Top Ten Tuesday #104 - 2015 Releases I Meant To Get To But Didn't

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the fabulous girls cover at The Broke & The Bookish. This week's topic is -

Top Ten Nine 2015 Releases I Meant To Get To But Didn't

Oh dear. Where do I start with this list? There are so many titles that could be on my list and I feel guilty about every single one of them. Although I did start reading several of these I just never got round to finishing them...

Book Haul #111, Or The One Where A Minor Miracle Happened...

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly event hosted on Tynga's Reviews where we can share what new books we've picked up this past week be they bought, borrowed or downloaded. There are also lots of other 'book haul' memes out there for you to choose from!

So... I haven't done a book haul post for nearly two months. It doesn't feel like it's been that long but blog posts don't lie! And, as the title suggests, I realized that in the last seven or so weeks I have only bought one book. That's it. It would appear that the way to stop me buying books is to be busy/tired/rundown/on holiday and not looking at the internet! But you know what this means? It's nearly ComicCon time so I can go mad without feeling guilty.

I may only have bought one book but I've received/downloaded some amazing review titles since the end of April. I'm not going to list them all (there's a lot!) but the books below are the ones I'm probably most looking forward to reading.

Bought

For Review

An Ember In The Ashes

Beneath London

Children of Time

House of Windows

If You Wrong Us

The Potion Diaries

Skin

Until We Meet Again

Updraft

After Alice

Catacomb

In Darkling Wood

Suicide Notes From Beautiful Girls

Time Salvager

The Wolf Wilder

Bookmarked... #4

The return of the weekly post letting you all know what I'm reading and have lined up for the week! It's my own version of Sheila at Book Journey's It's Monday What Are You Reading and I have her permission to rename it for my own nefarious reasons :) If you want to join in check out all the links here!

Well, that turned into more of an extended holiday than I had planned! It nearly became a permanent break too, when I returned from France to over 4000 emails and a blog that had somehow managed to erase nearly all of the posts I had scheduled to go up while I was away. I cried... a lot. I'm still annoyed now but I love blogging so let's put it down to experience and move on. It's going to take a while to go through my email so bear with me if you're waiting for a reply!

I've managed to completely lose track of my challenge progress, mostly because I haven't been updating Goodreads but my book journal is (mostly) up to date and as soon as I get a spare five minutes I'll update my books. Hopefully that will mean a challenge update covering April, May and June at the beginning of next month. And how did it get to be halfway through June already?! Still, that means it's only a month until ComicCon!!!

Currently Reading...

Waiting on Wednesday #92 - An Ember in the Ashes

Waiting On Wednesday, where we put the spotlight on upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating, is hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine.

This week's choice is -

An Ember in the Ashes - Sabaa Tahir

ISBN - 9781595148032

Publisher - Razorbill

Expected release date - April 28 2015

Find - Goodreads | Book Depository

Set in a terrifyingly brutal Rome-like world, An Ember in the Ashes is an epic fantasy debut about an orphan fighting for her family and a soldier fighting for his freedom. It’s a story that’s literally burning to be told.

LAIA is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire’s greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution.

ELIAS is the academy’s finest soldier— and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias is considering deserting the military, but before he can, he’s ordered to participate in a ruthless contest to choose the next Martial emperor.

When Laia and Elias’s paths cross at the academy, they find that their destinies are more intertwined than either could have imagined and that their choices will change the future of the empire itself.

Vow your blood and body to the empire.

Keep your heart for yourself.

I'm not sure where I came across An Ember in the Ashes but it went straight on to my wishlist! If the book is as good as that synopsis promises it to be then it could turn out to be one of my favorite reads of the year.