Hi everyone! I haven’t done an Stacking the Shelves post for a few weeks, so here are the books I have added to my shelves recently.

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In Kristy’s mailbox:

 

Crystal Kingdom (Kanin Chronicles #3) by Amanda Hocking

Thank you to Pan Macmillan Australia for this review copy. Keep an eye out for my stop on the Crystal Kingdom Australian Blog Tour tomorrow!.

Cast out by her kingdom and far from home, she’s the Kanin people’s only hope.

Bryn Aven - unjustly charged with murder and treason - is on the run. The one person who can help is her greatest enemy, the enigmatic Konstantin Black. Konstantin is her only ally against those who have taken over her kingdom and threaten to destroy everything she holds dear. But can she trust him?

As Bryn fights to clear her name, the Kanin rulers’ darkest secrets are coming to light… and now the entire troll world is on the brink of war. Will it tear Bryn from Ridley Dresden, the only guy she’s ever loved? And can she join forces with Finn Holmes and the Trylle kingdom? One thing is certain: an epic battle is underway—and when it’s complete, nothing will ever be the same

 

 

Kinslayer (The Lotus War #2) by Jay Kristoff

I purchased this book at a bargain bookstore - which is great considering I have been wanting to buy this series for a long time :)

A SHATTERED EMPIRE
The mad Shōgun Yoritomo has been assassinated by the Stormdancer Yukiko, and the threat of civil war looms over the Shima Imperium. The Lotus Guild conspires to renew the nation’s broken dynasty and crush the growing rebellion simultaneously – by endorsing a new Shōgun who desires nothing more than to see Yukiko dead.

A DARK LEGACY
Yukiko and the mighty thunder tiger Buruu have been cast in the role of heroes by the Kagé rebellion. But Yukiko herself is blinded by rage over her father’s death, and her ability to hear the thoughts of beasts is swelling beyond her power to control. Along with Buruu, Yukiko’s anchor is Kin, the rebel Guildsman who helped her escape from Yoritomo’s clutches. But Kin has his own secrets, and is haunted by visions of a future he’d rather die than see realized.

A GATHERING STORM
Kagé assassins lurk within the Shōgun’s palace, plotting to end the new dynasty before it begins. A waif from Kigen’s gutters begins a friendship that could undo the entire empire. A new enemy gathers its strength, readying to push the fracturing Shima imperium into a war it cannot hope to survive. And across raging oceans, amongst islands of black glass, Yukiko and Buruu will face foes no katana or talon can defeat.

The ghosts of a blood-stained past.

 

 

Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction by Carrie Ryan

Another purchase :) I have a hardcover copy of this book, but it is signed by Laini Taylor, so I needed a reading copy and I found this paperback in the bargain bookshop.

Have you ever been tempted to look into the future? To challenge predictions? To question fate

It’s human nature to wonder about life’s twists and turns. But is the future already written - or do you have the power to alter it?

From fantastical prophecies to predictions of how the future will transpire,Foretold is a collection of stories about our universal fascination with life’s unknowns and of what is yet to come as interpreted by fourteen of young adult fiction’s brightest stars.

 

 

Fool’s Quest (The Fitz and The Fool Trilogy #2) by Robin Hobb

I received this book from HarperVoyager Australia. Thank you!

Acclaimed and bestselling author Robin Hobb continues her Fitz and the Fool trilogy with this second entry, following Fool’s Assassin, ramping up the tension and the intrigue as disaster continues to strike at Fitz’s life and heart.

After nearly killing his oldest friend, the Fool, and finding his daughter stolen away by those who were once targeting the Fool, FitzChivarly Farseer is out for blood. And who better to wreak havoc than a highly trained and deadly former royal assassin? Fitz might have let his skills go fallow over his years of peace, but such things, once learned, are not so easily forgotten. And nothing is more dangerous than a man who has nothing left to lose

 

 

Just Like Fate by Cat Patrick

I got this one in an online book sale. I have heard good things about Cat Patrick, but as yet haven’t read any of her books.

Caroline is at a crossroads. Her grandmother is sick, maybe dying. Like the rest of her family, Caroline’s been at Gram’s bedside since her stroke. With the pressure building, all Caroline wants to do is escape-both her family and the reality of Gram’s failing health. So when Caroline’s best friend offers to take her to a party one fateful Friday night, she must choose: stay by Gram’s side, or go to the party and live her life.

The consequence of this one decision will split Caroline’s fate into two separate paths-and she’s about to live them both.

Friendships are tested and family drama hits an all-new high as Caroline attempts to rebuild old relationships, and even make a few new ones. If she stays, her longtime crush, Joel, might finally notice her, but if she goes, Chris, the charming college boy, might prove to be everything she’s ever wanted.

Though there are two distinct ways for her fate to unfold, there is only one happy ending.

 

 

Crash (Twinmaker #2) by Sean Williams

I purchased another copy of this book to get signed at the Sean Williams/Garth Nix event in Hobart (today - yay!!). I also ordered another copy of Jump, but Australia Post didn’t deliver it, so it will be in my next STS when I buy it in store at the event.

The Matrix meets the Uglies series in this science fiction thriller, the second in the Twinmaker trilogy by Sean Williams.

Where is Q?

Clair and Jesse have barely been reunited when the world is plunged into its biggest crisis since the Water Wars. The d-mat network is broken. The world has ground to a halt. People are trapped, injured, dying. It’s the end of the world as Clair knows it—and it’s partly her fault.

“The girl who killed d-mat” is enlisted to track down her missing friend Q—the rogue AI who repeatedly saved Clair’s life. Q is the key to fixing the system, but she isn’t responding to calls for help, and even if she did…can she be trusted?

Targeted by dupes, abandoned by her friends, caught in a web of lies that strike at the very essence of who she is, Clair finds powerful allies in RADICAL, secretive activists who are the polar opposite of anti-d-mat terrorist group WHOLE. However, if she helps them find Q, will she be inadvertently trapping her friend in a life of servitude—or worse, sending her to an early death by erasure?

Caught between pro- and anti-d-mat philosophies, in a world on the brink of all-out war, Clair must decide where she stands—and who she stands with, at the end.

 

 

Sabriel (Abhorsen #1), Lirael (Abhorsen, #2) and Abhorsen (Abhorsen, #3) by Garth Nix

I purchased these 3 books to also get signed at the Sean Willams/Garth Nix event. I had ordered ”The Old Kingdom Chronicals’ - an all in one volume, but this was sadly also a part of the order that Australia Post thought they would send to the other side of the country rather than sending it to me.

Sent to a boarding school in Ancelstierre as a young child, Sabriel has had little experience with the random power of Free Magic or the Dead who refuse to stay dead in the Old Kingdom. But during her final semester, her father, the Abhorsen, goes missing, and Sabriel knows she must enter the Old Kingdom to find him.

With Sabriel, the first installment in the Abhorsen trilogy, Garth Nix exploded onto the fantasy scene as a rising star, in a novel that takes readers to a world where the line between the living and the dead isn’t always clear—and sometimes disappears altogether.

 

 

 

 

That is all from me this week. What did you receive in your mailboxes? Let me know - leave your links in the comments section below!