Hey guys!
What's up?!
Today it's time to wrap up January and to show you all the books I read in the month
of January, but before I get to the books, let me just say I completed my tbr challenge
for the month of January.
HUZZAH! and a book falls over.
I did it!
I completed a tbr!
You guys don't even know I am so terrible at tbr piles, but I completed my tbr pile
and I'm so happy about it.
If you guys don't know what I'm talking about, I'm doing a tbr challenge this year at the
beginning of each month I challenge myself to read a set amount of books and if I read
those books I get to reward myself and if I don't read those books then I have to do
some terrible challenge.
So I will leave a link down below to my tbr challenge for January if you want to know
what that's all about, but I thought that I would start this video off by showing you
guys my reward!
The thing that I rewarded myself with.
I actually bought this before I had completed my tbr challenge, but I didn't use them.
I didn't use them at all.
And that reward is these big hero 6 bookmarks from craftedvan.
They are so cool!
Like, I am just obsessed with these suckers.
If you don't know what craftedvan is it's this really awesome etsy store that make these
incredible bookmarks and I'm just kind of obsessed with them right now.
So, I rewarded myself with these big hero 6 bookmarks, even thought I bought them before
I completed my challenge..
I didn't use them.. so now I can use them, because I completed my tbr challenge!
ahhh.
So now that that's out of the way.. let's get started I'm gonna show you guys the books
I read in the month of January.
The first book I read this month was actually a graphic novel and that was Blankets by Craig
Thompson.This graphic novel was not what I expected it to be, going into this I thought
that it was just going to be about a relationship that takes place during the winter time because
the cover leads you to believe that that's what it's going to be about, but it was so
much more than that.
It has a major focus on religion, which was really interesting and it's also just kind
of about this guy trying to figure out who he is and what he's all about and what he
wants to do with his life.
I don't think I was necessarily sold on the story, but I loved the artwork inside this
graphic novel, it was so beautiful.
Full of amazing images..
I wouldn't necessarily recommend this as a starting point for graphic novels, but if
you love graphic novels and you haven't checked out Blankets yet I would highly suggest checking
it out.
And the next book I read was Half Bad by Sally Green.
This book has been sitting on my shelf for quite some time now so I was trying to figure
out what books I was going to read this month and I saw it and I was like you know what?
This is the month that I will conquer you and I read it and I didn't enjoy it as much
as I thought I would, unfortunately.
If you don't know what Half Bad is about it's about this world where Black Witches are evil
and White Witches are good and we follow this boy named Nathan who is both a black witch
and a white witch.
He's in between, he's a half code.
Nathan is also the son of one of the world's most evil witches and he takes it upon himself
to go and find his father, but it's not that easy, because Nathan is in a cage and is monitored
at all times.
So he must find a way to escape and go find his father.
While I enjoyed my time reading this book and I thought it was a very simple and fun
read, I also was very underwhelmed by it.
The characters were dry, the world was underdeveloped, and there really wasn't too much to this plot.
But I really enjoyed my time reading this book, it only took me a few days to read it,
it was a very simple read and I'm glad that I read it and I will be continuing on with
this trilogy.
Also I did a full fledged review book review on this book.
So if you want to check that out then click on this book and it'll take you to that review.
Click it, click it, click it!
Click it.
Then I read the graphic novel, Explorer: The Mystery Boxes and this is a bunch of different
short stories from several different graphic novel artists.
They each had to write a story about a box, it was really interesting and I actually really
enjoyed this graphic novel.
It was definitely aimed at a younger audience, but I still really loved it.
I think my favorite story within this was Under the Floorboards by Emily Carrol who
also wrote one of my favorite graphic novels ever and that is Through the Woods.
She just has this amazing art style and it's very creepy and eerie and I love the stories
that she tells.
I would recommend this graphic novel if you like the Amulet series and it's actually edited
by the same guy who created the Amulet series.
So if you like Amulet definitely check this out.
And then I read Cinder by Marissa Meyer.
It's going down, I'm yelling Cinder!
And this is a Cinderella retelling with cyborgs and it's awesome!
I loved this book so much!
I wasn't expecting to like this book at all, I was going into it like ehhh I don't think
I'm going to like that very much.
I was very hestiant even picking this book up, but then I picked it up and I freaking
loved it.
It was SO good.
I actually did a full review on this so if you want to go check that out then click on
this here book.
It was fantastic!
The characters are amazing, the world is so fascinating, and I'm definitely excited to
continue on with this series.
And then I read the Boundless by Kenneth Oppel.
And this book is about a boy named Will who goes on a journey on the worlds longest train,
it's just so long!
And on this journey Will witnesses a murder and the murderer who is committing the murder
witnesses Will witnessing the murder..
did that make sense?
I think it did.
I hope it did!
Anyways this murderer then starts chasing after Will.. so Will must find a way to hide
and run away from this murderer while on this train.
This was such an adventurous story full of mystery and magic and I thoroughly enjoyed
my time reading it.
I think the one thing that I didn't like about it was the pacing, it was a little bit slow,
but other than that it was really great and I did a full review on this book as well so
if you want to clickity click on this book it'll take you to a review that I did for
The Boundless.
Yes.
And the last book I read was the best book I read all month and that is Mistborn: The
Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson.
Oh my heck!
This book blew my brains, it just blew my brains out.
I read this for the booksplosion mistsplosion read-along this past month and I'm so glad
we picked this as the book of the month, because it just pushed me to read it and I'm so glad
that I finally read it..
I wish I would have read it since, because it was just so good.
The characters are amazing!
SO amazing!
The best and there's such great character development through this book, I can't even
tell you the character development that you see is just incredible.
And the magic system is crazy amazing!
The magic system is so cool, it's called Allomancy and basically these people ingest metals and
then these metals give them abilities and it's just so cool go read this book if you
haven't read it.
I did a full review on this book so if you wanna go check that out, then click on this
book and go watch it and go buy this book and read it, because it's amazing, it's amazing,
it's AMAZING.
So those are the books that I read in the month of January, you guys should let me know
down below what your favorite book was that you read in the month of January.
Thanks for watching guys and I will see you soon with a new video!
WHOOSH.