Hey guys it's Abi from Autumn of Pellinor and today I'm here with a top
five video of the best booktube recommendations I've read I have some of
these in eBook format and some of them in physical format so I'm gonna start
with the ebooks, first up is saga most of you have heard of this, this is a graphic
novel series, why does my bra feel weird? [weird alien noises] saga is a sci-fi fantasy set
in space in the future we follow a variety of different people across a
variety of different scenarios it's just kind of their life but it's sci-fi so it
changes it up and I really enjoyed it I think I gave all three volumes that I
read three stars it was very much enjoyable and I can understand why
people recommend them however I haven't read them since 2017-2018 so I can't
remember too much about them but I just remember they were really emotive and
the art style was really beautiful so I do recommend the next one is Rebel of
the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton I heard so much about this from booktube when I
first started watching not even making videos watching and I started to read
this book before I made my first video because I went to the NYALitFest that
was my first ever video, don't watch it I mean you can but don't watch it, and
it was my first ever video was my haul from that and talking about my
experience there and Alwyn Hamilton was doing talks so I wanted to read her
books because I'd heard so many people talk about them so I started an eCopy of
rebel of the sands and oh my god it's amazing I wanted to take my time with it
so I didn't actually finish reading it before the talk and I don't remember
being spoiled for anything in her discussions which was really great but
these books they are fantasy they follow *sigh* I can't remember character names, but they
follow a young girl who turns out to have powers through the desert and
that's what I'm gonna say it's amazing and it's fantastic and I loved it and it
was a great recommendation from all of booktube I see why they're hyped on
it 100% then on to the books that I actually own the power by Naomi alderman
this is something that I probably would have picked up if I'd been browsing
myself but I don't browse any more because there's too many recommendations
from booktube and I own too many books this is our world until women get this power
and they can electrocute people I assume so it says with a flick of the fingers
they can inflict terrible pain even death but it's got lightning bolts so I'm
pretty sure it's electrocution and every single woman suddenly has that power and
it's about how power corrupts this could've obviously went in a very
different direction some of you won't like this I'm gonna say it anyway it's
been seen quite frequently for a lot of women who have been in power in modern
times that they actually run their countries better than the men do main
example right now is New Zealand that Prime Minister is great I wish I lived
that my partner keeps asking me to find a job there because he wants to live in New Zealand
I don't know if this is accurate because women seem to be raised to not be like
that which is crap in itself but it means that we aren't like that but this
does that I think the reason that Naomi alderman went with the fact that power
corrupts I mean it does but you know what I mean is so that it would relate
to a larger number of people there are a lot of men who don't agree with the fact
that the patriarchy exists which might, they might then understand more woman's
point of view from this book so I think that's what she was trying to do in
terms of the message it's giving there's lots of like mixed signals there as you
can tell but in terms of just the actual straight-up book itself it's really
enjoyable it's really interesting it's really fast-paced and I really enjoyed
it keeping within the adult book theme is The Girl in 6E by A.R. Torre I saw
Lily C Reads mention this first and then obviously lots of other people so
when I spotted it I just had to grab it this is about a woman who knows if she
goes outside and sees people she will try her best to murder them so she locks
herself away in a room and makes money through doing cam work obviously she ends
up out but we learn a lot about her isolation and also about her creepy
desire to kill people this is definitely an adult book it involves sex work it
involves murder adult book make your own decision okay adult book I can see why
booktube hypes it I can also see why some people don't like it but I really
enjoyed this I read the sequel do not disturb, can you see it, yes
um I really enjoyed reading that definitely want to finish up this
trilogy and lastly returning to a good ol bit of YA and one that is kind of
controversial in that half people like it and half the people don't and that's
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard I've heard so many people say that they don't like
this that they find it boring but for me I adored it I was so sucked in this
follows Mare... yes it does follow Mare and we have Reds and Silvers, Reds are
commoners Silvers are royalty to simplify it massively and Silver's have
magical powers but Mare is a red who is shown to have powers and so they're like
oh no she's like a long-lost silver oh wow and it's that whole corruption side
of it this is a four book long series with a collection of short stories I've
read the short stories and the first two books I need to keep on with the series
I love it so much I really do when I read glass sword is
that it yes when I read glass sword I sped through it too quickly I was trying
to read it before I went back to my uni so I didn't have to take it with me and
so I didn't enjoy that one quite as much but that was because I forced the
reading experience and I am really looking forward to reading the rest of
this series and seeing how it goes and those are the five books that I'm very
happy booktube recommended to me they're hyped a lot all over booktube for a
variety of different reasons and I really enjoyed all of them they won't
be for everyone quite a lot of them are quite
controversial these three are quite controversial there's not going to be a
book than I'm like "you have to read it" but I do recommend giving these guys and the
other two a shot if they are in your genres, in your wheelhouse, and sound
like something interesting to you, as always with these videos I'm gonna link
Alex Black Reads' video down below I know this is a normal concept on YouTube
but I stole this specifically from her with permission
so she's link down below and click the like button and the subscribe button
down there too if you enjoyed watching and thank you for watching I'll see you
guys next time, bye!
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