Stacking the Shelves #54 & #55

Stacking The Shelves is hosted by Tyngs's Reviews and is all about sharing the books you are adding to your  shelves, may they be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical stores or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

We love sharing our books with you each week but more importantly we loving see what you add to your shelves. All links added here will take you to goodreads.

Sally's shelves

Some amazing books for me this week! I've been hearing about The Grisha series for a while so I finally decided to find out what it's all about.  The first two books I got this week then are Shadow and Bone and Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo.  The next book I got this week was a recommendation that Lauren Kate made a little while ago. For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund is inspired by Persuasion by Jane Austen and I have to say I absolutely loved it! To give you better insight into the story it's best if you also read the prequel Among the Nameless Stars which is written from Kai's perspective and gives a good grounding for the main read.  The last book I got my hands on is the end of another series.  Elegy is the last book in the Hereafter series by Tara Hudson.  This is another of my most anticipated reads of 2013, but sad times are afoot as I wave goodbye to another fab series.

Bungle's shelves

The last 2 weeks I've not done too bad, well I did buy two books! I bought Selected Poems 1923-1958 by E.E. Cummings and Firelight by Sophie Jordan as I know she will be at Authors After Dark :) Over the last two weeks I've been sent four books for review which are, Haunted by William Hussey, Oliver and the Seawigs by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre, the beautiful paperback edition of Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher and The Eye of Minds by James Dashner. All look brilliant and I cant wait to read them! Oh and not forgetting, I also got a copy of Goblin Fruit by Laini Taylor! I really can't wait to read this one, I love Laini's work!!!!

 

 

So that's it from us this week, what did you get your hands on?

 

 

Review ~ Blurred ~ Tara Fuller

Title: Blurred

Author: Tara Fuller

Published: 2^nd July 2013

By: Entangled.

First line: The flames closed in, each lick of heat a tick of the clock.

Last line:  I felt complete.

Fave line: “Like, I’m in a room full of people and I’m screaming my lungs out but none of them can hear me.   But Emma…she always hears me.”

Inbetween was one of my surprise fave reads of last year and I totally fell in love with Finn’s story.  As much as I loved Finn I also ended up having a huge soft spot for Chase.  Chase was the bad boy with the good heart who at the end of it all lost the one he loved to a dead guy. And then he lost his own life, or at least he should have done and it should have been Anaya who was supposed to do the wicked deed. But Anaya isn’t as strong as first appearances suggest. In the end she saves Chase, returning him in body and spirit to the mortal world.  So, happy endings all round? A no,no,no! Anaya may have saved him but her motives weren’t thoroughly altruistic in the end and she’s not the only one after him.  Because Cash is still dying. What matters now is who gets to claim him and will he get what he wants in the end?

This is a sequel but it stands out as its own read, equally as strong as its predecessor.  Chase and Anaya are fantastic together  no matter how hard they try to stay apart and when you add to that the fact that Chase knows that his days are limited and the physical torment his body is put through what you end up here is one massive books of feels!

It’s great to see Finn and Emma during the course of this story and to see how their relationship develops after the events of book one.  The nice thing though is their story doesn’t impinge in Chase’s story, we if you take Chase’s hatred for Finn out of the equation.  There is also a cooling between Chase and Emma and this does contribute to many of the feels in this story. Does it all work out for them in the end? I’m not telling you! What I will tell you is that Chase will break your heart bit by bit as he takes you on his journey. 

Now, I’m thinking that maybe we need something on Easton? Hmm? Are you listening Ms Fuller?

Quick addition to this review - Tara has since revealed on her Facebook page that there will be a third book and it will be about Easton! Huzzah!! Descent will be out in the summer of 2014.  Too long I know, but it's on it's way! Happy happy girl!

Many thanks to Entangled for forwarding a copy for review.  

Rating: 4/5  I loved reading Chase’s story! More please!

Stacking the Shelves #53

Stacking The Shelves is hosted by Tyngs's Reviews and is all about sharing the books you are adding to your  shelves, may they be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical stores or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

We love sharing our books with you each week but more importantly we loving see what you add to your shelves. All links added here will take you to goodreads.

Sally's shelves

Just me this week guys as Bungle has been extra extra good and remains book free! I however have acquired six new reads.  I got four new books from my son for my birthday which is tomorrow. This makes me very happy! He got me Slated and Fractured by Teri Terry, Scent of Magic by Maria Snyder which I've been meaning to get my hands on for ages and Fragments by Dan Wells. I received a galley of this book the review for which is here and I've been meaning to add it to the collection since it's release.  Job done!

I also got a couple of NA books on my Kindle.  The first one I got was Promise by Kristie Cook. I spotted this on Bungle's shelf last week and figured this would be a fab read! I also got Tempting the Best Man by J. Lynn who happens to be Jennifer L. Armentrout's alter-ego.  This is a cheeky little novella which I really enjoyed.  Would absolutely recommend!

 So that's it from me this week guys! Tell us what did you get?