today I am going to be doing something

super exciting

if any of you are new around here

or you're newly subscribed or

you just weren't watching YouTube through the summer

then you might not know that I did a book club with WHSmith

it was even more exciting for me

after it was launched to see how many of you

got involved and read the books

I was actually like

blown away

by the amount of you reading

and buying the books

and kind of tweeting me about them

and tweeting the authors about them

and tweeting each other actually and not just tweeting

many forms of communication

but twitter was where the hashtag was

and where quite a lot of the author take overs happened

and it was so nice

to see so many of you enjoying things that I had recommended to you

so many of you read one and then

wanted to read another and then another and another

and

some of you were even reading all of them

it was unbelievably

lovely to see

and I am so happy that so many

of you enjoyed all of the books that I recommended

and getting to the point

I'm doing another round of the book club

and I am so excited

if you watch my vlog channel then you

will already know that I have been

reading, reading, reading

non-stop since the last book club

and I am super excited to be able to say that

the second round of the book club is launching tomorrow

which is Thursday 20th October for you guys

and that is launching in WHSmith

Reading is something I

thoroughly enjoy and so to pass on that enjoyment to others

really was such a lovely feeling

and, so

doing another round, was kind of a no-brainer

I was so excited to kind of

find

some more amazing books

that I know that you will all really love

as well as seeing how you guys react to all the books

and kind of discuss it

and talk amongst yourselves about all the picks of the book

by the way yes I do have

a hairband

cutting off the circulation to my finger right now

I'm not sure why

and it's wet and damp and that's disgusting

As well as that I also loved

picking the books

I think stories and books are quite personal to each person

I think

people will take something away from a story or book

that someone else might not

and it kind of really

resonates with how someone is feeling

in terms of how they see or read or feel about a book

and so

picking them

I feel like is such a huge task

and so making sure I have the perfect

eight

in order to share with you guys

is important to me and also

I flipping love doing it

so I feel like with this round

it's a little bit more diverse

in a sense of genre and story

and also

there are some kind of more seasonal themes in these books

which you will see soon

I would 100% say out of these eight books

there is something for everybody

and I am really happy and confident in saying that

I'm not going to be going into too much detail

on the eight titles I have selected

in this video

because I'm going to be talking a little bit more in depth

about each one

over on the WHSmith YouTube channel

and blog which I will leave a link to below

so you can go on over and check that out

LIke last time

each title will be given two weeks

of being the kind of chosen title

there will be author take overs on twitter

there will be Q+As

and actually

do go on over and get involved in those

because even last time

I was kind of watching them all happen

and

reading all the exclusive Q+As

and the exclusive interviews with all the authors

and

I

find them so interesting

because when you have invested your time

and imagination into a book

it's so nice

to be able to hear more

from the person who created it and

who obviously that story means

absolutely everything to

and you learn so much more about the books

that you've read and

just things you never knew or hadn't ever

thought about before

and all the authors are so lovely

and helpful and

just generally very proud of their books

and it's really lovely to see so

do get involved in those and if you have any questions about the book

then obviously that would be the time to do it

so each book will be kind of highlighted

for its two weeks

and during that two week time

it will be half price

so the first book to be kicking off the book club

is, where is it? where is it?

this one, called if I was your girl by Meredith Russo

Obviously without going in to too much detail, this story is about

a trans girl who is, kind of, finding her feet when it

comes to friendships, school, romance and I think just

generally in life. And it was so eye opening, I think

this is such an important book, I think absolutely everybody

should read this, and obviously I'll be going in to a lot more detail

but, this one, absolutely loved it.

Also worth noting again that every book I've selected

for the book club has it's exclusive to W H Smith covers

and there all so amazing and they all look really great together

As you guys know, I love a horror, I love a thriller

so, reading a thriller and a horror, around the time of Halloween

I think is just kind of perfect.

So, this one is called Frozen Charlotte by Alex Bell.

And it is so creepy and amazing

I'm not sure I would recommend you reading this before bed.

But I loved it.

It's about a girl called Sophie who goes to stay at her cousin's house

and lots of creepy things keep happening

around these little porcelain frozen Charlotte dolls

On the front cover it says

"we're wating for you to come and play"

it's creepy and you will never look at small china dolls in the same way ever again.

Next up is this one, which, I mean the front cover of this I absolutely love

This is, I Was Here by Gayle Forman

I always love looking at your book recommendations

and so many of you recommended I read a Gayle Forman book

which is what I did, and I loved this book.

So at the start of the book there is a girl called Codie

whose best friend Meg has recently committed sucide

and it's got a little bit of mystery in there

and it's also just a very emotional and heartfelt story

of how a girl is coping after the loss of one of her best friends

and this was so touching and so unbelievably like,

almost raw, it was a really good book, I would highly recommend this.

And also it's just a good tale of friendship

and a little bit of romance thrown in there as well.

Next up is the book A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

This book is so, I'm gonna say good and almost good

It's about a little boy whose mother is very ill

It's so hard to explain without giving it away but the imagery in this book is

really amazing and it proper tugs on your heart strings

like your gonna need a pack of tissues to read this one.

I believe this is being made in to a film which makes me so excited

because, I after reading it the first thing I wanted to do

was almost watch it, if that makes any sense?

I think you'll know, if you've read this, you'll know what I mean

The next one is The Twelve Days of Dash and Lily by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

Obviously, as you can see with the "twelve days"

and the fact it looks like it's been gift wrapped, is based

around Christmas, I can't have thrillers in there

to be based around Halloween and, uh,

not have something in there that's a little nod to Christmas

because you guys know how much I love Christmas.

And I feel like there's nothing better than listening to Christmas songs

watching Christmas films but also reading Christmas books because

they do say the imagination will always conjure up something

that's way better than anything you could ever watch.

So, that's why I thought a Christmas book would be really great

This is about a guy and a girl, called Dash and Lily

and they are a couple, and they have been for a year and it's just

about Dash, who is her boyfriend, I think finding

not just the spirit of Christmas in Lily but her spirit.

And I think it's a really lovely story and I,

after reading this I wanted to read it all over again.

The next one is called Lying About Last Summer

You can't hide the truth, this is by Sue Wallman

And this story is again, another thriller with twists and turns

and everything that's amazing about a thriller novel.

Again this touches a little bit of grief and a little bit of romance

with big twists and turns and I don't really want to give too much away

but, I really loved this book, it was great

Next up is a book that you may have seen me talk about

before in one of my favourites but I was so happy

I was able to put this in to the book club because

I love this story, this is by Sophie Kinsella

and this is called Finding Audrey

This book is based around a girl who is suffering with mental illness

and it also has a little bit of kind of self discovery

and romance and I really enjoyed this because there were traits

in Audrey that I could see in myself, and I think that always works very good

when your reading a character that you're like "I do that"

like I could really relate to her as a character.

So overall, i would recommend checking this one out also.

Lastly, if you're after something a little bit more good

a bit funny, a little bit of romance and, um, some real

like a kind of emotional roller coasters you have got

Paige Toon's The One We Fell In Love With

about three women who all have one thing in common

which is the same guy. This is one of those books

that's an absolute page turner, I loved it and I honestly think that you should all read it.

So there we go, that is the eight books in the second round

of the book club, which I'm now finally so excited I get to share with you.

Let me know in the comments if you've already read any of these

and what you thought of them,

obviously without giving anything away,

if any of these have bumped right to the top of your to read list

and which ones, because i am super interested.

Don't forget across the next sixteen weeks there will be

more in depth reviews of each these books over on the WH Smith channels

which I will leave below.

And as I mentioned before, um, there's going to be author interviews

Q & A's, extra chapters, videos, there's going to be lots of amazing content

to go alongside each of these stories

which I really do recommend you check out because I absolutely love

all the exclusive, exclusive moreness of each book

That's everything that I get to share with you in this video

thank you so much for watching, and again, thank you so much for being

so amazing about the book club, the response has been

fantastic, I just love seeing people reading and enjoying what their reading