Stacking the Shelves #181

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! Clicking on a book image will take you to goodreads so you can read all about it.

We love sharing our books with you each week but more importantly we loving see what you add to your shelves. Here's what we have recently acquired:

The Struggle ~ Jennifer L. Armentrout ~ Bought

Hunted ~ Meagan Spooner ~ Bought

Strange the Dreamer (signed copy!) Laini Taylor ~ Bought X2

Happy reading everyone!

Stacking the shelves #180

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! Clicking on a book image will take you to goodreads so you can read all about it.

We love sharing our books with you each week but more importantly we loving see what you add to your shelves. Here's what we have recently acquired:

 

The Scarecrow Queen x2 ~ Melinda Salisbury ~ Bought & also a gift for Bungle from the publishers.
Crave the Mark ~ Veronica Roth ~ Bought

So, books for World Book Day this week! What did you buy to celebrate?

Stacking the Shelves #179

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! Clicking on a book image will take you to goodreads so you can read all about it.

We love sharing our books with you each week but more importantly we loving see what you add to your shelves. Here's what we have recently acquired:

   

  

Ink ~ Alice Broadway ~ Bought 
Caraval ~ Stephanie Garber ~ Present from B
The Alchemist and the Angel ~ Joanne Owen ~ Present from B
And I Darken ~ Kiersten White ~ Present from B
The Last Duchess (A Silver Service Mystery) ~ Laura Powell ~ From the publisher

So, tonnes of presents for Sally this week and brand new reads for Bungle! And how stunning are the covers?!  

What books are you treating yourselves to on these dark winter nights? We'd love to hear from you!

Stacking the Shelves #178

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! Clicking on a book image will take you to goodreads so you can read all about it.

We love sharing our books with you each week but more importantly we loving see what you add to your shelves. Here's what we have recently acquired:

 The Girl In Between ~ Laekan Zea Kemp ~ Bought
The Diabolic ~ S.J.Kincaid ~ Bought
Carve The Mark ~ Veronica Roth ~ Bought

So, new authors (to us) and old favourites this week! What have you been buying?

Stacking The Shelves #177

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! Clicking on a book image will take you to goodreads so you can read all about it.

We love sharing our books with you each week but more importantly we loving see what you add to your shelves. Here's what we have recently acquired:

   

  

  

 

Lots of beautiful books from publishers, friends & 1 or 2 bought by myself.

Happy Reading everyone :)

Review ~ The Boy In The Painting ~ C.D. John

Title: The Boy In The Painting
Author: C.D. John
Published: August 2016


The Boy in the Painting, by C. D. John, is book one in the Time Shield series. The story starts in the uneventful town of Cherryfield, but for one seventeen year old, Sarah, Cherryfield is about to change her life and turn her world upside down. Finding herself taken with a secret room hidden within a museum Sarah soon learns that not all art simply lays still on a canvas. Before her eyes she sees a figure moving in a painting, The Boy in the Painting is alive!

Sarah is introduced to the very dashing Mark Louis de la Mer and soon learns he is half human half fairy and trapped in a Time Shield, the painting, after a spell turns horribly wrong. His mother, Catherine tried to help herself and her son after Mark's father was murdered by Catherine's brother, Astor, who is magically power hungry. But Catherine's spell sent her to another realm and caused Mark to be held by a binding spell unable to leave the painting of his own accord. Although Mark is unable to leave the painting that doesn't mean Sarah cannot enter it...Sarah is drawn in by Mark's tale and soon she is being trained to destroy the holding spell but Mark also has his own journey to face before the two of them together can reach Astor.

C.D. John has created an exciting world for her readers which is rich in language and detail. When Sarah first enters the painting John made me truly believe I was there alongside our protagonist. As this is book one in the series we are introduced to many characters and layers upon layers of story telling as John gets us ready for book number two. I'm looking forward to seeing how relationships develop and how the story will grown and continue. This is not to take away from this first story which is full of twists and turns and had me reading late into the night.

C.D. John has writing skills reminiscent of the old masters. The Boy in the Painting is a magical, fantasy read which is the perfect set up for a new series which will be loved by readers who are in search of something that little bit different. 

Below we get to see three characters from John's story just how she how she sees them herself which is interesting because Mark is just how I pictured him too! We also have Sarah looking pretty bad ass and Mr. X, why would anyone want to come up against him!?

  

 

 

Stacking the Shelves #176

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! Clicking on a book image will take you to goodreads so you can read all about it.

We love sharing our books with you each week but more importantly we loving see what you add to your shelves. Here's what we got over the last 4 weeks:

        

      

 

   A Monster Calls: Special Collectors Edition ~ Patrick Ness ~ Gift

Harry Potter: The Artefact Vault ~ Jody Revenson ~ Gift

Roseblood ~ A.G Howard ~ From Publisher

A Quiet Kind of Thunder ~ Sara Bernard ~ From Publisher

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ~ J.K Rowling ~ Gift

Frost Like Night ~ Sara Raasch ~ Bought

The Graces ~ Laure Eve ~ Bought

The Next Together ~ Lauren James ~ Bought.

So, tonnes of books for us this month and loads of special ones in there! 

So what have you been buying?  We're always looking for inspiration!!

Stacking the Shelves #175

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! Clicking on a book image will take you to goodreads so you can read all about it.

We love sharing our books with you each week but more importantly we loving see what you add to your shelves. Here's what we got over the last 4 weeks:

      

  

 The Girl of Ink and Stars ~ Kiran Millwood Hargrave ~ Bought
Three Dark Crowns ~ Kendare Blake ~ Bought
Empire of Storms ~ Sarah J. Maas ~ Bought
Draw Every Day, Draw Every Way ~ Jennifer Orkin Lewis ~ from publisher for review
Good Things Are Happening ~ from publisher for review
Creative Writing ~ Eva Glettner ~ from publisher for review

Quite a mixed bag of reads and creative books this week, we think. Just how it should be! So what have you been buying?