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Romantasy TBR Purge: Slashing Overhyped Books · Two Girls, One TBR

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  Did you hear that? That was the sound of two years
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  of I'll get to it eventually disappearing into the void.
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  I'm looking at my Kindle and I feel like I just went through a
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  breakup with 40 different fictional men at once that I've
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  never met. If they didn't have spice or the
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  plot to keep us hooked in the 1st 5 minutes of the synopsis,
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  they didn't make the cut. Welcome to the great Quarter 2
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  TBR bloodbath. Hey babes, welcome back to 2
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  Girls 1 TBR, your chaotic book besties.
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  Here to wreck your reading list. 1 morally Gray man at a time.
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  I'm Rebecca and I'm Heather. And I'm Chelsea today we are
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  doing the unthinkable. We are launching season 3 by
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  deleting the old to make room for the new.
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  We are finding the stories that actually deserve our time and
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  energy. In this he hates everyone but
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  her era. Now what we're going to do first
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  here's well, first we're just going to talk about our little
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  drinks. Now we we do this remember
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  everybody, we're just giving you the names, but go over to our
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  Instagram, go to our highlights, go under Sips.
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  We have two drinks. Our first one that's our
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  alcoholic one is the DNF Dakarish, I guess is what we're
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  calling it and the other one is the 0 star sparkler.
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  So if you do get to make these drinks, please take pictures and
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  send them to us because but I want to see you drinking them.
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  Yeah, we're going to talk about all the books that are coming
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  out that we're interested in in quarter 2.
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  There's a lot coming out, a lot between April, May and June and.
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  Last week or two has been a lot of books coming out too.
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  Now the first one we have coming out now because last week we had
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  Ravina Vale on her book actually comes out on April 4th.
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  So she that's the first one I have on my list for quarter two.
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  That is the Breath of Starlight and it looks very good.
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  Of course Heather has read it. Yes, that's she's lovely.
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  A. What do people call those the
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  Roman Empire of? Books like I.
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  Was just so different than what you'd normally read.
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  And yes, it's epic fantasy, but it's, it's like up there epic
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  fantasy. It's it's very different.
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  So excited, get that? One I am too, especially for my
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  special edition I. Know and I love like she's
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  making them like real special editions like 1 publishing like
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  number, like she's stamping like numbers yeah they're going to be
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  great. I love that she decided to only
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  do 100 of them because it's going to feel even more special
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  weekend. And when she blows up, I know
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  she she will blow up. I just have this feeling with
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  the story and as she keeps going and stuff like that, she's going
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  to get more fandom and stuff and just wait.
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  Our books are going to be 1 of 100.
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  Yeah, yeah. She's really very too.
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  I really like her. She's very nice.
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  Yeah. Now the next one here and I
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  can't remember who wrote this because I didn't write it down.
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  It's release me. It's part of that.
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  I think it's the Shatter Me series or something.
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  Oh. OK, is this one coming out?
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  The cover was really pretty when I looked at it.
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  That comes out April 7th. I.
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  Haven't either. Let me see.
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  I heard that was kind of YA like spicy.
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  YA that's what I've seen a lot of.
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  People I see, I don't know how to say I mean.
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  Tahara mafi. Tahara Muffi.
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  Yeah, OK. We pronounced nothing correct.
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  Remember that. Doing our best.
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  Now that comes out April 7th. There's multiple books coming
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  out April 7th. Now one of the big ones that are
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  coming out is the rights of the of the Starling.
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  That's Devney Perry. That is book 2 of I don't know
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  what the actual series is called.
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  What was the first book? Shield of Sparrows.
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  Shield of Sparrows is book 2. Yeah, I don't know the actual
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  name of the series, but yes, that is like the big Book 2
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  coming out. Yeah, Chelsea and I read the
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  first book and we're both kind of like it was good.
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  It was good, yeah. We'll see, I haven't read it
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  yet. It has.
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  It has a lot of potential. Yeah, yeah.
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  So we'll see how it continues. Yeah.
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  That comes out again, like I said, April 7th.
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  Now the next one is Blood Singer.
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  This is Juliet Cross. This is book 2IN that series I
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  seen the books on Amazon and stuff and it's really pretty and
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  it has the sprayed edges and stuff.
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  I didn't. See the 1st.
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  Book. I didn't see the first book
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  being very highly rated though I feel like.
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  I don't think I've heard. Of this see how this one does
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  that's let. Me tell you what, the first one
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  was Juliet Cross. I know that she got a lot of
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  like deals with. I think there was like a bookish
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  box of her, maybe even fairyloot, I can't remember.
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  Firebird was the first one. Oh yes and I got that and I
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  haven't read it because I did. I heard there was a lot of mixed
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  reviews but sometimes I like them and sometimes I understand
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  the hype was not hyped but most of the time I like those books
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  when people don't understand it like I'm the weird one.
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  Yeah. So that's that's on the TBR.
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  We'll have to let everybody know how we felt feel about that one.
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  Yeah, Now both of those books, when I've seen them on Amazon,
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  they both have the sprayed edges and they're the pretty ones.
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  They're very pretty, very pretty.
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  Now the 16th of April, The Tempest Blade comes out.
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  That is Danielle Jensen's series.
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  That's the Bridge Kingdom I believe so I don't know remember
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  what number that is. See I don't know if those are
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  just like are those the re releases in hardcover or they
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  just. I don't know because I've never.
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  Read that. OK.
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  I don't remember, I thought it was it could be the paperback.
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  It could. I think it's the hardcover
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  because she only had paperback for a while.
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  Oh, OK, yeah. But it was really pretty cover
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  and everything that I've seen of it.
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  But these are things that I've just seen that a lot of people
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  have been writing about. These are the ones that people
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  are excited the about coming out now this one here now I'm
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  excited about it. April 21st, Frozen by.
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  Start hold on, hold on, hold on. Let me cuz I fact checked this.
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  It is. It's the 6th and final book in
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  the Bridge Kingdom series. Tempest.
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  So it's not a re release, it's a brand.
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  New book? No, it is.
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  Yeah, it's the final book. See, in that series I only read
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  the first two and then it goes into the other couple and I
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  didn't quite like that couple, so I.
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  Thought. But I do.
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  I did like the first two books of that series.
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  It was really good. I wonder what this?
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  Do you think you'll try out this one?
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  Maybe I'll have to read into it if I remember.
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  On her long list of her TBR. Yeah.
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  It's it's towards the back. But now, like I was saying, on
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  April 21st, Frozen by Stardust comes out and that's Elizabeth
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  Helen. Again, this is something I did
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  not know, but well, I found out those are two people.
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  They're sisters. Elizabeth and Helen didn't know
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  that. I thought it was one person.
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  It is not. Interesting.
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  That's a lot of that going on that I did not know.
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  Before, I know a lot of people are like that now.
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  Now I believe this is brand new this one now they just had all
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  their other ones. I had got re released in deluxe
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  paperbacks and they have the sprayed edges and stuff.
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  I got all of them and I believe this is a brand new one and then
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  another one is coming out, I believe in July and then the
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  final one comes out this fall for that entire series.
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  The Bonded by Thorns series or. Whatever that is.
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  OK. That's the first leak, yeah.
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  So I'm excited for that, Yeah. Now, if you do go to read those,
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  there's also a novella that you can start with, and it's just a
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  little thin 1 and I did buy that too.
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  I have it, but that's supposed to be good.
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  Now I know. Let's see here now on April
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  20th, Hide the Witches by Miranda Lynn is coming.
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  I pre-order that on I think audio book.
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  Yeah, it does look really good. I have her the unmarked witch.
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  I do have it, but I haven't read it yet.
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  Yeah, I read her till death till till death or something.
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  How was that? I did not like the the FMC.
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  She was very righteous and like, yeah, we're going to kick ass
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  and take names. And then when something bad
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  happened to her, then she was like, I'm useless, I'm horrible
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  and I'll never do this ever again, and I'll die for this.
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  And it's like, where did we go? This was like whiplash.
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  Maybe she had a little bit of a personality issue.
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  Happening there. Don't know.
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  Yeah. And I couldn't quite, like, get
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  into the male character either. It was kind of like fast love
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  and it's supposed to be enemies, lovers, and it was just a little
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  chaotic with me, yeah. Now I have, I think I have that
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  one, and the second book, because I think that's a duet,
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  isn't it? Till Death.
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  And then there's the second. One, yeah, yeah, because I
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  almost got it through the ink pages and then I saw some of the
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  I actually think that's on my buy, buy list.
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  I actually got them. When she.
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  Did like the when she did the free thing, you know because
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  sometimes like in the fall and stuff, they do stuff your Kindle
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  days. I did get them and I have them
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  on there but I have not read them but they are there.
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  So I'm excited though. But I do think the cover and
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  everything on that 1 is really pretty.
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  It's purple if you've seen it now the next one is now I have
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  seen a lot of people posting this on their excited list.
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  I don't know anything about this but on April 28th Blood Bound by
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  Ellis Hunter comes out but a lot of people seem excited about it.
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  I don't know what it is but I did add it to my list.
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  I go in blind a lot of times to every all my books.
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  I do too. I do, I don't.
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  I don't like to know a whole lot.
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  If I see that a lot of people have liked it, it gets a higher
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  rating, then I know I'll like it.
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  But again, I have no idea what's happening, but that I seen that
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  a lot on a lot of people's excited list for 2026 so.
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  It's a debut novel. OK.
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  Cool. So I don't know.
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  And the cover was pretty too when I looked at it.
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  Now this one here, of course everybody's excited about this.
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  And then you had you got to actually meet them.
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  Your rebound comes out May 5th and you found out that that is
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  two people, not one. Is it?
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  It is there, too. Eliza and Annie.
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  My gosh. Yeah.
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  I thought it was one person. Yeah.
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  And I have a giveaway that's going to run through April 13th
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  of of dire bound, not very bound, but of dire bound, yeah.
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  That'd be cool. Yes.
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  Dire Bound sitting up on my top shelf.
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  It is up there. I haven't read it yet.
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  I'm getting to it. I don't know.
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  When it has a lot of similarities, the 4th wing just
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  with direwolfs. Yeah, but it's like I.
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  Haven't read either. The story.
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  Of it, yeah, it has a lot of similarities, yeah, like you
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  said, like parallel Dane, yeah. Yeah, you have a Zayden, you
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  have a Dane, you have your conspiracy.
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  You know, like the politics and your war or your school and
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  trial war Academy. School, yeah.
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  Now everybody that I that I have been, you know, watching on
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  Instagram and different things that did the the arc read and
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  stuff, they said it's even better than dire bound.
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  They said this one's really good.
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  So I don't doubt it. I mean to me dire bound was a
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  five star like I wouldn't vibes for sure.
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  It was like a a very good five star buy buy breed.
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  Yeah, I think I gave it like 4 1/2.
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  I could have had some more world building in it, but they like
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  the pacing was so good that like, I didn't really care.
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  I was just kind of like, OK. It was a great.
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  I definitely, I think I audio booked that one.
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  It was great. Like I was intrigued.
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  I was going along with it. I was like yes this is very
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  close to 4th wing but that doesn't bother me because I like
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  4th Wing. Yeah.
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  And and I like their twist on it with the direwolves and I liked
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  how it ended. Yes, very unlike fourthly,
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  right? So it has its own kind of story
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  build to the next book. So I can see this next book
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  being its own kind of world building and stuff.
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  So it might. Think that, and they did talk
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  about that at Romantic Econ during the live podcast.
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  They had said that because they were trying to keep the pacing
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  up, they didn't really do all the world building.
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  But then after listening to those girls like their episode
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  on it without the authors in it, they were like, OK, now we know
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  that we can take more time to do those things and people are
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  wanting to know more. So they said that they were
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  going to take more time in the second book.
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  That's awesome. Yeah, it gets more character
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  backgrounds and that history. Yeah, I'm excited then.
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  I'm excited to to read it. But like I said, everybody I
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  have seen that have done has done the arcs.
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  They said it's amazing. Now also on the 5th of May,
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  Stormbreaker by Nishi. Is that how you say it?
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  Nisha, Nisha J Tooley, she did the the Sun Queen.
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  I can't remember whatever. The trials.
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  Of the Sun, Isn't that her? I think so.
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  So this is her new book, and it's supposed to be good.
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  That is on my TBR and that has been on my TBR for a long time
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  and I need to do it and they. Have probably on my cut list.
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  Yeah, yeah. Have you read the trial The Sun
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  Queen at all? No, I haven't I.
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  Have the first book. I don't have the others.
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  I have the first one but it's on my physical.
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  TBRS I hear it's good and it's like a quick read but I'll have
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  to look more into the reviews because I'm now discovering that
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  I do not like storytelling where it's just a bunch of fluff and
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  stuff without layers and clues and intrigues for theories while
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  I'm reading and then everything happens at the end with a.
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  Well, they said that the first line of that book is one of the
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  best lines. So I don't know of that trial,
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  the Sunquin, But again, I don't know what Stormbreaker is about,
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  but a lot of people, we're excited about it now the now
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  this one here, this is one that you have put on here, Chelsea.
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  Yes, The Heart You kept by TL Swan May 5th Yeah, that's the
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  one that I arc read TL Swan. She's more like contemporary
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  billionaire romances, not so much the romanticy genre, but I
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  love her for a good like palate cleanser between romanticy.
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  But she freaking every book that I've read by her is they've been
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  like interconnected standalones within a series.
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  She left me on a cliffhanger on this one and it I was like,
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  there's a formula. You're not supposed to do this
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  to me. Happily ever after.
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  Yeah, exactly. And I'm like, fuck.
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  But yeah, she got five stars because I was not expecting that
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  whatsoever. And it was just good.
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  Like, it's always a good time. Like I'm always giggling when
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  I'm reading her stuff. Like, nice.
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  It's fun, Yeah. Now this is another one that
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  you're excited about because you have read Book 1.
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  It was The Ballad of Falling Dragons by Sarah A Parker.
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  I need did you read when the moon hatched it?
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  Thought either of you OK? Like set up on the audible?
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  It's there, I just need to do it.
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  So I gave that one four stars because there was, like a lot
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  that just really frustrated me. Yeah.
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  And I felt like we didn't like nothing actually happened.
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  And so I think that it's going to be a good series overall.
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  But yeah, I just kind of, I was very frustrated.
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  Reading for a lot of stepping stones, book one, yeah.
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  Did it feel like it was just too much world building or she
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  needed to do that? Or is it kind of like the
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  feeling like people get when they read Akatar and they read
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  the first book? No.
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  Cuz the rest of the series is good and you know how people are
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  kind of like. Well, Akatar, I still even gave
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  five stars because like once you get into it, you really get into
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  it. But with the Ballad Upon
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  Dragons, it was like, there's a there's a lost memory trope and
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  those I always have a hard time with because it's like we are
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  reliant on this character who doesn't have a memory of
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  anything. And so it's like fucking
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  frustrating the entire. Time optimized is.
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  See, I don't know. And then she all of a sudden
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  gets all of her memories back in Part 2 and then you're kind of
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  like brought back and then like. And you have to go through it
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  all again. Yeah, it's not too repetitive.
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  OK. It's it's more of like the past
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  that we've been kind of dabbling in like, OK, she kind of like
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  puts where she was and what was actually happening.
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  But yeah, you know who also does that is Melissa K Rourke.
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  Some of her books, I've noticed her book ones are a lot of like,
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  getting to know your character, getting to know the magic system
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  and the world building and whose allies and whose enemies and
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  stuff like that, where it doesn't feel like a lot has
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  really happened over all, but there's a lot of, like,
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  sequences happening. And then you get to book 2 and
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  you're like, all right, Book 2, here we go.
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  And she always follows through with Book 2 and you get more
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  information. You're like, yeah, I know these
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  characters, they're like sassy and stuff, but it takes a while.
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  Yeah, and that's part of the problem.
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  Like I wish I would have waited for when the Moon Hatch so I
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  could read it closer to the second book coming out because
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  I'm sure like as a injury, that's going to be good.
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  Like if you read the whole series back about the back, you
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  know. Yeah, but and then there was
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  like she had a, she had a like a glossary and a what is it
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  called? Glossary.
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  Yes, that was like huge, right? Yeah.
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  And, and but then there were certain things that weren't in
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  it. So it was like she would
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  introduce something and I would go to the like to see what it
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  was like, the little encyclopedia, and then it wasn't
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  in there and I'd be like, OK, well, what the fuck is that
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  like? So I don't know.
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  Yeah, cuz with the glossary and encyclopedia or whatever you
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  have, you can't give too much without Yeah, doing spoilers.
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  But it was even like it was some kind of weird little.
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  It was like a care, like a type of.
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  The name of. Yeah, like a type of creature
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  where I'm like, can you just tell me what type of creature
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  this is? Cuz that's.
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  Not hurting anything. I see what you're saying.
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  Yeah, I haven't read it yet. World building though, when
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  people don't do that, if you're gonna introduce a weird mythical
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  creature, you have to kind of give us an idea of what it looks
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  like if you're. Either context clues.
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  Yes, give me context clues or put it in the encyclopedia that
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  you gave me. But even while you're reading,
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  you shouldn't have to go back. Like you should be able to just
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  flow with it and be like, okay, this is a sha La La la.
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  And then it's it's like, oh, these are known to this mythical
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  land for being like this. Like that's what it should
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  continue as your brain connects and can continue reading and not
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  going. What the fuck is this?
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  Yeah, exactly. Oh, tell me, but I'm.
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  So frustrated. I love when a book, when they do
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  do that though, and they give us our little glossary and stuff
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  like that. Yeah, I love that.
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  And the other thing with there's a lot of people and they're like
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  related and stuff. I like when they do the little
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  family tree thing. I know.
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  But that you'll see a spoiler so you sometimes don't get those to
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  like book 2 right or after some of.
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  The OR you'll see like question marks or there'll be nothing
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  like that and. Stuff.
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  Yeah, yeah, because it could be spoilers for your.
• 20:12
  About the series, it's nice because as you're reading, so
• 20:15
  you don't. If there's a lot of people, it's
• 20:17
  nice. Yeah, so you don't get confused.
• 20:20
  Also pronunciations, because you know how we all pronounce things
• 20:24
  wrong. So yeah, it's nice.
• 20:26
  And even when we are pronouncing things, I don't think
• 20:28
  necessarily we're pronouncing them correctly.
• 20:30
  Yeah. But no that one.
• 20:32
  I'm gonna make up. Sometimes.
• 20:34
  That is on my. TBR list I don't have that so.
• 20:37
  So we'll wait and see. I'll wait and see what how you
• 20:40
  judge book 2 to see if it continues to stay on my TBR.
• 20:45
  Yeah, or it might wait. I might not.
• 20:48
  Even if it's going to be a multi book series, I might just buy it
• 20:51
  and put it up on the shelf and wait until the next one.
• 20:55
  The three of us were very, very, I mean, we do have differences,
• 20:58
  but we're very similar in our taste.
• 21:00
  So yeah, I always trust you guys, this taste.
• 21:03
  Now the next one that comes out now this is June 9th now this is
• 21:07
  a re release and now everybody I've seen said it's absolutely
• 21:11
  amazing. I wanted to get it but I
• 21:14
  couldn't get it because it it went, I think I guess it went
• 21:17
  traditional or whatever. So it's getting re released.
• 21:19
  It's blood and betrayals. By Alexis Roon and Jeanette
• 21:23
  Rose. Yes, OK.
• 21:27
  And it's supposed to be very good.
• 21:30
  I think it for some reason, I'm thinking it's dark academia.
• 21:34
  I remember. I could be wrong.
• 21:35
  Seeing their, I remember seeing them like through Instagram, all
• 21:38
  of their cool. They had really good like
• 21:41
  special editions, but I had never heard of them.
• 21:43
  So I didn't buy them, and I'm probably gonna regret that.
• 21:46
  Always. Yeah, I.
• 21:49
  Know but it but like I said everybody's they said it's
• 21:52
  really good now this one here I know Heather is super excited
• 21:55
  about it's light wielder yeah Rachel Snyder's next book after.
• 22:00
  Probably another Roman. That one was really good, like.
• 22:06
  Kind of dying to read it. I had.
• 22:07
  I've been waiting for the second one before I start.
• 22:10
  You know, after reading Between Tides and Thunder, it's kind of
• 22:14
  like that. Well, obviously like it's
• 22:17
  bigger, there's more world building building and like
• 22:21
  intricate stuff, but like the politics and like where they
• 22:26
  were and how they got there and the people that live here versus
• 22:30
  here and wars and stuff like that.
• 22:32
  Yeah. Yeah, that one like like
• 22:36
  whiplash in a good way, not a bad way cuz you're just kind of
• 22:39
  like like jaw unhinged like that just happened and I did not see
• 22:45
  that coming. Damn it.
• 22:46
  Though I was so excited. Well, I know I know Heather's
• 22:50
  excited about it cuz you what did you do?
• 22:52
  It had a bonus chapter or something at the end does and
• 22:55
  and it did not set well with Heather because.
• 22:58
  It's in she wants. To know things.
• 23:00
  Well first they like Fast forward it like I think like 5
• 23:04
  or 10 years. So you don't start off where it
• 23:06
  like cliffhanger. So you're like, what the fuck
• 23:09
  happened at the end? So you like, start off with like
• 23:15
  their point of view and you're like, OK, I understand.
• 23:17
  Like, yeah, we know about you, but what about them at the end
• 23:22
  of that? And then, you know, now we have
• 23:24
  to listen to you. Where is the next part?
• 23:28
  And there was only like 1 chapter.
• 23:30
  And yeah, like there was already a bunch of stuff happening in
• 23:34
  the 1st chapter where you're like, oh boy, we got a lot to
• 23:37
  catch up on. This is going to be interesting.
• 23:39
  Awesome. I think I have Metal Singer
• 23:41
  sitting somewhere up on my shelf, so I have it, but I've
• 23:46
  been holding off until the second one cuz Heather told me
• 23:50
  that yeah. So I like to reading in groups,
• 23:54
  you know, I like to do that. Now the last one that I have now
• 23:58
  I have this is at the end of June.
• 24:01
  This is on June 26th night witch comes out.
• 24:04
  This is by Jamin Eve. Now this is book 2, but a lot of
• 24:09
  people had this on their list. Book 1 was spellcaster again, I
• 24:14
  didn't read either of them, but it's supposed to be really good.
• 24:17
  I. Think that's not my good reads.
• 24:19
  You have that on your list I. Think so.
• 24:23
  Now, do you have any other ones that you know that are coming
• 24:25
  out? But that's the list that I have
• 24:28
  come. I mean, there are a lot of books
• 24:30
  coming out, but these are I know.
• 24:31
  There's more like. You know interest me.
• 24:34
  We're trying to just go through June, right because it's a good
• 24:37
  three month. To June.
• 24:38
  Yeah, I know that there's more for sure.
• 24:41
  But there's a lot coming out next quarter, July, August,
• 24:45
  September, there is a tremendous amount.
• 24:49
  And at the end of the year, there's a lot of books that are
• 24:52
  coming out. I think a lot of people are
• 24:53
  going to have to try to be either.
• 24:56
  It's going to have to either be before Sarah J Mass or it's
• 24:58
  going to be after Sarah J Mass. Yeah, I had an author and the
• 25:02
  authors, her second book in her series was going to come out
• 25:06
  like the 29th. And she's like, whoa, fuck that
• 25:09
  now I can't do that. No one's going to buy my book.
• 25:12
  So she went, she had to like, bring it up a couple weeks
• 25:15
  before. She's like, I know I'm going to
• 25:17
  like lose all my KU reads. I'm going to like not have any
• 25:20
  income because everyone's going to be reading SJ.
• 25:25
  And she's not wrong. But I know like, don't, don't
• 25:30
  think like you're going to lose like a whole month's worth of
• 25:32
  like, readers or anything, but yeah.
• 25:35
  When when Akatar 6 comes out in October, people are going to
• 25:39
  read it quick. It's not like people are going
• 25:41
  to just sit there and take some weeks to read it.
• 25:44
  People are going to read. It right I'm mad though.
• 25:48
  Yeah. And then of course, then January
• 25:50
  comes Book 7. So I'm quite excited.
• 25:54
  But now I have to say now when you guys watched her, her
• 25:59
  interview and all that kind of stuff, because she was very, you
• 26:02
  know, she wouldn't answer any questions and things like that.
• 26:05
  But I think there's a lot going on with her with Bloomsbury.
• 26:10
  So I think that's why she's pushing out October then
• 26:15
  January. And I don't think it's going to
• 26:16
  be a long time. That next one's going to come
• 26:19
  out, and I don't think she's going to.
• 26:21
  Be done right so she has three so.
• 26:25
  But she said she's writing. She said in the interview she
• 26:28
  was doing book well part 4 cuz remember both 2 is parts 2 and
• 26:34
  3. I mean, have there been
• 26:35
  grumblings about something being wrong with them or like, what's
• 26:38
  the deal? Well, did you watch the podcast?
• 26:41
  I watched it, yeah. And, and like people are saying
• 26:45
  because of the way she was kind of ranting about how her books
• 26:49
  are coming out while she was going through, like her kids,
• 26:51
  like birth and postpartum and stuff like that, and like what
• 26:55
  they were making her do and how they were like interrupting her
• 27:00
  paternity leader, right, For paternity leave and maternity.
• 27:05
  Thank you. And yeah, I was like, no, that's
• 27:07
  the man. So yeah, her maternity leave and
• 27:11
  stuff like that. And it just kind of, you know,
• 27:15
  got people to start thinking, OK, she's beeping like why is
• 27:18
  she like calling them out on these things, all these edits
• 27:21
  and stuff that she had to do and then how long she waited to like
• 27:26
  write the books And they think she's under a contract.
• 27:29
  So when she gets like so many books done, she'll leave.
• 27:33
  So she's like taking her times for that time lot and the of the
• 27:38
  contract and then her quota that she she has to make so.
• 27:41
  Got it. That makes sense.
• 27:43
  OK. Well, they said, or she said
• 27:48
  that while she was on doing her maternity leave, they contacted
• 27:52
  her and told her that we need to take off.
• 27:54
  What was it like 7 pages of the book?
• 27:57
  Yeah, it needed to be re edited. And then she went through, did
• 28:00
  all this while she had a brand new baby, did all the stuff.
• 28:03
  And then they said, Oh no, we didn't.
• 28:05
  We didn't need to do that after they had her do that.
• 28:08
  And then what did when we were talking to Stephanie Storm, she
• 28:11
  was talking about it as well. She was saying if SJM wanted to
• 28:16
  go indie because there's a lot of money in being indie instead
• 28:20
  of in the Big 5. Yes, your books don't go into
• 28:23
  like Barnes and Noble and like big bookstores, but you can
• 28:27
  still find like some indie bookstores or do your own and
• 28:32
  stuff like that, and you make more profit, which makes sense
• 28:35
  because then you don't have the marketing teams, you don't have
• 28:37
  publishers to pay, and you don't have all the five editors you
• 28:40
  need to do and stuff like that. So we were just saying like SJM
• 28:44
  would make a ton of money if she went back into publishing.
• 28:48
  She has a following. Like she should just be her own,
• 28:52
  like publishing. Well, she was.
• 28:54
  When she was talking about she got her rights back too because
• 28:57
  there was going to be that the like movie or the show
• 29:01
  adaptation and that wasn't going the way she wanted it to so.
• 29:05
  That's good too, yeah. Yeah, she seems very happy that
• 29:09
  she has all her rights back than there.
• 29:11
  So I mean, there's there's a lot.
• 29:13
  And then they said that like in amongst when she was doing
• 29:15
  Silver Flames, she fired her one editor and they said that's like
• 29:19
  unheard of in the middle of a book.
• 29:21
  Right. Yeah.
• 29:22
  So kind of go over that with us. Yeah.
• 29:25
  And that's like something like you don't want to do because you
• 29:28
  make that relationship with your editor and they know your books
• 29:32
  and they know your writing. So they had probably been
• 29:35
  beefing for a while if you had to like drop an editor mid, like
• 29:40
  mid, I don't know, whatever that's called copy editing and
• 29:45
  stuff and and get a new person. So yeah.
• 29:50
  You know, it'd be interesting to see how this all plays out.
• 29:53
  And plus, she was not happy about what they how they've had
• 29:57
  to print and how much glue had to be put in a book.
• 30:00
  Yes, well, that's just publishing.
• 30:03
  That's. I mean, yeah.
• 30:05
  I mean, you can't really make a book unless it's made by a
• 30:09
  crafter or somebody who wants to make that book for you.
• 30:13
  But yeah, probably needs a lot of sewing.
• 30:16
  I think a lot of people would make her stuff because she's.
• 30:21
  She's got what I'm saying. People would do it.
• 30:23
  Yeah, I. Think she's also like, you can
• 30:26
  always do smaller print and that like, I understand you want
• 30:29
  everything to match, but it's like you could always, I mean,
• 30:34
  how many of those like Brandon Sanderson books have I seen that
• 30:37
  are like super thick and then the letters are super tiny.
• 30:39
  So I was like, yeah, you could do it.
• 30:41
  Yeah, I mean, the Bible, right? Yeah.
• 30:44
  Slightly thinner pages. Let's go.
• 30:46
  Yeah. So it like I said, it'll be
• 30:49
  interesting to see how this all plays out.
• 30:52
  And I'm expecting, my guess is we'll probably have the third
• 30:57
  book probably maybe next fall, because if we're going, I was.
• 31:02
  Thinking sooner than that she's. She was writing it.
• 31:05
  No, she's got it done. She has 6 through 8 done.
• 31:08
  I didn't think she, I thought when we were watching the
• 31:10
  episode. Done, She said that.
• 31:12
  It was not. A clean.
• 31:13
  It was an arrow, like a through, she said.
• 31:16
  I have shitty handwriting. I have three books, yeah.
• 31:21
  So maybe. Only two of you by May recently
• 31:25
  like through January and then she'll tell us more as you know
• 31:30
  as edit goes on and stuff like that.
• 31:31
  But it's written. I think they're just editing it.
• 31:34
  Now the other thing too, she also did, she's doing her
• 31:39
  special edition or she's doing special stuff with Target.
• 31:42
  So she's not doing it through like like Barnes and Noble and
• 31:45
  stuff like that. But she had a whole big thing
• 31:47
  that she's still with them and I ordered it didn't.
• 31:50
  You see, yes, I. Did it?
• 31:51
  Might do that too, I don't know yet.
• 31:53
  Because I got a Momo. I'm like I it's probably
• 31:56
  something so dumb like. The little yeah, yeah, that's.
• 32:00
  Something so stupid, but I can't help myself, yeah.
• 32:04
  OK, Speaking of that, when Onyx Storm came out with Rebecca
• 32:07
  Yaros, I was like first to the store ran in the back to get
• 32:12
  that special edition coffee. It I could probably pull it out.
• 32:15
  It is not special. Yes, it has a few like pieces of
• 32:19
  art inside, but they're not like, oh, beautiful.
• 32:22
  And the colored maps are like a bluish Yeah.
• 32:29
  And black it is not. That big of a deal?
• 32:31
  It is not color. Yeah, that's all I'm going to
• 32:33
  say. And it's both ends.
• 32:35
  I thought the end pages would be different.
• 32:38
  Different. They're the same.
• 32:39
  Yeah. It is not a special edition.
• 32:41
  It just had different sprayed edges.
• 32:43
  It was ridiculous. In fact, I might actually raffle
• 32:48
  off that book again. Yeah, I wonder though.
• 32:52
  One of them. The one that you guys or the one
• 32:55
  that Chelsea got from Target, What, what will be special?
• 32:57
  Is it just that there's because it didn't specify?
• 33:01
  It didn't say what it was? Yeah, I don't think there's
• 33:03
  going to be sprayed edges. I don't think it's going to be
• 33:05
  anything like that. It's just it's coming with
• 33:07
  something and a night Court envelope like this, it's.
• 33:12
  Like a blouse thing like like with the little pouch looking
• 33:16
  thing. So who knows what we get but.
• 33:19
  I haven't reordered mine yet because I'm I.
• 33:21
  Haven't either. I'm contemplating because I have
• 33:25
  books one through 5. They're all paperback.
• 33:28
  And I have that set too. They will they come out hardback
• 33:31
  first. I know it's going to come out
• 33:34
  hardback. So this is my this is my
• 33:35
  thought. Do I just even though I have
• 33:38
  them, set them aside and get the hardbacks, you know, go go now
• 33:44
  and get all the ones that I've already read, get them in
• 33:46
  hardback so that all my then they'll continue on to match in
• 33:50
  hardback or or should I just mix my set?
• 33:54
  Because most of the time I don't buy, I don't buy books multiple.
• 33:57
  I typically once I buy it, I have it.
• 34:00
  I'm not I don't typically go and buy a different yeah, you know,
• 34:03
  one match them. So because it's not going to
• 34:06
  match, well, I make my books to match, I contemplated.
• 34:10
  Getting, you know, the hardback box set, Yeah, I contemplated
• 34:15
  not getting that. So I was like, I know there's
• 34:16
  going to be more books. Like what if they don't match?
• 34:19
  What if it's not? Do I have to buy a whole new box
• 34:21
  set to get like the matching things?
• 34:24
  And I broke down and I bought it because it was I, I like the
• 34:28
  colors that they do. And yeah, so I don't have the
• 34:33
  paperbacks though, and I've thought about maybe getting that
• 34:36
  as a box set, but I haven't done it yet.
• 34:39
  And it's so weird cuz like ACOTAR was my like beginning of
• 34:43
  books of Graham, obviously, like most people.
• 34:45
  And that is the one book I have not like shelf trophy.
• 34:50
  I only have the hardbacks right now.
• 34:52
  And that was like 2 years later. Like I thought that crazy and I
• 34:57
  have no tog nothing special. I only have one glass.
• 35:03
  See, I did the Acrylopics. So I have the Acrylopics,
• 35:06
  Crescent City, a guitar and the Throne of Glass.
• 35:11
  And then I have the Throne of Class Special Collector's
• 35:14
  Edition. I have the Acatar Special
• 35:17
  Collector's Addiction, just the one, the first book, yeah, from
• 35:19
  Barnes and Noble. And then I have the paperback of
• 35:22
  Acatar. But I'm like now I want the
• 35:24
  hardcover set because I just pre-ordered the Dang.
• 35:26
  But I'm like, I already have so many additions.
• 35:28
  I don't. Need.
• 35:29
  Them, but I need but I need them.
• 35:31
  Yeah, now, but but I just, I guess my big thing is, well,
• 35:37
  they match in size, I'm hoping. I would hope so.
• 35:41
  If they're worried about the binding and everything that
• 35:43
  could, that's the only reason why they would be I would think
• 35:46
  is to match all the others. So I think that might be what
• 35:49
  I'm going to. Maybe that's the glue problem?
• 35:51
  I might get the hardback. Set exactly.
• 35:55
  So I think I might get the hardback set and then have it
• 35:57
  that they can display and then I don't know what to do with my
• 36:00
  paperback ones cuz I don't think I've once I get that, I don't
• 36:05
  think I'll continue and get the paper back to continue that set.
• 36:10
  You know what I mean? Yeah.
• 36:11
  So that's. Where my?
• 36:12
  Give it away. That's.
• 36:13
  Why? I'm on the fence.
• 36:14
  Sell it. I might, I mean cuz really truly
• 36:18
  anybody that's ever wanting to dip back into this world or
• 36:20
  getting back in like how we did, that is the series that is.
• 36:25
  And I take very pristine care of mine.
• 36:27
  You know what I mean? I don't write in mine and see I
• 36:30
  need the little stickies. Yeah, I'm not a paperback.
• 36:33
  Girl, I'm not either. So I normally lend those out.
• 36:36
  I don't read them. Those are the ones that I like.
• 36:38
  Yeah, lend out to people to read.
• 36:39
  Like when I wanted everybody to get into ACOTAR, I took all my
• 36:43
  all those paperback ones into work to be like, here, start
• 36:45
  reading this. So yeah.
• 36:48
  See, I'm either or. I like paperback.
• 36:50
  I like, I like a good floppy book.
• 36:53
  Yeah. Does that make sense?
• 36:54
  Yeah, because like Crescent City, those ones, they're a good
• 36:59
  floppy book. And I just, I love a thick book,
• 37:03
  but I like hardback too, you know, I do now like my Now My
• 37:07
  Crowns and Niaxia series by Chris Robin.
• 37:10
  They're mixed, but it doesn't bother me.
• 37:13
  Like I have some paperback and then I have hardback.
• 37:16
  I have it both. So and I got into that, that
• 37:20
  doesn't bother me. Paperbacks are coming out for
• 37:22
  book one and two because she had been signed and I missed out on
• 37:27
  the hardcovers, so I have none of her originals.
• 37:31
  I bought my first special editions of hers from Bookish
• 37:35
  Box and I actually have two more coming today. 6 quarts Roses in
• 37:41
  the Slain Vampire Conquer and so that'll be one through three
• 37:46
  with the 2 and so I need to get 4 and then her 5-6 from Bookish
• 37:51
  Box. Those are really the two because
• 37:53
  I almost, I wanted to get those. I know I wanted to get those and
• 37:56
  I didn't because I haven't read them yet.
• 37:59
  And I'm like, what if I don't like them?
• 38:00
  You'll like them. It's really good.
• 38:02
  It's really good. But I'm bummed and I didn't do
• 38:04
  it then I didn't. Buy them and you will call, you
• 38:07
  will call Vincent. You will call him Victor.
• 38:11
  That's the Vincent. You guys talk about all the
• 38:13
  time. And he's in the description of
• 38:17
  him. He's just, he's so regal and
• 38:19
  he's got long white hair and he's ancient vampire and he's,
• 38:24
  you know, dark and, and all that kind of stuff.
• 38:28
  He's Yeah, I, I love evil. He's a good.
• 38:30
  Evil. He's evil.
• 38:31
  But yet you know, I'm in my villain era.
• 38:33
  I, I love, I, I, I prefer them over any cinnamon roll in any
• 38:38
  book. I don't know, but you'll see
• 38:40
  him. You have to.
• 38:41
  You have to read it and I have to, like I said, I and also six
• 38:46
  Scorch Roses. You have to read that and you
• 38:48
  will meet the guy. That's the Ming Mill character
• 38:52
  in that one, Dale. I just get overwhelmed with all
• 38:55
  these series cuz it's like it's just another commitment.
• 38:59
  I need the vampires right now. And yeah.
• 39:02
  She's coming out with the last two cuz.
• 39:05
  She's not even done yet. She has two more, but it's one
• 39:09
  world, three different couples. So the first books are.
• 39:12
  What? Person Yeah and then the 2nd 2
• 39:16
  are out now and then the last two are coming out this year so
• 39:21
  maybe. I can wait for reprint from
• 39:23
  Bookish box, yes. Because the one I got is reprint
• 39:26
  so they'll probably reprint them again and who knows, maybe
• 39:30
  someone else will have one that you like better.
• 39:32
  Yeah, maybe I'll wait for fairy Lewd or something.
• 39:34
  Yeah, like I've been. And you know, when they put out
• 39:37
  some, I'm like, I don't really like the art.
• 39:40
  Yeah. So like Ballad of Falling
• 39:42
  Dragons? I'm like.
• 39:43
  I didn't know. I was like, no thanks.
• 39:45
  I didn't. Yeah, one like that's not my
• 39:47
  thing. Yeah.
• 39:48
  Yeah. But I've really liked Aurora
• 39:50
  crate lately. Dude but it's so hard because
• 39:54
  they come out like one at a time and it's so expensive.
• 39:57
  To get it and and her shipping because she's in like Sweden or
• 40:01
  something is like 20 something bucks to get.
• 40:04
  Here, but it's expansion. It has great art, so it's
• 40:08
  beautiful. Yeah, I got her legacy and then
• 40:10
  I really like like her pen coal edition.
• 40:13
  Yeah, Forever Flame. So I'm like, hey, that's the
• 40:15
  first one that I've seen. And there's tons out there where
• 40:18
  I was like, OK, that actually looks like DM and Luther in my
• 40:22
  brain. So I was like fuck.
• 40:24
  The So what are you gonna do? Are you gonna do it?
• 40:27
  See, I want to, but I'm like, I'm right.
• 40:31
  I don't know yet. And it's gonna.
• 40:33
  I mean, I like how the the dust jacket, like she came out with
• 40:38
  the reverse side just recently and like showed us.
• 40:41
  And then I like how when it comes off like she has in the in
• 40:45
  the front of the cover, like they're fighting.
• 40:48
  Like here they would be fighting.
• 40:49
  And then when you take it off, they're like just like on the
• 40:53
  underneath side. Yeah.
• 40:54
  So yeah. That's my like, because so fairy
• 40:56
  loot, that's beautiful. I I got the legacy set too from
• 41:00
  them. But so fairy loot comes out with
• 41:03
  Pen Colwin. It's like.
• 41:05
  Not fairy loot O'Rourke. Yeah, no fairy loot for do
• 41:09
  people. Yeah.
• 41:10
  Are they? Reprinting.
• 41:11
  I thought they were already done with.
• 41:13
  Pre-orders maybe, but it's the 27th of April, they had
• 41:17
  something coming out so maybe it's a reprint of the whole of
• 41:20
  the set. That's why I was gonna wait, but
• 41:22
  I'm like, I'm afraid to wait and miss out.
• 41:25
  I think that was. I can't remember if it was that
• 41:27
  one or Lit Haven had one and I just remember going I don't like
• 41:32
  the art, like it was kind of whimsy and the characters didn't
• 41:37
  like portray to me. OK, but maybe I'll just do
• 41:40
  Aurora crate. You know I've never done. $100
• 41:44
  on one book. It's like I know I.
• 41:47
  It wasn't that much for a pre-order.
• 41:49
  I mean, I'll see with the shipping, it was probably like
• 41:51
  50 bucks, 60 bucks something. Like.
• 41:54
  That. That's what we're going with.
• 41:56
  Now that one lady that that does like our gift guidance stuff or
• 42:02
  she's Kathy's, she's over in Germany, her books and that that
• 42:06
  she does are really pretty. Hers are but.
• 42:08
  She said. But she said, though, when you
• 42:11
  go to order, it's better if you order multiple books.
• 42:15
  Yeah, because of shipping right now.
• 42:18
  Because it's stupid right now. But that's the problem.
• 42:20
  Like with Aurora Crate, they only do a certain amount at one
• 42:24
  time and so it's like you can't necessarily just stock up on.
• 42:30
  Yeah, I think they have a shield.
• 42:32
  No, not a shield. Smoke and scar, so if you
• 42:36
  wanted. To Oh, I got that one.
• 42:37
  Books coming. OK, I did see that one.
• 42:39
  And then she has the legacies 3 and 4 coming.
• 42:42
  Yeah, which I ordered before she came out with the pen Cole
• 42:46
  thing. I was like, damn, I could have
• 42:47
  like. Done it all, yeah.
• 42:49
  But sometimes with the pre-orders I don't think you can
• 42:51
  get the same shipping because they ship at different times.
• 42:54
  So. So that's my my smoking scar
• 42:57
  still hasn't gotten here and I don't know why.
• 42:59
  So I'm afraid because I've seen other people get theirs.
• 43:03
  My Lit Haven book for Blood of Hercules.
• 43:06
  I just got that thing and I had been inquiring about it for the
• 43:10
  past like 6 months because I ordered it a year ago.
• 43:13
  I was like, it's a long time coming to me and I've moved
• 43:16
  since then. So I was like please did you
• 43:19
  send it somewhere? I don't know, like, and on
• 43:22
  Shopify I kept saying like not processed, not shipped.
• 43:26
  And I was like, could I get some information from you?
• 43:30
  And then they're like, do you want the second book?
• 43:32
  I'm like, I don't think I'm going, it's a beautiful book,
• 43:35
  beautiful art. I have it over there and it's
• 43:37
  far away from me, but and it came with a bunch of goodies and
• 43:40
  overlays and stuff. But I'm like, I think this is
• 43:43
  good. This is this is enough from you.
• 43:46
  That is not a good business. Model.
• 43:49
  When you're doing this whole. That was a $75 purchase to
• 43:52
  pre-order for like all that stuff in the book.
• 43:54
  It was beautiful. Like yes, it's a piece of art,
• 43:56
  but that's a lot of money to be like, yo still waiting on that.
• 44:01
  Yeah. Are you, are you still?
• 44:04
  Is it just? Did they just have so many
• 44:07
  orders that it took that long? I think it can also be the
• 44:10
  shipping like if the if it gets stuck from here to wherever it
• 44:14
  is. Or sometimes like the process of
• 44:17
  like artists to authors and the person in the middle is lit
• 44:22
  haven. So like, you know, how emails
• 44:25
  through the week go, you know, oh, I'll get to that tomorrow.
• 44:28
  And then it's, you know, a week later that someone responds
• 44:30
  back, and then a week later you respond.
• 44:32
  Back and yeah, that's still I mean Heather a year that's
• 44:38
  that's rough. But you said it came or you're
• 44:41
  still? Finally came last year or last
• 44:43
  week, Sorry, last week. I ordered it like a year or so
• 44:48
  ago, I want to say. So it's been over a year.
• 44:51
  Yeah, it's really bad. I see.
• 44:53
  I've never like, I've never did any of those.
• 44:55
  I've never did fairy loot. I've never done anything.
• 44:58
  I've never ordered any of the books.
• 45:00
  So I have never got to experience any of these things.
• 45:04
  Yeah, that. It's stressful.
• 45:08
  But now, but now that is what we're looking forward to in 2026
• 45:13
  or not 2020. Well, it is 2026, but I'm saying
• 45:16
  quarter two. Those are all the books that
• 45:18
  we're looking forward to. Now we're going to do the DNF
• 45:22
  court. We're going to do a bloodbath of
• 45:25
  our TBR list. My TBR list is at 413 books.
• 45:31
  Do you think I could read 413 books?
• 45:35
  I mean, not at the rate you're going, Rebecca, not at the rate
• 45:39
  you're going. So, and how many now, Heather?
• 45:43
  How many are on your 100R list? 13.
• 45:47
  And how many are on yours, Chelsea?
• 45:49
  I have 169 on mine. Yeah.
• 45:54
  So what we're going to do, we're going to look at our Goodreads
• 45:59
  list or whatever we have our TTBR list on and we're going to
• 46:04
  keep a book. But when we keep a book, we're
• 46:06
  going to get rid of two and we'll see what we're going to
• 46:13
  get rid of. OK, now I'm going to go over to
• 46:15
  my Goodreads here again, 413 books.
• 46:19
  Now that that would be all series and stuff.
• 46:23
  So when I say 413 books, that could be a series that has six
• 46:27
  books in it. That's all listed individually.
• 46:30
  I now, Heather, do you, do you put you don't put all of them
• 46:33
  on. You just do the first book.
• 46:34
  I usually do, yeah. Like I have a.
• 46:36
  List is bigger. Yeah, like so cuz I don't know
• 46:42
  if I'll like look 1. So then it just, you know, adds
• 46:45
  the number. It's kind of like those
• 46:47
  notification numbers, those little red dots that come up and
• 46:51
  you're like, I must know the notification.
• 46:53
  Yeah, I just want to like keep my list organized, and if I
• 46:56
  don't organize it, it's like those little tabs are annoying
• 47:00
  the crap out of me. So anyways, A Dawn of Onyx is on
• 47:05
  my list, and I have the audio book, so I want to start that.
• 47:09
  And it's a finished trilogy by Kate Golden, so I want to keep
• 47:13
  that one. And then A Court of Blood and
• 47:16
  Bindings, the Faye Isles. Have you guys heard of that?
• 47:20
  Yes, I've heard of it. Good rating for 22,000 ratings.
• 47:25
  It's a four-star on Goodreads. Is that Stassia Stark or who is
• 47:28
  that? It is Lizette Marshall.
• 47:32
  OK, it was. Didn't we get her from bookish
• 47:34
  box or something maybe? Yeah, I mean, she's like, she's
• 47:38
  got like 9. No, maybe not that many in the
• 47:41
  series, but she had just finished two years ago, like her
• 47:44
  series, and she did it like really quick.
• 47:47
  So I don't know, I might get rid of that one just cuz I know that
• 47:49
  they're like thick books. It's a big series.
• 47:52
  It's kind of not being talked about anymore.
• 47:55
  Yeah. I wonder if that's the thing.
• 47:57
  Yeah, if. You're not very strongly about
• 47:59
  it. Yeah, yeah, cuz you wouldn't
• 48:01
  think if it was that good, people would still be like, hey,
• 48:03
  this is Roman Empire. Still great series, Go read it.
• 48:09
  Now now this is one that I'm thinking of getting rid of.
• 48:14
  I don't know why this is so hard.
• 48:16
  It's 413 bucks. Will I miss it?
• 48:19
  No, but I'm thinking of getting rid of Faded Hearts by Lucia
• 48:24
  Sky. Yeah, never heard of that.
• 48:26
  I haven't. Either it only got 3.31 rating
• 48:30
  on Goodreads. The covers beautiful and I've
• 48:33
  seen people that wrote or have read it and they said they like
• 48:36
  it, but I think that is one that is going to bite the dust for
• 48:41
  me. OK.
• 48:42
  That's one. I got one and then let's see,
• 48:45
  I'm going to I'm going to remove it.
• 48:47
  This is so traumatic. Remove from my books.
• 48:51
  OK, so I removed that one. Have you guys read The Cruel
• 48:54
  Prince? No, I've heard a lot about it
• 48:57
  though. I know, but I also hear it's
• 48:59
  kind of why. A.
• 49:01
  OK. But YA, OK.
• 49:03
  It's like one of those like mixture wood, kind of like
• 49:05
  shatter me. It's kind of interesting.
• 49:08
  I don't know if there's spice in it, but yeah, I've heard good
• 49:11
  review. OK, so like Twilight, that's YA,
• 49:13
  right? Yeah.
• 49:15
  Yeah, right. OK, Yeah.
• 49:16
  Like with dark things. Right, that's how I have to
• 49:18
  like, compare YA things. I have to, like, tell myself,
• 49:21
  Twilight. Right.
• 49:22
  So it's not like a you don't get that like depth and like.
• 49:26
  It's more like fade to black, kind of fade to blackish, yeah.
• 49:30
  So I don't know, I might get rid of that one.
• 49:33
  Now this one. Of home is where the bodies are
• 49:36
  by Geneva raw roots. Now I'm thinking this is this is
• 49:41
  a whole series I'm thinking of getting rid of and I've heard
• 49:45
  people say they like it. But when I look at the ratings,
• 49:49
  the first book seemed to do OK, but as the next two books came
• 49:53
  out, they the rating tanked. It's The Veiled Kingdom.
• 49:59
  It's by Holly Renee and so. OK, take it off.
• 50:05
  She's. Going to go.
• 50:06
  RIP off the Band-Aid Rebecca. Do it.
• 50:08
  RIP. Off the band.
• 50:10
  Aid. Yeah, I know.
• 50:11
  I have that on my DVR somewhere. So I'm going to, I'm going to
• 50:15
  remove that whole series because I don't think I'm just not going
• 50:19
  to get to it. There's too many other ones that
• 50:22
  I think for me will be better. So, so far I've gotten rid of
• 50:26
  four books. Good job.
• 50:28
  I have to get. Start.
• 50:30
  What about hell bent? Have you guys heard of that by
• 50:32
  Leia? No, Bardo has like the dead
• 50:35
  Bunny on the cover, Yeah. Why?
• 50:40
  It's a series and people and it's highly rated and people
• 50:43
  always talk about it, but I don't know if I'll, I don't ever
• 50:47
  like that. So I I don't.
• 50:49
  Know I think that I mean, I probably shouldn't judge based
• 50:51
  on just listening to it, but I don't like.
• 50:53
  How that sounds? Yeah, has.
• 50:55
  I'll have to show you the cover, but I would definitely if I
• 50:59
  don't have it on audio already I'm going to DNF.
• 51:03
  So one of mine. Let's see, Bloody Black has been
• 51:08
  on my TBR. I'm going to keep that and in
• 51:10
  order to keep that I am going to take off.
• 51:15
  Since we have to do 2, I'm going to get rid of the Never Sky
• 51:18
  series. So Till Death and Never More by
• 51:20
  Miranda Lynn is going bye bye. Sorry.
• 51:23
  Choice. I don't think I'll ever read
• 51:31
  Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez.
• 51:34
  I've never said that. Jimenez.
• 51:36
  Or is it Jimenez? Because I've seen people say it
• 51:38
  both ways. Is it not Jimenez?
• 51:40
  I'm just. Going to call her.
• 51:42
  Abby Jay, Abby Jay. I did read the till summer or
• 51:49
  one of her summer ones with the Unicorn raft in the guy who
• 51:54
  likes to press the sound with it.
• 51:56
  But I guess it's part of this, like it's a standalone to this
• 52:00
  series here and I don't know, I don't read enough contemporary,
• 52:04
  so I'm going to get rid of that one.
• 52:06
  I don't. I don't think I'll read that.
• 52:07
  Heather, do you get fairy loot? I do now.
• 52:10
  Did you get this? Isn't that cool looking?
• 52:13
  It's really cool looking, pretty cover.
• 52:15
  Have you ever heard of it? OK, me either, but it's I'm not
• 52:19
  being on my mail right now. Yeah, look how there's like high
• 52:22
  gloss on that and then the foiling.
• 52:24
  Oh, look at the foiling on the inside.
• 52:27
  Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty, and the art's
• 52:29
  really pretty. Open it up.
• 52:31
  Just Jack it up. Aliba.
• 52:34
  Aliba alocity, but. Look at.
• 52:39
  That Oh, wow, OK, it's really smooth.
• 52:45
  It's like you would move Matt. Yeah, and the Dutch jacket too,
• 52:49
  on the reverse side of school. I haven't looked.
• 52:51
  Is this? Now like you get a book with
• 52:54
  fairy loot and you don't know what's coming.
• 52:56
  Exactly. It's a surprise.
• 52:58
  It's an adult book though. And it won't tell you like what
• 53:02
  you're getting. So you either just cancel it and
• 53:04
  you don't know what you're cancelling, or you keep it and
• 53:07
  you get what you get. Which does not bother me with
• 53:09
  fairy loot, because look at how beautiful that freaking book is.
• 53:13
  Like, yeah, I don't care what it's about.
• 53:15
  It's a piece of art on my wall. True with Owlcrate.
• 53:18
  I did not like that with Owlcrate and I got like it.
• 53:22
  Yeah, I said bye bye to Owlcrate.
• 53:24
  I I did not like them. And it was more the Moonlight
• 53:28
  book box and with Moonlight book box, beautiful artwork by the
• 53:31
  way. And you get overlays.
• 53:33
  I think you get like one or two overlays and sometimes ribbon
• 53:37
  satin ribbon bookmarks. Yeah, tons of I'm on their wait
• 53:40
  list. Oh.
• 53:42
  No go. We'll get to you, OK?
• 53:45
  It'll be fast. I was surprised.
• 53:46
  It's pretty the first one I got, yeah.
• 53:49
  But yes, when I got fairy loot finally I was like yes, I don't
• 53:52
  care. Yeah, I don't care what it is.
• 53:54
  I'm taking it all and I just got the I just got the three book.
• 53:59
  Subscription with the YA in it. Or yeah but after.
• 54:03
  So after you get 3 months worth of them you can drop down.
• 54:07
  So I can do like just romanticy and adult.
• 54:10
  OK, and get rid of I signed up for romanticy and then I was
• 54:14
  looking again at what they had and I decided I want to sign up
• 54:18
  for their quarterly cozy romance and their quarterly epic
• 54:22
  romance. Yeah, for Romanticy.
• 54:24
  So I might have more subscriptions coming.
• 54:29
  Remember our friend Cassandra? She has, she said 27.
• 54:33
  I asked her the other day. Again, I don't want to help 7
• 54:35
  subscriptions. I don't.
• 54:37
  Know here's a cord of blood and bindings from what's it called
• 54:41
  didn't you just that's. The one I was just talking
• 54:43
  about. Yeah.
• 54:43
  Didn't you just take this off of your Yeah TBR?
• 54:46
  OK, Yeah. That's OK, that doesn't look
• 54:47
  very big. Maybe it's pretty thin, all
• 54:50
  right, and this is only book one of a series.
• 54:53
  Yeah. See, I don't like when they do
• 54:55
  that. And what is that from?
• 54:56
  Who is that from? This is bookish.
• 54:59
  Bookish. Yeah, I didn't like Bookish.
• 55:01
  I got rid of them too. I might get rid of them, I
• 55:03
  haven't been happy with them. Me neither.
• 55:05
  I think I sold a lot of mine just recently, a couple of
• 55:08
  months ago to people and I was like, yeah.
• 55:12
  Yeah, now that I have Fairyloot, I feel like I don't need them.
• 55:14
  Yeah, I'd rather spend my money on Fairyloot for sure.
• 55:18
  Yeah, it's a pretty book. See and then see I'm.
• 55:20
  So much like with control, with stuff.
• 55:23
  Which of the world? That's a pretty one.
• 55:24
  Yeah, this one is pretty Which of the worlds?
• 55:27
  I just don't like not knowing what.
• 55:30
  Are we getting? What do you mean?
• 55:32
  I don't like that I wouldn't know what was coming.
• 55:35
  See, that's the good thing with Bookish.
• 55:37
  Bookish tells you but. It's not some yeah and owlcrate
• 55:43
  doesn't bookish will but and you can skip you can always skip
• 55:48
  yeah, but when you don't know what's coming like owlcrate or
• 55:50
  fairy loot, it's hard to skip. Moonlight book box does tell you
• 55:55
  and I've skipped a couple of there's cuz I'm like I don't
• 55:58
  know what book that is, which I think it's fair and then you
• 56:02
  don't pay that one. You know so you can save some
• 56:04
  money on some of your book boxes with that for sure.
• 56:09
  Sorry, we went off even. Though I find them beautiful, I
• 56:12
  find them beautiful. I just, I don't think I could do
• 56:15
  it. It's not anything like the money
• 56:17
  with it or any of that kind of stuff.
• 56:19
  I just don't like the unknown factor.
• 56:21
  Yeah. If I always knew this is what
• 56:23
  was going to be coming, it was something I picked or something
• 56:26
  I knew where they give you option, I would I would be more
• 56:30
  apt to do it. Yeah, but I don't like.
• 56:33
  Unknown about that is if you don't have a subscription with
• 56:36
  some of these people, you don't get first stems on stuff.
• 56:38
  So like Fairyloot, if you don't have a subscription and they
• 56:41
  came out with the night Prince and the whatever one with that
• 56:46
  and they tell you like hey, you get first dibs cuz you get a
• 56:49
  e-mail 1st and there's tons of people going after that book.
• 56:54
  And sometimes, I mean usually there's no public interaction
• 56:59
  with that. It's only for the members.
• 57:01
  Yeah, cuz they run out, but they run out before it'll even go
• 57:04
  public access. Yeah, because they only make so
• 57:06
  many. Yeah.
• 57:07
  That's. Crazy.
• 57:08
  Which is. Annoying.
• 57:08
  Yeah. So it could be.
• 57:09
  Pressuring it also. Frustrates me that they don't
• 57:13
  like I couldn't get the signed wolf king, but I got the signed
• 57:16
  wolf Prince right or night Prince and it's just like oh.
• 57:19
  And you want the collection. So you're like, well, I'm going
• 57:21
  to buy, buy it without it being signed and get it signed
• 57:24
  somewhere if I can and. She wasn't at the Mantasycon.
• 57:29
  No. Was she there?
• 57:29
  No. No, she wasn't.
• 57:30
  I wish I would have been like at her table at her line first.
• 57:34
  Yeah, give me all the merch. Yeah, Team blink.
• 57:39
  Now another one I'm going to remove is The Dark and Drowning
• 57:43
  Tide by Allison Saff. I don't know what it is so and I
• 57:47
  don't remember it. So it is getting yeah, it's
• 57:50
  getting removed. And also I talk about that.
• 57:54
  I also have Between 2 Kings. I'm going to get rid of those.
• 57:58
  By Lindsay Straub. Yes, yeah.
• 58:02
  Because it's it's because I haven't thought about it.
• 58:07
  So I'm going to those two are two more that I am getting rid
• 58:11
  of little by little. I mean for really I should do
• 58:15
  this more often is go through my list so I have more of a.
• 58:19
  Yeah. Better plan with.
• 58:21
  This. I'd like to know how some of
• 58:23
  these even got on here because it must have been people telling
• 58:26
  me like put this on your TBR because I've never heard.
• 58:28
  Of a giveaway situation probably and you're like, OK.
• 58:32
  Not the boat. OK.
• 58:34
  Sign up for this. Yeah.
• 58:36
  Yeah, now here, now this one here.
• 58:38
  Now this series I have I am really contemplating in a row
• 58:41
  because Heather is not a fan of it and Heather has sold me on
• 58:45
  not being a fan of it. It is the Jennifer L Armentrout,
• 58:50
  her series. What is it there?
• 58:52
  It's the. What is it actually called?
• 58:55
  A blood and ash I'm. Listening to that right now and
• 58:58
  I I'm like, I don't get it. What do people love about this
• 59:03
  series? I go on my little tangent every
• 59:06
  once in a while on here. So I think the first two books
• 59:09
  are somewhat decent. Like they're good.
• 59:13
  Like the first book was fine. Like I was like, OK, I learned a
• 59:18
  lot. And there's like the cliffhanger
• 59:19
  at the NSF. The second book she kind of like
• 59:21
  slowing down and then she goes into more and more books and
• 59:25
  you're like, this could just be like a duology.
• 59:27
  It is so much fluff. Yes.
• 59:30
  And it's she writes like that. So she writes a lot of just like
• 59:33
  stuff with like some like characters built in and stuff.
• 59:38
  And then like everything happens at the end.
• 59:40
  I hate that. Yeah, it's driving me crazy.
• 59:43
  I've been listening to them by Graphic Audio.
• 59:46
  Nice, yeah. But also, but I'm like, this is
• 59:49
  the first graphic audio that I have not been like, so excited
• 59:52
  about. Yeah, Yeah.
• 59:54
  So. No.
• 59:56
  I'm not having a good time, I know.
• 59:59
  So I'm removing. That the rest of the books of
• 1:00:02
  the series. OK, I'm probably gonna.
• 1:00:04
  Be done, I'll play the second. One, yeah, her flesh and flame
• 1:00:06
  one too. Like it starts off good and then
• 1:00:09
  you're just kinda like, can we get on to where we're supposed?
• 1:00:13
  To go anything, get on to it. Whatever all I hear about is is
• 1:00:18
  like how they think about this and how they think about that
• 1:00:21
  and who's thinking about this person and all my feelings again
• 1:00:25
  and all my feelings over here again and my in my head and
• 1:00:28
  then, Oh no, someone attacked me.
• 1:00:30
  I I'm hurt and I must be saved and my handsome vampire
• 1:00:37
  boyfriend is going to save me again.
• 1:00:41
  But wait, unless I am this disabled person that is rising
• 1:00:46
  from the dead and I'm going to save him back.
• 1:00:50
  Oh, see, see, I just no. And for some reason it's not
• 1:00:53
  letting me. It's not letting me basically.
• 1:00:55
  Heather just did the whole synopsis of all of.
• 1:00:58
  These stories, that is the book, all of them, there it.
• 1:01:01
  Is. And, and she can't remove that,
• 1:01:04
  I think, in flesh and flame, like she battles gods and she
• 1:01:08
  like, ends up blacking out half the time, but then like somehow
• 1:01:11
  finds some Shiv that she can use and it's some kind of powerful
• 1:01:15
  thing. And then all of a sudden she's a
• 1:01:17
  goddess herself. Oh my gosh, Where do these
• 1:01:21
  powers come from? See, I'm glad I removed it.
• 1:01:26
  A lot of people now we're not yuck and other people's young.
• 1:01:29
  Now there's some people that love it if you.
• 1:01:31
  Love it. You love it and that's so great
• 1:01:33
  for you. But for me, I just, I, I'm not,
• 1:01:36
  I don't see it. I don't.
• 1:01:38
  Yeah. See, This is why maybe I like
• 1:01:40
  what you guys say. I mean, Heather has said it and
• 1:01:44
  now you have said it. So that confirms to me that it
• 1:01:47
  was probably not be something that I would enjoy.
• 1:01:51
  Yeah, great. Now.
• 1:01:52
  This one here I keep, I keep holding on to it because I just
• 1:01:56
  want the vibes from it. But yet I don't know if I'll
• 1:01:59
  read it. And I know, I think, Heather,
• 1:02:01
  you have this book. I think you got it.
• 1:02:05
  It's the Kiss of the Basilisk. Or maybe I sold.
• 1:02:07
  Chelsea has. Yeah, sold.
• 1:02:09
  I haven't read it. I have it and I got it signed by
• 1:02:12
  her but I. Don't want to read it?
• 1:02:15
  No. Yeah, I don't know if I want to,
• 1:02:17
  I heard. It's a little just kind of out
• 1:02:19
  there, that's all. Yeah.
• 1:02:21
  So I don't know. Yeah.
• 1:02:24
  So that's where it kind of it, it kind of holds on because then
• 1:02:27
  I'm kind of thinking, do I want to try it?
• 1:02:29
  Yeah, I've also not really been a big monster or like alien kind
• 1:02:35
  of like where you have certain kind of tentacle penises and
• 1:02:42
  stuff like that. I I've not read anything like
• 1:02:45
  that. So, and I don't, I just don't
• 1:02:46
  know if I could go into that fantasy portion of that.
• 1:02:51
  Yeah, yeah, maybe. I'll I see what you say
• 1:02:54
  virginity one of these days with one of you know, hyped book and
• 1:02:58
  I'll try it, but I just don't think that's for me.
• 1:03:01
  So I. Pop her monster cherry, as it
• 1:03:05
  were. There we go.
• 1:03:07
  Yep. I have Court of Nightmares by KA
• 1:03:12
  Knight, have you heard of that one?
• 1:03:14
  Heard of it, yes, not on my list.
• 1:03:17
  I think I removed it a while ago.
• 1:03:19
  I think that one's going to go as well, cuz I haven't heard
• 1:03:23
  anybody talking about it. I haven't heard any people
• 1:03:25
  saying anything about it. Yeah.
• 1:03:27
  So I think that is going to be that I removed that one.
• 1:03:31
  I also. Have a hard time with anything
• 1:03:34
  called court of anything. Yeah.
• 1:03:37
  Yeah. Like, because it's not.
• 1:03:40
  If it's not Sarah J Mass, I'm not going to read it.
• 1:03:42
  Yeah, which I know is dumb, but that's just my brain.
• 1:03:47
  Now Harper L Woods did the cursed and I think she had the
• 1:03:50
  coven and stuff like that. Like that one I've seen people
• 1:03:56
  say either they literally liked it or they did not like it.
• 1:04:00
  Do you guys have either of those on your on your list?
• 1:04:04
  No I'm not a big witch and I already have like the witch
• 1:04:09
  collector and stuff on it so it hasn't made it to my TBR.
• 1:04:14
  Hasn't made it there, No. You will like the witches in
• 1:04:17
  Bewitched. And be spelled and that also is
• 1:04:20
  on my list, so. I.
• 1:04:23
  Think it depends like are you not like a coven witch like
• 1:04:28
  spells casting back and forth kind of witchy or like could
• 1:04:33
  there be like I mean you've read Acatar stuff so like these witch
• 1:04:36
  stuff in there like. Like I and I love like throwing
• 1:04:39
  a glass. I love Manon.
• 1:04:42
  Not Manon Manon. Like I love all that, but I
• 1:04:44
  don't know that I love it. Like witches and.
• 1:04:48
  Yeah, it could be because I read, I read an ARC recently and
• 1:04:53
  I don't want to like necessarily name it since I didn't like
• 1:04:56
  love, love, love it, but it just kind of like threw me off of the
• 1:04:59
  witch stuff for a while. And then there was another one
• 1:05:02
  that I read and it was kind of like a retelling of it was like
• 1:05:08
  a Persephone and. That's big, Yeah.
• 1:05:12
  So. Maybe telling and they're kind
• 1:05:13
  of witchy and it kind of ruined it for me because it wasn't very
• 1:05:15
  well written. And so it's just kind of like
• 1:05:17
  I'm taking a break. But I know that Laura Thalassa,
• 1:05:20
  I'm going to love hers. I just.
• 1:05:22
  And, and she has like witches and witch stuff, but I wouldn't
• 1:05:26
  say it's like. Big no no you.
• 1:05:30
  Know and that's more my vibe I think for sure, yeah.
• 1:05:34
  So I'm removing the coven and the cursed and a third books
• 1:05:39
  coming out the damned it just I just don't think it's for me.
• 1:05:43
  Is that I've seen it where the cover has like the Rose with the
• 1:05:47
  little drop of blood. It's like in one of the books.
• 1:05:51
  I got the coven has let me look at the cover of it.
• 1:05:54
  It has it's like a a looking glass with like it looks like I
• 1:05:58
  don't know if those are sticks or those are skeleton hands and
• 1:06:01
  it has a couple roses on it and then the cursed.
• 1:06:04
  It has like some purple flowers, at least the pictures on
• 1:06:06
  Goodreads, but I think they're going to go to the maybe
• 1:06:11
  someday. Maybe I'll decide it's, I'll
• 1:06:13
  react them but. I just.
• 1:06:16
  I just, I don't know, just a lot of people have they haven't
• 1:06:20
  rated it at the best, but maybe I would read it and I would
• 1:06:23
  think it was great. But yeah, typically, I know this
• 1:06:26
  sounds terrible. If a book if it if it's going
• 1:06:30
  lower in the three points something.
• 1:06:32
  Yeah, a lot of times it it might not be for me.
• 1:06:36
  This is this is that's why I started with the rating level on
• 1:06:40
  my books as I'm going through now.
• 1:06:43
  Did you guys ever hear of Bender by Cassie Alexander?
• 1:06:48
  Now I think let's say it's either a Sleeping Beauty or Snow
• 1:06:53
  White. It's kind of like that kind of
• 1:06:55
  thing. It's the Transformation trilogy.
• 1:06:59
  Now I had this recommended to me back when ACOTAR was recommended
• 1:07:04
  to me and I never read it, but I think I'm going to possibly it's
• 1:07:10
  Bend Her, Break Her, Make her. That's the three books in the
• 1:07:16
  trilogy. I think I'm going to.
• 1:07:18
  I'm doing good. I'm purging pretty good.
• 1:07:20
  Here, yeah. Like if it's still not talked
• 1:07:21
  about and you don't see it anywhere anymore, maybe not even
• 1:07:25
  in stores or I mean, unless it's ND, but you know, and and
• 1:07:30
  usually like if an author came out the trilogy, they're working
• 1:07:34
  on something new and you would know the author, I feel like.
• 1:07:38
  So if if you liked it that much you would be following them, you
• 1:07:44
  would know more about her word true.
• 1:07:46
  OK, wait, Heather, real quick. What do you got?
• 1:07:49
  If an Aurora crate I'm looking at my order for smoke and scar.
• 1:07:54
  If it says confirmed, that means they haven't sent it yet because
• 1:07:56
  it hasn't changed on its way. Right.
• 1:07:58
  So they have you like checked for a book, but it's not like
• 1:08:02
  processed yet. Yeah, you'll get it.
• 1:08:04
  They're very good at notifications of like your book
• 1:08:07
  has been. OK.
• 1:08:09
  Put together and yeah, and you'll get like a tracking.
• 1:08:12
  Yeah. And I just feel like I'm still
• 1:08:13
  behind everybody. I feel like other people have
• 1:08:15
  gotten that already. Really.
• 1:08:17
  Yeah. Interesting.
• 1:08:19
  I wonder if California has different.
• 1:08:21
  Yeah, like a. Shipping thing, yeah.
• 1:08:23
  Stuff, Yeah, OK. Could be.
• 1:08:27
  Well, let me, let me ask you guys this.
• 1:08:29
  Where is your cut off? Like if you're looking on
• 1:08:32
  Goodreads, do you judge a book by its rating?
• 1:08:37
  Yes. Or do you give things a chance?
• 1:08:41
  Do you have a cut off? What number does it have to be?
• 1:08:44
  If it's at a certain point, where do you know you know it's
• 1:08:47
  going to be a good book? Or where do you draw the line
• 1:08:50
  and think it's probably not good book?
• 1:08:52
  It's got to be above 3 1/2 for me. 3 1/2 How about you,
• 1:08:57
  Heather? Yeah, I'd say that.
• 1:08:58
  And I'd probably look at some reviews, but I don't know, maybe
• 1:09:06
  go back to the synopsis again, some tropes and see like, is
• 1:09:09
  this something? And I'm really like, yes,
• 1:09:12
  passionate about me to read. Or is this just, oh, everyone
• 1:09:16
  was talking about it and I put it on and I know I'll probably
• 1:09:20
  never get to it and it's not heights anymore.
• 1:09:22
  So yeah. Do I read it still?
• 1:09:24
  I don't know. I think I think my cut off is
• 1:09:29
  going to be. It has to be at least 3.7
• 1:09:33
  because I'm looking at what I have deleted.
• 1:09:35
  Off my list, they were all below that, Yeah, if you look at the
• 1:09:39
  stars, but do you look at the ratings, like how many ratings
• 1:09:42
  there are? Because if it's like a million
• 1:09:44
  and something ratings and you're at like a 3.5, that's intense.
• 1:09:49
  Like that is good. Now if you had 200 reviews and
• 1:09:53
  you're at like a 3.5, I'd be like, that's probably really
• 1:09:56
  bad. So I think the number of ratings
• 1:09:59
  there with the star and the average is what you should be
• 1:10:04
  looking at. Because like Harper Woods again,
• 1:10:07
  I I deleted her Coven series. Now she has another series and
• 1:10:11
  it's like what Lies beyond the veil?
• 1:10:13
  OK, now it's rated at 3.56 but it's out of 88,768 rating.
• 1:10:20
  So that would be like a good book to me, to you.
• 1:10:26
  They just keep it on. Let's see here.
• 1:10:27
  What? How many am I at now?
• 1:10:29
  I'm at 398. I went under 400.
• 1:10:32
  Hey, that's big. OK, so Heather, Heather, have
• 1:10:39
  you read Once Upon a Broken Heart series?
• 1:10:41
  No, I have it though. OK, so that's on my TBR and it's
• 1:10:45
  up for the cut list, but I want like I want people to tell me
• 1:10:48
  keep it on your list or take it. Off keep it with.
• 1:10:51
  You want me to read it with? You.
• 1:10:53
  Yeah, let's read it together. Let's do a buddy read of that.
• 1:10:55
  Yeah cuz I have someone bought it for me off my wish list so I
• 1:10:59
  have to read it now so. You do.
• 1:11:02
  All right. We'll keep that on and then I'm
• 1:11:03
  gonna take off. I think I have Silver Elite like
• 1:11:06
  on my physical TBR, but I think I'm gonna get rid.
• 1:11:09
  I've heard some drama. I've heard some drama around
• 1:11:12
  that series of so I liked it. You did.
• 1:11:15
  I wouldn't say like, Oh my God went out the door and read it,
• 1:11:18
  but I thought it had some really cool things and like really
• 1:11:21
  unique, kind of like magic. And I don't know what the drama
• 1:11:24
  is, but I'd like to know. Like I've just heard rumblings I
• 1:11:28
  think. It was very similar to another
• 1:11:30
  book I can't think of now, maybe maybe 4th Wing or something like
• 1:11:34
  that. And people were saying like the
• 1:11:36
  land and how it's like laid out. It was very Hunger Games and it
• 1:11:41
  was kind of hard. It it does take a while.
• 1:11:46
  It has a lot of world building in the front.
• 1:11:48
  So I think it's one of those books where book one has a lot
• 1:11:52
  of information that you have to like kind of follow along, has a
• 1:11:55
  lot of layers and it does have action probably takes until
• 1:12:00
  about 50% to get to that. And then it it ends really good
• 1:12:05
  though. And I'm excited for book 2
• 1:12:07
  actually because I kind of want to see where things go.
• 1:12:11
  So I would, I would say give it a chance.
• 1:12:15
  OK. When book 2 comes out and like,
• 1:12:17
  read them back-to-back. I'll keep it on my shelf.
• 1:12:19
  I won't. I won't get rid of it yet.
• 1:12:22
  We'll see. See, now I remember when there
• 1:12:24
  was controversy there, and for a while it was because it was.
• 1:12:28
  No one knew what she looked like because there was no author.
• 1:12:32
  Picture and then they weren't. Sure.
• 1:12:34
  Yeah. And there still isn't any
• 1:12:36
  picture because then some people were leaning that they didn't
• 1:12:38
  think she was a real person. I remember there was that.
• 1:12:42
  Part of it, OK, well, I just kind.
• 1:12:44
  Of annoying because we're allowed to be.
• 1:12:46
  Yeah. You're allowed to be anonymous
• 1:12:48
  with you. Well, you are.
• 1:12:49
  Don't have to have an author picture.
• 1:12:51
  I'm sorry that way. Certain book boxes have the
• 1:12:54
  book, you know, it's not an AI book.
• 1:12:57
  Like I got my book from book of the month club and that's a huge
• 1:13:02
  club book or book club people. So I was like, if I heard, I
• 1:13:08
  didn't. This is the first time I've
• 1:13:09
  heard of that, but that doesn't bother me.
• 1:13:11
  I don't even look at this. I don't look at the author
• 1:13:14
  pictures half the time and read their their stories very often,
• 1:13:19
  so yeah. Cuz her social media is
• 1:13:21
  completely faceless. But it's like that was the whole
• 1:13:23
  point of authors having a fake like a pen name, a pen name,
• 1:13:28
  yes. It's to stay anonymous.
• 1:13:29
  So people like reading into that is just kind of like let them be
• 1:13:33
  anonymous. They don't want.
• 1:13:35
  They want to be free. They want to write without
• 1:13:37
  having to do all that. Some people that like to judge
• 1:13:39
  books off of like the author bio and who the author is and where
• 1:13:44
  they live and all that stuff. Like some people get really not,
• 1:13:48
  not some. I would say like very few people
• 1:13:51
  are very like, oh, I have to research the author before I
• 1:13:53
  read the book. I have been in a group chat
• 1:13:55
  where someone mentioned that and I was like, that is very
• 1:13:58
  interesting to me. Strange because I never once
• 1:14:02
  thought of something like that. I just pick up the book, look at
• 1:14:05
  the synopsis and go, yeah, I'll read that.
• 1:14:09
  Well, I was watching it was there was a lady that was on
• 1:14:12
  Instagram and she was talking about this because there's like,
• 1:14:15
  you know how they do the cancel culture kind of thing and they
• 1:14:18
  were all upset and and they're like, they're mad if anything
• 1:14:20
  has an M dash, If there's an M dash, that's AI.
• 1:14:24
  But if you go back to works of literature and stuff that was
• 1:14:28
  wrote in the 1800's, the early 1900s, they used the M dash.
• 1:14:33
  That doesn't mean that it's AI And they're like, correct.
• 1:14:37
  Well, I can tell as soon as I look at a book, it's AI.
• 1:14:39
  And she was saying, well, give me examples.
• 1:14:42
  She's like, show me why you think that this book is an AI
• 1:14:47
  created book and everything that the people, all the the reasons
• 1:14:52
  that the people gave in her comments, she could disprove
• 1:14:56
  because she was showing, well, look at all these different
• 1:14:58
  authors from all this time before they did these exact same
• 1:15:01
  things. That proves absolutely nothing,
• 1:15:04
  editors. Will tell you the M dash is
• 1:15:07
  needed in certain literature because it causes it.
• 1:15:12
  It's a real punctuation mark like it yes, creates that drawn
• 1:15:16
  out kind of pause that you need and I agree, like I use the M
• 1:15:23
  dash. I'm not thinking it's AI like I
• 1:15:25
  I think all this is witch hunting and just something
• 1:15:29
  dramatic about just read the fucking book.
• 1:15:32
  Yeah. Well, there, yeah, there was a
• 1:15:34
  book and I, I can't remember what book it was, but it was
• 1:15:37
  something that came out very recently.
• 1:15:39
  And this author, they they promoted it through her
• 1:15:44
  publisher as a romantic. And it was not a romantic, it
• 1:15:51
  was more of a dark gothic romance kind of thing, not
• 1:15:55
  romantic. See, and people were mad and
• 1:15:59
  trying to cancel her because they said, but she, she had come
• 1:16:03
  out multiple times explaining what the book was and all that.
• 1:16:07
  And they were trying to cancel her and they were mad because it
• 1:16:10
  wasn't what they thought. And I'm like, I think people
• 1:16:13
  have too much time on their hands.
• 1:16:16
  Yeah, I mean, I'd be upset if I bought a book thinking it was a
• 1:16:20
  certain genre and it was contemporary romance and I'm
• 1:16:23
  like, where's the fantasy? But yeah, yeah, I don't know.
• 1:16:31
  The people were mad, that's kind of They weren't blind.
• 1:16:33
  They. Didn't matter that they wouldn't
• 1:16:35
  blind on something I think. It's weird.
• 1:16:37
  It's again, I believe that was over on threads.
• 1:16:39
  Chelsea, yeah. That's where I heard.
• 1:16:41
  That and threads is the worst. Honestly.
• 1:16:44
  Threads is like the dumpster fire of everything in my eyes.
• 1:16:48
  I don't. Understand.
• 1:16:49
  I think we did pretty good though I think we got rid of a
• 1:16:53
  ton of well, at least I got more than 10 books removed.
• 1:16:57
  From my yeah. I think.
• 1:16:59
  Tell me, did you all remove? I'm still removing some but.
• 1:17:02
  Yeah, me too, but I'll probably end up with like 20 or 30 I
• 1:17:06
  think. Yeah, I think so Fresh.
• 1:17:10
  I'm going to go through my whole 400 book list.
• 1:17:13
  Well, it's not 400 now, 398, I'm going to go through the whole
• 1:17:16
  thing and see what else and see what number I can get down.
• 1:17:19
  Again, like I said, remember I put every single book on.
• 1:17:23
  So I don't just put the first book of the series.
• 1:17:26
  I do all of them. So that's why my number is so
• 1:17:28
  high. Yeah.
• 1:17:31
  But I think that I think this has been a very positive thing
• 1:17:34
  to do, and I think everybody should do this.
• 1:17:37
  I mean, you're never going to get through that massive TBR
• 1:17:40
  list if you keep holding on books that you're not going to
• 1:17:43
  really read. Yeah, it's time for some spring
• 1:17:45
  cleaning in the TBR section. For sure, I agree.
• 1:17:50
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