Amazing thanks for this!! I’ve been listening to it and really enjoying but haven’t been able to listen properly with a mix of summer holidays and work!
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Oooh thanks for sharing! I've been really looking forward to this one so perfect excuse on a daily deal
The publishers are probably happy enough to do this for books they know will be well received, get a few good reviews in and some buzz going before release date!
I’ve had the opposite, an email saying they’re still waiting for copies from the publisher lol
I get excited when pre-orders arrive a day or so early, but it never seems to happen with books I want to read straight away.
I hope this early deliveries thing is still happening for me to get The Strength of the Few early.
They clearly aren't familiar with my TBR pile!
I wondered if Waterstones might be looking to clear out stock
Yes I think you're right. It seems like sometimes they're super strict about the release date (for like, a Maas or a Rooney or other big name) and then otherwise they don't mind if a few books go out early for some good reviews/hype!
Yes! Not my usual genre but the blurb on the back was so intriguing I just had to read it. I could picture the companions quite vividly and for a couple of weeks after I finished reading it, when I got up to go to the loo in the middle of the night I’d keep thinking one of them would appear, which is of course absolutely stupid.
This month 3 books on my wish list have been reduced to 99p, The God of the Woods by Liz Moore, which I remember putting on there, and 2 others which I don’t remember putting on there so must have come from here.
Anyone read The Ex Vows by Jessica Joyce and/or Right Place, Right Time by Ali McNamara?
28 chapters into Strike and I feel like I have been on a roller coaster.
Welcome! Word of warning though: By being on this thread your bank account will get lower and your tbr, longer. However Ordinaryjelly is the absolute GOAT of whittling down a long tbr list.
I’ve been a bit of a lurker of this thread so know about Ordinaryjellys reputation!
my tbr is already out of hand so will have to try an resist temptation.I feel sort of famous now!I’ve been a bit of a lurker of this thread so know about Ordinaryjellys reputation!
I'm only 6 chapters in so far but I'm already hooked.
Chapter 39 and I have a LOT to say. Not going to try spoilers at this stage as it is pointless. Will wait until at least a few of us have finished.
Rowling/Galbraith is a phenomenal writer.
I agree. She is supremely talented. I always completely lose myself in her books (if that doesnt sound weird) and forget im reading a book because I am inside the story. Heck I even dreamt about Strike last night, sadly it didnt end well for him in my dream, so hopefully it was just a dream and nit a premonition!
I've really enjoyed Janice Hallett's books! The Twyford Code was my favourite so far. Her next one is out this week:
I loved the Appeal but hated the Twyford Code!
Not from waterstones, but i ordered a mystery box from abc books a month or two (and they send this internationally too!) and i got a book in there which was a clear arc, bc it also stated that on that cover that it was meant to be released a month later! if its not the copy how its meant to look (ie it looking a tad unfinished? i dont know how else to explain it) it could be an arc, otherwise I guess youre having a lucky early reader copy for the exact same reasons shops like abc throw arc's in their orders to gain hype :3 (though in my case i also clearly paid for it but, still, I wasn't expecting an arc in a mystery box so!)
Wow, and arcs are pretty clearly not to be sold on (I know people do, but still!)
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