So, um, wow.-BookOutlet Haul #1

WARNING: Whoa, very long post. o.o

Miraculously, on the day I created my blog, my BookOutlet order came to my door. *angel music starts playing*

Just a quick explanation of BookOutlet; it's basically the best site to buy books from (other than Amazon.com). They sell new books for ridiculously cheap prices just because, for example, they have a marking from the original manufacturer or overstock. They also sell scratch-and-dent books, aka books that have some wear and tear to them but the prices on them are heavily reduced. Most of the books on their site are at least 60% off the original price of the book AND THAT IS CRAZY. Granted, it sometimes doesn't have the books I want but usually I can find some books I want to buy.

The only downside is the shipping. It starts at $3.99 for 2 books and they $0.50 for every other book you have(so if you get 4 books like I did, the shipping would be $4.99). If you get a lot of books, no matter how cheap they are, the shipping will get to be more and more expensive(it's not really that bad, but when you think about the fact you could get another book for the price of the shipping...it kinda sucks). That's why I only got 4 books but then I saw more books that I wanted on the site and went back for another order. xD That's the reason I put the title as "BookOutlet Haul #1"; I will be doing another one of these when I get my second order(I got 5 books in that one :3 so excited!)

Ahem, so anyway! Onto the haul! You can bet that I'm making reviews for all of the books that I've shown here! Maybe not soon but someday!

Here is the lovely box it came in! Oh how seeing their logo nearly brought tears to my eyes! 

Also, ignore my messy bed please. lol 

This is what I see when I open the box (of course I took out the brown paper packaging to make it look nicer but yeah, THANK BROWN PAPER PACKAGING. You did my book babies well.)

 The first book I see is...of course, Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion!

Now I know, I know, how could I have not read this already? There was so much hype about the movie and even before that, the book was pretty popular too...I did hear about this book but I just never had the chance to pick it up. Oddly enough, a few years back I was hesitant to buy any books at all. Now, I'm a shopaholic...

Synopsis (from back cover): "R is having a no-life crisis--he is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he is a little different from his fellow Dead. He may occasionally eat people, but he'd rather be riding abandoned airport escalators, listening to Sinatra in the cozy 747 he calls home, or collecting souvenirs from the ruins of civilization.

And then he meets a girl. 

First as his captive, then his reluctant guest, Julie is a blast of living color in R's gray landscape, and something inside him begins to bloom. He doesn't want to eat this girl--although she looks delicious--he wants to protect her. But their unlikely bond will cause ripples they can't imagine, and their hopeless world won't change without a fight."

The storyline sounds really cute! I can't wait to devour this book! <--see what I did there? 

P.S. and all it had was this. Besides this, the book was is PERFECT condition. Unbelievable. And I got it for $4.99! 

This next book I got is Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff. It's the first book in his "The Lotus War" series. The third book is expected to come out on September 23, 2014.

Synopsis (from Amazon): "The Shima Imperium verges on the brink of environmental collapse; an island nation once rich in tradition and myth, now decimated by clockwork industrialization and the machine-worshipers of the Lotus Guild. When hunters of Shima's imperial court are charged by their Shōgun to capture a legendary griffin, they fear their lives are over. Any fool knows the beasts have been extinct for more than a century, and the price of failing the Shōgun is death.  Accompanying her father on the Shōgun’s hunt, the girl Yukiko finds herself stranded: a young woman alone in Shima’s last wilderness, with only a furious, crippled griffin for company. Even though she can hear his thoughts, even though she saved his life, all she knows for certain is he’d rather see her dead than help her. But together, the pair will form an indomitable friendship, and rise to challenge the might of an empire."

I haven't read any other books by Jay Kristoff so I don't know whether or not I'll like his writing style but the premise GUYS. THE PREMISE. IT'S TOKYO STEAMPUNK. How freaking cool is that?? There's not much diversity in YA novels, and japanese culture is not often combined with steampunk so basically my head is exploding right now. It sounds SO AWESOME. But I'm also afraid that my high expectations for this book will be crushed. 

I've read a few reviews on Amazon.com and a lot of them say the same thing. Apparently the character interactions are awkward and forced, it wasn't written well, etc. Something that did make me regain hope was that the general consensus was that the second book redeemed this book so, I'm looking forward to that! I picked up the second book in my second BookOutlet order! :) 

One notable thing that I read in a review is that this book would probably gain the love of otaku fans, which is perfect! I wouldn't necessarily call myself an otaku (because it has gained a negative connotation) but I do like anime and manga...if you didn't catch on. xD 

 YESYESYESYES ALL THE YESES! 

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

 This is a very popular book on BookTube and has been raved about ALOT pretty much everywhere. 

I've read about halfway through this book and decided I needed a physical copy of this (I was reading on my iPad mini) and bought it on BookOutlet.

Again, this is the only mark I found on the book. One thing I was surprised about this book was that it was thicker than I expected. I don't know, it looked thinner when I saw people holding it up in their videos. 

Synopsis: "Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life--and she's really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it's what got them through their mother leaving.

Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere.

Cath's sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can't let go. She doesn't want to.
Now that they're going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn't want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She's got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words . . . And she can't stop worrying about her dad, who's loving and fragile and has never really been alone.

For Cath, the question is: Can she do this?

Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? Writing her own stories? And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?" 

I can't wait to finish this book! I can really relate to Cath, in the sense we're both introverts and write fanfictions (although I can't say that I'm as obsessed that she is. xD) 

 My last book of this haul is Cinder by Marissa Meyer. The fact that it was set in modern Beijing really intrigued me. Besides that, it was really cheap so I decided to get it. Are you starting to see a patten to how my mind works? xD 

This book is the first in the Lunar Chronicles trilogy, and the two other books, Scarlet and Cress are already out. I plan on getting them both in the future so I can marathon this trilogy. 

Synopsis: "Sixteen-year-old Cinder is considered a technological mistake by most of society and a burden by her stepmother. Being cyborg does have its benefits, though; Cinder's brain interface has giver her an uncanny ability  to fix things (robots, hovers, her own malfunctioning parts), making her the best mechanic in New Beijing. This reputation brings Prince Kai himself to her weekly market booth, needing her to repair a broken android before the annual ball. He jokingly calls it "a matter of national security," but Cinder suspects it's more serious than he's letting on. 

Although eager to impress the prince, Cinder's intentions are derailed when her younger step-sister, and only human friend, is infected with the fatal plague that's been devastating Earth for a decade. Blaming Cinder for her daughter's illness, Cinder's stepmother volunteers her body for plague research, an "honor" that no one has survived. 

But it doesn't take long for the scientists to discover something unusual about their new guinea pig. Something others would kill for."

Seriously sounds freaking interesting. I'll have to finish reading the books my school assigned me to read over the summer first, sadly. Though I doubt that they won't be good books. 

Above; The Stranger by Albert Camus and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Since I have to do it for school anyway, I will be doing an analysis of these 2 books...probably soon if I don't procrastinate.

Well, that's the end of my haul! I can't wait for the other books I've ordered to arrive. :D :D :D 

Have a fantastic day~ <3