Stacking the Shelves: Unhinged Goblins Hitchhiking in the Dark

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 :) Once more I've left out a week of my haul, so this one's a bit bigger. Also, I'm in Belgium at the moment so I will be a bit slow responding to comments. I'll get back to everyone on Monday though! Returning all the comments is part of my blogger resolutions for 2014.


For review from Netgalley

Goblins, by Melanie Tushmore


For review / gifted

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
Gretel and the Dark, by Eliza Granville

This is my FIRST EVER ARC that I got in print and wasn't from a giveaway! Thank you soooo much, Penguin UK!! :D

The Hitchhiker's guide was a late Christmas present from a new friend :)

Bought in print

The Essence, by Kimberly Derting

Unhinged, by A.G. Howard

Totenbraut, by Nina Blazon

I've wanted The Essence and Unhinged for about a year now, so I can't wait to get reading! :D Totenbraut was a spontaneous buy, there's this store that is closing so there's a huge sale going on and even though it's a big ass hardcover it was pretty cheap. Plus, I read something by Blazon about ten years ago and remember really liking it. I'ts a historical set in 18th century Serbia and there's vampires. Goodreads doesn't show me an English edition unfortunately but it's available in French and Italian.

Bought as ebooks

The Pirate's Wish, by Cassandra Rose Clarke
When We Collide, by A.L. Jackson

After reading The Assassin's Curse, I had to have the next book immediately! I've already read and enjoyed it :) Kind of sad that the story is over now :(
When We Collide is one I had on my wishlist for a while, and this week it was on sale for 99 cents! Mine has a different cover than the one above though, which unfortunately wasn't on GR.


That's it! What do you guys think? Have you read any of them? And what's new on your shelves?

Waiting on Wednesday: Gretel and the Dark, by Eliza Granville

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine to spotlight upcoming book releases that we're excited about.


This week's pick:

Release date: February 6, 2014
Publisher: Penguin UK
Format: Hardcover

Goodreads description:
Gretel and the Dark is Eliza Granville's dazzling novel of darkness, evil - and hope.Vienna, 1899.

Josef Breuer - celebrated psychoanalyst - is about to encounter his strangest case yet. Found by the lunatic asylum, thin, head shaved, she claims to have no name, no feelings - to be, in fact, not even human. Intrigued, Breuer determines to fathom the roots of her disturbance.

Years later, in Germany, we meet Krysta. Krysta's Papa is busy working in the infirmary with the 'animal people', so little Krysta plays alone, lost in the stories of Hansel and Gretel, the Pied Piper, and more. And when everything changes and the real world around her becomes as frightening as any fairy tale, Krysta finds that her imagination holds powers beyond what she could have ever guessed . . .

Eliza Granville was born in Worcestershire and currently lives in Bath. She has had a life-long fascination with the enduring quality of fairytales and their symbolism, and the idea for Gretel and the Dark was sparked when she became interested in the emphasis placed on these stories during the Third Reich. Gretel and the Dark is her first novel to be published by a major publisher.


Okay. First of all? The time & setting. LOVE. Also, the relation to early psychoanalysis, and the sheer scope of the story that is hinted at in the description. Fairytales, the war, madness, maybe magic? Count me in! Especially if the book is also published on my 25th birthday ^^