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Hello! I'm Huck (she/her). I read lots of books and I talk about them here! I mostly read fantasy but I also read a smattering of other genres including sci-fi, historical fiction, and nonfiction.
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Daughter of the Forest | READING VLOG | 2024
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Let's reread Daughter of the Forest together! - Huck SPOILER-FREE REVIEW ua-cam.com/video/ZMVnMEGLgvQ/v-deo.html JULIET MARILLIER AUTHOR GUIDE ua-cam.com/video/J5pXBigWm1I/v-deo.html TIER RANKING ALL JULIET MARILLIER BOOKS ua-cam.com/video/J5pXBigWm1I/v-deo.html SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram @badger.reads badger.reads Goodreads www.goodreads.com/BadgerReads Music Garden Magic by Jon Alga...
Daughter of the Forest | Spoiler Free Review | 2024
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A spoiler-free review of Juliet Marillier's Daughter of the Forest! - Huck SPOILER READING VLOG ua-cam.com/video/tvvQjTY0eCY/v-deo.html JULIET MARILLIER AUTHOR GUIDE ua-cam.com/video/J5pXBigWm1I/v-deo.html TIER RANKING ALL JULIET MARILLIER BOOKS ua-cam.com/video/J5pXBigWm1I/v-deo.html SA SCENE PAGE NUMBERS Chapter 6, pages 198-200 SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram @badger.reads badger.reads ...
2024 Anticipated Releases | pt.2
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What are you most anticipating in the second half of 2024?? - Huck SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram @badger.reads badger.reads Goodreads www.goodreads.com/BadgerReads Music Garden Magic by Jon Algar Forest of Fear by Aakash Gandhi
First Book Haul 2024
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Hauling all the books I bought in the first half of 2024! - Huck SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram @badger.reads badger.reads Goodreads www.goodreads.com/BadgerReads Music Garden Magic by Jon Algar Forest of Fear by Aakash Gandhi
Quarter One Wrap Up 2024
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We're finally wraping up January, February, and March reading! - Huck EXPLORING SCI-FI VLOG PT. 2 ua-cam.com/video/QbtFy4iBsG0/v-deo.html SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram @badger.reads badger.reads Goodreads www.goodreads.com/BadgerReads Music Garden Magic by Jon Algar Forest of Fear by Aakash Gandhi
Tortall Series World Review | 2024
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It's a long one but we are esentially wrapping up 5 series. Hope you enjoy! - Huck TIMESTAMPS Song fo the Lioness 3:01 The Immortals 12:40 Protector of the Small 18:46 Trickster 27:07 Maybe Spoilers 32:32 - 34:09 Beka Cooper 35:49 Ranking 40:28 SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram @badger.reads badger.reads Goodreads www.goodreads.com/BadgerReads Music Garden Magic by Jon Algar Forest of Fear b...
Exploring Science Fiction | VLOG 02 | 2024
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Continuing my Exploring Sci Fi vlog series! - Huck EXPLORING SCI FI VLOG 01 ua-cam.com/video/Ru3Nf-3Hgj0/v-deo.html DECEMBER WRAP UP ua-cam.com/video/Scp60F5LPCM/v-deo.html SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram @badger.reads badger.reads Goodreads www.goodreads.com/BadgerReads Music Garden Magic by Jon Algar Forest of Fear by Aakash Gandhi
Series Round Up | 2024
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Looking at what series got finish or DNF'd in 2023 and what are ongoing going into 2024. - Huck Music Garden Magic by Jon Algar Forest of Fear by Aakash Gandhi
Top Ten Books to Read in 2024! | TBR
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I'm looking forward to all of these books and a great year of reading! What's on your 2024 TBR? - Huck Music Garden Magic by Jon Algar Forest of Fear by Aakash Gandhi
Best Books of 2023!
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It's here! My best books of 2023! (I realized I missed a book and I don't know what I meant to put there so this is actually a top 9 books of the year🤷♀️) - Huck Music Garden Magic by Jon Algar Forest of Fear by Aakash Gandhi
2023 Reading in Review & Stats
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Lets talk stats! Looking back on my 2023 reading and did I read my top 10 TBR for the year? - Huck Music Garden Magic by Jon Algar Forest of Fear by Aakash Gandhi
December Wrap Up | 2023
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Wrapping up the last bit of my 2023 reading. December was a good reading month! - Huck Music Garden Magic by Jon Algar Forest of Fear by Aakash Gandhi
Channel & Reading Plans for 2024
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What are some of your plans for 2024? - Huck Music Garden Magic by Jon Algar Forest of Fear by Aakash Gandhi
Where I've Been, a Life Update, & What I've Been Reading
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Where I've Been, a Life Update, & What I've Been Reading
June Reading Journal Set Up | Journal With Me 2023
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June Reading Journal Set Up | Journal With Me 2023
Tier Ranking All of Juliet Marillier's Books
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Tier Ranking All of Juliet Marillier's Books
Juliet Marillier Author Guide, Where to Start, & Reading Order
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Juliet Marillier Author Guide, Where to Start, & Reading Order
Exploring Science Fiction | VLOG 01 | 2023
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Exploring Science Fiction | VLOG 01 | 2023
April Reading Journal Set Up | Journal With Me 2023
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April Reading Journal Set Up | Journal With Me 2023
Did you catch the fact that the entire series was told to Bee by by Fitz and thus written by Bee ❤
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You are making me so excited to pick up The Last Sister!! And Mem as well since I’ve really enjoyed Bethany C. Morrow
The many months later edit 😭🤣
A classic😂🤦♀️
Ooob your new favorite? 👀
I love this book so much, but I think it could have done with just one more chapter. I just want a little bit more of a falling action, to know even a bit about their fate
I read the two first series as a child and loved them to bits, but I didn't read Protector of the Small till I was an adult and I just clicked with it immediately. I just love Kel so much and I return to that series often when life gets tough. There's something about Keladry"s stoicism and determination in face of adversity that I just so admire, as well as her principles and, as you said, self reflection. Ahh, it encourages me to be a better person also. There's something about the way she goes "well, this sucks, but I'm going to do it anyway" that's so inspiring. And I love that she doesn't have magic. Completely opposite of how I'd have felt as a child.
Both Sedric and Davvie punched Hest in the tower just before he's eaten by Kalo.
Glad to hear you have found a new favourite! Its such a great feeling. I haven't read this one, but it sounds intreaguing.
I've been wanting to read her books for months now, but its impossible to find them online for download, and unfortunetly there arent any to sell in my country and neither can I buy them online 😭 I'm really sad
I really disliked this book on a reread, so many problems, her brothers annoyed me very much and red was creepy, the way he wasn't on the first read. like he was waiting around, salivating over this poor girl who he knows experienced such a trauma. and I was bored. the first time I was really expecting her love story to be with simon so i paid little attention to red for the longest time :)
I loved the brothers but I did find them frustrating at the end when some of them didn't adapt to how things have changed. Especially the older brothers were very stuck in their mindset. Personally I would not consider Red's behavior at all "salivating" over Sorcha. I think he was very restrained, maybe to the detriment of developing romantic tension in the story. And overall he was very respectful of her boundaries. TBH every time I read it, I immediately forget about Simon the moment he is gone. I never found his character very interesting and never felt a romantic connection between them. I don't think he would have been right for Sorcha. But to each their own :)
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You were the one who introduced me to K. Ancrum's works and I have enjoyed all of them, so the fact that this is your new favourite makes me extremely excited to get to it! Great review 🤩
I hope you love it!!
Interesting cover & idea for a novel, I'm not usually drawn to crime, but this sounds good. Really liked your description of the writing style & character creation, thanks for the spotlight on a book I was not familiar with.
Thanks for watching!
This is awesome. I have read daughter of the forest long time ago, and wanted to continue the series, but this definitely refreshed all of what happened in book 1. I also loved seeing how you felt in each chapters and I remember thinking the same on many of these parts! ❤
Glad it was helpful!😊
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I love your plants!!! 🪴 🌱 🌿 I need to reread Daughter of the Forest. Its been so long since i read it and it is one of my favourite books. Glad you enjoyed your reread!
I hope you love it even more on reread!
I just got into Juliet Marillier’s writing and I absolutely love it. The character building, and themes are exactly up my alley. Her slow build isn’t usually my pace but she does it with such elegance and ease that I can’t put the book down. Also girl you are literally so pretty!
looove wrap ups ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
Aside from the Bujold books, literally all of these are on my TBR as well, haha love this for us 🤩 I think you'd honesty like The Deep Sky, purely based on the fact that we have very similar sci-fi tastes and I loved that one. Can't wait to read The Stardust Grail!! And oooh I hope the new Signe Pike books lives up to your expectations 🤍 Some of my most anticipated releases are The Ending Fire by Saara El-Arifi, Sorcery and Small Magics by Maiga Doocy, Asunder by Kerstin Hall, The Thirteenth Child by Erin A. Craig and Upscaled by Joseph John Lee (look at that last one's cover!!!).
Sorcery and Small Magics almost made it onto this list! I might still give it a try depending on reviews. Asunder and The Thirteenth Child sound interesting, I hadn’t heard of those! Upscaled’s cover is beautiful!
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I really need to start with Signe Pike! 🧚🏻♀ for the rest of the year I'm looking forward to Tangleroot by Kalela Williams and The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister. I still want to read some new releases of the first half, such as The Garden of Delights and A Sweet sting of salt 😀
I haven’t heard of a couple of these, I’m going to look them up!
I knew about the 12th Penric and Desdemona, but not the 13th! I just finished The Orphans of Raspay and I love this series so much I'll have to get my hands on those two soon!
She drops them so sporadically it can be hard to keep up!
Im really looking forward to the ne Manda Scott. 🎉
It sounds so interesting!
I usually don’t keep up with new releases but this year I have my eye on two. The Shadowed Land, for sure! And then Le Fay by Sophie Keetch which releases in a couple days!
Morgan is My Name is on my TBR, I didn’t know there was a sequel coming out! I’ll have to read the first book soon!
The Tainted Cup is very good!! Part of a series.
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I'm really looking forward to Words of Kings and Prophets. Like you, I enjoyed the first book but wasn't blown away by it....but I am very much anticipating that he second instalment will be more developed in terms of character growth. Also, I had no idea that Bridget Collins had a new book out! So thank you! I loved The Binding!
I’m so excited for a new Bridget Collins book! I just have to find the right time to read it!
I'm reading, well finishing actually, a book that might appeal to you. It is cosy fantasy about a sorcerers' library librarian who runs away with many books from that library in order to save them from the fire ignited by revolutionaries. She arrives to her childhood home in a remote island where all kinds of people dwell and she starts a jam shop at her late parents' cottage, but her side business is selling spells to heal trees, merhorses, mermaids, fountains and crops. I can't reveal more, the title is "The Spellshop" and it comes out in the UK next July11th (I'm reading an ARC) I can't wait to read the next installment of Shauna Lawless' "Gael Song", please read the novellas when you can!
By Sara Beth Durst? It’s one of my anticipated releases in the second half of the year! Are the Gael Song novellas good? I wasn’t sure if I was going to get to them. I was thinking if I liked book 2 I might read the novellas
@@badgerreads Yes, that's the one! The first novella is actually a prequel and the second goes after book 2 because it's very revealing. Both of them are, but the second could spoil you book 2
Sounds like we had the exact same experience with the First Sister series, I had similar quibbles but also loved it a lot as a whole. And ooooh that romance series is going straight onto my TBR, I have been wanting to try a more sporty romance for a while now and this sounds like the perfect gateway!! 🤩 It's been a while, but the first quarter was quite odd for me. Normally I read 80% (dark) fantasy, but now it was all cozy fantasy, romantasy and just romcoms, which I loved! Some of my favourites of the first quarter were A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows, Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams, Breeze Spells & Bridegrooms by Sarah Wallace and S.O. Callahan, and Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver! 🥰
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My first read of the year was Sword of Kaigen and it was a massive disappointment. Especially as I had really high hopes for it. I followed it was A Deadly Education, which was a lot of fun and a great thing to pick me up after that initial flop. My first quarter of reading was really good. It was during the second quarter that I started to hit a reading slump and I'm only just getting back into the swing of things now.
Hope the third quarter brings you lots of great reads and no more reading slump!
I think it was... Jade City by Fonda Lee. And I gave it a full 5 star rating. I'm currently reading Jade War which is the second book in the Greenbone Saga and I totally recommend it. But I think you've already read the trilogy?
What a way to start the year with a 5 star! I haven’t read it but I hear good things
Aww he’s beautiful bless him. ❤❤
Ahh! What a lovely dog!! And how lucky he is to have found his home with you. I look forward to seeing more of him in future videos. 🐕
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Merlin is such a cute name 🥺 and he’s also a cute boy!!!
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He does look like a cool fantasy character!
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There's BACH FLOWER ESSENCE made of flowers n literally helps pets with any issue... emotional support n not sedating.very helpful...❤🎉🎉🙏🤗😍🫂🌈🫶🏻
As soon as I saw Merlin I thought some sort of beagle mix for sure especially when you described his behaviour! I have a beagle and though he's an old boy now when he was young I couldn't leave him alone at all as he'd get into things. I wish you happiness with Merlin!
Maybe he is part beagle!
Today I was walikng in the woods near my partent's house and I tought that you would have liked it, and then I saw that you posted a new video. Happy coincidence. It sounds like your dog is very energy intensive but also adorable
That is a great coincidence! Yeah, he does take a lot of energy but he’s great😊🐶
What a sweetheart! There’s a stray cat around that I named Merlin because he just seems to appear out of nowhere and will sit a vigil on the fence post. It’s a great name for animals!
I love how his ears perked up when you said he's a troublemaker 😂😩
He said, “who me?”😆
He's adorable !
You: "I'm introducing you my dog officially!!!" Merlin *not bothered* 😂 No, but seriously I'm very happy that from now on you've got each other. I wish for the both of you many many years of love and friendship
I timed filming this video right after we got home from a doggy play date so he was tired, but now I’m realizing he’s making me look like a liar when I say he’s a trouble maker!😆
Aw congrats!! I can't blame you for falling for those puppy eyes in those pictures, he is entirely too cute! Also, I love how his eyes shot open when you said 'trouble maker', hahaha. Enjoy your time together 🥰🥰
I didn’t realize he did that until editing!😆 he was indignant!
So cute 🤗
I'm new to juliets books. All books happens in the same universe? Dors it have a reading order for different series?
I have an Author Guide video that answers those questions! It’s linked in this video’s description
100% agree on ur historical fiction take!!