December 2021 Book Haul

Stacking The Shelves

Happy Saturday, readers!

And Happy New Year! I can’t believe that 2021 is at an end and I am sharing my last book haul of 2021! As always, I will be linking up with Stacking The Shelves, hosted by Reading Reality and created by Team Tynga’s Reviews.

With my moving to Australia and all the attention I had to give to the process of settling down, I had no time to buy any physical books. But I think I more than made up for that by indulging in all the sales that were up on Kindle, so be warned that I have an overwhelming number of Kindle copies bought in December. I also received some amazing review copies, despite the fact that I spend way too much time stressing over when I’ll finish reading the review copies I already have!

I got my hands on a huge selection of genres this month. I was thrilled to get my hands of some great science fiction picks: The Visit by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and The Black Pages by Nnedi Okorafor. How to Become a Planet by Nicole Melleby is a middle-grade novel that sounds like it has some great mental health rep.

Then I got my hands on a wonderful collection of romance novels, both contemporary and fantasy! Love at First Hate sounds like a great enemies-to-lovers romance, as does the much-hyped The Ex-Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon. I also can’t wait to read romantic suspense novels Disorderly Conduct by Rebecca Zanetti and Catalyst by Rachel Grant. I was so thrilled to get my hands on two Scarlett St. Clair books: A Touch of Darkness and A Game of Fate! I was also super thrilled when Neon Gods landed on my lap too! Looks like it was a great month for adult fantasy romance!

I indulged a bit and got a copy of Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes because I was curious about the illustrations. Then I was lucky enough to be able to grab The Beauty in Breaking, which is a memoir that I have been eyeing for some time now. The Weekday Vegetarians, however, was a purely coincidental buy!

The Romance Club read of the month was Bossman by Vi Keeland, an adult romance that I have good things about! And that cover!

This month was definitely the best month I have had for review copies! I was so fortunate to have some amazing authors contact me for a review. I got my hands of some really great romances that I was looking forward to in 2022: small town romance That Kind of Guy, the foodie romance For Butter or Worse, and bridesmaid-drama romance Queerly Beloved. I received a review copy of the intriguing historical/science fiction Coin for the Ferryman by Megan Edwards as well the queer contemporary debut First Time for Everything by Henry Fry. Lastly, I was lucky enough to be a part of the blog tour for You Truly Assumed, a new release that I have seen so many of my friends on Bookstagram rave about!