I strongly debated not posting this week and just letting the books pile up, but I realized that would potentially be completely unmanageable. I already have way too many in this post, and I think there are at least two orders coming next week. I have no idea why the last of the year is now suddenly the time for all the orders to ship and for all the preorder sales to start. Like, give me some time to recuperate, please!
So on to this week's haul. First up, I have the prettiest editions I've received since I got Illumicrate's Reaper duology earlier this year. This is FairyLoot's Crowns of Nyaxia set, and IT. IS. GORGEOUS! I haven't even read this series yet, but I preordered these because of how beautiful they are. I know my picture doesn't do them justice, so go look at some of the tagged FairyLoot photos on Instagram. To me, this is a special edition set done right from FairyLoot. I haven't been this impressed in a while.
Next up, I have a couple of Barnes & Noble preorders that arrived. The first is the final book in J.S. Dewes's The Divide series, The Relentless Legion. It's been so long since the second book released, so I'm not sure how this one will hit. I do know it'll probably be a while before I get to it. I haven't been very drawn to epic sci-fi at the moment. My copy of The Traitor Queen paperback edition arrived today as well. I actually canceled the other traditionally-published reissue paperbacks of this series because I bought the Arcane set today. I wish I could have canceled this, but it had already shipped by the time I decided to buy the Arcane set. At least it wasn't expensive.
Next is my FairyLoot Romantasy November book, A Fire in the Sky by Sophie Jordan. While I loved Sophie Jordan's Firelight trilogy back in the day, I wasn't sold on her writing a "prequel" book set in the same world. But, when FairyLoot announced they were doing an edition, I decided to give it a try. The cover redesign is a bit underwhelming, but the naked book looks great! It's orange and scaly!
Okay, so these books were extremely difficult to photograph. The glare! Ugh! These are actually the reverse dustjackets for The Bookish Box editions of the Daevabad trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty. Unfortunately, they don't have the titles on them, but this artwork is very cool and the foiling is nice. I was wondering why I bought them when I saw the original covers in person, and then the reverse dustjackets answered that question for me.
And lastly, I have a bunch of stuff I shouldn't have ordered but did anyway. Scorched was a B&N preorder that just arrived today. This is kind of the same situation as The Traitor Queen. JLA announced a hardcover version that will be sold in her shop, so I should've canceled the paperback. It was just too late by then. It had already shipped, and I don't have a B&N within 60 miles of me. The other two books were from Pango and Mercari. I'd kept an eye on the A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire FairyLoot edition that had been on sale for a few months because I have extras of the other two in the series, so I thought, if this copy gets below $19, I'll buy it. (Mercari's fees are ridiculous, otherwise I would have bought it earlier.) The copy is a bit damaged on the back few pages, but that's why I got it so cheap. A Light in the Flame was the Pango buy, and it was just a cheapish copy I needed for my many dustjacket sets. However, I should have held off. I've spent waaaaay too much money on books this month. Like BEYOND what I've ever spent before. I will be selling some special edition sets to make up for my financial irresponsibility.
Well, that's all for me. What books have
you bought/received lately?
Oh nice! Yeah, it hurts the wallet when the preorders all start coming at once. Bummer that B&N is so far away from you, as I was going to say just return the preorder, even if it's for store credit, more money for books for later! But yeah, that's a drive. I think that's maybe around the distance the only Books a Million near me is as well. So I always have to think real hard about buying books from them because the drive usually isn't worth it.
ReplyDeleteHope you enjoy all of your lovely new reads and collectors' editions! I just read the first duology by Broadbent and really liked it. I passed on the special editions as the time as I hadn't read them yet and I try only to do that when I've read them or am realllllllly blown away by the covers! These were really pretty but at the time I just wasn't sure if I would like it. I don't have regrets per se, but they are really lovely! Hope you enjoy all of the new reads!
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