Hi guys, it's Liana and I'm here today with my December TVR. There isn't any particular rhyme or reason to this TVR other than my buddy read with Amanda. Everything else was stuff that I literally grabbed off the shelves. A minute ago, I was like, man, I need a TVR. What the fuck am I gonna read? As usual, I apologize if you hear any clanging and banging. It is my neighbor, presumably continuing their clock dancing studies. First book on my list is a holiday, which is me and Amanda's buddy read for the month. Amanda picked it. It is obviously, because we're... yep. So the live show will be on her channel the last Saturday of the month, which I don't know what the date of that is right now, but... Oh, phone. I can find out. Moxing Day, the 26th, the day after Christmas. Yeah, so holidays is a... It's by Christina Lauren. Never read anything by Christina Lauren. This, I believe, is kind of like... I mean, it is a romance that's Christmas centered, but it's also a Groundhog Day death thing, where like she keeps dying and reliving the same day, but I think the day that she's reliving is Christmas day. And yep. I'm not gonna lie, this sounds pretty intriguing. Like a contemporary Christmas romance. Like normally I'd be like Groundhog Day death Christmas romance. The next book is The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon. I've actually read this before. I've also read the My Order, but I never finished reading the books that are out so far in the Bone Season series. I read the first two and haven't read the third one. The... The song rising. Because I just didn't feel like it at the time, plus then there was no word on the next book coming out at all anyway. So I felt zero urgency, but the next book is finally coming out, the mass-clawing in January, I think. So I don't think I'll catch up on a reread before the next one comes out, but I'm like, oh, back in the Bone Season game. I need to reread that because I forgot most of it. The Bone Season, if you haven't read it or heard of it, I quite liked it. It is kind of a tough one to get into. It doesn't, it is precisely zero hand holding. It is a kind of dystopian-ish time situation where this is like London and the, I guess not to just in a future or an alternate London, I'm not super clear. Metal's clear at the time or I've forgotten. There are people with these sort of like, what's the word? It's not psychic. The back of the book supplied me with the word clairvoyant. She's a clairvoyant. There's different levels of clairvoyancy, different things you can do with your clairvoyancy. And there's like this like secret sub world of London. And this criminal underworld of London and all these clairvoyance and the different levels of the clairvoyance. And again, the book has like charts and glossaries. And like here's like all the orders of like the different kinds of clairvoyancy. I never pay attention to shit like that. If you dive right in and just read it, which is what I did, you can kind of pick it up along the way, but it's tough because it's just like, it throws you into the middle. There's like slaying and jargon and all of this stuff that it does not explain to you ever. Like you can look at the glossary, you can look at the chart other than that is just gonna tell the story. It was quite interesting, quite unusual, quite unique. Found the characters compelling and the concept in grossing. And I would, I just need to refresh myself so that I can read the next book when it comes out. The next book I have is The Black Cauldron by the way, Alexander, I read The Book of Three, which is the first book in the Chronicles of Prudene a couple of months ago. I've been wanting to read The Chronicles of Prudene since I was a kid basically, because I love the movie The Black Cauldron, which is Disney's version of kind of the whole Chronicles. They called it The Black Cauldron, which is the second book. I really loved the first book, which is The Book of Three. I really, really, really loved it. Like it was, it had all the charm of the movie that I loved so much, but more of it and more quirks and more loveliness and more magic. And it was just like, everything I loved about the movie but like to the max turned up to 11. So I'm really excited to continue on and read The Black Cauldron. The next book is the second book in the bindup known as Rise of Empire. The Riria revelations, the three books in the Riria revelations, each one is actually a bindup of two. So the Riria revelations is an effect actually six books, not three. So I read the first book that is in this bindup earlier this year and that was Niferon Rising. Right? Am I right? I think I'm right. Yeah, Niferon Rising. And then the book that I now need to read is The Emerald Storm. First, bindup book is The Fift of Sores, which contains two books as well. I read that a couple of years ago. It's just a really sort of traditional fun fantasy adult fantasy that follows kind of two thieves, Hadrian and Royce, who have this sort of great, bantery friend relationship. And there's nothing particularly mind-bogglingly original or unique about the world of the Riria books. It's very, very traditional fantasy. But there's just really great kind of like character development and this like friendly banter thing and adventure. It's just like a fun fantasy with some great characters. Like it's not earth-shattering in any way. It's just a good time. And I'd like to finish this so that I could finally pick up the heir of Niferon, which is the third in the Riria relations. And then I think I've mentioned a few times about the saga of me purchasing Riria books because I bought Age of Myth and then found out that was a prequel to the Riria Chronicles. I bought all the Riria Chronicles and then found out the Riria Chronicles were a prequel series to the Riria revelation. So I own like 50 Billy and Michael Jackson with the books because I kept buying them as I discovered what they were actually prequels to. So I can get through these bad boys. I'm enjoying them. I just, I need to read them. Next book is a very recent purchase. Like it arrived five minutes before I started filming this. And then I was discovery of witches by Deborah Harkness. I never before really wanted to read this. It sounded, I just kind of pictured it as being kind of like Twilight light and I could have been interested in Twilight. But I heard recently somebody talking about it and it sounds like it's a lot more sort of like dark academia with like witches and vampires. It has like this pretentiousness that I am absolutely here for. Like I love the secret history but on a chart. So this sounded to me like the secret history but with vampires and witches kind of salivating at the thought of that. I might hate it. It is very long. And if it's gonna be too romantic, like too like angsty and dramatic on that side of things, I don't think I'll like it. But I am hopeful that I will like this. And if I do, that's lucky and fortunate because it's a completed series. It came out a while ago. So I can just chew my way through the whole series if I like it. Next is a relatively recent acquisition. And that is The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley. Earlier this year, I read The Guest List by Lucy Foley, which I also got from Book of the Month. And this, I don't know if it just came out because the guest list just came out. I don't know if she had two books come out this year. I have enough luck in idea. But I relaxed the guest list. And The Hunting Party is also a closed circle isolated mystery that takes place, I believe, at a cabiner or a mansion or something, but around Christmas time. 30-somethings from Oxford, meet to welcome in the New Year together. So just after Christmas in the Scottish Highlands. Now one of them is dead. And another one of them did it. So it's like, and then there were none, but like in the snow. So it sounds like in the perfect December read. I'm very excited. Next up, I have The Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik. I am over two. Hurning Naomi Novik, I hated deadly education and I hated uprooted. But I own this goddamn gorgeous edition of Spinning Silver. And I've had so many people tell me that even though I like those other, or dislikes those other two, that they still think that I would like Spinning Silver. So we're gonna try it. And if I don't like this, well then I think I can, that'll be the final nail in the Naomi Novik coffin. She truly is not an author for me. I hold out hope that I could still like this despite having hated the other two books I read. Because each book has been quite different. My issues with whom were quite different. So I may end up hating this as well, but I suspect if I do hate it, it will be for yet an entirely different set of reasons than the other two. And the last book on my TBR is In Treat Me by Grace Draven. I've read this two or three times already. It's not my favorite favorite is Radiance, but In Treat Me takes place around Winter Solstice. And I do quite like it, not as much as Radiance, but almost as much as Radiance. And it's just a cozy Winter Solstice fan to see. Oh, if you don't know what it is at all, it's a Beauty and the Beast retelling, where, it's a Grace Draven book. I tend to like Grace Draven books. It is a Beauty and the Beast retelling takes place in Winter Solstice, but kind of the twist on it, I guess. The main character who you really follow, she's the older sister of this really young, beautiful world. She's like, I think they're half sisters. The young girl is in love with this very handsome prince. And so she's kind of her shaperone. And the Beast character is the sort of handsome prince's father who is like cursed and deformed. And so it's kind of this, like, they kind of hit it off because she's there to shaperone. And it's his son. So like, she's her sister and her mother, but like, it's kind of that dynamic of them watching the young and like, and being like, she's a widow and, and there's clearly a story as to why daddy dearest is cursed and disfigured. But there's sort of mature adults. This isn't like a first love, young love, Stockholm syndrome situation. Like, she insists on staying there to shaperone. And it's during Winter Solstice. So there's like all the Winter Solstice vibes. Like a very earthy Christmas, which is kind of my favorite kind of style of Christmas. Just a lot of like evergreen bows and a yule log. And like very vat kind of vibe. Much more so than the Holly Jolly, like the halls with tinsel and money type of Christmas. So it's just, it's a really, I just love the vibe of intrigued me. I really quite, like, I like a British and Nildiko and Radiance better. But I do really, really like Levain. And oh god, what's his name? Ballard. In this book, I think, I just, I appreciate, I always like the characters, the Grey Stray of the Prince. He tends to write very, very three-dimensional, mature, interesting characters that I like to hang out with and follow. And so this will be at least the third time that I'm reading this. It's become kind of a tradition with me. So I'm looking forward to this. Alrighty, that does it for my TBR. Let me know in comments down below what you'll be reading in December. If you're reading any of the books that I'm reading, if I've now inspired you to pick up any of these books, as usual, I will have links down below all the books that I'll be reading. So you can get them if you want to. Please join me in Amanda in reading holidays so that you can chat with us during the live show. It's always more fun if you all have read it. Yeah, let me know all the things. And like, subscribe. If you enjoyed the video, I post videos on Saturdays, other times as well, but definitely Saturdays. So I'll see you when I see you. Bye.