I had 38 five-star reads over 2025... here's my thoughts

Hello, book friends!
A very different, and quite vulnerable video for me to post today. This was filmed on Christmas Day, but then I got a year-end cold, so I'm just now catching up. I hope you enjoy hearing my thoughts on my five-star reads, and as always, there's time stamps to help you navigate this longer video!

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𝓣𝓲𝓶𝓮 𝓢𝓽𝓪𝓶𝓹𝓼
0:00 Intro
2:16 The Lily of Ludgate Hill
4:07 Throne of Secrets
5:33 Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
6:56 The Launch Date
8:11 First-Time Caller
9:44 Two Twisted Crowns
10:36 Our Infinite Fates
12:01 Coming Up Roses
13:32 This Monster of Mine
15:50 The Raven Scholar
18:38 The Paradise Problem
19:58 A Harvest of Hearts
22:42 The Geographer's Map to Romance
24:37 Great Big Beautiful Life
25:18 Wisteria
27:04 How to Marry a Winged King (reread)
24:41 The Ashes and the Star- Cursed King
28:36 Six Sorched Roses
28:58 How to Find a Nameless Fae
30:15 Two Can Play
30:38 I Am not Jessica Chen
31:42 Sounds Like Love
33:27 Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (reread)
33:59 A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
35:52 The Knight and the Moth
38:05 Howl's Moving Castle and Emily Wildes's Map of the Otherlands (both rereads)
39:43 The Second Death of Locke
41:33 A Honeymoon of Grave Consequence
42:58 Fake Skating
44:30 The List Assist
45:47 The Death-Made Prince
47:17 The Rebel and the Rose
49:43 Eternal Ruin
51:14 Wild Reverence
53:17 The Everlasting
56:23 Outro