The books that I'm hoping to get to in the month of April are quite diverse and exciting. Yes, the son of a caterer and then the daughter of a harpist and they end up at all the same weddings and they have like an enemies-to-lovers's relationship next up is Empress of All Seasons by Amiko Jean for some reason like I don't know why but spring just is the most season of seasons does that even make any sense? See, the thing is it does make sense in my head because I feel like it's the most like weather time or whatever but because of that I really want to read this one. This is oh I have another book by her too We're a Mess Today Tokyo Dreaming so this is the author of Tokyo Ever After which I read last year and this is the sequel so I definitely want to try and get to this one because it's going to be so cute adorable royal romance everything that I want but this is a fantasy and it's this palace of illusions where nothing is what it seems and each generation a competition is held to find the next empress so the rules are simple survive the palaces enchant in seasonal rooms conquer winter spring summer and fall and then marry the prince all are eligible to compete so fascinating like I don't know something about that it just gets me. Also, I have here A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy Iland this book like literally just came to my door today and as I was marking it as to be read on Goodreads I noticed that it's a historical fantasy so that was what made me want to include it here but look at this cover like oh my goodness I cannot get enough of it the more I look at it the more beautiful it seems. Another book that just came to my doorstep is An Arrow to the Moon by Emily X.Rpan this is by the author of The Astonishing Color of After which came out quite a few years ago now but I fell in love with that book and this is her most recent book since then so I'm really excited to read it I believe it's a Romeo and Juliet retelling I just know like I loved her first book so much that I need to read this one. I would also really like to read Outrun the Moon by Stacey Lee because this is the only Stacey Lee book that I haven't read yet She is a historical fiction author she writes really great diverse historical fictions which is something that's honestly pretty hard to find but this one is set in San Francisco in 1906 and you are following a 15-year-old character who is determined to break from the poverty of Chinatown so she wants to get an education at the school for girls she thinks that is her best hope of doing that the problem is that it is a school that's off-limits to all except for the most wealthiest white girls but she manages to actually get her way in through bribery I haven't been disappointed by a Stacey Lee book yet so I don't see why I would be disappointed by this one. Okay, I have one more wedding book here so we have A Sister of the Bollywood Bride by Nandini Bhajpai I've had this book for quite a while and I think it just sounds adorable like the main character their mother has died so she wants to throw the perfect dream Bollywood wedding that her mother would have thrown for her sister that didn't make any sense basically she wants to throw a really beautiful wedding for her sister and I just love that. I also am into drama lately so why did drama I don't know what just happened but I would really like to read The Rumor Game by Daniel Clayton and Sona Charipotra which is the author's a book set at a Washington D.C. elite boarding school and actually I don't know if it's a boarding school it might just be a school yeah it's just a private school I don't know why I just said it was a boarding school sometimes my brain just makes decisions like about the story that didn't actually happen but this is by the authors of Tiny Pretty Things so I'm expecting it to be pretty mind-blowing.

The books that I hope to get to in April are truly varied and exciting. Yes, the son of a caterer and then the daughter of a harpist, and they end up at all the same weddings, have an enemies-to-lovers relationship. Next up is Empress of All Seasons by Amiko Jean, for some reason that I don't fully understand, because spring just seems to be the most season of seasons, does that even make sense? See, it does make sense in my head, because I feel like it's the most like weather time or whatever, but because of that, I really want to read this one. This is oh, I have another book by her too, We're a Mess Today Tokyo Dreaming, so this is the author of Tokyo Ever After, which I read last year, and this is the sequel, so I definitely want to try and get to this one because it's going to be so cute and adorable royal romance everything that I want, but this is a fantasy, and it's this palace of illusions where nothing is what it seems, and each generation a competition is held to find the next empress, so the rules are simple: survive the palace's enchantment in seasonal rooms conquer winter spring summer and fall, and then marry the prince. All are eligible to compete, so fascinating, I don't know something about that, it just gets me.

The Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy Ianland is another book that has come to my doorstep, and it's like literally just arrived today, and as I was marking it as to be read on Goodreads, I noticed that it's a historical fantasy, so that's what made me want to include it here. But look at this cover, oh my goodness, I can't get enough of it the more I look at it, the more beautiful it seems.

An Arrow to the Moon by Emily X.Rpan is another book that has come to my doorstep, and it's like literally just arrived today, and as I was marking it as to be read on Goodreads, I noticed that it's a historical fantasy, so that's what made me want to include it here. But look at this cover, oh my goodness, I can't get enough of it the more I look at it, the more beautiful it seems.

Outrun the Moon by Stacey Lee is another book that I hope to read in April, and it's like literally just arrived today, because this is the only Stacey Lee book that I haven't read yet. She writes really great diverse historical fictions, which is something that's honestly pretty hard to find, but this one is set in San Francisco in 1906, and you're following a 15-year-old character who is determined to break from the poverty of Chinatown so she wants to get an education at the school for girls. She thinks that is her best hope of doing that, but the problem is that it's a school that's off-limits to all except for the most wealthiest white girls, and she manages to actually get her way in through bribery.

I haven't been disappointed by a Stacey Lee book yet so I don't see why I would be disappointed by this one. A Sister of the Bollywood Bride by Nandini Bhajpai is another book that has come to my doorstep, and it's like literally just arrived today, because I think it just sounds adorable. The main character's mother has died, so she wants to throw the perfect dream Bollywood wedding that her mother would have thrown for her sister. That doesn't make any sense basically, she wants to throw a really beautiful wedding for her sister and I just love that.

I also am into drama lately, so why did drama, I don't know what just happened but I would really like to read The Rumor Game by Daniel Clayton and Sona Charipotra which is the author's a book set at a Washington D.C. elite boarding school. But actually, I don't know if it's a boarding school, maybe it's just a school, yeah, it's just a private school, because sometimes my brain makes decisions like about the story that didn't actually happen but this is by the authors of Tiny Pretty Things so I'm expecting it to be pretty mind-blowing.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: eneveryone it's haley and today i'm going to be talking about the books that i'm hoping to read this next month of april so i have an injury i don't know if you can actually see the band-aid that's on my finger but i was trying to be like a good little content creator and i'm trying to like film a real or a tick tock at the same time that i'm filming the video so i was like holding the stack of books to show and the thing just toppled over and i was like oh no big deal that's happened a million times i just felt bad because my boyfriend's on midnight and he's sleeping right now and it sounded really bad so i was going and i was like picking up the books and everything putting them into stacks as you're watching like i'll show the clip but you can see where it goes wrong there's like this stack of four or five books in the middle that are not secure so they were ready to go and i just wasn't really paying attention uh but it's not the first time it won't be the last you'd think after seven years of doing this that i figured out like how to stack books properly so they're more stable and how to hold the books but i haven't i probably have like thousands of pictures of me just holding stacks of books but i still can't do it properly but anyways as i was stacking them up afterwards my finger was throbbing and i was like why is my finger throbbing and then i looked and i saw that i had a paper cut that was like gushing blood and i was like well how did that happen like i haven't done anything and then it occurred to me that it happened while i was holding the books one of them must have as it was falling like sliced through my finger which i've never had happen before i have had i had a note a mark on the middle of my nose from taking an instagram photo with books on my head and the books actually fell and hit me on the nose so i've had that before and that was for like all of bookmas a couple years ago i just had this little red mark right on my forehead um but that's the only like actual book injury that i can recall but books are dangerous okay that's that's what we've established here anyways so the theme for april is honestly i'm just going with the flow i'm reading whatever i want a lot of it is just like fun stuff but i'm happy to say that like all the books that i've picked out i am really really excited for because i've kind of been in a slump lately where i haven't really had the time or the energy to read but the book that i'm reading right now has kind of been getting me out of that so i'm currently reading i must betray you by ruth petty's and her books just have a way of like making me want to read and this one is totally doing it even though i am kind of strapped for time a little bit it is one that i look forward to picking up and because of that i've been actually like blocking out some time to do that so i do have like a couple of historical fictions in here given that i must betray the historical fiction so kind of going with that i've got some fantasies i've got just a little bit of everything so the first book that i wanted to talk about today is a forgery of roses by jessica s olsen so today's video is actually very kindly sponsored by incurred press and thank you so much to them for working with me today i am super excited to talk about this latest release from them this is actually by the same author as sing me forgotten which is a phantom of the opera retelling and that came out last year or a couple years ago but this is her latest book this book is about the main character myra whitlock and she has a gift but it's a gift that many people would kill her for so she actually has to work very hard to hide it her gift is that she's an artist but it goes beyond just being artistic she's an artist whose portraits actually alter people's real-life bodies since their parents are gone she has to keep the secret closer than ever to protect herself and her younger sister unfortunately the governor's wife ends up discovering this gift of hers and ends up blackmailing her and threatening to reveal her if she doesn't do a portrait of their dead son that would resurrect him so myra's feeling really desperate and she ends up going to their mansion and as she's learning more about the son's death she discovers that it was no accident but myra can't actually do the portrait until she knows what actually happens so she ends up turning to the surviving oldest son who happens to be a captivating redheaded poet so together they embark upon this gothic murder mystery trying to figure out what actually happened to his brother i think this concept sounds so unique and incredible and like everything that i want like the portrait magic and this murder mystery it has a little bit of everything so i am so excited to read this book and it's definitely at the top of my tbr for this month so i definitely encourage you guys to go and check it out and i will have a link down below for you guys to do just that and thank you once again so much to inquired press for sponsoring today's video so next as i had mentioned i'm reading i must betray you and that is a historical fiction so one historical fiction that i have had on my tbr for quite a while now is angel of greenwood by brandy pink i've really been wanting to read this book but i've kind of been waiting until i'm in the right mood for it as if there really is a right mood but because i know that this is going to be a really difficult read this is set in oklahoma during i believe it's the ninth late 1920s or the 1930s 1921 so i was incorrect but i was kind of close but it's set in greenwood and it is following the greenwood massacre you have two characters who are forming this relationship but then there's this absolutely vicious white mob that attacks the community of greenwood and that's also known as black wall street and i've read one book about this before and i found it very interesting like a really difficult read because of how honest and terrifying it is but i haven't really heard all that much about this book to be honest so i'm hoping that it is going to be an underrated book that i can recommend to you guys because i'm always looking for those hidden gems the number of books that i have in front of me is not even funny like i don't know why i grabbed so many books when i've literally been able to read like one book within two weeks lately i don't know what i was thinking but we were feeling ambitious so the next couple of books that i have here are both by tracy so first of all we have the reader which is a fantasy by tracy it's actually i don't know if it's a trilogy or it's just a duology i'm pretty sure it's just a duology but this has been out for a few years now and i haven't read it yet but having read we are not free has made me want to read like everything by this author so i definitely would like to pick this one up and especially because i would like to read her latest book which is a thousand steps in tonight and this came out pretty recently so this is a japanese inspired fantasy and it deals with demons and stuff it seems really interesting but i would like to read both of these because i loved we are not free so much so i feel like it just makes sense next up i have here my giant stack of colleen hoover books which actually i have another one over there that just came in that i haven't hauled yet that i need to read so i would like to do my little colleen hoover reading vlog this month i'm hoping to kind of do some themed reading vlogs this month but i've been holding off a little bit just until i'm out of my slump however i feel like colleen hoover like these books are really good because they're super readable and just fast quick easy breeds so i think that these would be good ones to get me out of my slump so i feel like it makes sense and april will be the time to do it next up is malibu rising by taylor jenkins read so i had heard from someone i think they commented on my book haul actually where i just included this uh but they said that this book is really great audiobook and i have been looking for audiobooks lately because while i'm working i have a lot of time that i can listen to audiobooks but i've been having a hard time like picking which ones so if you have any audiobooks that you have listened to recently like specifically more recent releases please let me know down below which ones you really loved because i would love to know which books that i have on my tbr that i should try and get to on audio but i know that i have listened to both of taylor jenkins reads other books and really loved the audiobook so i'm thinking that they probably are right the person who said that this is a great audiobook so i think that's the way that i'm going to go with this one but this book is her latest release from last year she has another book coming out i'm not exactly sure when if it's going to be this year or whatever but this one deals with four siblings and they're four famous siblings they're going to throw this epic end of summer party but it ends up being 24 hours that are going to change the course of their lives forever the drama next up is atlas by heart by stephen sater speaking of audiobooks i'm hoping that i can find this one on audio because i think physically reading it i'm super nervous about that now this is actually based on a broadway play and i actually think it's a musical specifically but it's essentially during the london blitz you're following characters who are in the tube taking shelter and they are turning to alice in wonderland to find refuge so it's kind of like an alice in wonderland retelling so everything about that just seems like everything i love like obviously i love alice in wonderland we know that by now but i also love historical fiction and i love touching heartfelt stories so that's definitely the vibe that i'm getting from this one however when i started trying to read it which i did that when it first came out i found it was super duper dense like i was kind of having a hard time with the writing and everything so i'm hoping that there's an audio oh i didn't even real oh i thought it was signed by the author but it says alice spencer so it's just the character so that was that was dumb but anyways i feel like audio is just going to be the best way for me to consume this story sometimes when books are really dense and they're like there's not a lot of dialogue they're more prose heavy then i kind of can get caught up in it and i'll get a little bit bored so that's why i'm hoping i can find this one to listen to if not i do still want to try and read it i think part of my skepticism too is that i've been kind of like looking at my goodreads and seeing what the highest average rated books are that i have on my tbr and what the lowest average rate of books are on my tbr and this one's one of the lowest so i'm kind of nervous next i have salam with love by sarah sharoff begg so i would really like to read this book because it is actually set during ramadan and april is the month of ramadan so it seems like the most appropriate time to read it obviously but this is following a character who she lives in this small apartment in queens with her family and she's excited to be spending the month of ramadan celebrating with her extended family as well but however she's also kind of struggling to find her place in a very conservative household but my favorite part of this which i'm just gonna read the back because i think it's it just really makes it hit home as if fasting the whole day wasn't tiring enough she must battle her hormones whenever she sees hassan a cute muslim drummer who has a habit of showing up at her most awkward moments i feel like this just sounds like it's going to be an adorable romance and all about the main character trying to find her place i just love the whole thing already the fact that i've already been recording for almost 19 minutes and i still have a bunch of books really tells me how like overly ambitious i have decided to be for this next month but i have a whole huge stack well it's not huge but a sizable stack of adult romances here that i would really like to get to so we first have meet me in the margins by melissa ferguson this is set in a publishing house so like adorable i'm currently doing an internship at a publishing house even though it is like a work from home thing i still you know the vibes and everything i feel like it's a fitting time to read this and my internship is done at the end of june so i would really like to read it while i'm still doing the internship obviously but it's about a girl who's working at like a literary fiction publishing house but she loves writing romance and that's a secret of hers but she ends up leaving a manuscript in like the secret room that she's been using at the publishing house and when she goes back to retrieve it she finds that someone has left notes in the margins so sounds adorable like i'm thinking through the manuscript they have a romance like how cute is that then of course we have four aunties in a wedding by jessie hugh sutanto i am so excited dial a for aunties was one of my favorite books of last year i absolutely adored it it was so funny but like just romantic everything about it just worked for me i loved the characters i was laughing out loud multiple times like not even that far into the story and also it was a second chance romance like i think it was also friends to lovers which by the way my confusion with second chance romance and friends to lovers is because i thought i had heard that like second chance romance they weren't necessarily dating before maybe it was like a crush in the past that never actually happened or they were friends in the past but they haven't seen each other in a long time i don't know if that's like another trope but that was just my misunderstanding about it anyways i have no clue what this companion follows i think it might be like a wedding of characters from the first book which i'm so down for i'm not even gonna look into what it's about because i just know that i'm going to go into it and i'm going to love it so the next book that i'm hoping to read this month is another one that has been hyped up on tick tock a lot i think i haven't actually like come across it i swear like the book talk that i have found myself in it's not really recommendations so much it's more so like funny things which i guess is because that's mostly what i've been posting i don't really know but apparently how to fail at flirting by denise williams has been very hyped up so i would really like to read it it's like a one daring to-do list in a crash course in flirtation turn to type a overachievers world upside down i love anything that has to do with lists and like romance it really gets me next is mr wrong number by lynn painter this one came out recently and i just think it sounds absolutely incredible it's about someone ends up sending a sexy text a sext if you will to the wrong number and it ends up turning into this anonymous like flirting relationship via text i just love that concept so much there's so many ways it can play out this is totally like what i'm in the mood for lately i say as i'm reading like a more intense historical fiction but i want to pick something like this up very soon and finally for romances is weather girl by rachel and solomon this is by the author of actually i have another one of her books on here where did i put it here it is but we can't keep meeting like this this is a why a book by her this is her adult book but honestly the sole reason that i want to read this obviously it has to do with weather uh and a meteorologist but because i'm like well april just makes me think of weather like springtime makes me think of weather because it's always raining and stuff so the cover just feels very fitting which is kind of dumb but honestly but getting back to we can't keep meeting like this both my sisters are getting married this year so i'm kind of wanting to squeeze in some wedding reads and i'm not sure if i want to get to all of them now like i feel like what's going to happen is i'm going to keep on putting them off and be like oh i'll read it closer to the dates but then i'm going to have too many and then i'm just not going to get to any of them so i'm like let's get a head start on things because i have august and then october those are the two months of the weddings but this one is about two characters the one is the son of is it the son of the caterer yes the son of a caterer and then the daughter of a harpist and they end up at all the same weddings and they have like an enemies-to-lover's relationship next up is empress of all seasons by amico jean for some reason like i don't know why but spring just is the most season of seasons does that even make any sense see the thing is it does make sense in my head because i feel like it's the most like weather time or whatever but because of that i really want to read this one this is oh i have another book by her too we're a mess today tokyo dreaming so this is the author of tokyo ever after which i read last year and this is the sequel so i definitely want to try and get to this one because it's going to be so cute adorable royal romance everything that i want but this is a fantasy and it's this palace of illusions where nothing is what it seems and each generation a competition is held to find the next empress so the rules are simple survive the palaces enchant in seasonal rooms conquer winter spring summer and fall and then marry the prince all are eligible to compete so fascinating like i don't know something about that it just gets me i also have here a magic steeped in poison by judy island this book like literally just came to my door today and as i was marking it as to be read on goodreads i noticed that it's a historical fantasy so that was what made me want to include it here but look at this cover like oh my goodness i cannot get enough of it the more i look at it the more beautiful it seems another book that just came to my doorstep is an arrow to the moon by emily xrpan this is by the author of the astonishing color of after which came out quite a few years ago now but i fell in love with that book and this is her most recent book since then so i'm really excited to read it i believe it's a romeo and juliet retelling i just know like i loved her first book so much that i need to read this one i would also really like to read outrun the moon by stacey lee because this is the only stacey lee book that i haven't read yet she is a historical fiction author she writes really great diverse historical fictions which is something that's honestly pretty hard to find but this one is set in san francisco in 1906 and you are following a 15 year old character who is determined to break from the poverty of chinatown so she wants to get an education at the school for girls she thinks that is her best hope of doing that the problem is that it is a school that's off limits to all except for the most wealthiest white girls but she manages to actually get her way in through bribery i haven't been disappointed by a stacey lee book yet so i don't see why i would be disappointed by this one okay i have one more wedding book here so we have a sister of the bollywood bride by nandini bhajpai i've had this book for quite a while and i think it just sounds adorable like the main character their mother has died so she wants to throw the perfect dream bollywood wedding that her mother would have thrown for her sister that didn't make any sense basically she wants to throw a really beautiful wedding for her sister and i just love that i also am into the drama lately so why did drama i don't know what just happened but i would really like to read the rumor game by daniel clayton and sona chairipotra which is the author's a book set at a washington dc elite boarding school and actually i don't know if it's a boarding school it might just be a school yeah it's just a private school i don't know why i just said it was a boarding school sometimes my brain just makes decisions like about the story that didn't actually happen but this is by the authors of tiny pretty things so i'm expecting it to be pretty mind-blowing okay so those are all of the books that i am hoping to get to in the month of april we're gonna hope that it's a really good reading month because i'm being very ambitious with things but i think i should be able to hopefully make a really decent dent in things but i'm not going to jinx myself so thank you guys so much for watching today's video and thank you so much to where did i put the book in yardpress for sponsoring me today don't forget to check out a forgery of roses by jessica s olsen it's out now and i will have a link down below for you guys to check it out so thank you so much for watching today's video and i will see you in another new one soon byeeveryone it's haley and today i'm going to be talking about the books that i'm hoping to read this next month of april so i have an injury i don't know if you can actually see the band-aid that's on my finger but i was trying to be like a good little content creator and i'm trying to like film a real or a tick tock at the same time that i'm filming the video so i was like holding the stack of books to show and the thing just toppled over and i was like oh no big deal that's happened a million times i just felt bad because my boyfriend's on midnight and he's sleeping right now and it sounded really bad so i was going and i was like picking up the books and everything putting them into stacks as you're watching like i'll show the clip but you can see where it goes wrong there's like this stack of four or five books in the middle that are not secure so they were ready to go and i just wasn't really paying attention uh but it's not the first time it won't be the last you'd think after seven years of doing this that i figured out like how to stack books properly so they're more stable and how to hold the books but i haven't i probably have like thousands of pictures of me just holding stacks of books but i still can't do it properly but anyways as i was stacking them up afterwards my finger was throbbing and i was like why is my finger throbbing and then i looked and i saw that i had a paper cut that was like gushing blood and i was like well how did that happen like i haven't done anything and then it occurred to me that it happened while i was holding the books one of them must have as it was falling like sliced through my finger which i've never had happen before i have had i had a note a mark on the middle of my nose from taking an instagram photo with books on my head and the books actually fell and hit me on the nose so i've had that before and that was for like all of bookmas a couple years ago i just had this little red mark right on my forehead um but that's the only like actual book injury that i can recall but books are dangerous okay that's that's what we've established here anyways so the theme for april is honestly i'm just going with the flow i'm reading whatever i want a lot of it is just like fun stuff but i'm happy to say that like all the books that i've picked out i am really really excited for because i've kind of been in a slump lately where i haven't really had the time or the energy to read but the book that i'm reading right now has kind of been getting me out of that so i'm currently reading i must betray you by ruth petty's and her books just have a way of like making me want to read and this one is totally doing it even though i am kind of strapped for time a little bit it is one that i look forward to picking up and because of that i've been actually like blocking out some time to do that so i do have like a couple of historical fictions in here given that i must betray the historical fiction so kind of going with that i've got some fantasies i've got just a little bit of everything so the first book that i wanted to talk about today is a forgery of roses by jessica s olsen so today's video is actually very kindly sponsored by incurred press and thank you so much to them for working with me today i am super excited to talk about this latest release from them this is actually by the same author as sing me forgotten which is a phantom of the opera retelling and that came out last year or a couple years ago but this is her latest book this book is about the main character myra whitlock and she has a gift but it's a gift that many people would kill her for so she actually has to work very hard to hide it her gift is that she's an artist but it goes beyond just being artistic she's an artist whose portraits actually alter people's real-life bodies since their parents are gone she has to keep the secret closer than ever to protect herself and her younger sister unfortunately the governor's wife ends up discovering this gift of hers and ends up blackmailing her and threatening to reveal her if she doesn't do a portrait of their dead son that would resurrect him so myra's feeling really desperate and she ends up going to their mansion and as she's learning more about the son's death she discovers that it was no accident but myra can't actually do the portrait until she knows what actually happens so she ends up turning to the surviving oldest son who happens to be a captivating redheaded poet so together they embark upon this gothic murder mystery trying to figure out what actually happened to his brother i think this concept sounds so unique and incredible and like everything that i want like the portrait magic and this murder mystery it has a little bit of everything so i am so excited to read this book and it's definitely at the top of my tbr for this month so i definitely encourage you guys to go and check it out and i will have a link down below for you guys to do just that and thank you once again so much to inquired press for sponsoring today's video so next as i had mentioned i'm reading i must betray you and that is a historical fiction so one historical fiction that i have had on my tbr for quite a while now is angel of greenwood by brandy pink i've really been wanting to read this book but i've kind of been waiting until i'm in the right mood for it as if there really is a right mood but because i know that this is going to be a really difficult read this is set in oklahoma during i believe it's the ninth late 1920s or the 1930s 1921 so i was incorrect but i was kind of close but it's set in greenwood and it is following the greenwood massacre you have two characters who are forming this relationship but then there's this absolutely vicious white mob that attacks the community of greenwood and that's also known as black wall street and i've read one book about this before and i found it very interesting like a really difficult read because of how honest and terrifying it is but i haven't really heard all that much about this book to be honest so i'm hoping that it is going to be an underrated book that i can recommend to you guys because i'm always looking for those hidden gems the number of books that i have in front of me is not even funny like i don't know why i grabbed so many books when i've literally been able to read like one book within two weeks lately i don't know what i was thinking but we were feeling ambitious so the next couple of books that i have here are both by tracy so first of all we have the reader which is a fantasy by tracy it's actually i don't know if it's a trilogy or it's just a duology i'm pretty sure it's just a duology but this has been out for a few years now and i haven't read it yet but having read we are not free has made me want to read like everything by this author so i definitely would like to pick this one up and especially because i would like to read her latest book which is a thousand steps in tonight and this came out pretty recently so this is a japanese inspired fantasy and it deals with demons and stuff it seems really interesting but i would like to read both of these because i loved we are not free so much so i feel like it just makes sense next up i have here my giant stack of colleen hoover books which actually i have another one over there that just came in that i haven't hauled yet that i need to read so i would like to do my little colleen hoover reading vlog this month i'm hoping to kind of do some themed reading vlogs this month but i've been holding off a little bit just until i'm out of my slump however i feel like colleen hoover like these books are really good because they're super readable and just fast quick easy breeds so i think that these would be good ones to get me out of my slump so i feel like it makes sense and april will be the time to do it next up is malibu rising by taylor jenkins read so i had heard from someone i think they commented on my book haul actually where i just included this uh but they said that this book is really great audiobook and i have been looking for audiobooks lately because while i'm working i have a lot of time that i can listen to audiobooks but i've been having a hard time like picking which ones so if you have any audiobooks that you have listened to recently like specifically more recent releases please let me know down below which ones you really loved because i would love to know which books that i have on my tbr that i should try and get to on audio but i know that i have listened to both of taylor jenkins reads other books and really loved the audiobook so i'm thinking that they probably are right the person who said that this is a great audiobook so i think that's the way that i'm going to go with this one but this book is her latest release from last year she has another book coming out i'm not exactly sure when if it's going to be this year or whatever but this one deals with four siblings and they're four famous siblings they're going to throw this epic end of summer party but it ends up being 24 hours that are going to change the course of their lives forever the drama next up is atlas by heart by stephen sater speaking of audiobooks i'm hoping that i can find this one on audio because i think physically reading it i'm super nervous about that now this is actually based on a broadway play and i actually think it's a musical specifically but it's essentially during the london blitz you're following characters who are in the tube taking shelter and they are turning to alice in wonderland to find refuge so it's kind of like an alice in wonderland retelling so everything about that just seems like everything i love like obviously i love alice in wonderland we know that by now but i also love historical fiction and i love touching heartfelt stories so that's definitely the vibe that i'm getting from this one however when i started trying to read it which i did that when it first came out i found it was super duper dense like i was kind of having a hard time with the writing and everything so i'm hoping that there's an audio oh i didn't even real oh i thought it was signed by the author but it says alice spencer so it's just the character so that was that was dumb but anyways i feel like audio is just going to be the best way for me to consume this story sometimes when books are really dense and they're like there's not a lot of dialogue they're more prose heavy then i kind of can get caught up in it and i'll get a little bit bored so that's why i'm hoping i can find this one to listen to if not i do still want to try and read it i think part of my skepticism too is that i've been kind of like looking at my goodreads and seeing what the highest average rated books are that i have on my tbr and what the lowest average rate of books are on my tbr and this one's one of the lowest so i'm kind of nervous next i have salam with love by sarah sharoff begg so i would really like to read this book because it is actually set during ramadan and april is the month of ramadan so it seems like the most appropriate time to read it obviously but this is following a character who she lives in this small apartment in queens with her family and she's excited to be spending the month of ramadan celebrating with her extended family as well but however she's also kind of struggling to find her place in a very conservative household but my favorite part of this which i'm just gonna read the back because i think it's it just really makes it hit home as if fasting the whole day wasn't tiring enough she must battle her hormones whenever she sees hassan a cute muslim drummer who has a habit of showing up at her most awkward moments i feel like this just sounds like it's going to be an adorable romance and all about the main character trying to find her place i just love the whole thing already the fact that i've already been recording for almost 19 minutes and i still have a bunch of books really tells me how like overly ambitious i have decided to be for this next month but i have a whole huge stack well it's not huge but a sizable stack of adult romances here that i would really like to get to so we first have meet me in the margins by melissa ferguson this is set in a publishing house so like adorable i'm currently doing an internship at a publishing house even though it is like a work from home thing i still you know the vibes and everything i feel like it's a fitting time to read this and my internship is done at the end of june so i would really like to read it while i'm still doing the internship obviously but it's about a girl who's working at like a literary fiction publishing house but she loves writing romance and that's a secret of hers but she ends up leaving a manuscript in like the secret room that she's been using at the publishing house and when she goes back to retrieve it she finds that someone has left notes in the margins so sounds adorable like i'm thinking through the manuscript they have a romance like how cute is that then of course we have four aunties in a wedding by jessie hugh sutanto i am so excited dial a for aunties was one of my favorite books of last year i absolutely adored it it was so funny but like just romantic everything about it just worked for me i loved the characters i was laughing out loud multiple times like not even that far into the story and also it was a second chance romance like i think it was also friends to lovers which by the way my confusion with second chance romance and friends to lovers is because i thought i had heard that like second chance romance they weren't necessarily dating before maybe it was like a crush in the past that never actually happened or they were friends in the past but they haven't seen each other in a long time i don't know if that's like another trope but that was just my misunderstanding about it anyways i have no clue what this companion follows i think it might be like a wedding of characters from the first book which i'm so down for i'm not even gonna look into what it's about because i just know that i'm going to go into it and i'm going to love it so the next book that i'm hoping to read this month is another one that has been hyped up on tick tock a lot i think i haven't actually like come across it i swear like the book talk that i have found myself in it's not really recommendations so much it's more so like funny things which i guess is because that's mostly what i've been posting i don't really know but apparently how to fail at flirting by denise williams has been very hyped up so i would really like to read it it's like a one daring to-do list in a crash course in flirtation turn to type a overachievers world upside down i love anything that has to do with lists and like romance it really gets me next is mr wrong number by lynn painter this one came out recently and i just think it sounds absolutely incredible it's about someone ends up sending a sexy text a sext if you will to the wrong number and it ends up turning into this anonymous like flirting relationship via text i just love that concept so much there's so many ways it can play out this is totally like what i'm in the mood for lately i say as i'm reading like a more intense historical fiction but i want to pick something like this up very soon and finally for romances is weather girl by rachel and solomon this is by the author of actually i have another one of her books on here where did i put it here it is but we can't keep meeting like this this is a why a book by her this is her adult book but honestly the sole reason that i want to read this obviously it has to do with weather uh and a meteorologist but because i'm like well april just makes me think of weather like springtime makes me think of weather because it's always raining and stuff so the cover just feels very fitting which is kind of dumb but honestly but getting back to we can't keep meeting like this both my sisters are getting married this year so i'm kind of wanting to squeeze in some wedding reads and i'm not sure if i want to get to all of them now like i feel like what's going to happen is i'm going to keep on putting them off and be like oh i'll read it closer to the dates but then i'm going to have too many and then i'm just not going to get to any of them so i'm like let's get a head start on things because i have august and then october those are the two months of the weddings but this one is about two characters the one is the son of is it the son of the caterer yes the son of a caterer and then the daughter of a harpist and they end up at all the same weddings and they have like an enemies-to-lover's relationship next up is empress of all seasons by amico jean for some reason like i don't know why but spring just is the most season of seasons does that even make any sense see the thing is it does make sense in my head because i feel like it's the most like weather time or whatever but because of that i really want to read this one this is oh i have another book by her too we're a mess today tokyo dreaming so this is the author of tokyo ever after which i read last year and this is the sequel so i definitely want to try and get to this one because it's going to be so cute adorable royal romance everything that i want but this is a fantasy and it's this palace of illusions where nothing is what it seems and each generation a competition is held to find the next empress so the rules are simple survive the palaces enchant in seasonal rooms conquer winter spring summer and fall and then marry the prince all are eligible to compete so fascinating like i don't know something about that it just gets me i also have here a magic steeped in poison by judy island this book like literally just came to my door today and as i was marking it as to be read on goodreads i noticed that it's a historical fantasy so that was what made me want to include it here but look at this cover like oh my goodness i cannot get enough of it the more i look at it the more beautiful it seems another book that just came to my doorstep is an arrow to the moon by emily xrpan this is by the author of the astonishing color of after which came out quite a few years ago now but i fell in love with that book and this is her most recent book since then so i'm really excited to read it i believe it's a romeo and juliet retelling i just know like i loved her first book so much that i need to read this one i would also really like to read outrun the moon by stacey lee because this is the only stacey lee book that i haven't read yet she is a historical fiction author she writes really great diverse historical fictions which is something that's honestly pretty hard to find but this one is set in san francisco in 1906 and you are following a 15 year old character who is determined to break from the poverty of chinatown so she wants to get an education at the school for girls she thinks that is her best hope of doing that the problem is that it is a school that's off limits to all except for the most wealthiest white girls but she manages to actually get her way in through bribery i haven't been disappointed by a stacey lee book yet so i don't see why i would be disappointed by this one okay i have one more wedding book here so we have a sister of the bollywood bride by nandini bhajpai i've had this book for quite a while and i think it just sounds adorable like the main character their mother has died so she wants to throw the perfect dream bollywood wedding that her mother would have thrown for her sister that didn't make any sense basically she wants to throw a really beautiful wedding for her sister and i just love that i also am into the drama lately so why did drama i don't know what just happened but i would really like to read the rumor game by daniel clayton and sona chairipotra which is the author's a book set at a washington dc elite boarding school and actually i don't know if it's a boarding school it might just be a school yeah it's just a private school i don't know why i just said it was a boarding school sometimes my brain just makes decisions like about the story that didn't actually happen but this is by the authors of tiny pretty things so i'm expecting it to be pretty mind-blowing okay so those are all of the books that i am hoping to get to in the month of april we're gonna hope that it's a really good reading month because i'm being very ambitious with things but i think i should be able to hopefully make a really decent dent in things but i'm not going to jinx myself so thank you guys so much for watching today's video and thank you so much to where did i put the book in yardpress for sponsoring me today don't forget to check out a forgery of roses by jessica s olsen it's out now and i will have a link down below for you guys to check it out so thank you so much for watching today's video and i will see you in another new one soon bye\n"