Stacking the Shelves #13

 

Hosted by Tynga’s Reviews

Welcome back to Stacking the Shelves, a regular meme hosted by Tynga at Tynga’s Reviews. Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the latest books you have added to your shelves, physical or virtual.  This means you can include books you buy in store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts, and of course e-books! Here is my haul from this week.

Invited to read via Netgalley

I was invited by Gallery Books to read Searching For Always by Jennifer Probst via Netgalley, which was my first invitation from a publisher since I joined – woo hoo! I have read a number of Probst books and enjoyed them a lot.

Freebie purchased from Amazon

Because I’ve been reading her other books, I grabbed Rewind by Susan Ward when it was free on Kindle this week. It’s a novella about the children from her other Half Shell and Affair Without End series, so I’m keen to read.

Purchased from Amazon

Finally, I bought Taken by Midnight by Lara Adrian from Amazon. I read a number of the Midnight Breed series earlier this year and am up to this one, so grabbed it while it was a couple of dollars cheaper. The last one ended with a bit of a cliffhanger so I’m keen to see what happens next.

So that’s it for this week. Keep an eye out for my reviews of these in coming weeks. So what new books did you pick up this week? Let me know in the comments.

Stacking the Shelves #10

 

Hosted by Tynga’s Reviews

Welcome back to Stacking the Shelves, a regular meme hosted by Tynga at Tynga’s Reviews. Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the latest books you have added to your shelves, physical or virtual.  This means you can include books you buy in store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts, and of course e-books! Here is my haul from this week.

Free on Amazon Kindle

It’s been a little quiet this week. From Amazon I purchased NightDrake by Lara Adrian, which was free, and iBooks sent me my pre-order of Never Never: Part Two by Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher. Looking forward to reading more of that one!

Pre-ordered from iBooks

From the public library I downloaded the e-book of The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski.

Downloaded from the public library

And that was it! Keep an eye out for my reviews of these in coming weeks. So what new books did you pick up this week? Let me know in the comments.

50 Ways to Hex Your Lover, by Linda Wisdom

Format: Kindle Edition, 374 pages

Published: March 1, 2008 (first published January 1, 2008)

Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca

Back cover blurb:

Jazz cant decide whether to scorch him with a fireball or jump into bed with him

Jasmine Tremaine, a witch who cant stay out of trouble
Nikolai Gregorivich, a drop-dead gorgeous vampire cop on the trail of a serial killer

The sizzling love affair between Jazz and Nick has been off-again-on-again-for about 300 years. Mostly off, lately. But now Nick needs Jazzs help, and while Jazz and Nick try to figure out their own hearts and resist their ever-increasing attraction, they must steer clear of a maniacal killer with super-supernatural powers. They are surrounded by a hilarious cast of oddball paranormal characters, including Norma, the chain-smoking ghost who haunts Jazzs sports car, Dweezil, her ghoul of a boss, and Fluff and Puff, a pair of bunny slippers with sharp teeth and short tempers (watch your ankles!).

My review:

This was a Kindle freebie, and it fitted in with a reading challenge I was doing, so I gave it a go. I really liked Jazz Tremaine – she has a great name, and who wouldn’t love a rebellious witch who likes In N Out burgers and thigh-high boots? I also really enjoyed her relationships with hunky vampire cop Nick and Irma, the ghost who lives in her car. The fact she has a pair of killer fluffy slippers is also pure win.

Perhaps my problem was with the baddie, Clive Reeves. There wasn’t really much background of his character which would have explained his motivations, so I guess he just didn’t cut it as a villain for me. I just didn’t care about him enough to be scared of him.

I enjoyed it, but it didn’t really grab me at any point, not even at the big showdown ending. There are more Jazz books in this series; maybe they will be better.

My rating: 3.5/5

Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

Format: ebook, 281 pages

Published: June 1, 1998 (first published 1813)

Publisher: Public Domain Books (I got mine via Project Gutenberg)

Back cover blurb:

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”

So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s witty comedy of manners — one of the most popular novels of all time — that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues. Renowned literary critic and historian George Saintsbury in 1894 declared it the “most perfect, the most characteristic, the most eminently quintessential of its author’s works,” and Eudora Welty in the twentieth century described it as “irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could be.”

“The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste.” –Virginia Woolf.

My review:

Still brilliant. *sigh* Mr Darcy is the perfect man – willing to change for his woman. And for me, he can only ever be Colin Firth. *sigh again*

My rating: 5/5