Stacking the Shelves

Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks! And audiobooks. Don’t forget audiobooks!

In other words, if you can read it or if it can be read to you – no matter how you got it – it belongs in Stacking the Shelves.

The Stacking the Shelves meme was originally hosted at Team Tynga’s Reviews. It is currently hosted by Reading Reality.

Happy Saturday to you all. It has been a few weeks since my last Stacking the Shelves post, mostly because I just didn’t add any books, and I had other things to talk about. But now I’ve added quite a few and I am excited to talk about them, so let’s get started.

Library books I have added to my bedside stack

Enchanting the Fae Queen is the second book in the Queens of Villainy series. I loved the first book, Wooing the Witch Queen, but I’ve seen some not so good reviews for this one. I am still going to give it a try.

The Full Moon Coffee Shop is a translated novel that I picked up for the Speccy Challenge. I just couldn’t pass up a book with sentient talking cats running a coffee shop.

Hidden Libraries is a book that I have had on hold forever at the library. I wanted to read it last year for the nonfiction challenge, but it never came. Finally now I get to read it. Not sure if it fits any of the categories for this year’s challenge, but that’s ok.

ARCs I’ve added to my Netgalley account

Meet Nadia Davis, a doting mom and loving wife who has a big secret: she’s actually an assassin. And she really needs a babysitter who shows up on time.

Nadia Davis is living the dream as a successful working mom with a career she loves, two adorable little girls, and a devoted husband who has no idea that she’s secretly a hired assassin and psychopath who kills certified bad guys. So when Nadia finds out she’s been “mommy tracked” by her assassin’s agency and is no longer getting the bigger, more exciting jobs, she demands an important mark…somebody worth killing.

But it turns out that big kill is the last person she expects—her husband. How is the sweet, kind, teller-of-dad jokes she’s promised her life to an evil villain who needs exterminating? Has their whole life together been a lie? Now Nadia must choose between the two things she loves most in life, the career that keeps her sane or the family she thought she knew.

Somebody Worth Killing turned up in one of my Netgalley newsletters, and it just sounded really good. I really like secret assassin stories and this one sounds perfect, as they are both hiding secrets. It doesn’t come out until June, so I won’t get to it anytime soon, but still I’m looking forward to it.

Audiobooks and ALCs

All it takes is one hit on the football field, and suddenly Ash’s life doesn’t look quite the way he remembers it.

Impossible though it seems, he’s been hit into another dimension—and keeps on bouncing through worlds that are almost-but-not-really his own.

The changes start small, but they quickly spiral out of control as Ash slides into universes where he has everything he’s ever wanted, universes where society is stuck in the past…universes where he finds himself looking at life through entirely different eyes.

And if he isn’t careful, the world he’s learning to see more clearly could blink out of existence…

Game Changer is a book by one of my favorite YA authors. This one is about a teen who is transported to alternate realities due to a head injury. I was going to get the book and read it, but I seem to be reading through my physical stack this month really slowly. The audiobook was available so I just decided to go with that one. This was published back in 2021, but I somehow missed it. It is also my pick for the Buzzword Cover Challenge, where the prompt is a silhouette on the cover. It is also my last book that is not an ARC on this month’s TBR.

That is it for this week’s stacking the shelves. The holds are beginning to back up at the library again, so I should have more added to my stack next week. Until next time…