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i hate calling myself a non -reader that is like the saddest thing ever

when i was younger i literally couldn't leave my house without a book like i loved reading

so much i am so over this period in my life of literally not touching a book.

The only two books I've picked up are the new

Hunger Games books that Suzanne Collins released in the last couple years.

I'm obsessed with The Hunger Games, so that's not even very surprising.

But both times when I finished those books, I was back into my reading slump.

Like nothing would interest me.

I couldn't finish anything.

I just was not as into it.

And that is so sad.

So I'm going to fix that in this video.

I am officially going to be entering my reading era again

because I'm going to spend the entire week reading as many books as possible.

And I think by reading as many books as possible,

it's going to show me that there's more out there that's enjoyable that I have no idea about yet.

Today is Monday.

I'm going to make a cup of coffee and we're going to get started with the first book.

Finally, I get to talk about this series.

I have been so excited to talk about these.

First off, the covers oh my god these are the most beautiful books

i own like absolutely in love with these these are the uk covers

and i am just so obsessed they are so pretty

so i started this series about a month ago without giving any spoilers

i wanted to show the aesthetic of the book

because i feel like

when i'm starting a new book

i want to see like the vibe like what am i

getting myself into what world are we jumping in this is

the first one once upon a broken heart first one took me the longest to read.

Then I started the second one, which took me about a week to read.

And now we are starting today on the third book, which I started yesterday and I'm already halfway through.

I love this series so bad.

This did it for me.

Like the last week, I have not done anything except think about these books.

And that's when I knew I had to make this video.

So it is Monday and we are starting with the third book in this series.

I think I'm going to finish the rest of this book really fast.

So let's get to reading.

Guys, it's too good.

I am going to be so sad when this series is over.

It is so good.

You are so cute over there

i honestly don't know which i like more like the second one was

so insanely good but

so far this third one is really good too don't get me wrong i did like the first one also

but i think these two are just on another level just like the descriptions of like the character's hair is

so pretty the main character in this book has pink hair

and i literally want to dye my hair pink so bad just

because of this book like i'm just obsessed like i want to live in this book it's

so good i'm back home

i brought my book out to run errands today like i am

that attached to reading this i really think it'll have a good ending

i think i'm gonna be happy with it

but i'm still gonna be really sad that it's over

and my feelings are all over the place like honestly i think i'm too emotional to be a reader.

It's like so intense every time.

I stopped at Barnes and Noble to pick up another book for this week.

We're not going to talk about it yet.

I'll talk about it later tonight after I finish this.

But I also picked up a coffee and this muffin.

I got a cinnamon muffin.

There's a lot of talk about foods in this book, specifically the third one.

And the way these foods are described sound like the most delicious ever.

Like little treats and cakes

and like just the intricate details makes me want to go to a cafe

and get a little treat right now

so to finish this book i figured i might as well have an iced coffee

and then this cinnamon muffin just as like a little treat

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I am like as pink as it gets right now.

I can't do this.

I'm sitting up in my seat.

I cannot breathe that my stomach hurts like i am sweating right now

and i can't i'm like delirious at this point

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okay we need a debrief i have no words this series was

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so so good these are the first books to get me out of a reading slump i thought

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that reading slump was permanent to be honest with you Jax

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I think I'm in love with him I'm not gonna lie like I was rooting for them

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so bad throughout this entire series

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Number one the apples

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that Jax is eating throughout this series I think it's like a metaphor like

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and now that I've finished it

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and like I know what they mean I feel like I need to go back

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and reread all of these

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I do have a lot of unanswered questions though Like there are main characters in this series

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that we just never got an answer for like I don't know where they went

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it was kind of like a vague like oh

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and they just disappeared what do you mean

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that was a main character like what

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so I think the third book it should have been longer

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we should have had more like to be honest like 400 pages is not enough

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but I am happy with the ending I was like I think I know where this is going

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but if it takes a wrong turn

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and I'm left devastated I'm gonna be devastated for like a while these books have been really playing with my emotions.

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Here is my finished series and the first book I finished in this video.

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I'd like to say I'm a fast reader

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but I feel like I didn't read that fast because it took me a while to finish it.

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Usually after finishing a series like

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that I feel like I would let it like marinate

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and I would let myself sit with it for a while

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but I think that's what causes my reading slumps too because after finishing that how am I supposed to move on?

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How am I supposed to start a new book

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and like start from the beginning of a new story

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but in this video i have no choice i am going to start a new book

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and i'm going to choose it right now i could jump into a new series there are two

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that have been at the top of my mind recently the fourth wing

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and powerless but i think we're going to get to those later in this video

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because i want to read just one book

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and i think we're going to do heartless i went

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and picked this up at barnes and noble today

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because this has been on my to read list for a

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while my sister has been begging me to read this for

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so long and i feel like this is a good step after reading this series

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so i will see you guys tomorrow to start book two i could not sleep less night either

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because i was way too excited to have my first pumpkin spice latte of the year

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or because i finished that book last night it was

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because i finished

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that book last night cheers yeah today's gonna be a good day last night i finished those books

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and i cannot get them out of my head

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so as you may or may not know there's a series called caraval by the same author

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that ties in with once upon a broken heart

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and i didn't know these two tied together at all until i already started reading

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Once Upon a Broken Heart.

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So I wish I had read the Caraval series first.

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I'm gonna take a little time to let

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Once Upon a Broken Heart marinate and like let it settle in

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and then I'll go back and read Caraval and I'll probably read

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Once Upon a Broken Heart after I read the Caraval series.

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I think it'd be too much to like dive into that series so soon after finishing

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Once Upon a Broken Heart because I really need time to process to be honest with you.

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So anyway I will be reading care of all.

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I really want to but not yet.

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I don't think I can handle it to be honest.

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So what I am going to be reading next is Heartless.

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I am so excited.

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I've heard this book is a 10 out of 10.

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This is just a single book like this is not a series.

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This is just a single book and I think that'd be

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so good and then we'll read another series this week once I finish this.

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I'm so excited.

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It's another fantasy romance which I'm kind of learning is my favorite.

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I want to read this one a little differently because I want to annotate.

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I should have done this when I read

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Once Upon a Broken Heart, but again, I'm just getting into my reading era, so I'm figuring this shit out.

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But I bought these yesterday when I picked up this book.

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They're little page markers.

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I wish there were cuter colors.

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I think I'm gonna make this really simple for this book.

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I'm just gonna use probably the pink ones because I feel like it kind of matches the cover the best.

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And I am literally only gonna mark off the pages that I really like.

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Maybe there's like a good quote, Maybe I'm feeling a certain way.

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Um, maybe there's a twist.

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Maybe there's like a really romantic scene I'm gonna mark off

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that page just with one color

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and then maybe I'll get a little more intense with the annotating and I'll make like a color -coded

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Annotating page marker and like each color matches up with like a feeling I'm having when I'm reading

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We'll see but for now

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We're just probably gonna use pink and I'm gonna mark off all the pages that stand out to me

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So I have a very busy day today.

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So we are bringing everything along with me I know I'm gonna have some time to read throughout my day

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so we'll make that happen but I'm just gonna jump in.

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There is no time to process the last series because I think I will be broken hearted if I do.

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So we're just gonna jump into the next book.

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i didn't have too much time yesterday to read

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but i think i made up for it last night

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and this morning because i am definitely over halfway through

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when i first started reading this book yesterday it was good

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but i wasn't like immediately hooked

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but i decided to stick to it i'm like i'm gonna keep reading i've heard it's really good

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and i'm so glad i did

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because it did get really good it wasn't until page like 120

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that I was hooked not that the first 120 pages weren't good

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but like it took me until

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that point until I was like okay I can't put

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this book down like I am really obsessed

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this book is literally the Alice in Wonderland Queen of Hearts villain origin story

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that is literally what this book is I don't know honestly with these fantasy romance books I don't know

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if I can handle an ending

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that isn't good like I think I'd be devastated forever um

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if it wasn't we are on chapter 34

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and to be honest it's gone by really fast like 300 pages is pretty crazy

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I honestly think I could finish this tonight

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if I like really put my mind to it

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because that's my goal like I'm trying to read as many books as possible in this video

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so we're getting these done left and right.

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This book has my emotions all over the place.

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i don't even know what's going on i feel sick reading this right now like something really good just happened

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but i know in like a page

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that could change i can't do this look at these bookmarks like oh my god please tell me

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this ends good honestly guys i'm mad at everyone in this book right

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now like are you kidding me

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it's all just like a lot to process just don't agree with the decision making in this book

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and it's making me angry like honestly all of the characters are like making me angry except one there's one

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that i like i feel like alice in wonderland in itself

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is already like a trip the riddles the rhyming the way the characters talk

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and in the book it's just like that too

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i can't do this um i can't do this right now are we serious

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i literally i can't i'm gonna cry right now I refuse to accept this.

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Well, I finished.

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I held back my tears.

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I'm not gonna lie.

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I am a wreck after reading that book.

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Oh my god.

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Are you kidding me right now?

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My emotions are all over the place because wow.

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I feel like I need to watch Alice in Wonderland now, to be honest.

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Like, I know the Queen of Hearts character and she's always super angry, super mad.

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She has this temper where she doesn't even think

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she just goes into this like blind rage you know we learn in here it's because she's heartbroken

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and heartless and like

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when you read this book it all like gets put together it's like one thing after the other

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but also even to begin with she already was kind of this like mean spirited person

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that's kind of what i got from it like

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when i first read the first couple chapters i'm like damn

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this girl is like mean the way she would talk about people like she already had this kind of like

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Root of being not the nicest person like it all escalated one thing after the other

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She just became more and more into that character that we know.

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Wow Yeah, I didn't know I needed this in my life, but it was really good

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Wow, that was so like evil to do to me because i'm gonna be thinking about this book now for so long

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And every time I watch alice in wonderland now i'm gonna like

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Have this at the back of my head

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that book last night destroyed me like more than i even anticipated to be honest i woke up this morning

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and i just laid there in bed and stared at the ceiling because i was like

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it is day four and we are at another turning point in this video

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because i get to choose the next book we're going to read this week.

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And I want to move back into a series.

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These two books have been at the very top of my to read list over the last couple months.

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So what I like to do before starting a book is I look at the aesthetic of the book.

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I literally want to see like the vibe that this book gives.

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I want to see like the world I'm going to be stepping into.

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And between the two of these, I feel like the fourth wing is like the perfect book for fall.

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Whereas powerless might be better to start now summer going into fall i don't know why i'm kind of feeling

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that way so i think we are going to read powerless first

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i just can't get over these these are so pretty

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so we are going to be starting with this one first based on the aesthetic

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that i've seen of these books i feel like this would be perfect to jump into after what we've read

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so far in the last two books it's like very much about royalty and princesses and queens.

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I don't know.

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That's kind of the vibe I get from the last two books I read.

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So I feel like this one is perfect to go into next and then we'll read

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The Fourth Wing.

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I think I'm making the right decision.

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I also wanted to get some new page markers to annotate this book.

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I really wanna match the page markers to the color of the cover.

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So since this one's purple, I'm gonna be using the two purple shades in this page marker set.

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I think this is so perfect and so cute.

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I love the two shades of purple in here.

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i am on page 81 and i feel like this book

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so far has been really good like i have not been bored whatsoever

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but i feel like now it's finally like starting

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so i've been pretty locked into this book

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so far especially since it's the beginning like it was a little bit confusing

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but i feel like that's pretty normal especially for like a fantasy book i've found there is just

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so much to explain and so many like things going on

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that i have to really sit with it

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and think about it for a minute and i'm like wait what

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so i feel like the beginning of any like fantasy book

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at this point is like just a lot to take in at once

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there's this map in the beginning of the book

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and i literally flip back and forth to this map like on every page

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because i'm like okay wait what are we talking about i need the visual the characters are really good

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i like this book because it has two perspectives

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so it switches off almost every chapter between the two main characters

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so it's really good so far i'm on page 81

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and i feel like now it's like finally picking up my goal is to read at least another hundred pages

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so i get almost halfway through the book

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i am sitting here just melting over this book right

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now like i can't do this my goal for tonight was to get to page 400

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so that tomorrow morning i can finish this book i think it's around 500 pages

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So I would knock out those last hundred pages in the morning

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But i'm on page 432

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and I cannot put this down I cannot I have these little page markers as i've showed you guys

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and i'm kind of marking off the pages

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Marked off quite a few and the last couple pages.

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I have put

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Four page markers on each page

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Like you guys I can't do this.

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I can't do it.

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I am screaming right now i was like i have to talk about this

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because i'm sitting here on the couch and i'm just like rocking back

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and forth i'm like

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if my neighbors could see me i look insane

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i can't do this right

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now i mean oh my god let me show you this there's three page markers on this page

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that is crazy if

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that doesn't convince you to read this book

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i don't know what's gonna convince you they're having this scene in the rain right now

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and when i tell you it is my dream like that is my dream date

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We'll be right back.

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well you guys I did it I finished powerless

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and for the past hour while I've been getting ready I've just been letting it marinate

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because oh my god this book was crazy I did not know how this book was gonna end

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because there was just so much going on

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because throughout like most of the story yes there were complications there were like intertwined relationships there was like things

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that weren't being said but it was also just so good

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and like just so amazing

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that I looked past all of those complications to just enjoy like the good

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that was happening but then at the end of the book everything went crazy

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and like all those complications got like extremely heightened

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I have to read the second book now basically it's just insane this book was

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so good at the end like now

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that i've finished i feel bad for every single character like i can see everyone's perspectives

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i understand where everyone's coming from it's honestly all just brutal

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like it's just all brutal to be honest with you like you know

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so far during this video

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i have not had to force myself once to read reading has been the highlight of my day every day

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this week

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and this book especially like i was loving this book as you saw

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this book took the longest to get through so far in this video

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which makes sense because there was so much in here like worlds were being built in front of my eyes.

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I'm so wrapped up in it.

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It is crazy.

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These are the main books in the series.

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We have Powerless and then next is Reckless and then last is Fearless but there's also ones that go in between these.

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So there's one, 1 .5, two, three and then 3 .5 just came out.

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So I have two choices.

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I could either jump right into book number two

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which is reckless look at this cover i mean these are just the most beautiful covers ever

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but i could either jump right into book two

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or i could read book 1 .5 it's right after powerless

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and it's called powerful

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and this is told from the perspective of one of the other characters in the book

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she was a big part of the story

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but she wasn't like a main character to where we really learned about who she was

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so that sounds pretty good i did like her character in the book

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so i'm like i could read her perspective and more about her

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and i think everything would tie together even better

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but i honestly just want to jump right into reckless like i need to find out what's happening

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i need to just continue with the story i can't go

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and learn another perspective yet so i think we are gonna read reckless next

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so this is what we are gonna be starting today

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and it is day six so we only have today and tomorrow to read as much of this as we can.

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it is time to do my final reflection of this video

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because what a week i experienced a lot of emotions

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this week i was all over the place every single day there was a lot going on

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but we have a lot to talk about because I read so much.

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I've never read four books in a week before so I feel really proud of myself and it was so much fun.

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Like long story short, I did not have to force myself to read once.

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Reading actually became the highlight of my day every day this week.

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It was so much fun to jump into a book

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and there are some good ones that I need to talk about right now.

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We started day one with this series by Stephanie Garber.

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This is Once Upon a Broken Heart and this series honestly is what got me out of a reading slump.

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I started day one with the third book because the week before I had finished one and two.

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This series was a 10 out of 10.

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I love these so much.

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I would say the second and third are the best.

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The second is probably the best.

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The first one I did really like but it took me a while to really get obsessed with it.

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Like it was about 50 to 70 pages until I was like hooked, but it was still really good.

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Really pretty.

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I'm just obsessed with the aesthetic of these books.

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But the second one, I read this one so fast.

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This one was really good.

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Like I was on the edge of my seat.

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And then the third one, I read this book in like a day and a half.

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I love this one so much.

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If I have to be super strict with my rating right now, I would give the first one four stars.

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I would give the second one five stars

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and I would give the third one four and a half stars if I have to really be picky.

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Otherwise the series is a five star series.

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I loved it so much.

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It was so good and I'm in love with Jax to be honest with you.

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Like I don't know what to do with myself.

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I loved this series so much that I bought this series this week.

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This is the Care of All series and you're supposed to read this before you read these.

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I messed up.

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I really did.

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I didn't even know these tied in together whatsoever until I was already over halfway through the first book

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and I was like well it's too late now

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but I love this series so much that I'm gonna read this series

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and then I'm gonna reread this series honestly

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I just have to be back in this world I can't like I absolutely loved these

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so much so it convinced me to buy these also

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and my problem is once I finish a series it's

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so hard for me to jump into a new one

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so like with The Hunger Games as I went on a rant at the beginning of this video.

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I love that series so much but every time I finished a book from

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that series it is impossible for me to jump into anything else and that's what I feared with this one.

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This series finally got me out of a reading slump.

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I thoroughly enjoyed it but once I finished it I was like how am I gonna move on?

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Like how am I gonna now start a new series or a new book?

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But because of this video I had to start a new one and it forced me to continue my reading era.

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So next by day two in this video, I decided to read Heartless.

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This book wrecked me.

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This is a standalone.

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It's only one book, not a series.

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And this was honestly perfect.

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Like I really liked breaking up the books that way.

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Like I'd read a series and then read a standalone and then I started a new series.

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That was like a great way to kind of keep things moving.

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This book was a 10 out of 10.

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This is a five star.

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I loved this one so much.

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This again took me a minute to get into.

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I think these like fantasy romance books, there's just a lot going on.

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There's a lot of details.

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So like you have to give it a chance.

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That's really what I learned.

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Like give yourself the first 100 pages.

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I know that's a lot.

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In all of these, I was hooked before 100 pages, but like I have to do that.

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I think that's my new rule with reading.

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Like I can't say anything or judge it until I've read over 100 pages.

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So this book, same thing.

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It took me a minute to get into it.

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Like there were no tabs

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in that first section

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but then I was obsessed I absolutely loved this book

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it wrecked me the ending is really tough

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this is basically like the villain origin story of the queen of hearts from Alice in Wonderland

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and obviously like we know

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that character she has like a very bad temper she's like super angry

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and she has every reason to be I feel

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so bad I just can't I've always loved Alice in Wonderland

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so I knew I would really like this book too and everything made sense like all the details intertwine with the movies.

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Everything makes sense.

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Everything adds up.

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So this book was so good, but it was rough.

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This was also the first book I decided to annotate.

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I didn't really annotate it.

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I just used these like page markers to kind of mark off passages I really liked.

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I loved doing that.

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I think I will now forever annotate books like that.

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It wasn't anything crazy since it was my.. first time annotating it.

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It's just that like, I would read passages and I'm like, it spoke to me so well that I'm like, I have to mark this off.

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Like I have to come back to this later.

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So after I read that, I was like, oh my God, how am I going to move on again?

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Every time I read a book now, I'm like stuck.

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Like I cannot move on.

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I really needed time to process, but I didn't give myself time to process.

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I was jumping into the next book and now it was day four

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and I decided to start powerless this series

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i mean look at the tabs on this book like i went crazy marking off these pages

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there were some pages

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i put three page markers on one page like i could not get enough also these covers are

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so insane i'm obsessed i got the uk hard covers

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and they're just the most beautiful ever so starting with powerless

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when i was reading

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if you watched my reaction on day four

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I was like wait what this is like very much like

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the hunger games like to the point where things started happening

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and I was like I had to set the book down

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I was like am I reading the hunger games right

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now like this is very heavily influenced by it there was

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like one page where the main girl grabs a bow and arrow

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and I'm like okay guys obviously throughout this video

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I've talked about the hunger games like more than anything the hunger games is like my thing obviously

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I caught on to like all those little details that reminded me

475

so much of it and I know how i feel about that

476

but regardless it's really good

477

this series is insane as soon as i finished the first one i moved right into the second one

478

so the second one is reckless

479

but in between these two books is like book 1 .5 it's called powerful

480

and you don't have to read it to move on to book two

481

so i decided not to read it but i kind of regret

482

that basically that book just goes into detail on one of the characters

483

that we don't really know the background for in book one

484

so you don't have to read it but I really like getting those characters develop.

485

I want to know every little intricate detail of their lives so I do wish I read that one.

486

I think honestly I'm going to read that one.

487

I think it would have been better to read it right after this one

488

so it's super fresh in my mind but I think I'm going to start that like this week.

489

I am actually going to Europe tomorrow so I will be buying

490

Powerful there so I can get the UK hardcovers.

491

I might as well.

492

I mean, it just makes sense, but I jumped right into Reckless.

493

This is book number two, and this book is really good.

494

I love this one so far.

495

I am over halfway through.

496

I will be reading tonight, but I know I'm not going to finish this.

497

I'm going on a trip tomorrow.

498

I have way too much to do, so I will be bringing this along with me.

499

I think the second half is going to be even better than the first half, to be honest with you.

500

This series honestly is so good, and honestly, since I've been in a reading slump for so long after reading the Hunger Games series,

501

this would have been the perfect series to jump into afterwards because it's super similar but also it's just really good.

502

I love this one.

503

I am so excited for book number three but I will be reading book number one and a half.

504

That is everything I read this week and wow what a week it was.

505

I honestly had such a great time filming this video.

506

This video was one of the most fun videos I've ever filmed.

507

My screen time on my phone went way down this week too and I really like that.

508

We're not going to be in a reading slump anymore

509

because now I have an insane list of books that I want to read.

510

Let me know in the comments if you have any reading suggestions.

511

I think you can tell my taste from what I read this week.

512

I'm very much into the fantasy romance genre.

513

I never thought I would be this kind of reader.

514

I am into it.

515

Thank you guys so much for watching.

516

Until the very end of this video.

517

I know this was a long one.

518

I really appreciate you guys so much.

519

I love you all and I will see you guys soon.

520

Bye guys!

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “"non-reader" getting back into my READING ERA..”. This video has 520 sentences and 5945 words to shadow. The speech runs for 33:19. The speaker talks at a natural 178 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 84% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
marker noun	/ˈmɑː(ɹ)kə(ɹ)/	A felt-tipped pen, a marker pen.
hunger noun	/ˈhʌŋɡɚ/	A need or compelling desire for food.
reckless adjective	/ˈɹɛkləs/	Careless or heedless; headstrong or rash.
wonderland noun	/ˈwʌndɚˌlænd/	A place full of wonder or marvels.
insane adjective	/ɪnˈseɪn/	Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad.
halfway adverb	/ˌhæfˈweɪ/	Half of the way between two points.
hook noun	/hʊk/	A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
reader noun	/ˈɹi.dɚ/	A person who reads.
romance noun	/roʊˈmæn(t)s/	An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
emotion noun	/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/	A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data.
aesthetic adjective	/ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/	Concerned with beauty, artistic effect, or appearance.
purple noun	/ˈpɝ.pl̩/	A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta.
convince verb	/kənˈvɪns/	To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence.
wreck noun	/ˈɹɛk/	Something or someone that has been ruined.
vibe noun	/vaɪb/	An atmosphere or aura felt to belong to a person, place or thing.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
pick up verb		To lift; to grasp and raise.
go back verb		To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.
run out verb		To use up or consume all
add up verb		To take the sum of; to total.
break up verb		To break or separate into pieces.
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
find out verb		To discover, as by asking or investigating.
get over verb		To overcome.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

We're not going to talk about it yet.
I'm sitting up in my seat.
Are you kidding me right now?
I think I'm making the right decision.
I'm so wrapped up in it.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	has been begging · I've been getting
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've picked · have been · have not done
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	are described · be devastated · will be broken
Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group	the saddest · the most beautiful · the longest

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 203 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, gonna, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: aesthetic /ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/, breathe /bɹiːð/, thoroughly /ˈθʌɹ.ə.li/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, shade /ʃeɪd/, suggestion /səˈd͡ʒɛst.ʃən/, genre /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/
Long words — get the stress right: ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, devastated /ˈdɛv.əˌsteɪ.təd/, whatsoever /ˌ(h)wʌtsoʊˈɛvɚ/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/, anticipate /ænˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like marker, hunger, reckless.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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