September Wrap-Up + Haul

Hi Booknerds!

How are you guys? What are you reading? I haven’t posted anything in awhile because of school. I know. It sucks. It’s also my midterms week next wook. BOO!!!! (wish me luck) I’d rather read and blog all day than do hw and go to school tbh. Also, I’m so behind in book reviews and I miss my blog but I’m trying to post despite the busy-ness that is life.

Can you guys believe September is almost over?! It’s insane right? It’s almost Christmas. The year is almost over it’s kind of crazy. It’s too fast! I need time to slow down!!! SLOW DOWN! Despite the fastness of time, I had the best September ever.

I just kept reading and buying books this month. *happy dance* We had one of the best bookhauls in the history of bookhauls.

The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly By Stephanie Oakes
Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone
Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas
Slammed by Colleen Hoover
Point of Retreat by Colleen Hoover
This Girl by Colleen Hoover
Hopeless by Colleen Hoover
Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover
Finding Cinderella by Colleen Hoover
Never Never Part 1&2 by Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher
Sweet Temptation by Wendy Higgins
Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon
On the Fence by Kasie West
Fill-in Boyfriend by Kasie West
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

A total of 17 books! My (and my mom’s) wallet is crying but the books are just so beautiful!!!
What do you think of these books? Did you like them?

Erika’s POV: Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

Title: Ruin and Rising

Author: Leigh Bardugo

Series: The Grisha #3

Genre: YA, Fantasy, Romance

Format: Published June 17th 2014 by Henry Holt and Co

Source: Own copy; bought in National Bookstore

“He watches her the way Harshaw watches fire. Like he’ll never have enough of her. Like he’s trying to capture what he can before she’s gone.”

The Summary:

The capital has fallen.

The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne.

Now the nation’s fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army.

Deep in an ancient network of tunnels and caverns, a weakened Alina must submit to the dubious protection of the Apparat and the zealots who worship her as a Saint. Yet her plans lie elsewhere, with the hunt for the elusive firebird and the hope that an outlaw prince still survives.

Alina will have to forge new alliances and put aside old rivalries as she and Mal race to find the last of Morozova’s amplifiers. But as she begins to unravel the Darkling’s secrets, she reveals a past that will forever alter her understanding of the bond they share and the power she wields. The firebird is the one thing that stands between Ravka and destruction—and claiming it could cost Alina the very future she’s fighting for.

Erika’s POV: Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

Title: Siege and Storm

Author: Leigh Bardugo

Series: The Grisha #2

Genre: YA, Fantasy, Romance

Format: Published June 4th 2013 by Henry Holt and Co.

Source: Own copy, bought in National Bookstore

“Why won’t you leave me alone?”

“Then I’d be alone, too,” he said…

The Summary: 

Darkness never dies.

Hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land. She finds starting new is not easy while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret. She can’t outrun her past or her destiny for long.

The Darkling has emerged from the Shadow Fold with a terrifying new power and a dangerous plan that will test the very boundaries of the natural world. With the help of a notorious privateer, Alina returns to the country she abandoned, determined to fight the forces gathering against Ravka. But as her power grows, Alina slips deeper into the Darkling’s game of forbidden magic, and farther away from Mal. Somehow, she will have to choose between her country, her power, and the love she always thought would guide her–or risk losing everything to the oncoming storm.

Erika’s POV: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

Title: Shadow and Bone

Author: Leigh Bardugo

Series: The Grisha #1

Genre: YA, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Format: Published June 5th 2012 by Henry Holt and Co.

Source: Own copy, bought in National Bookstore

“Do you ask your heart to beat or your lungs to breath? Your power serves you because that is its purpose, because it cannot help but serve you.”

The Summary:

Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee.

Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling.

Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha . . . and the secrets of her heart.

Shadow and Bone is the first installment in Leigh Bardugo’s Grisha Trilogy.