Amazing how music can help you❤ What city would you like to visit next for a mini break?

Thanks for joining me in Germany! ❤

So happy for you...! I bet seeing TS was so awesome! I absolutely love Harry Potter...and that paperback is beautiful! P.S. This video is not showing under "all videos"🤔 I woke in the middle of the night and was perusing your playlists...and there it was😊

Your story is beautiful, and you definitely didn’t fail📚💛 you have achieved so much and impacted so many people with your teaching, your love of books and the incredible, kind person you are. If you want to open a bookshop later in life, then you can do it because you have succeeded in achieving everything you put your mind to and I’m proud of you🫶🏻 I hope you’re okay and I’m sending a hug ☕️x

Has it only been 12 days since you uploaded this? I'm already having haul withdrawals!😂

I defiantly liked the original cover by far!! It is a pretty cover, but just not as good.

Having a little book shop would be so cool. I would love to live in the UK and have one there. I would also design bookish and non-bookish merch/items, as I'm quite a creative person.

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Although I love light purple, the original cover is better. The endpapers are not too bad, but it would be cool if they just did illustrative hardcovers and had no dust jacket. Also, the story sounds intriguing, so that's a plus. And, I look forward to reading it at some point. Lovely video. 😊

So beautiful and sounds so good! Going through your Amazon link! 💜💛💜

I've received a couple nice blankets over the years...and use them as wall hangings in my library/office😊 That blanket is awesome!👍

Your video intro is hilarious!😂

The bonus items are so nice! And the book is beautiful...much nicer than the original!👍

I think it’s really cute. The colours are very complimentary. And if this was just the standard cover of another book then it would be lovely. But, for a special edition it’s not that special, and the original is so stunning!! Xoxo

Feel saaaaaaame. And now I’m thinking about maybe selling. With all this influx of books in this hobby, I’m just starting to have a different attitude about all of it. More easily unsatisfied and wishing I could use my money for other things. That’s usually the starting point for me. 🫠🫠

Hi again Michelle. Oh boy! I just got a copy of the standard edition of this book the other day and I have to agree that I much prefer the cover art on it to the Owlcrate design. I mean, this is pretty but it doesn't catch my eye like the original cover does. I do love those stencilled edges a lot but the standard edition has pretty mauve sprayed edges that compliment the cover design and make it POP even more. The naked hardcover of the Owlcrate edition is beautiful and I wouldn't have minded that on the standard edition but the end papers and the reverse dust jacket don't appeal to me either. The fact that it's signed by the author would be one of the main reasons I'd want this edition at all. She has a lovely signature doesn't she? I read Sarah Beth Dursts trilogy The Queens of Renthia a few years ago and quite enjoyed it so I imagine that this book won't be any different and I do love the premise of it. I think that the sea horses are Hippocampus's?? Hippocampi?? Whatever. Winged cats? Sentient house plants?? Cool!!! I just got Joanne Harris's latest book The Moonlight Market which looks really good and Katie Lumsden's The Trouble With Mrs Montgomery Hurst amongst others (me being me) and I'm looking forward to reading those soonish. Have a great weekend Michelle. Cheers!!!

I prefer the original cover too, I think it was stunning 😢 For such beautiful original covers, I wish Owlcrate would do something like they did with A Study in Drowning where they printed it on the hardback. I ended up selling my Owlcrate copy as soon as I received it because I liked the original artwork more, but I still plan on reading this book. If I like it, I’ll probably get the paperback when it comes out (I don’t like plain naked hardbacks lol)

I was so worried for about 10 seconds when I thought you were going to unwrap the book with the ink on your hands 😂 I loved the book, so I’m happy to own a signed, exclusive edition. But…as with you and just about all of your commenters, I’m underwhelmed with all of the customizations. Except for the endpapers - they were nice. It’s disappointing that even though OC did all of the customizations we’ve been asking for, it just didn’t come out great.

I've watched this video a couple of times. Such a beautiful book, and video! I was able to obtain this edition...and it should be here in about 5 days...I'm very excited! Thanks for all you do, Michelle, and for sharing your love of books!❤

Adding to my tbr.

Definitely prefer the owlcrate cover, not keen on the standard edition. I need to get a copy of the owlcrate one. 😂😂

This may be the first time that I love the reverse cover better!This is not a book I would typically buy...yet knowing that OwlCrate picks good books...I will be shopping for this edition (and reversing the cover). Impressed also by the subtle beauty of sprayed/stenciled edges. Thanks for sharing your thoughts...have a wonderful day Michelle!❤

I've got the first print US edition with purple edges and I really love the simplicity of those edges with the normal cover. To be honest I am also underwhelmed by the OC edition. I do however really like the look and vibe of the endpapers in your OC edition. I'm looking forward to reading the book. I adored her Queens of Renthia series!

I agree with you on this one, the original cover was already so pretty, for example a different colorway would've been nice. It could've been on the reverse side of the dust jacket! Excited to read this book at some point! 🥰

I really love the purple, of course

Hippocampi and sphinxes A hippocampus is a water horse from Greek mythology by the way

Some of us have to keep those packing squiggles away from our kitties and puppies

Morning Michelle, great to see you back again in a new video

I agree with you, I love Owlcrate editions (that’s the reason I keep it even it’s expensive, plus can skip anytime). But I was expecting more from this one. I totally love original cover and it’s amazing, shame they didn’t keep it. ❤

I really want to read that one

Any thoughts on this one?

Wow, that is quite a few books. Good for you, though. It's your money, you work hard, you deserve to spend it on what you love. Those books were stunning.

This book is stunning! I am so happy with their choices for this. That reverse is the regular cover in color change.

Hi Michelle. Yep! This is a pretty one. A little more of a delicate design than the original perhaps? And if the design doesn't have reds then purples will do almost as well for me so this cover colour way is very nice. I love the art on the end paper!! I don't care for cartoony character art so these end paper images are perfection!!! I get what you're saying about the hardback's cover but ... Michelle ... it's RED!!! I mean ... really!! I'm looking forward to hearing all about your trip to Germany and the Taylor Swift concert and seeing your haul. Meanwhile, enjoy the rest of your holiday!! Cheers!!!

Great video! You look so young...like a teenager../when reading on the couch. That's a compliment❤

95% of what I watch is Booktube. When I tell people that...they look at me like I have two heads 😂😂😂

That book sounds depressing. I get migraines too...and I think this book would give me one😅

Im surprised you gave this book 4 stars! Watching you read...when you weren't enjoying it...seems like it would be a 1 or 2 star. Or a DNF!😂

Your wearing the nail varnish from the previous month's unboxing👍 I love nail varnish...and of course...I mainly wear turquoise, aqua, and any and all blues! 💙

So cool that you were in the spotlight on BTM's Instagram!👍

I really did watch and listen and focus...but that otter lamp! Too cute!☺️

I appreciate that you mentioned Cantonese! So many people forget that Chinese people have many dialects, and Cantonese is one of the oldest, if not actually the oldest 😊

Wow even the original UK cover is very different than the US version

Those end papers....so beautiful!! The book synopsis has me wanting to read it as soon as possible. Thanks for sharing!💙

whoa, that's such a beautiful edition! i love the colors and the new cover, it's so eye-catching. i hadn't heard about this book before, and though i enjoy mulan retellings, i'll probably pass on this one 😅

Such a stunning edition - I just have no interest in reading it!! Seems to be my theme for so many book boxes at the moment!! Hope you’re well!! Xx

For me, this is the first time they have knocked it out of the park with their cover version, the reverse and the hardcover. Everything is stunning and the colours are some of my favourites - love purples, blues, greens and pinks together.

Great unboxing! I'm here for all the Mulan retellings at the moment 😊

Morning Michelle, good to see you back in another video

Yes, Mulan and Merida from Brave both came before Frozen with no love interest.