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@amberpineau1616 28 күн бұрын
I love to see someone else who is always behind on popular books, LOL!
@astarreads4214 Ай бұрын
The Bridgerton gap is the WORST!!! Almost there though!
@Bookchara Ай бұрын
I hope you enjoyed WhoDunnit Readathon! And I completely related to having a sassy day 😏
@CulinaryCrime Ай бұрын
I am also doing a water on the cover book this month. My choice for this is Mile High.
@TheLitReviewForBooks Ай бұрын
Oh that's such a good pick! And it would totally work for this too! At least I think apartment buildings should count. Mile High is so fun, I hope you enjoy!
@bekybell5224 Ай бұрын
just gotta say I love your fit in this video I read SO LITTLE in May >_< Granted I was really busy, but I'm just hoping to pick it back up going into this month. Excited to see what you think of Faebound, I also keep eyeing that book... I've heard both amazing things and really bad thing about it. So intrigued to see your takes on it and you may be my deciding factor :P Love seeing your cats too.
@TheLitReviewForBooks Ай бұрын
Ahhh thank you! I was loving the kitschy 50's vibe. Haha and Erwin will happily take the extra love. Some months just don't hit with books though! You'll get back into the groove when it's right or when something catches your eye. I'll let you know about Faebound though! I'm just excited it's a slimmer volume with everything on this TBR.
@sweet_t_reads Ай бұрын
Hey at least you got to move way forward on the board! Good luck this month!
@TheLitReviewForBooks Ай бұрын
So true! Got some major progress this month!
@polly2900 Ай бұрын
Read Honey Girl gave it 4 ⭐
@TheLitReviewForBooks Ай бұрын
That's good to hear! Thanks for the hype!
@tibbarasden Ай бұрын
I've only read Invictus by Ryan Graudin, but I really loved it. I hope your reads go well.
@TheLitReviewForBooks Ай бұрын
Oh interesting. I don't know anything about Invictus but if I like Wolf by Wolf I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the rec!
@TheLostReader Ай бұрын
I haven’t read Fourth Wing either. Hyped books are always a hit or miss for me. Reading romances helps me get out of a reading slump.
@TheLitReviewForBooks Ай бұрын
Romance is usually my slump buster too!
@Ashleigh_Absurd Ай бұрын
This turned into such a big tbr but it does look like such a fun time. I hope you enjoy them all
@TheLitReviewForBooks Ай бұрын
It really just kept going! Haha but they should be a good time.
@CoffeeOverApples Ай бұрын
best of luck on your tbr! haha wilbur is adorable
@TheLitReviewForBooks Ай бұрын
Thank you! And Wilbur is the cutest. I have to protect him from the cats though because they want to bap him around if I don't keep an eye on him. lol
@kaylanisimplyme Ай бұрын
Per usual this video was so much fun! Those doubles were really coming for you!
@TheLitReviewForBooks Ай бұрын
Thank you, love! And ohmygosh soooooo many doubles!
@katiemarpe8822 Ай бұрын
Yay!! Circe buddy read, here we come! 🥰
@TheLitReviewForBooks Ай бұрын
HECK YEAH BUDDY READ
@somberhoney Ай бұрын
the deck was like you will read romance this month and you will like it
@TheLitReviewForBooks Ай бұрын
Haha the deck knows! If I have to do this many doubles I'm glad a couple of them are romances!
@hollysreadingrambles5490 Ай бұрын
I’m late again😂i can’t believe you have been doing Litaland for 4 years😲 I have the davenports on my tbr, can’t wait to hear your thoughts. I hope your reading/month went well🥰
@TheLitReviewForBooks Ай бұрын
Oh my gosh, no worries! I love that you comment whenever you can. 😘 Let me know what you think of The Davenports when you get to it!! Hope you have a good reading month!
@KLC228 Ай бұрын
Sorry a Dowry of Blood didn't completely work for you, I'm really interested in it because of the trauma it explores tbh. Know My Name is so impactful, I couldn't believe what she went through in the legal system. Thank you for sharing your vulnerability ❤🩵
@TheLitReviewForBooks Ай бұрын
I hope you give it a try if the exploration sounds interesting! There are so many people that really loved Dowry of Blood, so I'd be interested in your take on it. And thank you for your kind words 💕
@KLC228 Ай бұрын
I gotta say, I love the covers. I'm not well versed in the omgeaverse at all but the plot and world building sound amazing. Great review!
@TheLitReviewForBooks Ай бұрын
Thank you so much! This was such a fun review process.
@KLC228 Ай бұрын
Such a unique idea for your next reads 💙
@TheLitReviewForBooks Ай бұрын
Thank you! I'm excited to be getting back into this series!
@RescuesandReads 2 ай бұрын
The Nightingale is sooooooooooo good!!! One of the best WWII Historical Fictions I have ever read
@TheLitReviewForBooks Ай бұрын
I literally just finished it last night and I cried so hard.
@meganmadkour9328 2 ай бұрын
NOPE! Already attached! You have to read Fourth Wing! No backsies!!!!! 😂
@TheLitReviewForBooks 2 ай бұрын
🤣I knew it!!
@TheLostReader 2 ай бұрын
I’m nervous to read Circe just because of the hype of it. Some hyped books are either a hit or miss for me. I hope you enjoy your TBR.
@TheLitReviewForBooks 2 ай бұрын
I do the same thing with hyped books. I end up setting my expectations SO high.
@tibbarasden 2 ай бұрын
Having to re-record is very frustrating. I need to reread Black Hills it is one of the few Nora Roberts books I'm not super familiar with. I hope your reads go well.
@TheLitReviewForBooks 2 ай бұрын
Thank you! I just started it this week and I'm enjoying it so far! Do you have other favorite Nora Roberts books?
@tibbarasden 2 ай бұрын
@TheLitReviewForBooks along the lines of her stand-alone romantic suspense, I really enjoyed one of her newer ones called Nightwork. Two of my favorites, though, are The Witness and Come Sundown.
@garywatters11 2 ай бұрын
Its been a few years since I read Circe so a reread is definitely needed. I’d love to hear your thoughts on The Diamond Eye.
@TheLitReviewForBooks 2 ай бұрын
Well at least it deserves a reread! That's a great sign. And I think Diamond Eye was my best read of April, so I'll be talking about it a lot more in my monthly wrap up (hopefully I can get that out next week).
@bekybell5224 2 ай бұрын
we know you love us because you rerecorded for us :)
@TheLitReviewForBooks 2 ай бұрын
Awwww you know it! 😘
@kalliopelovesbooks1375 2 ай бұрын
The Nightingale sounds very similar to Carcasonne by Kate Mosse without the magical realism. Maybe I should try it eventually. Good luck with your TBR! I've given up on the concept reading books I forced myself into. I'm too much of a mood reader, even changing inbetween books while reading them.
@TheLitReviewForBooks 2 ай бұрын
I totally get that. I have months where the mood reading is all I want to do, so I tend to lean in when those feels hit. But the game helps me get out of my comfort zone, so hopefully there's a good balance in there for me. 🤓
@KM_Loves_Books 2 ай бұрын
Will you be participating in The Amazing Readathon in June? We have a Romance team!!! Dial A for Auties was so fun! The Davenports is also on my Whodunit TBR for Colonel Mustard, Revolver, and Ballroom. So it is a 3x!!!
@TheLitReviewForBooks 2 ай бұрын
Ok tell me everything about The Amazing Readathon!? And that's awesome that you were able to triple up! I probably would have tried if not for my disastrous tails from Mr. Green.
@KM_Loves_Books 2 ай бұрын
@@TheLitReviewForBooks I don’t think my first response was saved because I put the link to the announcement. The Amazing Readathon is created by Bri (@four paws and a book) it is a chaotic great time.
@TheLitReviewForBooks 2 ай бұрын
@@KM_Loves_Books I'll definitely track it down. We'll see how my readathon goes this month before I commit, but I do love a chaotic great time 😆
@KM_Loves_Books 2 ай бұрын
@@TheLitReviewForBooks Bri’s Nickname is Loki because she is the Godess of Chaos.
@KLC228 2 ай бұрын
So sorry about the video problems, I can't imaine how frustrating it is. It's nice you're getting to older books on your tbr. I looked up best sellers and found Real Americans by Rachel Khong and I placed a hold on Libby for it, I'm second in line so hopefully I get it soon. Good luck on your tbr!
@TheLitReviewForBooks 2 ай бұрын
Thank you! Unfortunately tech troubles happen, but I'm glad refilming and fixing it is relatively easy. And second in line sounds like good odds! Good luck with your hold and the rest of your TBR!
@liminal.season 2 ай бұрын
I’m the same! I loved them when they first came out but now… it’s so boring!! I want to see something different
@TheLitReviewForBooks 2 ай бұрын
Just more options on the shelves would be nice!
@hollysreadingrambles5490 2 ай бұрын
LitLand🥳 I hope your tbr reading is going well🥰
@TheLitReviewForBooks 2 ай бұрын
Thanks, Holly! It's going pretty well but definitely want to squeeze a few more things end before the end of the month!
@KLC228 3 ай бұрын
This sounds fun, hoping it happens again thsi year! Also I love your earrings in this vidoe so cute
@TheLitReviewForBooks Ай бұрын
Ahh! Sorry for the delayed response, but thank you! I think we're still planning to do this again in October, but stay tuned! 😊
@highcontrasthughes1923 3 ай бұрын
For me, the real point of interest in regards to this topic is the fact that a book cover is one of the most important means of marketing a book. I wonder if the more plain, boring illustrated covers have something to do with a publisher a.) not wanting to pay for a more complex and unique artwork and b.) Thinking that social media and discourse will do more to sell the book and they don't need to spend as much on the physical product
@TheLitReviewForBooks Ай бұрын
First, SO sorry for the delayed response. I thought I had gotten back to you on this. But I totally agree with you. Covers matter more than we often give them credit for! I tend to agree with you too about illustrated covers being a cheaper option. Social media probably plays a huge role too. But I know I'm struggling to tell some of these books apart even with people hyping them up!
@nonfictionfeminist 3 ай бұрын
YES. YES YES YES. That's all I have to say.
@TheLitReviewForBooks Ай бұрын
Ah! Sorry I thought I had responded to this! But THANK YOU. So glad it's not just me.
@bekybell5224 3 ай бұрын
boy howdy this conversation. I've never wanted to make a video essay myself, but this feels like a topic that I would get kind of in deep with and want to. It's weird because I think I also personally fall into the category of people who this trend weirdly benefits. A lot of the cartoon covers (calling them this because of the illustrated style a lot of them are in and the use of handwritten fonts or text, harkening back to old comics and cartoons.) on romance books are on contemporary romances or real-world romance, which I'm not really into. I'm likely a romantasy till I die kinda gorl, which typically instead don't feature humans on the covers and have really swirly or gothic fonts. (which I also have a problem with, in a way.) BUT this brings me to a point you bring up that I think is a problem in a lot of books right now, where the cover just doesn't really tell you anything, and I mean TELL you anything. The covers don't have story or narrative that you follow. From a publishing perspective, they're most likely anticipating that if people want that they will READ the book, but when the first thing you see is a cover, sometimes you need the first image people see as the representation of your book to tell a bit of the story. I HAVE SO MANY MORE THOUGHTS that are not made any easier to make concise especially from a professional standpoint as I have a degree in illustration and have worked in art direction, but this is just such a fascinating trend and bleed into other sub-genres of romance.
@TheLitReviewForBooks 3 ай бұрын
I was thinking of you when I made this video! So please, gimmie all your takes! I think you're right about the cartoon style being primarily a contemporary romance style, though I am starting to see it creep into historicals and paranormal/fantasy romances in a way that I'm not thrilled by. And I also think that's why I was turning to some of the other sub-genres of romance that are more niche, because they seem more willing to take some of these risks. But that's often the big difference between an indie scene and the more mainstream too. But also YES about covers needing to tell you something. I wanna get excited about a book from the front cover to the back!
@MargaretPinard 3 ай бұрын
Ooh, loved Mortal Folloes, AND its cover! Nod to its source material was great.
@TheLitReviewForBooks 3 ай бұрын
I haven't read it yet, but I'm so excited to get into it. I've been a big fan of every Alexis Hall book I've read so far.
@MargaretPinard 3 ай бұрын
If you want motion and bold colors, check out Magic Steeped in POison--that's the type that's been catching my eye lately!
@MargaretPinard 3 ай бұрын
Also The Name Bearer by Natalia Hernandez--she makes the light dance in an illustrated cover--unique take. Just going through my latest wishlist adds...;D
@TheLitReviewForBooks 3 ай бұрын
Magic Steeped in Poison is one of my favorite covers that I've seen in the last year or so. But I hadn't heard of The Name Bearer! Thanks for the recs! 😍
@MargaretPinard 3 ай бұрын
Glad to see Sherrilyn Kenyon flash up on screen! Always a cult favorite 😊
@TheLitReviewForBooks 3 ай бұрын
She was one of my first big authors when I started reading romance!
@traceyanderson7489 3 ай бұрын
When you showed the new cover of Still Beating I had no idea what it was, and then you showed the original and I realised I’d read it. The new cover is very much at odds with the subject matter.
@TheLitReviewForBooks 3 ай бұрын
Ah thank you! I keep thinking this recover is so scary because it courts a wildly different audience and kind of hides the subject matter.
@traceyanderson7489 3 ай бұрын
I like illustrated covers but I do hate those flat featureless ones without faces and proper outlines, if that makes sense.
@TheLitReviewForBooks 3 ай бұрын
Oh it totally does! Within illustrated covers, I prefer the ones where people have faces over the featureless ones.
@Rosemoon78 3 ай бұрын
You are definitely not alone. I personally don’t like them. Some of them are well done but most of them don’t get me to pick up or buy them. I buy physical books way less often because the covers are so devoid of feeling, passion, heart, or feeling. I feel like that desire to appeal to a wider appeal has made the covers way less appealing to long time romance readers.
@TheLitReviewForBooks 3 ай бұрын
Trends and covers come and go, but this is the first time I can remember being frustrated by a trend being overdone to this extent. I still buy plenty with the illustrated style but they do tend to blur together--at least the covers do, the books themselves often stand on their own. While there are elements that draw me in to illustrated covers, I'm not excited by them any more and that makes me kind of sad.
@KLC228 3 ай бұрын
This video was so well done! I really loved illustrated covers when they first came out because they were cute and kind of different but throughout the years I started feeling bored with them because you're right, you go to a bookstore or a book section in a store and they all look the same. I know this is because of the publishing industry when new trends come up, which I'm totally not blaming artists/writers for, it's just the industry you know. You know I'm not into romance but I think we could all do with some variety within all the different genres, especially obviously romance since this is what this is mainly about. I think we should have all those options to choose from in romance so it doesn't look mundane. I hate that I started getting bored with the new illustrated covers but I loved them so much at first, I think I'll like them a lot more again when I see more variety.
@TheLitReviewForBooks 3 ай бұрын
Thank you so much! I have so many of the same feelings here. I loved this style when it initially came out, but you can overdo just about anything and I think that's what's happening here. I would appreciate the style more if there were more of a healthy balance, I think.
@vendela6015 3 ай бұрын
As an artist I definitely would like to see more diversity in styles because there are so many different styles and of course some artists and writers will prefer the more simplistic styles and that’s alright but more different styles would be good
@TheLitReviewForBooks 3 ай бұрын
I think the variety part is key. It's not that I think these styles of covers shouldn't exist, it's that I wish they were less pervasive.
@MargaretPinard 3 ай бұрын
Agree!!
@astarreads4214 3 ай бұрын
Prioritization always gets me too haha 😅
@TheLitReviewForBooks 3 ай бұрын
Me too! It's a constant struggle.
@liminal.season 3 ай бұрын
i also got the "finish a series" prompt from my tbr game this month!!! 🥲
@TheLitReviewForBooks 3 ай бұрын
It's such a fun and challenging prompt! Good luck to us both this month! 😅
@CoffeeOverApples 3 ай бұрын
omgosh haha thanks for the shout out! I love tbr games too and seeing all the titles that I would have not heard of otherwise. great game! new subscriber
@TheLitReviewForBooks 3 ай бұрын
Oh yay! Thank you! And I love your Magic themed TBR game. Seeing people loop in their other loves makes it feel extra special.
@liminal.season 3 ай бұрын
I read boyfriend material in january and loved it! I hope you do/did too!
@TheLitReviewForBooks 3 ай бұрын
I'm so glad I picked it up! I was able to squeeze it in in the last bit of March and I had a blast!
@liminal.season 3 ай бұрын
@@TheLitReviewForBooks yay im glad! Im hoping to fit husband material on my tbr soon!
@TheLitReviewForBooks 3 ай бұрын
@@liminal.season I'm not sure when I'll get to it but I will definitely continue on with the series!
@runningchick5505 3 ай бұрын
Haha what are the chances you would pick alliterative authors after using a few and also in the same video you said you love alliterations. I love moments like that. Great tbr
@TheLitReviewForBooks 3 ай бұрын
Haha thank you! It felt like the universe was messing with me, but I think it's going to make for a good reading month!
@kaylanisimplyme 3 ай бұрын
Female Pirate took me out lol!
@TheLitReviewForBooks 3 ай бұрын
LOL me too! But maybe I should try to get some more pirate romances next time. My brain was clearly ready for it!