Over-Booked [31] – A Book Haul Post

over booked new

Over-Booked is my every-other-week book haul post, where I’m linking up with Stacking the Shelves and The Sunday Post. I don’t usually do these posts every week, but because of a recent influx of books, I’m doing one more today before I get back on my usual schedule. Some surprises and some requests came in this week, and I’m starting to stress out, people! I’m hoping to get back on track with my reading, but this past week has been dismal. I am excited about what arrived this week, however!

Physical books for review:
ob 7-25

Last First Snow by Max Gladstone. I am one of Max’s biggest fans, and I can’t wait to start the fourth book in his Craft Sequence. Big thanks to Tor for the finished copy!

Alice by Christina Henry. This dark, alternate retelling of Alice in Wonderland looks really good. Big thanks to the lovely Ace publicist at Comic Con who took my request at her booth! (I heart Ace Roc Stars!)

The Geomancer by Clay and Susan Griffith. These are the same characters from their Vampire Empire series (which I haven’t read yet – doh!) and I’m not sure whether or not you need to read the first three books first. I think it’s the start of a new series, yet on Goodreads they say it’s Book #4. Does anyone know? Thank you Pyr, this was a surprise, but I’m so happy to get it!

Rising Tide by Rajan Khanna. This is the second book in a series, and I really enjoyed the first one, Falling Sky. Big thanks to Pyr!

ob 7-25 2

Shower of Stones by Zachary Jernigan, Solomon’s Arrow by J. Dalton Jennings, Bat Out of Hell by Alan Gold, and The Dangerous Type by Loren Rhoads. Big thanks to the always generous Skyhorse Publishing for these lovely surprises! I actually already have ARCs of Solomon’s Arrow and The Dangerous Type, so expect giveaways for these finished copies as soon as I post my reviews.

Digital review copies:

King of the Bastards by Brian Keene. I really had fun with the last Keene book I read, The Lost Level, and this one looks like more pulp fun. Thanks to Apex Books!

The Drowning God by James Kendley. This is a Harper Voyager Impulse book, which means the digital version comes out first, followed several months later by the paperback. A monster story that takes place in Japan? So excited:-D

The Girl With Ghost Eyes by M.H. Boroson.  I’m on an Asia kick! This time the story takes place in San Francisco’s China Town, with Chinese sorcerers. This comes out in November from Talos, thanks for approving me!

Bookburners by Max Gladstone, Margaret Dunlap, Mur Lafferty and Brian Francis Slattery. OK, this sounds very cool. In fact, the publicist who brought this to my attention can explain it better than I can:

“Bookburners”—an addictive modern fantasy, in the vein of “Supernatural” and “Buffy”―will be published by Serial Box, the newest medium for series drama. Serial Box is a new digital publishing start-up focused exclusively on original serialized fiction, delivering the episodic television model to the written word.

Heralded as “Sheer enormous fun!” by Naomi Novik (Uprooted and the best-selling Temeraire series) “Bookburners” has also been called a “Beastly injection of 100-proof demon-battling fiction,” by Kieran Shea (Koko Takes a Holiday).

With weekly episodes being created by Gladstone and his team, the Bookburners season will run for 16 weeks.

Doesn’t that sound awesome?? I’ve been offered the first four episodes for review (the project launches in September) and I’ll be part of the blog tour as well. You know as soon as I saw the word “Buffy” I had to say “yes”…

Purchased:

ob 7-25 3

Not like I need any more books or anything, but I decided to try the Book Riot Quarterly Young Adult Box. (There is an adult version as well, which is probably more along the lines of what I’m interested in.) My first box came a couple of weeks ago, and it’s pretty cool, although these books aren’t really the genres I read, so I may have to rethink whether or not I want to continue. But it’s so fun to get curated packages! Check out the cute book light and the “library card” note cards…awwww! The price tag of $50 is a bit steep, although they claim the contents is worth more than that. In any case, a fun experience. Check it out here if you’re interested.

And that’s it for me! Time to get reading…link me up to your book haul posts!

Posted July 25, 2015 by Tammy in Over-Booked / 26 Comments

Divider

26 responses to “Over-Booked [31] – A Book Haul Post”

  1. Fi

    Amazing haul of books! Can’t wait to hear what you think of Alice as I’m so looking forward to getting my hands on a copy!

    I’m way, way behind with my reading and blogging – too much to do recently and not enough time for reading or blogging. Hopefully I’ll get back on track in August…
    Fi recently posted…Waiting On Wednesday #128 – Burning MidnightMy Profile

    Reply
  2. DJ (@MyLifeMyBooksMyEscape)

    So many good book, again!

    I think this is second of third time I’ve seen Bat Out Of Hell pop up; I’m very interested in hearing more about that one. Bookburners sounds like it will be fun! I missed the start of K.J. Parker’s The Two of Swords episodic, so I’d love to to be able to read along from the start with this one!

    Reply
  5. Jess @ Reading Nook Reviews

    I haven’t swung by in awhile – sorry! >.< – but I love your new header! It's gorgeous, and makes me think Game of Thrones for some reason. 🙂

    Don't stress about the influx of books this week – just remember: it's one book at a time! You have some great titles too. Also, really liking the Book Riot box!

    My STtS

    Reply
    • Tammy

      Thanks Jess! And thank you for your kind words about my new design:-) Wow, I hadn’t even thought of Game of Thrones when I was designing it, but thanks!

      Reply
    • Tammy

      I’m mostly excited about Bat Out of Hell because it won’t be released until September so I have time to fit it into the schedule, LOL.

      Reply
    • Tammy

      Me too, I’m going to read it anyway, even though I haven’t read the first three books. Here’s hoping it works out for us both!

      Reply
  10. Bibliotropic

    Okay, I’m extremely envious of your copy of The Drowning God. And holy crap, I hadn’t heard of Bookburners before now, but after that description, I’m just as envious over that, too! Someone wants to combine Buffy and Supernatural, two of my favourite shows, and I am all over that, my friend!

    Reply
    • Tammy

      Oh yeah, I know you didn’t enjoy Splintered that much, so you’re right, hopefully Alice will be darker. I’ll post my review and let you know!

      Reply
  13. Bonnie @ For the Love of Words

    I haven’t read the Vampire Expire series either but I’ve heard such wonderful things about it I had really hoped to get to it someday. 🙂 I was considering the Book Riot Box but that price tag is really steep… I can’t honestly see the contents being worth more than that but it sure is fun getting a surprise package in the mail. Enjoy all your new reads!

    Reply

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.