FEBRURAY WRAP UP | starting two new fav series and finishing one 💌

[@just_vibes6532]

I actually read 6 books this month and I'm so happy for myself. I did a 24 hour reading challenge and because of it I finished The clockwork prince in one sitting and I also read the sprite and the gardener, and you were so right its art is absolutely adorable.

[@katieisreading]

that’s great!! so glad you enjoyed the sprite and the gardener! it’s so cute and i just want everyone to read it💗

[@cassandralynnreads]

Okay so happy I'm not the only one who struggles with remembering what month our book club book is every time 💀 and the struggling thumbnail clips I too can relate 🫡

[@katieisreading]

i think i just start talking too fast and my mind can’t keep up😳 but i rly could make an hour long clip of me dropping books while trying to take a thumbnail…

[@LexieMoon321]

February is usually a weird month for reading. Don’t feel bad for not reading as much ❤

[@katieisreading]

oh i totally don’t! with all the school work i had to do i’m thrilled i got to 9 books! and the fact that i loved them all made it even better💗

[@setayeshsbooks]

She is so beautiful and has an adorable character and vibe💖

[@daianauta2861]

Better than the movies was amazing and I am glad I finally got to read it. My bestie told me to read Clockwork Prince and now you said that the series is amazing so that will be my next read ty

[@katieisreading]

i keep hearing great things about better than the movies! so glad you loved it! and yay i hope you enjoy the infernal devices, your bestie must have taste ;))

[@Maria-fm5no]

I literally just came home from work!! I'm gonna have my lunch while watching this video which is the perfect way to relax after a hectic work day 🥰

[@katieisreading]

so glad i could keep you company after a hectic day🥺🥺💗

[@lumianna6]

I finally started reading the shadowhunter books last month!! Tbh I’m not really enjoying the mortal instruments that much but I’m trying to push through them to get to the good books (infernal devices!!!)😅 I am just really excited for the whole series since you talk about it a lot🥰Love your channel Katie❤❤

[@azuri207]

Honestly if you have Netflix you should just watch the show🥲 (it's not that good, but at least you can get through it quicker)

[@katieisreading]

yay! honestly if you’re not enjoying the mortal instruments i would probably recommend giving up on that series and just starting the infernal devices, the mortal instruments is a good intro to the world but you don’t need to read them to read tid! and thank you!!❤️❤️

[@evaa7669]

I just went bookshopping and picked up clockwork angel, after being influenced by mainly you and cass and i’m super exited to start the infernal devices!! (Nope, not prepared for the pain but i’m all here for it))

[@katieisreading]

ah i hope you love it so much🥺🥺

[@Sarah.reads.sometimes]

I finished Clockwork Princess & had basically the same reaction as you did to Chain of Thorns 😂 I had the biggest book hangover ever. I was planning on going right into The Last Hours but couldn’t after the last chapter & epilogue of Clockwork Princess, which I ill advisedly left to read by themselves after spreading the book out because I just couldn’t take the emotional toll while binging it 😂😭 But yeah. I’m sort of reading David Copperfield this month & also planned on reading Great Expectations, so I think I may just do that before diving into Chain of Gold 😅. Can’t wait for the angst & the connections between the books! ❤

[@tejaswinisureshkrishnan4228]

Whenever writing becomes stressful I watch your videos and I get back in a good mood. Your videos have seriously helped me a lot. I get instantly happy thinking that someday, someone will talk about my book like this🥺❤️

[@katieisreading]

oh i’m so happy to hear that🥺🥺 good luck with your writing!!❤️

[@kate.marie.]

I started the infernal devices because of you

[@throneofpages]

i'm so excited about chain of thorns but i am TERRIFIED i am 1000% sure Cassie is going to kill my favorites 🥲🥲 and i'm DEFINITELY going to be in a book hangover after it 🤡 i also got great expectations because of the last hours!! i hope i enjoy it as much as you did 👉👈

[@throneofpages]

my least favorite book i read in february is **definitely** love in the time of serial killers; it was SOO cringey, the characters had ZERO chemistry and the main character is a collection of all of humanities worst traits T__T 0/5 stars for sure

[@katieisreading]

honestly good luck with chain of thorns, it hurt me in many ways😢 but there were also a lot of good things that happened!! i can’t wait to see your final thoughts on it though, i think it’s received rather mixed reviews👀 but i hope you also enjoy great expectations, looking for the parallels to tlh is super fun and the story on its own is great as well!!

[@NeonFrills]

My favorite books I read in Feb were Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries, and The Night Circus! My least favorite.. was Six Crimson Cranes that I read for the book club 😅. sadly I was pretty bored and I had a trope I really get annoyed by so it was an uphill battle for me to like it.

[@katieisreading]

ah i’m so glad you enjoyed emily wilde’s encyclopedia of faeries!! i think about that book frequently haha i really loved it too! but yeah i think six crimson cranes was also my least fav of the month which is unfortunate ://

[@BBDRMZZZZ]

STOKER has stolen my heart entirely💓

[@katieisreading]

okay me too though!!!💗💗 him and veronica really make the series for me!

[@CoralTheWitch2023]

The Lore Olympus series is so stunning! I thought something was amiss that I thought it was very slow burn, but you relieved me of my worries! Love your videos! ❤❤❤

[@katieisreading]

thank you!!💗💗

[@allie4435]

I started the stormlight archive series this week because of you! I’m really enjoying it so far and want to get the UK hardback versions of it haha

[@katieisreading]

ah i’m so glad you’re enjoying it!!🥰

[@karimreviews]

I also read a lot of books in February!! Favorite: The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious #2) Least favorite: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

[@Maria-kn9ob]

Random but I think you're genuinely so beautiful and look like a Disney princess! Also love your dressing sense ❤️

[@katieisreading]

oh my gosh thank you so much🥺🥺💗

[@Lillyjoy]

I read The Tea Dragon Society in February!! I love the art in it it’s so cute, I’m about to go get the next two in the series from the library 😊I also read volume one and two of a manga called Demon Diary, its interesting and I like the art in it. Those were my favorite reads and my least favorite was Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. The writing was so weird and repetitive and it’s a fantasy but like 2% of it was fantasy.

[@katieisreading]

ah i’m so glad you loved the tea dragon society! i’m really hoping to pick it up in march myself! so sorry piranesi didn’t work for you, i’ve definitely heard mixed opinions on it myself

[@emilyoftheadamson]

one of my binge reads in february was the foxhole court! i was surprised by how much i enjoyed it, honestly, and read all three books in the span of like four days?? (not quite sure how that happened) but overall v fun!!

[@katieisreading]

ive heard really good things about that series! i’m so glad you enjoyed it!!

[@craftyreads]

You have re-ignited my passion for continuing to read the shadowhunters books! I feel your pain Katie! Why do all the best books put us in the worst reading slumps 😭

[@katieisreading]

yesss😈 the infernal devices is SO good i hope you love it! and right?? the pain was too real😭

[@zoekerr1250]

love your videos so much, they always make my day so much better!!! also where did you get that shirt its so cute ❤

[@liselotgrace]

pls update when she reacts :)

[@katieisreading]

oh my gosh thank you🥺💗 and i actually thrifted it recently but it was originally from forever 21

[@zoekerr1250]

@@katieisreading thank you sm

[@maddie801]

I went to Barnes and Noble this past weekend and picked up A Curious Beginning! Your videos have been getting me so excited to start the series lol

[@katieisreading]

ah i hope you love it!!!🖤

[@yahairabadia1867]

Clockwork Prince is amazing . I love it

[@katieisreading]

ah i’m so glad you also love it!

[@taylormoody8968]

I just started clockwork angel and i’m loving it so far!!!

[@katieisreading]

ah yay!!💗 i’m so glad you’re loving it, i hope you adore the rest of the series as well!

[@emilypaige722]

i have been in SUCH a slump after reading ACOWAR we are struggling over here but a curious beginning sounds so good i might have to order it 😗✌🏻

[@katieisreading]

are you planning on reading the other books in the acotar series?? but yes a curious beginning is fantastic

[@emilypaige722]

@@katieisreading i just finished acowar last night and i definitely want to read acosf after reading about nesta and cassian in this one bc wow

[@ReadingNymph]

I never thought I would want to reread Great Expectations (I read it in school) but now I kinda want to 😅

[@katieisreading]

i’d recommend! it’s definitely one of the classics i loved reading!

[@lauramateosgarriga-fl6rb]

I read Clockwork Angel last week and I'm trying SO hard to like that series but it seems a little simple to me :') I'm going to give a chance to the rest of the books anyways!

[@irinairinaa211]

I decided on rereading the TID trilogy, cuz i missed the characters... ❤❤❤

[@katieisreading]

yes!! that’s another reason i started my reread, hope you’re enjoying yours🖤🖤

[@shonnarobertson6462]

I’m halfway through Great Expectations and definitely enjoying it. Last month I also read A Tale of Two Cities and really enjoyed it. Which was a huge relief - my intro to Dickens was Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol as a kid and I loved those books. I then hated Dickens after tackling Hard Times and Bleak House at uni, and relieving to have now found several more Dickens stories that I would happily reread in ATTC and Great Expectations. Knowing they inspired The Infernal Devices and The Last Hours series by CC, I was curious to read them even though I hadn’t recovered from the tedium and depression of Hard Times and Bleak House. I’m also enjoying Spy x family at present, so when finished that, I might have to give Lore Olympus a go…

[@katieisreading]

i feel like every time i hear someone say they had to read specifically bleak house or hard times for school they just absolutely hated it😭 those are two dickens books i currently have no interest it for sure, but i’m so glad attc and great expectations renewed your faith in dickens! but i’m so glad you’re enjoying spy x family!! hope you enjoy lore olympus as well if you end up picking it up!!

[@shonnarobertson6462]

Picked up Vols 1 & 2 of Lore Olympus last night and finished Vol 1. Really enjoying it! Another excellent recommendation, thank you ✨✨

[@lizziejackson2529]

I'm in such a bad slump at the moment😂I was trying to read Godkiller by Hannah Kaner but I had to dnf, ACOMAF has put me in a massive book hangover tbh so don't feel bad for not reading as much this month☺great video, can't wait to see what you read next month! Your taste is immaculate x

[@katieisreading]

oh no! i’m so sorry you’re in a slump😭 no surprised it’s was acomaf that caused it, that book is so good it’s hard to switch to something else afterward😢 and thank you!!🥺

[@Kittyzero13426]

February novel reads were Legends & Lattes, House of Salt and Sorrows, The Mortal Instruments Book 1, Six Crimson Cranes, still reading City of Glass, and Ranger's Apprentice: Ruins of Gorland. February manga/graphic novels were Spy X Family 5-8, Tokyo Mew Mew 2-7, The Girl from the Other Side 3-6, and Heartstopper 1-4. Since reading The Six Crimson Cranes for the book club I picked up The Dragon's Promise from the library and I'm enjoying the 2nd book more because there is more action and explanations with the story. I totally forgot how slow the first book of City of Bones book was but I was able to finish it and City of Glass helped me realize it was worth getting through it. I read the first book of Ranger's Apprentice in the hopes to try the rest of the series but the pace was so slow that I almost went into a readers slump but I liked the characters in the story but I won't be able to read the rest of the series. Has always a nice cozy video.

[@katieisreading]

wow you real a lot of great books in february!! was this your first time reading heartstopper?? i love that series sm🥰 so glad you got to some good stuff!

[@Kittyzero13426]

@@katieisreading Yes it was my first time reading Heartstopper. I thought it was a nice read. ^_^

[@Adele975]

We miss you katie💕🌼

[@katieisreading]

💗💗💗

[@libbysreadingcorner9564]

I have Chain of Thorns but need to read it. I was also in a reading slump towards the end of Jan and throughout February

[@katieisreading]

so sorry to hear about the slump :// hopefully you get back in the reading mood soon!!

[@libbysreadingcorner9564]

@@katieisreading i think I'm back, just taking it slowly 🐌

[@janet5123]

🎉 Nice reading month! A Sinister Revenge was a quick and engaging read for me. 4.75 stars. Lots of red herrings/misleading hints as to the villain. This one has dinosaurs and a pineapple folly. By the time you read this I bet you will have read that book too. 🦕🍍

[@katieisreading]

dinosaurs and pineapple folly is quite the combo🤔 i’m so excited to get to to haha! so glad you enjoyed it so much!!🖤🦕

[@MariasNook]

I only finished two books in February but I still read more pages compared to January because I was reading a third book next to my other reads. Namely The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss, which is a chunker so I obviously didn't manage to finish it.. oof... I actually really enjoyed everything I read last month. I had a pretty hard time choosing my favourite book for my book journal haha

[@katieisreading]

isn’t the wise man’s fear over 1000 pages?? very chunky indeed! but that’s great that you enjoyed everything you read! not being able to choose a favorite is a great feeling!!

[@MariasNook]

@@katieisreading Yes, it is and the audiobook for it is 43 hours long so.. it'll take me another while to finish that book 🥲 And you're absolutely right, it's a great feeling!

[@mymindfullife7554]

I recently purchased A Tale of two Cities by Dickens for the amazing writing!

[@katieisreading]

i have a copy i bought a few years ago and i’m super excited to jump into it!

[@ochoasamantha]

" I have nothing to live for" 😂

[@katieisreading]

i am nothing if not dramatic😩

[@paloma4926]

I'm also doing a reread of TDA bc i was really disappointed by the end of the last hours :(

[@katieisreading]

ah i’m so sorry cot was so disappointing :(( i hope you’re enjoying your reread of tda though!!

[@wxllflower1032]

Hi, I’m new to Cassandra Clare’s books. Do I have to read all her other books to understand The Last Hours series? Are there any you recommend me to read first? Thanks 😊

[@katieisreading]

so really the only series you need to read to understand the last hours is the infernal devices! cassandra clare’s other two series (the mortal instruments and the dark artifices) take place like 100ish years after those so you can read them later if you want!

[@wxllflower1032]

@@katieisreading gotcha!!! thank you soo much🥰

[@ashlynrenee4603]

Waking up to one of your videos 👌👌👌

[@katieisreading]

🖤🖤🖤

[@Hailsreads2]

Is there a certain order to read Cassandra Clare books?

[@rainyjreads]

I DNFed Unravel the Dusk by Elizabeth Lim this month 😬 I enjoyed Spin the Dawn, but only made it 68 pages into the sequel. Oh well 🙃

[@katieisreading]

oh no! i was originally really interested in spin the dawn but now i don’t know if i want to try it? maybe i’ll check it out from the library and see what i’m thinking of it, so sorry unravel the dusk didn’t work for you :(

[@rainyjreads]

@katie is reading I really liked Spin the Dawn, but the intro of Dusk was just this rapid succession of very improbable events for the character and there was one detail that I just couldn't get past. Maybe it gets better?? It was just not for me right now. Ask around and see? Maybe it's just me hahaha

[@beatrizmartins6714]

the best books I’ve read in february month were the Heartstopper graphic novels and the worst book I’ve read last month was Too Late by Colleen Hoover

[@katieisreading]

ah heartstopper is absolutely fantastic, one of my top favs😭 so glad you loved it!

[@brianaeasterbrook6024]

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[@katieisreading]

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[@faithsreadingthings]

You look like a pirate faerie queen in that top🏴‍☠️🧚

[@katieisreading]

this may be the best comment i have ever received haha😭😭 thank you faith

[@PorothPorcupine]

We need a full compilation of Katie struggling to get thumbnail pictures + dropping books 😅

[@katieisreading]

that would be a long compilation indeed😅😂

[@dewereldheerser]

So for the tea.. I read hooked last month and oh boy, I dont even know what to say. The fist book that I ever gave 1 star😂😂 It was so bad and cringy. I know a lot of people love that series but I think its for the best that I just leave it right where it is.😅

[@katieisreading]

i have heard many things about that book and knew it wouldn’t be for me😭 i’m so sorry it was a one star though! that sucks

[@gerniahliburd]

I loved this wrap up 💙✨ I really want to read Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities, at some point as well. I was actually looking at different editions a few days ago 😅. I read 14 books this month, my favorite was Chain of Thorns, of course, and my least favorite was probably Consider Me by Becca Mack 🫤

[@katieisreading]

thank you!!💙💙 and looking at different editions of classics is one of my favorite activities honestly, there are so many pretty editions! the editions i have both of those in are the penguin english library editions and they are so floppy! but 14 books is amazing!! if cot wasn’t your fav of the month i was going to be shocked haha!

[@wendyvilla2904]

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[@katieisreading]

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[@-.MewMew.-]

Am I the only one that can hear a crackling/rattling kinda sound whenever I watch any of these videos? 😭 I love watching these but whenever I watch then I can hear this sound and it drives me up the wall unless there is music in the background 😭💔

[@Aaaavvvvvvvva]

HOW CAN YOU RE READ THE INFERNAL DEVICES? I can’t even look or touch the books after what they put me through 😭

[@ChaimaDjaa]

It's the way I only read the infernal devices in order to read the last hours but every time I attempt to read chain of gold I give up because I have a strong feeling it won't live up to tid 🥲

[@katieisreading]

oh no! that’s kind of how i felt when i first started chain of gold i cant lie, i think it has a rather slow beginning which can be hard to get into, especially right after reading tid, but it gets so good!! the ending of chain of gold and beginning of iron are exquisite i promise you