UNWRAPPING BOOKS PICKS WHAT I READ! 🎁wrapped up revamped - episode 2! christmas reading vlog

[Music] hello friends welcome to episode two of wrapped up i am so excited it is late i am tired but the girl wants to read so we need to unwrap whatever book we are going to be reading next wrapped up if you don't know this is a series where i have wrapped up this time all of my 20 21 new releases that i haven't read yet and in each episode i unwrap one and i read it so i'm always so nervous at the start of these because i don't want to pick wrong i don't want to pick wrong but we just got to go for it okay please do not this is an intense request from my heart usually what i do with these episodes is i will take all of these books out you can see them wrapped up there's some on the cart here and there's a lot of them here i take them out i stack them up and i pick one right but like i think especially since they're newer books i think when i hold them i start to figure out what book they are which is kind of worrying that i know that but like i start to think oh yeah you're this book or you're you're this book so i just don't want to touch them i don't want to touch them i just want to pick one unwrap it i don't know what to pick oh my god i hate it i hate it okay we're just gonna go this one is like sticking out can you see it was like sticking out above everything else so we're gonna go for this it's gotta get a sip of water i just find like what if i regret my decision anyway it feels like a paperback but like a big paperback see this is the problem and i start to try and figure out what book this is and i'm like i don't want to read that we're going to go for it we're going to go for it this is what i wanted to pick oh my god oh my god oh my god oh god okay okay okay okay i know what it is okay right if i speak i am in in big trouble in big trouble oh i don't want to read it so this is sisters of a snake by serena and sasha nunua this is like a why a fantasy book oh it's [ __ ] long it's like 500 pages this was very kindly sent to me by harper 360ya now the only problem is that i didn't actually request this book i think that was like a mix-up in like sending books i got one that i did request but i didn't request this one so i wasn't actually that super interested in reading this book but who knows the whole point of this wrapped up the original point of this series back in the day like a year ago was to get me to read the books i've been putting off reading so like that is what this is yeah i don't know i don't think i would have ever read this i probably would have eventually unhauled this if not for this moment so we're gonna be reading this honey you've got a big storm coming on the back it says twins separated at birth one a princess the other a street urchin classic classic plot a dark puppeteer watching their every move to save their home thief and royal must work together or watch it all for to ruin okay so here's the thing this is another series and i don't even want to talk about it it's another series but i think it's only a duology i think the second one might even be out already so listen we're gonna give it a go i don't know what to expect at least it's a bit longer and like we'll have a lot to talk about but like 500 pages i think the audiobook for this is on script actually so at least i can like listen to the audio book also do other things we're going to be reading sisters of the snake in this vlog not a book i saw myself reading anytime soon but you know what this is actually good i'm actually going to be happy about this [Music] so [Music] okay here's the thing it's the next day i've read the like first 20 pages of this and it's just not gonna happen it's just not gonna happen i can't do it my heart is saying no listen i know the whole point of wrapped up is that it makes me read books but like it's just not gonna happen because i have no interest in reading it and spoiler if you haven't seen the first episode yet i've gone red got a big face jesus christ you're actually from the big red dog what red dog nowadays but like i didn't love the book in the first episode and like i just know reading this it's not gonna get above a three like this it's just not going to happen it's just not for me so we're going to unwrap something else can i have your you know can you you've approved this decision yeah say yeah loudness they can hear you they can't hear you yes thank you so we're gonna wrap something else okay no one can be mad at me because i feel like it would have been a boring vlog otherwise because it literally just would have been another book i was gonna give three stars or less okay good all right we're gonna read something else what do i wanna unwrap you're gonna pick well i'm a big fan of the green one i like the green too i haven't unwrapped a green yet it's you're on the second column this one the third one i don't want to read that he's singing to me this i was angry i was angry big fork big book that's a big book oh show them one of my wrappings oh where's the one is it this one this is because i'm drawn to that one which one this one i really hope it's something i want to read the thing is with this one it's another one that i didn't pick like this is from a book box do you know what i mean let me just go in the bush and weep let me just go in the bush and weep i've been feeling very picky at the moment tom says i got to tell you okay we'll read it we'll read it oh i think i do want to read this book i'm just not in the mood for it i don't know nothing i'm not in the mood for anything [Music] i think the problem is i want to read an adult book and one run rapping or yay can wrap one more do you know what they might start fighting in a minute they're gonna start rebelling how do i block somebody on this thing this is gonna be fun aren't they gonna put pitchforks emojis pitchforks if you're angry with megan leave a picture look emoji down below this one the one i wanted and and and and then we have to pick one of these two to read and then i whichever one i don't read i'm gonna wrap up again i didn't know what it was success yeah i'll read this oh this is so exciting this is about an apothecary in 18th century london that sold women things to kill their husbands i'm gonna read this i'm more in the mood for this i do like victorian murder okay it was a hundred percent the right decision i'm standing by it i'm standing by all my decisions and you can't tell me i'm wrong you can't tell me anything i'm only about 80 pages in i've only really read the start but i'm really enjoying it i'm having a lot of fun reading it essentially we're following well is that spoiler no we're following three different perspectives oh it's not just spoilers this isn't the synopsis let me tell you anyway a profound silence has entered the chat we're following the story of this apothecary in seventeen [Music] ninety-one yeah we're following the story this apothecary who basically gave women medicines poisons for shitty men in their lives basically doing the lord's work doing the lord's work and so we're following that story then we're also following the story of caroline in present day who's just found out that her husband of like forever who she sacrificed her entire life for is doing the dirty on her not what you want to hear right before the university when they're trying for a baby honestly honestly i hate men so yeah she has come to london on their like 10 year anniversary trip without him girl boss moves she said okay okay i'm gonna get in that airplane and girl bust a little too close to the sun and she is kind of discovering about the apothecary and we're also following the story of eliza who is a young girl who goes to get poison on behalf of her mistress from the apothecary back in the day and i'm really enjoying them here's the thing i sometimes struggle with multi-perspective stories or we've got lots of different story lines because i often feel like you prefer one right and then you just want to read that one and the other ones aren't done as good and it's kind of done to like fill out a story and mask something but i don't feel like that with this no i'm not talking like multiple perspectives where you're following the same storyline like these are kind of three separate stories that are happening that's what i'm talking about not when it's like multiple perspectives on the same storyline like in the guest list for example but i'm enjoying it in this it took me a moment i found caroline's story like a little bit like we've read it all before at the beginning but i'm kind of coming around to it it does seem like it's the main storyline and i would prefer the main storyline to be in the past like i feel like that would be more fun for me but i understand why this is done the way that it is i am just so captivated by the writing i'm really really loving the writing in this i think that it's it's got some really like gorgeous beautiful writing it's really really well written i'm really loving a lot of the characters well especially eliza i really like eliza's characters i'm a bit of a sucker for like a 12 year old girl in victoria england don't know why that's my niche but like apparently i like that it's very strange but i feel like something is going to go wrong soon in some of the storylines i feel like it has to go wrong so i don't know i'm intrigued to see what that's going to be i love the victorian setting victorian london is apparently my [ __ ] i remember listen at primary school i loved history victorian and tudors i knew everything i was an expert especially victorian so i'm just having the time of my life reading this like i feel like this is exactly my kind of thing it has it has a potential to be disappointing though i feel like it has a potential to like not do much like to not reach its full potential in the story so i'm just gonna go ahead and read a lot i wanna just go sleep like i will not go sleep but i don't really wanna talk to you again tonight so i may try and read like quite a bit maybe to there and then we'll read like another bit and chicken again because i just want to like read lots but i want to take my makeup off and i want to like dim the lights i don't want to be in front of these bright lights again i'll speak to in the morning with my thoughts but yeah i don't know i'm really really enjoying it but i feel like it has the potential to like not actually do much do you know what i mean so hopefully by the next check-in we'll have more of an idea of what route is going to go down [Music] [Music] i got to where i wanted to i'm on page 200-ish and i want to talk to you about my thoughts but before we do that i do want to thank the sponsor for today's video i thought we could have like a more like chill chat about it because it's in the middle of a vlog boxy a lot of you know i love boxy i've worked with them a lot and i just really i think their product is so so cool it's a japanese snack box subscription if you don't know basically 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it's the kind of book that's like a very easy read so it's a bit difficult to like talk in depth about but i've fallen in love with these characters the three characters we have nella eliza and caroline i've kind of fallen in love with them all in different ways one thing that i will say that i'm really glad about is that i was worried that caroline's story in the present day was going to be like the main focus because we had a lot of her at the start but with the introduction of eliza's perspective you know it's kind of like two in the past one in the present so it's much more weighted to the past which i'm really glad about because that's kind of what i wanted from the story i just love the whole premise of this nella is such an interesting character kind of how she has come to be this woman who poisons men is a very interesting story and i just think the book is flowing so well i can see why it's been such a popular release of this year because it's so like readable it's so like compulsively readable the story keeps moving you on the one thing i will say is like i'm still not 100 sure if i will ever give a book five stars that has this kind of like split story ish you know what i mean like haha this is not for me no you know with it being sometimes in the past sometimes in the future granted that analyzer's stories are pretty much intertwined i just don't think i like that i think i'm well no it's not i don't like it but i don't love it you know i just think i'm a basic boring [ __ ] like that is the truth of it that is the truth that we need to accept i'm [ __ ] boring okay i want like a just a traditional story arc i just want something that's like what the norm is i love the victorian setting if you like any kind of historical books i would 100 recommend this to you i think it's just like a nice base not basic basic is the wrong word but like you know it's just a nice book you know what i mean it's just enjoyable to read but i don't have like many thoughts about it it's just good do you know what i mean i will say i think that for it this doesn't feel like a debut which is great because i feel like often with debuts the problems are a book kind of getting stuck in itself like having a great idea like this but not having enough elements in it to feel like a varied enough book or being so over complicated that you're like what the [ __ ] is going on whereas this is in the middle you know it has enough that it doesn't feel sparse because some debut doubles i feel like i read them and it's like you had a great idea but there wasn't enough you know minor plot points to build it out and it doesn't feel overcrowded and like i'm confused as what's happening it feels pretty perfectly plotted so i'm actually quite surprised it's a debut because the writing is so so good but yeah i'm really enjoying it still i'm really really enjoying it i'm gonna finish it today probably this morning i need to now go take tom out somewhere and then i've got to go to the gym but because of like timing there's no point me coming home and then going out again like 10 minutes later i might as well just go straight to the gym but then i'm gonna have to wait there for like an hour so i'm gonna sit in like the cafe space that they've got and um hopefully finish this book [Music] i'll let you go just need some time [Music] at your own pace you need to find a way [Music] i know now you'll never change your mind for something that matters [Music] i finished the lost apothecary and i still really enjoyed it i'm gonna give it four stars i think it was a really really solid enjoyable book i think one of the things that's so good about this is that it's got like you know it's historical but it's called like a tiny bit of fantasy it still is very realistic there's just like a little bit of like a little sprinkling of magic in this book i think i'm just special special it's got mystery it's got intrigue and that's why i think it's probably done so so well throughout this year so many people have enjoyed it because i think it hits a lot of different boxes for different people for me it's a four and not a five just because it kind of didn't have that special something for me i think that the ending it was good like it was a a satisfying ending nothing so anything wrong with it but the plot twist i was a bit like they weren't even plot twists in my head i thought everything was like very obvious i could have probably from the halfway mark like predicted a lot of what was going to happen so yeah i don't think this even had plot twists which i i wish it did i wish there had been a few moments that surprised me or shocked me or like even made me like feel something but it didn't really it was kind of just a pleasant book to read i still also much preferred the historical element of it to the present day caroline's story she felt a bit generic i didn't really feel like she had much character um sorry caroline the cheek the nerve the goal the audacity and the gumption that is my problem with jewel perspective timeline stories is there's always a better one right like if you're gonna do it they have to be equal and you can always pick which timeline you prefer like it's it's easy so like then it doesn't become it can't be a five star because there's parts of it that are better than others that's always my problem with it i love it in theory but i can it's never done equally so i can never give it a five star but i would honestly recommend this book to so many people i think it's such like a simple enjoyable book i just love anything that brings women from history to light you know i love anything about forgotten women or yeah just women's history is like totally my jams this was totally up my street you know this woman fighting for not fighting for women but like you know committing criminal acts for women in the victorian time i just loved because i love i love learning about things from history that have been submerged and have been hidden and i feel like that's what this book is so it was right up my street i really enjoyed it i'm so glad that i unwrapped this instead of reading sisters of the snake i'm sorry i just know it wouldn't be for me i probably could have read after love but i was just in the mood for this and it came to us eventually three books in faith brought us together third time lucky but yeah i really really enjoyed it and i feel like so many of you would probably enjoy as well if you have like similar reading tastes to me in terms of history and and stuff like that so that is the end to episode two of wrapped up i hope you have enjoyed it let me know if you've read that down below i'm glad that the second episode was a bit more successful but i am holding out we need a five star in like the last two episodes of it in december we need a five star from ripped up it needs to deliver like it's not even a question i have to get a five star at some point but yeah if you going to the end of the video comment a flower or a bug emoji there's like a lot of beetles and flowers on this cover so comment one of them down below if you've gotten to the end and i will see you very soon in another video bye [Music] you