Stacking the Shelves: Epic Detours to Coldtown to Crash Into your Dearly Beloved

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 was a great week! A package of books from The Book Depository finally arrived ^.^

Bought in print

Dearly, Beloved, by Lia Habel

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, by Holly Black

Amy & Roger's Epic Detour, by Morgan Matson

I've been waiting for Dearly, Beloved to come out in the right format for what feels like forever! Also, finally a new Holly Black book! She's one of my all-time favorite authors and I loved the short story this one is based on.
Amy and Roger was also a long time coming! I've seen it on so many top ten lists over the summer and I love road trip books :)

For review

 Crash Into You, by Katie McGarry
Catch, by Michelle D. Argyle

 I was so happy to be accepted for Crash Into You! Thanks, Netgalley and Harlequin! I loved Michelle Argyle's The Breakaway so I'm excited to be on the tour for this novella!

Bought as ebook

Unmaking Hunter Kennedy, by  Anne Eliot

I actually thought I'd bought it over the summer, but then I realized it was just the kindle sample... oops XD

Won

 

Ghost Hand, by Ripley Patton 

This one has a really new and interesting concept! You should check it out.

Freebie

 

The Night after I Lost You, by Sarah Rees Brennan

Already read it to get in the mood for Untold :)

That's it from my side :) I'd love to see what you got in the past week! Also, I have a new discussion post online that deals with the so-called Second Book Syndrome and it'd be cool to hear some more people's opinions ;)

Teaser Tuesday: Poison Eaters and Dark Magic

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Today I'm teasing you with two books. City of Dark Magic is an eARC I am currently reading and will be published by Penguin on November 27. The Poison Eaters is a short story collection by Holly Black, illustrated by her husband Theo Black.

This conversation takes place in the castle complex in Prague, between our protagonist Sarah and her new boss. They are discussing the history of the Lebkowicz family Sarah will be working for.

"What was Prince Max doing before he got his family stuff back?" Miles looked around as if the room might be bugged and leaned in close. "Officially, he was in banking. Really, he was the drummer in some sort of rock band in Los Angeles," whispered Miles. "But no one knows that and I didn't tell you."
[City of Dark Magic eARC, position 615 of 4563]

I don't know more about the Prince yet but I'm curious...
I'm loving the Prague scenery in this one. So many places I've been!

Matilda imagined Lydia and Julian dancing at the endless Eternal Ball. She pictured them on the streets she'd seen in pictures uploaded to Facebook and Flickr, trying to trade a bowl full of blood for their own deaths.
[The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, page 15]

I love this story. I already knew it from another anthology and re-reading just made me remember how awesome it was and long all the more for the full-length novel that will be coming... sometime... next year I think?
Holly Black's writing is just so gripping and courageous. I read her novel Tithe about 7 or so years ago, when I was 16, and it will stick with me forever. I got it at the library and read it twice before returning it. Since then I've read it about twice more.

Aaaanyhow, what do you guys think of my teasers? And what did you choose to tease the rest of us with this Tuesday? Link me up in the comments :)

Waiting on Wednesday: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, by Holly Black

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.


My pick this week is:

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, by Holly Black

 Unofrtunately, since the book is scheduled to release some time in 2013 by Little, Brown Books, there is no cover yet and not much in terms of a description. The following is from goodreads:

“A refreshing and inventive new twist” on the vampire genre; set in the not-so-distant future, where the vampire population has surged, resulting in the establishment of quarantined cities of vampires and humans where predator and prey coexist in a never-ending blood party of revelry.

Why I picked it despite the lack of detailed info?

I'm a huge fan of Holly Black - I have been for about 7 years or so, when I first read Tithe and thought it was amazing. But more to the point, I read Holly's short story of the same title in an anthology and I remember thinking that it'd be awesome if there was a full-length novel set in the same world. I actually tweeted the author about how much I liked it and she replied that there would in fact be a novel!! I was beyond excited. I cannot remember the exact details of the story because I read it more than half a year ago, but I recall that I enjoyed the unique quirks of the characters and the way the workings of the world in which it was set.
I can't wait for more info about the plot, and for the actual cover! A Holly Black vampire book. If she can't breathe some new life into that myth then I don't know who can...

Have you heard about The Coldest Girl in Coldtown? Read the short story (or any other of Holly Black's work)? Let me know in the comments, and I hope I'll get around to checking out everyone else's WoW's.
I might take a while to get back to you guys though because I'm still on my travels around Europe - Amsterdam at the moment, after Prague and Hamburg (which were awesome).