Stocktake Saturday 77

Welcome to Stocktake Saturday! This feature is where I share some bookish news with you and then show you all the bookish goodies I got over the week.

The cover reveals from the last week – (links to Goodreads pages)

• The Galaxy Game by Karen Lord
• The Shadow’s Heart (The Risen Sun #3) by K.J. Taylor
• Empower (The Violet Eden Chapters #5) by Jessica Shirvington
• Thief’s Magic (Millennium’s Rule #1) by Trudi Canavan
• Unremembered (Unremembered #1) by Jessica Brody
• Unforgotten (Unremembered #2) by Jessica Brody
• Peacemaker (Peacemaker #1) by Marianne de Pierres

In Bookish News, the US cover of Empower, the final book in Jessica Shirvington’s Embrace series, has been revealed, as well as the first chapter of the book! Read it here.

We’re one step closer to seeing Karou and Akiva on screen! Michael Gracey, a former animator turned commercials director, is going to direct Universal’s adaptation of Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke and Bone.

You can read a snippet of The Forever Song, the third book in Julie Kagawa’s Blood of Eden series, here. Julie warns that “It’s kinda dark”.

Bloomsbury will be releasing illustrated copies of the Harry Potter series, and they have announced that the illustrator will be Kim Jay, and Harry will look a little like this:

This week I’ve been Waiting on … Flame by Amy Kathleen Ryan. And I reviewed the following books:

• [3 Dec] Towering by Alex Flinn
• [4 Dec] Night of Cake & Puppets by Laini Taylor ★★★★★
• [5 Dec] More by T.M. Franklin
• [6 Dec] The Oathbreaker's Shadow by Amy McCulloch

My book hauls, beginning as usual with the physical copies, thanks to Penguin AU and Simon and Schuster AU (links to Goodreads):

• Champion (Legend #3) by Marie Lu
• Eternity (The Fury Trilogy #3) by Elizabeth Miles

And e-galleys from Netgalley and Edelweiss:

• The Islands of Chaldea by Diana Wynne Jones and Ursula Jones – Edelweiss (Greenwillow Books)
• The Eighth Day by Dianne K Salerni — Edelweiss (HarperCollins)
• After the End (After the End #1) by Amy Plum — Edelweiss (HarperTeen)
• The Castle Behind Thorns by Merrie Haskell — Edelweiss (Katherine Tegen Books)
• (Don’t You) Forget About Me by Kate Karyus Quinn — Edelwiess (HarperTeen)
• Empress of the Sun (Everness #3) by Ian McDonald – NetGalley (Quercus Books)
• Secret (Elemental #4) by Brigid Kemmerer – NetGalley (Kensington-Teen)
• The Seers (Holders #2) by Julianna Scott – NetGalley (Strange Chemistry)
• Black Dog by Rachel Neumeier – NetGalley (Strange Chemistry)
• Burn (Pure #3) by Julianna Baggott – NetGalley (Grand Central Publishing)

I also bought:

• Fire and Thorns (Fire and Thorns #1) by Rae Carson
• The Straight Razor Cure (Low Town #1) by Daniel Polansky
• World After (Penryn & the End of Days #2) by Susan Ee

I hope you have some goodies to share as well, leave your links below and I’ll be sure to visit 🙂

Happy Reading!