i have some controversial opinions 🤨💭 MID YEAR BOOK FREAKOUT TAG

I’m so excited to sit down and chat with you guys about my 2024 reading year so far! So let’s talk stats, new favs, disappointments & what I can’t wait to read in the second half of the year. I had already filmed when ​⁠‪@marginsofmarisa‬ tagged me, so I didnt mention it in the video, but thank you for the tag! 🥰


📚books mentioned:

Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries and Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
Bride by Ali Hazelwood
A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
The Eyes Are The Best Part by Monika Kim
The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
Somewhere Beyond The Sea &
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid
A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
Juniper & Thorn by Ava Reid
Macbeth by Shakespeare
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Secret History by Donna Tarte
Magnolia Parks by Jessa Hastings
Ruthless Vows and Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

🕰️ timestamps:

00:00 intro
00:22 stats
02:34 favorite book
04:30 best sequel
06:11 new release pt 1
08:00 new releases pt 2
09:40 biggest disappointment (uh oh)
12:57 biggest surprise
14:20 new favorite authors
16:10 newest fictional crush 💘
17:03 new favorite characters
17:37 tears were shed
18:12 😁
18:49 prettttyyyy
19:27 required reading
21:00 outro

✨socials ✨

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🏷️ tags:

booktuber, books, reading, tbr, novels, literary fiction, mid year freakout book tag, disappointing reads, fictional characters, fantasy novels, sci-fi, anticipated book releases, new release fiction, reading stats, StoryGraph, book taste