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In My Mailbox #15: August 21- 27, 2011 Edition

August 27, 2011 By 23 Comments

In My Mailbox

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi over at The Story Siren.

The purpose of the meme is to highlight books that you have received in your mailbox over the past week. So let’s see what I got in my mailbox this week!

So I have been slacking on the blog lately!  I am so sorry guys, but I promise that the reviews are on their way back.  Preparing for the upcoming school year the University has been so hectic this year.  No, I am not a student, but I do run to Engineering Undergrad Programs!  I think everything is sorted out now, and it’s back to blogging.  So let’s see what I received in my mailbox this week!

For Review!

L.A. Mental by Neil McMahon [Goodreads | Amazon] ARC Copy
Drama: An Actor’s Education by John Lithgow [Goodreads | Amazon] ARC Copy
Irma Voth by Miriam Towes [Goodreads | Amazon] ARC Copy
Darkhouse (Experiment in Terror Series #1) by Karina Halle [Goodreads | Amazon] Finished Copy
Red Fox (Experiment in Terror Series #2) by Karina Halle [Goodreads | Amazon] Finished Copy
The Edge of Grace by Christa Allen [Goodreads | Amazon] Finished Copy *Blog Tour coming up*

 

 

YA Pack # 1

Wake (Dream Catcher Series #1) by Lisa McMann [Goodreads | Amazon]
Fade by (Dream Catcher Series #2) Lisa McMann [Goodreads | Amazon]
Gone (Dream Catcher Series #3) by Lisa McMann [Goodreads | Amazon]
The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter [Goodreads | Amazon]
Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy Series #1) by Richelle Mead [Goodreads | Amazon]
To Die For by Christopher Pike [Goodreads | Amazon]

 

YA Pack # 2!

Fury by Elizabeth Miles [Goodreads | Amazon]
Juliet Immortal by Stacey Jay [Goodreads | Amazon]
Shut Out by Kody Keplinger [Goodreads | Amazon]
Bitter End by Jennifer Brown [Goodreads | Amazon]
Witchlanders by Lena Coakley [Goodreads | Amazon]
Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles [Goodreads | Amazon]

 

YA Pack #3!

The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff [Goodreads | Amazon]
Dust City by Robert Paul Weston [Goodreads | Amazon]
Claire De Lune by Christine Johnson [Goodreads | Amazon]

So I saw Dust City and the Replacement when I was at the Penguin Canada HQ a few weeks ago and decided to pick them up when I went shopping this week!

 

Room: A Novel by Emma Donghue [Goodreads | Amazon]

Rec’d from my friend Melissa when we went to see Conan!  Yes, I said Conan…don’t judge me! LOL

 

Once You Break a Knuckle by D.W. Wilson [Goodreads] ARC Copy

I won this one through a Goodreads Giveaway!  It comes highly recommended from the lovely Bronwyn @PenguinCanada so it’s got to be good.
That’s 23 books this week!  So insane.  Thanks to Harper Collins New York, Karina Halle, Christa Allen and Bronwyn & PenguinCanada for the books sent this week.  Everything else was purchased by me.

So tell me, what did you get in your mailbox this week?

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Review: The Sixes

August 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Title: The Sixes

Author: Kate White

Genre: Fiction & Literature

Rating: PG

Publisher: HarperCollins

Publication Date: August 2, 2011

Pages: 384 pages

[Goodreads | Amazon]

[box] Kate White rises to the pinnacle of modern suspense with The Sixes, a page-turning stand-alone thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Hush, and the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine. With taught prose evocative of Laura Lippman’s Life Sentences and Dennis Lehane’s Moonlight Mile, White paints the sinister picture of a quiet Pennsylvania college town left shaken after a mysterious death precipitates a cascade of evil events on campus. When new teacher Phoebe Hall undertakes the dangerous quest of uncovering the truth behind the ghastly recent happenings, her investigation will send her into the clutches of a deadly secret society—the Sixes—and unearth the dark relics of her own long-buried past.[/box]

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Review: The Pact

August 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Title: The Pact

Author: Jodi Picoult

Genre: Fiction & Literature, Social Issues

Rating: PG

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Publication Date: September 1st 2006 (first published May 6th 1998)

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Pages: 496 pages

[Goodreads | Amazon]

[box] For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything from Chinese food to chicken pox to carpool duty– they’ve grown so close it seems they have always been a part of each other’s lives. Parents and children alike have been best friends, so it’s no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily’s friendship blossoms into something more. They’ve been soul mates since they were born.

So when midnight calls from the hospital come in, no one is ready for the appalling truth: Emily is dead at seventeen from a gunshot wound to the head. There’s a single unspent bullet in the gun that Chris took from his father’s cabinet– a bullet that Chris tells police he intended for himself. But a local detective has doubts about the suicide pact that Chris has described.[/box] [Read more...]

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Covet List # 2

July 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Cov·et

[kuhv-it]

–verb (used with object)

to wish for, especially eagerly: He won the prize they all coveted.
So it’s that time again where I feature books that I am drooling over and can’t wait to own!

Title: Crave
Author: Melissa Darnell
Publisher: Harlequin
Publication Date: October 25, 2011
ISBN: 9780373210350
Price: $9.99/$11.99 Can.
Pages: 304 pages
Format: Trade paperback
Genre: Fiction, YA, Series

[box] Savannah Colbert has been shunned all her life by the kids of the Clann. And when she undergoes some drastic changes after a strange illness, Savannah learns secrets about the Clann and about herself-dangerous secrets. For the Clann are powerful magic users, and Savannah herself is half Clann and half vampire-a forbidden, unheard of combination. Falling for Clann golden boy Tristan Coleman isn’t just a bad idea-it could be deadly if anyone finds out. But her attraction to Tristan-and his to her-isn’t something either of them can resist for long.[/box] [Read more...]
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In My Mailbox #11 – July 17 – 23, 2011 Edition

July 23, 2011 By 10 Comments

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi over at The Story Siren.

The purpose of the meme is to highlight books that you have received in your mailbox over the past week.  So let’s see what I got in my mailbox this week! [Read more...]

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