Week of March 9, 2013
Friends, spring has sprung in my neck of the woods. AND I LOVE IT. Got some books that I’m INCREDIBLY excited to read in the mail this week, as well as a novella gem from NetGalley from one of my favorite series. WORD!
NETGALLEY
Breathless: Elemental #2.5 by Brigid Kemmerer (April 30, 2013 from Kensington). Friends, I know I have gushed about the Elemental series and the Merrick brothers before. So far, there have been books about Chris (STORM) and Gabriel (SPARK), and a novella about the oldest and my favorite, Michael (who is getting his own book soon!). This novella is about Nick, Gabriel’s twin brother, and is coming out in advance of book 3, SPIRIT (which is about Hunter, a friend of the Merrick’s). I will read all of these books, always. I love them. Thanks, Kensington!!!
BOUGHT
Legacy of the Clockwork Key: The Secret Order #1 by Kristin Bailey. Steampunkish secret order? A dangerous invention that can ruin the world? A young girl who maybe falls for a stable boy? I’ll take a flyer on all of those things, please. Oh, AND? DEBUT. Word. (Amazon | Goodreads)
Let the Sky Fall: Let the Sky Fall #1 by Shannon Messenger. Don’t tease me with a book that is in any way about anything weather related. I will read it. This one–about a guy named, perhaps ironically, Vane (like, WEATHERVANE?) and an air elemental named Aura sounds just basically perfect. Hearing good things, too. (Amazon | Goodreads)
Finnikin of the Rock and Quintana of Charyn: The Lumatere Chronicles #1 & #3 by Melina Marchetta. These two–the Australian versions–finally arrived from Fishpond yesterday! Huzzah! I’m well and truly in deep with this series–reading FROI OF THE EXILES right now–and I’m stoked that I have a copy of QUINTANA to read next, even though it doesn’t come out in the US until April. (Series on Amazon | Series on Goodreads)
Shatter Me: Shatter Me #1 by Tahereh Mafi. This one is on sale for my kindle, and I’ve been wanting to reread before I snag a copy of UNRAVEL ME, which I’m now going to have to buy for my kindle as well, for which I am notoriously cheap when it comes to purchasing books. Let’s hope that it goes on sale soon, too #delusional (Amazon | Goodreads)
Breathless! I also got that one from NetGalley! And I got Shatter Me for Christmas, but I never got around to reading it! I hope I do soon. Enjoy your lovelies! Have a great weekend 🙂
Here is my STS post!
LOVED Shatter Me and Legacy of the Clockwork Key looks really good.
Happy reading! 🙂
My Haul
Hooray for buying the Aussie versions of the Lumatere books – the covers are so much nicer, right?
Enjoy your haul 🙂
Duuuuude. New look? I dig it. Totally dig it.
But I’m also softening you for the fact that I HATE YOU A MILLION TIMES right now. You. Have. The. Aussie. Versions. AUSSIE VERSIONS. I could KILL small plants and rabid teacup yorkies at this moment, I’m so jealous.
And then you go and show me that K-Teen has FINALLY delivered a semi-sequel to us and now I’m feeling guilty for still hating you. BECAUSE I DO. A thousand fiery ways.
… AUSSIE VERSIONS …
Hooray for you getting your Lumatere Chronicles books! I need to make sure mine come soon so that I can catch up on the read-along (since I’m behind on Froi at the moment).
If you can get your hands on it thru you library or whatever, the audiobook of Shatter Me is FANTASTIC for re-read. INCREDIBLE. In fact, I flat-out just finally bought an audible copy today because I’ve checked it out of the library I think three times now. I’m lame. So, yeah, it’s pretty darn good.
BUT I really love that series – if you don’t love that series as much as I do, don’t spend your money because of me!