Hi welcome back to my channel. My name is Kat and today I'm going to do
the releases that I am most excited for in September.
So I have 13 books to talk to you about today.
One is middle grade, six are young adult, and six are adult.
And I am just so excited to buy them, to read them. We have a lot
of spooky ones that are perfect for the Halloween season
so let's get started. So the first one I'm going to talk about
is the middle grade. This is The Tea Dragon Tapestry by Katie O'Neill
who is a New Zealand illustrator and author.
This is the third in The Tea Dragon series which I have loved.
And I believe this is the last one perhaps in the series.
So it's set in a world where there are magical beings that are
small dragons that grow tea leaves known as tea dragons.
I just really cannot wait to pick this up because it has a beautiful illustration
style, beautiful stories, and lots of queer
representation. Alright next let's talk about YA.
So the first one I have I haven't heard anyone talk about and it sounds just so
intriguing to me. The Seventh Mansion by Maryse Meijer.
This is following a 15 year old named Xie. I think it's X-i-e. He moves
to live with his father in a rural place and he makes two friends who are
environmental activists and they get into
trouble when they break mink out of a mink
farm um and as he starts to explore the woods and nature surrounding his
house more and more, he discovers the relic of a catholic
saint, the martyred Pancratius, in a nearby
church. So he steals the skeleton and
develops a ritual with the bones in order for him to save his beloved woods.
It sounds so bizarre, but I'm so ready
and interested. The next one that I am super excited for
is Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson. If you have watched me at all before you
know that uh Monday's Not Coming that I read at the
beginning of this year is currently one of my favorite books of the year so far.
It just hit me right in the feels. I cried my eyes out and Tiffany D.
Jackson is just an amazing, amazing author.
So in this one we are following a young woman named Enchanted Jones
who wakes up and someone has been murdered.
She has blood on her hands but she has no memory of what happened last night
and then it goes from there. I just cannot wait to read it. I think it's
gonna be amazing. Um it already has super high
ratings and I'm just ready. So next up is one
that I would love to hear your input on actually.
This is Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour. I have heard about this
for a while and it just sounds really intriguing to me.
It's about a young woman who ages out of the foster care system
and then she goes to work on a remote island
but what she didn't know is that there are also
ghosts there and her traumatic past starts to be brought up
and it deals with mental health issues... which is
why I'm not sure if this would be the book for me or not. I'm really sensitive
to things like uh suicidal thoughts,
suicide obviously, and then some forms of like depression.
So...
I'm waiting to hear what other people think if the author kind of skimmed over
it or if the author went really deep into it.
I don't know what forms of mental health are talked about so I'm waiting to hear
but i'm hesitantly excited. Next up is The Scapegracers
by Hannah Abigail Clarke. This is about an outcast teenage
lesbian witch who finds her coven hidden amongst the
popular girls in her school and performs some seriously badass magic
in the process. They got me at teenage lesbian witch,
they had me. I am all about those powerful
girl gang cliques that might or might not have magic.
Next up is Horrid by Katrina Leno. So I told Jordaline about this like ages and
ages ago and then I just saw her haul it and I am
so jealous. Uh this cover is absolutely
stunning. Whoever designed that <3 Uh this is about a family whose father
dies and then they move from California to Maine um and
the daughter in the family is really struggling to fit in she's being bullied
at school and her mother is also being kind of
weird and tells her that she can't go in this one locked storage room.
But then when she breaks into the room she sees that it is fully kitted out in
like stuff for a little kid and then I think it's a haunted house
type book. So I'm really intrigued about this.
I cannot wait for Jordaline to read it. And yeah I'm just so excited
to hear her thoughts and see if it is worth picking up or not.
Um the cover the cover is just beyond gorgeous to me.
And the last YA novel that I want to talk about is Who I Was With Her
by Nita Tyndall. This one is a heavy hitting one but it just
really caught my eye because I haven't really
seen many books, nonetheless YA books, dealing with
this topic. So we're following uh Corrine Parker who is in high school
and she is in love with her girlfriend Maggie Bailey, who is
the rival school's cross country captain. But they have been dating in secret for
over a year because she doesn't want anyone to know
that she is bisexual. That is until her girlfriend dies in a
tragic accident and everyone
doesn't know that she has suffered this horrendous loss.
And she can't even grieve normally because no one even knew that
they were in a relationship and in order to grieve she'll have to
come out. So I think it's an extremely serious topic but also one
that I haven't seen YA books deal with.
So I'm really intrigued by this one, and also again,
I'm a sucker for a gorgeous cover. Alright now into my six
adult books that I am highly anticipating. First up is The Harpy by
Megan Hunter. I have been raving about this forever. I am in love
with the cover design. I am in love with the name of the book.
And it deals with a couple who... the husband cheats
and then the wife is allowed to hurt him three times and instead of just doing
something immediately she is going to plot and plan her three
painful instances and she's allowed to do whatever she wants to him.
I want this book right now. Take my money. I really really want it
and it has taken all of my willpower not to buy this and remember that my
birthday is in November. If i just wait, I can ask for it for my
birthday. But I really want it right now. So next up is one I recently
heard about like just yesterday when I was looking through
releases to check out. This is The Invention of Sound by
Chuck Palahniuk. So I'm a huge Palahniuk fan. Um yeah his imagination is just bizarre
and I really love it. This is about a father whose daughter goes missing
and he has never given up searching for her but suddenly there's a break
in the case which happens to somehow overlap
with this other person who creates these sounds of scream and horror and gore
for movies in Hollywood and somehow their paths overlap.
And as you would expect, it's Chuck Palahniuk so stuff is going to be
weird and it's going to make you think a lot and
yeah he's always great for a really weird trippy
reading experience. So next up is Exit Management by Naomi Booth who wrote
Sealed which I haven't read but I also want to
read. So I think I'm just really excited about it
because I think I'll also love her backlist. And this was actually
recommended by a new fave on Booktube. So I just want to
briefly talk about Grace from GK Reads. Uh stunning
great recommendations, great vibes, uh yeah so this is where I got this
recommendation. So I will just read you the synopsis
because it's a little confusing. It says "At minus five degrees even the densest
blood materials start to turn. The beginnings of a human
heart will still into black ice. Callum has been given an
opportunity. Joseph's house is the perfect
place to live, plenty of room a sought-after London location and
filled with priceless art. All that he asks in return is for
company while he's ill and the promise that if it gets too much
someone will be there to help him in the end. It's fortunate then when
Callum meets Lauren who works at human resources and
specializes in getting rid of people. It's pushed forward by ambition, haunted
by losses of the past, and violent catastrophe" and it sounds brilliant.
Next up is one I am so so torn about please let me know what
you guys think about it. This is To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by
Christopher Paolini who wrote the Eragon series which I was
a huge fan when I was like in elementary school or middle school.
This one, however, is following a girl named Kira who is traveling
through space and she finds an ancient relic
and then the dust around her starts to move and there's a war in the stars and
it's this huge space opera right? But what
sold me was um the cover because I'm a sloot for a gorgeous
cover. Um and then also this has giant squid,
celestial squids! And if you don't know, i have a huge back piece
uh that is a giant squid like down my spine.
I love squid, I think they're just the f*cking coolest thing ever.
And the reason I'm torn here is because you know, I just thought this
was like a normal adult book but silly me...
because I saw a picture on Tor and I'll put it somewhere if i can find it... I saw
a picture on Tor, who's the publisher, showing the photo of
the book and I was like OH MY GOD that book is so
huge and then I looked at how many pages. IT'S 880 PAGES!!!
I don't think I've ever read anything in my life that was 880 pages
ever ever, the end, ever. Like 400 pages is a bit like convince me.
So if you guys have any thoughts on this, or if you have
managed to already read it, or you have anything to say,
let me know! So the last two on this list are from Australia. This is The Survivors
by Jane Harper. So she is an absolutely amazing, amazing
Australian thriller writer. So I don't really want to know too much because
I like going into her thrillers without knowing basically anything
because i just love the ride. She's an amazing thriller writer.
But it just says "When a body is discovered on the beach, long-held
secrets threaten to emerge. A sunken wreck, a missing girl, and
questions that have never washed away." Okay you had me at sunken wreck, anything
sunken wreck. Yes so I'm really anticipating this.
I expect this will be quite easy to find in op shops if they ever
reopen because Jane Harper is always in the op shops because
I think she's one of the most bought thriller writers in Australia.
So fingers crossed about that one. And then the last one I have here
is Honeybee by Craig Silvey. So this one is I think possibly a
five-star prediction for me, judging by how gosh darn high the
ratings are. Like the ratings on Goodreads right now are 4.56.
That's crazy high! Fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet
overpass and looks down at the road below.
At the other end of the bridge, an old man named Vic smokes his cigarette.
The two see each other and a fateful connection is made
and an unlikely friendship blooms. Slowly you learn why they were both
there that night and they bond over their suffering as
each one privately commits to the task of saving
the other. I think I'm gonna cry, I think I'm gonna cry so hard.
But it sounds so beautiful. So that finishes up all the
books I'm most excited about for September. I cannot wait to pick some
of these up. I cannot wait to hear what you think of them.
Let me know all of the ones that you are most interested in
down below. If you've made it this far, leave a bee
emoji in honor of Honeybee. And I will chat to you guys in another video soon.
I hope you are doing well and lots of love.
Talk to you later, bye!