Stacking the Shelves: The French-Serbian Edition

 "Stacking the Shelves" is a weekly haul meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews and Reading Reality. It allows book buyers to share their accumulation of books with the online book-loving community.

Well, the first week of February has come and gone. We're so close to spring. I can't wait for the warmth and sunshine. But I'm not looking forward to the bugs and potential allergies. This week has been pretty chill. I'm finally getting some book-organizing-related tasks completed. I've cleared out two bins of books. Now, I only have two left. I just have to find space for them on my shelves, which takes time. But, I'll make significant progress this weekend, since next weekend I'm getting furniture delivered, and I want my house to look decent when it arrives. That means no books stacked on kitchen counters or in bins on my floor.

 

Now, on to this week's haul. First up, I have books two through four of the Blood and Ash series. These are the Serbian editions, though. I had to have a fellow FBAA collector help me out for these, as the website wouldn't let me check out with my payment info. And thankfully, these ones made it to my house no problem, unlike when I bought the first book and it traveled back and forth across the Atlantic a couple of times over a solid three-month period. 

 

 

 

And next, I have the French part of the haul. The collector's edition hardcover of A Soul of Ash and Blood released this month. And it only took FNAC three days to deliver it to me. They're always so incredibly fast. I honestly don't understand how they can be so fast while Barnes & Noble is so freakin' slow. I just want my preorder less than five days after it releases. Why is that so hard?

 

 

 

Next up, I have the FairyLoot edition of Immortal by Sue Lynn Tan. This was the January Adult book of the month, I believe. It's pretty, but I think I prefer the Waterstones design, as it matches the aesthetic of her other UK covers and the previous FairyLoot designs a bit more. I'll have to read this one to decide if I'd rather have the Waterstones copy. It's sold out, so it'll be a secondhand buy, if I do. 

 

And here we have an order I'd been debating making for a while now. It's L.J. Andrews's Ever King series, which recently got picked up by a U.S. publisher right before the fourth book releases. I hate that, especially because I really liked the original indie cover designs. Something about them is just very calming and cool. The new designs look a little amateurish. They're basically just solid background recolorings in garishly bright colors. I have the Arcane set for the first two books, which was kind of meh, so I decided to just splurge and buy the indie paperbacks to get signed at ApollyCon, even though I know I won't ever have a full matching set. Oh, and I got these online from Walmart, since I had a gift card.

 

 

This is the last of the physical copies. As you can see, I've had a rough time trying to obtain a decent copy of Code Name Cassandra by Meg Cabot. My third copy arrived today from B&N. It looks okay when compared to the second copy that arrived, which came in a mailer with sticky insides that ripped off sections of the cover. The back of the third copy, the replacement, was ripped off a bit too. I seriously need them to stop using those freaking mailers, but at least it's not the front. The first copy I got was from Amazon, and it just looked like it was used copy, not brand new. So yeah, that was not a fun time. But, I think I only have one more copy to obtain in the series, Safe House. I have it in the wrong size right now, and it's very difficult to find it in the mass market paperback edition in decent condition. Ugh.

 

Excuse the terrible photo quality for these, but they arrived after I'd already prepped my haul post. I guess my packages now arrive mid-day versus late at night. I don't understand the post office. They seem to just make up their routes willy-nilly every couple of weeks. But anyway, my preorder of TJ Klune's The Bones Beneath My Skin B&N edition arrived as well as two books I ordered from B&N to replace copies I had sold. Those are Moonlight and Dark of the Moon by Rachel Hawthorne. I also bought a copy of the U.S. Constitution because, with how things are going right now, I figured it'd be handy to have.

And lastly, I have the ebooks. I downloaded a Kindle copy of Vela Roth's Blood Tribute because it was free, and then I randomly decided to download a Kindle Unlimited copy of Hailey Turner's Resurrection Reprise. I started reading it, and I'm not entirely sure why, as it's a spinoff book from another long series that I started and don't really think I'll ever finish. I just wanted a good vampire MM story. However, I got about 15% into this one, and I don't think I'll like it. I'm not really a fan of the detective urban fantasy stories that focus too much on the case and not enough on the romance. 

Well, that's all for me. What books have you bought/received lately?