This has been my new morning routine for the past, I think literally like three days, is my chair and I am obsessed with it.

Reading on this in the morning and like evening time is literally the best thing ever.

But I decided to reading vlog my next few reads because they're all kind of like just summer books and I feel like a cute summer reading vlog would be fun.

Here are my books. I only have one with me right now. I started it last night, Every Summer After by, what's her name, Carly Fortune.

Like right off the bat, I'm only on chapter I think two, not far, so this is like a first reaction to the book.

I got second hand embarrassment just because it felt like this author read, well, let's, before we say that, I'm reading this book because someone said, if you mix whatever with love and other words, you get this book. Okay, you say love and other words, I will get it.

So I read the back and it's basically about a girl and a guy who spent summers together, they fell apart because she did something.

So I'm like, that sounds eerily familiar. So I read the first few chapter, or not, I read the first chapter.

I felt like the author read love and other words and was like, how can we knock this off?

And that's how I felt when I first read the first chapter of this book, like obviously a personal opinion, but it just felt like I was rereading a different version of love and other words.

I think that's how I'm going to feel throughout the book, but I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt and not think negatively.

That was just like a first thought that happened to be negative, but I'm going to keep going. It's just hard not to because it's so similar.

I'm going to keep reading and I'm not going to think negatively, even though I started off thinking, not nice, opinion. It's fine though.

This is our first book, we're going to read this, we're going to read It Happened One Summer, and then I want to finish the What Happened in Paradise,

What Happened in Paradise series by Ellen Holdenbrand. I read the first one, so I'm going to reread it with you.

It's kind of short, but it's a series of three. I want to do like a summer reading vlog, and those are the books that I have that are summery.

So I'm going to sit, I'm going to read, I'll take you through this book with me, see how long it takes to finish.

I don't think I could finish this in like two days, so we're going to have to bang it out.

Okay, I'm inside, I have to change because I need to go get coffee, but I am the biggest sucker for childhood or like a teenage friends to lovers romance.

I don't know what it is, but when like kids, I mean they're not really kids in this book, like I remember being 13 in 7th grade and not really feeling like a little kid, but they obviously seem younger now, and when they're just like hanging out and like connecting like that, like I think it's cute.

So her name is Persephone, but they call her Percy, so she got a call and she has to go back to the lake or whatever.

She hasn't seen Sam in 12 years, that whole thing, but it's like a flashback, and she makes little friendship bracelets, and it's really cute.

She's gonna make one, like matching friendship bracelets.

I don't- why am I a sucker for things like this? It's literally like not that deep, but I just- things like that get me.

I'm on page 28, gotta go get coffee, and we will continue reading.

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So I am now on page 140. I don't know how many pages are in this, but it looks like I'm like halfway.

Should be around halfway, I don't feel like calculating that right now, but I have a few predictions of what happened to them 12 years ago, or what Percy did to Sam. I think I'm gonna be right, this one feels a little obvious of what happened.

I mean, that's if I'm right, but I think I am? Like I could tell by like the things she's saying to him like now, like when they're older, and when they just like met up again obviously. I don't know, I think I know what happened.

The book in general, I am enjoying it. You guys know one thing about me is I am a sucker for this trope.

I love when they're able to like rekindle their first love, stuff like that, like all of that.

But it doesn't feel like original in any sense, but nonetheless like it's a good book.

Like I'm thoroughly enjoying it because it has like everything that I like, but it's just like so similar to other really good books. But other than that, enjoying it.

I'm gonna keep going, fingers crossed finish it today.

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So my favorite part, well one of my favorite parts of Love and Other Words is when Elliot comes back and tells Macy, this is a spoiler alert. Well, not really a spoiler, whatever.

He sees her for the first time, and then the next day they like plan to meet up, and then she asks about his girlfriend, and he's like, I saw you for the first time,

I wasn't gonna pretend I'm not like still in love with you, like I broke up with her last night.

And what just happened in the book is the same thing. I don't think this is a spoiler.

I'm sorry if it is, I had to say it.

That's just like the number one where you know that they're still in love with each other is when they have a relationship, or they're like kind of with someone, and then they saw them for the first time again, and it was like, I can't even fathom being with someone else.

I'm also eating a gobert. But I read that, and I was just like, I freaking love that part of Love and Other Words.

So obviously I loved it here. Those parts, or like parts like that always get me.

I don't know why I just started crying. It's not even like, I guess it is sad.

I don't know. I'm really connecting with this book, but guys, it's 2.09.

I have been up for, or I've been reading for, I'd say it's been two hours.

I was like halfway, a little over halfway when I started, and now I have that much.

And usually when I'm reading a book at night, I'll put it down when my eyes get tired.

I have not gotten tired, because I need to know what was happening and stuff.

So first, what I predicted was right. There's like a half of it that I didn't predict, but it was a lot.

I just needed to update you guys, because I literally am not sleeping until I finish this book. I'm gonna finish it.

I'll let you know when I do. Guys, I'm crying again. I don't know what it is.

About these tropes. I think it's just so wholesome. I just finished. I have epilogue left, but contrary to popular belief,

I don't like epilogues, so I'm gonna read it, but I don't really care. It's 2.24.

I love this book, like so much. I'm so sad it's over. I love Sam, the main guy in this book.

I love him. Literally, like, real feeling that I love him. He is so selfless, and he's so...

I'll talk about him more in the morning.

But we finished the first one in this reading vlog, and it was very good.

Remember when I said I don't like epilogues? I liked that one.

This book.

Okay, that's enough from me. I just needed to tell you that I did read the epilogue. Some epilogues don't hit.

It's just like, you did not need to include this, but this one full circled it for me. So unwell.

We will talk about this in the morning.

Okay.

Good morning. Time to debrief before I start my next book, because I'm just on a reading high, and I want to start my next book, because I heard that this next one is also, like, incredible.

So I know that I bashed it a little when I started reading it, and I do stand by that.

That's how I felt when I started reading it.

And then after I got, like, after halfway, the first half was good, don't get me wrong.

Like, I love tropes like that, books like that.

So, like, getting to know the characters, their childhood, how they act together, like, I loved it.

Second half, when you're, like, building up to what happened to them, even though I guessed what it was, like, I was so connected to them that it, like, hurt me, and it was so good. Don't know if I said this yesterday.

Maybe I did. I think I did. I don't like epilogues, but this one was just so good. I just love these characters.

I love the setting. I love the trope. I love, like, everything about it. I rated it a 5 out of 5.

Great start to this video. Don't ever top Love and Other Words, even though it's, like, very similar.

I feel like this is a spicier version of Love and Other Words.

Anyway, another book that I have heard nothing but good things about. We're doing it.

This one, I'm pretty sure, is inspired by Schitt's Creek, and if you know me, you know

Schitt's Creek is one of my favorite shows ever. Like, if you know, I watch Gossip Girl, like, every night.

If it's not Gossip Girl, it's Schitt's Creek. So I'm excited. Pretty sure this is Enemies to Lovers, but we're gonna find out.

It's 9 30 a.m.

All right, I'm outside right now. Let's talk about this book. I am on page 30.

I think what it is, this book obviously came out, like, more recently, but I like how, like, modernized, I guess it is.

The character, her being, like, a socialite and stuff.

I don't know.

It seems, like, predictable, like, what's gonna happen, how she's gonna react when she gets to the town, because she just got kicked out.

And, like, the book seems predictable, and usually that would bother me.

But I think I like it, because I like the characters. I like her personality. Like, it's funny.

I mean, I guess it's not funny that she's so, like, out of focus with reality, but it's funny to me.

Just, like, her reactions to stuff. But yeah, I think I like it so far. Like I said, it's kind of predictable.

So I don't know if that's gonna, like, bore me a little, but could surprise me. We'll see how it goes.

I just realized this book is told in third person. I actually had no idea. I didn't read that much further.

I just read a page, because I had to go do other things.

I just realized that it's in third person, and I don't know how I didn't catch that, because usually I don't like third person.

I'm a big, not third person, hater. I feel like you can connect more, and it feels more personal when you're in first person.

So that's all. I'm gonna keep reading now. I just needed to tell you guys that I just figured that out.

I literally can't get past, like, 70 pages, I think. 76. I keep putting it down and coming back to it.

I don't know why I'm so bored. I think just because it's, like, still the beginning.

I don't know how to really explain it. I'm just, like, bored. And I know it's gonna pick up eventually, hopefully soon.

I'm gonna try to get to 100 and see if that's a part that gets more interesting. Fingers crossed.

Because I'm, like, really hoping I love this book, because everyone loves it.

Like, whenever I see it anywhere, like, people, like, love it.

So I'm hoping that's the same case for me.

I'm always so disappointed when I don't like a book that everyone loves, and it happens frequently.

But I have high hopes for this one. I made it to page 116.

I know it's still not that far, but I'm trying. Just picked up, and I'm, like, loving it again.

I just, like, sometimes in the beginning, especially enemies of lovers books, you kind of have to just, like, get into the characters, at least for me.

So you can tell that he cares about her, Brendan.

I feel like he did a few things for her, and, like, I love it.

And then she also, like, just met someone. That kind of made the story interesting.

Now I'm intrigued to keep going.

Hi. For the grumpy sunshine that it is, I like it.

He's not, like, a grumpy where he's obnoxious and mean and stuff.

He's just, like, in his roots, like, where he's from. Makes sense for him.

And I like their dynamic. I think it's cute.

But I think I can understand the hype, because I know a lot of people love grumpy sunshine, and, like, tropes like this, like, small town romances, whatever.

And I think for those tropes, it's done really well.

It's not my favorite trope, personally, but I could see why everyone loves it.

Every summer after, I didn't want to touch my phone or pick up my phone.

I needed to know what was going on. Like, this one, like, I'll go on my phone.

And I'm like, oh, wait, I need to read a little bit more.

You know, it's not like I would want to know what happens.

I feel like now it's getting, like, pretty good.

I just feel like Brendan goes on these, like, fishing trips.

Like, after what they're doing right now, he's leaving for two weeks for a fishing trip.

And I'm just like, I don't know. I don't really like the whole fishing thing.

It's, like, not my thing, but whatever.

Okay, I'm gonna keep reading. I'm gonna shower and then keep reading.

Hello, guys. I'm on my chair. I've been reading.

I think I'm a little over halfway now. Seems like it. Looks like it.

I know that people said this book was, like, spicy. They weren't kidding.

One thing that I don't like in books, and I don't know if it's just me.

It's a little bit random. It's really not that big of a deal.

Like, I can read it. I don't care.

When the guy just randomly calls the girl baby.

Out of nowhere, they're not dating. They're just, you know.

And he calls her baby. I'm just like, don't do any nicknames right now.

How about we just don't do that? I can get over it. I can completely get past that.

It's not gonna ruin a book for me, but it's just weird.

Anyway, I just feel like I know how this is gonna end.

That's fine, because it happens with, like, a lot of books.

I am enjoying it. Not as much as Every Summer After, for sure.

But it's definitely, like, a good book.

A good book for what it is.

I'm on 334, and I love them.

Brendan is her soulmate. Brendan is perfect for her.

I don't even care that this book is tropeset. It's not my favorite.

It was done so well, and it just, like, is such a wholesome book.

But also, like, it has, like, I don't know. It's so good.

I love them together, and how they, like, care for each other.

But also, how Piper was just so shallow in the beginning, and just, like, surface level with literally everything.

Except her sister, but I don't know.

Just seeing how, like, well-rounded she became being in West Point.

Being in a small town away from, like, her shallow friends.

Just so nice. So, I don't have that much left.

I think I have about 50 pages, maybe? I don't know.

I want to read the second book with Hannah, but not yet, I don't think.

I don't want to read it right after this.

I don't want to put myself in a slump, so I'm not gonna do that.