unwrapping books picks what i read 🎁 wrapped up retro - episode five

Hello friends welcome back to my channel and welcome back to another episode of wrapped up you might be thinking Megan you're not at home you're in Wales I am pre-filming me unwrapping finding out what February and March is wrapped up are so that I don't have to take all 50 books that I wrapped up with me tose to unwrap too that wouldn't make sense I'm hoping for Good Vibes I'm meaning Good Vibes as we know I need a five star my reading well and I'm filming this my reading hasn't been great at the start of the year one time it's February it might have been wonderful who knows things might be looking up but but right now I feel like I need something good I feel like the universe needs to look out for me so I'm just going to grab one and we're going to unwrap it um oh my God I hate this why do I do why have I done this to myself for like four years three years okay I'm going for whatever this is I just look in whatever one like I feel cosmically pulled to in that moment I have to unwrap okay let's let's see what is it no you're actually having a giggle sorry I'm so sorry there's no way there is no way I'm in a complete state of shark I forgot what I was going to say guys so if you don't know I did a video where it was like these books must self-destruct within no I'm not faking this I promise you I'm not faking this I okay I did that video where I was like these books my self-destruct and I hadn't read five right of those five the four books we have unwrapped in TBR Kudo are those four book I promise you I'm not faking this I don't know what the books are I haven't someone put a comment I think it was Louise put a comment on the last vlog like this is the odds of you unwrapping those three books this is the fourth this is the fourth the JW Mo and I just want you guys know I just planned out all my videos for that I'm doing in February March and in the start of February I was going to do a vlog I've always going to be do I was always going to do this Vlog on uh reading the books I was supposed to unhaul right so I had no reason to unwrap these I I was happy to unwrap one or two cuz then it meant the amount of books for the Vlog I don't have to read four or three you know what I mean but now the only book I have to read is on the Tre script in which is algu be one of the ones I wanted to read the most okay I've got a I've got I've got to think up a new Vlog I've got to replace that something what this is absolutely insane so this is the S I was going to be reading this in February anyways this is not okay the woman was too stunned to speak okay so this is the Jor moth the second in the Sin Clair's Mysteries I enjoyed the first one this is one of the oldest books on my TBR it is these Edwardian middle-grade Murder Mysteries and I've been really excited to continue on the series we're continuing on the series listen I'm happy it's just we've only unwrapped four books oh wait no no no sorry sorry sorry this is February's I'm forgetting I haven't read uprooted yet but that is January's episode which you would have seen so out of five books four of them are from the video I promise you I'm not faking this if I was watching I think I'd faking it but I have no reason to cuz I was going to read all the others in a vlog anyway what am I going to Vlog instead okay okay okay okay okay we're reading this I'm actually very excited to read this and um hopefully I've heard that the rest I've heard that this middle grade series improves as it goes on so I'm looking forward to making progress I just cannot believe our luck I don't know how that happened well it's not luck actually I'd rather run R something else hello cuties how are we doing so I'm in Wales now and it's time to start well I have started the Jord moth by um Katherine Woodvine and I have been so excited to start this before I start this I was so looking forward to it cuz I don't think I've read a mystery yet this year guys I haven't read a mystery and I'm craving them like I I honestly thought I've got some really exciting videos coming up I've got a really exciting Vlog coming up this weekend which I've been working on for like 3 weeks dear God this vlog's probably going to be over like the course of a day or two days the Vlog this weekend like 3 weeks so I'm nothing if not variety okay yeah but I thought about sacking it all in and just reading Mysteries so I've been really excited to get to this one and I'm excited there's something lovely about middle grade here's the problem I've been having this year so far I feel like as you'll see with this weekend's Vlog I've started actually having some better luck with the books I've been reading I've given out some higher ratings than we had in January but I'm still not reading very fast it's still taking me a lot longer to read some books than it would usually and so I'm just hoping that this little short middle-grade mystery will kind of like get me going at a better Pace you know so I was really looking forward to starting this and as I mentioned before it is a sequel but the thing with this series is I can kind of tell you what happened because like with mystery series they're kind of all self-contained Mysteries right there's no there's like a bit of an overarching mystery in this series but we're not going to find out the answer to that until the end um over like who this Baron is the baron who's like this like gangster I don't know some guy who's like making all these businesses pay and like criminal the criminal Underlord of London there all the rest of the books are like mysteries in each book you know they're self-contained so a I don't have to remember too much like the last book the first book I read like three years ago this is one of the oldest books on my TVR I read maybe even almost four years ago yeah almost four years ago since I read the first one dear God that's quite embarrassing so I'm getting older I I don't know if I can if I want all this drama all the time if I'm being honest so the good thing about this is I don't have to remember a lot about that first one but I actually do remember I think a fair amount but um yeah we're following these girlies who work at London's biggest department stores I think selfes right it's that kind of era they would sit in Edwardian times they work there and they last at book they solved a mystery at the shop and in this one a local debutant has lost a jeweled moth that she was gifted and she tked them it's been stolen and she tells someone finding out who did it we've only really just got to that point in the mystery and I'm enjoying it I love the historical setting this is Edwardian time for those of you who don't know I don't know if it's like widely known because it's like referring to UK kings and queens in terms of era but it's after Victorian time so I think it's like 1901 to 191 or 13 early 1915 something like that is the time period that we refer to as Edwardian so it's an interesting time period because you're coming out of the Victorian era where you've had this massive increase in an industrial what's the word I'm looking for industrial the Industrial Revolution I don't know like you know the ability our our ability to do things has rapidly increased and you're kind of coming into this modern era where you're coming into the 1920s it's a very interesting little pocket of History I think and I'm really enjoying the setting is we're focusing very much on this debutant like the kind of almost archaic at this point in time like nature of like girls coming into society and whatever like it feels almost like Jane Austin era practices but it's obviously the upper classes are still holding on to these practices and it's just very interesting pocketed history so I'm really enjoying that it's a very easy read I flew through I oh I didn't tell you where I am I'm up to chapter 10 so I'm about 100 110 is pages in and I flew through the start of it and I'm I the mystery you know it's like a middle grade mystery so it's not super intriguing but I just think back to myself when I was a kid at school right and like I read middle grade as a middle grader I don't know I see middle grade as stuff I would have read when I was a bit younger than middle grade so like your middle grade refers to I think the equivalent to our year six seven 8 and N whereas when I read middle grade it like or children's books they remind me of what I would have read when I was like in year 3 four 5 and six do you know what I mean in my school year so I when I think back to myself like in year four year five like reading these kind of kids books I think I would have loved this I would have loved the glamour of the era the atmosphere the storyline the characters like I can imagine myself having a really fun time reading this book not necessarily being the most memorable thing that I like you know take into adulthood and be like oh I loved that book when I was a kid but just as a moment in time I can imagine myself really enjoying this so I'm going to go continue it yeah I'm having a a fun time so far so I'll let you know when I'm a little bit of the ways through cuz really the mystery has only just begun so we'll see what I think once we're a bit of the ways through but I am enjoying it so far okay Hello friends I am now about 220 pages into the Geor m so about 2/3 of the way through and I'm going to tat to you about it but before we do that let's unbox a few packages I got from my Amazon wish list some of you guys are very kindly sent to me so let's open these first let's a a bit of fun I feel like I need a little bit of um it's been a tough few days need to get into why but it's been a lot of car insurance calls and I'm stressed so this is like you know very kind of you it's arrived at the perfect time so first oh we've got city of brass by sa trotti let me see if there's note oh my god Amazon is insistent on not sending out notes I had this problem loads with my birthday book called so if you got this for me please let me know so I can thank you this has been a fantasy series I have been so intrigued to read for a long time obviously it's like one of the kind of major fantasy series I think so I'm really excited to read this this could be like I'm I'm really craving some fantasy like epic large scale adult fantasy that I love I feel like a lot of the fantasy I'm reading nowadays is not feeling big enough and I feel like if any series is going to feel like momentous enough it's going to be this so thank you so much to whoever gifted me this okay we have got oh my God shut up I just saw a corner I [Applause] think who is this from Isa a little treat as you're having such an awful start of the reading year at least you get a gift much love from barley by the way read Becca okay I think it's pronounced Isa if I'm wrong please connect me correct me on my pronunciation we have got we have got Pride by Ali hawood oh my God I'm going to cry I'm so I'm actually this soon I got a couple videos this could go in like ASAP I'm might read it soon this is Ali hazelwood's paranormal romance debut as you guys know I'm Ali Hazelwood girly I'm actually going to be reading another Ali Hazelwood like this week in a couple days it's sitting right there I am definitely getting through my Ali Haz collection and this is another one to add to it I'm so excited I'm so excited I've spoken about whenever I speak about this I used to be paranormal rant scarly so the idea of like Alie hayeswood and Paran romance meeting I'm so excited thank you so much thank you so much to whoever sent me both of these I is so kind of you wower ah I'm so excited okay now let's chat about uh the Geor moth I I I'm box these in the video because what a I want to thank who have got them for me but B I don't have much to say about this I'm still really enjoying it it's just a lovely read but I don't think there's anything particularly notable to say I do think this is pasted much better than the first book I'm enjoying the pieing a little more I think I'm enjoying it more I think I gave the first one three stars this is feeling like it could be a 3.5 or a four because it's just feeling like the mystery is moving at a better Pace maybe now that we've met the characters obviously I met the characters was four years ago so I don't remember them that well but I feel like it's done a good job of like getting me back into the story remembering vaguely who these people are and I think this kind of world of the debutants and The High Society mixed with characters from the East End of London who are living more not necessarily in poverty you've got a character a young girl from Chinatown who um has I don't want to spoil the connection too much but like is also in the story alongside the characters we met in the first book and I think it's mixing those world in a very interesting way and saying stuff also like with kids like with big topics you kind of like got to infiltrate the stories with them cuz other I don't understand but like it's introducing ideas of colonialism and why that's bad in like a way that I think is very accessible for kids so I'm really enjoying it I think this is kind of what I needed right now do I think is it going to be a fav book of all time no am I going to remember this book very much in the future probably not you know what I mean like it's not you know it's not the best book of all time but I am in enjoying myself so I'm going to curl up and finish this now and yeah we'll see what rating I settle on but I'm feeling like I definitely want to try and finish this Series this year I believe there's two more so I would like to finish the series now this year I think get my hands on the second two and and just finish it cuz it would be satisfying to finish a series that has been on my TBR for so long [Music] okay I have finished the Jord math by Katherine R fine and I'm very excited to tell you I'm going to give this four stars I really enjoyed it this in my opinion is such a stronger book than the first book I don't know if the first book was her debut I think it might have been and so maybe it was just struggling with some of those pacing issues but the series felt so much Fuller in this book like Mysteries are starting to seep across the books and give it a great Pace I really enjoyed the settings this one was actually more outside of the department store we really weren't in the department store that much we were like in rich people's houses basically instead but I just really enjoyed it I really enjoyed all the characters that we met in this book listen is it greatest book ever no it is brilliant American literature and I don't care what anybody it is it's l it should be taught in schools but I just think this maybe is what I needed right now I needed like a quick fun book to like get the ball rolling and me finishing a book in a day again cuz I don't think I've done that this whole year I've been like reading books you took me a day like 5 days and that's a problem so I think maybe just the pace of this the ease of this was really something I needed it's not the most interesting for a vlog because a it's a middle grade so I feel like there's a lot less for me to say and B it's the second in the series so like I can't tell you stuff that spoils the first in the series and sequels always I find them a little bit hard to speak about especially when they're middle grade whereas it kind of like it's just an enjoyable reading experience do you know what I mean that's what I can say is that I had a nice time reading it but I am so glad for me personally maybe not for you and like for the video but for me personally I am so glad that this got chosen wrapped up because this is a book I've been putting off for a long time and I have continued a series that I had not made progress in since 2020 I'm happy I'm making progress in Series this year and I think I can definitely finished this this year there's only two more books The Painted Dragon at the midnight peacock I really enjoyed the audio books maybe the audio book is a way to go going forward but I would recommend this series if you're looking for kind of a cozy historical middle-grade mystery this is I think a fun choice so yeah and not the most exciting for a vlog because with middle grade especially when that's like this there's not really much to say other than it was nice had a nice time it was enjoyable it was what I needed in the moment for me I think this was the perfect pick because I think I could have gone ages without making progress in the series and then like you forget everything you know so um I decided this is my middle-grade series I'm now going to focus on finishing this year thank you guys for watching this video let me know what your favorite middle grade series is other ones up for me that I need to make progress in are a Mari the Mari and the night Brothers series or the pages and Co series the ones that on top of my list to make progress in if you have any middle grade recommendations please let me know I know a lot of people recommend never more um a lot of people told me I'm going to enjoy that so yeah let me know if you have any recommendations because I really enjoyed the experience of reading this middle grade and I'll see you guys soon at the weekend with a big Vlog hopefully I promise I swear I swear I'm going to get that video up finally like I've pushed it back twice but it's a really exciting Vlog coming out this weekend so I will see you this weekend with that video [Music] bye