everything i read in august 🍵✨🫶🏻 an august wrap up with mostly 5 stars?!

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hi friends! today, we talk about everything i read in august– a complete august wrap up featuring some fantasy, romance, manga and cozy sci-fi novels in this video. enjoy!

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when browsing for books to read, i always look for book reviews. august was certainly an interesting reading month but i found some new favorite books nonetheless. that is why i bring you a recent reads wrap up that quickly turned into a very chatty video about the books i read in august and me losing my mind over some of the new book releases of 2024. booktube and booktok have buzzed about some of these books… but did i enjoy them? i hope you guys enjoy this one and come out with more books to add to your TBR and some good book recommendations for 2024!

– books mentioned
a sign of affection, vol. 1 by suu morishita
a sign of affection, vol. 2 by suu morishita
a sign of affection, vol. 3 by suu morishita
a psalm for the wild-built by becky chambers
the tea dragon society by kay o'neill
a curious beginning by deanna raybourn
not in love by ali hazelwood
the right move by liz tomforde
just for the summer by abby jimenez

[cat.book.nook.]

I'm all for you joining the Veronica Speedwell fan club. This series is my personality trait.

[AyezasAfterword]

yesss the veronica speedwell mysteries is so underrated!!❤

[lizaking]

i need more people to be obsessed with a sign of affection, totally agree with you on mr.childlike love response. The way itsumi shuts him down the way he does, big smiles.

[juliacash]

🏀 some books I read in august were: Icon and inferno by Marie Lu (2nd book in series). This was a five star for me!, Powerless (4.5 star for me) Betting on You by Lynn Painter (4.75 star for me), and Everyone in this family has killed someone by Benjamin Stevenson (4.5 stars for me) I highly recommend all of these 14+.

[soniaahmed-ih]

August as a reading month was terrible for me, i read 5 books and almost all of them were 3stars. And i dnf'ed 3 books after getting a lot of pages into all three of them and it was so heartbreaking. I still found a new fave and only one 5star which is 'the ex vows' by Jessica Joyce.

[cyacrystal]

The Right Move is my favorite romance & I’m so glad you love it too 🥹 I hope you love Caught Up & Play Along just as much 🤭🏀🏀🏀

[yvonneroda]

I agree with you about Oshi. Like, you can defend her from all those people who bad mouthed her without you being so mean/bad towards her. You can express your care in a nice way.

And while Oshi wants to hide Yuki from the rest of the world because he doesn't want her to experience some bad experience (when he's actually the doing it towards her), Itsuomi wants Yuki to see the world.

Vol. 10/11 made me cry because of that one specific scene. 😢 I'm glad you liked ASOA more now than before. It gave me butterflies and made me kick and punch the air every time I think about it.

[jalyntaylor]

I almost un-hauled A Sign of Affection. You convinced me not to now…

[hearthhobbit]

I've never heard of the Veronica Speedwell series. Its on the TBR now! A Sign of Affection looks so cute <3 Tea Dragon Society is so good! 🏀

[anaeliseee]

i am genuinely so happy you’re reading SoA! thank you for giving it another chance. it has quickly become one of my favorite mangas and it just continues to get better with every volume. vol. 9 had me kicking my mf feet i have never read and then reread something so fast! cant wait for vol. 10!!

[jyt_creativespace]

I loved Veronica Speedwell as well, their banter is so *chef's kiss*. And I also recently reread The Right Move and im so so glad you loved it, it's definitely my fave of the series 💜

[illgiveyouthebooks]

I haven’t read not in love yet but I’ve heard a lot of people saying it’s not as good as her other novels and that makes me so sad😭

[Max-tcbr]

Becky Chambers is my favorite sci-fi author. I gave A psalm for the wild-built and To be taught, if fortunate 5⭐️, and A long way to a small, angry planet was 4.5⭐️ (but will probably be a 5 on a reread). I highly recommend her oeuvre

[astoldbykat]

Not sure if you've read it or not, but you should read Raybourn's standalone "Killers of a Certain Age." It's got the humor present in her Veronica Speedwell series, but just applied to 60+ age female assassins and had me cackling. Also, The Tea Dragon Society is officially one of my favorite graphic novels of all time, and some of the fall pages in the third volume are STUNNING.

I read a lot of mysteries in August, and some new ones I liked were the first two of the Rachel Savernake series by Martin Edwards, "Gallows Court" and "Mortmain Hall." It's a blend of crime fiction and mystery, and the FMC is very much moralistically grey.

[JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

I want to read the Veronica Speedwell series so bad 🥲

[girlmom]

My biggest issue with Just for the Summer was the trauma was so deeply traumatic and repressed that it makes no sense as to why she's ready for a healthy relationship at the end of the book. Also the last twist was too much for me. I was glad she came to the necessary realization to move on but it felt extreme for what we'd already been through with Emma. I couldn't believe Justin and Emma should be together in the last third of the book. I agree that it was hard to enjoy this book beyond 50 or 60% and the marketing was deceiving.

[LuuCaicedo]

After mile high I refuse to read any Liz Tomforde book but everybody swears the other books are better 😂

[powers_cat]

Hi Mel, if you want to check out a cozy fall manga I highly recommend Witch Hat Atelier. I recently got it for myself and was blown away by the beautiful artstyle and story, I really think it would be something you would enjoy☺️🍁

[LizLovesBooks]

I read A Sign of Affection in August because of your vlog....I only gave it 3 stars, but I will be continuing and think I will love it in further volumes. I read A Curious Beginning last year and gave it 5 stars and I also gave The Tea Dragon Society 5 stars this year too! I did read the Robot and Monk series and did not enjoy it, but I've found out Sci-fi is NOT for me. Glad you had so many amazing reads in August!

[Bougie_Nerd]

"Most of the erotica I've read.." ...so you got a list??