MASSIVE BOOK HAUL! (20+ BOOKS) ✨ fantasy, thrillers, graphic novels, historical non-fiction and more

I'm trying to make my way through all of her books no I don't think you understand hey friends welcome back to my channel I hope you're doing well if you are new here my name is Megan and this is my booktube channel and today we have got such an exciting video we are doing a book haul for that this is all the books that I have bought since about probably the start of February so we've got 21 books to get through and we've got a really good mix of Ages of genres and so what I thought we'll do is we were just kind of go like a middle grade why a adult and there's a few things different category so we'll go through them I've been waiting this video for a long time I just spoke so fast you probably can't understand a single thing I said but every day I've been like oh wait now we have three two books we have twenty two books one more exciting first I thought will just quickly start with middle grade because I've got three here I don't typically read that much middle grade the only time I would read middle grade is if I'm like reading old childhood favorites but the believeth one happened a couple weeks back and I don't know it just made me jealous seeing everyone else read middle grade and there's been a few series I've been eyeing up for a really really long time so I think isn't everyone's I get two really fast one that everyone was talking about jingle either thought was a pinch of magic by Michelle Harrison so all I know about this is that it's like three sisters who have an ancient curse over them and it's a story of their kind of adventure together that they go on together but this is one that literally every single person was reading for believeth on and they all gave it pretty pretty high ratings so I think it's one that I'm gonna really enjoy and I just want to get back into that magic of reading middle grade you know there's something so unique and so special about middle grade that I feel like I'm missing out on by not really reading it so that's the first book next I have a middle grade I've actually been eyeing up for quite a while which is pages and code by Ana James this is the first book in the series and I think mr. Furth a girl who like goes into books or oh her favorite book characters appear in the book shop that she works at with her no she works at but you know lives got eleven-year-old like second the shows like illegal oh my god even just looking at it it takes me back to being a kid and I just want to feel like a kid again quite frankly growing up his thing scary I've again heard so many people on booktube speak about this and again it's just one I've been eyeing up for ages I've had so many good things about it there's so many times I've popped into what stands and gone maybe I should get it and so I finally did and in the last bit of great I grabbed was one I haven't heard loads of people on books you've talked about this is really when the oldest books on my want to read on Goodreads and it's the clockwork sparrow by Katherine would fine so I about to expose myself boy he done okay so back in the day before I watch booktube my my choice of entertainment don't know YouTube I loved productivity YouTube channels is this weird it's a bit weird like I watched people do study with Me's and that it got me through my a-levels it was what I needed to get me through that time there's a Productivity cheaper could Ruby Granger her vibe is very unique aesthetic is very unique but she spoke about this book a lot and at the time I was like okay I have to read it we've got all these ladies in there Victorian Bess I think it's at a department store called Sinclair's and just something about this I feel like it's gonna give me Sherlock Holmes vibes I love mysteries as you know mysteries are kind of fast becoming my favorite genre especially murder mysteries but I don't believe a middle grade is gonna be a med enchilada bonbons hats perfumes and mysteries around every corner the daring theft of the prices clockwork Sparrow tremble is the most dastardly criminals in London enact their wicked plans gas was our bold herons miss tail Miss Sophie Taylor and miss Lillian Rose brick coats devour ice burns and vowed to bring the villain justise a splendid adventure awaits you I just love the sound of this I love the vibes and so it's fun I really cannot wait to get to all these middle grades I think I might do a week where I just read middle grade soon I just feel like I need it in my life quickly before we get into why a let's just talk about two graphic novels I've bought the first is bloom by Kevin Panetta and I've heard a lot of good things about this I think it's about a boy who is working in the family bakery and then another boy comes and starts to work there too and it's kind of just like their romance but what I love about this is that it's all blue sorry that was a very obnoxious blue I don't know who I think I am I love when graphic novels have a color scheme Lord ink is breaking up with me I had a brilliant pink and gray color scheme and this one it just doesn't I'm so I'm so excited to read this and I love bread as well I'm a big bread fan so uh anything about bread gets for you what a sad little life Jane anyone else love bread and then the second graphic novel I got is the tea dragon society by Katie O'Neil again this is one I've heard so many great things about on booktube and I I think it's quick by the way apologies if you hear any cat snoring they are sitting in wardrobe like code up into another snoring really loudly so apologies if you hear that okay yeah so I think we have a male-male romance in this and there is also a quid to say board character if I'm remembering right Lee but this Oh My giddy on oh my god tell me that isn't the most beautiful thing you've ever seen I had to get it I had to get it I had to get it you can't blame me okay so let's get into why a there are some I'm quickly gonna hold I have read but listen if I spent money on these books I'm gonna include them in a whole I don't have a lot of money so like so fuzzies cut through nine by Elizabeth Acevedo I read these in my new releases videos IPL and this is by swatter Vado the Queen the icon the living legend it's told in bursts and it is about two sisters who have the same father but they don't know each other exists and the father often I think he spends about four months of the year with the way I'm living in the Dominican Republic and then he spends the rest of his time living with the other girl who believes kind of like that she is his only family if that makes sense one day when he's on the flight to go visit his daughter in the Dominican Republic the flight crashes and he dies that leads the girls to discover that one another exist it's so hot hot wrenching is a really great study of character it's a very character focused book there's not a lot of plot it's a beautifully written book it is incredible so this is what I would really recommend that you pick up I'm so glad I read it like when it came out it's a really fast read and so hard-hitting and so beautifully written it's a really really great book and then the other book I read in that new releases video it was the Empire dreams by ray Kasten so this is a new companion book to me garland thorn series and this is about a young girl who we meet in the last book in the original trilogy and this is about her trying to get adopted by the Queen and when that falls through she becomes part of the Royal Guard and it's about her being the first girl in the Royal Guard about her figuring out who she wants to be the kind of person she wants to be I did a live show for this so it's all my friends with Nicole Simone and Ishi and we discovered that the villain kind of the person who comes back at the end and has a really big part in the plot and is in this big end scene since they died in the first book I don't understand help [Music] and this Victor's trying to pretend they never died but they died and we were all so confused in the life so originally I think I gave us like 3.5 maybe but it's probably a three or maybe even a bit lower because how how can you have that bigger plot point where this character died was never seen again was never heard of again big plot points happen because they had died like people inherited certain lands whatever and then you just back as if nothing has happened I have emailed Rae Carson to try and get answer but I ain't giving us the information for a book to be published like you've spent a lot of time telling this you never thought at least I have to have an explanation for why you thought she was dead maybe she just hopes it's been years and years since anyone read the book they'll just accept that that's what happened well I read the book like two months ago to prepare myself for this coming out and you gave me a dead character as the villain and then the last book that I've already is the never tilting world byron ship echo I read this when my cats picked my TBR and I enjoyed this but I gave it three stars and this is about a world which just stopped turning and so half of it is permantly enlightened so it's like a desert and the other half is permanently in darkness and so super icy and cold and each land is ruled by goddess who has a daughter who is also a goddess who eventually become goddess this was four perspectives and two different storylines essentially and I've just discovered I don't like it when books have two different storylines I like us to have one story that anyone that really it actually worked for me was cut pineal and I didn't mind it in that one because we were so focused on the characters in this one so this is literally on how each of these girls are feeling and so it felt very connected it felt very conjoined because they were united by this same event whereas in this one it's its plot heavy and so we're following two different heavy plots if that makes sense and I just don't like it I just don't think I like that end books and so I need to be careful in the future getting books that have that feature because I just don't think it's something for me I think we're in ship EKKO is a great writer and I would love to read anything else by her I don't know if the bone which has that same feature not our probably will read it okay and then the why a that I haven't read yeah I've got asked her passengers like a s King I'm slowly working my way through all of a s King stuff I love her stuff I recently read dig by her and that was a five star and so I was just kind of figuring out what books I want to treat myself to and I knew I wanted to have another another a s king I read two of her books pleasing Morvarid eat and reality boy on audiobook and I just think actually that she is the kind of author I want to read physically I don't know why there are some authors I want to read audibly and some I want to read physically because often her stuff is very complex and her can have hidden meanings and so I just want it to be something that I can read over this is about a girl I think who talks to the passengers in the airplane oh honey I don't know what you're talking about and with a s King stuff sometimes it blurs the line of like is this actually happening is the character imagining it or is fantastical elements bleeding into real life which I really like and then the last way a book that I got my hands on is wild beauty by Anna Marie McLemore so I've had so many brilliant things about their stuff I don't know much about this plot all I know is I've had a lot of my favorite booktubers speak so highly of Anna Marie macklemore's work and so I asked Twitter like where would be best to start with Anna Mae macklemore's books and a lot of people said wild beauty and so that's when I saw him with that's all I've gotten fast I don't read all this is about what I know is it's a beautiful cover I'm loving magical realism at the moment it's a genre I'm really fully in love with much like murder mystery there kind of two of my favorite genres at the moment I assume this is a quote from the book they're setting his hand on a girl's back and that that this was a thing he'd learned that setting his girl this was a thing he'd learned that setting his hand on the girl's back and that girl letting his hand stay led to fairy rings and ponds full of stars even in its first faint traces love could alter a landscape it wrote I imagine stories and made the most beautiful forbidden places love grew such strange things tell me it does not oh that's beautiful well okay I cannot wait to get into this okay so now we're gonna get into all my adult stuff that I've bought this is the majority of the hall actually we have one 10 10 of them are adult okay let's just get the embarrassing one out of the way so like don't judge me you need to be locked in prison for a very long time you need the internet taken away from you you are a danger to society but I got someone to send me the book-of-the-month copy of the guest this by Lucy Foley a couple months ago so you all know that the guest list probably maybe unless you're new here but the guest list is if only as one of my favorite books of this year so far it is a murder mystery set on this remote island between this couple the bride is the head of this kind of like an elite magazine and the groom is a action TV star kind of like what's his name Bear Grylls I think he's gonna like Bear Grylls equivalent but like prettier a bit of a pretty boy we find out on the first page the first chapter that someone has been killed and we don't know if the majority the book who it is we jump around in time between before the wedding during the wedding and after the wedding it's told to multiple perspectives which I really enjoyed of this one it's told through the eyes of the bride the plus one the best man the wedding planner and the bridesmaid and everyone has secrets the way they are revealed slowly is wonderful and the way that they revealed also makes you doubt different people at different times like at certain points you trust some people in the others and you're like oh no I'm in I trust this person or not another person oh one of my favorite backs and then when I saw that it was a bitter pick a couple months ago I was just like does anyone want to send it to me and someone but I'm leaders on Twitter said yeah I got a spare credit come on then let's do it and so I now have two copies of it I don't have my other copy with me I've lent it out I'm gonna do a reread I think soon with this copy I've never done this before where I have two copies of a book that I loved but I just feel like this one deserved it because it's so good and it's really ignited a love for me of murder mysteries let's talk about the thrillers that I have first is the choke men by CJ Tudor I just received this yesterday from Mali who is the loveliest person in the world she has a YouTube channel a booktube channel which I will link down below which you should definitely go check out she's incredibly kind and lovely and wonderful and when she got me this I just could not believe it I was so shocked this is one that has been on my wish list for a long time it in my radar frong time I remember I think I farted people talking about it when I was in Florida I'm a vivid memory of being in the bath okay Kayla's vlog of someone talking about this I was like oh that sounds amazing I need to get that and I was over a year ago so it's been on my radar for a long time I think that's some kind of game going on to do with the chalk man but then someone is killed and then we kind of are going backwards and forwards in time I believe trying to figure out what happened I think it's kind of like a group of kids who know the truth or no parts of the truth and the next thing that I got was a death of mrs. West away by Ruth where Ruth where is fast becoming one of my favorite authors I've given both of her books I've read so far five stars I've read to turn the key and the book that is coming out and I think it's October or November it may be October in the US and the remember in the UK I could be wrong but one by one I read an article that and adored it five stars it has its a closed circle murder mystery which is my favorite thing this isn't this is another one of her books the death of mrs. West away I'm trying to make my way through all of her books no I don't think you understand so this is about a girl who learns that she's received a big amount of money from her grandparents right so she's in the money honey but she how grandparents died and she's like sis this woman eat my grandparent but I need the money so I'm gonna come and play along I think [ __ ] starts going wrong essentially it's a thriller it's a Ruth we're thrill Oh what more do we expect so the girl is like I'm gonna get some dollar and then stuff starts going wrong the next book I got is the fair fight by Anna Freeman so I think it was I heard Riley Marie I heard talk about this quite a while ago and I think it's about girls fighting in like boxing and underground Bristol I think in kind of like Victorian era I love Victorian era I don't know why I love reading books about Victorian England so much I don't enjoy the loads of his chakra fiction but when I do I really enjoy it so I'm excited to go into this one I've spoke a bit about buying this book already but I also bought Little Women by Louisa May Alcott's women I bought this immediately after seeing a film I ain't original I want to see the film and I loved it I've heard mixed things some people say oh the book is just as good as the film and then others say no the film is way better than the book became that good so I'm a bit nervous about it I'm sure you know this service to women I don't need to tell you what this is about there's about four sisters it's about them growing up it's about them figuring out who they are kind of people they want to be and I really love the story behind this of like the reason may alcott rebelling against her publishers and stuff like that I like seeing how the real louisa may alcott and dryer blend together in this and then the rest of the books are kind of fantasy the rest of the adult books I've got the first is the fifth season by NK jemisin I have heard so many wonderful things about this book but don't I don't I can't articulate the plot do you are you down are you done are you done are you done are you done are you I have just been seeing so many people the past few months reading this and just loving it everyone's opinion I trust have been giving it four and five stars I've heard that it's a little bit complex like it's quite a complex high fantasy book but sometimes I'm craving that and oh I just stumbled across a sex scene I saw the word lube and I was like the next book I got is library of the unwritten by age a hack with so this is about how any books left unfinished like filed away in this library and there is a librarian whose job it is to kind of keep the protagonist of I think of the book from ever meeting their author but then one of the heroes escapes and so it's like a great chase to try and get the hero back in their book I think before they meet their author because I think bad things happen if the two collide this is another book which a lot of people have been speaking about recently and it just sounds like my kind of thing it's blurred by shauna McGuire these are my favorite authors so it can only mean good things it can really mean good things so very excited very very excited to go this one this is one which I think are we picking up very soon and then the lovely Nicole who I speak about all the time my favorite person in the world she sent me I was I was the lovely was it just lovely war she sent me lovely war or be lovely war by Julie berry so this is about Aphrodite telling the story of Second World War I think through two love story so I've been nervous about the whole split time thing we'll see how that goes I have heard a few people say recently it does have a racist and so I am a bit wary to go into this book because of that reason but that's just me I want to be upfront about now to tell you about that because I don't think I should just pretend all that doesn't exist it's what I've had people like Riley speak about a lot Heather from Aphrodite reads I've spoken about this loads I think it's like one of her favorite books ever and so it's just been one that's been on my radar for a long time and I love the cover I the art isn't this pink like my vibes I love it I love it so much and then a purchase I feel very guilty for to this day I feel awful for this purchase but I brought the Illuma create versions oh never night and gods grave so I placed the order these like I think probably in December or November last year they only just came through a couple weeks ago do I regret it yes because these were like 50 pounds but it's past Meghan's mistake I can't be angry at myself right now we live in we learn we move on we become better people and I can't even really tell you what the book is about this is so humiliating I know it's about a girl called Mia well I think trains become like an assassin maybe I mean it's signed at least I paid for that I do love the covers though I love the black spray edges I love the vibe to the covers and I love the illuminate files by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman and so they are authors I'm very excited to get to however I keep looking at these and going Meghan you could have bought so many other books I'm very excited for the footnotes like in the books where it's planes part of the world building I love the idea of footnotes that flavor I love the idea at nights I know some people hate them when they read the book I don't think that's gonna be me I think I'm gonna love them but yeah I bought these LM sorry and then lastly I also picked up two non-fiction books the first of which is not that bad by Roxane gay so I recently read that feminist by Roxane gay which is hiding away somewhere here now I'm not like you can see it but this is about rape culture and it is edited by Roxane gay it has tons of essays from so many different women Roxane gay is writing and her collections of essays and stuff is something that I really want to read all of it but I get the sense this is gonna be a very hard read but a very necessary read in bad feminist she spoke really impactfully about the sexual assault that she suffered when she was younger stuff like this is something we should all be reading and the last book of this book haul is the five by Halle Reuben Holt so this is about the five women that Jack the Ripper killed and it takes you to their lives it takes you through their lives and gives their lives voices and I've always been very interested in history as a kid I love Victorian history and that's something that obviously suck with me a little bit like I thought I was it because I knew Victorian history like I was the class expert you know I used to be one of those people okay this is gonna sound so dumb i but like if you stay to the end of this video you do you don't care um okay comment a stack of books if you heard this story so I know how many people have embarrassed myself too but I so you like you had like themed days when you're a kid right and one thing they did at my school when you went into year five so like you were nine or ten and so we had someone come to our school and pretend to be like a Victorian teacher like a really harsh Victorian teacher and he was really mean to us and I was like got about to be my job sorry years I want to be someone who I found schools and pretended to be a Victorian teacher I'm so rude you are so corny I love books that tell the story of Forgotten women throughout history and this is definitely one of those and I just can't wait to get to it I think these women are people who need their stories told people who need their voices heard they're brutally murdered by this man and yet the one that everyone remembers is him and it's just so unjust I think trying to elevate the voices of these women who have come before us and who history has eradicated and erased it's so important and so I cannot wait to get to this one so there we have it that is all of the books I've recently bought let me know if there's any here that you have loved let me know what your favorite is let me know if you've hated any of them as well cuz I like to know I'm getting myself in for but yeah let me know especially if you've loved any of them thank you so much for watching as always I hope you're having a good time and I will see you very very soon bye [Music]