July Book Haul

Well I haven't bought books in a long time and here I am buying ALL THE BOOKS!

... only not really because I don't think the two book orders I made will come in time to be considered part of my July book haul. So really... I only bought 3 books. Two of which, I have already read. Well then, here goes...

We'll Always Have Paris by Jennifer Coburn - I loved this book. It is a travel memoir about several trips that Jennifer Coburn makes with her daughter. She wants to try and do as much as she can with her daughter before she dies, which she thinks will happen soon despite being in perfect health and having no reason to believe that she will die young. I have a full review here. Through this book I felt like I was able to travel to all the places that they traveled to. And really the only reason that I bought it in the first place was because it seemed to be about Paris and it had the Eiffel Tower on the cover. I really have an unhealthy fascination with a city that I've never actually been to.

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor - The first in a fantasy trilogy. Love, love, love. I absolutely love this book. I read it very soon after I bought it. I am hopefully going to do a full series review on it once I am able to read the second and third books. This series is about a girl called Karou who is caught between two worlds. She grew up in this "Elsewhere" that it's called but doesn't know anything about it. She goes to school, lives, and has friends in the human world. She doesn't know much about her past and is always curious about where she came from. She is confronted by someone who makes her even more curious about her past and she goes out to find it.

The Selection by Kiera Cass - The first in another trilogy, only distopian this time. I'm currently on chapter 4 so I haven't been able to make any judgements yet. But it's supposed to be about this distopian society where there is a monarchy and some sort of caste system. The monarchy always marries off their princesses to foreign rulers to promote diplomacy between the countries. But when the prince comes of age, they seek a wife for him (and the future queen) from the population of their own country. At least that's what I've gotten from how much I've read and from the back of the book. It seems to be somewhat of a Bachelor type situation but only not really. I don't know. I might do a series review on this as well once I read all of them.

Well that's it, unless by the time I post this in a couple days one or both of my packages have come.

So one of the packages I was expecting came today! Yay! It contained:

The Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams Chima - This was the Booksplosion book for July. I'm a little late but I'm hoping to read it this month. I don't really know what it's about though.

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline - This is the Little Book Club book of the month for August. I'm planning to read it this month in order to participate in the discussions. It's also another one that I don't know much about.

City of Glass by Cassandra Clare - I had this book at one point because I bought the first 5 books in a boxed set last year, but I seem to have lost it. I had to buy it again in order to continue reading the series and then of course I had to order it because when I went to the bookstore, they didn't have any in hardback and I thought that it would look a bit weird for me to have all of the series in hard back except for this one.

And yet another package came in the mail just another day later :)

Days of Blood and Starlight and Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor - I absolutely loved Daughter of Smoke and Bone so I pretty much immediately ordered these two after I finished that one! I can't wait to finish the series.

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo - I was intrigued by this book when I saw that people on BookTube were reading it so I planned to pick it up myself. I added it towards the top of my list when I realized that Leigh Bardugo is going to be at the Decatur Book Festival at the end of August so I wanted to read this book before I got the chance to meet her. I don't know much about it but it seems to be a high fantasy novel (from what I read on the back). I'm really interested in reading this book and learning it's story.

Okay so that is definitely it for my July book haul. I have to wait until I get paid again to buy anything else so this will officially (and finially) be the end of this post :)

xoxo Jennie