FOR REVIEW
Books I got for review were mostly for blog tours this coming January 2013. Starting today, I’ll try my best to finish these books so no more reading slumps for me.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. My thanks go to Lee Chambers; Candace of Candace’s Book Blog and Michael Pierce; Vickie of Innovative Online Book Tours and Eleanor Beaty; and Diana Nixon.
BOUGHT
I have so much to tell you about how I got these amazing books. Finding these books was no effort. They just show up every time I visit our local secondhand bookstore—which means they are really fated to have me as their owner. All of them were bought at a price range of $1 to $2. I was thrilled when I found a copy of City of Lost Souls! It’s just so rare to find newly released copies in a secondhand bookstore.
I got the copy of Crescendo at the same secondhand bookstore. But before I bought Crescendo, I had a battle with myself. First, I don’t have a copy of Hush, Hush which means I haven’t read it yet—soon I will. Second, I found a copy of Wildefire by Karsten Knight which is in my wishlist. I tried to weigh in things. Wildefire got it’s new cover for its paperback edition while Crescendo stayed as is. As a book collector, I love looking at my books in their proper sequence, editions and covers so I ended up buying Crescendo instead. As for Wildefire, I hid it somewhere in the bookstore for future buying opportunities.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. My thanks goes to Book Sale.
GIFTED
My Aunt from Australia came to visit us in the Philippines for the holiday season. Of course, I expected gifts from her. But never did I know that she also brought some books with her only for me! Judging by the books she gave me—excluding Destroy Me and Hana—she is a certified Vampire lover.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. My thanks goes to my Aunt Alva.
FREE
I got them for free from the authors’ site. For Elixir, you can get the free copy from here. For Transcendence, you can get it from here.