Stacking The Shelves is hosted at Tynga’s Reviews & Reading Reality. It’s all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

As per usual I have gone way over budget this month but I did win an Amazon gift card and I got 2 great books on Kindle Firsts (thank you Prime!)

Here are the books I’ve added to my never ending TBR!

King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo – I won an Amazon gift card and I went and straight away bought this baby!

One Word Kill by Mark Lawrence (Kindle First read)

Before the Broken Star by Emily R King (Kindle First read)

The Rebel of Raleigh High by Callie Hart – couldn’t resist this cover!

Eli’sTriumph by Joanna Wylde – love a Reapers MC read!

Finale by Stephanie Garber – from the Fairyloot Special box (look out for my unboxing soon!)

Romanov by Nadine Brandes – couldn’t resist an Anastasia retelling!

Aurora Rising by Jay Kristoff – I haven’t read this author before so decided now was time!

 

What books did you get this month?

Welcome to The Weekly Epilogue!

Hope you all had a good week?

I’ve had a week filled with doctor appointments for me and my son! He is being tested for celiac disease (that I’ve probably passed on!) and I’ve now been diagnosed with vertigo. Vertigo, where the heck did that come from?!

Anyhoo, my book-wise week has been great. If I’m honest I’ve been in a slump since the beginning of the year but I’ve had a word with myself and I’m now a girl on a (reading) mission!

Malum part 2 by Amo Jones (beta read)

Trouble at Brayshaw by Meghan Brandy (arc read)

Deadline to Damnation by Anne Malcom (beta read)

Finale by Stephanie Garber

The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic

 

 

My favourite post from the blogosphere this week was from Jo at Jo’s Book Blog where is she is celebrating an unread book….Shelf Control <—- love that title!

 

How was your reading week?

What books did you read?

I did this challenge last year….AND I COMPLETED IT!!!

So when I saw Cathy at 746 Books was running this challenge again this year I knew I was so in! You can see her original post here.

Dates: 3 June to 3 September.

Challenge: Read and review 20 books.

Pressure is on!

Before I tell you my books I have a confession…..I have a Spring list that I am over halfway through as I was counting June as Spring….so the 7 books I have left are moving to Summer 😂

• The Storm Crow by Kalyn Josephson
• I Dare You by Shantel Tessier
• Before the Broken Star by Emily R King
• One Word Kill by Mark Lawrence
• Aurora Rising by Jay Kristoff
• The Winter Court by Amelia Hutchins
• Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer
• Archenemies by Marissa Meyer
• Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
• Darkest before Dawn by Amelia Hutchins
• Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo
• King Hall by Scarlett Dawn
• The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic
• Trickery by Jaymin Eve
• Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
• Storm and Fury by Jennifer Armentrout
• Finale by Stephanie Garber
• Trouble at Brayshaw High by Meagan Brandy
• The Fallen by Tillie Cole
• Raphael by Tillie Cole
• Quiet Man by Kristen Ashley

Are you joining in?

I’m just over here celebrating 4 years on the blog!

4 wonderful, book filled years!

Here is to many more 🍸

Thank you to all the bloggers, authors and readers that have made this place and the book world a fantastic place to be!

It’s the middle of the working week so I thought it would be nice to have a night to kick back with a beverage and talk all things books!

This week…..PR companies…do you sign up?

When I started out blogging there were so many PR companies and I wanted to make an impression, so I signed up with loads of them for everything!

I posted the html content they sent….but that got old, quickly!

So…….

I stopped posting tour material on my website as I wanted that to be my own voice so just posted to my blog Facebook page….and here we are today……but I might as well be talking to myself on there!

I’m wondering whether to sign up at all now for tours, cover reveals etc so I want to know what you all do….

Do you participate in reveals, tours etc?

How many in a month?

Do you think Facebook is a lost cause for blogs?

Top 5 Tuesday is bought to you by Shanah at the Bionic Bookworm – you can find her post and join in here.

Today’s topic is – Unputdownable Reads!

Don’t you just love it when you pick up a book and you are so enthralled you can’t put it down?

I’d say these were books I’ve read in the last 6 or 7 months that fit this bill!!

Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

Oh the joy this gave me! I never thought I’d be a sci-fi fan…but I so am!

Pretty Reckless by LJ Shen

The start of the angst of the Totholes! (If you have read the Sinners of Saint series you will know what I’m on about!)

A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

A Beauty and the Beast retelling…I was smitten from the first chapter….

 

Repeat by Kylie Scott

Mesmerising….a girl who has lost her memory revisiting her old life.

 

Kill Switch by Penelope Douglas

Oh so dark and delish! Just how I like it!

 

What have been your unputdownable reads lately?

I do love a Reapers MC read!  Ruger stole my heart when I read his part of the series many years ago and I’ve followed this series since…..

Peaches Taylor spent the last seven years slinging drinks and dodging drunks at the Starkwood Saloon. Some might call it a dead end job, but to her it was an investment—another six months, and she’d have enough money to buy the place.

Life would’ve been perfect if Eli hadn’t come home.

Eli King is ready to settle down. He stood by his brothers when they needed him, paying the price for their freedom with his own. Now it’s time to claim his reward—the Starkwood Saloon. He’s got the cash to buy the bar, the skills to run it, and just one person standing between him and his dream: Peaches Taylor.

She’s been driving him crazy since they were kids, and not in the good way. When she was six, she shoved a spider down his pants. When he was ten, he locked her in a closet overnight. Then she hot-wired his car at seventeen, and things got ugly…

They’re adults now, and the Starkwood isn’t a toy to fight over—it’s the hill they’ll die on. No prisoners. No compromises. No mercy.

Peaches Taylor and Eli King are going to war.

Welcome to The Weekly Epilogue!

Hope you all had a good week?

The weather has been glorious here this week and I’ve gone out and soaked up some vitamin D!

I’m still in a Game of Thrones stupor after what happened this week but managed to get some reads in!

Legend by Marie Lu – I really did not get on with this….and it made me sad!

Romanov by Nadine Brandes – so, so good!  Look out for my review!

 

Deadline to Damnation by Anne Malcom (beta read) – no cover yet!

 

My Spring reading list hasnt gone that well so far in May…..but I still have time!

These are the ones I still haven’t read……

• Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
• Archenemies by Marissa Meyer
• The Storm Crow by Kalyn Josephson
• Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo
• I Dare You by Shantel Tessier
• Darkest before Dawn by Amelia Hutchins
• One Word Kill by Mark Lawrence

 

How was your reading week?

What books did you read?

I was sat on tenterhooks waiting for this to arrive…..

AND I LOVED IT!

And there was so much and all of it is such great quality!

Fairyloot: Finale Collectors Edition

• Fates Playing Card deck with artwork by @lexaarts and @noverantale.
• Magical pin set by @dustandpages and @iceydesigns
• Legend figurine designed by @noverantale – OMG! I love this! Now the quandary of do I take it out the box or not?????
• Caraval Sisters Mug designed by @sallteas with lettering by @catarinabookdesigns
• Midnight Maze Candle hand poured by @bookishburns….smells delish and is so glittery. I almost dont want to burn it!
• Playing card necklace – so cute!
• Magnetic bookmark set by @idlestuff – Legend, Julian, Jack’s, Tella and Scarlett and were hand wrapped in recycled paper. Love them!

• Legend Book Sleeve with artwork from Taratjah – so big, such fabulous quality, so soft and will protect my copy so well!
• Character prints painted by @niru.sky
• Square art print with the Caraval quartet designed by @morgana0anagrom
• Bookmarks featuring art by @arz28

Caraval Blanket designed by @monolimeart

Omg. So soft. So pretty. So big. Me and this blanket have a date when the weather gets colder!

Exclusive edition of Finale

• Dark grey cover ✔
• Stencil sprayed edges ✔
• Rose gold foiling ✔
• Matching cover under dust jacket ✔
• Signed by the author ✔
• Exclusive deleted scene ✔