Stacking the Shelves: Foxes with Allegiant Adrenaline Rushes Meet Witches and Moths

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews to showcase all the books we got in the past week. Those can be bought, won, gifted, for review, borrowed, print or ebooks... no matter, just share what you got :)


Hey guys... I'm still alive. I never intended to take a one-and-a-half week blogging break but a combination of me being very busy and not feeling well happened and I just couldn't bring myself to write posts. It also took me an entire week to read Perks of Being a Wallflower, which is ridiculous because that book has only 230 pages. There just wasn't time to read :( I hope I can pick myself up again a bit and that the coming weeks will be better.


Here's what I got in the last 3 weeks:

Bought in print

Allegiant, by Veronica Roth

Prince of Thorns, by Mark Lawrence

I was so mad when my preordered copy of Allegiant didn't arrive until almost a week after release day, but now I haven't had time to read it >.< GAhhhh I'm sick of avoiding reviews! Need to get to it soon.
Prince of Thorns is a book I've been staring at at the store for over a year. When I went on Halloween because I was feeling so un-halloweeny (sadly) and heard that the staff dressed up (they looked awesome), I didn't want to leave empy-handed. I wanted something violent and bloody. On the first page, there was mention of crows and war and blood and corpses, so I had to get the book.
I realize that makes me sound like a psycho. Oh well.

My precious

You may or may not know that I'm into old books. I've wanted a nice copy of Swinburne's poems for a long time, so when I found one on ebay for only 10£ plus very reasonable shipping, I was delighted! It's really very pretty. There's even gold foil along the upper ridge of the pages.
The problem: When I opened it, the front cover fell clean off >.< So I brought it to a guy in the Old Town part of the city who has a bookbinder and book restorer workshop. He can fix it, but it costs me about 60 Swiss francs (65$). *sigh* It hurts, but it's worth it. That's my lesson - no more old books from ebay.

Now, on to the digital side of things...

For review / tour:

Angelbound, by Christina Bauer
Adrenaline Rush, by Cindy M. Hogan
As I said, I don't have that much time at the moment and have decided not to accept any more tour invites or review requests for the time being, but I just couldn't resist these two...

Bought ebooks

The Witch of Duva, by Leigh Bardugo
The Too-Clever Fox, by Leigh Bardugo
The Moth in the Mirror, by A.G. Howard
Red Fox, by Karina Halle
The Iron Bells, by Jeanette Battista

I had completely forgotten about Leigh Bardugo's novellas! Witch of Duva will tie me over until Siege and Storm is out in the right paperback edition to match Shadow and Bone.

As for Moth in the Mirror, it took until earlier this week for it to be on amazon in such a way that I could buy it from my location! Rather frustrating. But it was worth the wait :)

Red Fox was on sale, and I already have book 1 in the Experiments in Terror series. Haven't read it yet, but I loved Halle's style in another one of her books that I have read, so I'm sure this series is amazing as well. The Iron Bells was a spontaneous buy because I was intrigued with the world that was hinted at in the description.

Alright, I think that was all of them... as I said above, I haven't been such a good blogger lately as in writing posts and returning comments and such, but I need to get over myself so I promise to get back to everybody this time :)

Stacking the Shelves: Sweet Shadows and Wicked Bones

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews to showcase all the books we got in the past week. Those can be bought, won, gifted, for review, borrowed, print or ebooks... no matter, just share what you got :)

This week I didn't get too many books, which is good because I have a huge stack to tackle already! I've already read 2 of those 4 books and they were fantastic :D

Bought in print:

Shadow and Bone, by Leigh Bardugo

This was a spontaneous buy at my favorite English-only bookstore in Zurich. It's a new UK paperback version with the original cover&title and with Siege & Storm coming out now and everyone raving about the series again I just couldn't resist. I'd planned to only read a couple pages to check it out but yeah... 30 hours later and the thing's gone ;) Fantastic! Now begins the miserable wait for the matching paperback edition of book 2...

eBooks:

A Dawn Most Wicked, by Susan Dennard
Sweet Thing, by Renee Carlino
Of Silver and Beasts, by Trisha Wolfe

I had the A Dawn Most Wicked novella on preorder but had forgotten all about it, so when it downloaded to my kindle that was a great surprise! I've already read it and it's awesome! My review should be up soon :)
I got Sweet Thing spontaneously because it was on sale for 0.99$. East Village, old café, and musician, and eccentric friends sounded great to me :) I feel like going to New York but since it's not going to happen for another year I'll just live vicariously :P
Of Silver and Beasts is a late add I just bought 5mins ago because it's also on sale! It was on my wishlist after I read an excerpt...

What do you guys think of my new additions to the pile? Have you read any of them? And new pretties made it onto your shelves this week?
Also, I've got two giveaways going on at the moment, one for a book of your choice up to 10$ and another for a copy of Snow White Sorrow by Cameron Jace. Links in the sidebar :)