Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme, hosted by Tynga’s Reviews, that spotlights the books we are adding to our shelves; whether they be virtual or physical.
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas last week. This haul is mostly what I got for Christmas, and a few others thrown in because I couldn’t help myself.
Kindle Purchases+Gifts+Freebies
Purchased: Dirty Thoughts | Emmy & Oliver | Succubus Blues | Earth 2788 | Dirty English | The Air He Breathes | Magic Stars | Siege & Storm
Gifted: Carry On | Bad Ex Karma
Freebies: With Visions of Red | Winter’s Heat | Significance
I decided to get a few of my wishlist books so that I can read them soon. I’m reading the first book in the Grisha Trilogy, so I went ahead and got Siege & Storm. My aunt Mary gifted me a copy of Carry On and I was shocked to see it in my email Christmas morning. Of course, it took me 4 days to read it because I’ve been binge watching lots of my favorite shows on Demand. And I was gifted Bad Ex Karma from Lexxie over at (Un)Conventional Book Views.
Library Books
Magic Slays & Magic Rises | The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (audio)
I read Magic Slays in one sitting yesterday, and am almost done with Magic Rises. I have no words for TCoSB. Just no.
Physical Books
Rook | The Heart of Betrayal | Passenger | Illuminae | The Last Faerie Queen
Scholastic sent me copies of Rook for participating in their #12DaysofYA. I will be giving away a copy soon! Disney-Hyperion sent me the finished copy of Passenger, which I plan to reread very soon. I got myself Illuminae and The Heart of Betrayal with my Christmas gift cards. And I won a copy of The Last Faerie Queen via Rockstar Book Tours. I’m hoping that this sequel will make me want to keep going with the series, because book one was just okay for me.
That’s all for me these past few weeks. I’ve enjoyed my 2 weeks off, but it’s back to work on Monday. I’ve done lots of TV and movie watching. And of course, football. My team won the semifinal round against Michigan State on New Years Eve, so we will play for the National Championship on the 11th against Clemson. I’m very happy & nervous right now. *Fingers crossed* What books did you add to your shelves? Happy weekend!
I’m thinking of picking up Emmy and Oliver soon, so let me know what you think of it so I can decide whether or not to!
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Illuminae is SO AMAZING!!
Also, I’m so excited for Passenger!
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Passenger is amazing as well!
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Great haul! I’m a couple books behind on the Kate Daniels series. I think the last book I read in the series was Magic Rises. I need to get caught up again with the books this year. Happy reading!
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Thanks for stopping by!
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Great haul, you’ve got a ton of great books. I just finished Illuminae today and it was soooooooo good!!! I can’t wait for the sequel to release. I really want Passenger but need to wait till next month. Christmas took all of my money haha. I hope you enjoy your books 🙂 Happy new year!
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I hope you love Passenger when you read it. Thanks for stopping by!
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LOVED Emmy and Oliver. Such a great read! Enjoy these!
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Thanks! I can’t wait to read it.
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Are you loving Shadow and Bone? I devoured the first two Grisha books. One of my blogging buddies sent me Ruin and Rising for my birthday over a year ago, but I haven’t read it because I saw “the” spoiler for it the day it released, on someone’s non-spoiler review post. Why someone would comment with a spoiler on a non-spoilers post is beyond me. Anyway it took the excitement away for me, but I plan on reading it this year for sure. I am sorry to hear about the Anne Rice fairytale retelling. I only found out about those a couple of months ago and added them to my Goodreads TBR. I loved the three vampire books I read, but tried her first witch story and couldn’t get into it. Happy New Year. 🙂
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I haven’t picked S&B back up yet but I will today. It was kind of slow to start.
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That’s an amazing haul Lekeisha, so much pub love too! ❤ I hope 2016 is treating you right!
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Thanks!
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Dirty Thoughts sounds good, hope you enjoy. Happy reading and have a good upcoming week.
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Amazing book haul!!! I saw you got Illuminae, let me just say what an amazing book that was. It was one of my top books of 2015, so when you get the chance to read it, do it.
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I can’t wait to read it!
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Oh my goodness I am so in love with this haul! Especially the paperback books because basically ALL of them are ones I want to read at some point, especially Illuminae. On top of that, I love the looks of all the Illona Andrews. You really are enjoying her books! Carry On seems to be a commonly loved book too :3
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I really hope that you try the Kate Daniels series. It is so good! I am almost caught up. Starting book 7 this week!
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Nice haul! Illuminae is one I liked. Enjoy.
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Thanks!
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Nice haul. You can’t go wrong with Ilona Andrews. Haha, what, you didn’t like TCoSB? lol!
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It was weird, first off. Second, surely that was rape right? I don’t care if he woke her from a million years slumber, it should have asked! LOL!
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Happy New Year! And what a great Christmas and library haul! Looking forward to your thoughts on Carry On and Siege and Storm 🙂
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Carry On’s review was posted yesterday. I really enjoyed it!
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I also got Carry On! I’ve heard such good things about it and can’t wait to finally read it. I recently read Illuminae & I have to say it’s absolutely amazing. It was my favorite book of 2015.
Krystianna @ Downright Dystopian
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Carry On is great. Hope you love it!
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Dang girl! What a great haul. There’s no better time to cozy up with your books than now 😉 (Of course, unless the game is on.. ) Happy Reading!
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Yeah, no reading during the game. Thanks for stopping by!
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Very nice haul! I had Dirty English on my TBR list, and I can’t wait to hear what you think of it!
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I hope to start it soon!
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Excellent haul! I adored Illuminae and am wicked jealous you’ve picked up Passenger. Looks like 2016 is off to a great start for you. 🎉
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Passenger is awesome and I hope that you get to read it soon.
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You got a lot of books this past month. I hope you enjoy all of them.
Grace @ Books of Love
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Thanks for stopping by!
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Ahh, Ilona Andrews should be fun! I need to read Magic Slays and Magic Rises soon too. I need to get round to reading Carry On as well — I’ve peeked at spoilers, but not read it properly yet! Hope you enjoy all the new books.
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Magic Slays is my favorite so far, and I love them all. Magic Rises is getting good and I’m on the edge of my seat. Hope you get to read Carry On soon.
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Fantastic haul! I really want to read Illuminae, Rook and Passenger!
Enjoy your new books! 🙂
Kyra @ Blog of a Bookaholic
My Book Haul!
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Thanks!
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Wow, so many new books! Faerie Queen looks interesting, and I love Richelle Mead, so the Succubus books sound great to me too. Enjoy reading!
My IMM post.
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Those are goodly piles there. I got Illuminae for Christmas and already devoured it. I’ve had the Grisha trio recommended so that’s on my radar for this year, too. Love seeing you binging on Kate Daniels. Glad you had a restful holiday break.
Happy New Year!
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Yeah, back to the real word on Monday 😦
Enjoy your books and happy 2016!
Kate @ Ex Libris
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Nice haul! I love all things Ilona Andrews and I am thrilled that you are enjoying the Kate Daniels series. I liked Illuminae but I had a digital copy and I think that it will be even better in paper. I have Emmy & Oliver sitting on my kindle account begging to be read. I actually picked up a couple of the freebies that you mentioned. Thanks for sharing!
Carole @ Carole’s Random Life
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Great haul! I loved Emmy & Oliver so much! Illuminae was amazing too! Happy Reading!
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Can’t wait to read them!
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yay many books there! I’m so jealous! happy reading to you!
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Thanks, I hope to read them all very soon!
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I can never help myself either Lekeisha! I’ve just received books for Christmas and got more for myself this week! Ha! I hope you enjoy your new additions. 🙂
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Thank you for stopping by!
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Wow, great haul! 😀 I’ve been debating if I should go buy Illuminae soon or not. I just can’t decide!
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I will be reading it soon. I’m trying to get some review books out of the way before I sit down with it. Thanks for stooping by!
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Fab book haul! Lovely to have lots of new books to read at the start of a new year. 🙂 Happy New Year to you!
My weekly wrap-up / StS post:
https://rathertoofondofbooks.wordpress.com/2016/01/02/weekly-wrap-up-and-stacking-the-shelves-2nd-january/
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Yes, I can’t wait to get started on a lot of these! Happy New Year!
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Ilona Andrews books are ones I always want to last longer but end up reading so quickly because I just can’t put them down!
I love Carry On, as well.
~Ailsa
My StS post
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I’m loving the hell out of the series. I couldn’t put Magic Slays down to save my life yesterday, and I started Magic Rises but I had to sleep. I’ll finish it today though and probably will start book 7.
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That’s a great haul, Lekeisha, and I’m very happy to see several of the Kate Daniels books on your list. That series is so well done – I love Kate and Curran and all the other characters that make this universe unique 😀
Of course, I hope you’ll have fun with Bad Ex Karma 😉
Have a great week ahead and happy reading.
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I’m sure I’ll love Bad Ex Karma. It looks hilarious! Thank you again!
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Great haul this week! I see a few that I’ve been wanting to read 🙂 Happy reading!!
Danielle @ Life With Two Boys
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Thanks Danielle!
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Nice book Haul, Happy reading .
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Thanks!
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