Hello and welcome back to my channel I am Jourdan and today i'm here with my wrap up y'all I read
a whole bunch of books so I won't waste your time let's get into this wrap up of the books
I read for October. And yeah make sure to subscribe, click that subscribe link, that
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you've read any of these books or if you have any recommendations for me so let's get into the books
that I read. Okay so i'm gonna start with these two books because these were actually recommended by
people in the comments section so I want to give you guys an update, I did read them! So Get A
Life Chloe Brown-- so this is the first book in the brown sisters series and you know I was like okay
maybe i'll check it out, maybe I won't, but then my comment section was like you gotta read it
so i'm like okay i'm gonna read it. Thank y'all I enjoyed this book so much. So okay the book of
course is romance -- well if you don't know it's romance, but you've probably seen on the screen
and it follows Chloe who is like a computer ...kind of not nerd, but yeah computer kind of nerd
she's kind of awkward, she also has chronic pain like deals with chronic illness which I thought
was so dope to have in a romance novel the way it was just written because I feel like with chronic
pain and chronic illness a lot of times people don't realize like a lot of stuff is debilitating
and it's like I just -- I just love the angle that the author took with that and how compassionate
and perfect she made Red for Chloe and okay let's talk about that. The love interest is Red who-- Red
is an artist who has also hit a hard point in his life-- they both actually kind of had some semi
abusive relationships from like emotional and verbal abusive situations
but they have like a quirky little banter between the two. It is British banter and I listened to
it on audio and I just loved the banter back and forth like the quirkiness between the two because
I was literally laughing like it brought me a lot of joy so that brings me to the next book
in the series and that is Take A Hint Dani Brown this is the second book in the brown sister series
and this one follows Dani Brown and she is like a professor-- she's semi type A-- I think she's
type A I don't really know but she's like very focused and she's also like can get swarmed by
her work and all this other stuff but she kind of doesn't really believe in love like whereas
Chloe was definitely like more so just heartbroken and like hesitant and scared Dani is kind of
like bro i'm i'm only doing quickies and hookups like i'm not trying to do nothing serious we find
out why later on but that's besides the point Zaf is her co-worker who is a security guard at the
university and he's a former rugby player and he loves romance novels which I loved and I love her
you know when you read romans he describes exactly why people like reading romance like the happy
endings and all that other stuff and it was just so cutesy they kind of have like a friendship
vibe co-worker vibe that's kind of like a mutual crush interest but they are very complimentary
complementary to each other and it was definitely like a developed friendship turned into a romance
like you know what this is what i would want in a relationship this is a safe space so yeah i
like both of both of the books i saw people like the second book way more than the first i think i
liked them pretty evenly but maybe the first one a little bit more so that was surprising to me
but all in all four stars if we were talking about the series as a whole i would say three and
a half for me on danny actually on maybe Dani don't know i'm just lying i gave them four stars
they're four stars i'd be trying to be harder at my ratings sometimes because i'm like i ain't
trying to give it out to everybody but these romances they were really good they were good okay okay
so next up a thriller this was Little Secrets and y'all i didn't know what to expect by this i just
i don't know what made me pick it up i really wish i could remember why i picked it up but i might do
a standalone for this i really like this freaking book i really liked it it was suspenseful to
say the least and it had so many twists and turns like i think i guessed maybe a few of
them but it really kept me on his toes because when she thought you had it figured out it would
take another direction and i freaking loved that love that aspect the book is centered around Marin
who's like a mom she's a wife she has basically like this perfect life she owns all these salons
she's upper middle class or upper class actually i won't even say middle class she's upper class
her husband Derek owns his own business and they're living the american dream they have this
cute little son Sebastian and anyways the book starts off she's at a grocery store her world gets
turned upside down when he is abducted right under her nose so that's kind of like the opening scene
that sets the story and throughout the novel we're kind of fast forwarded like a year after
the whole event she's still grieving her husband kind of has almost i don't want to say moved on
but he doesn't want to hear about Sebastian no more he's not trying to engage in the grief that
she's still living and breathing every single day and you know she's going through support
groups and all sorts of stuff and she's hired a private investigator without her husband knowing
and that's when all the little secrets since the title start coming out and there are so many
secrets and those secrets literally drive all the different plot turns so you're really trying to
figure out what's going on with the husband you're trying to figure out what's going on with the
the wife you're trying to figure out what's going on with everybody basically
and also like is Sebastian alive or is he dead and i don't want to give away too much let
me know if y'all want to stand alone i might just record a standalone anyways because this
i really like this book i gave this one four stars as well all right next up let's talk about Mexican
Gothic. So Mexican Gothic-- this will be really short because i have a standalone on this but Mexican
Gothic is a horror story and it's set in the 1950s in Mexico and Noemi which is such a beautiful name
by the way is a 20-something-year-old socialite fashionista girl and she's living her life and her
cousin writes saying that she's in danger her cousin Catalina and like the house is basically
haunted and this is comes as a surprise because they haven't heard from catalina in a minute
ever since she married this like strange englishman and the author actually based
the book off of a visit that she had in uh town and mexico where in the 1800s it was overtaken
the mining town was overtaken by the british and after visiting the cemetery she knew she wanted
to write a horror story about it so if that doesn't intrigue you maybe the cover will that
cover is freaking gorgeous that honestly i ain't no none about the story saw the cover i was like
i'm gonna read it i hope you guys do too i loved it check out for more details in my standalone
okay so next up i'll talk about this book it's so funny because on my book when i do
my wrap-ups it's rare that i don't really like a book if i'm reviewing it because usually if i
don't like a book i don't finish the book like i just not that type of person and like if i'm
not enjoying the read i'm not going to force myself to finish it this book it's not that i
didn't like it i just didn't like it so this is You Had Me At Hola which let me explain
this is a romance which i don't know if it's because i've been reading so much romance so now
like you know when you're reading all these good romance novels your bar set really high
but this is featuring Jasmine um who's the main character she's an actress and she's
trying to become a leading lady that's her goal and she you know is just got a role in this new
show and it's the perfect timing because she's going through like a horrible breakup
a public breakup where she's being dragged through the press and her co-star is someone who's huge in
the telenovela world and her family grew up loving and that is Ashton and you know he's a telenovela
star but he wants to break into real hollywood so they're both kind of like at a pivotal point
in their careers where they really want this to be like a breakout role for them but they
start liking each other and romance happens and it complicates things i guess is what we're supposed
to get from this i liked the fact that it was you know there were several different latin american
countries represented or mentioned i can't say representative mentioned and random like Cafe
Bustelo, like little things like that like you hear you're like oh that's you know like he is familiar
it feels nice you like hearing about it but it's just it's hard to explain it's like the parts
i liked the most about the book were actually the scenes because in the show that these two
actors are playing it's like a show within a show because the show that they're the characters that
they're playing are also actors that are playing a nutella novella and some of the elements in the
book you get the scenes from the actual show that they're shooting um which i think is um commercial
i forget what the show is actually called anyways i just thought i was gonna love it because i i
just thought you know they said like the way they described it in the whole telenovela it sounded so
fun and nice and i thought i was gonna have like this really cute romance aspect but the romance
aspect it was kind of like i don't really i don't really want them to necessarily be together and i
don't really feel like they really were together and i kind of just felt like this ain't gonna last
like i don't know how to explain it i don't know if it's because the writing it took too long for
them to even get to the romance but something was just like i gave it three stars on goodreads but
it was really like a two two and a half for me um but i like the concept a lot i like the concept a
lot but i just don't recommend the book like i i finished it because i could but if i didn't finish
it i wouldn't have regretted not finishing it so take that what y'all want and um yeah
okay anyways on more positive note let's get to some romances back to some romances that
i did like so i i finally read a book by Rebecca Weatherspoon which i am so glad i was introduced
to the author i read RAFE first which is the first book in the loose end series and this
follows like a male nanny and Sloane, who's like a doctor a black doctor who has these two
adorable twin daughters and she needs a male nanny and Rafe happens to be a male nanny and he needs
a new position as well a perfect timing the stars in line and romance happens between the nanny and
Sloane i gave this like three and a half stars i actually really liked it a lot it's just
there was a conflict element with um sloan's like ex-husband that wasn't really fully fleshed out
or really explained and it was like a whole bunch happened there but nothing really happened there
but as far as the feeling as far as me actually laughing out loud and
the chemistry between those two the chemistry was strong and it had pretty much
all the elements that i want in a romance so i really liked it i liked it enough i was like i
definitely want to read the second book the second book is any now this one took me for a
spin i would i know what to expect and i actually read this with weekend reader. XENI and it's
funny because i like XENI more and she liked Rafe more but that's neither here nor there Xeni
is a story about Xeni who gets -- she's a teacher and she gets this inheritance through
some family secret i won't go in depth with because it's explaining the story but really the
the focal point is she has this inheritance that's like millions of dollars but she can only get it
is if she marries this dude so she's like okay but she's never met this guy she means him Mason and
he is like um a scottish guy who lives up north um and he has his own thing but the cool thing is
both of the characters are both Bi the guy Mason he is plus size and i felt like the
representation it was real cool having the various kind of like representation in romance but their
chemistry i felt like they were just like instantly i know people don't necessarily like
the instant romance type stuff but they were like it wasn't necessarily instant romance but they
were like instantly compatible instantly like you knew they were going to be cool with each other
and friends and they just vibed and the fact that the two were just so comfortable and just like so
with each other like there was no judgment between the two and that's where i'll leave that okay so
that's all that i have for my wrap up you guys probably saw i also reviewed lovecraft um which
you could check out that review that's comparing the book to the show um so check that out as well
but yeah let me know what you guys are reading next month or for the rest of this year because
it's pretty much almost over um and if you read anything that i read let me know
what your thoughts were all right i'll see you guys in the next one love and light and deuces.