June Book Haul

This post should probably be called how I broke my book buying ban one month in, but looking on the bright side I still made it one month without buying anything new. I also managed to stick to my monthly budget for the first time ever so it’s not all bad.

And of course I have some gorgeous new books.

I didn’t go too crazy while on my book buying ban however. I only brought four books this month myself—five if you count my Owl Crate box this month. One other was an eARC from NetGalley which I am so excited to start reading, and the other seven were birthday presents. I think I definitely picked the right month to go on a book buying ban, because it was my birthday in the middle of June I still got quite a few books without having to spend any money myself.

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Birthday Presents

• Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
  Check out my review here.
• Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
  Check out my review here.
• Percy Jackson and the Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan
  Check out my review here.
• Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
  Check out my review here.
• Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
  Check out my review here.

What do you do when you want to start a new series but are in the middle of a book buying ban? If you’re me then you ask your sister to buy them for you for your birthday, and of course she did. I pretty much devoured these books one after the other, and now I’m finished I’ve already ordered the Heroes of Olympus series. I have a feeling once I’ve finished all five of those I’ll order the Magnus Chase book, and then the Kane Chronicles, and then the Trials of Apollo book. Rick Riordan is definitely an author who is now on my auto-buy list.

• Uprooted by Naomi Novik
• The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

These two books were brought for me by one of my best friends. Uprooted has been on my to-read list for ages. It’s one of those books I keep meaning to get around to but never have and I’m not quite sure why; it sounds like a blend of fantasy and fairy tale, and it sounds like the kind of book I’m going to love. The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is a book I have seen nothing but amazing reviews for, and I need to read more sci-fi so I’m only hoping it’s as good as everyone seems to think it is.

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Amazon

• A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston
  Check out my review here.
• This Savage Song by V.E. Schwab
  Check out my review here.
• The Square Root of Summer by Harriet Reuter Hapgood
• Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton
  Check out my review here.

As soon as I saw V.E. Schwab had a new book coming out it went to the top of my to-buy list, and I’ve had This Savage Song pre-ordered ever since it was available on Amazon. Both Rebel of the Sands and The Square Root of Summer were pure impulse buys, mainly because of the covers. I’ve already read and loved Rebel of the Sands and I have high expectations for The Square Root of Summer. I never planned to buy A Thousand Nights in hardcover. Instead I was going to wait for it to be released in paperback at the end of this month, but then I saw the gorgeous hardcover edition and I couldn’t resist.

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Owl Crate

• My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows

Edward (long live the king) is the King of England. He’s also dying, which is inconvenient, as he’s only sixteen and he’d much rather be planning for his first kiss than considering who will inherit his crown…

Jane (reads too many books) is Edward’s cousin, and far more interested in books than romance. Unfortunately for Jane, Edward has arranged to marry her off to secure the line of succession. And there’s something a little odd about her intended…

Gifford (call him G) is a horse. That is, he’s an Eðian (eth-y-un, for the uninitiated). Every day at dawn he becomes a noble chestnut steed—but then he wakes at dusk with a mouthful of hay. It’s all very undignified.

The plot thickens as Edward, Jane, and G are drawn into a dangerous conspiracy. With the fate of the kingdom at stake, our heroes will have to engage in some conspiring of their own. But can they pull off their plan before it’s off with their heads?

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NetGalley eARCs

• Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

I rarely request ARCs but when I saw Nevernight on NetGalley I couldn’t resist. It’s only recently that this book even made it onto my radar despite me having read, and loved, the book Jay Kristoff wrote with Amie Kaufman. Then I saw some of the pre-release reviews for Nevernight raving about the book and it flew to the top of my to-read list. When my request for the ARC got approved I was so excited to get the chance to read this book that little bit sooner.

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I’m not going to go on a book buying ban again, at least not for a while yet. I already have some books pre-ordered for the next few months and there are even more being released later this year I need to gets my hands on as soon as so I feel I would just be setting myself up to fail. Instead my new goal is to stick to my monthly budget.