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!

Ok…..so I am out of control.

In January I have accumulated 17 books (9 purchases and 8 arcs). I need an intervention! And the worst thing? I’m in a book funk and have been for over a week…but I can’t stop buying!

Here are the books I got in the last 2 week’s and you can see my first lot here.

Slayer by Kiersten White

Enchantee by Gita Trelease

I Owe You One by Sophie Kinsella

Only a Breath Apart by Katie McGarry

Darkness Embraced by Tillie Cole

I Dare You by Shantel Tessier

Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer

Stain by AG Howard

Drago by Sarah Brianne

Cruel Money by KA Linde

 

I’m off for a lie down and to sob over all the money I don’t have!!!!

TBR Thursday is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly Faye Reads, where you post a title from your shelf or e-reader and find out what others think about it.

My pick this week is King Hall by Scarlett Dawn.

A few of my book friends raved about this series so of course I had to buy the first book! Its billed as a fresh, meaty, sink-your-teeth-in-and-hold-on tight NA fantasy!  Now that’s a great description!!

King Hall — where the Mysticals go to learn their craft, get their degrees, and transition into adulthood. And where four new Rulers will rise and meet their destinies.

Lily Ruckler is adept at one thing: survival. Born a Mystical hybrid, her mere existence is forbidden, but her nightmare is only about to start. Fluke, happenstance, and a deep personal loss finds Lily deeply entrenched with those who would destroy her simply for existing — The Mystical Kings. Being named future Queen of the Shifters shoves Lily into the spotlight, making her one of the most visible Mysticals in the world. But with risk comes a certain solace — her burgeoning friendships with the other three Prodigies: a wicked Vampire, a wild-child Mage, and a playboy Elemental. Backed by their faith and trust, Lily begins to relax into her new life.

Then chaos erupts as the fragile peace between Commoners and Mysticals is broken, and suddenly Lily realises the greatest threat was never from within, and her fear takes on a new name: the revolution.

 

Have you read this book? What did you think of it?

I’m doing it! Another challenge!

Beware of The Reader and Collectors of Book Boyfriends have combined their awesomeness to bring you 2019’s Ultimate Reading Challenge. They challenge you to read a book each month based on the theme of the month. You can see the sign up post here.

Rules:

• Books must be at least 150 pages
• Must be read during the assigned month
• You must write at least a mini review. It can just be a couple sentences.
• You don’t have to be a book blogger to participate! Readers can link to their bookshelf on Goodreads.
• Books can be in any format (ARC, audiobook, eBook, paperback)
• Can be published any year
• Crossovers from other reading challenges are allowed.
• Expect a surprise giveaway

 

I haven’t chosen any books for this yet and as January is a free read I can choose any of the 9 books I’ve already read.

Are you joining in?

If you love a dark, gritty MC Romance, then this series is for you! I’ve devoured every book as soon as it’s come out and, luckily received an arc this time!

Title: Darkness Embraced

Series: Hades Hangmen #7

Author: Tillie Cole

THE DEEPEST LOVE CAN BE BORN FROM THE FIERCEST HATE…⁣

⁣Born to sit on opposing thrones.⁣

They were never meant to fall.⁣

⁣Tanner Ayers is the heir of the Texas Ku Klux Klan. Fed nothing but hate, violence, and intolerance from the day he was born, Tanner kills for his cause without remorse.⁣

Until he meets Adelita Quintana, the daughter of the most brutal cartel boss in Mexico.⁣

⁣Adelita and Tanner hate each other instantly. But there is something between them that neither can explain or deny. Hate turns to desire, desire turns to love, and for the first time Tanner sees how wrong his whole life has been.⁣

⁣For years, Tanner does everything he can to find a way for him and Adelita. He walks away from the Klan, his family, everything he ever believed, and joins the Hades Hangmen. But now the Hangmen are at war—not only with his own family, but with Adelita’s too.⁣

⁣When Adelita and Tanner are thrown together again, they are forced to fight for a love that should never have been. For a love that puts them and everyone they have ever loved in danger.⁣

⁣The White Prince.⁣

The cartel princess.⁣

And a future that seems shrouded in darkness…⁣

Adelita, princesa of the Mexican cartel and Tanner, Prince of the KKK.

But this isn’t your normal fairy tale, every Prince Charming is different is he not?

And it goes off. Like totally off!

The revelations had my jaw hanging! I must admit, the first half of this book, I wasn’t that excited. But OMG I soon got excited! It’s an intense, hate filled and dark (do you see what they have to put up with!) story that will blow your mind!

Six for Sunday is the brainchild of Steph at A Little But A Lot and this week’s prompt is: Bookish Loves

#SixforSunday

I didn’t really know what context this was in so decided to show you 6 of the things I love about books and the book world.

Bookish Reading place

I really wish that I had a reading nook but I don’t! My fave place to read is on my bed surrounded by my bookish cushions (I have 4!)

Bookish Reading time

Bear with me here! I love to read in the evening on week days…I probably start around 8 when my son is in bed…..I love the silence! On weekends I squeeze in where I can….and if I can!

Bookish things

Pens, notebooks, keyrings, mugs……you name it and I LOVE bookish stuffs!

Authors I love

There are so many! Here are a few that are my ride or dies….I’d read their shopping lists…..

• Sarah J Maas
• Kristen Ashley
• Tillie Cole
• Marie Lu
• And so many more……

Fairyloot

I’ve been getting Fairyloot for over a year now and I can safely say that I have never been disappointed!

Rereads

Oh god yes, there is nothing like a reread to get you out of a slump…And these are the books/series I love to reread!

• The Three Series by Kristen Ashley
• A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas
• Golden Dynasty by Kristen Ashley
• Reapers Legacy by Joanna Wylde
• Until November by Aurora Rose Reynolds

I want to get my reading off to a great start….and also reduce my tbr (!) so I’m going to participate in a few challenges this year to really get my bum in gear!

I’m doing the year long challenges of Beat the Backlist and also the New Release challenge and now I’m doing……..Fantastic February!

It’s run by the fabulous Kathy at Books and Munches!

The fantasy type books I have picked out for February are:

• Shadow of the Fox by Julie Kagawa
• Enchantee by Gita Trelease
• Slayer by Kiersten White
• The Wicked King by Holly Black
• The Gathering by LA Fiore
• Legend by Marie Lu
• Mirage by Somaiya Daud

On top of this I also have 4 ‘other genre’ arcs to read so it will be a great reading month!

Let’s get our read on!

Rules

◊ Post a blog post / Tweet / comment / whatever saying you’ll be joining me!

You can also join our Goodreads-group, Devour Your TBR, and participate there. Just saying.

◊ Share your list of fantasy books that you really want / hope to read during February.

◊ If you’re sharing your updates on social media, use #FantasticFeb so we can follow up on each other!

Are you participating?

Let me know what books you want to read.

Title: The Boys of Brayshaw High #1

Author: Meagan Brandy

Oh this looked delish….I needed it….So I begged for an arc and my pleas paid off!

“Girls like you aren’t exactly welcomed at a place like this, so keep your head down and look the other way.”

Those were the exact words of my social worker when she dropped me in my newest hellhole, a place for “troubled teens”.

I didn’t listen, and now I’m on their radar.

They expect me to play along in their games of hierarchy, to fall in line in the social order they’ve deemed me fit.

Too bad for them, I don’t follow rules.

Too bad for me, they’re determined to make sure I do.

Inconceivably attractive and treated like kings…these are the boys of Brayshaw High.

And I’m the girl who got in their way.

That cover and that blurb! That’s what drew me in………

Then the story. Omg the story!

Then the lead characters. Omg the characters……

• Maddoc was HAWT *insert eggplant emoji here* and I need him (between my thighs!)

• Royce was so tasty I wanted to eat him like a snack!

• Captain was, oh my god, I don’t even know how to explain it……he was the one that owned my heart.

• Raven was so genuine, I loved her.

All together you have 4 troubled teens with a whole lot of problems and issues but show that family isn’t always blood. Friends are the family we choose.

It was such a fab read I could’ve cried! It was just what I needed!

It was fabulous.

It was filled with chemistry.

It was so angsty I wanted to die.

And the ending nearly killed me.

I want to be a Bray Girl (even though I’m probably 20 years too old!)

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!

The first couple of weeks in the year and what better time to use my Amazon giftcard I had for Christmas?!

Although I did say to myself to take it easy with buying and arcs, I clearly didn’t listen to myself!

Becoming his Monster by Amelia Hutchins

Evermore by Sara Holland

Raw: Rebirth by Belle Aurora

The Wicked King by Holly Black

 

The Boys of Brayshaw High by Meagan Brandy

Never-Contented Things by Sarah Porter

The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi

 

So now I have to get my read on!

What books did you get?