HI GUYS. Emily here. (In case you didn’t know.) (And if you didn’t, well, Em’s the name, books are the game. So hi.) This week I have such a PURRTTY STACK. Basically: my world’s on fire, how bout yours? that’s the way I’ll like it and I’ll never get bored… because really. How could you be bored when there’s a library FIVE minutes down the road?! Sometimes I feel so bad for non-bookworms. They’re simply using less brain capacity than we do, hello.

SEE. What did I tell you?? so pretty! And this picture it totally worth the fact that my neighbor getting his mail was giving me strange looks. He must be new, ’cause all the others are probably used to me by now. You know, in my fuzzy pajamas taking a hundred shots in the same angle of books in my front yard. The ush.

SAPPHIRE BLUE by Kerstin Gier: This. Series. This series is KILLIN’ ME. I’m not going to go into too much detail about this one, because it is a sequel. I do have a review up on Goodreads here for the first book, Ruby Red, even though the review won’t be up on the blog until March. In a nutshell, this book is the second in a time travel trilogy set in London. The book was originally written in German and has two movies for books one and two out; but only the first movie can be watched with English voice-overs. The final movie comes out this summer, and if you live in Germany and/or speak German, go you. I hate you.

So if you haven’t read this series yet (it’s known as The Ruby Red Trilogy in some translations, the Precious Stone Trilogy in others; the first book is Ruby Red) WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!!! Go get it. Go. Now.

*I have finished Sapphire Blue and emotionally EXHAUSTED. I’m dying to get my hands on Emerald Green, so if your library happens to have these books GO PUT IT ON HOLD. (and then come back here & thank me. *hair flip*)

WOLF BY WOLF by Ryan Graudin: This is a new(ish) book, published late October of 2015. It sounds like a really interesting concept: 1956, Hitler won WWII (yikes), and our main character has some anger issues. (FOR GOOD REASON, OK? OK.) Apparently Yael (interesting name, let’s go with it) has survived cruel experimentation and a death camp and is out to get his wrath on Mr. Hitler himself. SOUNDS COOL, right?! Plus: the cover.

I mean, look at it.

THE GIVER QUARTET by Lois Lowry: pssssshhhh, you know this book. c’mon now. If ya don’t, I don’t know what rock you’ve been living under. (No offense to you though, really, because I am way behind on 98.7% of popular series. True calculations.) I actually already have all four books in one nice bind-up plus a paperback copy of the first one, but now I have each individual one in hardback, yay! (Thanks Grandma!) I’ve read the first Giver book, but not the others and now I have no excuse not to read them! (That one bind-up is ginormous and hurts my palms to hold, so there.) I think the next one is…. Gathering Blue? Yup, just double-checked. Gathering Blue, here I come!

GLASS SWORD by Victoria Aveyard: Oh, look, there goes Emily. You’re going to find her post hyperventilating in front of her computer. “She was a good girl, that Emily. Died doing what she loved…” *whispers* IT’S HERE. Glass Sword, sequel to Red Queen, hit shelves February 9! Noooow… I’m not the biggest fan of Red Queen; I gave it 3.5 stars…. buuut I like joining hype. And you know what? This series has so much possibility. The first book in a series is almost never my favorite, so I’m thrilled. And you mind getting all fangirly with me over the fact that I own a) a hardback SIGNED copy of Red Queen, heck yes!, b) a hardback copy of Glass Sword (matching hardbacks in a series FINALLY), and c) a beautiful poster for the Red Queen books?! LOOK AT IT.

Now, pay attention: if you haven’t snatched up your copy of Glass Sword yet, go to Barnes & Noble because their copy has some really neat stuff: a tear-out poster (which I think looks amazing!) featuring all of the different types of powers in the book and a guide to each superpower on the back, and a “deleted scene” – an alternate beginning to Glass Sword! I’m a lucky girl because my mom bought this copy as a Valentine’s gift, so thanks mom!

In other news, I’m back on Wattpad! *passes virtual cookies around* (someone please invent a way for me to just pass you a chocolate chip cookie through the screen okay? I mean obviously that could be a dangerous invention because of other stuff people might try to transport but I just wanna give my blog read readers a COOKIE.) I’ve been on Wattpad for about three years, that’s crazy. If you didn’t know it’s a website to publish stories you’ve written and share them with other writers like you. But as long as I have been on this website I never finish a stinkin’ story! So yeah. I put up something, you can read it if it floats your boat here. I’m not trying to write the best story in the world, I’m just trying to FINISH something fun in my free time, so there you are. 🙂 Follow me, shameless advertising!

what books did you get this week? have you read any listed above?