Stacking the Shelves: The Bug & Box Cutter 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.

You ever have the urge to quit your job and run away from everything because you feel like you're doing everything wrong? Well, that's me. I wish the economy wasn't so awful. I might have tried a fresh start if we lived in normal times. Lol. But, for now, I'll just talk about books. They're a lot nicer than spreadsheets and reports. I also have too many of them in this haul. I really need to go on a ban soon.

As for the books I received, up first is the last book I acquired this week. It's Kings of Lockdown by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti. This is one of their luxe author editions. It's also book two in the series and book one hasn't shipped out yet. Very weird. I was a little confused when I opened to find the second book instead of the first. But book one does have a tracking number, so at some point it should be delivered. Right? Ugh.

 

 

 

I finally received some very pretty book mail from FairyLoot. My preorders of Slaying the Vampire Conqueror by Carissa Broadbent and Fallen Stars by Imani Erriu both came in. I also received my Barnes & Noble preorder of Danielle L. Jensen's The Traitor Queen in hardcover. I have like six different editions of this series, none of which are complete collections. I really need to catch up on the series and decide which set I want to keep.

 

 

 

And more Barnes & Noble preorders. These two books, Starside by Alex Aster and This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews, were actually last-minute additions to the recent B&N 25% off preorder sale. I was just going to try to find them out in the wild, but I figured it's cheaper if I just use the discount code. The delivery person set these boxes in front of my front door and a bug got on them. I found that out as I was opening them in my kitchen. Super fun. It wasn't a big bug, but it was fast, and I don't know where it went. This will haunt me 'til the day I die.

 

And my final contribution to the haul are three paperbacks: Hunt the Villain by Rina Kent, Dream of You by Jennifer L. Armentrout, and Lightguard by Hayley Turner. All of these were B&N preorders as well. You can't see it, but Dream of You obtained a battle wound when I opened it. The warehouse shipped it in a paper bag type of mailer. It had like zero support whatsoever. It also had bits of glue in it that got stuck to the cover of my book. I had to use a box cutter to carefully cut it away, and, unfortunately, I wasn't as careful as I should have been with my first slice. It scratched right above the You. Darn. I really hate when companies/resellers ship books in ridiculous packaging.

 

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