters world i haven't read a shadowhunters book in forever this one i kind of thought maybe because it's historical but i don't think i actually will i have way too many other books that i want to read but definitely very hyped up along with there was like a sequel that came out the lost book of white i believe and that one is about magnus chase magnus chase is that his name no magnus bane i was getting it mixed up with percy jackson but magnus bane and alec lightwood so it's all about them honestly if there's a cassandra claire book that comes out in a year like you know that that one is definitely going to be on this list it just makes sense she has a huge fan base next is from blood and ash by jennifer l armentrout i hadn't really heard of this book before but so many of you had this one as your answer too so it's i believe an adult fantasy romance and the main character is a maiden she is destined for a solitary life of like not really experiencing joy not like basically not having anything i don't know if that really makes sense it's like you're never supposed to be touched or experienced pleasure obviously that's an interesting setup for a romance so there's a guard that she ends up you know things start changing a little bit there next is such a fun age by kylie reed so this one is about a girl who she's a white blogger and she calls her babysitter who's black to watch her toddler because she's like really overwhelmed she needs a little bit of a break and she's like take him to the market whatever so when her babysitter ends up taking her son to the market there is a security guard who comes and accuses her of kidnapping and the whole situation is just completely mismanaged i believe this one deals heavily with performative activism and allyship so i feel like the premise for it though is like super cool definitely a really bad situation and it definitely is also a really relevant topic next is blend and honey by shelby mccurrin this is the sequel to what is it called i can picture the cover serpent and dove which is the witchy story that came out last year and got a ton of hype and i read it and i thought it was just okay but i know so many people loved it so it makes sense for the sequel to be just as hyped up next is red white and royal blue by casey mcquiston this for sure was a super super hyped up book last year but a lot of you guys still had it on your list for this year and i do think it's a book that like will pretty much always be hyped up and for a good reason because it's such an adorable romance it is between the first son of the president of the united states and henry prince of wales and it's an enemies to lovers just chef's kiss so good and finally is one that i actually added on here and i think it sounds so good so i'm also really looking forward to getting to this one soon but it is the henna wars by adiba jai girdar this is a sapphic romance actually that is about two girls who run rival henna businesses and that just sounds like the setup for something so so adorable and i definitely do want to get this one soon so those are all the books that i wanted to talk about today that you guys and i also agree were the most hyped up and most talked about books of 2020. i think it was a really great year for books honestly even though there has been you know a lot going on there were a lot of amazing books that came out so that's a plus and i'm hoping next year will be the same we'll see what ends up on that list but please do let me know what you think the most hyped up book of the year is i think that the most typed up book was the invisible life of addie larue because i mean maybe it's because it just came out recently so it's just it's a lot right now but i do think that it just seemed to be everywhere all year long honestly but tomorrow for bookmas day 12 i'm going to be talking about the books that surprised me and the books that disappointed me this past year so don't forget to click that subscribe button so you won't miss that and you can also click that notification bell so you will be notified whenever i post as i will be putting up a new video every single day for the month of december so you don't want to miss any of those but i hope you guys enjoyed today's video thank you so much for watching and i will see you tomorrow with another one bye you\n"