New Booksies: epic end of 2012 haul

It's been a long time since I did a New Booksies post. So long, in fact, that I have acquired rather a lot of new books since my last post. I should have done an intermediate post but... I didn't. There was business and laziness and travels, and now it's Christmas. And since there are books to be had for Christmas, I decided to post this on New Year's Eve, since only then can it be all inclusively end of 2012-ish.

I have a lot of books to report. In vaguely chronological order and by category, here it goes...




eARCs from NetGalley:

• Shadowhunters and Downworlders, edited by Cassandra Clare
• Dance of Shadows by Yelena Black (Bloomsbury UK/ANZ)
• Between Two Thorns by Emma Newman (Angry Robot)

Books that flew here from Australia (with my mum):

• The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling - passed on to me by my mum
• Salvage by Jason Nahrung - free courtesy of Twelfth Planet Press, due to an issue with the print run (which took me a while to work out). Reviewed already.

Paper books bought from a Real Book Shop (while spending my accrued achievement unlocked books from my read-three-buy-one scheme):

•  Fire by Kristin Cashore
•  Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson
• The Mermaid's Madness by Jim C Hines

Ebook purchase (that totally doesn't count against my book buying restrictions which I'm restructuring in 2013 anyway):

• Havenstar by Glenda Larke (writing as Glenda Noramly) - which I've already read in long-out of print paper form (acquired second hand thanks to a friend with a second hand book business). But I wanted to support the author, who is one of my favourites, and also to make my husband read it (since the paper book is on another continent). Also, I like this cover more than the old school cover of the original (which was indeed from the 90s, but still).

Review copy & request from a friend:

• Transgressions by Phillip Berrie - already reviewed

And then the actual Christmas haul:

• Earth Girl by Janet Edwards
• Beauty Queens by Libba Bray - already read and reviewed
• Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
• Heart of Iron by Ekaterina Sedia
• Ash by Malinda Lo

 

 

And then I bought some more books, because they were cheap:

• After The Darkness by Honey Brown — Australian author and the book sounds like psychological horror, so that will fit nicely with my horror challenge
• The Penguin Thriller Trilogy — a pack of three books (which aren't a trilogy!):
• I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore — seen the movie, was interested enough to read the book so I could read the sequel and find out what happens. Although, having started it, I can't get the movie out of my head and I wish I'd read it first!
• Legend by Marie Lu — one I've seen around a lot but don't know much about. Until I read the blurb I actually assumed it had a male lead because of the cover. Whoops!
• Matched by Ally Condi — which I'm not actually that keen on, given the premise (arranged marriage dystopia, overcome by LOVE), but might as well give it a go and decide for myself.