Weekly Wrap-Up!

Hello all!

Welcome to my Wrap-Up!

The last 2 weeks have been super hectic,

so I haven't been able to post as much as I wanted.

So, this Wrap-Up will include both weeks.

These are the meme's I am participating in with this post.

Stacking the Shelves @ Tynga's Reviews

Showcase Sunday @ Books, Biscuits and Tea

Sunday Post @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer

Recent posts:

Review: Cured (Stung #2) by Bethany Wiggins

Teaser Tuesday #40: Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

Think Out Loud #87: First Kiss

Review: Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass #1) by Sarah J. Maas

Teaser Tuesday #41: The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

Think Out Loud #88: Little Rebel

And here are the books that I acquired lately!

From Netgalley

The Forever Song (Blood of Eden #3) by Julie Kagawa

VENGEANCE WILL BE HERS

Allison Sekemoto once struggled with the question: human or monster?

With the death of her love, Zeke, she has her answer.

MONSTER

Allie will embrace her cold vampire side to hunt down and end Sarren, the psychopathic vampire who murdered Zeke. But the trail is bloody and long, and Sarren has left many surprises for Allie and her companions—her creator, Kanin, and her blood brother, Jackal. The trail is leading straight to the one place they must protect at any cost—the last vampire-free zone on Earth, Eden. And Sarren has one final, brutal shock in store for Allie.

In a ruined world where no life is sacred and former allies can turn on you in one heartbeat, Allie will face her darkest days. And if she succeeds, triumph is short-lived in the face of surviving forever alone.

I was also Pre-Approved thru Netgalley for this book.

Hope it's as good as it sounds!

The Word Exchange by Alena Graedon

A dystopian novel for the digital age, The Word Exchange offers an inventive, suspenseful, and decidedly original vision of the dangers of technology and of the enduring power of the printed word.


In the not-so-distant future, the forecasted “death of print” has become a reality. Bookstores, libraries, newspapers, and magazines are things of the past, and we spend our time glued to handheld devices called Memes that not only keep us in constant communication but also have become so intuitive that they hail us cabs before we leave our offices, order takeout at the first growl of a hungry stomach, and even create and sell language itself in a marketplace called the Word Exchange.
Anana Johnson works with her father, Doug, at the North American Dictionary of the English Language (NADEL), where Doug is hard at work on the last edition that will ever be printed. Doug is a staunchly anti-Meme, anti-tech intellectual who fondly remembers the days when people used email (everything now is text or videoconference) to communicate—or even actually spoke to one another, for that matter. One evening, Doug disappears from the NADEL offices, leaving a single written clue: ALICE. It’s a code word he devised to signal if he ever fell into harm’s way. And thus begins Anana’s journey down the proverbial rabbit hole . . .
Joined by Bart, her bookish NADEL colleague, Anana’s search for Doug will take her into dark basements and subterranean passageways; the stacks and reading rooms of the Mercantile Library; and secret meetings of the underground resistance, the Diachronic Society. As Anana penetrates the mystery of her father’s disappearance and a pandemic of decaying language called “word flu” spreads, The Word Exchange becomes a cautionary tale that is at once a technological thriller and a meditation on the high cultural costs of digital technology.

So, how was your week?