This is the final Stacking the Shelves post for 2025. This year has gone by in a blur – and perhaps that’s the best thing that can be said about it.
Nevertheless, I have some fascinating and fantastic books in this final stack of the year.
While these covers are definitely pretty, they are just as definitely not pretty in the same way. I’m looking at City of the Muse, Like Wafers in Honey, Sea of Charms and Song of Ancient Lovers and going “Oooh!”
There are two books here that I bought for their covers, not for their prettiness but for the sheer WTF’ery of it all. I got Everybody’s Perfect for the masks, especially for the cat masks. And Foundling Fathers because OMG that picture. Hopeless Necromantic, OTOH, I picked for the title.
The books I’m most looking forward to in this stack are Green City Wars, Moss’d in Space and, of course, the next book in the Barker & Llewelyn series, For Services Rendered – even though I’m still catching up with the series and am planning to read the book that I’m actually up to in that catch up this coming week.
What have you picked out from your stack to read this holiday weekend? Happy Holidays and Happy Seasons Readings!
For Review:
City of the Muse by Kate Hilton
Everybody’s Perfect by Jo Walton
For Services Rendered (Barker & Llewelyn #17) by Will Thomas
Foundling Fathers by Meg Elison
Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Heaven’s Graveyard (Idolfire #2) by Grace Curtis
Hopeless Necromantic by Shiloh Briar
How to Fake It in Society by KJ Charles
How to Hold Someone in Your Heart (Lost Souls #2) by Mizuki Tsujimura, translated by Yuki Tejima
Like Wafers in Honey by Leah Eskin
The Lost Book of Lancelot by John Glynn
Love Lost (Tails from the Alpha Art Gallery #5) by Cynthia St. Aubin
Moss’d in Space (Moss’d in Space #1) by Rebecca Thorne
Sea of Charms (Spellshop #3) by Sarah Beth Durst
The Shadows Tomorrow by Noelle Michel, translated by Frank Wynne
Song of Ancient Lovers by Laura Restrepo, translated by Carol De Robertis (book + audio)
Songs of the Dead (Strata Wars #1) by Brandon Sanderson and Peter Orullian
Twelve Months (Dresden Files #18) by Jim Butcher
The Unkillable Frank Lightning by Josh Rountree
Valet by J.P. Lacrampe
Your Behavior Will Be Monitored by Justin Feinstein
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Aah, I wondered what The Lost Book of Lancelot would be (I love Arthuriana in general, ahaha) and I’m reaaaally excited to see it’s a retelling of the story of Lancelot and Galehaut. That should be really fun! Thanks for featuring it; it hadn’t popped up on my radar at all yet.
Nicky @ The Bibliophibian recently posted..Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post
Happy to help! I love Arthuriana too and it’s great to see some new takes on the eternal story! Happy New Year!
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Nice selection of books. Happy Reading!
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Happy Reading and have a great week and a wonderful new year! 🙂
Enjoy your books! They look great. Happy New Year!