Hi everyone, it's Lily, and today I'm going to be doing my YALC book haul.
So YALC stands for the young adult literature convention which is a
three-day literature convention held in conjunction with London Film and Comic
Con. This was my second year attending and I had the best time. I got to hang out
with my YALC squad from last year as well as Maddie and Bee from HeartFullOfBooks,
Carys from CarysOnReading and Kate from GirlReading all over the weekend,
it was so nice to spend time with them and just to hang out and chat about
books and also run for arcs, that was a very big part of the weekend. I told myself this
year that I wasn't gonna get a lot of books, I was like I've done my first year I've
done that thing of getting a lot of books, I'm going to relax, but I got 19. That's
almost double what I got last year which is just bad. But this year there were a
lot more ARCS at YALC and a lot more like highly anticipated arcs as well.
Every ARC I got this year I am genuinely interested in whereas last year when I
got ARCS I feel like I just got them because they were ARCS and I was just like
excited to have them. So I am pretty happy with what I got, I'm going to run
through these really quickly as there are so many books. I will leave links in the
description box down below if you want to find out more about the books that I
talk about today We're going to run through the finished copies that I got
first and then we'll move on to ARCS at the end. So the first few books i got i
actually got before YALC and they were kind of gift from friends and stuff like
that because they were doing clear outs or whatever. So the first book i got was
a gift from my friend Demet who stayed with me over the weekend, she works at a
book production company and sometimes she will just give me a book that she
saw and thought of me when she saw it and the one she got me this time made me so
happy and that is Dogs Rough and Smooth by Lucy Dawson. This is essentially just
a picture book with some commentary about Lucy Dawson's illustrations of
dogs and if you guys don't know, I love dogs. I love cats as well but I am
definitely a dog person, I grew up with dogs. So like there's just little drawings here
and I don't know if I am I going to read this cover to cover but I am just really
happy to have this because it's always good to have a book about dogs on your shelf.
The next book I got was a gift from my friend Kalie,
this was actually one of my favorite books of the year so far and she saw
that I'd really loved it and was going to a signing with the author in the US,
where she lives in California, and she basically got me a copy and got it
signed for me which was so lovely and so special to me because this book isn't
actually published over in the UK so the author probably is never going to come
over. So I was so so thrilled that she got this for me and that is When the Moon
was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore. I read this quite recently and I did a reading
recap so if you want to my thoughts you can go check that out but
yeah she got this signed by Anna-Marie for me. The signature says 'To Lily, sending you
much love, magic and abrazos from California, Anna-Marie. I'm really sorry
if i butchered that word, I looked it up and it means hugs which is just really cute.
So I now own two copies of this and I am going to be doing a giveaway of my
second copy that isn't signed. The next book I got was Everything I Never Told You by
Celeste Ng and this was given to me by Julianne who was at the pre-YALC meet up
and helped organize it and she was basically just doing clear out and this
was in her pile and I was like 'can I, can I have that please?' because it has been on
my Amazon wish list for a little while. This is an adult literary novel and it is about
an Asian American family and it's kind of like a mystery thriller I think kind
of thing. And this takes place after one of the daughters of the family dies and
is found in a lake and everything kind of takes off from there. And the final
book that was given to me by a friend was given to me by my friend Jim over at YA-
yeahyeah and he is just so lovely and I love seeing him at all the events and he
again was doing a clear out and I just kinda wanted one of the books in his
pile and he brought it to me at YALC and that is Far from You by Tess Sharpe. So
this is a young adult thriller novel I think and this basically is about a girl
who after her best friend dies doesn't quite believe the police and their kind
of conclusion as to why she died so she decides to investigate for herself and I
know that this book has rep for chronic illness or a chronic disability,
drug addiction and also bisexuality and I've heard it's really really good so I thought I
might as well get it as it was free. And then I'm just going to quickly talk about
two samplers, there were a ton of samplers at YALC and I only picked up two because
I'm really not a big sampler person and I just got these because they're not
coming out for ages and I am highly anticipating them so I just kind of like
having them in my collection. The first is Children of Blood and Bone
by Tomi Adeyemi and this is a YA fantasy I believe inspired by West
African mythology which I'm always here for fantasy novels that are inspired
like not by medieval Europe because let's be honest it's kind of tired at
this point. And I really don't know too much about the plot here, I know there's magic
involved and I'm just here for it. And then the other sampler I got was Floored
which is written by 7 UKYA authors and this is out I think around this time next
year in July 2018. And so this is basically The Breakfast Club meets One
Day, that's what it's been marketed as and it's basically a book told from 7 different
perspectives about the same day so that sounds really interesting, I don't know
what the plot is. So it just sounds like it's going to be
really interesting and I was quite happy to pick this up. So now we move on to
the finished copies that I bought at YALC, so I bought a couple of things from the
waterstones on site at YALC and then I've also bought a couple things from the
publishers because they have cheaper deals. So the first book that I bought
from waterstones was a book that is actually an early copy, however it is
coming out on the 10th of August so is that very soon and that is A Change is
Gonna Come which is published by Striples. And this is an anthology featuring
12 BAME authors and it features short stories and poetry written by those
authors and all around the theme of change. I am so excited that this book is
being published, there is a real lack in the UKYA industry of BAME authors
being published and spotlighted so I am so happy that this exists. I am currently
reading it as you can tell I'm about 120 pages in and I'm absolutely loving it.
Every short story I've read so far has been fantastic and I am just really enjoying
it, I'm so glad this exists, so if you are interested in this book I would highly
recommend picking it up on the 10th of August. And then another early copy that
I got from waterstones on site was The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by
Lauren James and like this cover honestly is so good This is a YA
sci-fi story about girl called Romy and she is the last girl left on this
spaceship that was going from Earth to seek out this kind of second place in
the universe for people on earth to live and so she's very lonely and she makes a
connection with a guy on another ship that is leaving Earth to go look for a
second planet and they start talking online and falling in love online. And that
just sounds really cool because it's like exploring online relationships but like
through sci-fi and I love books that explore kind of stuff. And there's also another plot
to do with some strange messages coming from earth and I've just heard the plot of
this is really really fantastic so I'm really looking forward to this. The next
book that I got from the Gollancz stand was Graceling by Kristen Cashore. Now this
is a book that I have seen on booktube for years and I've always had my eye on
it, it just seems like something I would really like. So this is about a girl who
was born into this world where people have exceptional skills which are called
Graces and her Grace is that she can kill people, very well i assume. But she
doesn't want to and so everything kind of takes off from there. To be honest, that's all I know
about it but everything I've heard about it from people who I really trust has
been really really great, I know this is the first in a companion trilogy which
also kind of appeals to me because like I don't have to read the other ones but I can
if I love this so I'm very happy to own this finally and hopefully
I can get to it at some point in the near future. The next book I got was a book I
got because I saw the author talk on the panel which was writing for social
change and I just loved everything she said. And that is Troublemakers by
Catherine Barter. This is set in London, it is about a 15 year old girl who is an
orphan and she was raised by her brother and his boyfriend and this is basically
about what happens when their area is threatened by this bomber and also her
brother starts to work for this very controversial politician and she starts to
find out more about her mother who was a political activist and I just think that
that sounds really interesting that there is a book that is talking a lot
about politics. And when I posted that I got this on Twitter so many people said
it was brilliant and Carys who I saw over the weekend a lot has read this and she
said it was really really good so I'm very excited to own this. The next book I got
was one that I'd been sort of eyeing all weekend and I've been eyeing for a little
while and Maddie and Bee have read this and said that it's really really good. And
then my friend basically slept in when she really wanted an ARC and so I got it
for her and then in repayment she got me this. And that is Lorali by Laura Dockrill. I just
really love this cover and I first heard about this on Leena Norms' channel and
she just made it sound so good. I know that the author started in poetry so I think
the writing this could be really beautiful, I've heard it's quirky, it's
about a mermaid who washes up in a town called Hastings on the south coast of
England and she kind of wants to be human and it kind of sounds like a bit
like a little mermaid retelling. It sounds kind of weird and quirky which
sounds quite appealing to me and I thought I'd give it a go.
The next one is another one I got from the waterstones on site because a few
people said it was really good and I had again like Graceling been kind of
eyeing it up for a while and I just decided to go for it. And that is Wolf by Wolf by Ryan
Graudin. So this is a YA I think alternative
historical novel and this is about a girl who is a shapeshifter.
And she enters this motorcycle competition where the winner gets to
meet Hitler because the Nazis won the war in this alternate history and this
is basically about the fact that she wants to kill Hitler, so she's trying
to win this competition so she can meet him and then kill him. I'm very intrigued
to see how this handles the alternat history. The final finished book that I
picked up at YALC, I picked up from the Scholastic stand. Basically a lot of
publisher stands have 2 for £10 pound deals or 3 for £10 pound deals but a lot
of the time you only want one book from a publisher and so what me Carys and Kate
decided to do was we kind of walked around and wanted to see if there was
any publisher stand where we wanted a book each so we could kind of get the
deal that way and only pay about three pounds for a book. And we
went to the Scholastic stand and they had a book that we each wanted so we only payed
like three pounds per book, it was a good time. And the book I got was George
by Alex Gino. So this is a middle grade novel about a young trans girl called
George and she really wants to play Charlotte in the school play for
Charlotte's Web but the teacher won't let her because they believe she is a boy
and basically it's about her and her best friend trying to convince the teachers
about who she is and coming out to everyone and I've heard it's just really
heartwarming and really good, it is very short and the text is really big in it so I
think I'm going to save this for a read-a-thon, but I'm really excited to
get to it what I do. Next we're gonna move on to some of the ARCS I got. So
last year at YALC there were ARCS but a lot of them like weren't too anticipated or
we didn't really know they were going to be there beforehand. But this time
there are a lot more ARCS and I feel like it felt a bit more like what I imagine BEA
feels like, like there were drops and competitions you had to do and things
like that. I did get about eight which I'm really excited about so let's get
into it. So the first ARC that I got is actually
already out bu I got an ARC copy. Basically there was a stand, I don't really know who
they were but they were giving away a lot of ARCS that were American arcs and are
books that are not being published over here or currently don't have a
publishing deal over in the UK. So I saw this book and it had been on my amazon
wishlist for ages but I hadn't got it because it's quite expensive because it
wasn't being sold over here officially. And so what I got was a Girl out of Water
by Laura Silverman. So this is a YA contemporary novel I believe it's kind
of like a summer romance-y kind of book. And this is about a girl who is a surfer
from Santa Cruz in California and due to an accident with her Aunt she has to
move to Nebraska for the summer to help take care of her Aunt's family and she
meets a boy there who is a skateboarder and so she kind of gets into that. I've heard
that this has really great representation, I think there is
disability rep in here or something along those lines and I've heard it's
all really really great. The next book I got I really don't know too much about, I
just kind of grabbed it but it does sound really interesting and that is The
Sacrifice Box by Martin Stewart. So this comes out in January of 2018 and this is
about a group of friends who basically find this magical box, I assume it's
magical, and they make these sacrifices to it and they agree to these terms that they
can never like go to the box at night and stuff like that and then someone
four years later breaks kind of the pact and everything takes off from there.
I've heard that this is for fans of Stranger Things,
now don't hate me I haven't watched Stranger Things. I do think I will really
like Stranger Things and I do intend to watch it at some point so
I think I will really like this. The next ARC I picked up was pretty easy to pick up
to be honest the publisher was giving away like 150 copies a day. And that is
The Fandom by Anna Day. So this is being released in January of 2018 as
well and this is about a group of friends who are going to comic-con and
through circumstances when they are at comic-con I believe they get launched into
their favorite fandom and they kind of have to survive it and it all sounds
quite interesting and I really like stuff that talks about fandom,
so it sounds like it could be really fun. A lot of people have been reading
this since YALC and saying it's really good so I'm really interested to see what this
is like. The next ARC I got was also from that kind of American publisher stand
and I was really excited to see this on here, I think I saw this in a few BEA
hauls and it sounded really interesting. And that is Beasts Made of Night by Tochi
Onyebuchi, I probably completely butchered that i am so sorry. And so this is another YA
fantasy novel that is inspired by Nigerian
mythology I believe which as I said before just really appeals to me and I'm
so happy that there are more YA fantasies out there that are kind of inspired by
different cultures that are not just European. This is basically about sin and I
think the main character in this is a Sin Eater and he gets into some sort of
trouble with that, I don't know too much about the plot. It's pretty short so I'm quite
excited that I picked this up, it just sounds like something that is quite different
and I think it'll be really great. The next ARC I have to talk about I think was the
first ARC that I picked up, and it was just sitting on the Bloomsbury stand and
they were really easy going you could just like pick it up. I didn't know this was actually
going to be it at YALC, but I was really happy to get a copy of it and that is
Moonrise by Sarah Crossan. So I read One by Sarah Crossan last year and I
really liked it, she writes in verse, so this book is also written in verse and this
is about a boy whose brother has been on death row for a few years I think and he
finally gets his date where he is going to die. So they kind of make plans to
spend time together and this book kind of follows that which I didn't know when
I picked this up and then I read the blurb and I was just like, that sounds like something I
would really like and that sounds really interesting so I'm really glad that I
managed to get a copy of this and this is out in September. The next book I got
was one I wasn't even aware of before the weekend but Maddie and Bee and
Carys were all really excited about this ARC and they also managed to get a copy. I
didn't think I was going to get this because it was so kind of hyped and
there was a lot of rush for it whenever there were ARC drops. But on the Sunday
when everything was a lot more chilled and there were less people, I was just walking
past the electric monkey stand and a couple people were just like holding up
this Instagram photo frame and if you did that and took a picture and posted it
on Twitter you could get an ARC and there was only like two
people there so I went up and I was like 'can I do it?' and they were really chill
and let me do it so I got the ARC. So the ARC was The Exact Opposite of Okay by Laura
Steven. So this comes out in I think March 2018 and this is about a girl who
gets involved with a politician's son and then I think something gets filmed and
then leaked onto the Internet and this book talks a lot about slut-shaming and
I've heard it's super super feminist and actually people have been like 'you're
really gonna enjoy this' and it sounds like something I would really enjoy.
It's been blurbed by Louise O'Neill and so even though I wasn't aware of this book and
like didn't know too much about it when I picked it up I'm so excited that I got
this. The next I got I was super super excited that I managed to get, so this is published by
Andersen Press and it was the one that I knew I really wanted at that weekend and
they did a competition where you kind of had to write a protest statement and take
a picture of it and post it on Twitter with a certain hashtag and they would pick
five winners every day at like the end of the day and so I was one of the five
winners on the Friday which is really exciting. And I managed to get Things
A Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls. So this comes out in September 2017 and
this is about three friends who get involved in the Suffragette movement,
this is a historical fiction novel, and there is also an F/F relationship and
like that's all I know, but honestly like gay sufragettes is all I need to know
because that just really appeals to me and I think that this is going to be
great. The next one I got, I got from HQ on the first day as well and I was quite
lucky because the rest of the weekend they did like very kind of hard to get
ARC drops of this like there was just queues and queues and queues of people for it. I
just kind of sneaked in on the first day in the early rush for ARCS and I was just like: 'can I... can
I have that one?' and they just like gave it to me which was really nice. And that
is City of Brass by S.A Chakraborty and this is basically a YA fantasy inspired
by Middle Eastern mythology and this is about a girl who is a con woman
I think like a con artist and she gets involved in the magic of this world and
she doesn't quite believe in it at first, but she ends up getting mixed up in it and
everything kind of takes off from there as far as I'm aware with the plot. This is was
one I was aware of before YALC and actually I was really anticipating and
so when I saw that HQ like just had ARCS sitting on the table and I could just
get one I was so so happy to pick it up. This is out I think in the US in the
autumn of this year but it's not out in the UK until spring 2018 so I'm really
excited that I got an arc of this. And then the final arc I'm going to talk
about today was one that if anyone like was there with me at
YALC or like talked to me at YALC, they knew that I wanted this book. Luckily on the
Saturday I was sitting in a panel quite near to the aisle and they put on twitter
that they were dropping ARCS of this, and so me and my friend Annalise just ran
to the table and she actually got me a copy. So that was really lovely and so I got
The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert. So this is one that I think is already
really hyped, I think this is out in February of 2018 and this is YA fantasy
novel again it's about a girl whose grandmother is kind of very famous for
writing these like dark fairy tales and it's about what happens when her grandma
dies and then her mother I think gets kidnapped by this like super fan of
her grandmother's work and she has to go to The Hazel Wood which is her
grandmother's estate to try and fix it and there's like magic involved and
everything like that. It just sounds like something really great, I really love
fairy tales and I love the cover and also it's already been bought by Sony
Pictures for a major film release, so I think this is one is going to be really hyped, so
I do want to read this soon before like that picks up so I can have my own
opinions but I'm so happy that I managed to get a copy of this. So yeah guys that
was my YALC book haul. I didn't vlog the event because I just wasn't feeling like
it but I do I know turn up in a couple of Maddie and Bee's vlogs so I'll
link them down below if you are interested in watching them. If you
went to YALC let me know, let me know how your weekend was and what you managed to
pick up there I would love to know. Also let me know which of these books you
think I should get to first because there's so many I want to read and I just, I
don't know what to read first they all sound so great. I hope you guys are all having a
lovely day and I'll see you soon in another video, bye guys!
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