Stacking the Shelves: The Actual eBooks 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.

Work is getting better, so I think in the next week or so, I may actually be able to get back to regular blogging. And by regular, I mean posting two times a week versus just once. I do have some reviews coming up, and I still haven't done a lot of my wrap-up posts from 2025. Yikes. Is it too late to share those? Other than work, I've mostly been watching TV and reading. I've been lazy, but it's just because my job has me too stressed out to do much other than veg out.

As for the books I received this week, I have one lone physical copy. My Barnes & Noble preorder of Mother of Death and Dawn by Carissa Broadbent arrived. I can now binge read the trilogy. While these covers are decent, I'm hoping FairyLoot does a nice special edition set. I don't know if I'd keep these versions or not if I did get a special set. I guess it depends on how great the other versions are and how much I like the actual story. 

 

 

 

I have ebooks to share this week. I feel like it's been a month or so since I've had actual ebooks in a haul post, simply because I'm trying to read down my TBR. It's working, but I'm also bringing in so many physical books that the dent just stays the same size every time. I received two NetGalley ARCs for review. Those include Dhampira by Amy Pennza and A Viper Among Kings by Sydney Olivia. I also bought Tempest of Wrath and Vengeance by Melissa K. Roehrich on Kindle. I had points to reduce the price a bit, because otherwise, this was $16 on Nook and Kindle. Yikes! I remember when companies had to send out settlements for high ebook prices. Those were the goold ol' days. Ha.

 

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

Stacking the Shelves: The Beautiful Books 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.

One day, I will post more than just Stacking the Shelves. I feel like that's all I've done lately. My job has just required a lot of time on a screen, and I can't make myself stare at it more to write posts. Hopefully, things slow down soon and it's not such a chore to be on my computer. But, other than that, this week has been pretty quiet. I did buy way too many books yesterday. Like, multiple books worth $$$, so I'm in timeout for the minute.

As for the actual books I received this week, I have a few. One of which is my February FairyLoot Romantasy book, which is Half City by Kate Golden. I'm so excited for this one. Not only is it probably my favorite FairyLoot sub box edition that they've done in a while, but it also sounds like a great book. It has Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Supernatural vibes, apparently, and that's all I need. I can't decide, though, if I want to read it now or wait until all the books are out to binge the entire series. Ugh. Decisions... 

 

 

 

I also received a couple of other preorders from book boxes, including another FairyLoot edition. My FairyLoot edition of Dire Bound by Sable Sorenson arrived. It's very pretty. I now have like three editions of this book, or I will, once my US version is replaced by Barnes & Noble. I can't keep them all, but I will be keeping this one. My preorder of Lilac Library's Quicksilver edition by Callie Hart also came in. While I do like the cover for this one, the under the dust jacket isn't as pretty, though it's still better than whatever the heck the publishers decided to do for the regular hardback editions. The order also came with an art print that got a bit beat up in transit. It's still cute, though.

 

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

Stacking the Shelves: The Not Keeping 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'm so ready for the weekend. I have a bunch of errands I should be doing, but I think I'm probably going to end up just lazing around all day Saturday. We shall see... As for life overall, it's been hectic. I need many naps. Work is haunting me even when I'm not there, and I hate that. I need a vacation ASAP.

So technically I have books to haul this week, but they're going to be leaving very soon. Why? Because they're both damaged. You can see where Restless Stars by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti is ripped at the corner. It's a big book and Barnes & Noble didn't pack it very well. My Dire Bound edition also came from them with a dented corner. It's hard to see since it's in the shadowy part of the pic. So, both have to be returned and then I'll be sent a replacement. I just have to hope that the replacements aren't as damaged as the originals.

 

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

February Wrap-Up & March TBR

February has not been a good month overall. Work was insane, my motivation to do anything but turn my brain off was nonexistent, and the world was and is on fire. But, we take it day by day, I guess. I'm getting back into my routine now that some major February tasks are complete, so I'm excited to start fresh and maybe get some of that spring cleaning done soon.

In this wrap-up, I’ll list the books I read, the books I reviewed, the books I bought/received, and my TBR for next month. Now, let’s get this bookish party started!

Books Read in February

Cruel is the Light: 3 stars

Carving Shadows into Gold: 3.5 stars

A Curse Carved in Bone: 3 stars 

Rabid: 3.5 stars

Wrath of the Dragons: 4 stars

A Marvellous Light: reread

I only read six books in February. February is a short month, so I think that's okay, but I know the reason I wasn't reading as much also correlated with how stressful work was, so that's kind of disappointing. I will say that four of the six books were books I needed to get off of my physical TBR, so that was great. Those included Cruel is the Light by Sophie Clark, A Curse Carved in Bone by Danielle L. Jensen, Rabid by Ivy Asher and Raven Kennedy, and Wrath of the Dragons by Olivia Rose Darling. The only ebook I read was Carving Shadows into Gold by Brigid Kemmerer which was a Libby ebook read. The sixth and final book I read was actually a reread. That was A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske. I needed to reread book one so I could go into books two and three, which I'm doing right now.

Books Bought/Received in February

I didn't think this month was a very expensive one. Boy was I wrong. I have to slow down in March. I have to. In total for February, I purchased 29 books and received five titles from preorders that I'd already paid for in previous months.

The five books I received included the FairyLoot editions of Silver Elite by Dani Francis and Bonds of Hercules by Jasmine Mas. They also included the Inked Pages editions of books three and four in the Flesh & Fire series by Jennifer L. Armentrout, and a copy of Fahrenheit 451 I got from my local used bookstore via store credit.

Now, for what I bought in February. I only received 16 of the 29 books I purchased. That includes mostly books I ordered/preordered from Barnes & Noble: Blood and Chocolate, Quicksilver, Shadows so Cruel, Feathers so Vicious, Breaking Dawn, Nocticadia, Crown of War and Shadow, Of Blood and Fire, Red Winter, and Assistant to the Villain. I also bought used copies of A Reaper at the Gates (Pango) and the Fallen series by Lauren Kate (Mercari). My Fallen set is kind of eh, so I thought I'd see if someone had a good set for me to replace my copies with.

 As for the remaining 13 books, they include my February FairyLoot subs and two other sequel special editions, my Arcane set of the Flesh & Fire series, the Bookish Box edition of Visions of Flesh and Fire, the Acrylipics 3D editions of books 3-4 of the FBAA series, and the first two books in the FBAA series from Ink Pages.

Currently Obsessed With

I've still been watching Grey's Anatomy on Netflix. I'm on season four, I think. It's getting a little old, so I think I'm going to take a mini break soon and come back to it later. It's too much relationship drama to get through all at once. I also finished up A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms on HBOMax and watched the last season of Stranger Things. It was a bittersweet ending. The show got a little too far-fetched in season five, but there were some amazing scenes, like the Wheeler's attack, the pie scene, and the very end. I'm glad it's over though.

March TBR

Oh, would you look at that. Once again, my TBR has barely changed. Sigh. I'm still reading The Wren in the Holly Library by K.A. Linde. I'm also finally reading Freya Marske's A Restless Truth as well as Lore by Alexandra Bracken, Sparking Fire Out of Fate by Brigid Kemmerer (Libby), and The Courting of Bristol Keats by Mary E. Pearson. I very much still need to finish Our Rogue Fates by Sarah Marsh and start To Cage a Wild Bird by Brooke Fast and Blood Bound by Ellis Hunter. Those three are all NetGalley eARCs.

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Okay, well, that's the month of February, plus some March sneak peeks, all wrapped up into one post. Do you have a wrap-up post for last month? If so, share in the comments!

Stacking the Shelves: The Late Again 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 was not in town this past weekend, or at least, not the half of the weekend that I normally use to write up my StS posts, so this is going to be late. I'd wait until Saturday to post it all, but, well, I just don't wan to. I want all these books I got in February to go to their respective final shelf destinations and off of my overcrowded living room shelves. Ha ha.

This week's haul is fairly substantial. I went to my local used bookstore and used store credit to get Fahrenheit 451, which I've been wanting a copy of for a while. Then, I also went to a newly-opened local bookstore and bought Assistant to the Villain by Hanna Nicole Maehrer. My FairyLoot preorder of Bonds of Hercules by Jasmine Mas came in as well, along with my Barnes & Noble preorder of The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan. I also finally purchased a matching copy of A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir off of Pango. I've been procrastinating on this. I was super close to buying the new FairyLoot editions of this set, but then I realized that I actually like the first redesigned covers that Penguin did, so I figured I'd stick with those. Maybe I'll regret that one day once I actually read the series, but for now, I think I'm okay with what I have.

 

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