Well, it's been another week of snow and ice and cold and ick. Yuck. I was just getting back into the groove of being a productive human being again, and now, I don't want to leave my blanket nest. But, I am getting a new couch set today, so that's exciting. And because of that, I've had to clean things I've been putting off, like sweeping under my old couch. Lol.
But, on to this week's haul. First up, I have the FairyLoot Romantasy book for January, The Starlight Heir by Amalie Howard. I abhor this cover and the entire design overall. It's such an ugly looking special edition. And the edges look fuzzy and dull. I was honestly really disappointed in FairyLoot for this one. I'll read the book to see if I like it, but I definitely won't be buying any sequel versions they make.
And next, I have the second set of Study books by Maria V. Snyder: Shadow Study, Night Study, and Dawn Study. I haven't read the first three books in this series yet, but I have a feeling it'll be a decent read. Therefore, I splurged on the FairyLoot editions. Is that a surprise to anyone? I doubt it. I've splurged a lot lately. I need to actually figure out how to not splurge.
And lastly, I have the ebooks. I downloaded both of these from Kindle Unlimited. I recently finished the first book in the Beasts of the Briar series by Elizabeth Helen, and I want to read book two, Woven by Gold. However, I'm debating on waiting until the FairyLoot editions release or even just until closer to the release date of book five. I'm not sure I can wait that long, though. Bonded by Thorns, book one, was the first book I'd read in a while that I devoured in just two days. It would've been only one day if I had started it on a weekend. The other book I downloaded was Of Sky & Embers by Claire Butler. It's the sequel to a book I read last year. I'm going to try to get to this one soon so I can remember at least some of the events from book one.
Well, that's all for me. What books have
you bought/received lately?
I feel indifferent towards FL's Howard book. I mean from your picture it doesn't look terrible, but it does feel a little...plain? And ooh the FL Study books! I LOOOOOVE this series! Maria was one of my first "adult" fantasy authors I read when the books originally came out! If you enjoy them I highly recommend her other two fantasy series, the Glass trilogy, which follows a character you meet in Magic Study from the first trilogy set and then there's her trilogy that took place outside of the Study world but almost feels like it could still be apart of it, it just explored different types of magic and that was her Healer trilogy! Your ebooks are new to me ones but I am trying to remember now if my sister mentioned the Helen one as it's sounding vaguely familiar...but then we were looking at all sorts of fantasy books today that a lot of them are blurring now! Lol.
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I read the first Healer book years ago. I bought a UK copy, but I never got the sequels. I hope FL does a matching set so I can read them
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