To celebrate my 26th Birthday I've splurged on a few book purchases. Let's see what's been in my mail this week...
Monday:
The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager
Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their tiny cabin at Camp Nightingale. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and first-time camper Emma Davis, the youngest of the group. The games ended when Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out of the cabin in the dead of night. The last she--or anyone--saw of them was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her, hushing Emma with a finger pressed to her lips.Now a rising star in the New York art scene, Emma turns her past into paintings--massive canvases filled with dark leaves and gnarled branches that cover ghostly shapes in white dresses. The paintings catch the attention of Francesca Harris-White, the socialite and wealthy owner of Camp Nightingale. When Francesca implores her to return to the newly reopened camp as a painting instructor, Emma sees an opportunity to try to find out what really happened to her friends.
Yet it's immediately clear that all is not right at Camp Nightingale. Already haunted by memories from fifteen years ago, Emma discovers a security camera pointed directly at her cabin, mounting mistrust from Francesca and, most disturbing of all, cryptic clues Vivian left behind about the camp's twisted origins. As she digs deeper, Emma finds herself sorting through lies from the past while facing threats from both man and nature in the present.
And the closer she gets to the truth about Camp Nightingale, the more she realizes it may come at a deadly price.
Purchase Location: Target
Price: $18.90 (30% off!)
Tuesday:
Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
Darkness never dies.Hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land. She finds starting new is not easy while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret. She can’t outrun her past or her destiny for long.
The Darkling has emerged from the Shadow Fold with a terrifying new power and a dangerous plan that will test the very boundaries of the natural world. With the help of a notorious privateer, Alina returns to the country she abandoned, determined to fight the forces gathering against Ravka. But as her power grows, Alina slips deeper into the Darkling’s game of forbidden magic, and farther away from Mal. Somehow, she will have to choose between her country, her power, and the love she always thought would guide her--or risk losing everything to the oncoming storm.
Purchase Location: HPB.com
Purchase Price: $3.70
Bonus: It was signed! Surprise!
Wednesday
Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo
The capital has fallen.The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne.
Now the nation's fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army.
Deep in an ancient network of tunnels and caverns, a weakened Alina must submit to the dubious protection of the Apparat and the zealots who worship her as a Saint. Yet her plans lie elsewhere, with the hunt for the elusive firebird and the hope that an outlaw prince still survives.
Alina will have to forge new alliances and put aside old rivalries as she and Mal race to find the last of Morozova's amplifiers. But as she begins to unravel the Darkling's secrets, she reveals a past that will forever alter her understanding of the bond they share and the power she wields. The firebird is the one thing that stands between Ravka and destruction—and claiming it could cost Alina the very future she’s fighting for.
Purchase Location: HPB.com
Purchase Price: $4.39
Bonus: Poster of the Grishaverse
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
(French Edition)
À Ketterdam, la mafia s'organise en gangs rivaux. L'homme le plus important de la pègre est Pekka Rollins ; le plus ambitieux, le jeune Kaz Bekker, dit "les Mains sales". Aussi brillant qu'exaspérant, Kaz, second du gang des Corbeaux, ne refuse aucun coup pour peu qu'il en tire argent et panache. Sa réputation de voleur lui vaut d'emporter un marché qui le rendra riche : il doit enlever un homme retenu dans un lieu imprenable, la forteresse des Glaces, place forte des redoutables soldats-prêtres druskelles. Le prisonnier à enlever est l'inventeur de la "Jurda parem", une drogue multipliant sans limites le pouvoir des Grishas tout en les rendant soumis et dépendants. Kaz décide donc de réunir une équipe aux talents exceptionnels : - Inej, espionne hors pair alias le Spectre, - Matthias, soldat druskelle dévoré par sa haine des Grishas, - Nina, ancienne guerrière de l'armée grisha, - Wylan, escamoteur débutant, fugueur et otage volontaire, - Jesper, tireur d'élite qui parierait sa vie pour le gout du jeu. Ces coéquipiers malgré eux feront face à un enchaînement effréné d'épreuves : libérer Matthias d'Hellgate, faire face aux gangs rivaux prêts à les doubler, survivre à l'explosion de leur navire et surtout s'infiltrer dans l'imprenable cité des glaces!
Purchase Location: Amazon.com
Purchase Price: $18.70
Waiting On:
Fallen Heir by Erin Watt
Purchase Location: Erin Watt's website
Purchase Price: $15.00
Bonus: It's Signed!
Cracked Kingdom by Erin Watt
Purchase Location: Erin Watt's website
Purchase Price: $15.00
Bonus: It's Signed!
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by April Genevieve Tucholke
Purchase Location: HPB.com
Purchase Price: $0.87
Catwoman: Soulstealer by Sarah J. Maas
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