Stacking the Shelves #82
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In Mel’s mailbox:
Saga Volume 2 - Brian K. Vaughan
I bought this copy!
From award-winning writer BRIAN K. VAUGHAN (Pride of Baghdad, Ex Machina) and critically acclaimed artist FIONA STAPLES (Mystery Society, Done to Death), SAGA is sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the universe. Thanks to her star-crossed parents Marko and Alana, newborn baby Hazel has already survived lethal assassins, rampaging armies, and horrific monsters, but in the cold vastness of outer space, the little girl encounters her strangest adventure yet… grandparents.
Collects Saga issues #7-12
Locke & Key Volume 2 - Joe Hill
I bought this copy. :)
Acclaimed suspense novelist and New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill (Heart-Shaped Box) continues his all-new story of dark fantasy and wonder. Bode Locke, a six-year-old survivor of the tragedy that claimed his father, is about to get a crash course in death when he walks through an impossible door that separates his spirit from his body. The Ghost Door, though, is only one of Keyhouse’s unlikely secrets…the other is the creature who lives in the house’s well, a girl who is not a girl-and who would kill to be set free.
Catwoman Volume 4: Gotham Underground - Ann Nocenti
I bought this while I was in Sydney.
After being robbed time and time again by Catwoman, Gotham City crime lord the Penguin has decided to wage war against the thieving anti-hero. However, he isn’t the only one after her. Someone named the Joker’s Daughter is after Catwoman. Who is she, and why has she come to Gotham City?
Writer Ann Nocenti continues her run on the title with CATWOMAN VOL. 4, collecting issues #20-24, CATWOMAN ANNUAL #1 and JOKER’S DAUGHTER #1
In Kristy’s mailbox:
The Winners Curse (The Winners Curse #1) - Marie Rutkoski
Thanks to Bloomsbury Australia!
Winning what you want may cost you everything you love.
As a general’s daughter in a vast empire that revels in war and enslaves those it conquers, seventeen-year-old Kestrel has two choices: she can join the military or get married. But Kestrel has other intentions.
One day, she is startled to find a kindred spirit in a young slave up for auction. Arin’s eyes seem to defy everything and everyone. Following her instinct, Kestrel buys him—with unexpected consequences. It’s not long before she has to hide her growing love for Arin.
But he, too, has a secret, and Kestrel quickly learns that the price she paid for a fellow human is much higher than she ever could have imagined.
Set in a richly imagined new world, The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski is a story of deadly games where everything is at stake, and the gamble is whether you will keep your head or lose your heart.
Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles #2) - Marissa Meyer
Kristy won this copy!
Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of the bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She’s trying to break out of prison-even though if she succeeds, she’ll be the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive. Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit’s grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn’t know about her grandmother or the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother’s whereabouts, she is loath to trust this stranger, but is inexplicably drawn to him, and he to her. As Scarlet and Wolf unravel one mystery, they encounter another when they meet Cinder. Now, all of them must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana, who will do anything for the handsome Prince Kai to become her husband, her king, her prisoner.
That is all from us this week, what did you receive in your mailboxes? Let us know - leave your links in the comments section below!
What do you think?
I’m so excited to read The Winner’s Curse! I was going to buy Scarlet at Target today, but decided to get the first two books of Harry Potter instead because I’ve never read it :O . Haha I remember when I was a kid I thought it was too long to read lol but now I’m kind of regretting because Harry Potter could’ve been a part of my childhood. Oh well. I read A BUNCH of Goosebumps and Magic Tree House books so that’s all right.
Well Harry Potter is still a good choice of book purchase! Don’t worry, I read Harry Potter as an adult - and although it would have been great to have that as part of my childhood, I think there are also things that are truly magical about reading it for the first time as adult. You can respect it in a completely different way as an adult.