May Book Haul 2020

Again this is proof of my lack of self-control. Here I will list the books acquired this past month.

In Audible I did buy several as I was using my credits:

*How to defeat a demon king in ten easy steps by Andrew Rowe, Narrators: Suzy Jackson and Steve West

For thousands of years, there has been a cycle: a Demon King rises and conquers, and a Hero is reborn a hundred years later to defeat him. Each time, civilizations are ground to dust beneath the Demon King's hordes, but humanity has remained secure in the belief that a Hero of legend will always save them. There's just one slight problem. It's only been 23 years since the Demon King's latest rise, and this time, he's already conquered more than half the world. If humanity simply waits for the Hero's return, there may be no world left for him to save.
And so, Yui Shaw sets out with an ambitious plan. A 10-step plan.
She'll find a way to obtain the Hero's legendary sword. She'll earn obscure classes, gain levels, and increase her skills. She'll travel to the meticulously-crafted dungeons that seem designed for one specific Hero to complete. And, if she's truly (un)fortunate, she might even find a fairy.
She might not be a Hero—but if she can fake it long enough, she might still be able to save the world.

*The Martian by Andy Weir Narrator: Wil Wheaton

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.
Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.
After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.
Chances are, though, he won’t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old “human error” are much more likely to kill him first.
But Mark isn’t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills — and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit — he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?

*Skyward by Brandon Sanderson Narrator Suzy Jackson

Defeated, crushed, and driven almost to extinction, the remnants of the human race are trapped on a planet that is constantly attacked by mysterious alien starfighters. Spensa, a teenage girl living among them, longs to be a pilot. When she discovers the wreckage of an ancient ship, she realizes this dream might be possible—assuming she can repair the ship, navigate flight school, and (perhaps most importantly) persuade the strange machine to help her. Because this ship, uniquely, appears to have a soul

Not satisfied with that I also made a few purchases in Kindle

*Miracle Cree by Angie Kim

In a small town in Virginia, a group of people know each other because they’re part of a special treatment center, a hyperbaric chamber that may cure a range of conditions from infertility to autism. But then the chamber explodes, two people die, and it’s clear the explosion wasn’t an accident.
A showdown unfolds as the story moves across characters who are all maybe keeping secrets, hiding betrayals. Was it the careless mother of a patient? Was it the owners, hoping to cash in on a big insurance payment and send their daughter to college? Could it have been a protester, trying to prove the treatment isn’t safe?

Also in my good economic skills, I bought a few more books from Amazon.

*Bird Box by Josh Malerman

This is a story that gives an account of Malory as she struggles in a world plagued by something that drives people mad: the madness always results in killing others and themselves. She is alone with two small children and must find a way to get to a place she considers safe. 

*HP and the chamber of secrets by J.K Rowling

I am trying to complete my Harry Potter series and reread it so I am very close to it, even if all the editions are different but oh well. The content is the important part. 

*Exhalations by Ted Chiang

This is a sci-fi short story collection that was mentioned in the Good Reads Choice Awards 2019. I already read it, it was a great collection in my opinion. 

*Inuyasha volumes 10, 11, 13 and 14 by Rumiko Takahashi
This is the continuation of Kagome a normal high school girl who is transported to Feudal Japan by and ancient well that is situated in her house garden. 

*The Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks containing:

The way of shadows
Shadow's edge
Beyond the shadows 

For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he's grown up in the slums, and learned to judge people quickly - and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint.

*Child of ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Long ago, Earth's terraforming program sent ships out to build new homes for humanity among the stars and made an unexpected discovery: a planet with life. But the scientists were unaware that the alien ecosystem was more developed than the primitive life forms originally discovered.
Now, thousands of years later, the Portiids and their humans have sent an exploration vessel following fragmentary radio signals. They discover a system in crisis, warring factions trying to recover from an apocalyptic catastrophe arising from what the early terraformers awoke all those years before.