Stacking The Shelves #104

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly haul meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews & Reading Reality. It is about sharing enthusiasm for the new books added to our shelves – be it physical, ebooks, galleys or borrowed from the library.

Though this is a weekly haul meme, *I* will be doing this fortnightly

It looks like a lot but most of these are manga sequel adds!

Netgalley

Mary by Brea Grant

“Angsty teenager Mary Shelley is not interested in carrying on her family’s celebrated legacy of being a great writer, but she soon discovers that she has the not-so-celebrated (and super-secret) Shelley power to heal monsters, just like her famous ancestor, and those monsters are not going to let her ignore her true calling anytime soon.”

Olive by Vero Cazot

“Olive, age 17, has a rich and vivid inner life. She has created an imaginary world that she’s able to visit whenever she chooses. But her daily life on earth is shaken up by the arrival of a new roommate at boarding school, who won’t leave Olive alone. And even more upsetting: a mysterious spaceman makes a surprise appearance in her imaginary world!“

Edelweiss

Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzalez

“a bisexual girl who gives anonymous love advice to her classmates is hired by the hot guy to help him get his ex back”

The Bright & the Pale by Jessica Rubinkowski

“Seventeen-year-old Valeria is one of the only survivors of the freeze, a dark magical hold Knnot Mountain unleashed over her village. Everyone, including her family, is trapped in an unbreakable sheet of ice. Ever since, she’s been on the run from the Czar, who is determined to imprison any who managed to escape.“

Dragonfly Girl by Marti Leimbach

“Kira Adams has discovered a cure for death—and it may just cost her life.” Dark academia thriller FTW

Mermaid Saga by Rebecca Phelps

“Yuta became immortal when he unwittingly ate mermaid flesh, and now he seeks a way to become human again. Hundreds of years later, he encounters a volatile and determined young lady named Mana while searching for a mermaid. Could this mysterious woman hold the key to saving Yuta’s humanity?”

Love After the End:An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction (edited) by Joshua Whitehead

written by “2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer Indigenous) writers from across Turtle Island. These visionary authors show how queer Indigenous communities can bloom and thrive through utopian narratives that detail the vivacity and strength of 2SQness throughout its plight in the maw of settler colonialism’s histories.“

The Afterlife of the Party by Marlene Perez

It gives me iZombie vibes.

The Bright and Breaking Sea by Chloe Neill

Let me imagine it is a Lila Bard AU, okay?

Lycanthropy and other Chronic Illnesses by Kristen O’Neal

“Teen Wolf meets Emergency Contact in this debut young adult novel about friendship and the hairy side of chronic illness.”

Those Who Prey by Jennifer Moffett

College life and cults. That’s it. I’m intrigued.

As Far As You’ll Take Me by Phil Stamper

About a queer kid finding a place to call home in the wide wide world.

Sequels

Shelved on Goodreads

The Wild Ones by Nafisa Azad

“The novel is a multi-perspective feminist narration about a fierce band of magic-wielding girls – the Wild Ones – who have survived unspeakable things, and are determined to save other girls from the cruelties and tragedies they’ve had to endure.“

The Drowning Summer by Christine Lynn Herman

Murder mysteries and mediums – I am so in!

The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros

“Set against the backdrop of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, this queer Jewish gothic fantasy follows a young immigrant, Alter, who is possessed by the dybbuk of his murdered best friend and is thrust into a deadly hunt for a serial killer.“