Day 31 – Readable Procurement Squad

Today there is no manga to really share, so I decided to go with books today, since that is also a big part of my collecting habits. So, I am happy to share the possible shit taste I have in books, which may or may not be any different to my manga taste.

Here is the list of books I have today:

• Kissed by an Angel by Elizabeth Chandler
• Dark Secrets 1, 2 and 3 by Elizabeth Chandler
• Beautiful Creature by Garcia and Stohl
• Beautiful Darkness by Garcia and Stohl
• Beautiful Chaos by Garcia and Stohl
• Beautiful Redemption by Garcia and Stohl
• Others by James Herbert
• Haunted by James Herbert
• The Taking by Dean Koontz
• Trust me, I’m Lying by Mary Elizabeth Summer
• Trust me, I’m Trouble by Mary Elizabeth Summer
• The Forbidden Game by L.J.Smith
• Dark Visions by L.J.Smith
• Under the Dome by Stephen King

I am going to do my best talking about these books since I haven’t read any of them yet and bought them all second-hand from Lifeline as I usually do on a Thursday. I think my goal will be sharing the synopsis and condition of the books.

Book Collection

Kissed by an Angel has minor bends on the cover and a bit coloured but otherwise it’s in great condition. 

This is the tale of Ivy who had just lost her boyfriend, which made her lose her faith in angels. That is, until she discovers that he is now her guardian angel. She needs him as he knows she is terrible danger as his killer has turned their eyes onto her but saving her means leaving her forever, what will happen knowing that her being saved means leaving again?
That is the basics of this suspenseful, romantic trilogy. I am not very fond of angel-based stories that seem to be based on romance, since I feel iffy about romances to begin with. Despite that, I am giving it a chance since I felt it be weird to get the other books by Elizabeth Chandler and not Kissed by an Angel.

Next, we have the three Dark Secrets books by Elizabeth Chandler.
The First book doesn’t match the other two but matches Kissed by an Angel, so I am not too fussed. All three books are in great condition despite the scratches on book 2, which is noticeable at closer inspection and it’s the only damage worth noting.
Each book contains at least two tales.

The first book revolves around Megan, who has to stay with her grandmother that she doesn’t get along with and tries to get through it without issues but that doesn’t happen as she ends up in a twisted love triangle with deadly consequences. There is more to her and her family that she never realised till now.
Lauren is returning to the town where her mother died in a drowning seven years ago. When she arrives, she ends up in a series of mysterious events that lead her to believe that her mothers drowning may not be the accident she first believed it was.

The second book also contains two stories. The first one introduces Jenny who is devastated by the death of her sister Liza. While looking for closure, she secretly signs up for a drama club where her sister died. Jenny feels she can find answers there but what she got is a lot more twisted than she first thought.

Next we have Kate who thought she was done with the daring adventures since her friends’ death in an icy pond. Eventually she returns home and flooded with memories of her friend and feels her presence lingering there and the boy next door claims to be able to see her. Will Kate be able to face her past to prevent it from happening again?

Now the third book only seems to contain one story compared to the first two. This time we are introduced to Anna, who knows her family is a little crazy but when the body of her uncle shows up burned to a crisp, she reaches a new level of crazy. Apparently, according to the local folk, her family are known to be psychic in nature. When she is suddenly pulled to the site of her uncles’ death, she starts to believe that those tales may be true and that there is a lot more going on than what it seems.

Next, we have the Beautiful something series, I am kind of glad I got the lot together and nearly the same design but all in great condition. Book 2 is laminated though but that has me amused more than anything else.

First, we have Beautiful Creatures where we meet Lena Duchannes, a girl who is cursed and that curse will be paid in full on the sixteenth birthday. Lena and Ethan are bound by a deep love and fate will change everything.  

Beautiful Darkness continues on with Lena 17^th birthday approaching as the couple face a greater danger. She is a caster while Ethan is a human. She fights a war that her family is locked in but how will their love last when Ethan’s heart could beat it’s last at any time.

Beautiful Chaos follows as they continue on their path, but Lena is struggling with her power that could destroy their world, but one must make a sacrifice, even if there is no answer and could result in a happy ending.

Beautiful Redemption is the conclusion to the Beautiful series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.
The story picks up where Ethan longs to return to Lena and her to him, but will they end up together or be apart forever? Will fate have other ideas? Only this book will give us the conclusive answer to this series of Love, War and the Supernatural.

Seems like Others is a supernatural mystery and the condition of it is great for a second-hand, like a large chunk of these books I obtain.
The synopsis is interesting to me, it starts off with what was suppose to be an easy job, find a missing kid but it doesn’t help that the kid is dead but the mother insists that the child is still alive. This took the main character to hell, where they came from, but the thing is, they can’t remember anything and the answers were not what he was ready to confront. It’s a story that one might hate, since it’s so close to the real truth. Do you have the guts to read this? 

Seems like the book wants you to read it but tries to scare one away with horror themes, so this book is ideal for horror and supernatural lovers.

Haunted is a hardcover book with a book cover on it, which I am too lazy to remove but I am glad that it won’t get more damage compared to the others.

Now the synopsis.

David Ash, Psychic Investigator, is invited to Edbrook where an alleged haunting is taking place. He is known to root out and expose the fakes and finding the natural causes of the supposed hauntings but Edbrook has a mystery that cannot be explained by natural causes, in the process Ash is faced with his past as he takes part in the game with deadly consequences in order to find the truth about this place.

As usual, great condition and another Dean Koontz work that sounds quite interesting.
The Taking follows Molly and Neil Sloan wakes to find an themselves in an eerily luminous downpour, this was not the only issues happening as they turn on the news and see that all sorts of extreme weather are occurring all over the globe. In the evening, a ghostly fog covers the area and leaves them feeling isolated but that’s not all, everything starts to go dead. They gather with the neighbours, sensing a danger is looming and they figure a way to find out what and how to deal with this. But is it all what it seems or something deeper and darker?

The next two are a part of a series together and seems like the only two works currently by Mary Elizabeth Summer. I like the condition of both these books, and they seem to be there every time I go in there and decided to take them home and give them a gander, as well as add them to my novel collection.

First, we have, “Trust me, I’m Lying” where we first meet the character Julep Dupree and she is a very good liar, with good reasons. She is at one of the swankiest schools and needs funds for her tuition and what is no better than running petty scams, deception does run in her family and all.
That is until her home is ransacked, and her father is missing, that’s when things get serious and fast. Considering now that one of the hottest guys gets involved and makes it messier. Julep feels she is in over her head, but it doesn’t stop her using her skills to find her dad before someone takes her out of the game.

Second book is the continuing with her still running cons while keeping her guilty conscious at bay, but it doesn’t stop someone from wanting her to pay with her life. So, in ones usually dumb judgement moments, she takes a shady case that could lead her finding more about her mother and a blue fairy. Julep will do anything to make sure she doesn’t fail, considering her life is on the line at each step of this journey.

We have another two omnibus from L.J.Smith and it’s only another cause I have previously collected the Night World omnibus sets and been waiting for years for more from that series cause it was really good. I did start reading the series due to Vampire Diaries, since it was so fascinating at the time. Which was me back in High School during the early 2000s.

Dark Visions follows a group of special people with psychic abilities. We follow Kaitlyn Fairchild, a girl with prophetic and strong psychic abilities. She meets others like her and end up falling for two guys there while trying to bond with others like her, but it eventually gets rocky when they all develop a link between each other and makes things more intense and Kaitlyn questions herself on her choices.

The Forbidden Love starts with Jenny buying her boyfriend a game but at the same time, she feels a strong attraction to the man who sold her the game. Eventually, she returns back and starts playing the game with her friend, despite it being for her boyfriend. A night of fun and friendship decided to turn into a night of terror and obsessive love. The game has become their new reality with the cutie from the store being the overlord. Now Jenny and her friends must face their deepest fears or lose their lives but that is just the beginning.

Under the Dome is basically a rebuy since the version I had was very unappealing to me, but this copy not only looks better but fits in better with my collection and is in a newer condition.
It’s a beautiful autumn day when everything changes in a New England town when they are inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force. No one can fathom what the barrier is or where it came from, let alone if or when it goes away. A few people, led by an Iraq vet turned short-order cook to confront the corrupt politicians set on seizing the reigns of power, while also dealing with the dome because time isn’t running short but running out.

I do enjoy Stephen King books and I hope to one day own all his works especially Cujo. I do really enjoy his works ever since I was a young teen, then again, other authors on this list, such as Dean Koontz and L.J.Smith are also other authors I seem to have held on as favourites since I was a teen.

These are my procurements this week, sadly not manga but I hope these are just as interesting. Also, I do apologise for such a long post and it took me two days to write it up, which is a new thing for me, but I am happy to be sharing this. I cannot wait to read them and possibly share my views on these books.