Stacking the Shelves #30 – A little of this, a little of that

Posted 3 May, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Memes, Stacking the Shelves / 40 Comments

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Stacking The Shelves #30 – A little of this, a little of that

Stacking The Shelves, hosted by Tynga’s Reviews is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

Participating in Stacking The Shelves has helped me to keep better track of books I’m adding to my huge TBR pile every week, and I think I have gotten a little better at not adding too many books every single week. Participating in this blog-hop has also introduced me to more new blogs, and some weeks, I add more books to my ‘might-read-one-day’ shelf than I should, but before I actually have the books on my kindle, nothing has been decided yet.

Netgalley ARCs:

Yours Truly, Taddy cover - (un)Conventional BookviewsYours Truly, Taddy (The Graduate Years #2) – Avery Aster

Jetting to Martinique for a modeling assignment with three of Europe’s hottest magazine photographers—Gustave, Fabian, and Leon—should’ve been easy, breezy beautiful. Never did I expect to look up and see a hole in the ceiling of our plane that was bigger in size than my Birkin bag.
Shit! We’re nose-diving toward Eden Island. I pictured how my New York Times obituary might read when I’m gone, “Taddy Brill, Manhattanite, dethroned descendant of the Austrian House of Brillford royalty, dies at age eighteen, penniless, unloved, and a virgin.” I swear this crap only happens to me. Suddenly, Leon pulls me with Fabian and Gustave. Adrenaline racing through me, our bodies clung as one. We prepared to…crash.
The Undergrad Years is a New Adult contemporary miniseries about first loves, independence, and everlasting friendships.

 

Dante's Kiss cover - (un)Conventional BookviewsDante’s Kiss – S.L Nadathur

It’s hard to be a sixteen-year-old-three-quarter angel when the one quarter human side kicks in. When Kiriela and her almost-boyfriend cause chaos in heaven, she is forced to live in exile with her parents in Puerto Rico. But because she is not fully immortal, Kiriela’s father is overprotective. Fearing that she won’t be strong enough to fight against the forces of evil that follow their family, Kiriela’s father keeps her in a protective bubble. But when they move to Puerto Rico, he loses control over her.
Finding her feuding parents too occupied with their own problems to deal with hers, Kiriela slips out from under her father’s radar and finds the freedom she craves. But what this young angel fails to understand when she disobeys her father and falls for a human boy named Dante is that when the supernatural collides with the natural world, something as simple as a kiss is more dangerous than it seems.

Then Came You cover - (un)Conventional BookviewsThen Came You (Animal Magnetism #5) – Jill Shalvis

Veterinary intern Emily can’t believe she wound up in the small town of Sunshine, Idaho, instead of the Los Angeles clinic she had always imagined. Now she has to put her plans to move to L.A. on hold for a whole year while she fulfills the obligation of her vet school scholarship.
Then Wyatt, her gorgeous one-night stand from a Reno vet conference, introduces himself as her new boss. And Emily is just as drawn to his seductive looks and quiet strength as she was on that very steamy night. She soon learns that Wyatt isn’t just a laid-back doctor, but a delicious alpha male tempting her away from her carefully laid-out plans…

Blogtour ARCs:

Freedom cover - (un)Conventional BookviewsFreedom (Fearsome #2) – S.A. Wolfe

Dylan Blackard is back in town and certain everyone knows his secrets.
Putting away his notorious reputation as the wild guy with a womanizing past, he’s now on a new path, wanting to be the good guy his brother can stop worrying over. As long as he gives up his old vices—including women—he can keep himself on the straight and narrow and finally live up to everyone’s expectations.
However, obsessing about his lack of self-control is making Dylan one humorless, cranky hermit. That all changes, though, when his brother hires a new employee, the stunning Emma Keller, who will be sharing an office with him and all of his tightly wound nerves.
Emma, a spunky young woman from New Jersey, isn’t about to feel sorry for Dylan and his situation. She is beyond distracting to him, and that is enough to turn his emotional balancing act upside down. Not only is she intelligent, and a smart aleck, she’s also very determined to pull the sexy Dylan Blackard out of his self-imposed isolation.
From the moment he meets her, he feels alive again, but Emma doesn’t come as a gift with a pretty bow; she comes with major baggage—a family embedded in its own tumultuous history.
Will Emma be the tipping point that causes Dylan to regress into his past destructive behaviors…or will he actually pursue her for keeps?

Audiobooks:

Vampire Academy audio cover - (un)Conventional BookviewsVampire Academy (Vampire Academy #1) – Richelle Mead

St. Vladimir’s Academy isn’t just any boarding school—it’s a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They’ve been on the run, but now they’re being dragged back to St. Vladimir’s—the very place where they’re most in danger…
Rose and Lissa become enmeshed in forbidden romance, the Academy’s ruthless social scene, and unspeakable nighttime rituals. But they must be careful lest the Strigoi—the world’s fiercest and most dangerous vampires—make Lissa one of them forever.

Dear Rockstar audio cover - (un)Conventional BookviewsDear Rockstar – Emme Rollins

The best things in life are crazy…
Sara is obsessed with rock star Tyler Vincent, and as she works to complete her senior year, she’s determined to find a way to meet him – although her best friend, Aimee, keeps telling her to find a different escape from her desperately violent home life.
Complications arise when Dale, the mysterious new transfer student, sets his sights on Sara, and she falls for this rock-star-in-the-making in spite of her better judgment. When Sara wins a contest, she is faced with a choice – travel to Tyler Vincent’s home town to meet him, or stay and support Dale in a Battle-of-the-Bands hosted by MTV.
Their triangulated relationship is pushed to its breaking point, but there is another, deeper secret that Dale’s been keeping that just may break things wide open…
Turn up your collar, feather your hair, and splash on some Polo, because we’re going back to the ’80s when MTV played music videos, there was no such thing as American Idol, and becoming a star meant doing nothing short of crazy for that one, big break.

Bloodlines audio cover - (un)Conventional BookviewsBloodlines (Bloodlines #1) – Richelle Mead

Blood doesn’t lie…
Sydney is an alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of human and vampires. They protect vampire secrets – and human lives. When Sydney is torn from her bed in the middle of the night, at first she thinks she’s still being punished for her complicated alliance with dhampir Rose Hathaway. But what unfolds is far worse. Jill Dragomir – the sister of Moroi Queen Lissa Dragomir – is in mortal danger, and the Moroi must send her into hiding. To avoid a civil war, Sydney is called upon to act as Jill’s guardian and protector, posing as her roommate in the last place anyone would think to look for vampire royalty – a human boarding school in Palm Springs, California. But instead of finding safety at Amberwood Prep, Sydney discovers the drama is only just beginning…

Kindle Purchases:

Magic Bites cover - (un)Conventional BookviewsMagic Bites (Kate Andrews #1) – Ilona Andrews

When the magic is up, rogue mages cast their spells and monsters appear, while guns refuse to fire and cars fail to start. But then technology returns, and the magic recedes as unpredictably as it arose, leaving all kinds of paranormal problems in its wake.
Kate Daniels is a down-on-her-luck mercenary who makes her living cleaning up these magical problems. But when Kate’s guardian is murdered, her quest for justice draws her into a power struggle between two strong factions within Atlanta’s magic circles.
The Masters of the Dead, necromancers who can control vampires, and the Pack, a paramilitary clan of shapechangers, blame each other for a series of bizarre killings—and the death of Kate’s guardian may be part of the same mystery. Pressured by both sides to find the killer, Kate realizes she’s way out of her league—but she wouldn’t have it any other way…

How to Seduce a Vampire cover - (un)Conventional BookviewsHow to Seduce a Vampire Without Even Trying (Love at Stake #15) – Kerrelyn Sparks

Vampire Zoltan Czakvar is on the hunt for the truth about his father’s death. He’s been searching for a very long time—since 1241, in fact. And he is not about to give up, even when he’s attacked by a woman with striking blue eyes and a hell of a right hook!
Neona is also on the hunt. She’s looking for a mate, and she thinks muscled Zoltan will work just fine. After all, men are good for only one thing. Soon, though, she realizes there’s more to this handsome vampire than just sexual prowess. But she’s keeping a secret from Zoltan, something so big that it will rock the vampire world.
Can their newfound love survive . . . even if their passion means the destruction of her world?

 

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Linda is an English as foreign language teacher and has a Master's degree in English Language and Literature. She's an avid reader, blogger, compulsive one-clicker and a genre omnivore. Ever since she learnt how to read she has been seen with a book or two in her hands everywhere she goes.

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40 responses to “Stacking the Shelves #30 – A little of this, a little of that”

    • Lexxie

      I have already read both Bloodlines and Vampire Academy, and since I loved them, I wanted to listen to the audiobooks as well 🙂

      Thanks for stopping by, Chrissi.

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    • Lexxie

      I have recently listened to several audiobooks and loved them, so I’m branching out now 🙂
      Thanks for stopping by, Bieke.

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    • Lexxie

      Magic Bites does come with rave reviews, I can’t wait to start it!

      Thanks for stopping by, Jeann 🙂

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    • Lexxie

      Yeah me, too. Kerrelyn Sparks put so much humor into her books, and I love that.
      Thanks for stopping by, Luna.

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    • Lexxie

      I’m a huge Richelle Mead fan, and I really enjoyed the VA series a lot. I hope you’ll get the chance to check it out, and that you’ll enjoy it, too, Cait.

      Thanks for stopping by.

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  8. Marilyn Phillips

    Nice haul, Lexxie. Dante’s Kiss looks interesting. I have yet to try an audio book.
    Happy reading. Hope you enjoy all of your books.

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    • Lexxie

      Yeah, I love angels, even if those stories are hit or miss for me. I hope I’ll enjoy Dante’s Kiss.

      Thanks for stopping by, Marilyn.

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    • Lexxie

      Thank you, Shelley. I’m pretty excited about my Ilona Andrews books 🙂

      Happy reading, thanks for stopping by.

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  11. Jessica @ a GREAT read

    OOoh awesome! These are new to me except for Richelle Mead’s books! Hope you enjoy those! I loved them! Vampire Academy is what brought me back to reading YA! Happy reading!

    My STS will be up tomorrow so be sure to stop by then!

    Have a GREAT weekend!

    Old Follower 🙂

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    • Lexxie

      I’m a huge Jill Shalvis fan, so I am thinking I’ll enjoy hers 🙂 And I look forward to having VA read to me 😉

      Thanks for stopping by, Jessica.

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    • Lexxie

      The Love at Stakes series is hilarious, and pretty hot, Kim.

      Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend yourself.

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    • Lexxie

      Sorry for the reminder, Berls – or maybe not? I agree, there are always so many books I would like to read.

      Thanks for stopping by.

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  17. Stormi
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    I wonder if I listen to VA if I would like it more than I did trying to read it. I never finished the first book and every one keeps telling me it gets better if I can make it through the first one..lol. 🙂

    Have fun with all your new reads. 🙂

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  21. Bookworm Brandee

    You got some great looking books, Lexxie! I got Yours Truly, Taddy as well. 🙂 I’m very interested in Dante’s Kiss and I think I have Dear Rockstar, too. I anxious for your thoughts on all the audio books…truly, you’re tempting me to try. 🙂

    Happy reading, my friend!! *big hugs*

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