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! Sorry this is coming so late, it’s probably Sunday for some of you already, but oh, well. Better late than never I always say. Anyway, one reason it is late is I didn’t have anything to report this week. But low and behold one of my holds showed up today at the library and I then decided to download my next audiobook. So, yeah two books to add to my TBR.
Library books I have added to my bedside stack
21 Days of Fear by Herve Commere
A teen is offered the chance to reunite with his missing sister in this heart-wrenching young adult thriller told in an advent calendar format, with chapter-a-day reading perfectly paced for amping up the chilling suspense!
What would you do to bring your sister back from the dead?
After Lucas’s sister mysteriously disappeared right under his nose ten years ago, his family was torn apart. His mother has been lost in a deep depression, his father unable to speak of what happened, and Lucas trapped in his guilt…until he receives a note that changes everything. He has twenty-one days to find out the truth. Twenty-one days to save his sister…if she really is still alive. Twenty-one days to figure out if he can sacrifice everything to bring her home.
Every action is watched, every choice counted. Can he save his sister without losing himself again?
With this book’s unique advent calendar format, each of the twenty-one chapters is sealed by its own perforated enclosure that readers can gently tear open—by hand or with the help of a ruler—to move through Lucas’s story with him.
I saw a video about this book on Instagram and was immediately intrigued. Just the way it is formatted was enough of a hook for me. But the story also sounds like something I would enjoy. I was kind of surprised that there wasn’t a huge holds list when I placed the hold, but I was happy that I didn’t have to wait too long for it. I haven’t decided yet if I am going to read one letter a day or not. It might be too hard to stop each day.
ARCs I’ve added to my Netgalley account
No new ARCs this week. I am waiting for three request to be approved right now, so hopefully next week I will have at least one to talk about.
Audiobooks
King of Ashes by S. A. Cosby
Roman Carruthers left the smoke and fire of his family’s crematory business behind in his hometown of Jefferson Run, Virginia. He is enjoying a life of shallow excess as a financial adviser in Atlanta until he gets a call from his sister, Neveah, telling him their father is in a coma after a hit-and-run accident. When Roman goes home, he learns the accident may not be what it seems. His brother, Dante, is deeply in debt to dangerous, ruthless criminals.
And Roman is willing to do anything to protect his family. Anything.
A financial whiz with a head for numbers and a talent for making his clients rich, Roman must use all his skills to try to save his family while dealing with a shadow that has haunted them all for twenty years: the disappearance of their mother when Roman and his siblings were teenagers. It’s a mystery that Neveah, who has sacrificed so much of her life to hold her family together, is determined to solve once and for all.
As fate and chance and heartache ignite their lives, the Carruthers family must pull together to survive or see their lives turn to ash. Because, as their father counseled them from birth, nothing lasts forever.
Everything burns.
This is a book that I have been wanting to read for awhile. The book was nominated for the Audie Award, which means that the reader Adam Lazzare-White probably does an awesome job with it. So looking forward to listening to this one.
Well that is it for this week’s Stacking the Shelves. Looking forward to seeing what others have added to their stacks this week. Until next time…
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Wow the format of 21 days of fear sounds so interesting. To be able to resist not opening it in one go will be hard. The King of Ashes sound good also and might check it. Thank you so much for sharing.
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