Bookshelf Roundup 10/31/20: Stacking the Shelves & Recent Reads
Bookshelf Roundup is a feature I do every weekend which fills the role of several blog memes, like Stacking the Shelves where I talk about the new books I’ve added to my library or received for review, as well as It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? where I summarize what I’ve finished reading in the last week and what I’m planning to read soon. Mostly it also serves as a recap post, so sometimes I’ll throw in stuff like reading challenge progress reports, book lists, and other random bookish thoughts or announcements.
Received for Review
My thanks to the publishers and authors for the following review copies received, and be sure to click the links to their Goodreads pages for more details and full descriptions!
Orbit has been really good to me lately, with new books arriving from them nearly every week. This week I want to thank them for sending me Legacy of Steel by Matthew Ward and The Shattered Realm of Ardor Benn by Tyler Whitesides, both of which are sequels. I’ve already read Legacy of Ash by Matthew Ward so I’ll be able to jump into the second book right away, and happily I recently snagged an audio copy of The Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn and should be caught up soon enough.
Also thanks to Subterranean Press, I received a couple of new ARCs: The Best of Elizabeth Hand edited by Bill Sheehan and The Big Score by K.J. Parker (this one I’m pretty excited to check out!)
And with thanks to Head of Zeus and the kind folks at Kaye Publicity, I received an ARC of The Package by Sebastian Fitzek, who is called Germany’s most successful author of psychological thrillers. I believe this was originally published a few years ago, but might only be now coming to the US market. The tagline is this: “All you’ve done is taken in a parcel for a neighbor. You have no idea what you’ve let into your home.” Sounds pretty creepy and wild!
In the digital haul, I received a couple eARCs via NetGalley. First with thanks to Quirk Book for Whisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod Chapman, and also to Minotaur Books for sending an invite widget for The Lost Village by Camilla Sten. And from Inkshares, I received an e-galley of The Boy in the Woods by Scott Thomas, a new novella by the author who brought us Kill Creek and Violet. I’m definitely feeling the Halloween mood and loading up on some creepy reads!
And only one audiobook acquisition this week, and it’s the latest installment to the official Minecraft series of novels, The Shipwreck by C.B. Lee. I’ve always been curious to try the author’s work, particularly the Sidekick Squad series, but I think this should be interesting too. With thanks to Random House Audio for the listening copy.
Reviews
Dracula’s Child by J.S. Barnes (4 of 5 stars)
The Loop by Jeremy Robert Johnson (3.5 of 5 stars)
They Threw Us Away by Daniel Kraus (3.5 of 5 stars)
The Ghost Tree by Christina Henry (3 of 5 stars)
This Week’s Reads
Have you heard of or read any of the books featured this week? What caught your eye? Any new discoveries? I hope you found something interesting for a future read! Let me know what you plan on checking out. Until next time, see you next Roundup!
The BiblioSanctum 
Another nice haul! Though good luck finding out what the Package is like when it tells you straight away not to open it.
Also, please define “soon enough”. I just finished reading a sequel to a book that I somehow read five years ago and kept swearing every year since that I would “definitely read it this year” 😂
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Haha, I know, I love the presentation of The Package. Wait, did you say don’t open this package? I think I’ll open the package 😀
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Hey, it’s your life 😉
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I haven’t read it seen any of these books but I am interested in reading the lost village by Camilla Sten and machine by Elizabeth Bear.
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The Lost Village looks creepy! Looking forward to it~
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I enjoyed Thomas’ Kill Creek so much that I’m very happy to know he wrote another story: hopefully it will be as delightfully creepy as his other work… 😀
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Yes, I’m hoping it will be good!
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OOh nice new reads! These are all totally new to me ones. I hope you enjoy them all!
My StS will be up tomorrow, so stop by then if you can!
Have a GREAT day!
Old Follower 🙂
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Thanks! Happy reading!
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I also downloaded The Lost Village, it looks good! I got my two Orbit requests this week, and I’m looking forward to both of them😁
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Yeah, my Orbit requests are coming in, I’ve got a bunch for next week’s Roundup now too!
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Oooh! I’ve been trying to reign in the review pile lately, but I’m jealous of that ARC of The Best of Elizabeth Hand!
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I wish I was more familiar with her work!
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Most of these are new to me and I love that. The cover design for The Package is awesome, and the story sounds promising, too. And I’m not familiar with the Ardor Benn series but I like that cover. I guess I’m a cover person. 🙂
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Yeah, really great design for The Package! Eye catching and ominous 🙂
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I can’t wait to tackle the Ardor Benn books, but MAN are they big!!
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They really are! I know the first one was pretty big, but damn, I wish I knew the size of the second one before I requested! This might take some rearranging of my reading schedule 😛
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Ohh spooky book for you there :=D
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Yep! I want more horror books!
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The Package sounds creepy – how many times do you take in deliveries for neighbours? Maybe not as often after reading this one.
Lynn 😀
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Looks like another great week of hauls! The Package has me intrigued!
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