Stacking the Shelves: The First Arcane Society Box 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.

So I had a bit of a disaster last week and didn't end up posting the StS I had already drafted. Why? Well, the last package I received caused some drama. I'll tell you about it below. Right now, I'm gonna recap the last two weeks. April is going by so fast. It's crazy. Only 1.5 more weeks until ApollyCon, and I am 100% not ready. All I did over the past two weekends was organize books, put up fan art, and build bookshelves, but it seems like everything has zoomed by. I also visited my parents one Monday evening as well, but that's not really about books. Ha ha.

As for books, I had a couple of preorders come in this week. The first was the December/January Arcane Society subscription box. It's my first one. And while I'm so happy to be off the waitlist, I'm not super excited about the recent choices, so I've skipped the last two renewals. I hope they have better selections in June. But my first box came with Flames of Chaos and Ashes of Chaos by Amelia Hutchins. They're very pretty. I remember wanting to read this series a couple of years ago, so it's cool I get the chance now. I honestly like the way Arcane picks already-published books for their boxes. It makes it easier to decide which ones I want.

The next preorder to come in was my Illumicrate copies of Rin Chupeco's Reaper duology. These books were my favorite reads of 2023, so I was super happy when Illumicrate announced they were doing special editions. I'm still waiting on Goldsboro to announce they're doing the second book, though. I need a matching version of the first book. I also purchased Zodiac Academy: The Reckoning on Mercari for pretty cheap. I'm slowly going to collect the ZA books from secondhand sellers. I only have seven books to go.

 

 

And next, I have my Barnes & Noble purchase. The one that caused oh-so-much drama. I was waiting to get this package last Friday, and my mail doesn't typically arrive until around 5 p.m.. Well, I think I ended up taking a nap or something, and the package sat outside my door for a bit. Normally, that wouldn't be a problem, but I guess the ants that used to live outside my door decided it was time to return. So, I unknowingly brought a B&N box in my house that had very small ants on it. Now, I don't actually think there were that many. Maybe five or six total. However, I freaked out. I did not want ants crawling all over my books or my furniture. So I sprayed way too much bug spray in my living room and pretty much fumigated the entire thing, which caused me to have to isolate myself in my bedroom for pretty much the whole weekend. It was ridiculous. I can also still slightly smell the spray as I'm sitting in my living room now. Probably killing brain cells as I type. Ugh. I've opened my window, turned on a fan, and even used cleaning products on areas I sprayed, but there's still a slight after-smell. It's insane. Anyway, I put the books in plastic Ziploc bags to quarantine them, just in case there were any ants inside their pages. Thankfully there weren't. The reason I had to do that is because the box B&N shipped these things in was absolutely terrible! The books weren't stacked on top of each other in a normal, sturdy box. Instead they were laying double side-by-side. Two on top, two on bottom. And one of the books I ordered ended up getting completely wrecked. The replacement should be here for next week's StS. Oh, and the box itself had huge slits on the corners; hence the reason the ants could crawl inside.

 

But anyway, let's talk about the actual books, shall we? I want to move away from that traumatizing experience... I needed to make a preorder for a special edition that I was worried was going to go out of stock as well as buy a book by an ApollyCon author before I left later this month, so I ordered some stuff. The ApollyCon book is K.J. Sutton's Fortuna Sworn, and the other two are Sire and Broken by Jex Lane (Sire still to come). I also ordered a paperback copy of Visions of Flesh and Blood for my mother, but it doesn't count. It's not going on my shelves. Ha ha.

 

Moving on to this week's haul, I have an order I made from Etsy for a set of A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire overlays. It's from a Spanish shop, Espada de Valkiria. I made a whim purchase for these. I'm not an overlay person. In fact, I wish people would just sell them as prints, but the artwork on a couple of these are so pretty that I had to have them. The shop also sent a Poppy x Cas magnetic bookmark and a couple of stickers from Crescent City and Fourth Wing.

 

And finally for the physical books, I have a special edition set from JLA herself. This is the Wicked trilogy set she sold in her JLA Shop. Now, they weren't exactly what I was hoping for when JLA hinted she'd be doing special editions of this series, but they're still pretty. I'm just not a huge teal/green fan when it comes to books. I like my silvers, purples, blues, golds, and blacks. But, again, these are still fancy enough to satisfy the book dragon in me.

 

And lastly, I have the ebook portion of the haul. There's only one, and it was a cheapy on Nook. Dark Heir by C.S. Pacat was $2.99 yesterday, so I bought it super fast, especially since the wait time for the Libby copy is like 20+ weeks. That's crazy. I read book one Dark Rise, when it came out a couple of years ago, and it was okay. I was a tad disappointed, but still intrigued enough to possibly read the second book. However, I knew I didn't want to buy it until I knew if I liked the series. No sense in wasting more money. So, this is my chance to find out if I need to buy a hardcover. 

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

March Wrap-Up & April TBR

Sigh. Well, the good news is March wasn't any worse than February reading-wise. The bad news is is that it wasn't much better, either. Maybe one day I'll get out of this slump. Honestly, though, I truly think it is because of the blah books being published right now. Everything sounds the same. I think this slump cycle happens to readers who have read too much and just want something different. But, other than not reading, I've done the same ol' things each day. The only new things I did was spend a bunch of money on new bookcases. Teehee.

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 March

A Ferry of Bones & Gold: 3.5 stars

Shadow's Seduction: reread

We Could Be So Good: 4 stars

I read three books in March. And, sadly, one was a reread, so it doesn't really count towards any big goals of reading TBR books. A Ferry of Bones & Gold by Hailey Turner was my first read of the month. I got it through Kindle Unlimited. It was decent, but I don't think I'm gonna continue with the series any time soon. To help me with the slump and to help me not fall behind on my reading goal, I reread Shadow's Seduction by Kresley Cole. I reread this book once every year or two. I love it so much. I always wish it was a full-length book, and not just 200 pages. And then, the night before the month ended, I managed to finish We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian, which was a cute historical MM romance. I actually read a physical ARC I got from last year's ApollyCon, so this counted towards reading my physical TBR! Woohoo!

Books Bought/Received in March

Okay, so this month I let myself get a bit carried away. I bought a total of 15 books this month and received 13. I just spent way too much money.

As for the 13 books I received, a majority of them were preorders. Those nine preorders were also all physical copies. They included the Bookish Box orders The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas A Soul of Ash and Blood and Fall of Ruin and Wrath by Jennifer L. Armentrout; the FairyLoot edition of The Atlas Complex by Olivie Blake; the three replacement Lux books from Books for Days Crate; Fate Breaker by Victoria Aveyard from Barnes & Noble; and the UK edition of Jay Kristoff's Empire of the Damned from Blackwells. I got four ebooks this month. Two were NetGalley eARCs: Dragon Rider by Taran Matharu and The Sins on Their Bones by Laura A. Samotin. And the other two were freebies: Twisted Pretty Things by Ariana Nash on Kindle and Priest by Sierra Simone on Nook.

I paid for 15 books in March. Yikes.  Most of them are preorders, so I won't see them until next month or later. Actually, zero of the books I bought in March arrived to me in the month of March. How odd. But anyway, I bought the Wicked trilogy special editions from the JLA Shop, the Fire and Flesh series 1-3 through BB, The Crowns of Nyaxia duology from FairyLoot, and the monthly adult FairyLoot book, A Feather So Black by Lyra Selene. For ApollyCon, I also preordered Salt Kiss by Sierra Simone and Blood Mercy by Vela Roth. Towards the very end of the month, I made two online orders. One with Mercari for the third book in the Zodiac Academy series, and the other with B&N for the last two currently-released books in Jex Lane's Beautiful Monsters series and Fortuna Sworn by K.J. Sutton, a 2024 ApollyCon author.

Currently Obsessed With

Once again, I haven't been watching a lot of stuff lately. I did start a new rewatch show though, so yay for progress.

I pretty much finished my 999th rewatch of The Office, so, to occupy my brain while I eat and do mindless tasks, I've been putting Everybody Hates Chris on. It was a show I used to watch reruns of on Nick at Nite as a kid getting ready to go to sleep. Other than that, I did watch Brokeback Mountain for the first time. The movie was not what I expected. I guess it was groundbreaking for its time, but I feel like it was too short to really make me like the two male leads together. Or maybe they were supposed to be that toxic. Idk.

April TBR

I have so many books that I'm in the middle of/just started right now. I've been trying to get out of my reading slump, so I've been picking up all kinds of things to try to get out of it over the past couple of months. Well, now I'm forcing myself to finish those books. I don't want to put them down and never read them, as they are actually pretty good. That includes Charm by Tracy Wolff, The Last Sun by K.D. Edwards, and The Curse of Saints by Kate Dramis. We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian is pictured because I didn't think I'd finish it before the end of the month, but I did. So yay! I'd also like to finish Visions of Flesh and Blood, the FBAA compendium book. It's basically just a textbook of the FBAA world, so it's not something I need to rush to get through. I also need to read two NetGalley ARCs: The Sins on Their Bones by Laura R. Samotin and Dragon Rider by Taran Matharu. Oh, and the last Zodiac Academy book releases later this month, so that's 100% a must-read.

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

Review: Court of Wanderers by Rin Chupeco

Court of Wanderers

Rin Chupeco

(Reaper #2)

Publication Date: April 2, 2024

Hardcover, 448 pages, S&S/Saga Press

Genres: Adult, LGBTQ+/Polyamory, Fantasy

Goodreads

 

Remy Pendergast and his royal vampire companions return to face an enemy that is terrifyingly close to home in Rin Chupeco’s queer, bloody Gothic epic fantasy series for fans of Samantha Shannon’s The Priory of the Orange Tree and the adult animated series Castlevania.

 

Remy Pendergast, the vampire hunter, and his unexpected companions, Lord Zidan Malekh and Lady Xiaodan Song, are on the road through the kingdom of Aluria again after a hard-won first battle against the formidable Night Empress, who threatens to undo a fragile peace between humans and vampires. Xiaodan, severely injured, has lost her powers to vanquish the enemy’s new super breed of vampire, but if the trio can make it to Fata Morgana, the seat of Malehk’s court—dubbed “the Court of Wanderers”—there is hope of nursing her and bringing them back.

 

En-route to the Third Court, Remy crosses paths with his father, the arrogant, oftentimes cruel Lord of Valenbonne. He also begins to suffer strange dreams of the Night Empress, whom he has long suspected to be Ligaya Pendergast, his own mother. As his family history unfolds during these episodes, which are too realistic to be coincidence, he realizes that she is no ordinary vampire—and that he may end up having to choose between the respective legacies of his parents.

 

 Posing as Malek and Xiaodan’s human familiar, Remy contends with Aluria’s intimidating vampire courts and a series of gruesome murders with their help—and more, as the three navigate their relationship. But those feelings and even their extraordinary collective strength will be put to the test as each of them unleashes new powers in combat at what may be proven to be the ultimate cost.

My Review

Court of Wanderers was going to be one of my most anticipated books of 2024, but I got to read an ARC in October!!! And since this is only a duology, I was able to finish this amazing series in less than one year! It's such a bittersweet moment, and I'm going to miss Remy, Zidan, and Xiaodan. Ugh. That's the sad part about duologies and bingeing series, the magic is over too quickly. But, these books have captured my vampire-loving, fantasy-obsessed heart, so a reread may come in the very near future.

The three main characters are all back for this sequel, and they're trying to navigate their new relationship while dealing with bad vampires and undead monsters. Remy, as always, is a cinnamon roll in knight form, and I LOVE that his is the only POV we get. Too often authors use dual POV and it takes away from the mystery of the other characters, especially when it comes to romantic tension. Don't get me wrong, this isn't a romance. It's a fantasy similar in vibes to The Witcher, Empire of the Vampire, and even Van Helsing, the Hugh Jackman gothic paranormal film (not the original Dracula character). But all of those also have some interesting romances within the overarching storyline, and there's plenty of action, politics, and scheming to keep everyone entertained.

As for our other two characters, Zidan and Xiaodan, they're trying to figure things out. Zidan with leadership thrust upon him, and Xiaodan with her unreliable powers. I just adore these three characters' dynamics. One kind-of human, two vampires, and a lot of trouble.

 With the plot, everything was so fast-paced, in a great way. I devoured it all. And even though I did forget a few details between reading book one and book two, it was very easy to get back into the world and story. It's a digestible fantasy. I will say that the ending was a little crazy and convoluted. Nothing terrible per se, but I would have preferred a little less chaos in that last 10%, or at least another chapter or two to settle things down after the craziness. There were also a few too many villain monologues, which made those last chapters a bit cheesy. Still loved the book, however.

All in all, I read Silver Under Nightfall in August of 2023 and got to read Court of Wanderers in late October, and now I feel like no other book will live up to this story. I want more! Ugh! Just give me domestic Remy, Zidan, and Xiaodan scenes, Rin Chupeco. Please! But anyway... Trust me, if you're a fan of The Witcher, Empire of the Vampre, Van Helsing, From Blood and Ash, or any other vampire paranormal story, this duology should be your next read.

*Note: I received a copy of this book to review via NetGalley. This in no way affected my opinion/review.

Stacking the Shelves: The BB ASOAAB 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.

It's been another quiet week. The only major thing I did that was out of the norm was visit my parents' house with my sister on a Monday night. We had dinner together. Life has just been eat, sleep, work out, work, and clean otherwise. Fun, fun.

 

As for books, I only got one this week. It's a good one, though. My Bookish Box preorder of A Soul of Ash and Blood finally arrived. I ordered this thing back in September. Bookish Box truly needs to get themselves together. I also received my last bookcase on Tuesday. It's not built yet, so I won't have any pics until later, but it is exciting to finally have it in my house. Now, I just need to find the time to put it together.

I got two ebooks this week. One was a NetGalley review ARC, and honestly, I'm a little irked. I requested Taran Matharu's Dragon Rider for review months ago, and the publisher just now approved it, when the book comes out in a month. I'm super grateful for every ARC I get, but there's no way I'm going to be able to read and review this soon with ApollyCon coming up along with major work deadlines. I always need time to get through my NetGalley ARCs. So, look for a review of this one in May. I also just downloaded a free Nook copy of Priest by Sierra Simone. I enjoyed some of her other books, so, even though I'm not a huge fan of priest romances, I thought I'd get this while it was zero dollars.

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

Stacking the Shelves: The Lux Replacement Editions

 "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.

Oops. It's been two weeks since I posted. That's crazy. Not because two weeks is long for me not to post, but because it feels like I just wrote a post two days ago. Time is really flying right now. It's been a fairly busy couple of weeks, which I'll talk about one of the reasons why down below, but I've been trying to get my life back on track when it comes to working out and cleaning/organizing around the house. It's definitely a work in progress. I've checked a couple of tasks off my list, though.

As for books, I received four this week. My FairyLoot The Atlas Complex copy arrived. Well, it was technically delivered to my parents' house, and then they brought it to me this past weekend. I really need to update my address for FairyLoot deliveries, but I'm waiting until after my trip to D.C. My replacement copies of three of the Lux series Books for Days Crate editions also came in. Two out of three of them came in perfect condition, but Obsidian has some small nicks in the naked hardback. I'm not going to try to get another replacement, but it is irritating. 

 

The big thing that happened this weekend, and why I was too exhausted to really post was these monstrosities. Yep, I ordered new bookcases. Two of them, with another on the way, though that one is for a separate room. I originally went to Menards and bought two smaller, similar shelves (4x2 cubbies vs. 4x4), but even though the box pictured black wood, the shelves were actually dark gray when I opened them. So, all of that work to get the boxes to my car and in my house by myself was for nothing. I immediately gave in and ordered the ones I'd really wanted online, and thankfully, AliExpress had a deal going on, so they weren't as expensive, but I still felt bad making the delivery driver handle the enormous packages. (I'm so sorry, UPS person!) I pretty much built most of these myself, with some help from my dad and mom at the end to get some screws in. Overall, I'm really proud of how it looks, and the best thing is, I have room for another one on the left side of my wall if I ever need more shelf space.

And now, it's time for the ebooks. Up first is the NetGalley e-ARC I received of The Sins on Their Bones by Lauara A. Samotin. It comes out in May, so I really need to get started on this one. With the reading slump I'm in, it'll take me a bit to get through it, even if the book is amazing. I also downloaded Twisted Pretty Things by Ariana Nash for free on Kindle.

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

Stacking the Shelves: The Shades of Red 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.

Once again, it's been a relatively quiet week. I visited my parents last weekend to eat some food and grab some books from my shelves in my room there, but that's about it. I also cleaned my place a little bit, but that's because a friend stopped by to drop off a couple of books that you'll get to see below.

Now, for the books. They're all pink or red, which I thought was funny. Wish they would've showed up in February. Ha ha. But anyway, the two Bookish Box orders that my friend dropped off include Fall of Ruin and Wrath by Jennifer L. Armentrout and The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas (reverse dustjacket on display). Because I was working at the time the sub box for BB went on sale, and I knew I wanted to sign up in time to get FORAW, I had my friend sub for me. And she was just now able to deliver them. My Barnes & Noble preorder of Fate Breaker by Victoria Aveyard also came in. I'd totally forgotten I preordered this one, but at least now I can binge the entire trilogy. And my Empire of the Damned by Jay Kristoff came too. I got the UK version from Blackwells since it's free delivery.

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

February Wrap-Up & March TBR

Another month down, and I read twice as many books as I did in January. Which, unfortunately isn't saying a lot. Ha ha. But as for the personal life, I just did the same ol', same ol'. I read a little, scrolled a lot, worked, worked out, and slept. Yay.

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

House of Flame and Shadow: 3 stars

A Fate Inked in Blood: 4 stars (my review)

I read two books in February. To be fair, one was an obnoxiously long book. House of Flame and Shadow had no reason to be over 800 pages. Honestly, at least 200 pages could have and should have been cut. And while I thought the third book was slightly better than the second one, I definitely put emphasis on slightly. I am just really disappointed in the direction the CC series has gone, and I'm not really excited about the next installment. I also read Danielle L. Jensen's new book, A Fate Inked in Blood, which I very much enjoyed.

Books Bought/Received in February

Okay, so this month I let myself get a bit carried away. I bought a total of 20 books this month and received 12. And boy, are a lot of the books I bought some expensive preorders.

As for the 12 books I received, a majority of them were preorders. The orders included House of Flame and Shadow, Gothikana by RuNyx, and five copies of Visions of Flesh and Blood (two BN editions, one regular hardcover edition, one Kindle edition, and one Nook edition). I also received my preorder of the Lux series from Imagine Books, but I had to send three copies back because they were slightly damaged, so I only got to keep Opal and Onyx right now. And my FairyLoot January book, The City of Stardust by Georgia Summers, was delivered to me in February, along with my February FairyLoot book, A Fate Inked in Blood. My Bookish Box edition of Between Despair and Hope finally arrived as well. All in all, I got ten physical books this month, and two ebooks. And thankfully, I've already read four of the books, so that's nice.

I paid for six of the 12 books that I received in February within the month of February. Those include the February FairyLoot book and all my VOFAB copies. Other than those, I had 12 other preorders, including five ApollyCon author preorders: A Kiss of Iron and Slaying the Shifter Prince by Clare Sager, Between Wrath and Mercy special author edition by Jess Wisecup, and Broken Bonds and The Crown of Oaths and Curses by J. Bree. I also had one Blackwell's order, the UK edition of Empire of the Damned, which arrived in March. As for special editions, I preordered the Chest of Fandoms German edition of A Soul of Ash and Blood, the Illumicrate editions of the Silver Under Nightfall duology, the FairyLoot edition of The Atlas Complex, and the Bookish Box editions of the Daevabad trilogy. And I have a BN preorder for Fate Breaker by Victoria Aveyard that I completely forgot about until just now.

Currently Obsessed With

I haven't been watching a lot of stuff lately. I've mostly been rewatching The Office reruns. As per usual.

Other than The Office reruns, I've been watching a lot of TikTok. And honestly, I think that's it. It's still the Taylor Swift x Travis Kelce videos. They're cute. I can't help it. It's like a real-life romcom.

March TBR

I don't have any must-reads, just a couple of things I'd like to read. Most of which are repeats and have been on my TBR for sooooo long now. That includes Charm by Tracy Wolff and The Last Sun by K.D. Edwards. I'd also like to read Visions of Flesh and Blood, the FBAA compendium book. It's not a real story, though, just a bible of the world, so it's not something that will take super long or be super interesting. There are a few diary entries and short snippets, but that's it. I also want to finish A Ferry of Bones and Gold by Hailey Turner. I downloaded it on Kindle Unlimited earlier this month, and I'm almost done with it.

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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 Visions 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.

Well. I finally have some books to share. I haven't been posting many Stacking the Shelves simply because I haven't received anything. That all changed this week. It's actually quite bad. My poor wallet. Other than looking at my dwindling shelf space, I've mostly been working, sleeping, working out, lamenting over awful current events... you know, the usual.

Now, onto books. The biggest thing that came in this week was my preorder of Visions of Flesh and Blood. Barnes & Noble/UPS/USPS took almost an entire week to get all three copies to me, versus the four days it normally takes. I'm truly getting tired of this. Why won't B&N ship their preorders a day or two earlier? It's so ridiculous. I preorder because I want my book delivered during release week. Ugh. Anyway, I bought one of the regular VOFAB copies and two of the B&N copies. I didn't remember preordering two, but I guess I did. I usually preorder an extra when they're on sale just in case I need one for replacement dust jackets later on. My preorder incentive bookmark and temporary tattoo also came on the same day all these showed up. So that was fun.

Another package that came on the same day was my preorder of Imagine Books Shop's Lux special edition set. Unfortunately, three of my books were slightly damaged, so I'm shipping them back for replacement copies. The box was completely ripped open on one corner, so I'm actually impressed they looked as good as they did. However, Onyx and Opal made it alive and well. The box also came with a bookmark of each cover character, two replacement pages for a mix up in the printing process, one page overlay, five JLA signature bookplates, and a Daemon and Katy sticker. Overall, I'm really happy I ordered this set. The inside character art foiling looks great. I honestly can't decide how I'm going to display these. I'm kind of glad I can wait until the replacements get here before really thinking about it. 

 

I had a drop off of mail from my parents. I need to change my address for my FairyLoot subscriptions, but I'm going to wait until after I go to ApollyCon. I already think I'm going to have a few orders arrive right when I'm out of town. Boo. But, that's what sisters are for. To pick up your mail for you. Ha ha. Anyway, my February Adult FL box came. I've actually already read and reviewed this book, A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen, and I very much enjoyed it. At first, I didn't love the FL cover redesign, but I actually like it now. I didn't like the original cover, so this one is nice.

And this is my last physical book for this week's StS. It's also one that my parents dropped off. This is the Bookish Box edition of the second book in Jess Wisecup's The Divine Between series, Between Despair and Hope. I read the first book last year and enjoyed it, so I got the pretty BB edition and, when it was available to preorder, I got the second book too. I think I preordered this back in August of last year, so this has taken forever. BB needs to pull themselves together. 

 

And finally, it's time for the ebooks. I actually forgot to cancel my Kindle Unlimited sub, so I still have that for another month after my free one-month grace period ended. So I went ahead and downloaded Villain and the Geek (book seven in The Wolf's Mate series) and Prince of Agony by Tavia Lark. I also downloaded The Bastard and the Heir by Eden Finley and Saxon James, but the cover is a little naughty, so I decided not to share it here. Heehee. I also hadn't realized I'd already preordered the Kindle edition of VOFAB and I ordered a Nook copy too, using B&N reward money. I'm just a mess. But, whatever, I now have two ebook copies and three physical copies of the same book. Nothing obsessive and crazy about that, right?.

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