Ugh! I haven't posted my ApollyCon wrap-ups yet! I'm sorry! I'm waiting on my friend to send me the photos first. But, truthfully, I've just been really lazy. I'm also on a work deadline, so coming home to type more stuff isn't super fun after sitting on the computer all day. I'll get to it, though. It's coming. I swear. Other than work, life has been pretty much the same. I've bought way too many books. I've slept. I've worked out. I've eaten. Rinse and repeat.
For this week's haul, I have too much. Once again. During Barnes & Noble's 25% off preorder sale, I ordered the Lightlark series boxset, not realizing it was releasing at the end of April, after I'd already spent oh-so-much money on ApollyCon and the bajillion other things that were for sale that month. So, even though I wasn't ready to spend the money, I have them now. I also received my first Illumicrate subscription book. April's book was The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson, which I've already read and reviewed. I'm not necessarily in love with Illumicrate's edition for this one, but it's not terrible. I was just hoping for something similar to their Amelie Wen Zhao set. I'm not sure if I'll buy the sequels to this one via Illumicrate, either. It'll depend on the design/price, I guess, since Illumicrate doesn't use a US distributor for their sequels.
I also purchased the Dutch edition of Born of Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout. It's the limited first-print run, so it has the pretty stenciled edges. It's also a brick of a book, if you can't tell. Speaking of brick books, apparently The Primal of Blood and Bone is going to be longer than BOBAA! Woohoo! I'm also excited it won't be the last Poppy book, as I learned at ApollyCon but was only recently announced to the general public. I knew there was no way JLA could wrap everything up in one book, especially if she had a hard time doing it for the Flesh & Fire series.
Next up, I have a bit of an impulse purchase, but not really. Crazily enough, I was looking at all of Ariana Nash's books that I've read, and I started thinking about buying them. Lo and behold, like a few days later, she says that the covers for the first three books in the Blackrose Brotherhood series are going out of print. The new covers aren't my cup of tea, so I immediately ordered the three older ones from Amazon, along with an extra A Shadow in the Ember hardback that arrived damaged and I have to return. Sigh. But yeah, now I have these three. I still have like 20 more Ariana books to buy, though. Eeek.
And lastly, I have the ebooks. Both are Kindle Unlimited copies. I downloaded the third book in the Kingdom of Lies series by Stacia Stark, A Crown This Cold and Heavy. I'd like to read this one right now, but I have an e-ARC I'm reading at the moment that I'd like to complete a review for soon. I also downloaded Steal the Wind by Jocelynn Drake, which I think I've borrowed from KU before and just didn't get to it at the time, I'm hoping to try again, though.
Well, that's all for me. What books have
you bought/received lately?
Oooh nice pretties! I am sooo behind on the FBAA series it's crazy! I love that they are long but I hate that I read so slow and it takes me over a week to read one! It then slows down my reading challenge for the year. I usually try to wait until summer for one of them that way I am over halfway through on my year end goal! Lol. I think this year I go back to the Fire and Flesh series!
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All books take me a week to finish nowadays, so I've just settled on a lower reading goal. I need to quit my job so I can read more. 😄
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