Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews and it’s all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. 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!
So, this is seems to be smaller than my usual haul, but it’s also only been a few weeks since my last Stacking the Shelves post so that means I’m doing good, right!?
Received for Review:
I LOVE GLADIATORIAL COMBAT IN MY BOOKS!!! When this was pitched to me I was thrilled and so I signed up for the blog tour. Keep an eye out for my review for this on its release date – 1/16/18. Thanks to Tor Teen for the ARC.
What a cute little hardcover! It’s so wee compared to a normal book. This is a novella focusing on how Durzo Blint became Durzo Blint. Also included is the short story I, Night Angel. Thanks to Orbit for the finished copy!
Daughters of the Storm by Kim Wilkins
Norse influenced epic fantasy where five sisters beat down their evil stepbrother. Count me in. Though this is slated to release in the US in March 2018, it looks like it was first released in 2014 (Australia maybe?). Thanks to Del Rey for providing an ARC!
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
AHHHH this book!!! I don’t really do horror, but the paranormal/mythology/science thing presented in the synopsis of this book meant it automatically went into my request list. Killer mermaids. Yes. Many thanks to Orbit/ Hachette Audio for the audio copy.
Deadhouse Landing by Ian C. Esslemont
HOORAY!! I may have had few books in this haul, but they are all very exciting to get, particularly this one. I love the Malazan world, so naturally I requested this and promptly read it. Review will be up tomorrow!! Thanks to Tor/NetGalley for a review copy.
My Purchases:
Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
My only purchase was at least an excellent one. I picked up the audio copy of this since I’ll be pulling long shifts this week at work in preparation for a long weekend. The hardcover will come into my possession at a later date because have you seen those endpapers??? Excellent so far!
Powder & Page 
When I picked up my copy of Deadhouse Landing, I saw several copies of Oathbringer sitting on the “reserved” shelf. Man, they were HUUUUUUUGE. I saw 3 all together and they took up as much space as 10+ paperbacks . That is just awesome.
Not sure if I’ll read your review of Deadhouse, as I’m reading just on lunchbreaks at work, to stretch it out. I thought about tearing through it, but wanted the joy to last a little longer.
Oh who am I kidding? I’ll read it, like it and comment away 😀
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Oathbringer is like 1200+ pages! I hope you enjoy Deadhouse Landing – I loved it!!!
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Excellent! Another positive vote for it.
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I got ‘Oathbringer’ yesterday, although I don’t plan to read it yet. But couldn’t resist as it was the exact copy I wanted. It is super big and heavy! Will definitely NOT go into my beach bag this summer 😀 Although… might be handy to put on my beach towel and keep it from flying off.
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Brick books indeed!
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If you put it in a beach bag you might rip your shoulder out of socket!! :p It would make an excellent towel weight though.
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Blood and Sand is on my wishlist, it sounds so unique! And Into the Drowning Deep was fantastic, I hope the audio is good as well😁
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The audio was VERY good!!
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I’m also super excited to start Into the Drowning Deep as well as Blood and Sand! I’m a sucker for gladiatorial combat as well 😀
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Into the Drowning Deep was wayyy cool. I loved it and now I’m trying to review it without babbling like a crazy person!
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