Stacking the Shelves #85

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Hi guys!

This month brought me a lot of different books from different sources. If I tried to tell you where each and every one of them came from, it would be a long list. So thank you to my Secret Sister, the various publishers as well as friends, fellow bloggers and my library.

Bought

The Rose Society (The Young Elites #2) by Marie Lu

Received for Review
-Edelweiss-

The Way I Used To Be by Amber Smith

-NetGalley-

Sanctuary Bay by Laura J. Burns & Melinda Metz
In Real Life by Jessica Love
This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp

Truthwitch (The Witchlands #1) by Susan Dennard (sneak peek)
Riders (Riders #1) by Veronica Rossi (sneak peek)
The Forbidden Wish by Jessica Khoury (sneak peek)

Publisher

The Yearbook by Carol Masciola

Blog Tour

Diamonds are Forever (The Secret Diamond Sisters #3) by Michelle Madow
Half in Love With Death by Emily Ross

Gifted

A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis
Infinity Lost (The Infinity Trilogy #1) by S. Harrison
Design the Life You Love by Ayse Birsel
The Boy Most Likely To by Huntley Fitzpatrick

Library


The Summer of Chasing Mermaids by Sarah Ockler
Bittersweet by Sarah Ockler
Fixing Delilah by Sarah Ockler
Oblivion by Sasha Dawn
Slasher Girls & Monster Boys by April Genevieve Tucholke

Won

Cam Girl by Leah Raeder

So let me know if you’ve read any of these or if you plan to soon! Have a fabulous, book filled week, everyone!

Stacking The Shelves #83

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Well, this is what happens when I move this feature to once a month and in that month Harper does multiple e-galley drops onto Edelweiss.

I end up with just about 50 books.

Granted, not all of them were review books, but 27 of them were. 23 from Edelweiss, 4 from NetGalley, I got an e-galley of a book for a blog tour, I got an e-galley of a book for an upcoming Sunday Street Team event. 12 were library books. I bought 5 books. One was a trade & three were from my Secret Sister.

Bought


Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass #4) by Sarah J. Maas
Far From You by Tess Sharpe
The Revenge Playbook by Rachael Allen
Nearly Gone (Nearly Gone #1) by Elle Cosimano
The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich

Received for Review
-Edelweiss-








Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird #2) by Claudia Gray
Dreamland by Robert L. Anderson
Into the Dim by Janet B. Taylor
The May Queen Murders by Sarah Jude
Flamecaster (The Shattered Realms #1) by Cinda Williams Chima
The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig
Dreamology by Lucy Keating
Reign of Shadows by Sophie Jordan
Assassin’s Heart by Sarah Ahiers
The Shadow Queen (Ravenspire #1) by C. J. Redwine
Harmony House by Nic Sheff
Shallow Graves by Kali Wallace
The Great Hunt by Wendy Higgins
The Mirror King (The Orphan Queen #2) by Jodi Meadows
Revenge and the Wild by Michelle Modesto
Seven Black Diamonds by Melissa Marr (No cover yet)
The Leaving Season by Cat Jordan
Other Broken Things by Christa Desir
Consent by Nancy Ohlin
Shade Me (Nikki Kill #1) by Jennifer Brown
Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
This Is Where the World Ends by Amy Zhang
Thicker Than Water by Kelly Fiore

-NetGalley-


Firsts by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
Menagerie (Menagerie #1) by Rachel Vincent
These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly
Placebo Junkies by J. C. Carleson

Blog Tour

The Body Institute by Carol Riggs

Sunday Street Team

Dreamstrider by Lindsay Smith

Library




Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky
When We Wake (When We Wake #1) by Karen Healey
When We Run (When We Wake #2) by Karen Healey
More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Joyride by Anna Banks
Return to the Dark House (Welcome to the Dark House #2) by Laurie Faria Stolarz
Our Brothers at the Bottom of the Bottom of the Sea by Johnathan David Kranz
The Boy Most Likely To by Huntley Fitzpatrick
The Accident Season by Maria Fowley Doyle
Rebel Mechanics (Rebel Mechanics #1) by Shanna Swendson
Time After Time (Time Between Us #2) by Tamara Ireland Stone

Gifted

Breathe, Annie, Breathe by Miranda Kenneally
Biggest Flirts (Superlatives #1) by Jennifer Echols
Eve (Eve #1) by Anna Carey

Received via trade

The Secret Diamond Sisters (The Secret Diamond Sisters #1)

Thank you to everyone who helped make this haul so big. If you’ve read any of these books or if you plan to, please let me know.

Waiting on Wednesday #13

This weekly feature is hosted by Jill of Breaking the Spine.

My Pick

Goodreads

Synopsis from Goodreads:
A boldly surreal novel from one of the best YA writers working today.

Four talented teenagers are traumatized-coping with grief, surviving date rape, facing the anxiety of standardized tests and the neglect of self-absorbed adults–and they’ll do anything to escape the pressure. They’ll even build an invisible helicopter, to fly far away to a place where everyone will understand them… until they learn the only way to escape reality is to face it head-on.

My Thoughts

Yes, gimmie this book. It looks like something I’ll absolutely fall in love with. It involves tough stuff, which is one of my favorite things in books. Plus it’s written by A. S. King, someone who I’ve heard a lot about, but whose books I have not read yet. That cover is just so simple and classic. Thankfully I don’t have to wait long to read this book.

So what books are you eagerly awaiting?

Stacking the Shelves #54

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Hi everyone! This week was a very quiet week book wise. I added four books this week. One review book that I’m stoked about and three library books that I am really excited about. 

Let’s see those books!

Bought

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Received for Review

-NetGalley-

Loop ( Loop #1) by Karen Akins

Gifted

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Won

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Library

  

Breathe, Annie, Breathe by Miranda Kenneally

Racing Savannah by Miranda Kenneally

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

So, definitely let me know if you’ve read any of these books. Also leave me the links to your posts and vlogs. Have a great week.

Stacking the Shelves #53

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This was a great week for books. I got 4 NetGalley books and I added three more library books to my temporary shelf. I am very excited for all seven of these books. I’m hoping I can get to these books very soon, especially the library books. 

Let’s see what I added to my shelves this week.

Bought

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Received for Review

-NetGalley-

Wildlife (Wildlife #2) by Fiona Wood

Stronger Than You Know by Jolene Perry

Suspicion by Alexandra Monir

Watched by C.J. Lyons

Won

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Gifted

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Library

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children #1) by Ransom Riggs

Landline by Rainbow Rowell
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

Please let me know if you’ve read any of these or if you are planning to. Don’t forget to leave me the links to your Stacking the Shelves posts and vlogs. Have a fabulous week!

Stacking the Shelves #51

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This week was AWESOME! I got 4 packages. On Monday I got 3 books from my bookish friend Tammy as well as my OTSP Secret Sister package which included the top book on my wishlist. On Tuesday I got an ARC of Emery Lord’s newest book, so thank you so much Bloomsbury Children’s. And finally, my friend Andi sent me her extra copy of a book that she’s been begging me to read. I also got a NetGalley book and an Edelweiss book.

Let’s see what arrived in my mailbox and on my Kindle this week.

Bought

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Received for Review

-Edelweiss-

The Fall by Bethany Griffin

-NetGalley-

Vision by Lisa Amowitz

-From the Publisher-

The Start of Me and You by Emery Lord

Gifted

Cress (The Lunar Chronicles #3) by Marissa Meyer

Cinders & Sapphires  (At Somerton #1) by Leila Rasheed

Thousand Words by Jennifer Brown

A Little Something Different by Sandy Hall

Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss #1) by Stephanie Perkins

Won
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Let me know if you have read any of these or if you are planning to at some point. Also leave me the links to your Stacking the Shelves posts or vlogs so I can stop by and see what you got.

Book Friends Mentioned

Andi of Andi’s ABC’s

Tammy

Review: Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler

Book Title: Twenty Boy Summer

Author: Sarah Ockler

Published Date: June 1st, 2009

Publisher: Little, Brown Books For Young Readers

Genre: YA Contemporary

Standalone

Book Link: Goodreads

Purchase Links: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, The Book Depository 

Synopsis from Goodreads:

“Don’t worry, Anna. I’ll tell her, okay? Just let me think about the best way to do it.”
“Okay.”
“Promise me? Promise you won’t say anything?”
“Don’t worry.” I laughed. “It’s our secret, right?”

According to Anna’s best friend, Frankie, twenty days in Zanzibar Bay is the perfect opportunity to have a summer fling, and if they meet one boy every day, there’s a pretty good chance Anna will find her first summer romance. Anna lightheartedly agrees to the game, but there’s something she hasn’t told Frankie–she’s already had her romance, and it was with Frankie’s older brother, Matt, just before his tragic death one year ago.

TWENTY BOY SUMMER explores what it truly means to love someone, what it means to grieve, and ultimately, how to make the most of every beautiful moment life has to offer.

Disclaimer: Library book.

Review:

I had heard so many beautiful things about this book and I was so excited to read it, but I was never fully invested in it. The characters didn’t interest me at all and that’s so crucial for me in order for me to love a book. I found myself bored by the characters, particularly Frankie. Holy hell she was a pain in the ass and while I understood that she was grieving, it wasn’t an excuse for her to be a terrible person.

The pacing was very slow and I found myself skimming pages and then realizing that I wasn’t missing anything major. Nothing exciting or even remotely interesting was happening. Frankie was obsessed with Anna losing her virginity, which I found to be very creepy. Anna’s virginity was no one’s business but hers. Yet Frankie was obsessed with finding Anna a summer fling and I found Frankie’s boy obsession to be quite grating.

I also didn’t feel like the characters were as developed as I would have liked. I wanted to see more about Frankie actually dealing with her brother’s death in a constructive way and not in a “become more girly & boy obsessed way” I wanted desperately to connect with these characters and that just didn’t happen. Major disappointment.

I wanted to cry and swoon, but that didn’t happen. I was expecting to bawl like some of my other blogger friends did. I was expecting Matt and Sam to both make me swoon for different reasons, but that didn’t happen. In fact both boys seemed rather bland and I think that had to do with the lackluster character development.

In short, this book just didn’t work for me. I’m definitely disappointed as I had such high hopes for this book. It kills me to give this book 2 stars but I am going to have to as I didn’t enjoy this book. Hopefully someone else will love it.