Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme from Tynga’s Reviews where you showcase the books you’ve received or purchased.
This week, I bought three books from Amazon:
The Girls by Emma Cline
Golden Son (Red Rising #2) by Pierce Brown
The Next Together by Lauren James
Both Golden Son and The Girls I’ll be reviewing as guest posts on other blogs, at Ellie Maloney’s excellent Sci-Fi fiction blog and at Tommye’s thoughtful writerly blog respectively. Check both of them out if you can! I’ll also post links on here to the reviews once they’re up.
I’ll be reviewing YA time-travelling romance The Next Together here on my blog.
The Girls was only released this week here in the UK and has been receiving rave reviews so I’m excited to read it. I think the UK cover, pictured above, is much prettier than the American cover; it definitely captures the ethereal yet toxic romance of a cult, as is depicted in the novel. It’ll also be great to dive back into Darrow’s world in Golden Son.
And four more from Waterstones book shop today, two YA and two adult, because I can’t resist the ‘Buy one, get one half price’ deal:
Illuminae by Jamie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
Nightfall by Jane Halpern & Peter Kujawinski
Nod by Adrian Barnes
The Little Red Chairs by Edna O’Brien
I’ve always hummed and hawed about reading Illuminae but I’m finally giving it a chance. Nightfall and Nod are novels I’ve both had my eye on recently. The Little Red Chairs, however, was set up in a big display in Waterstones. The cover is gorgeous and any novel that gets praise from Philip Roth is a novel worth reading, in my opinion, so I’m excited to see what it’s like.
What have you been stacking your shelves with this week? Have you read Golden Son or The Next Together? Or have you even already devoured The Girls? Let me know in the comments!
And also, here’s an outtake from the “photo-shoot” that makes me giggle.
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Oh my penguins, your hamster is SO adorable! Also, that out-take snap? GOLD. Total gold.
Also, YAY for Illuminae–here’s hoping you enjoy it, though no pressure! It’s also totes cool if you don’t, I know it’s not the book for everybody. And I’ve been so intrigued by The Next Together, I can’t wait to see what you think of it!
Happy book-ing to you! Here’s my Stacking the Shelves if you want to check it out!
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Haha thank you! He’s such a cutie, if I do say so myself! If a bit clumsy hahah I keep looking at that outtake and laughing!
I’m sure I will like it, I’m not entirely sure why I haven’t picked it up till now. And hopefully The Next Together will be good too, I’ve heard some good things about it. Thank you! I’ll check out your post now 🙂
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You’re so welcome!
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Aww hello little hamster! Adorable!
I also can’t resist the buy one, get one half price at Waterstones. The game is lost the minute I walk in… haha
I’m really excited to see what you think of the Next Together!
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That deal at Waterstones will be the death of me! As soon as I see that sticker on a book I’m like “well I have to get another book now, can’t pass up on a deal”. I’m excited to see what I think of it to haha hopefully it’ll be good! I’m not always a massive fan of YA Romance but I always love it when it’s set in the UK rather than America
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OMG – I don’t think I even noticed what books you got – I was too busy looking at your adorable hamster lol That was the cutest!
My Stacking the Shelves
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Hahahah thank you, he is a cutie. I’ll check out your post, thanks for stopping by! 🙂
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Lots of Buzz on The Girls; I’m interested to hear your thoughts. I enjoyed Iluminae more than I was expecting too. The unique format really made the novel, as sci-fi is not my favorite genre in most cases, but this one was really hard to put down. Hope you enjoy!
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Yeah I’ve heard a lot of hype about it so I’m expecting big things! The format of Illuminae has always put me off a little in case I hate it but it’s good to hear you enjoyed it! Thank you!
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Honestly, though, the hamster makes the photo. I would follow an Instagram just of the hamster and books.
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Hahaha aww thank you! I’d make an Instagram account for him and books but the only reason I got photos of him was because he was sleepy, normally he doesn’t sit still at all! Might be an idea though haha
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hahahahaha awwwww. Poor lil guy. ❤
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Hahaha he’s so clumsy but thankfully he’s never hurt himself! Such a silly hamster sometimes
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I love the hamster. I’ve never heard of Little Red Chairs before but I agree the cover is gorgeous. Can’t wait to hear more about it!
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Thank you! Yeah I bought it on a whim because it was on display and had rave reviews in the bookshop, so hopefully it should be good!
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