Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

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Stacking The Shelves (Reading Reality) and The Sunday Post (Caffeinated Reviewer) are both blog memes about sharing the books we're adding to the shelves and sharing news of the week ahead.

New Arrivals

First up, a pair of pre-ordered new releases arrived on the doorstep this week:

  • The Winter Witch by Jennifer Chevalier: Two sisters set sail on a bride ship from Normandy hoping to leave a curse behind them and find better lives in the wilds of 17th-century Quebec, only to meet a mysterious witch who forces them to confront the truth about magic—and their past.

  • Enchanting the Fae Queen by Stephanie Burgis: Stephanie Burgis delivers another irreverent, sparkling, and sexy installment in the Queens of Villainy series, where a seductive fae queen meets her unexpected match in the enemy empire's valiant general.

Additionally, I added a new batch of books to my trans shelf:

  • Narcissus in Chains by Laurell K. Hamilton: Narcissus presents in a, "high femme" or androgynous style, often dressing as a woman while using male pronouns. It is revealed that he is intersex, possessing both male and female anatomy.

  • The Library Thief by Kuchenga Shenjé: Written by a Black trans woman, features themes of queer and trans identity, and includes a trans character.

  • Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders: Features extensive non-binary, trans, and gender-diverse characters, including a Black Brazilian trans-nonbinary bisexual character and alien species that have third, non-binary, variable genders (and it's written by a trans woman)

  • Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice: Features a prominent intersex character, Petronia, a roughly 2,000-year-old vampire who was born intersex in the Roman Empire, and is often referred to with she/her pronouns.

Currently Reading

I have a small shelf full of 2025 currently-reading carryovers that will likely shift back to the TBR shelves, but I've also managed to finish and review a couple this month, so progress! Given how much I loved Wooing the Witch Queen (read my review here), it should probably come as no surprise that I leapt on Enchanting the Fae Queen the moment it arrived.

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