READING VLOG: BOOKTUBER SCAVENGER HUNT ✨booktubers give me reading prompts and scavenger hunt!

this [ __ ] this [ __ ] i just can't bear it because it's [ __ ] pretty devoed pretty devastated can you give me a little bit of space hi everyone welcome back to my channel i hope you are well i i'm so excited for this reading vlog so you've probably seen the title and you're like what the hell is cis going on about this is going to be called booktuber scavenger hunt or something along those lines and the way that this video is going to work is i start with one booktuber one of my favorite booktubers i ask them for a reading prompt similar to like a readathon reading prompt they give me it i go away pick a book read a book based on it in this vlog and then i go and tell them whether i liked the book how many stars i gave it and based on that they give me the next booktuber to go to to get the next prompt beyond the first booktuber i have no control over which booktubers i'm going to be speaking to for this video i also have no control over what the prompts are going to be like i just think it's going to be a great time i'm really excited for this when i came up with this idea i was like my mind my mind see i'm telling you i have the mind of a master master i have the mind of a mastermind what's that i don't know but you know i'm so creative like i have decided to start with mina from mina reads mina was one of the first booktubers i started watching when i came into this community i've spoken so much about how much i love her if you're not subscribed to mina you definitely should be but like sis just hit 20k she's doing so well right now and she deserves all of it and more and i love her i'm gonna pull up her video i haven't watched it yet and i'm gonna see what prompt she gave me hi megan your first prompt is to read a book with pink on the cover good luck happy reading sis clap if you have anxiety [Applause] i'm looking at all of my unread i'm looking at them all going okay i see if you let me okay so these are all the choices that we've got the first is feminists don't wear pink and other lies by scarlett curtis which is a non-fiction book i'm not in the mood for non-fiction so i'm not picking this then i've got two classics which is alice's adventures in wonderland and through the looking glass and little women not in the mood for a classic right now it wasn't something to be liked it was something to be understood from an academic perspective obviously you're not an academic no so i'm not going to be reading either of those so kind of the three that i'm choosing between are with the far and higher by elizabeth acevedo but i kind of don't think this has enough pink there's only like a tiny bit wild beauty by anna marie mcmoore is one i want to get to really really soon so this is definitely a strong contender there's a lot of pink flowers and then lovely war by julie berry has loads of pink it's all pink everything's pink it goes to pink friday is in stores tomorrow give it up for pink friday you guys wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait no i'm not going to read any of those i'm not going to read any of those i'm not going to read any of those i am sorry random i kind of just did that i'm going to read meet cute club by jack carbon so i don't have this physically i have it on kindle unlimited i got kindle limited a couple weeks ago specifically to read this book and i know i if i don't read it in this video i won't read this book i just won't get around to it and this is one that i know mina really liked so it works like i i don't think i'll do this for every booktuber like read one i know they liked but for this i get to read a book that i that meena has recommended to me and mina was one of the main reasons i wanted to pick this up so as far as i know this is about a guy who runs a romance book club and when he goes to the bookstore to pick up the books he wants to buy the guy there who's working there makes fun of him however the guy fancies him and ends up joining his book club and like it's a little romance between the two i'm just feeling the love i have only ever read two romances both this yeah both this year gave them both two stars i have yet to like a romance book that i read so we're hoping we can change that i'm only twenty percent of the way into meet coot club and i just wanted to check in because i'm really enjoying it this is everything i've wanted from a romance i feel like i mean i'm i'm barely into it nothing's really happened yet we've only met the characters and kind of set the scene however it's everything i want i love it i love it firstly aside from the romance it's like a book lover's dream like seeing stuff like dnf in there blows my mind just when they speak about books and loving books and loving recommending books it just speaks to me their relationship is really really cute i mean they haven't got a relationship yet they've literally just given each other their phone numbers jordan is kind of not i wouldn't say uptight but he's very organized has his way of doing things whereas rex really loves taking the mick out of him essentially and teasing him and i just love their dynamic i i like it actually i think in a romance when one person is a bit more reserved and the other person is a bit wilder and like really jokey but i think i like it more so when it's from the reserved person's perspective because i think if it's not from their perspective sometimes they can become too reserved and too like uptight whereas it doesn't feel like that when it's from their perspective i'm loving it i'm really enjoying it it's a really short book like it's only just over 200 pages i'm hoping for a bit of steaminess i'm hoping a girl can wish two romances i've read which i gave two stars which are red white and royal blue and nixon havana they're kind of both fade to black and so i just want a bit of smart just it doesn't have to give me a lot just like a little bit it's been a bit saucy i'm really enjoying this book i'm really liking this book the chemistry i love the chemistry between the two main characters it's like it's hot i really like how there's so much to the story beyond just their relationship their relationships for both them with their grandmothers are really important oh by the way i'm like 60 of the way through just so you know the relationships that they've had throughout their life for their grandmothers are really important to the story so although it's really short i feel like it's got a lot of elements to the story and it's not just their romance but it keeps it simple and i'm so happy that i'm finally enjoying the romance but because like i said i've never read a romance book that i have liked so this is revolutionary this is history but wow what a moment i will never forget a moment that is most pleasing to me i'm gonna go finish it and i'll let you know what i think of the ending because i'm so happy i finally am loving a romance book i loved it i just finished it and it was everything i've been wanting in a romance i'm so happy that i have finally loved a romance it's taken us a while it's about time it's taken us a long time to finally get into romance but like i'm here now i'm here i just want to read more romance that's all i want to do i just felt like the book had great pacing it was so cute their relationship was so believable the characters are so believable it was a good mix of like storyline and there was a bit of smart but like not not too much i think there's only two smart scenes throughout the whole book and because it's a really short book like 200 pages i think that was probably the right amount it could maybe it could have taken one more maybe i'd really recommend this if maybe you're not that into romance because like i said it's free on kindle unlimited i'll see if i can leave a link down below i think i should be able to for you to get two months free of kindle unlimited i could be wrong but i think i can leave a link to that down below so if it's something you're interested in i'm gonna definitely check out some more kindle unlimited books whilst i still have my free trial and then decide whether i want to keep it you know if you're not into romance that much you've never read romance or like me you've read a few and not like them at all this is perfect it's perfect okay this is a really british reference but it's like a lovely thornton's chocolate like you feel okay so you know it's probably not the finest chocolate out there like you could get like some artisanal truffles that are like so expensive but you feel bougie eating thornton's chocolate like it's not supermarket chocolate it's thornton's anyone i don't know what the [ __ ] she's saying but girl i am living that's what it felt like to me like i know i'm not a romance expert there's probably like better romance books out there but it still felt great it was so lovely experience it still felt smooth in my mouth anyway i have messaged mina telling her that i loved it i gave it four stars and she was so happy she was like yes i'm so glad i'm just waiting to hear which booktuber she has picked for me to go to next and so i'll see you next when we're hearing who the next booktuber is and what the problem's going to be i'm nervous i'm nervous i'm nervous let me oh my god mina chose zoe from zoe's all booked oh by the way i am at tom's house now but you actually would have seen that already in my reading rush daily vlogs but in case you haven't seen them and you're like [ __ ] in a different place i'm at my boyfriend's house now i have like i would say three-fifths of my unread books with me so i think i should be able to complete whatever prompt i've got she just messaged me the video of her giving me the prompt and she said sorry not sorry for what i'm about to make you do i'm very nervous i don't want to read a horrible book sorry i don't read a hard book please don't make me do this okay please ignore me being a messy [ __ ] right now i just got out of the shower and i was too lazy to put makeup on put something other than my husband's clothes on so here we are i'm zoe from the channel as always all booked which used to be called it your book nerd zoe and in honor of my personal messiness megan i'm pretty sure that you should be reading a book that you think is gonna be one star or if you don't have any that you think are gonna be one maybe two stars at the most a book that you think is just gonna be super messy you're welcome and happy reading um this is ridiculous this is [ __ ] ridiculous i thought there's gonna be one star this [ __ ] this [ __ ] we can just find like a bad book on kindle unlimited this [ __ ] oh my god she really set me up as well for the delivery oh my god i don't know what to do like do i just look randomly on kindle unlimited and just find like a random book the gender game okay what's that because that looks horrendous it looks so bad in a world divided by gender oh this looks so bad how long is it it's 414 pages ever since the disappearance of a beloved younger brother violet's life has been consumed by an anger she struggles to control already a prisoner to her own nation now she has been sentenced to death for her crimes but one decision could save her life to enter the kingdom of patriots where men will and women submit oh well i think i've got to read this because it seems messy and i think i'm going to give it one star like the question is can i get through it it's 414 pages like it's not even sure one piece of advice don't read anything if you don't read it it can't harm you oh my god zoe why have you done this to me this is this is why this video exists okay it's got a 3.82 average rating which is much higher than i thought it would be and 36 000 ratings that's high only three people i'm friends with on degrees have read it and we've got a 2.75 a 3 and a 2. this book i can already tell it's gonna be problematic i bet you there's not gonna be like any trans or non-binary characters in this i bet you're just gonna pretend like trans or non-binary people don't exist and that everyone's just male or female and that's you know that's all that there is and mattress and patriot like is she just putting us on the end of words and pretending they sound latin okay obviously i've got to get into this book i am now 15 of the way through the book which i know isn't very long but i just wanted to check in with my initial thoughts this [ __ ] is gonna be a mess but i'm not actually sure if it's as bad or i just put way too much because i was distracted i'm not sure if it's as bad as i was anticipating like it's not gonna get anything more than a two star no way no chance but it may get a two star depending on like how bad it is it's readable firstly this whole like gender divided world hasn't played much of a role yet like she's just been kind of in prison she tried to smuggle her younger brother into the male dominated part of society because he failed some kind of like aggression test that means you can't live in the female dominated society and because she got caught smuggling him in she's been kind of like child manual labor ever since she's been taken to the queen and apparently the queen has been like observing her and like these sewage plants she's been forced to work in and stuff and they want her to do this like crazy task that no one else can possibly do you first of all this [ __ ] loves adjectives i've never read more adjectives in like a short space of time as i have in this it's crazy it's so weird to read it's like child writing but it's just like a thesaurus his word vomited on the page there hasn't been any mention yet of any like trans or non-binary characters and how you fit into this society again i can't see that happening i'm like holding out hope that this book will somehow address that like people who don't fit into either gender binary or who are trans and like what this society's attitude towards that is the whole thing is based on gender and i think an outdated and like incorrect view of gender the whole basis of the story is something that i disagree with there was the girl she killed so she was described as like big ugly if you viewed her from behind you could be mistaken for thinking she was a man so like a character is portrayed as negative if they do not fit the gender assumptions and gender binaries that we know in our current society so it's not like we're trying to break down gender expectation in this book like you are supposed to conform and the character and the narrator and the author oopsy daisy sees it as a bad thing if you do not do so it's time to grow up so i'm only 30 of the way through now i don't know i'm checking in with you so much because it's not like i really have anything notable to say like nothing is really happening but i just feel the need to come back and tell you that this book is so [ __ ] like it's so [ __ ] like it's just it's just so bad a problem i'm having so far is that it's obviously supposed to be like matriarchy and patriarchy but when we were in the matriarchal society there wasn't anything that made it like obviously matriarchal like i didn't see anything in which ways like women were like so benefited in this society and we didn't see any signs of that other than there was a queen but when we got to the patriarchal society then it was like so aggressively women can't live with the house without a man women are men's property etc but like it's almost like the matriarchal society was like our society and so it's almost like the author is saying you think you live in a patriarchal society now well it could be a lot worse not on my watch not on my what and i thought it was going to be a romance between the guy that she oh i didn't mention it she has to marry a guy to get in to this society because her secret mission means she has to go to the patriarchal society and i thought it was gonna be like an arranged marriage romance but i think she's gonna fall in love with the security guard at the place that she's trying to steal something from and he's like all rugged and like has a beard and lives in a cabin in the woods and is like the most stereotypical man you could ever think of like masculine man so i just don't see i don't i can't figure out what the author is trying to do with this book like i really can't so it's so bad i'm now 70 of the way through so i've read like 40 of it since i last spoke to you and i honestly i don't know what's happened and nothing's happened i've made notes i've made notes the makeover scene there was makeover isn't even the right word but they were going to somewhere where people would recognize her like she'd met a lot of people in the society and their their approach to this was giving her a beard and a moustache and a wick and dressing her up as a man if you're going to play a game girl play it right this society seems to have an obsession with caged fighting i think that's like their sport of choice and it's honestly like the author has just thought of the most stereotypically masculine stuff and just like chucked it in and i think it could have been so interesting if she had decided to look at it from perspective looking what it's like for kids or like a young boy to grow up in this heavy masculine society but it doesn't apparently everyone's fine with that in the society and it's only her who can see all the issues with it as you can tell i'm just exhausted by it like i don't want it anymore but i've read 70 percent of it and so i might as well just finish it off i'm not gonna dnf it if this is like rebel city of india by kendall and kylie jenner where there isn't an ending like it just carries on into the next book i'm be so pissed let me be so pissed just at least give me an ending the weirdest plot twist just happened and quite frankly i cannot take any more i lost our hope today i'm empty so it's a week later and the reading rush has just ended and uh i realized i never told you what i thought about the end of this book so it was one star it was one star it was one of the most terrible books i have ever read in my entire life i i i've kind of blurred it out with my memory like i've kind of just gone you know chucked it away because i just can't bear it because it's [ __ ] the ending one of the weirdest [ __ ] endings i've ever read i thought it was on drugs reading it like it was a fever dream that ending it was so bad it was so bad so don't read this book and zoe thank you for the torture zoe gave me the next booktuber to go to to get a prompt and she gave me keris aka one of the most kind lovely booktubers that there is so i'm gonna watch her prompt now hello megan it's carys here from library of paris um if anyone's watching and you don't know who i am you can find me everywhere at library of paris i'm sure meg will include a link in the description so go check that out i have a prompt for you um so i hope this is doable and this isn't too crazy but like i want you to find a book that you would um recommend to one of your pets based on your pet's personality so if your pet was a human what book do you think your pet would enjoy obviously you're gonna read a book that you haven't necessarily read so you just have to go with what you think but yeah give it a go oh my god karis i i would love to do this with my cats but i'm not currently living with them i'm living around tom's right now so what i think we'll do is we'll do this with freddie the dog who is tom's dog who is here freddie is the most optimistic dog i've ever met like he just thinks the world is perfect he he's always hoping that you'll play with him like he always thinks now is going to be the time today is the day what kind of book would you like freddy he doesn't even want to fight properly he's tired i think we want to find the happiest book i have i don't really know i mean i think that's quite happy yeah but i don't really fancy a graphic novel right now he's not a thriller guy i don't feel like he's hella thrillful he's not a thriller that's about a woman a girl who talks to the passengers in planes and that kind of sounds like that kind of sounds like freddie you're afraid you would talk to anyone do you think i feel like yeah that's the one megs you think yeah 100. we have chosen arso passengers by a.s king this is actually going to be my fourth a.s king i've read and a lot of people say that this is one of her best the last one i read dick which was her newest i gave five stars i gave please ignore veod's five stars and then i think i gave reality boy two or three we were all so happy that day it's it's actually hard to even imagine how terrible things would soon become we've chosen this book because we think you'd like it oh don't chew it yeah he loves eating books you're so friendly we thought you'd like to speak to the people in the airplanes too you know you go up to different random people don't you all the time you always say what do you think so i am about a third of the way through ask the passengers essentially we're following astrid as she sends love to the passengers in the airplanes above her and as with a lot of a.s king's books it has that fabulism element where the people on the planes can actually hear her like they hear her say something to them oh well come on teletubby teleport us to mars but it's also about astrid's journey figuring out her sexuality and like learning that it's okay to be who she wants to be in this small small american town that is very intolerant however i'm not enjoying this as much as i want to there's nothing wrong with it i'm just not particularly interested in reading it two of the three books i've read from her are five stars and a lot of people say that this is her best one i'm kind of like panicking a bit i'm a bit stressed out about this it could just be that i'm suffering a bit from reading rush burnout because i read so much last week that i just don't want to read i think that may be part of it but also i'm just not as into it as i am with her other books it's almost not weird enough for me it's okay it's okay hey okay so there was a point the other day when i thought this was gonna be a two star and i was breaking my heart but right now i think it's at the moment it's like a three star it's picking up a bit i am on page 190 so i've only got like 90 pages left it's getting better i still don't love it as much as other a.s king it's not what i was expecting coming into this a nightmare it's literally a nightmare one thing i do think asking does really well is a critique of small town america like really bigoted ways of thinking in some towns in america and what it's like to be living there when you are the outlier and you think equality exists essentially so like i do like that aspect of it i like the aspect of astrid coming you know coming to terms with coming out possibly like figuring out her sexuality like i like that aspect of it however number one the smaller thing is that i don't always like the way astrid acts and i have a problem with some of the stuff that she has done and i'm guessing that that's going to be confronted at some point just not right now but if that's not confronted i'm going to be like not happy also i so like a.s king's books like fabulism in the rest of her books it's kind of like intertwined throughout the story and this the only fabulism element is her talking to the people on the planes and them hearing her however they're kind of like these very brief interviews at the end of chapters like she'll be having some kind of existential crisis and she'll be like i send my love to the people up there then someone will be like oh [ __ ] what was that i heard a voice she's never aware that they can hear her and so it's so isolated within the story and then the rest is kind of like a contemporary and i liked how the weirdness the fabulism element was all throughout ayus king's books and they really affected the storyline but here it just kind of feels like an add-on to an otherwise a contemporary story and so i think that's the main reason why i'm not enjoying it it has actually been a struggle to read it which ayus king is one of my favorite authors so i'm pretty devote pretty devastated can you give me a little bit of space please today i finished ask the passengers last night and although i liked aspects of the ending it wasn't enough to really change my mind and i'm going to be giving it 2.75 stars which is heartbreaking [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] considering a.s king was before this one of my favorite authors so i'm really sad about it i just think i prefer aes king at her weirdest and this was not weird enough for me you know i said it's like a contemporary with a bit of weirdness slapped in to like make it better but it didn't really work none of it felt fully fleshed out and there were just some things that pissed me off throughout this in the way that it was happening and i think they're just personal things but like it meant that i didn't enjoy the reading experience so i'm going to spoil it quickly so i'll put spoilers up if you don't want to know or if you haven't read this yet basically at a frat party that she goes to she cheats on her girlfriend with another girl she makes out with her it's never addressed she never tells her girlfriend that she has made out with this other girl and i think they are supposed to be exclusive like they've been seeing each other for five months so i mean you would imagine they were exclusive by now i understand that it is a key moment for her in like accepting her sexuality feeling fully fulfilled in her sexuality like it's a very important moment for her in that regard however you still cheat on your girlfriend and you never tell her and there's never any repercussions and then throughout the rest of the book she's sometimes like oh maybe i should ring that girl and meet up with her and like she genuinely doesn't see a problem with that maybe it's like i said just a me problem and i have a problem with like people cheating in books and there being no repercussions but it just felt very strange like a very strange add-on to me and i liked the ending the last couple pages very interesting it's the only time that i felt like the ask the passengers element really worked and for that reason i feel like a.s king had this idea for the ending and the whole rest of the book and the whole rest of the concept are built around that you're naughty naughty you're teasing me you're naughty naughty this just was not weird enough for me from her name caris gave me the last booktuber to go to this is going to be the last one that we do she chose lily who i love lily's channel i'll be linking all of the creators down below all the booktubers who have been featured but you should definitely go check out lily's channel if you haven't already and she has just sent me through the video so i'm gonna watch it hey meg it's lily i hope you're doing well and i hope your reading vlog is going well so i have been thinking about what reading challenge prompt to give you so i was thinking about how much you love memes and i was thinking about one of the meme queens that i know we both appreciate gemma collins so my reading challenge to you is to read a book inspired by gemma collins in some way so i'm thinking either a book you think gemma collins might like herself or possibly a book inspired by who she is as a person so something very dramatic maybe with lots of plot twists maybe set in a reality show in like an isolated location like she's done with big brother and i'm a celebrity with like a feisty main character who has high standards who knows what she wants if you struggle with any of that though just read a book that begins with g but my main kind of reading prompt for you is to read a book that is inspired by gemma collins in whatever way you see fit and you can interpret that however you want to really uh i hope that makes sense and i'm looking forward to seeing what you pick oh my god lily get that fire exit door i'm off okay so my first instinct was a book that has a similar main character to gemma collins however i soon realized i can't really tell if the characters are gonna be similar without reading the book i think i'm gonna go with something that has like a lot of i think we'll have a lot of plot twists or be very dramatic i've chosen the death of mrs westaway by ruth ware now i don't think this is a book that the gc herself would want to read however i think as as it's a thriller it's gonna be very dramatic have a lot of plot twists all of ruth ware's books i've read in the past are like really plot twist heavy and you're like another reason that i picked this over all my other thrillers is that the premise of this is that a woman receives a letter saying she's inherited a lot of money from a relative and she knows that that relative she really doesn't think she's related to them however she goes along with it to get the money and i feel like if gemma collins got a letter saying she'd inherited loads of money and she knew she wasn't related to the person she would still go ahead you know with with the cash grab the entrepreneurial queen that she is gemma collins would not miss a beat gemma collins is in denial i don't need to manage you think they gonna pay my mortgage i've got money i love ruth ware's books i'm hoping this will not be a repeat of the a.s king situation because the two books i've read by ruth well already have both been five stars i've read eternity in one by one so they are her newest books and i've heard some people say that she has definitely improved over time so like maybe i should be a bit nervous for this i have just got 100 pages into the death of mrs westaway and it feels very very different to her other books ruth ware's two newest books that i've read are like super fast paced like a very intense thriller whereas this feels a lot slower and i'm kind of like thinking now maybe it does it's not going to have the plot twists that i was expecting that's why i picked it for this prompt i feel like it's going to be a very slow build intention with like a big reveal at the end i am enjoying it however i'm i am finding it a bit difficult to read sometimes i think it's because it's so slow and i'm used to ruthless books being real page turners i'm [ __ ] ganged out i've had enough of playing games it's not her aunt that she finds out has died it's actually supposedly her grandmother who has passed away and has left her some kind of money in who she fakes to go and pretend that she is the inheritance because she needs money so so badly there's definitely something going on where i think she is gonna have some kind of link to this family and she's been lured there i'm now on page 240 of the death of mrs westaway this is just so different than what i was expecting like it's a completely different book it's much less exciting no but i did tell a bit of a lie there it's much less dramatic and has oh pen pen pen is it pen approximately 10 hours later okay they scored the pen it just took a turn which i wasn't expecting and i really don't know whether to believe like i feel like it's a lie i don't buy it i could be wrong but i just don't buy it i just don't think it's true what did she say just talking [ __ ] it's a weird one it's really not i was expecting it's such a slow read like i was thinking on the last prompt i was like oh if i choose a thriller it'll be such a quick read and i can just fly through it this isn't that kind of book it's such a slow book it's not quite giving me the theatrics that i want but i'm gonna go finish it and i'll let you know what i think ignore my spot we're just not talking about it i just finished the death of mrs westaway and a lot of people say that the start of this book is really good and then the ending isn't great whereas i thought it was the other way around i don't think it really picked up into the final 25 at all like i feel like the final 25 was the best part of it i thought the ending was good but a lot of it was what i expected but i kind of think you're supposed to expect it there wasn't any surprises i'll say that but i thought it was well written and well crafted and an enjoyable ending this could have been way shorter though like it did feel like a bit of a drag there was a lot of scenes that did not need to be there i feel like it really could have been edited down and i would have preferred it much more throughout most of it it was like a 3.5 but i think i am going gonna up it to a four [Music] [Applause] that is the end of this video i wanna do it again so if you have enjoyed it let me know and i will definitely definitely do this video again with more booktubers and new prompts so yeah i hope you enjoyed the video let me know what you would have picked for some of the prompts thank you so much for watching and i will see you again in another one [Music] bye [Music] you