The Sunday Post - 14 February 2021

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It's been about a year and a half since I last did the Sunday Post but I'm baaackkk! Happy Valentine's Day to everyone celebrating!

⚜ Top Ten Tuesday: 10 of My Favorite Contemporary Romance Novels

⚜ I Can't Wait For...SHUTTER!
⚜ What I'm Binge-Watching: 11 February 2021
⚜ {Cover Reveal} NOT PRETENDING ANYMORE by Penelope Ward and Vi Keeland

🍀 It's Monday! What Are You Reading 
🍀 Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Mardi Gras Colored Books
🍀{Release Day Blitz + Review}: THE BACHELOR by Carly Phillips
🍀 I Can't Wait For... VELVET WAS THE NIGHT

Learn More:

The Bachelor by Carly Phillips

Lore by Alexandra Bracken

💀 This Week I Bookmarked: Start Reading ‘The Initial Insult’ by Mindy McGinnis!

I'm on the job hunt since moving at the beginning of the month and I have an interview coming up on Wednesday... wish me luck!

Top Ten Tuesday: The Ten Most Recent Additions to My Bookshelf

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish and currently hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl.

Top Ten Tuesday: The Ten Most Recent Additions to My Bookshelf

 This week's TTT is about recent additions to our bookshelves. If you're anything like me you're in a constant state of getting new books. I try to trade or donate an even amount to balance the amount of books I get every month though. These are ten of my most recent book purchases, ARC arrivals, and ebooks...

1. Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore

2. The Night Country: A Hazel Wood Novel by Melissa Albert

3. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

4. Wickedly Dangerous by Deborah Blake

5. Firespell by Chloe Neill

6. Meet Cute by Helena Hunting

7. Forever My Girl by Heidi McLaughlin

8. Ashlords by Scott Reintgen

9. Oasis by Katya de Beccera

10. Letters to Molly by Devney Perry

What books did you recently add to your book collection?
 Let me know  in the comments & drop me a link to your TTT!

Happy Reading Bookdragons!

Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Books I'd Love To Find Under The Tree This Morning

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish and currently hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl.

Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Books I'd Love To Find Under The Tree This Morning

Merry Christmas Bookdragons! This week's TTT is all about the books I hope to find under the tree this morning.

1. To Kill A Kingdom by Alexandra Christo

2. After the Woods by Kim Savage

3. Blackhearts by Nicole Castroman

4. Obsidio by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

5. Ten by Gretchen McNeil

6.  Until the End by Abbi Glines 

7. Honor by Jay Crownover

8. Kiss Collector by Wendy Higgins

9. Walk the Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson 

10.My True Love Gave To Me Anthology 

What books do you hope to get this Christmas?

Let me know in the comments or drop me a link to your TTT!

Happy Reading Bookdragons!

#BookMail Thursday #41

Between Christmas and the arrival of an amazing ARC I requested from a publisher I have one last book mail post for 2018. Let's open my mailbox and see what had me jumping up and down with excitement...

Christmas 2017 Haul

Christmas was good to me this year and I got some amazing gifts that I'm really excited about.

- When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

- There's Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins

- A Darker Shade of Magic Collector's Edition by V.E. Schwab

- Bonfire by Krysten Ritter

(Plus two pairs of bookish socks and a book t-shirt!)

ARC

I got a physical ARC of The Heart Forger by Rin Chupeco earlier this week and it was a total surprise. I'd requested a copy months ago but gave up hope that I'd get one but when I got my mail on Tuesday and found a package with no return address I thought maybe it was something from my secret Santa. Imagine my delight when I opened the package and this beautiful ARC was inside. I was jumping up and down and squealing, I was so excited!!!! Thank you so much Sourcebooks Fire! 

January Waiting On:

- My Signed, Personalized Copy of The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

#BookMail Thursday #22

Last week I was lucky enough to get a few different ARCs to review. One was a physical ARC and three were eARCs. I also picked up two freebie books by an author I love and an author I've been meaning to read. Here's what I found in my mailbox (or email inbox) this week...

Physical ARC:

The Dazzling Heights by Katharine McGee (Harper, 08/2017)

eARCs:

Divine by Leanne Rathbone (Self-published 5/20/2017)

Secrets of Skin and Stone by Wendy Laine (Entangled Teen 6/5/2017)

Kiss Me, Kill You by Larissa Hardesty (Entangled Teen, 6/12/2017)

Freebie books:

Sharing Rylee by D. Kelly

Mateguas Island by Linda Watkins

June Waiting On:

Signed Copies of:

- Roar by Cora Carmack

- The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh

- The Rose and the Dagger by Renee Ahdieh

- Ivory and Bone by Julie Eshbaugh

-Obsidian and Stars by Julie Eshbaugh

-Sexy Stranger by Kendall Ryan

After this I'm forcing myself to cool it on book shopping. I'm not sure it's a good idea to do a Kickstarter for my upcoming fantasy novel, CurseBreaker so I'm going to try to save up to pay for the Kirkus Review and other extras I want for CB out of my own pocket. 

#BookMail Thrusday #21

This #BookMail Thursday is nearly as awesome as the week I got my Apollycon book order! Its like Christmas came early! Here's what was in my mailbox this week...

Signed copies of:

- Sweet Evil by Wendy Higgins

- Unknown by Wendy Higgins

- Unrest by Wendy Higgins

- The Wish Granter by C.J. Redwine

Star Lights & Bookmark for the When It's Real Preorder Incentive

I also got...

My author copy of Through the Fog (Eternals Trilogy #3)

June Waiting On:

Signed Copies of:

- Roar by Cora Carmack

- The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh

- The Rose and the Dagger by Renee Ahdieh

- Ivory and Bone by Julie Eshbaugh

-Obsidian and Stars by Julie Eshbaugh

Thinking of Buying:

A physical copy of Sexy Stranger by Kendall Ryan (I had an eARC

"Book Mail" Thursday #13

This week's "Book Mail" Thursday is an extra special post filled with all kinds of bookish goodies...

OwlCrate's February Box "Run Away With the Circus" Unboxing

I've been wanting to try out OwlCrate, a YA book subscription box since last June when I first heard about it and when I guessed that February's box would include Caraval I knew I had to order it. I've heard great things about Caraval and I love all of the cute bookish items that came in this month's box.

This month's box included:

Caraval by Stephanie Garber 

A tote bag designed by Evie Seo 

A candle from FrostBeard

A mini doughnut lip balm from Geek Fire Labs

A notepad from Attic Journals

Page flags from Girl of All Work

Like what you see & want to sign up for OwlCrate for yourself? Click here to sign up for March's box! 

The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco

I read an ARC of The Bone Witch last summer and I am so in love with the cover so I had to have a physical copy. I am so amazed that Barnes and Noble sent me my pre-ordered copy 2 weeks before the release date... not that I'm complaining! It's even more gorgeous in person! Look for my review of The Bone Witch on March 7th! Also, this picture shows off another piece of my mail this week, my Scream Funko! Isn't he cute? He reminds me more of Edvard Munch's The Scream painting instead of a vicious killer. 

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Like I mentioned last week, I'm trying to limit my book buying to 1-2 books a month so now I'm waiting for March's OwlCrate Box - Themed "Sailors, Ships & Seas (which I think probably will include the book "Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller) and I'll probably order myself a copy of S. Jae-Jones's Wintersong, which I absolutely loved! 

"Book Mail" Thursday #6

I finally have new book mail to share with you! Over the past week I've received two awesome pieces of book mail, so this "Book Mail" Thursday I'm showing off... 

ARCs of Freeks by Amanda Hocking and RoseBlood by AG Howard!!!

I've already read an eARC of RoseBlood and I loved it; you'll get to read my review on January 10th, but I haven't read Freeks yet and I'm eager to read it after I finish reading The Lovely Reckless. 

Waiting On:

I won a signed paperback copy of D. Kelly's Just An Illusion - Side A, so I'm waiting for that to arrive - hopefully soon! 

What I Want to Splurge On / Christmas is Coming!

Christmas is just around the corner and this year I actually asked for specific books. Here's what I'm hoping for under the tree this year...

Since it's almost Christmas there really isn't anything pressing I want to splurge on right now. I might add a couple books to my Apollycon 2017 Virtual Signing order and over the next couple months I might get myself a physical copy of Ever the Hunted and the Barnes and Noble exclusive version of RoseBlood or maybe even a signed copy of one of Jennifer Crusie's books from her new online shop, but right now I don't have any pressing book needs. 

What books are you hoping for under the tree? Do you have any cool book mail you want to talk about? Are you waiting on any books? 

In the Mail Monday

                 There's not much I love getting in the mail more than books. Today's "In the Mail Monday" brought me....

The Night Sister by Jennifer McMahon

Blurb: 

The Tower Motel was once a thriving of rural Vermont. Today it lies in disrepair, alive only in the memory of the three women - Amy, Piper, and Piper's kid sister, Margot - who played there as children. They loved exploring the abandoned rooms...until the day their innocent games uncovered something dark and twisted that ruined their friendship forever.

Now Amy stands accused of commuting a horrific crime, and the only hint as to her motives is a hasty message that forces Piper and Margot to revisit the hotel's past and the fate of two sisters who lived there in its heyday. Sylvie Slater had dreams of running off to Hollywood and becoming Alfred Hitchcock's leading lady, while her little sister, Rose, was content with their simple life. Each believed the other to be something truly monstrous, but only one knows the secret that will haunt the generations to come.

Why I Was Drawn To This Book:

I spotted this book one day at Barnes and Noble and the blurb intrigued me. At the time The Night Sister was in hardcover so I decided to wait until it came out in paperback. That was before I read The Winter People, also by Jennifer McMahon, and fell in love with the author's storytelling abilities. I also read love Alfred Hitchcock and I can already picture Sylvie Slater to look like Grace Kelly or Janet Leigh or another of Hitchcock's fair-haired leading ladies.