Welcome to Over-Booked, my version of the ever popular book haul post, where I will be linking up with Stacking the Shelves at Tynga’s Reviews as well as The Sunday Post at The Caffeinated Book Reviewer. Alas, no huge, teetering pile of ARCs from BEA for this blogger (and yes, I’ll admit to feeling jealous of all the ginormous book hauls everyone seems to be posting this week), but I did spend my Mother’s Day Barnes & Noble gift card last week, and I picked up a few digital ARCs as well. Here’s my book haul:
Purchased:
Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige. Because, I just need a copy of this and want to read it sooo bad.
The Three by Sarah Lotz. When book bloggers I really trust say that this is one of their favorite books of the year so far, I listen.
Bird Box by Josh Malerman. This book has some amazing reviews and sounds really scary. I can’t wait to read it.
The Snake Charm by Laura Lam. I just loved Lam’s Pantomime and Shadowplay, and this is a short story set in the same world. Lam has self-published this story, and plans on writing more in the same vein, and I love that she’s named her publishing company “Penglass Publishing.” (If you’ve read her books you’ll understand the reference!)
For Review:
Best British Horror 2014 edited by Johnny Mains. This anthology from one of my favorite small British publishers, Salt Publishing, is bound to be good. Everything I’ve read of theirs is top-notch.
A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray. I adore this cover, and the story sounds pretty good as well.
Winterspell by Claire Legrand. This is a retelling of The Nutcracker, and it sounds sooo good.
That’s my haul this week! What did you get?
Winterspell and A Thousand Piece of You both look amazing, I’m interested to see what you think. Great selection!
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I’m curious about The Three too! Winterspell is a Nutcracker retelling? Sounds awesome. Happy reading & have a great weekend!
Yes, the Nutcracker retelling seems like something that hasn’t been done before, so I’m really curious about it.
I really hope you’ll like The Three. It seems people either loved it or hated it, I guess it really depends on whether or not you like the structure and style 🙂 And gah, I would never be able to read that Horror anthology, one look at the cover and it would end up through my window and onto my lawn ;-P
Now that I’m looking closer at the cover, I see what you mean! Good god I will probably have to read this during daylight hours:-)
Great haul! I have quite a few on my ‘read soon’ pile but I’m especially looking forward to The Three and Winterspell. I read Bird Box a couple of weeks ago and liked it, very odd but good! The Best British Horror anthology looks good, might have to add that one to the wishlist.
Enjoy your new books and happy reading 🙂
Thanks, I’m very curious about Bird Box, since I haven’t seen too many reviews.
I got…nothing. For almost a month. But that is good, cleared a few arcs and hit the library for a couple too!
Still interested in Dorothy must die though, I must say.
Good for you, I wish I could keep myself from getting new books for a month!
I have Dorothy Must Die waiting on my TBR shelf. I’m hoping to get to it this month.
Me too!
I love every single one of these. We have similar taste. Thanks a bunch for sharing as I’ve now got some great authors to follow and books to nab! I visited my favorite local used book store this weekend and picked up a few I’ll be posting about tomorrow. Have a wonderful weekend.
So glad you stopped by! Hope your weekend is fantastic:-)
Ohhhhhhh The Snake Charm looks interesting. Is it available off her website?
I think it’s only available for Amazon Kindle at the moment (it’s an ebook) but she’s working on getting it ready for other platforms.
Oooh I just added The Three to my TBR pile after seeing it here, thanks for sharing Tammy!
No problem, Jeann. Another blogger turned me onto it too:-)
A thousand pieces of you looks very good, I’ll be awaiting your review 🙂 Have a great week !
Thanks, I can’t wait to get to it:-)
Dorthy Must Die looks interesting, I’m really going to have to check thought out! Nice book haul
have a great week
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Winterspell and Dorothy must die both look fab. I can’t wait to read them.
Happy Reading!
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Thanks Michelle, there are so many great books out right now:-)
Hope you enjoy BEST BRITISH HORROR!
Hey Johnny, glad you stopped by! Really looking forward to the book:-)
I am very curious about Dorothy Must Die. Enjoy your wonderful books, and have a great week. Here’s MY WEEKLY SUNDAY/MONDAY UPDATES POST