September 22, 2018

Stacking The Shelves #118/Sunday Post #50

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!

• Wildcard (Warcross #2) by Marie Lu

So this was my only buy this week. Honestly, I wasn't even sure I was going to read this after giving Warcross barely a 3.5 stars earlier this year. But I just had this gut feeling when I was at Barnes & Noble to buy it and give it a chance. I'm so glad I did. I thought Wildcard blew Warcross out of the water. It was 100% better for me. And it's the first Marie Lu ending I actually don't hate! YAY!!! 

• Beneath The Citadel by Destiny Soria

Thank you Abrams & NetGalley! So I didn't even know this book existed until it started popping up on my timelines a few weeks ago. So when I saw it on NetGalley after having read what it was about I was like yeah, lets request it. And I got approved. I already started it and so far I'm enjoying it. Plus how cool does the cover look! It comes out in a little over 2 weeks. Look for my review around release day! 

• Review: Muse of Nightmares (Strange The Dreamer #2) by Laini Taylor
• 2018 Dystopia Reading Challenge: 3rd Quarter Update
• Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Fall 2018 TBR
• New Releases: Week of September 18, 2018
• Review: Shadow and Bone (The Grisha Trilogy #1) by Leigh Bardugo
• Discussion: Conquering My TBR Pile (And How You Can Too!)
• Review: Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #2) by Ransom Riggs

So this week had everything to be a great reading week with lots of books... Up until Wednesday, I'll get to that a little later. But this week I read 2 full books. So first I read Wildcard by Marie Lu. I really loved it. Compared to Warcross, it was 100% better. 5 starred Wildcard. And it's the first Marie Lu ending I've actually enjoyed. WOOT! I was iffy on whether I wanted to read Wildcard in the first place, and I'm really glad I did decided to. Worth it! I also finally read The Cruel Prince by Holly Black!!! And I really enjoyed that as well! Definitely a bit different with the amount of genuine dark and wicked things going on in that book. I gave it a 4.5. I also gave Furyborn by Claire Legrand a 4th try this week and I'm done. I got to about 33% and I can't. I DNF'ed it. I tried guys. I really wanted to like this book and the prologue was so promising but it just fell super flat for me. I did write up a DNF review for it since I did read over 150 pages in it. That'll go up in October. I did start The Last of August by Brittany Cavallaro but only got about 40 pages in. 

So, I probably could have read more than 2 books this week like I mentioned above, but.... I got sick. My in-laws got back from their cruise in Alaska last Saturday and my mother-in-law brought home a cold. Unfortunately despite her best efforts not to, she got both me and James sick. They stayed at our apartment since they got in at like 9:30PM and didn't wanna drive 2 hours home. So since about Wednesday on I've been dealing with a cold. It really hit Thursday night with the stuffy nose and coughing and everything and has yet to let up (Friday Night/Saturday Morning). So I've been on Dayquil and Nyquil trying to knock this cold out. And it's definitely had an effect on my reading. The constant pressure from my stuffy nose is making focusing on reading difficult. Hopefully I can knock the cold out this weekend. 

Guys... It's so quiet. Like I mentioned, the in-laws got back from their cruise last week and when they headed home, we let Ana go with them. She's been asking to go to Nana's house for weeks now so we figured since they were gonna stay here after they got in, they could just take her when they went home. It's so quiet in the apartment without a toddler running out every five minutes or constantly wanting to play. Lol. But she is having such a great time with Nana and Granddad. They have a sandbox for her, a fun water play table, lots of areas for her to use sidewalk chalk and lots of toys for her to play with. We've been getting pictures and video called them once so far and she's having a lot of fun. She was so excited to show us all her toys and the 3 new outfits Nana bought her on the call. We miss our little girl but we're also happy we're getting a small break. It gives us a chance to deep clean the apartment and have a little one on one time, which is rare when you have a kid. LOL. 

Last but not least, I totally forgot to tell you guys this last week! But I completed my Goodreads Challenge! Honestly, I wasn't expecting to hit it this early. With how the year started, I was sure I'd be struggling to read 75 by the end of the year. But looky!! LOL. At least now I can feel comfortable setting it at 100 or higher like I used to for next year. 

• Review: Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns #1) by Kendare Blake
• New Releases: Week of September 25, 2018
• Top Ten Tuesday: Books By My Favorite Authors That I Still Haven't Read
• Review: Wildcard (Warcross #2) by Marie Lu
• Discussion
• Review: The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air #1) by Holly Black

Ok guys, I plan on posting a discussion this upcoming week but I'm tossing around a few ideas and haven't decided which to settle on yet. Will update when I decide! :)