June 23, 2018

Stacking The Shelves #105/Sunday Post #37

Stacking The Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews and Reading Reality as a way to share all the books we got during the week!

The Sunday Post is hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer. Its a weekly post to showcase what books you got, recap the week, and talk about what will be coming up this week on the blog!

• This Savage Song (Monsters of Verity #1) by Victoria Schwab

So I know a lot of people love Victoria Schwab! I've yet to read a Victoria Schwab book. So I've been on the lookout for some when I've been at my used bookstore. I finally found one! Which happened to be the one I was hoping I'd find! I'm really excited to finally read a Victoria Schwab book and see why everyone seems to like her books! 

• 2018 Reading Challenge Updates
• Review: A Reaper At The Gates (An Ember In The Ashes #3) by Sabaa Tahir
• New Releases: Week of June 19, 2018
• Top Ten Tuesday: Summer TBR
• Review: The Rose Society (The Young Elites #2) by Marie Lu
• The Young Elites Read-Along: Update #2
• Review: Mayfly by Jeff Sweat
• July Read-Along: Unknown Trilogy by Wendy Higgins Info/Sign-Up Post

So this week I finished A Reaper At The Gates. OMG guys, seriously, that book gave me so many feels. A number of scenes broke my heart. But it was a great addition to the series! I also read The Rose Society, the second book in The Young Elites series for the read-along. Quite quite interesting. Much darker than I was expecting it to go, but really good. The third book was Mayfly, a dystopian book where everyone dies at 17. So children are running things. It was incredibly interesting. 

And now, I'm currently reading Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. Guys.... Why did I wait so long to read this?!?! I'm only about 150 pages in so far but I'm LOVING it! I seriously regret waiting so long to read this! 

I did a thing this week guys. James took me to the tattoo place that really good on our side of town and I was able to talk to one of the tattoo artists and set up an appointment and put down a deposit to get my first tattoo! I'm so excited. I'll finally have a tattoo come August 21st! Haha. So yeah, the tattoo place on our side of town is good for a reason. Lol. They have amazing people working there and do amazing work. They get so much business that that's the earliest appointment I could get. But still! I'm excited. Yes, my tattoo will be book related. In fact, most of my tattoo ideas are book related. LOL. But this first one is going to be a quote. It's going to be on my shoulder. I'm so excited!!

Some other fun stuff. I'm now 3 books ahead on my Goodreads Reading Challenge! I'm thrilled that I'm keeping ahead now since I was behind the first half of the year! I reached 80 followers on the blogs Instagram! Since I only started it a little over a month ago, I'm pretty happy! You're more than welcome to follow me if you'd like! Lol. I share current reads throughout the week, books I buy, things I find interesting in books while I'm reading (quotes, maps, etc.). I'm currently posting things from Illuminae. :)

So this week I'm not gonna add the dystopia reading challenge and instead focus on the Read-Alongs since I posted for both June and July's!

• The Young Elites Read-Along: Update #2
• Review: The Rose Society by Marie Lu

I talked about the things I found really interesting in The Rose Society and a lot of thoughts about what I'm thinking about going into The Midnight Star!

• July Read-Along: Unknown Trilogy by Wendy Higgins Info/Sign-Up Post

So I finally got the info post up. I'm am really genuinely excited for this! I LOVE these books! If you wanna join, the kindle version of the books are pretty affordable (according to Amazon US). Unknown is $2.99, Unrest is $3.99, & Undone is $4.99! They are dystopian/sci-fi! I really really love this series! 

• Review: Illuminae (The Illuminae Files #1) by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
• New Releases: Week of June 26, 2018
• Review: King's Cage (Red Queen #3) by Victoria Aveyard
• Review: The Midnight Star (The Young Elites #3) by Marie Lu
• The Young Elites Read-Along: Final Update & Wrap up