Stacking the Shelves: The Rough Week 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.

I know I said I'd be back to some semi-regular posting, but life got a bit crazy the past couple of weeks. Nothing major, but I needed a breather. The good news is, I managed to do some household cleaning after putting it off for too long. Hurrah! There's still some stuff left to do, and I always need to organize and dust shelves, but I was very happy to get as much done as I could during that three-day weekend. I need another one pronto to have more productivity time. Please and thank you.

As for books I got this week, there were a couple. My Barnes & Noble preorder of Kiss the Villain by Rina Kent was sent to my parents' house, so they dropped it off over the weekend. I also received this beautiful edition of Fall of Ruin and Wrath by Jennifer L. Armentrout from the Bad Women Books Romantasy subscription. It's the first book in their sub, so it just came with the dust jacket and sprayed/stenciled edges. I think future books in the sub will have more customizations, though.. 

 

 

Up next, I have my Dirty Diction Designs dust jacket of Born of Blood and Ash, also by JLA. I've already put this on my extra BOBAA copy, but I thought I'd give you all the chance to see the art in its entirety. It's very pretty. I keep hoping DDD will do a set for the Blood & Ash series too, but it seems like that's not happening anytime soon. Darn. Oh well, I guess I don't need more copies anyway. I already have like a dozen of each book. Ha ha. 

Here, I have the Waterstones edition of Direbound by Sable Sorensen. I've heard amazing things about this book, so I knew I wanted a copy. Since the US version wasn't that exciting, I decided to get the Waterstones one. It has a pretty landscape on the edges and a reversible dust jacket. I ended up getting the berry-colored hardcover too, which was a nice surprise, as I did not want the red version. Of the four options, pink, berry, and blue were much preferred, so I'm happy with what I got. I also received my FairyLoot August Adult sub book, Katabasis by R.F. Kaung. I've only read the first two books in The Poppy War series by R.F. Kuang, but I do want to try to read the other books I have by her at some point. I just feel like her books get kind of dark, so I need to be in a happier place first. Honestly, the world needs to be in a happier place first before I attempt it. 

 

NAs for ebooks, there are two this week, both of which are Kindle Unlimited downloads. The first is Playing Dirty by C.E. Ricci. It's a standalone set in a MM sports romance interconnected world. I've read most of C.E. Ricci's books. In fact, there may only be two I haven't read, so I knew I had to pick up this one. I'm at a third of the way through right now. I also downloaded Covenant by Cora Rose and Lark Taylor. I was reading this for a while, but I put it down, and I don't know if I'll get back to it. It took a turn I wasn't interested in, so we shall see.

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