HUGE Christmas book HAUL + UNBOXING! 🎁

Hello friends how are we all doing I am so excited cuz today we are doing my Christmas book haul SL unboxing I am completely overwhelmed with how many of you guys have sent me a Christmas gift and I'm so excited to open these it's the second Christmas I'm I'm so excited Merry Christmas let me show you the sack these have been coming through throughout the month and I have just been completely overwhelmed I'm so thankful you guys are so kind we'll talk about the voice in a second just hold up when all of us I hear this agitating grading voice this is all stuff from you guys I am completely I just so thankful it's so kind of you guys to do this at Christmas to send me a gift um and we're going to open it together in this video also my family did send me some um books as well for Christmas that I saved usually I film this video on Christmas Eve and get it out to just after Christmas but I don't know if you can tell with the voice but I've been ill I'm trying to talk more normally for you guys this is how I've been talking with my family this is like my natural talking voice this is me trying to talk slightly normally so apologies if that's annoying I'm going to try and not be annoying um but yeah I've had to suck off sadly quite a few of my end of year videos on this last week of the year cuz I just haven't been well enough to make them it's very sad this is our last video of the Year this one but shall we just get into it I'm so excited it's like a second Christmas and I can't wait we'll save the ones that my family got me for last week we will first begin with the ones some of you guys have got me and I just have no idea what we're going to what we're going to unwrap together so oh my God I'm so excited I love Christmas this is so you guys don't understand how kind this is of you this is so kind and I appreciate it so much from the Bott of my heart okay first one well this is quite a large book oh okay interesting Merry Christmas from the Italian Scott on Twitter thank you so much okay this is a 2023 release I've been very interested in this is the things we do to our friends by Heather Darwin it's set the University of Edinburgh Claire meets Tabitha Tabitha is charismatic Beach for intimidating and Wealthy Claire is sucked into her Circle and Tabitha vs a little little project they're working on a project they need cla's help with it's Reckless possibly perilous and might finally out CLA to become who she always meant to be how exciting this is dark Academia Twisted female friendships these are all Bast words to me as we can see I haven't heard a ton of people review this though since it came out this is one that I added to my list from the synopsis when I was kind of looking up 2023 releases but I haven't heard a ton of people review it and that actually always makes me excited because I kind of like being the first not the first to read a book obviously thousands of people have read this already probably but the first in like my head to read a book and go into it with completely no expectations so thank you so much I'm so excited to get to this one next package I'm just opening these up completely randomly there is no order to these oh fun we have got a Sprinkle of saucery by Michelle Harrison this is from Emma the quiet patreon thank you so much Emma that is so kind so it's sprinkler sorcery this is the next in the pinch of Magic middle-grade series and this is one of the middle grade series I spok about a lot that I started in 2020 I started three middle grade Series in 20120 and I have not made progress in any of them and that's really a goal of mine in 2024 is to kind of make progress in those older series Good Luck Good Luck fun hope it works this time around and I loved a pinch of magic I thought it was such a whims beautiful fest book in the series following these sisters I love sister relationships I absolutely loved it three sisters with a magical secret a Race Against Time to find a place that exists only in fairy tales a journey that will take them into unimaginable danger or looks like we're going to be on a boat how exciting I also really love the kind of like aesthetic design of this series I love it so thank you so much Emma oh my God you guys are so kind next what have we got oh what is this no way no way ah I'm very excited for this one so this is from Clara Clara says happy Christmas Megan I've loved your content and Patron this year thank you for all the effort you put in thank you claraa we have got Emily World Encyclopedia fairies my have this is one of the 22 releases that I have wanted to get into most this is obviously one of the fantasy that people have been speaking about all year and I would categorize this from what I know as cozy fantasy and I'm just like give me more crazy fantasy please just give me all the Cozy fantasy but sometimes I do get a little bit disappointed with books that kind of seem like they're going to be cozy fantasy and they don't sh out to be so I'm a little bit htic because of that but yeah so many people have been loving it this year we're following Emily wild meticulous research is writing the world's first Encyclopedia of fairy law oh I'm so excited enchanting sharp tonged and footnoted Academia there's footnotes there's footnotes guys there's footnotes there's footnotes try not to say mother challenge failed I didn't know those foot notes oh my God you guys know I love foot notes oh my God that makes this movie a five star prediction for me that makes this a five for me thank you so much claraa you guys are picking such good ones so far my goodness okay next parel oh my God this is a big one what is this oh my goodness exciting so this is from Caris Merry Christmas Meg I wanted to get you a little something for Christmas and also say thank you for bringing me so much joy I absolutely love your channel I'm joking I'm big part of your lovely Patron me so world thank thank you so much Caris okay you guys can't see I'm like dying choking so this is the list which can we just talk about the cover I love it I love the cover I know it might be controversial I know some people probably don't like this but I love this cover and it's about this woman who has fall in love with her new fiance it's like job of her dreams man of her dream and then something called the list is circulated and it is a list of anonymous allegations about abuse of men and her fiance is on the list I've heard mix things about this one but it's one that I'm very intrigued to read it seems very intriguing so I'm very excited to pick this one up thank you so much okie dokie next what have we got oh this is from Rebecca another of my patrons Merry Christmas Megan I love this one and can't wait to hear your thoughts oh interesting so midnight is The Darkest Hour by Ashley Winstead which I've heard really good things about and then not so good things about small town Louisiana there's this new church or new preacher stuff starts going wrong in the town and town Secrets now here's the thing with Miss Shashi win said I gave in my J and I five stars and I did not love the last housewife it was I think I gave it a three but it was maybe more of like a 2.5 I found the last housewife very disappointing I'm a little bit nervous it's fun cuz I think it could go either way I just feel like in my dreams at hot a knife had so much promise that I believe that we could have something like that again Ashley W said when I read in my dreams H knife I thought was going to become a new favorite thriller author and then my the last housewife put a spanner in the works of that so thank you so much Rebecca I'm very very very excited to pick this one up okay oh my God we've got two oh my goodness okay what wait no there's three in here what is going on okay I was very confused for a second there because Amazon has put the wrong one of the wrong notes in I've got like a French person gifting me the art of Frozen like Frozen Disney but that's not for me is thir a child so oh yeah okay that's just an extra note I've just got an extra French person's note in here so these are from Lauren Lauren has been Lauren you're one of like the ogs around here in terms of subscribers and patrons I feel like Lauren says Merry Christmas Even if I sometimes get too busy to join Sprints and gain liks for channel makes me happy thank you for everything you do well thank you Lauren that's so kind we got three Bs from Lauren and let me just start with the two that Lauren has been very kind with and gotten me sequels sequels to Series iide so first we have got death comes to Marlo by Robert Thor good I read the Marlo Med Club earlier this year and really enjoyed it um and this is a sequel to that this is similar to th meta club and that is humorous we're following elderly characters solving murders in this quain English town There's an upcoming wedding of like the man in the town and they're having this like garden party and they find him crushed to Death In His study they're going to go investigate it together then we have also got 10,000 stitches by Livia Atwater which is quite short that makes me excited this is a sequel to half a soul by Livia Atwater and these are Regency fairy romances so I love Regency Era and um so these are like cute little romances I didn't love half OFA as much as I think other people did but some people told me that the tropes in the second and third in this series would be more my thing so I want to continue on oh this one we've got a housemid falling in love with a gentleman I'm really excited this these should be my kind of thing these should be kind of five stars to me so very excited to pick that up and then we have got beet Tre by Emily [Applause] Henry so I am going to start reading Emily Henry next year I've decided I'm going to give Emily Henry a go Emily Henry is one of the authors I think is most likely to become one of my new favorite romance authors I don't think this is going to be my first Emily Henry I think I'm going to be reading my first Emily Henry in January for a video I've got planned but I'm excited to have another one on the docket on the list to read if I enjoy loads told me I'd like Emily Henry so thank you so much Lauren that is so kind give me three books that is like Beyond kind thank you so much next package oh my gosh we've got another sequel as if this is from Maria Hi Megan really enjoy videos and wanted you to be able to continue the btown series happy holidays to you and your family thank you so much Maria okay so we have got us against you which is the next in the Bear Town series you guys you are doing me such a good service for sending me sequels I'm so thankful so I really really loved btown by Frederick bman and this is our next in the series this one seems to be about two rival towns and oh my God basically there's two rival towns of like hockey players they're battling out they want to defeat each other rivalries turn to vendettas by The Game's end someone from B town will be dead it's a murder mystery excuse me I wasn't expecting that at all yeah I'm really enjoying Fredick beckman's writing I am so excited to continue the series oh my gosh guys you're being so kind sending me sequels thank you so much Maria this one is a very bizarre Amazon box I got like riing to it so this one's very exciting but it seems to have come without a gift note so if you sent this to me please let me know it is rotten to the core by TI Kinsey the next lady hard cast mystery Series this is number what this is number eight in the lady hard C mystery series you guys know how much I love this series it's my favorite cozy mystery Series this one there's cider related murders fun this one seems that it takes place more in the town I prefer the ones that take place in the town of lit and cural versus like all the ones that take place like in these different locations I really like the ones that stay in the town cuz I think it's such a great imagery exciting I'm so thank you so much I'm always excited to make a progress series I would like to get up to date with this series next year that is a little goal of mine next book what have we got here what do we have here oh this one's intriguing who is this from this is from Meg another Meg hey Meg Merry Christmas I just wanted to send a little sign of appreciation for the joy watching your channel brings me I love this world WR of a book I hope you do too this is the book of the most precious substance by Sarah Gran I'm going to be honest this is one I've heard like I added to my wish list because I've heard people talk about it highly but I can't remember a lot about the plot what does this say rare book dealer oh I love anything that like is book about a book or book about books Lily has just been given a tip off about the book of the most precious substance a 17th century manual rumored to be the most powerful ult book ever written if it really exists we're some of the wealthiest people in the world willing to pay Lilia Fortune to track it down she embarks on a journey from New York to New Orleans to Munich to Paris if she finds it Lily stands to gain more than just money this could raised the greatest try of her life but will Lily's Quest help her find some answers or will she lose everything in search of a ghost fun okay I'm very excited to read this let me know if you've heard anything about it but that sounds right up my street right on my street so thank you so much Meg you are so kind OK doie next B we're getting through these oh my goodness this is like wrapped in like oh how exciting is there a note please tell me there's a note I hate when there's not a note no oh no guys we got another one without a note so again please let me know if this one's from you because there's no note in the box but this is family law by Elizabeth asedo I love Elizabeth ASO I've given her I think two five stars and one four star and I have been waiting for another book from her for a while and this is I think her adult debut and we're following to my memory these sisters who all have magic and I think one of them can kind of like predict the deaths of yeah she can PR predict to the day when someone will die and she decides she wants to host her own living week and her family get a bit worried they're like do you know you're going to die and she's like no no no no I'm a little bit concerned but yeah I think this is all going to be about the stories of these sisters and the family and their secrets and things they keep from each other and their love for each other and I'm just very excited you know Elizabeth AO has a really amazing way with words like such a special way with words that I just think is kind of unparalleled um and I love I love the way she writes so very excited to get to Family La thank you so much okay next one oh my goodness can I get in there we go I got in we have got oh oh my gosh very excited for this one oh this is from my Patron secret center I ran a secret Center on my patreon this year and my patreon secret Center has if I do say so myself impeccable taste because cuz they have got me the woman in Me by Britney SPS I'm very excited to read this listen we love Britney we love Britney well they're speechless I was telling Tom how growing up I would often like be with my grandparents and in their car I had like three CDs I had I think I had a busted CD I had a McFly CD and I had Britney Spear's greatest hits the one with like the silver cover so that is like my favorite Britney songs cuz I just grew up listening to them over and over and over again I have had wonderful things from people who read this I'm also probably going to get the audio book for this but yeah I'm going to be reading this in January I'm going to tell you that now I'm going to be reading this in January so this was a great pick cuz it's one that I'm going to read very quickly so thank you so much to my secret Center what a wonderful pick and yeah I'm just very very excited to read this please let me know what you thought of this if you've read it oh my gosh we've got two books oh these are both very exciting books okay let's see who they're from these are both from Jenny one of my patrons which one should we start with okay first we have got check and mate by Ali Haz Jenny says I know that you love I Haw so I hope you enjoy this little Christmas treat thank you for all the videos this year and can't wait to see what you read next year thank you so much Jenny yes I do love Ellie Ali hawood is my girl I will not hear any criticism of Ali hawood I love her romances and this is her ya debut and I'm very intrigued to see how her writing style translates to ya because I like the adult elements so I'm very intrigued and I assuming it's about Chess we've got one of them who loves chess maybe everyone loves chess who knows we got the bad boy of Chess we got the bad boy of Chess shut up oh we like a bad boy though don't we yeah not a fuckis but I really love like nerdy elements and books like I always say I always think of this I don't know why I associate chess and Scrabble but whenever there's a book about Chess I always think about um in bad feminist by roxan gay there's a whole essay about how much he loves Scrabble and like how she's like a best Scrabble player ever and I love that I love that essay and then joury is me another book saying I remember you saying that your horror TBR is looking a bit bare and this is an absolute Master read plus it's sha McGuire so you absolutely have to read it and it is into the drowning Deep by miror Grant which is sha McGuire it's a pen name for sha McGuire oh yeah this is one where there was like a film crew who went underwater to film a mockumentary bring to life ancient sea creatures of Legend it was lost at sea with all hands some have called it a tragedy Now new crew is assembled oh there's something about the deep sea that is absolutely terrifying let's be honest there's something about it that's just was absolutely terrifying and I've never read any mirror grants by shaa McGuire like I've never read this pen name this is her horror pen name so having readed only fantasy from her I'm very intrigued to see how her horror matches up with what I know sha McGuire's writing to be like how is it different under this different pen name so thank you so much then before we get into the ones that my family have gifted me let's quickly look at one I gifted myself this is a pre-order that I had that came in during December and I was like I don't trust myself to open this and not read it and December when I'm not allowed to read it so I'm just going to not unbox it and I'm going to unbox it in this video as a gift to myself and that oh my God I'm going to cry heart stop volume Five I'm so excited you are the most beautiful thing ever happened in my entire life oh I can't even look at it I just want to read it right now you guys know I love heartstopper one of my favorite graphic Noel series by far Nick and Charlie are in love for what happens next I think this is our penultimate Heart Stopper we're only going to get one more after this which is sad and I think this is about Nick starting to look at like what university he wants to go to and like them figuring out how they going to be apart from each other um which is a very real when you're in a young relationship that's a very difficult thing to navigate my Approach was just to make Tom come to University with me but um you know it's difficult to navigate so I'm looking forward I'm sure it's going to be very emotional but I love I love Heart Stopper so I'm so excited to get into that little gift to myself okay and then we've got six books that my family have given me let's start with the ones that my aunt got me we got two at least got me two which is a nice little round numbers okay what have we got here oh what a good choice We have got um everyone in my family has killed someone by veteran stent this is one that so many of you have told me that I'm going to love we have got a family where everyone in this family have killed someone but in the first chapter I think it tells you like on what pages what pages the murders are going to happen oh I love mad mes that like mix up the genre and take risks and like oh I'm so excited guys I'm so excited for this one this is one of the ones oh my God I can't I can't even speak to you I'm so excited I feel like today the future starts so it's a good day I'm excited and then there's a murder happens and it's one of the family members I think this could to be a five star this is my kind of thing we know what a what a pick what a pick I so excited for that one okay what is this one this is a larger one it's pink what's on my list that's pick oh another great pick okay we have got the death I gave him by MXL which is I believe a hamlet retelling locked room murder mystery let's all take that in for a second and yeah this is a debut that came out this year that I have been very very inted to get to oh why is there why is some of it written in like a script transcript of recording oh I love it I love it I love it I love it oh I'm so excited to get this one as well how exciting I'm excited thank you so much Carrie my aunt for gave me both of those then we've got two that my grandparents got me let's have a look what they are oh get out absolutely we have got the goodbye cat by Hero aakara this is by the author of The Traveling cat Chronicles which is one of my favorite books I absolutely loved it it made me sob and this one's about a cat the goodbye cat I just know I'm going to cry I just know I'm going to cry I don't want to talk about it I know I'm going to cry cu the first one the traic cat Chronicles made me cry so R oh what a great gift I love anything with a cat I love anything with a cat on it then what is the other one from them Let's see we have got Ellie Engle saves herself by Leah Johnson this is Leah Johnson's middle-grade debut and I'm just really intrigued by it I have read what have I read by Johnson I'm forgetting the name of it Ry sun is the one I haven't read what's the one I've read it's got the purple cover why has that left my brain it's got the crown I can't remember but my friend byah Johnson so an earthquake I think strikes Ellie's small town and she discovers that she's got this like ability that she never knew she had a video of her goes viral and her life takes an unexpected turn and listen I'm always looking for more middle grade that I'll enjoy and this one sounded really good and then we've got two final books that my parents got me what have we got first oh what a great pick we have got mammoths at the gate by Neo which is the fourth in a singing heel cycle I have read the first two in this series and I absolutely love them they are a love letter to the act of Storytelling and the Art of Storytelling and how that's pass through by generations and different cultures their Arts of Storytelling I absolutely love this series and I cannot wait to make more progress in the series this one's quite like embarrassing that I haven't made more progress in this series I absolutely love Neo's writing I've got two standalones by Neo that I need to read I Neo is one of my FV I just love Neo's Cadence and also of Storytelling which is convenient cuz that's what this book is about and then the final book from my parents is a very exciting one and it is Thorn hedge by te king fisher another short noela my mom got me noas which is listen I'm always here for noas we always need we always need some short books on the tpr so this is another fantasy from T king fisher meet toling on the day of her birth she was stolen from her family by the fairies but grew up safe and loved in the warm Waters of Fairy Land once an adult though the Fate ask a favor of toling returned to the human world and offer a blessing of protection to a newborn child simple right if only centuries later a night of approaches a towering Hall of brambles where the Thorns are as th thick as your arm and as sharp as swords he's heard there's a curse here and he's breaking but it's a curse totaling will do anything to uphold how exciting tiing Fisher has quickly become one of my favorite authors this year I have read how many teing Fishers have I read I've read nettle and Bone w m are dead and um a house with good bones I think this year I've read all of those so I am just oh it's blood by Katherine Arden and Travis bowry how excited so yeah I'm very excited to read another te king fisher um because I've loved everything I've read from her so far okay everyone that was my Christmas book haul thank you again so so so much to anyone who gifted me anything this Christmas I cannot tell you how much I appreciate it how much it means to me how thankful I am how kind you are just so so wonderful and so kind of you thank you so much I hope you all if you celebrate had a wonderful Christmas if you find it a difficult period I hope you at least had a peaceful time I sending you guys all the love and I will see you the next time we going to see you is going to be 2024 what the hell um yeah I'll see you next year I am so excited for all the videos I got coming in January just as much as I love end of year content I love start of year content I love making the tbrs I love setting the goals so yeah I will see you next year how funny I'll see you next year um and I hope you have a good rest of your year until then bye [Music] guys