a sponsor um it is likewise who i'm sure you've heard about likewise is an app that helps give you recommendations for books tv shows movies etc um podcasts came in clutch with the podcast this year likewise uses kind of a algorithm computer generated thingy but also reviews from people like you people like me um to help give you great recommendations and that was so helpful for me especially because as you know NUMBER_TOKEN is the year that i dipped my toe into the ocean of romance books and i really had no idea where to go what to do um so they really came in clutch there and sent me towards quite a few interesting reads you can also create lists you can follow people if you want to sign up it is free um but just so they know that i sent you you can go to com URL_TOKEN carry three check them out i will link my username down below as well you can check out their list they have really great ones i think most of the people in the book side of this app seem to have the same taste as me so all of the lists that you can read are really helpful i love it so thank you likewise for sponsoring this and um if you don't get any recommendations from this video head over to likewise and they'll help you out so let me get my notes out let's just jump in so i am not going to rank the books that are not finished yet um but i'm going to tell you about a couple of series that have started and i cannot wait for the sequels of some of these um first one being say it with me legend born oh my god so this was on if you haven't watched my best books of NUMBER_TOKEN yet this was one of my top books of the year it is a fantasy that takes place in north carolina and it ties in really strongly with actually king arthur and the knights of the round table but also hunting demons so um it follows our main girl who is brilliant so even though she's only NUMBER_TOKEN she is part of this university program where she basically goes to college and gets college credit even though she's still a high school student she goes to kind of this orientation party sort of thing and she witnesses a demon thing going on and she ends up getting wrapped up in this kind of secret society that is linked to king arthur um it also deals a lot with grief she had just lost her mother it also deals with her being a young black woman in especially with the secret society especially with the university that she's in in a historically racist system and i thought that all of these different elements were tied together so well and she felt like such a real character and there was a little bit of insta love there's a little bit of enemies too as i said in my my best books video enemies too we don't know because we don't have the sequel yet um it was just so i thought it was so good i cannot wait for the sequel i believe it comes out it better come out in NUMBER_TOKEN or i will lose my mind um it's called blood marked and yeah i just can't speak highly enough about legend born if you haven't read it yet check it out it's got a little demon hunting it's got a little king arthur camelot type stuff going on everybody's has a welsh last name so that is legend born next up keeping it real quick is these
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