Hey guys, it's Julia and welcome back to my channel and for today's video I wanted to talk to you guys about the books that really surprised me this year. So my most surprising read of 2020. So there was quite a few books, not quite a few, like five that were like a pleasant surprise that I enjoyed a lot more than I thought I would. That maybe made it to my favorites, a few of these were on my favorites. So yeah. First up here we have Pumpkin heads by Rainbow Rowell. I was not really expecting much from this and I didn't want to buy it physically because I didn't want to spend like $20 or $25 on it. So I got like an ebook copy when it was on sale I believe and I really, really enjoyed this. This is like such a fun fall read. I was like dying over the romance. It was so cute and I love how they had all these little activities that they did and they were all super festive. Overall it was like it was such a cute graphic novel and if you're interested in it I would suggest picking it up because it's actually so cute and like the illustrations are really nice and they have like a huge map of where they're at and it's just has all like the little sections of where they go and like it's all, it's all fall related and so cute. So I really enjoyed Pumpkin heads this year. Next I had Metamorphosis by Ovid which was featured on my other like another year videos but this one I really, really liked. It has a lot of triggering content so I'm going to say that now but it's basically poetry but it's all about different myths and gods and goddesses and creatures so all ranging from you know Roman, it's mostly Roman and some forms of some bits of Greek mythology as well but it is so good and you like we studied it in my mythology course in university and I just was so enthralled with it. I like underlined every single page. It was so interesting and you hear like you get to see each individual myth and like all the stories that you hear about you get to really see the reality of it and they're usually very like it's very dark and brutal so I will mention that right now but it was such a fantastic read so if you are interested in mythology like at all I would highly recommend picking this up. It's very very old but it was really really really good so I would recommend that one. Next up here I have Sailor Moon so I did not really know much going into this. I was just like yep a lot of people talk about Sailor Moon it's very cute it's like it's super cute come on like it's super cute manga but I ended up being so enthralled with it even with just the cat to be honest with Luna and I ended up tabing things like I just thought it was such I just thought it was such a nice book and I just enjoyed it much more than I thought I was going to and that's why I'm actually interested in continuing with it because it was so cute and I love how each sailor kind of has their own thing. You know we got Sailor Moon and there's some other ones and there's some billions and there's the cat and I don't know I just really really enjoyed it. It was so so cute. Yeah like there's sailor Mars and stuff like that so I just really really enjoyed this one. I definitely want to continue with it. It's like it's definitely like a little bit more it's more not juvenile but it's I usually read more adult manga and I know this one's not really adult manga I don't think it's more like I think it's more for teens as well but it's it's really nice and wholesome at times so I'm excited to keep reading the manga when I acquire more of them and then even watching like the anime so if you guys have read this or the whole series or you've watched the anime let me know what you think about it because I'd love to hear what you have to say about that. Next year I have things by Sarah Anderson and this I mentioned in my favorites because this was so good and it's a love story between a vampire and a werewolf it is written by the same author who has done like Sarah Skribbles and like adult hood is a myth and like those books which are also super funny and like have like a cute quirky writing style which is exactly what this book had and it had so many just little like I chuckled throughout it it was super cute and yeah if you like vampires or werewolves and you just want like a cute wholesome love story definitely read this graphic novel it's super cute. Lastly here I have Meta by Europe Pytis I probably said that wrong I this story was one of the most interesting to me anyways it was such an interesting myth that I learned about and just with Meta and Jason and the kids and there's a revenge story and it's so complicated like I don't want to spoil anything for you but I read this from a Greek mythology class or not my my classical mythology class and I really just was so shocked by one how Burtle was and then two it was just very interesting to me I thought that it was like wow like this story just stuck out so if you're interested in mythology I'd recommend this like I don't want to say too much about it I don't want to spoil you but what happens in case you don't know but I yeah I would recommend reading this or at least watch a video on it um I might link down below some videos about who Meta was uh I think this character is super fascinating and yeah oh there you guys have it those are my most surprising reads 2020 let me know your most surprising you're just a book that you really didn't think you would like as much as you did down below I would love to know and yeah thank you so much for supporting me and commenting and liking and everything like that I really really appreciate it and I will talk to you guys soon with a new video bye