Happy new year! My favorite cozy fantasy so far was Legends and Lattes and I wasn't expecting to like it much. It was a delightful surprise. I will be reading Spells For Forgetting at the earliest after this vlog ❤ I just read the Spellshop and it's pretty great even though the last part felt dragged out and naive. I'd recommend it for sure
My monthly reading vlogs for the future are: January: Reading 5 Star Sequels February: Reading Books on my Shelves The Longest March: Reading Your Favourite Illumicrate and Fairyloot Picks April: A Month of Standalones May: Highest Rated on Goodreads on my Shelves Thank you to everyone who helped me pick my Sprng TBR on instagram last week, my Summer TBR polls and stories will be going up on instagram in around April! instagram.com/wandernessbooks/ My Winter Wrap Up will include all of the cosy fantasy books for this video, and my January and February Reads and will be uploaded in March.
Loving your videos as always. They’re the perfect thing to have on when I’m working from home and feels like I’m chatting to a friend :) Love listening to people who passionate about books. Thank you x
I also just bought Blood over Bright Haven. Had non idea it existed but it saw it in an outlet and the synopsis sounds amazing. June Farrow was amazing! It is one of the books that I keep thinking about after I read it the past year.
I’m glad you enjoyed Legends & Lattes! To me that is the coziest book, I don’t find a lot of other books cozy that are calling themselves that. And I agree I would prefer no romance in the cozy books because I love the friendships! The Phoenix Keeper is on my tbr 😊
I agree aboout Murder Road. With the name alone you would think it would be scarier and it just wasn't. It was fine, easy to read but not what I expected. I love that little cafe you went to with your gf. Its so pretty and colorful. I wish there was a place like that around where I live. It would be nice to meet with friends for a catch up. I've bought from Blackwell's online and it's nice that they ship overseas like Waterstone's. Sometimes I can get books cheaper buying from those two stores including shipping than Barnes and Noble in the US. The Book of Azrael does have spice but it's a slow burn and doesn't hit until more to the end and even then it's not as much as the other books in the series. Good choice getting The Unmaking of June Farrow. That was a good book.
About the white book problem: Use a book cover/jacket. I'm pretty sure you'd already own one since they do come in book boxes. I use one for my hardcovers as I hate reading with a dust jacket. Keeps the book clean and fingerprints off the foiling! I enjoyed both Legends & Lattes and the prequel but I thought (and I've recommended these in the past) that You Can't Spell Treason without Tea and it's sequel (2 more to be published this year) by Rebecca Thorne were just a bit better. It's also a sapphic light romance (nothing spicy) about a woman who was a guard for the queen who wants to get out of the palace and open up her own shop with her partner. It sounds like you had a really good reading time! It's rare for me to have so many good reads in a row, where I just want to keep on picking up the book or a new one once finished so I'm happy that seemed to happen for you! Audio book narrators can really make or break a book. I really haven't gotten into audio books until fairly recently because of that, and even then, I tend to save them for long car rides or if I'm doing a project that I want to distract my mind with.
You Can't Spell Treason Without Tea is on my radar for sure! I don't own it but I'll probably get on kindle. I'm hoping to do another month of cosy fantasy because that and the Spellshop are books I really want to read, and also I've never had so many enjoyable reads in a row before
@@Wanderness I've really been enjoying cozy fantasy lately too. I think I'm enjoying the lack of trauma/stress/conflict. And it's not that that isn't in the books, but it's that I know the ending is going to be a good one. I just finished A Dark and Secret Magic and liked that one, Teller of Small Fortunes was cute too, and I enjoyed Fellowship of Bakers & Magic. The 3rd in Treason's series is coming out the beginning of March and I can't wait!
The Spell shop is my current favourite cosy fantasy one of my top books of 2024. I do really like the Emily Wilde series and am looking forwArd to the next one coming out this year
watching this in parts because i have no attention span. (you know this!!!) thank you for a calling out my need to bring three books to our breakfast date where we read 10 pages each... i like to have choice!!! edinburgh was great but it killed me off and then i went to london for four days which then also killed me off some more 😂😂
Heather Fawcett has a Ya duology which I loved, Even the Darkest Stars and All the Wondering Light, which has the cutest mini dragons. It’s more fantasy adventure though
Thanks for the recommendation, will look out for them on Spotify :) Im not sure I've listened to any with a southern belle accent, but I don't think I could do it either!
Happy new year! My favorite cozy fantasy so far was Legends and Lattes and I wasn't expecting to like it much. It was a delightful surprise. I will be reading Spells For Forgetting at the earliest after this vlog ❤
I just read the Spellshop and it's pretty great even though the last part felt dragged out and naive. I'd recommend it for sure
Dragged out and naive is kind of how I felt about some of these books for sure! Still able to look past it though :)
My monthly reading vlogs for the future are:
January: Reading 5 Star Sequels
February: Reading Books on my Shelves The Longest
March: Reading Your Favourite Illumicrate and Fairyloot Picks
April: A Month of Standalones
May: Highest Rated on Goodreads on my Shelves
Thank you to everyone who helped me pick my Sprng TBR on instagram last week, my Summer TBR polls and stories will be going up on instagram in around April! instagram.com/wandernessbooks/
My Winter Wrap Up will include all of the cosy fantasy books for this video, and my January and February Reads and will be uploaded in March.
Loving your videos as always. They’re the perfect thing to have on when I’m working from home and feels like I’m chatting to a friend :) Love listening to people who passionate about books. Thank you x
Aww thank you this is so nice xx
I loved spells for forgetting as well - maybe my favorite cozy fantasy book.
Loved this vlog and am looking forward to further vlogs like this 😄
It was so good! Thank you for watching 😘
Loved this vlog! Your trip to Edinburgh sounded amazing
Lovely city for booklovers!!
I love themed reading vlogs, super excited about this. Have a good weekend!🫶🏻
Thank you! You too!
Love the video! It’s fun since I’ve read half of these and the other half are on my tbr 😂
Get them read!!!
That's a full length movie! And I love Edinburgh 🥹
I've been trying to render and upload for 6 days 😪
@Wanderness I'm sorry. I have extremely minimal experience with TH-cam, but yeah, I wasn't thrilled about the speed things take to load 🥲
I also just bought Blood over Bright Haven. Had non idea it existed but it saw it in an outlet and the synopsis sounds amazing. June Farrow was amazing! It is one of the books that I keep thinking about after I read it the past year.
So excited for June Farrow!!
Loved this 🥰 I’m so glad you had a good time with them all!
The best!
I’m glad you enjoyed Legends & Lattes! To me that is the coziest book, I don’t find a lot of other books cozy that are calling themselves that. And I agree I would prefer no romance in the cozy books because I love the friendships! The Phoenix Keeper is on my tbr 😊
Oh its definitely like the best of the best for cosy vibes!
Happy New Year! 🎉🎉
I love shopping Blackwell’s! It is my first choice for UK books.
Happy new year!!
I agree aboout Murder Road. With the name alone you would think it would be scarier and it just wasn't. It was fine, easy to read but not what I expected. I love that little cafe you went to with your gf. Its so pretty and colorful. I wish there was a place like that around where I live. It would be nice to meet with friends for a catch up. I've bought from Blackwell's online and it's nice that they ship overseas like Waterstone's. Sometimes I can get books cheaper buying from those two stores including shipping than Barnes and Noble in the US. The Book of Azrael does have spice but it's a slow burn and doesn't hit until more to the end and even then it's not as much as the other books in the series. Good choice getting The Unmaking of June Farrow. That was a good book.
I know Murder Road could have been so much more scary!! We are really spoilt in the UK for book prices, it's the one thing that's stopped me moving 🤣
I'm glad you enjoyed Edinburgh bookstores.
Emily Wilde and its sequel were my cosy books.
Can't wait to go back!!
About the white book problem: Use a book cover/jacket. I'm pretty sure you'd already own one since they do come in book boxes. I use one for my hardcovers as I hate reading with a dust jacket. Keeps the book clean and fingerprints off the foiling!
I enjoyed both Legends & Lattes and the prequel but I thought (and I've recommended these in the past) that You Can't Spell Treason without Tea and it's sequel (2 more to be published this year) by Rebecca Thorne were just a bit better. It's also a sapphic light romance (nothing spicy) about a woman who was a guard for the queen who wants to get out of the palace and open up her own shop with her partner.
It sounds like you had a really good reading time! It's rare for me to have so many good reads in a row, where I just want to keep on picking up the book or a new one once finished so I'm happy that seemed to happen for you!
Audio book narrators can really make or break a book. I really haven't gotten into audio books until fairly recently because of that, and even then, I tend to save them for long car rides or if I'm doing a project that I want to distract my mind with.
You Can't Spell Treason Without Tea is on my radar for sure! I don't own it but I'll probably get on kindle. I'm hoping to do another month of cosy fantasy because that and the Spellshop are books I really want to read, and also I've never had so many enjoyable reads in a row before
@@Wanderness I've really been enjoying cozy fantasy lately too. I think I'm enjoying the lack of trauma/stress/conflict. And it's not that that isn't in the books, but it's that I know the ending is going to be a good one.
I just finished A Dark and Secret Magic and liked that one, Teller of Small Fortunes was cute too, and I enjoyed Fellowship of Bakers & Magic. The 3rd in Treason's series is coming out the beginning of March and I can't wait!
The Spell shop is my current favourite cosy fantasy one of my top books of 2024. I do really like the Emily Wilde series and am looking forwArd to the next one coming out this year
I'm so excited to read it later on this year!
watching this in parts because i have no attention span. (you know this!!!)
thank you for a calling out my need to bring three books to our breakfast date where we read 10 pages each... i like to have choice!!!
edinburgh was great but it killed me off and then i went to london for four days which then also killed me off some more 😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I hope you had a wonderful New Year’s Day!🎉🎉🎉
Happy new year!!
I enjoyed the spell shop. Buddy read it with my bestie.
Oooh you have to read the sword of kaigen it will change your live❤
I'm very excited to!
Hi Ness, you mentioned your friend as Rebecca Reads and i thought i would check her out channel but i found multiple😂 do you have link 2 her channel
Also tried to find her but no luck!
hello it's me 😂❤
Not sure who told you prison healer was cozy, it’s not. It is a great book though!! I loved it! Ps- The Spell Shop is also very good and cozy
ps i loved scoot scoot
Scooooooter are you ready
I don’t mind a posh English accent, but I can’t listen to a southern belle American accent even if it suits the book and characters (cough Raven boys)
Heather Fawcett has a Ya duology which I loved, Even the Darkest Stars and All the Wondering Light, which has the cutest mini dragons. It’s more fantasy adventure though
Thanks for the recommendation, will look out for them on Spotify :) Im not sure I've listened to any with a southern belle accent, but I don't think I could do it either!