Stacking the Shelves: The Yearly Edition

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A Discovery of Witches, A Thousand Pieces of You, Aimee Carter, Alexandra Bracken, Amy Ewing, Amy Zhang, Anna Dressed in Blood, Are You Seeing Me?, Beautiful Darkness, Blood Of Olympus, Blood Promise, Bloodlines, Blue Lily Lily Blue, Boundless, Bram Stoker, Brigid Kemmerer, Captive, Cara Lynn Shultz, Claudia Gray, Corruption, Crown of Midnight, Cynthia Hand, Dangerous Creatures, Darren Groth, Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Days of Blood and Starlight, Deborah Harkness, Debra Driza, Demonglass, Disruption, Dracula, E. Lockhart, Endless Knight, Endlessly, Evernight, Falling into Place, Four: A Divergent Collection, Frostbite, Gayle Forman, Half Bad, Hallowed, Heir of Fire, I Was Here, Into the Still Blue, Jennifer L. Armentrout, Jessica Shirvington, Josephine Angelini, Julie Kagawa, Kami Garcia, Kasie West, Kendare Blake, Kiera Cass, Kiersten White, Kresley Cole, Kylie Fornasier, Laini Taylor, Last Sacrifice, Legend, Leigh Bardugo, Let the Sky Fall, Let the Storm Break, Maggie Stiefvater, Margaret Stohl, Marie Lu, Masquerade, Michelle Hodkin, Mind Games, Never Fade, Obsidian, Onyx, Opal, Opposition, Origin, Paranormalcy, Percy Jackson's Greek Gods, Pittacus Lore, Pivot Point, Poison Princess, Rachael Craw, Rachel Hawkins, Raising Demons, Rebel Belle, Renegade, Revenge of Seven, Richelle Mead, Rick Riordan, Rick Yancey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sacrifice, Sally Green, Sarah J. Maas, School Spirits, Secret, Shadow and Bone, Shadow Kiss, Shannon Messenger, Silver Shadows, Sinner, Sister Assassin, Spark, Spell Bound, Spirit Bound, Split Second, Stacking the Shelves, Supernaturally, Talon, The 5th Wave, The Assassin's Blade, The Dark World, The Darkest Minds, The Eternity Cure, The Fiery Heart, The Forever Song, The Goddess Test, The Golden Lily, The Immortal Rules, The Indigo Spell, The Infinite Sea, The Jewel, The Lost Files: Hidden Enemy, The One, The Retribution of Mara Dyer, The Selection Stories, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Young Elites, Throne of Glass, Through the Ever Night, Trial by Fire, Under the Never Sky, Uneartly, Vampire Academy, Veronica Rossi, Veronica Roth, We Were Liars

Stacking the Shelves is a thing where we talk about the books we’ve collected in the past week. These can be bought, delivered, ARCs, ebooks, etc.. Pretty self-explanatory.
Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tygna’s Reviews

This week, in honour of the new year, I’m doing things a little differently.

I’m doing a post on ALL the books I bought this year!

It’s going to be epic.

Also, please note, I have actually been working on this post since October. This thing has taken me 3 MONTHS to create.

Enjoy.

Books Bought:

And here’s what you’re seeing in the picture

Whole series bought:
Unearthly Trilogy, by Cynthia Hand
Obsidian Series, by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Blood of Eden Trilogy, by Julie Kagawa
Pivot Point Duology, by Kasie West
Under the Never Sky Trilogy, by Veronica Rossi
Vampire Academy Series, by Richelle Mead (incl. Movie companion & Ultimate Guide)
Paranormalcy Trilogy*, by Kiersten White
Sister Assassin Duology, by Kiersten White
Disruption Duology, by Jessica Shirvington

Whole series currently available bought:
Bloodlines, by Richelle Mead
The Arcana Chronicles, by Kresley Cole
Let the Sky Fall, by Shannon Messenger
The 5th Wave, by Rick Yancey
Throne of Glass, by Sarah J. Maas

Other:
Secret/Sacrifice, by Brigid Kemmerer
The Selection Stories/The One, by Kiera Cass
The Goddess Test/Captive, by Aimee Carter
Raising Demons/Spell Bound/School Spirits, by Rachel Hawkins
The Dark World, by Cara Lynn Shultz
Four: A Divergent Collection, by Veronica Roth
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Sinner, by Maggie Stiefvater
Masquerade, by Kylie Fornasier
Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods/Blood of Olympus, by Rick Riordan
Renegade, by Debra Driza
Legend, by Marie Lu
Dangerous Creatures*/Beautiful Darkness, by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Talon, by Julie Kagawa
Revenge of Seven/Hidden Enemy, by Pittacus Lore

*Not pictures because I forgot that I bought them this year and I didn’t remember until after I put all the books back

Special Mentions (ordered, not received):
Rebel Belle, by Rachel Hawkins
The Retribution of Mara Dyer, by Michelle Hodkin

Books Won:

Now, I didn’t have to pay for all my books last year…rafflecopter was kind enough to allow me to win several books, plus bookish events enabled book winning.

Won from blogs:
Are You Seeing Me?, by Darren Groth (Thank you Notebook Sisters!)
Falling into Place, by Amy Zhang (Thank you Book Nerd Reviews!)
Blue Lily, Lily Blue, by Maggie Stiefvater (Thank you Miss Page Turner’s City of Books)
The Jewel*, by Amy Ewing (Thank you Genie in a book!)
Spark*, by Rachel Craw (Thank you again, Notebook Sisters!!)

*Not received yet

Won at events:
A Thousand Pieces of You, by Claudia Gray (BTCYA)
The Mortal Instruments series, by Cassandra Clare (CoHF Book Launch) (I gave these to my sister…she loves me)

Miscellaneous:

Presents (Birthdays, Christmas, etc.):
We Were Liars, by E. Lockhart
The Young Elites, by Marie Lu
Shadow and Bone, by Leigh Bardugo
The Darkest Minds/Never Fade, by Alexandra Bracken
Trial By Fire, by Josephine Angelini
Days of Blood and Starlight, by Laini Taylor
Dracula and Other Horror Stories, by Bram Stoker

Books I got for free (through various means):
Evernight, by Claudia Gray
A Discovery of Witches, by Deborah Harkness
Anna Dressed in Blood, by Kendare Blake
Daughter of Smoke and Bone, by Laini Taylor
Half Bad, by Sally Green
I Was Here, by Gayle Forman (ARC)

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So…that was all the books I got my hands on 2014.

How was every one else’s year?

This Week in Books

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Kylie Fornasier, Masquerade, Mockingjay, Richelle Mead, Silver Shadows, Suzanne Collins, This Week's Adventures

Silver Shadows:

IT’S HERE!!! IT’S FINALLY HERE!!

Masquerade Book Launch:

So, I got to the Masquerade book launch, which is awesome:

This is basically evidence of why you should buy books at actual book stores, because I was told about this book launch while buying Masquerade.

Mockingjay Teaser Trailer:

Books Read:

Silver Shadows, by Richelle Mead
ASDFGHJKL!!! This was everything I hoped it would be.

Stacking the Shelves

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Emma, Jane Austen, Richelle Mead, Silver Shadows, Stacking the Shelves

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Books Bought:

The book-buying ban is still happening, and despite the rather dramatic lapse last week, I kept to it this week, and only bought 1 book (which was on the list)

Silver Shadows, by Richelle Mead

Books Borrowed:

Ok, this is really awkward, because I’ve lost a library book, and now I have to return it AND pay the fine before I can borrow anything out using my card again…
So, no physical library books this week (I still have, like, 25 out on both my card and my mum’s).

However, that didn’t stop me from going onto the audio library:

Emma, by Jane Austen

This Week in Books

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All Our Yesterdays, Cristin Terrill, Gayle Forman, Kylie Fornasier, Maggie Stiefvater, Masquerade, Rachel Hawkins, Richelle Mead, School Spirits, Silver Shadows, Sinner, This Week's Adventures, Where She Went

Masquerade:

So, on Wednesday Masquerade, by Kylie Fornasier came out:

I reviewed it here.

All Our Yesterdays: The Sequel

So, once upon a time, there was a planned sequel to All Our Yesterdays…which both confused and excited me.

On the one hand, the book worked perfectly fine as a stand-alone.

On the other, MORE EM AND FINN!!

However, Cristin Terrill announced on Monday that would not be a proper sequel, just short-stories, and e-Novella, and outtakes.

Here is one such short story.

Silver Shadows Update:

FIRST 5 CHAPTERS OF SILVER SHADOWS

No book trailer this week…

…I’m getting kind of desperate.

Books Read:

School Spirits, by Rachel Hawkins
The only problem with this book is that there is no sequel planned (I asked).

Where She Went, by Gayle Forman
I had high hopes for this book, considering how much I loved If I Stay…but something about it just wasn’t great. I was very happy with the ending, though.

Masquerade, by Kylie Fornasier
Basically, this book was awesome. I reviewed it here.

Sinner, by Maggie Stiefvater
Starting a book you aren’t planning on putting it down until you finished it is not a smart thing to do at 11pm…So, I ended up finishing this at 6am. So worth it.

This Week in Books

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Anna Banks, Beth Crowley, Gayle Forman, If I Stay, Lucy Saxon, Of Poseidon, Porcelain Heart, Richelle Mead, Silver Shadows, Take Back the Skies, This Week's Adventures

Silver Shadows Book Trailer 3:

Conditioning Tape 6, came out on Tuesday:

Teaser trailer 3, online on Thursday:

Also. if this tweet gets retweeted 5000 times, we get another 2 chapters!!!

ASDFGHJKL

Beth Crowley:

You can now pre-order Beth Crowley’s album ‘Porcelain Heart’ from her website.

I am SO EXCITED for this thing.

Books Read:

Of Poseidon, by Anna Banks
You can read my review of this here.

Take Back the Skies, by Lucy Saxon
You can read my review of this here.

If I Stay, by Gayle Forman
Starting this audiobook at midnight was probably not the brightest of ideas, seeing as there wasn’t a single good spot to stop listening…as a result, I finished the audio at 4:30 this morning, after spending a good deal of time crying my eyes out.

Waiting On Wednesday: Silver Shadows

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Author: Richelle Mead

Release Date: 29 July, 2014

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

Sydney Sage is an Alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. They protect vampire secrets—and human lives.

In The Fiery Heart, Sydney risked everything to follow her gut, walking a dangerous line to keep her feelings hidden from the Alchemists.

Now in the aftermath of an event that ripped their world apart, Sydney and Adrian struggle to pick up the pieces and find their way back to each other. But first, they have to survive.

For Sydney, trapped and surrounded by adversaries, life becomes a daily struggle to hold on to her identity and the memories of those she loves. Meanwhile, Adrian clings to hope in the face of those who tell him Sydney is a lost cause, but the battle proves daunting as old demons and new temptations begin to seize hold of him. . . .

Their worst fears now a chilling reality, Sydney and Adrian face their darkest hour in this heart-pounding fifth installment in the New York Times bestselling Bloodlines series, where all bets are off.

Why this book?

So, anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am DYING for this book. It’s so much worse because I don’t actually know anyone personally who’s read this series. My sister has read all the Vampire Academy books, but is yet to read Bloodlines. So I can’t tell her what’s happened, but she’s been watching me flail around with the release of each new trailer, desperate for this book.

One of the biggest issues that I’m having is that I didn’t even begin reading Vampire Academy until March this year (so I could go see the movie), and as a result, this the first book in the entire series that I’ve had to wait for. Considering I read the other 10 books within the space of three weeks, these past few months have been torture.

Only 2 weeks to go!!

This Week in Books

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Bram Stoker, Dangerous Creatures, Divergent, Dracula, Four, Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl, Richelle Mead, Silver Shadows, This Week's Adventures

Four: A Divergent Collection:

So, on Tuesday, Four came out. Needless to say, I have already bought it, and read it, and loved it.

Silver Shadows:

So, not only did the second book trailer for Silver Shadows came out on Thursday…

But you can read the FIRST THREE CHAPTERS online here.

*HYSTERICAL SOBBING*

The Half Life of Molly Pierce:

So, first I discovered this book exists.
And second, that you can read the first few chapters here.
The only problem is, I want to go out and buy it now…

Books Read:

Dangerous Creatures, by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
So, technically I started reading this about a month ago, but I finally finished it on Sunday night. That wasn’t because it was boring or anything, I just wasn’t desperate to get to the end. That being said, I did quite enjoy it. Link was one of my favourite characters from the Beautiful Creatures series, and he was just as hilarious in this book.
Ridley was awesome too.

Four: A Divergent Collection, by Veronica Roth
After Allegiant, I’ve been avoiding rereading the books, despite how much I want to. This reminded me of why I want to.

Dracula, by Bram Stoker
Word cannot describe how much I loved this book. Possibly my favourite classic of all time.

This Week in Books

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Half Bad, Maggie Stiefvater, Richelle Mead, Sally Green, Silver Shadows, Sinner, This Week's Adventures, Vampire Academy

Sinner:

On Tuesday, Sinner, by Maggie Stiefvater came out! (In America at least, in Australia it doesn’t come out until July 27). Sinner is the fourth book in the Shiver trilogy (it’s goodreads classification is Wolves of Mercy Falls #3.5), and focuses entirely on Cole and Isabel.

You people have no idea how excited I am to read this thing.

Vampire Academy:

The Vampire Academy movie came out in Australia! *Happiness*

Silver Shadows Book Trailer:

So…the Silver Shadows trailer came online on Thursday…

SO EXCITED RIGHT NOW!

Books Read:

Half Bad, by Sally Green
I finished this last night, and it was awesome!

Dracula, by Bram Stoker
I’m about half-way through the audio, loving it so far.