UNWRAPPING BOOKS PICKS WHAT I READ! 🎁wrapped up revamped - episode 8! july reading vlog

[Music] hello friends welcome to this month's edition of wrapped up many of you all know this is a series where last christmas i wrapped up all of the 2022 no 2021 releases that i hadn't read yet and every month i unwrap and read one of them in these vlogs so i am going on holiday in five days when you're seeing this i'll just be back from holiday so i am filming a lot of videos and editing a lot of videos in these five days so i don't want a difficult book like i want a book that's very easy to get through i've got a few points where i am going to read like in the evenings i've got some reading sprints with my patrons it's like i'm going to be doing no reading but i don't want to long books does that sound like something you want yes well let me tell you you'll never get so i think we're going to do the thing again where we unwrap two and i pick one of them to read on this i really want to read the first one i don't want to open okay okay we're gonna go for this one let's go for this first looks like a fairly short hardback i feel sick oh my god okay that's the perishing by natasha dion i'm actually not gonna count this is one of the two because i'm reading this next month and i forgot to unwrap it so we're not even gonna count this i should have unwrapped this before from this video because i'm reading this for a different video so we're not even we're not counting that's one of the two let's go again the rules don't apply i'm gonna go for this one this is the one i initially thought about okay this one is everything we don't say which is a thriller i got from book of the month our main character's neighbors were brutally murdered right outside her barn and her younger brother became the prime suspect it's got a true crime podcaster it sounds interesting but i think i'm gonna unwrap one more just to see if i would rather read the other book let's do a paperback i guess let's go for this wherever this is and we will pick one of them oh okay i think i'm going to read this so this is love and other natural disasters by misa siguria this is a like contemporary romance book that i have wanted to read for ages it was obviously an arc i got sent it's been on like lists that i've reacted to it's like oh my god i'm so excited to read this i have the audio book for on script i think i have the audiobook for this as well though to be fair but i think this will be an easier book to get through and when i'm like stressed this week and have a lot of work to do i think this will be a better pick because it'll just be super easy and light to pick up i really liked this time will be different by misa siguria so yeah we're gonna read this i feel like this is exactly the vibe for this week right i am a hundred pages into love and other natural disasters i firstly want to say actually no should i give you that tell you what they do okay i'm feeling weird right now i'm feeling like so weird let me give you the plot first we're following the zomy as she goes to san francisco for the summer to stay with her gay uncles and do an internship there and she's like a hopeless romantic she's a very interesting main character and like narrative voice i don't want to say socially awkward but she's like you know when she likes a girl she'll be very like awkward around her not knowing what to say and overthinking everything and getting nervous i think that's a really like human reaction and it's it's like funny i i i guess some people could find this narrator annoying i feel like it hasn't had the best reviews of actual look on goodreads but i really like her because i feel like she's real and she she's so real oh she's so real she's a different main character than what i've read and a lot of like why a contemporary romance i feel like a lot of main characters think they're awkward but they're not whereas she is like she's anyway she falls to this girl in san francisco and they start fake dating to make because the other girl has just broken up with her girlfriend so they start fake dating to make her jealous and nozomi's just like oh my god i love her so much i'll do anything kind of thing and first theme i want to say this is the perfect thing for me to be reading right now this is exactly what i need to read i have to finish six videos in the next five days you know six videos i need to edit i've done one so i'm not gonna have a lot of time for reading and i have the audio book for this and it's just a very enjoyable read i don't need to think too much about that is very easy to pick up and pick down i have no doubt i'm gonna finish reading this in time and just for it to be really enjoyable i don't think it's gonna be a five star this time will be different i think i gave four stars and it feels again like a nice palette cleanser a nice book to kind of get me back into reading without thinking about it too much so i'm really really enjoying it for that purpose i think it's the perfect book for me to read this week and like that hasn't been happening to me a lot lately i feel like i've been reading books and quite not quite the right time you know i mean like a book i'd really enjoy but i just felt like i mean i'm not a mood reader so this hasn't happened to me like the past and i don't want to see any comments saying go be a mood reader mood read for a week i know they're all like the best best of meanings and hearts and i know you're all trying to be lovely mood reading that's a living nightmare for me i just can't do it right but there's been a few times where i've thought this just isn't quite the right time to read this book but i have to read it for a video this feels like literally i could not have read this at a more perfect time this is exactly what i need right now like i said i really like the main character oh this is in the back delightfully disastrous that is what i would call her like she's like a bit of a walking mess but it's fun i like the romance so far they're kind of fake dating i've always had a bit of an issue not an issue like not like a moral issue but like i haven't loved many fake dings in the past but i just think it's kind of sweet in this one how she like just wants to be loved and wants to have that relationship so yeah there's some interesting family dynamics in it as well it's just like a rom-com a queer rom-com summer setting like the summer of love like i mean come on it's the vibe so i am doing reading sprints again i think that my last vlog was like here doing really experience i'm doing them riley and her patrons and my patrons today so i'm gonna get back to the live and carry on reading is essentially the plan [Music] if i wrote you a song if i got every word [Music] perfectly waited on a thin piece of paper would it make any difference i am 200 pages no 220 pages i've read that magical how much left of the book and i'm just enjoying it like what you want me to say it's such just like a fun way i read i am so busy this week i could not have handled anything more than this like this is the limit so this is basically a love quadrangle i think it's the first time i've ever read a love quadrangle i don't think i've ever read that before so nozomi is fake dating a girl called willow who has just broke up with her girlfriend anden who is dating dayla so the zombie is hoping that by fake dating willow willow will actually fall in love with her now i've just figured out where this is going i actually i'd figured it out maybe like 30 40 pages ago but now it was just confirmed for me where it's going and you know what i don't mind it i don't mind it she's being a bit sneaky miss misa segura she says let me just sneak something by him i just think it's an enjoyable y.a romance and there's a lot of discussions in this about queerness and acceptance and particularly the intersection of race and queerness all of the four girls are people of color and um nozomi's grandmother is quite homophobic zombie's uncle is gay is married to another man and her grandmother kind of doesn't recognize that um and so nozomi's really worried about coming out to her grandmother and what her grandma would think of her but her grandmother is struggling with dementia and that is a really big part of the book that's kind of like the second storyline to the romance and kind of her thinking about how it's fair to view her grandmother and how she should have a relationship with her going forward when she still loves aspects of her but she finds her homophobia really really difficult to deal with and i don't know i've just i've found that section again it's not something i've really read before and i just really appreciate it i think it's great to have in a ya book i've read a few reviews a lot of people find lazomi annoying but i don't she's just a lot like she's full on right she's like a very dramatic character she has big feelings is how i describe it she feels everything very strongly she feels like when she's upset about something for example her parents divorce it's something that she can get stuck on when she wants to be in love so badly like she feels that so strongly and will do anything for that to happen so you know just because a character isn't neat and tidy for you you know just because the main character isn't simple you know in her actions doesn't mean it's bad i think she's refreshing i i do think however if i were to just read this physically she could get on my nerves i think the audiobook narrator does a really good job of bringing her to life and kind of bringing her feelings to life so i think if i would recommend this i would recommend the audio book that's primarily how i'm reading it i could see how she'd be annoying if i just read it physically but yeah i'm really really enjoying it still i think it's really really fun i'm excited i'm gonna start packing for my holiday tonight so i'm just gonna listen to the audiobook whilst i pack so i hopefully should finish it tonight just through that but um yeah i'm really really enjoying it so far my whole life is packed up so i don't think you can see anything you can see some random through my packing list i loved this well i didn't love it that's an exaggeration it was four stars but i did tell a bit of a lie there like i said it was perfect for the moment if you're craving just like a light wire rom-com i would recommend this i really really enjoyed it listen why rom-coms i don't know if i'm ever gonna be out here giving that like five stars the only one i've ever given five stars was fat chance charlie vega i did enjoy that one this was just fine like it was good there was nothing wrong with it i really really enjoyed the reading experience of it if i'm distracted i am so stressed about the fact that i forgot i have to take the thumbnail for this and like i can't take it where i usually take it because of all the mess that's in my room i don't know what i'm gonna do and the thing is this video we'll talk about the book in a sec this video is going up the day after i get back from the cruise so i'll get back like saturday afternoon but on the sunday this is going up i'm going to yaok for one day which is why a literature convention here in the uk and party's like should i leave it to saturday afternoon [Music] when i know i shouldn't i'm just gonna take a different kind of thumbnail something nice and quick nice and quick for the girlies but yeah i think this book has really good i mean the love quadrangle works really really well it's very believable i really like nozomi as a main character i know she's like marmite but i really really liked her i also think there's a good slow build in this book i mean the zombie falls hard and falls fast like she's actually like oh but i think in terms of the other characters around her in this quadrangle there's a good build up of like relationships and slow burns of romances and stuff zombie's like instant she's like oh yeah i love this person now yeah we're in love whereas the other ones it's much slower i think to kind of kind of counteract her you know i it has good discussions like i said good family dynamics like her grandmother who's uh trying to come to terms with all the queer members of her family she's like oh my god there's so many of them but you know her coming to terms with that and the zombie comes to terms with what that means in a relationship her parents also had a divorce and she's very mad at her mother for that and so it's her trying to come to terms with that and trying to forgive her mother i think this has so much good queer rep but particularly queer rep for people of color for young girls of color for young lesbians i think it's such good rep and yeah this is two two rom-coms now that i've given four stars by this author so i feel like she's a safe bet for me to read all her new releases just as kind of like palette cleanses you know i really enjoyed how it subverted tropes like how it subverted fake dating or like all these different tropes that you get in like movies or whatever like old school movies i really like how it kind of twisted them and turned them on its head so it was the perfect thing for me to read this week whilst i tried not to go crazy and now i have to take the freaking thumbnail i don't know how i'm going to do it but thank you for watching the vlog i hope you enjoyed it if you've gotten to the end of the video comment just a heart emoji because it's about love oh my god we're so in love yeah comment our heart emoji down below if you got into the end thank you thank you so much for watching and i will see you very soon in another video bye [Music] you