Stacking the Shelves: November 12-18

The Cybils judging has me on the list for a ton of books, so to help me keep track of them I'm joining in this Sunday meme for a while.


From Publishers for the Cybils:

   From the Library:

 Purchased:

Cybils

The Cybils are eating my brain y'all!  I've skipped yesterday's post and today's Follow Friday to read some more.  I'll hopefully get some reviews up next week of all the wonderful books I've been reading, and in the meantime comment and comment back on some of the stuff you've been saying here (I'm woefully behind, very sorry!).  I'm also contemplating a post or two about being a Cybils judge, not on the books themselves but about my mindset behind reading the books and what it's like to face a huge stack of tbrs that only gets bigger every day.  Would that interest any of you?

Waiting on Wednesday: Undeadly by Michele Vail

    This is Breaking the Spine's Waiting for Wednesday, where bloggers post about a book they just can't wait to get their hands on!       

Undeadly by Michele Vail

November 20th 2012

The day I turned 16, my boyfriend-to-be died. I brought him back to life. Then things got a little weird...

Molly Bartolucci wants to blend in, date hottie Rick and keep her zombie-raising abilities on the down-low. Then the god Anubis chooses her to become a reaper-and she accidentally undoes the work of another reaper, Rath. Within days, she’s shipped off to the Nekyia Academy, an elite school that trains the best necromancers in the world. And her personal reaping tutor? Rath. Who seems to hate her guts.

Rath will be watching closely to be sure she completes her first assignment-reaping Rick, the boy who should have died. The boy she still wants to be with. To make matters worse, students at the academy start turning up catatonic, and accusations fly-against Molly. The only way out of this mess? To go through hell. Literally.

The taken-to-hell books are becoming really popular right now, but I've not seen one that uses ancient Egyptian mythology, which gives this book edge enough that I'll try it out.

Tortured by Caragh M. O'Brien

Now, in this new story that bridges the gap between Birthmarked and Prized, Caragh M. O’Brien answers her readers’ most common question with a tale of suffering and determination from Leon’s perspective. Be warned. The story is a spoiler for the first book in the award-winning trilogy.

This short story had great characterization.  I loved getting to know a bit more about Genevieve.  It also provided some very good clues to bridge the time between Birthmarked and Prized, but even better it was a coherent story in and of itself.  Recommended to readers between the two books.  Read it for free at http://www.tor.com/stories/2011/12/tortured.

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