Lootz: Mogsy’s Book Haul
A few review books have come in that I wanted to feature this week, but it’s been a madhouse around here lately so I’m short on the time to talk about each book in the format like I normally do. Instead I think I’m going to geek out about some of the giveaway books I won this month. For some reason, I had a really lucky November or something.
I was most excited about winning The Relic Guild from a giveaway the author held on Twitter. This is a book from Gollancz that I’ve had my eye on for a looong time but of course there has been no US release date so far! I was a sad panda about that, so imagine my delight. Black Dog is something I won from Goodreads. Yeah, I’d always thought winning anything from there is a myth. I had to look outside to check the skies for flying pigs. Talon and The Immortal Crown are books from the weekly giveaway hosted by Anya at On Starships and Dragonwings, and Shade & Sorceress, The Unmaking, and Bone, Fog, Ash & Star are from The Last Days of Tian Di trilogy that I won from an author giveaway hosted by Tammy at Books, Bones & Buffy. My thanks to all those involved!
And I also went on a bit of an audiobook binge, mainly because of the Audible Buy 4 get $10 promotion they were running for the month of November, so I spent a credit or two, scraped and scrounged around for any Whispersync deals, sales, etc. until I qualified: Endsinger (credit), The Scar ($4.95 sale), Rosemary and Rue, Among Others (Whispersync). Legion: Skin Deep was an Audible FREEBIE (go get it if you haven’t already!) and I couldn’t resist grabbing the Jinn and Juice ebook because it’s $2.99 and the print version won’t even be available until April of next year. I couldn’t pass that up!
The BiblioSanctum 
I love Rosemary and the rue 😀
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Everyone is saying that! 😀
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A lot of interesting titles there! And I look forward to your thoughts on “Rosemary and Rue”: McGuire’s Toby Daye series is one of my all-time favorites, one that grows with each new installment.
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Awesome, I’ve only read her stuff that she wrote under Mira Grant. Looking forward to her UF.
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Oh that’s nice: You so need to read the October Daye series. I just love love love this series. The first one isn’t that good compared to the others so if it’s not that good you need to read at last book 2! ok? happy reading!
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Will do! Looks like everyone is raving about that series.
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Oh joy, listen to The Scar first! I loved that book and have pushed it on people so many times.
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Yeah, I’ve had the book on my wishlist for soooo long. As soon as I saw it on sale, I snapped it up.
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OOOh nice! I LOVED Talon!! Such an awesome start to what I am sure will be an awesome series!!
I find myself wanting the paperback version on Jinn & Juice, so I’ll likely be waiting for that one just because the colors were awesome and I want to see this cover in the flesh! Lol!
Happy Reading!
My STS will be up tomorrow, so be sure to stop by then!
Have a GREAT day!
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I had some issues with Talon, but overall I thought it was pretty good! I’m definitely looking forward to the next one.
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Congrats on all your wins! I’m determined to win Anya’s giveaway one of these days:-) I have got to jump on the audiobook bandwagon. I think 2015 will be the year I finally try one!
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You must! And if you’re concerned about the expenses, you can always try one by borrowing from the library. And I know how you feel about physical libraries, but the good news is you can do everything online – I get most of my audio reads from my library’s overdrive digital collection.
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Well done to you! I hope you enjoy them all. Just bought Jin and Juice after seeing it on here so thanks for that.
Lynn 😀
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No probs. It’s a great introductory price for a new book.
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I always thought winning anything on Goodreads was a myth as well. Congrats! I’ll be curious to hear what you think of The Scar – for a translation, I quite enjoyed it.
Here’s how I’m Stacking the Shelves
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Also, I win a Goodreads giveaway about once a quarter. Yall must be doing it wrong =)
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Damn you Nathan! I went a long time without winning anything there, and now it looks like my win rate is about one a year.
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Wow you weren’t kidding when you said you were lucky this past month on winning books! I never win books anymore sadly!
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Really happy for your Relic Guide win! (and maybe slightly jealous. Also waiting for a US release of this one!) Curious to hear what you think of Rosemary and Rue. I’ve had that one recommended to me, but by someone who doesn’t line up with me quite as often on books.
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Well, I’m curious as well. I’m not too crazy about her Mira Grant books, but I’ve been assured that her UF is very different. I guess it also depends if you enjoy UF…I’m a pretty big reader of the genre so there’s a good chance I’ll like R&R.
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Grrrr, Black Dog…I will be interested to hear your thoughts on that one. I was pretty frustrated by the second half of it. HECK YES to Rosemary and Rue. I am so tempted by Jinn and Juice, even though I rarely buy ebooks (I prefer to sign them out from the library!). It just looks like a lot of fun.
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Hmm, curious about Black Dog as well, but oh well it was a win so even if I hate it I can’t complain 🙂 And lol, add R&R to the huge list of UF series that I should have picked up a long time ago.
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Wow! You did have a lucky November! Congrats! lol yeah I keep entering Goodreads contests anyway.
I really should try audiobooks again. Thanks for the tip about the freebie. 🙂
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A great November! I’ve only entered a Goodreads contest once or twice…maybe I’ll do it more now! And thanks for the tips about the free Audible book and the Peeler ebook! I went and got them.
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