Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books we are adding to our shelves, whether they be physical or digital. This includes physical books bought, digital books downloaded, and those titles received for review.
Review Titles
Woo! What a fabulous week for review titles! A pair of highly anticipated reads and a pair of new discoveries...
First up is a signed ARC of The Frozen Crown by Greta Kelly
Next up is Gifting Fire, the 2nd Stealing Thunder book from Alina Boyden
The battle has been won, but the war is just beginning.
Although at long last Razia Khan has found peace with herself and love with her prince, Arjun, her trials are far from over. In order to save her prince and his city from certain destruction, Razia made a deal with the devil--her father, the Sultan of Nizam. Now the bill has come due.
Razia must secure the province of Zindh, a land surrounded by enemies, and loyal to a rebel queen who has survived her father's purge. But when her old tormentor Prince Karim invades her new home and forces her into a marriage alliance, Razia finds herself trapped in the women's quarters of a foreign palace, with her beloved Prince Arjun exiled from her side.
Now, in order to free herself, and her province, from Karim's clutches, she must call upon all of her training as a royal princess, a cunning courtesan, and a daring thief to summon new allies and old friends for a battle that will decide her fate, and the fate of an empire..
Following that is The Queen's Weapons, the 11th Black Jewels novel by Anne Bishop
Next, on the discovery side, we have The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird
The year is 2025, and a mysterious virus has broken out in Scotland--a lethal illness that seems to affect only men. When Dr. Amanda MacLean reports this phenomenon, she is dismissed as hysterical. By the time her warning is heeded, it is too late. The virus becomes a global pandemic--and a political one. The victims are all men. The world becomes alien--a women's world.
What follows is the immersive account of the women who have been left to deal with the virus's consequences, told through first-person narratives. Dr. MacLean; Catherine, a social historian determined to document the human stories behind the "male plague;" intelligence analyst Dawn, tasked with helping the government forge a new society; and Elizabeth, one of many scientists desperately working to develop a vaccine. Through these women and others, we see the uncountable ways the absence of men has changed society, from the personal--the loss of husbands and sons--to the political--the changes in the workforce, fertility and the meaning of family.
In The End of Men, Christina Sweeney-Baird creates an unforgettable tale of loss, resilience and hope.
Finally, from an author I've heard great things about, it's My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
New Acquisitions: Paperback Treasures
Lots of paperback goodies hitting the shelves this week...
New additions to the kickass heroine, female-fronted thriller shelves include
- Black Rain by Graham Brown (covert government operative Danielle Laidlaw leads an expedition into the deepest reaches of the Amazon in search of a legendary Mayan city)
- Red Cell by Mark Henshaw (two women, CIA outcasts, who must race to stop a secret Chinese weapon that threatens to provoke a world war)
- Circle of Bones by Christine Killing (sex and adventure meet history and intrigue in this breathless nautical thriller that spans decades)
- The Moscow Deception by Karen Robards (Clever. Cunning. Highly skilled. There’s only one Bianca St. Ives. And for her enemies, that’s one too many).
On the genre side of things, it's
- The mass market paperback edition of Search Image by Julie E. Czerneda (the first book in the Web Shifter''s Library series returns to the adventures of Esen, a shapeshifting alien)
- No Demons But Us by A.S. Etaski (an epic tale of intrigue and intense sensuality arising from the Deepearth, the coming-of-age of a Dark Elf)
- Titan by John Varley (the science fiction classic).
How did you get My Heart is a Chainsaw??? I've requested it but no luck😥 Its probably my number one anticipated book this year.
ReplyDeleteI've heard that from a few people. Somehow I was lucky enough to be preapproved on Edelweiss.
DeleteSo many new treasures this week, I would hardly know where to start reading! Here's my post for the week, happy reading!
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Nice signed ARC! I'm hoping to score a listening copy of that one from the audio publisher. I also wish I'd read Stealing Thunder, because that sequel looks amazing!
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