all the books i read in january // sapphic books, fantasy, horror + more

Hello! Welcome to my channel this is going to be  the first video I'm filming after coming from my holidays so it's like starting over but whatever. Today I'm going to talk about all the books that I read during January. I read 11 books and I'm going  to show them as I read them so the first one I read, well I actually started it on December but I  finished it the first few days of January and it was Bloodmarked, the second book in The Legendborn  Series so I cannot really say too much about it

because it's the second book but it's it's really  amazing like I loved the first book and I gave it four stars but this one is actually 4.5 stars for  me. These books are about Bree our main character her mother recently died on the first book, she is  dealing with all the grief and all the emotions that come with that but at the same time she  realizes that there is a mystery revolving her mother's death and trying to discover what  really happened to her mother she ends up being involved in l

ike a magical world where the  round table of like Merlin and the (king) Arthur that Legend is actually true and there are  people who are fighting against evil based on that round table. I don't want to say too much just  because I always go into books knowing very little about them so I feel it's going to be  more enjoyable if you just discover everything that happens on your own. But yeah it has magic,  it has friendship, it has a bit of a love triangle but not like fully, it has a morally  g

rey character that I adore but the main thing that I adore about these books is that we, with all  the magic, you also get to know more about Bree's ancestors and those also play a huge part in these  books and I adore when we talk about ancestors in any book just because I'm really involved like I  really want to know about mine so I see myself there. I will recommend these books a  hundred percent, I don't even know when the third book is coming out but I just really need it.  Then I was going

to make a vlog reading the best books of Goodreads like I've seen some people  do and I thought it was going to be fun but it wasn't fun. I read Sea of Tranquility, that's not  how you pronounce it but that's how I'm pronouncing it this won I think best sci-fi for Goodreads 2022.  This is a time travel book where you get to see different storylines and then how they connect  but besides that like I couldn't really tell you what else is this about. The main protagonist I  think he was sweet and

he had a nice story but at the end of the book I was like what is the point  of this book like nothing felt really intriguing or like I was hooked everything was kind of meh  so I was like at the end I didn't care about everything that I have read so it was really boring for  me like I do like time travel things but this one just wasn't it and it's also involving the  pandemic like different pandemics throughout all the years and I still don't feel ready to be  reading about pandemics like I don

't want to do that like I didn't know that was going to be  a theme in this book like I said I go into books without reading much about them so maybe I should  probably start reading what the books are about. So after that I just ditched the video I wasn't going  to make it and I started reading the cabin at the end of the world and I actually really like this  book I think I gave it four stars I've been using the cawpile spreadsheet this month to like  keep track of my reading and it's really a

mazing because there you can give ratings to the books  in different categories so like plot, atmosphere characters and at the end you get like the total  number and that's what you should probably give the book and that's been really helpful for me to  see like exactly how much I want to give a book so I'm going to leave the links in the description  down below. Cabin at the end of the world is about these two parents they are gay and they have a  daughter and they go into a cabin that feels at

the end of the world and they are supposed to have  a relaxing holiday but then four people appear out of nowhere and they start messing with our  characters. It's a horror book. I found it really engaging and like entertaining, I couldn't stop  reading and also the relationship between these two fathers is super sweet and also the kid I did  give it four stars instead of five just because at the end of the book there are still so  many questions that I have that were not answered then I decide

d to pick up the deep and this was  my favorite book of the entire month. The deep is about this group of kind of mermaids who all  don't remember much or anything almost of their lives and the only member that actually collects  those memories for everyone else and like she has to deal with all of them is our main protagonist  so the book starts with her feeling overwhelmed and like she cannot deal with all of those memories anymore so she's trying to find some peace for herself so this is a re

ally short book I don't want to spoil it because it's really good like if you read something that I recommend please read it  it also deals with ancestors of course because of the memories we actually get to see those  memories and what happened and how those mermaids came to be I will say it's related to slavery so  it's really violent but at the same time it shows how after something so horrible there is still  hope and that was the main focus of the book for me. Getting to see everything that

all these people  have gone through and they are still fighting being good people and caring about each  other and their community. As a bonus point though this kind of silly but it has a queer  relationship and I wasn't expecting that so it was a huge surprise and it made me feel amazing just  because I like seeing those type of relationships in the pages it's also like that relationship it's  really sweet and kind but also straightforward and like they're forcing each other to see the reality

  and the consequence of their actions so it's very mature but still sweet and I loved it  this will probably be on the top five of the year just because that's how much I liked it. I still  feel like I'm not talking about it well enough so just go and read it and then you tell me. So  then I actually decided to start with my official TBR and I read carmilla, this book was kind of  disappointing I gave it three stars I was either expecting a sapphic romance or a really gory gothic  story and lik

e we didn't get either it was a weird relationship like it was trying to show a weird  relationship between a vampire and a human being but that's not really what I wanted, I wanted a  relationship like a real relationship so that's why I gave it three stars because there is nothing  wrong with this book it's just not what I was expecting so like I didn't really care. Then I read  gravy's choice, this is a graphic novel I was actually given an e-arc from this book through  Netgalley and I really

really liked it. It's about this kid that is plus size and he is struggling  with bullies at school but also his father isn't really supportive of the things he likes, like his  father wants him to be a really sporty kid and he doesn't really care about sports. So it's him dealing with all of that and trying to find himself and what he actually cares about, what  he wants to do instead of letting other people decide for him. It's a really sweet story of course  it infurated me at times because

his father this book also shows that parents aren't always  perfect but I feel like you should at least try to be, you know? Like he's just a sweet little boy  he shouldn't be fighting with his father but besides that I really enjoyed reading this book.  The graphics are phenomenal, everything is so nice to read and to look at. The friendship he  has with his best friend is so sweet like one of the best I've read so caring and like no jealousy  at all and that's just perfect. Then I read Can't

Let Her Go which was actually on my TBR too and  I'm so disappointed I didn't like it. This one is a friends to lovers story between a nail  technician and another woman that owns a barber shop. So I was really excited about like I didn't  know it was going to be a sapphic story but once I started reading I realized it is a sapphic story, both of these girls are lesbians so that's already amazing. I really really like that but that's just  because I'm sapphic but the book on itself wasn't really

that enjoyable. I think the main issue I  had was the way it's written and like the dialogues everything felt not real, the reactions these  characters had and the situation that happened that's not how a real person would react or how  they'd feel. At times some dialogues felt really childish and these women I think they are like 30-40  so it was really putting me off. I didn't like the characters themselves like their personalities but  at the same time I feel like their personalities weren't

really flashed out, it felt like I was  reading a book, you know? Like I didn't get immersed in the story, it felt just like characters  that felt really superficial and everything was very superficial and I didn't get anything out of  it. It had some sweet moments, you know, regarding friendship and I did laugh but besides that this  book wasn't really for me. Then I actually read my physical books and I started with an interview  with the Vampire I dnf'ed it. I actually left it at 191 so like

I still had a chunk to go through  but I was just over it. Well this book is like an interview with the Vampire and the  vampire is the owner of a plantation in the 1700s so already a horrible person. There is a bunch  of pages of him explaining the entire process the story like of course it's the interview but I  thought something interesting was going to happen but it's just him talking and talking and talking  and like his story isn't really that interesting for him to be talking so much. An

d then we get  introduced to a small girl, she's five years old and he is tempted by her from the start. It's just  disgusting. Like I read a couple of more chapters like I read a ton like I should have dnf'd it as  soon as he said that small girl was tempting but I actually read a couple of chapters more like a  ton of chapters more I think I read way too much of this book. Because of the this small girl was already a woman like mentally but she was still a child and that's when I left this  bo

ok because it seemed like it was going to start a relationship between these two but she still has  the body of a five-year-old and he also refers to her as his daughter and like he feels paternal  to her but at the same time he's still tempted and loves her and it's just weird, really disgusting  and I was like why am I forcing myself to finish this book? And I just dnf'ed it because besides being  really absolutely disgusting, it's really boring so it's nothing good in this book. I really hate

it  and I only give books one star when I really hate them I gave this book one star. And then once I dnf'ed  that one, I started the school for good and evil this was such a relief, it made me enjoy reading  once again because I almost quit everything with that book. But the school for good and evil is  about these two best friends. In their small town two kids always get kidnapped every four years and  they've discovered that these two kids go to the school of good and evil, one goes to the g

ood kids  school and the other one goes to the evil kids school, it's based on fairytales. And these two best friends, one is like really shy really gothic, she lives in a cemetery, she never gets close to people and everyone thinks she's kind of ugly and then the other best  friend is like a princess, she's blonde, she's cute everyone adores her, she's nice to everyone but  once they get to the school the evil one actually gets dropped off at the good kids school and the  princess one gets thro

wn off in the evil school side. So is them trying to escape this place or  get back to their corresponding places because they think what happened is that they were placed  incorrectly. It's a really awesome story about friendship, I love this friendship. I didn't like the  princess one because some reasons I'm not going to spoil it but I didn't really like her but  once we get to know her like really she got so interesting but then it happened the opposite with  the other character like this ev

il one was super interesting at the beginning and then at the  end I was kind of really not caring about her that much and so we'll see how the second book  goes but I just adore it. I wrote it on my review it made me feel like I did when I first  read Percy Jackson that I was just hooked into the story, wanting to know more and wanted to know  about the magic and the stories inside this world and the characters, everything is just interesting. I do have to say that it was funny in this book pri

nces like Prince Charming are actually  important because... then I found out this book is written by a man and that made so much sense  because who cares about Princes like they never have stories, they are just there to be pretty and  to be what the princess wants but no one really cares about Prince Charming or like I couldn't  mention you five of those. We all just care about the princesses and their journeys and the  evil characters. Then I read the way of the cicadas this is another e-arc

I received through netgalley  and I was really excited about this one because it was marketed as a dystopian queer book about these  people that are living underground because the nuclear war happened in the earth and everything  has too much radiation so they are living underground but then a girl comes from the outside and  she is actually fine so a group of people decide to leave this bunker and actually try to live  outside. So it sounded super interesting. the first thing I have to say, thi

s book is not queer. It  has a queer relationship, it was more like before you come out you have a weird relationship, like at  least I did, like with your best friend when you're queer where like you are kind of in a relationship  but not really because you know no one is out and no one really knows like when you are really young  you're don't really know what is happening but you have a closer relationship with that person than  anyone else. That was what was happening, not really a relationsh

ip and it was like the secondary  characters not the main characters either way so and then the dystopian aspect, it was really  boring I thought the government was going to be a huge thing like always the government is the evil  behind everything but in this book the government was super weak, super bland, they didn't do  anything. Sometimes they were threatening but that's just how the characters felt, it's not  what I was seeing through the pages. The writing here and the dialogues were reall

y childish and  dramatic also like I was expecting characters who didn't trust things, who were living in a lie and  they were trying to escape and you know survive outside and just smart people like the is six  of crows crew like all of them have their secrets and they are trying to survive but also  they have an end goal. These characters didn't have an end goal, like they were just bored inside  of the bunker and that's why they left. They were also always changing, you get to see different 

povs here and each character would be different depending on who was narrating, like they didn't  have the same personality, everyone was seeing different things so at the end I didn't feel  like I know any of them. And the last day of January I decided to pick up a book just because I  really wanted to and I read the girl from the sea this is a graphic novel, it's also super cute and  sweet. I do have to say it's a romance like a YA romance between a human girl and like a mermaid  and the roman

ce happen way too fast for me, like super fast. But after that like if you try to  ignore how fast it happened this story continues to be sweet and charming. It also has other factors  like friendships and family stuff going on too so it had a lot more than just a relationship which I  really liked. This was a sweet and cute story like really quick to read and really nice to look at. So  those are all the books that I read this month, let me know if you have read any of them and I've also  been

seeing booktubers who tell you an emoji you can comment if you don't know what to comment so if  you made it this far you can comment the mermaid emoji because of the deep was my favorite  read and it had mermaids so comment that if you don't know what to say. And if you liked  this video, give it a big thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe to my channel if you want  to see more and I will see you in my next video, [Music] [Music]