Book Haul #65

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly event hosted on Tynga's Reviews and Letterbox Love is a UK edition hosted by Narratively Speaking. Here we can share what new books we've picked up this past week. There are also lots of other 'book haul' memes out there for you to choose from!

Ooooh, this has been a good week for books! But a bad week for Internet access, yet again I've spent the best part of two days without any Internet again thanks to my service provider. I've not even been able to pick up any of the local wi-fi hotspots for some reason so have had plenty of time to do other stuff like read! Luckily I drafted this on Tuesday so at least there's something on the blog this week, I've added this bit using my phone and it has taken a looooong time... On the bright side it was library week this week and I may have gone slightly overboard with my requests, and they all came in at the same time!

Bought

The Glass Casket | Grim | Banished

For Review

First 15 Lives of Harry August | Red Rising | The Three

Morningside Fall | Peacemaker | Moth & Spark

Library Haul

Days of the Deer | Moon's Artifice | Mother, Mother

Night Film | A Red Sun Also Rises | The Summoning

Emperor's Blades | Girl With All the Gifts | The Rabbit Back Literature Society

Blood Song | Dark Satanic Mills | Charm & Strange

Butterflies In November | Ancillary Justice | Cloud Hunters

Dream London | Queen of Dreams | Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack

Drakenfeld | Snowblind | We Used To Be Kings

Book Haul #25

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly event hosted on Tynga's Reviews, In My Mailbox is a weekly event hosted by The Mod Podge Bookshelf and Letterbox Love is a UK edition hosted by Narratively Speaking. Here we can share what new books we've picked up this past week. There are also lots of other 'book haul' memes out there for you to choose from!

I have had an excellent week this week! A few freebies on the old Kindle Fire, monthly library day and one or two lovely surprises...

Kindle Freebies

Silver - Cheree Alsop

Falling - Amber Jaeger

Cursed - Casey Odell

The Mystic Wolves - Belinda Boring

Kindle Buys

The Forgotten Ones - Laura Howard

Storm - Brigid Kemmerer

From the author

Year Of The Great Seventh - Teresa Orts

From the publisher

Oksa Pollock: The Last Hope - Anne Plichota & Cendrine Wolf

Library Books

The Girl In The Flammable Skirt - Aimee Bender

Willful Creatures - Aimee Bender

Undone - Cat Clarke

Working Stiff - Rachel Caine

Two Weeks' Notice - Rachel Caine

Such Wicked Intent - Kenneth Oppel

Black Arts - Andrew Prentice

Killing Rachel - Anne Cassidy

Eleanor & Park - Rainbow Rowell

Hysteria - Megan Miranda

A Kiss At Midnight - Eloisa James

Princess Of Landover - Terry Brooks

The Glimpse - Claire Merle

What did you get this week?

Waiting On Wednesday #24

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 -

Oksa Pollock: The Last Hope - Anne Plichota & Cendrine Wolf
ISBN  - 9781782690009
Publisher - Pushkin Children's Books
Expected release date - June 4th 2013
Find - Book Depository

'Oksa Pollock is a thirteen-year-old girl, moving with her family from Paris to a new life in London. Along with her best friend Gus, she is ready to settle into their new lives. But bizarre things start happening around Oksa. When she finds she has magical powers, the truth emerges: her family are not from this world, but from Edefia, having fled their magical, hidden homeland years ago, in fear of all their lives. And Oksa is their queen. Between her loving, powerful grandmother, her wicked new physics teacher, her mysterious uncles and Gus, plus a whole host of fantastical Edefian creatures, Oksa will be thrown into a wilder adventure that she could ever have. And Oksa knows she must triumph over her enemies. The whole of Edefia is counting on her.'

A thrilling supernatural adventure that fuses the excitement, action and extraordinary worlds of Harry Potter, I Am Number Four and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with an inspirational heroine and role model full of appeal for tweens and teens. Oksa's journey explores friendship, young love, destiny and identity.

I first heard about Oksa Pollock two years ago and have been waiting for it to be translated into English ever since! I have the first book in the series in its original language (French) but my reading comprehension is a bit rusty - it's been a long time since A Level French! I can't wait to read this in English and discover other Pollockmaniaks! It's also worth pointing out that shareholders in Summit Entertainment (who we all know for a certain vampire movie franchise *cough* Twilight *cough* ) have bought the movie rights. Look out for this one at the beginning of June.

What's your WoW this week?