I'm the exact same with cozy fantasy, or really cozy anything, it just seems boring to me 😂 I'm bored enough as it is, or I need some good distraction, I don't need a book to bore me haha! The Spellshop sounds like it might be worth a shot! Perfect World sounds great and absolutely awful! The nurse, what..? Breaking Character sounds good. I'm glad you had some awesome reads! And I have to say your top is super pretty! 😊
FINALLY someone who gets it 😭😭😭 like i only really enjoy cozy stuff if it's cozy in VIBES only and everything else about it is exciting haha (e.g. farming games like stardew valley are 'cozy' but if you play them to their full potential it is super fast paced and even stressful haha)! Those were my exact reservations with the spellshop but i was living for how eventful it was! It was the perfect balance in my opinion~ I was so flabbergasted the further i got into Perfect World...like it was so good but also the worst thing ever, ah the duality😅😂 omg thank you so much! Im like a cartoon character with how much i outfit repeat, i usually have like 3 outfits on rotation that i wear so when i find a cute new item it makes it in right away! im obsessed with this top so im glad you like it 🥺💖
@@love.lauren... Exactly! I have nothing against cozy in itself, just don't make it boring 😂 I have it on audiobook, and every review on the app has crossed the "Before bed" tag 😊 That's good, I need that! Haha have you ever seen me in anything other than black?! 😂 I can't with the decision fatigue, I just wear the same things over and over, and when one is dirty I have more of the same thing because I cannot. If you have cute outfits you like, wear them til they fall apart! Or until you find new cute outfits 🥰 Whatever makes you feel good! + You read mangas and play cute games, so is it really the worst thing if you're like a cartoon character?! 😄
I nearly had to do a double-take when I heard part of your intro lol. 😂 Daydream for sure is a book I will like so I will be picking that one up very soon, it is good to hear that it saved you from some not-so-good reads, but at least it was fun to hear about 🤗
i was NOT kidding about the nonsense like that is JAIL behaviour 💀💀💀 im glad to hear daydream sounds like it will be a win for you, it certainly was for me!!! 💕💕💕
ooooof I am crying for you. Some of the books you mentioned are criminal 😭. I really hope October is a better reading month for you! The Spellshop looks so cute! I have not heard great things about it so I haven't picked it up but hearing you talk about it has me like 👀 The crows wanted to be in the video so bad 😩 Wished aka missed 🙅♀ Wait IDR if you ranked them in your previous video but, how would you rank the Hannah Grace from fave to least fave? I liked Icebreaker better than Wild fire but thought they were both good! I have yet to get to Daydream (also opportunity missed for them to call it "Daydreamer") JAIL 17:30 WTFFFF YESSSSS BREAKING CHARACTER GETTING THE PRAISE IT DESERVES!!! I am so happy that you loved it 💖♥. I get what you mean about Grumpy Sunshine and I so see that. I love the couple in this sooo much bc Summer doesn't take any bs from anyone but is still a cutie
and when you say criminal that is LITERAL because like??? honestly i think i was traumatised from so many bad novels that i fled into the world of manga to recover so thats mainly what i was reading, but after the AMAZING Intermezzo by Sally Rooney im back on a novel kick once again! it's a very good month so far! I was a bit on the fence too at first but it really worked for me! I think it was probably a bit too chaotic for most people who love cozy fantasies but it is EXACTLY what I personally want a cozy fantasy to be! no fr like i was feeling like they were stealing my thunder a bit but crows hold grudges so i will be super nice to them hahah LMAO i love your puns so much haha wished more like it PISSED me off :P OOOOH excellent question!! So my definitive ranking is 3. Wild fire (i liked it and the character dynamics were good but it was a bit too not-much-happening for my liking compared to the others), 2. Icebreaker (actually really liked it but it was admittedly too long and that one annoying roommate gaslighting manipulator guy pissed me tf off like he was there for way too long), and 1. DAYDREAM EASILY CLEARS THEM ALL it is actually a book i already want to re-read i truly truly loved it so much it is a favourite of this year for me!!! And also I HAD THE EXACT SAME THOUGHT (but then in the novel it actually turns out 'daydream' is a little referential thing so then it made sense why she called it that) no girllll like i was NOT kidding my jaw was on the floor like it took several years off my life from the sheer trauma of having my eyeballs exposed to such nonsense, JAIL THANK YOU FOR THE REC HONESTLY it changed something in me and RAISED my standards for romance even higher because if they aren't summer and elizabether, do they even have any chemistry?
😭 14??? 20?? I almost spat my coffee out. I am HERE for the Skip and Loafer love! I'm so glad the anime was well done (BOMBASTIC side eye to Endo and Kobayashi Live! anime). GIRL 😭 the 2nd ML syndrome is real. Why does the mangaka mess with my feelings like this?? My heart cannot take it anymore lol
I was lying down reading as I encountered that fun little bit of information and im not joking when i tell you i choked on my own saliva as i gasped and it went down my windpipe AHAHAH truly gooped and gagged by the horror 💀💀💀 but thank god you understand my skip and loafer love, watching the anime AFTER getting up to date with the PERFECTION that is the manga had me real scared, but they absolutely did it justice!!! And yep 2nd male lead syndrome is terminal i swear, im not coming back from it....and like at least end it clean!!! but the mangaka just keeps dangling hope and snatching it away -- the cruelty! also, as a fun little treat, let me share the insane 'suggestions' that TH-cam Studio tried to make me reply to this comment with: 1. "It is a true tragedy! 😩😩😩 Especially when there's a genuinely amazing second male lead who deserves all the love 🥺" 2. "Oh, my sweet summer child, you are about to experience a whole world of pain. 😭😭😭 It doesn't get better, it just gets worse. 🤪🤪🤪" what the heck 😭😭😭 like is that second one a THREAT!??
@@love.lauren... LMAO WHY DOES IT SOUND SO THREATENING?? The response suggestions are out of pocket sometimes! The Skip and Loafer adaption is so good! It’s been so hit or miss lately I feel like I’m taking a gamble each time. UGHHH when they dangle the possibility with 2nd ML I know it’s over for me. If it’s not a clean break at the end I end up reading fan fictions LOL. Do mangakas enjoy seeing us suffer? 😭
Things getting dropped or authors giving up on the plot is why I always hate reading or starting anything that isn't completed!! I'm someone who almost always reads completed work only because I'm traumatized 💀 Same!! I want to enjoy cozy books sometimes but I really do want and need action or STUFF happening. Otherwise... I'll get bored after a bit because eventually it's almost a repeat?? 😅 Not sure if that makes sense. Similar to how I feel about slice of life books. It's great to get the fluffy feeling but sometimes there's no sustenance. Perfect World on the other hand... is a cluster F*. 🥴When you talked about that nurse??? IN WHAT WORLD IS THAT OKAY? WHY IS SHE STILL WORKING THERE, IS SHE?? From what I hear... there's a lot of editors involved in mangas so that might be why one series might feel drastically different than another. AHHH, I haven't read or even watched Skip and Loafer but I've heard nothing but good things about it, but now I need to read it 😩 I'll definitely be making a note of listening to Breaking Character as an audiobook since it's been on my TBR since Brooklin mentioned about it 👀 I'll be keeping an eye out for Witch Hat until you continue on LOL. Seems like there's a bunch of volumes out but I need to know how it all goes down. Solid month even if you had some pretty terrible books!! I had definitely a lower than average rating for September buttttt my favorite book is Diary of a Young Girl!
you're so right, ive been burned FAR too many times before so i yeeted myself out of there the minute i found out! no that COMPLETELY makes sense i absolutely get you, i struggle with slice of life for the same reason because it is fun for the first few chapters/episodes and then im just like...oh this is it? this is all that's going to happen? oh🥴 I LITERALLY CUT OUT SEVERAL MORE MINUTES OF ME JUST GOING IN ON THAT PLOT POINT (and also so so so many minutes of me just staring into space at the sheer audacity as i re-lived it hahaha) and like then she not only got away with it and no one ever found out (and its not even presented as a wrong thing she did) but then SHE GETS TO BE HIS PRIVATE NURSE like??? oh and also, they then start dating late....when the FL is dating that other guy he tries to move on so he agrees to date this woman...like they obviously break up and the ML and FL get back together eventually but i am so angry!!!!!!! Ahhhh that could be it, perhaps she even just did the art but the company or even another writer came up with the story. GIRL OMG im so angry at myself for putting off Skip and Loafer for so long because i thought it was just going to be a cute fluffy slice of life high school romance but it is SO not that it is exactly the vibes of Blue Flag (in terms of character growth and self identity etc.) but also being a rom com! it is so funny and lovely and im actually obsessed!!! the anime is also EXTREMELY well done like the voice cast are perfect and the art is beautiful~ and yes i continue to recommend Breaking Character (especially the audiobook) so i am eternally in debt to brooklin for the rec I have up to volume 13 borrowed from my library at the moment and im just starting volume 6 and OH BOY is it getting good, i will certainly keep you updated but it seems like this series will be a WIN! ooooh i saw that you read that, ive put it off for ages but it feels like one of those books everyone should read at least once!
@@love.lauren... I... don't even know what to say about the plot because..... HUH. I think there was SO much that could be done for disability representation but they had to add all these random stuff to try to make the plot more interesting 💀 Sometimes... less is more. I wish authors knew that!! AHHH. Okay, I need to add it to my list then. I might start with the anime first just to have it in the background while I'm playing games and stuff!!
@itsmimiduong genuinely I was flabbergasted it could have been so good!!! I mean it still was, I learned a LOT, but....WHY!! great idea!! honestly thats smart because when I tell you the 12 episode anime was perfect BUT it ends RIGHT before things in the manga really start getting even BETTER so it's great to watch first and then maybe pick up the manga where the show left off!
I'm so sorry for all the bad reads you had in the month of September 🥲 I feel like that is currently how my October has been I'm so glad you enjoyed The Spellshop. I have friends pushing me to read it and I haven't picked it up yet even though it's been staring me down on my bookshelf 🤣😅 Noooo I haven't finished reading Perfect World (this part I did skip just for risk of spoilers 🥲). This is a series my fiancé and I started reading when we first started dating and haven't had the chance to finish yet
oh no i hope the second half of your October end up being better then! 🥲 Honestly im surprised i loved it as much as i did! it was just exactly what i wanted out of a so-called cozy fantasy!! OOFT i truly hope you like it more than i did, i both want to rate it 5 stars and 0 stars like it had SO MUCH VALUE right??? idk how far you got so i wont spoil anything ofc but the ridiculous (and frankly, disgusting) plot points woven in there throughout just made me give up like WHY!! i was loving it so much 😭 I hope you guys get to finish it and have a better experience than me!
@@love.lauren... thank you! This is my first reading slump this year and I'm soooo mad about it! I can't wait to read it! But maybe after the reading slump, I don't want my enjoyment to get ruined.🥲 I'll have to let you know when we finish it. I think we are still missing a few of the books and then I'll do a reread! There were definitely parts that made me cry though and the disability rep made me so happy
I'm the exact same with cozy fantasy, or really cozy anything, it just seems boring to me 😂 I'm bored enough as it is, or I need some good distraction, I don't need a book to bore me haha! The Spellshop sounds like it might be worth a shot!
Perfect World sounds great and absolutely awful! The nurse, what..? Breaking Character sounds good.
I'm glad you had some awesome reads! And I have to say your top is super pretty! 😊
FINALLY someone who gets it 😭😭😭 like i only really enjoy cozy stuff if it's cozy in VIBES only and everything else about it is exciting haha (e.g. farming games like stardew valley are 'cozy' but if you play them to their full potential it is super fast paced and even stressful haha)! Those were my exact reservations with the spellshop but i was living for how eventful it was! It was the perfect balance in my opinion~
I was so flabbergasted the further i got into Perfect World...like it was so good but also the worst thing ever, ah the duality😅😂
omg thank you so much! Im like a cartoon character with how much i outfit repeat, i usually have like 3 outfits on rotation that i wear so when i find a cute new item it makes it in right away! im obsessed with this top so im glad you like it 🥺💖
@@love.lauren... Exactly! I have nothing against cozy in itself, just don't make it boring 😂 I have it on audiobook, and every review on the app has crossed the "Before bed" tag 😊 That's good, I need that!
Haha have you ever seen me in anything other than black?! 😂 I can't with the decision fatigue, I just wear the same things over and over, and when one is dirty I have more of the same thing because I cannot. If you have cute outfits you like, wear them til they fall apart! Or until you find new cute outfits 🥰 Whatever makes you feel good! + You read mangas and play cute games, so is it really the worst thing if you're like a cartoon character?! 😄
I nearly had to do a double-take when I heard part of your intro lol. 😂 Daydream for sure is a book I will like so I will be picking that one up very soon, it is good to hear that it saved you from some not-so-good reads, but at least it was fun to hear about 🤗
i was NOT kidding about the nonsense like that is JAIL behaviour 💀💀💀
im glad to hear daydream sounds like it will be a win for you, it certainly was for me!!!
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ooooof I am crying for you. Some of the books you mentioned are criminal 😭. I really hope October is a better reading month for you!
The Spellshop looks so cute! I have not heard great things about it so I haven't picked it up but hearing you talk about it has me like 👀
The crows wanted to be in the video so bad 😩
Wished aka missed 🙅♀
Wait IDR if you ranked them in your previous video but, how would you rank the Hannah Grace from fave to least fave? I liked Icebreaker better than Wild fire but thought they were both good! I have yet to get to Daydream (also opportunity missed for them to call it "Daydreamer")
JAIL 17:30 WTFFFF
YESSSSS BREAKING CHARACTER GETTING THE PRAISE IT DESERVES!!! I am so happy that you loved it 💖♥. I get what you mean about Grumpy Sunshine and I so see that. I love the couple in this sooo much bc Summer doesn't take any bs from anyone but is still a cutie
and when you say criminal that is LITERAL because like??? honestly i think i was traumatised from so many bad novels that i fled into the world of manga to recover so thats mainly what i was reading, but after the AMAZING Intermezzo by Sally Rooney im back on a novel kick once again! it's a very good month so far!
I was a bit on the fence too at first but it really worked for me! I think it was probably a bit too chaotic for most people who love cozy fantasies but it is EXACTLY what I personally want a cozy fantasy to be!
no fr like i was feeling like they were stealing my thunder a bit but crows hold grudges so i will be super nice to them hahah
LMAO i love your puns so much haha wished more like it PISSED me off :P
OOOOH excellent question!! So my definitive ranking is 3. Wild fire (i liked it and the character dynamics were good but it was a bit too not-much-happening for my liking compared to the others), 2. Icebreaker (actually really liked it but it was admittedly too long and that one annoying roommate gaslighting manipulator guy pissed me tf off like he was there for way too long), and 1. DAYDREAM EASILY CLEARS THEM ALL it is actually a book i already want to re-read i truly truly loved it so much it is a favourite of this year for me!!! And also I HAD THE EXACT SAME THOUGHT (but then in the novel it actually turns out 'daydream' is a little referential thing so then it made sense why she called it that)
no girllll like i was NOT kidding my jaw was on the floor like it took several years off my life from the sheer trauma of having my eyeballs exposed to such nonsense, JAIL
THANK YOU FOR THE REC HONESTLY it changed something in me and RAISED my standards for romance even higher because if they aren't summer and elizabether, do they even have any chemistry?
😭 14??? 20?? I almost spat my coffee out. I am HERE for the Skip and Loafer love! I'm so glad the anime was well done (BOMBASTIC side eye to Endo and Kobayashi Live! anime).
GIRL 😭 the 2nd ML syndrome is real. Why does the mangaka mess with my feelings like this?? My heart cannot take it anymore lol
I was lying down reading as I encountered that fun little bit of information and im not joking when i tell you i choked on my own saliva as i gasped and it went down my windpipe AHAHAH truly gooped and gagged by the horror 💀💀💀 but thank god you understand my skip and loafer love, watching the anime AFTER getting up to date with the PERFECTION that is the manga had me real scared, but they absolutely did it justice!!!
And yep 2nd male lead syndrome is terminal i swear, im not coming back from it....and like at least end it clean!!! but the mangaka just keeps dangling hope and snatching it away -- the cruelty!
also, as a fun little treat, let me share the insane 'suggestions' that TH-cam Studio tried to make me reply to this comment with:
1. "It is a true tragedy! 😩😩😩 Especially when there's a genuinely amazing second male lead who deserves all the love 🥺"
2. "Oh, my sweet summer child, you are about to experience a whole world of pain. 😭😭😭 It doesn't get better, it just gets worse. 🤪🤪🤪"
what the heck 😭😭😭 like is that second one a THREAT!??
@@love.lauren... LMAO WHY DOES IT SOUND SO THREATENING??
The response suggestions are out of pocket sometimes! The Skip and Loafer adaption is so good! It’s been so hit or miss lately I feel like I’m taking a gamble each time.
UGHHH when they dangle the possibility with 2nd ML I know it’s over for me. If it’s not a clean break at the end I end up reading fan fictions LOL. Do mangakas enjoy seeing us suffer? 😭
Things getting dropped or authors giving up on the plot is why I always hate reading or starting anything that isn't completed!! I'm someone who almost always reads completed work only because I'm traumatized 💀 Same!! I want to enjoy cozy books sometimes but I really do want and need action or STUFF happening. Otherwise... I'll get bored after a bit because eventually it's almost a repeat?? 😅 Not sure if that makes sense. Similar to how I feel about slice of life books. It's great to get the fluffy feeling but sometimes there's no sustenance.
Perfect World on the other hand... is a cluster F*. 🥴When you talked about that nurse??? IN WHAT WORLD IS THAT OKAY? WHY IS SHE STILL WORKING THERE, IS SHE?? From what I hear... there's a lot of editors involved in mangas so that might be why one series might feel drastically different than another. AHHH, I haven't read or even watched Skip and Loafer but I've heard nothing but good things about it, but now I need to read it 😩 I'll definitely be making a note of listening to Breaking Character as an audiobook since it's been on my TBR since Brooklin mentioned about it 👀
I'll be keeping an eye out for Witch Hat until you continue on LOL. Seems like there's a bunch of volumes out but I need to know how it all goes down. Solid month even if you had some pretty terrible books!! I had definitely a lower than average rating for September buttttt my favorite book is Diary of a Young Girl!
you're so right, ive been burned FAR too many times before so i yeeted myself out of there the minute i found out! no that COMPLETELY makes sense i absolutely get you, i struggle with slice of life for the same reason because it is fun for the first few chapters/episodes and then im just like...oh this is it? this is all that's going to happen? oh🥴
I LITERALLY CUT OUT SEVERAL MORE MINUTES OF ME JUST GOING IN ON THAT PLOT POINT (and also so so so many minutes of me just staring into space at the sheer audacity as i re-lived it hahaha) and like then she not only got away with it and no one ever found out (and its not even presented as a wrong thing she did) but then SHE GETS TO BE HIS PRIVATE NURSE like??? oh and also, they then start dating late....when the FL is dating that other guy he tries to move on so he agrees to date this woman...like they obviously break up and the ML and FL get back together eventually but i am so angry!!!!!!! Ahhhh that could be it, perhaps she even just did the art but the company or even another writer came up with the story.
GIRL OMG im so angry at myself for putting off Skip and Loafer for so long because i thought it was just going to be a cute fluffy slice of life high school romance but it is SO not that it is exactly the vibes of Blue Flag (in terms of character growth and self identity etc.) but also being a rom com! it is so funny and lovely and im actually obsessed!!! the anime is also EXTREMELY well done like the voice cast are perfect and the art is beautiful~ and yes i continue to recommend Breaking Character (especially the audiobook) so i am eternally in debt to brooklin for the rec
I have up to volume 13 borrowed from my library at the moment and im just starting volume 6 and OH BOY is it getting good, i will certainly keep you updated but it seems like this series will be a WIN! ooooh i saw that you read that, ive put it off for ages but it feels like one of those books everyone should read at least once!
@@love.lauren... I... don't even know what to say about the plot because..... HUH. I think there was SO much that could be done for disability representation but they had to add all these random stuff to try to make the plot more interesting 💀 Sometimes... less is more. I wish authors knew that!!
AHHH. Okay, I need to add it to my list then. I might start with the anime first just to have it in the background while I'm playing games and stuff!!
@itsmimiduong genuinely I was flabbergasted it could have been so good!!! I mean it still was, I learned a LOT, but....WHY!!
great idea!! honestly thats smart because when I tell you the 12 episode anime was perfect BUT it ends RIGHT before things in the manga really start getting even BETTER so it's great to watch first and then maybe pick up the manga where the show left off!
I'm so sorry for all the bad reads you had in the month of September 🥲 I feel like that is currently how my October has been
I'm so glad you enjoyed The Spellshop. I have friends pushing me to read it and I haven't picked it up yet even though it's been staring me down on my bookshelf 🤣😅
Noooo I haven't finished reading Perfect World (this part I did skip just for risk of spoilers 🥲). This is a series my fiancé and I started reading when we first started dating and haven't had the chance to finish yet
oh no i hope the second half of your October end up being better then! 🥲
Honestly im surprised i loved it as much as i did! it was just exactly what i wanted out of a so-called cozy fantasy!!
OOFT i truly hope you like it more than i did, i both want to rate it 5 stars and 0 stars like it had SO MUCH VALUE right??? idk how far you got so i wont spoil anything ofc but the ridiculous (and frankly, disgusting) plot points woven in there throughout just made me give up like WHY!! i was loving it so much 😭 I hope you guys get to finish it and have a better experience than me!
@@love.lauren... thank you! This is my first reading slump this year and I'm soooo mad about it!
I can't wait to read it! But maybe after the reading slump, I don't want my enjoyment to get ruined.🥲
I'll have to let you know when we finish it. I think we are still missing a few of the books and then I'll do a reread! There were definitely parts that made me cry though and the disability rep made me so happy