This week has been more hectic than usual. My sister came to visit my parents, so I've been seeing her throughout the week. I also did a couple of trades that I wasn't expecting. Trades are super chaotic. I don't love doing them because they take up so much mental effort. I've also been selling some books to make up for the many expensive purchases I've made. This is pretty funny considering I'm headed to a Barnes & Noble today. Hee hee. I'm actually planning to return a book, but with the paperback romance sale going on, I'm sure I'll buy a book or two while I'm in-store. But anyway, let's talk about books I received this week.
First up in this week's haul, I have the second Owlcrate Romantasy quarterly subscription book, A Forbidden Alchemy by Stacey McEwan. I'm kind of meh about this book. I didn't have plans to buy the regular edition, and I wasn't thrilled to hear it was in this sub, since there are no skips. However, it's not something I'm opposed to reading. I just don't think I'll get to it any time in the near future, and this sub is very expensive, especially since I haven't liked a book pick/design they've done so far. However, I think that will change with the fall book. I hope they're doing the one I've heard rumblings about. It's my favorite read of 2025 so far. I also received my Blackwell's preorder of The Jasad Crown by Sara Hashem. I just finished reading an ARC of this one as well, and loved it! And of course, I had to get a UK hardcover to match the hardcover I bought of the first book.
Up next, I have another sub box book, A Dance of Lies by Brittney Arena. This was the Adult sub pick. It's very... plain. There's no redesigned cover, and the naked book is kind of meh too. (It's all very meh this week. Ha ha.) This is another book I wouldn't have picked up myself, so I'm not super excited about it. I just have limited skips, so I thought I'd save my skips for something that I really don't want. I also purchased a decently cheap copy of The Will of the Many deluxe limited edition by James Islington via Amazon. I didn't plan to purchase anything during the Prime sales, but I checked the price of this book, and it was $10 cheaper than normal, so I got it. I also bought three books in one of their deal sales, but I think I'm only going to keep one of them, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire paperback (not pictured) for my new dust jacket I got last week. I've already returned one of the books, and I might return the other one in the next week or so, so there's no point in sharing what it is just yet. Oh,
also not pictured, my FairyLoot replacements for two books in the
Beasts of the Briar series came in. I already shared those a while back,
so I didn't think there was much point in taking pics for books that
are the same, just better quality. XD.
And lastly, I have the lone ebook for the week. It's Smoke and Scar by Gretchen Powell Fox. I downloaded it from Kindle Unlimited. I'm currently reading this one, and it seems good so far. I don't know if it'll be a favorite, but it's a decent read at the moment. The author kept sharing some amazing fan art for it, so I had to push it up my TBR list so I could know who the pretty characters were.
Well, that's all for me. What books have
you bought/received lately?
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