In My Mailbox (52)
In My Mailbox is something was
that started over at The
Story Siren and I think it’s
pretty awesome. It’s a way to showcase the books that you gotten through
different places. Books you gotten in the mail, brought from a store, borrowed
from the library, received to write a review, or they can be
in eBook form. Here's a link to see how it all started.
Brought:
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades #1) by E.L. James
When literature
student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young
entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive,
enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to
put Grey out of her mind - until he happens to turn up at the out-of-town
hardware store where she works part-time.
The unworldly,
innocent Ana is shocked to realize she wants this man, and when he warns her to
keep her distance it only makes her more desperate to get close to him. Unable
to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants
her - but on his own terms.
Shocked yet
thrilled by Grey's singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings
of success – his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving adoptive
family – Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control.
When the couple embarks on a passionate, physical and daring affair, Ana learns
more about her own dark desires, as well as the Christian Grey hidden away from
public scrutiny.
Can their
relationship transcend physical passion? Will Ana find it in herself to submit
to the self-indulgent Master? And if she does, will she still love what she
finds?
Erotic, amusing, and deeply moving, the Fifty
Shades Trilogy is a tale that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you
forever.
{And Btw yes that was my copy of Fifty Shades on my bed!!! I'm
so fricking happy about that.}
Please Don't Tell by Kelly Mooney {Kindle}
Sixteen-year old, Sophie Gerrard has been in love with her close friend,
Peter Watson since childhood. She planned to tell him how she felt during their
families’ yearly vacation to the Caribbean. But when Peter arrives from London
with a girlfriend and his cousin Ethan, her plans change.
Disgusted
by how the vacation has turned out, she agrees to go island hopping with Ethan,
to avoid Peter. But even that didn’t work out as planned. When their dinghy
capsizes, Sophie and Ethan are forced to swim to a cliff of rocks. She never
planned to share her innermost secrets with Ethan but, she really thinks this
could be her last adventure ever. In the panicked hours it takes for help to
arrive, Sophie tells him how much she likes her Sunday through Monday undies,
that she kissed her best friend’s boyfriend, and how she’s never made it past
third base.
Once saved, Sophie tries to forget about all the things she revealed.
After all, it’s not like she’ll ever see Ethan again, right? But Sophie’s mom
decides he should stay with them while he does his semester abroad, and by the
time Sophie realizes she’s falling for him, he’s moved on to her arch-enemy.
Knowing that Ethan can ruin her junior year with one slip, she becomes obsessed
with one thought: Please Don’t Tell!
Never Say Never by Kelly Mooney {Kindle}
For
seventeen-year old, Kat Harper her life in Savannah, Georgia is perfect, but it
all changed with one note. Her mother’s sudden departure forces her father to
move Kat to the suburbs of Chicago.
Trading
in her flip-flops for snow boots, and wanting the next six months to blow right
by so she can go off to college in the sunny state of Arizona, she makes a
plan. She does her best to stick to it, but Cameron Tate seems to pulling her
further away from them.
Cameron Tate is on every girls list of who
they’d want to date. When he sees Kat, he’s instantly drawn to her, but she
wants nothing to do with him. He refuses to give into her ice queen act, even
after the upfront rejections.
She can only avoid
him and her now growing feelings for him for so long before she falls. But
after her mother left she’s afraid of being hurt, and doesn’t want to lose
anyone she loves ever again. With college around the corner how could this
relationship possibly work?
Kat
must come to a decision in the road, take a chance on Cameron or just go their
separate ways?
Rock Star's Girl by J.F. Kristin {Kindle}
Emily
Watts just wants a weekend break from the workaholic hours she's taken on to
keep her business – a popular fashion-snark web site – up and running. What she
gets is overnight celebrity and a career-killing media scandal.
While
taking time out to attend a concert in support of friend Jesse Cinder, a
struggling musician, Emily meets Cory Sampson, the lead singer of a
chart-topping rock band. When she agrees to a date with Cory, making
entertainment headlines is the last thing she expects. Even so, it's a minor
surprise by comparison to her discovery that in the music world, media notoriety
trumps all. Tabloid allegations erupt when Cory and fame-hungry Jesse use Emily
for personal gain, and her tarnished image spells disaster – personally and
professionally. To save the web site and writing career she's made her life and
dream, Emily must go from being a pawn in the Hollywood headline game to
becoming the media mastermind.
For Review:
Someone Else's Fairytale by E.M.
Tippetts
Jason Vanderholt, Hollywood's hottest actor,
falls head over heels for everygirl, Chloe Winters, who hasn't gotten around to
watching most of his movies. She becomes the woman every other woman in America
is dying to be, but it just isn't her fairytale.
Ignite (Midnight
Fire #1) by
Kaitlyn Davis
"With one last look, one final search of
the lines of his face for some sign, Kira turned and ran away from the sound of
the man she loved laughing in the face of her death."
When Kira Dawson moves to South Carolina, she meets Luke, a blond goofball who quickly becomes her best friend, and Tristan, a mysterious bad boy who sends shivers down her spine. Kira knows they're keeping secrets, but when she discovers Tristan's lust for blood and her own dormant mystical powers, Kira is forced to fight for her life and make the heartbreaking decision between the familiar comfort of friendship and the fiery passion of love.
When Kira Dawson moves to South Carolina, she meets Luke, a blond goofball who quickly becomes her best friend, and Tristan, a mysterious bad boy who sends shivers down her spine. Kira knows they're keeping secrets, but when she discovers Tristan's lust for blood and her own dormant mystical powers, Kira is forced to fight for her life and make the heartbreaking decision between the familiar comfort of friendship and the fiery passion of love.
Simmer (Midnight
Fire #2) by
Kaitlyn Davis
"Slowly, like a whisper almost blown away in the wind, two words
streaked across her mind: 'Kiss me.'"
Kira may have survived the eclipse, but her troubles are far from over. She's headed to Sonnyville with one goal in mind: to learn more about her parents. But with Luke and Tristan competing for her heart and Diana gunning for her head, time is running out on the search for her mother. And the closer Kira gets to answers, the more terrified she becomes. The conduits fear her, the vampires fear her, and Kira is starting to wonder if maybe they're right...
Kira may have survived the eclipse, but her troubles are far from over. She's headed to Sonnyville with one goal in mind: to learn more about her parents. But with Luke and Tristan competing for her heart and Diana gunning for her head, time is running out on the search for her mother. And the closer Kira gets to answers, the more terrified she becomes. The conduits fear her, the vampires fear her, and Kira is starting to wonder if maybe they're right...
NetGalley:
Edge of Passion (Cloak Warriors #1) by
Tina Folsom
Able to render themselves invisible, immortal
Cloak Warriors like Aiden have been protecting humans from the dark power of
the Demons of Fear for centuries. But the demons might soon have a powerful
tool in their hands to seduce humans to the dark side. And the person to
provide them with this elixir is the human scientist Leila. Unbeknownst to her,
the drug she’s developing to cure Alzheimer’s has the unexpected side effect of
weakening the mind’s resistance to the influence of demons. The Council of Cloak Warriors is divided, some of them believing the only safe way to eradicate this threat is to eliminate its inventor, others are bent on protecting the human scientist. Aiden is a loyal Cloak Warrior who accepts the assignment to protect her despite his own beliefs that humans can\'t be trusted. However, when her life is endangered, his beliefs shift, and he’s drawn into a battle whose participants are unknown: is he fighting the demons or his fellow Cloak Warriors?
Forbidden desire flares between Aiden and Leila as they are forced to rely on the only people they can trust: each other. And even if he can save her and defeat their enemies, a union between them might be the most dangerous undertaking of all.
Colby Law by Debra Webb
To
solve the most heinous murder in Texas history, Colby investigator Lyle McCaleb
has an unusual mission: find and protect the killer's long-lost daughter. The
complication: she's tough, gorgeous rancher Sadie Gilmore—Lyle's first and only
love. And now the mysterious past she barely remembers is threatening her very
existence.
Lyle regrets leaving Sadie broken-hearted seven years ago. And as he investigates and gets deeper into danger, he finds it almost impossible to maintain his professionalism around her. But another dilemma threatens their newly rekindled relationship. Can Lyle regain Sadie's trust while concealing the secret that may devastate her?
Lyle regrets leaving Sadie broken-hearted seven years ago. And as he investigates and gets deeper into danger, he finds it almost impossible to maintain his professionalism around her. But another dilemma threatens their newly rekindled relationship. Can Lyle regain Sadie's trust while concealing the secret that may devastate her?
Free From Amazon:
The Marriage Pact by M.J. Pullen
Marci Thompson
always knew what life would be like by her 30th birthday. A large but cozy
suburban home shared with a charming husband and two brilliant children. A
celebrated career as an established writer, complete with wall-to-wall mahogany
shelves and a summer book tour. A life full of adventure with her friends and
family by her side.
Instead, Marci lives alone in 480 square feet of converted motel space next to a punk rock band, hundreds of miles from her friends and family. She works in a temporary accounting assignment that has somehow stretched from two weeks into nine months. And the only bright spot in her life, not to mention the only sex she’s had in two years, is an illicit affair with her married boss, Doug. Thirty is not at all what it is cracked up to be.
Then the reappearance of a cocktail napkin she hasn’t seen in a decade opens a long-forgotten door, and Marci’s life gets complicated, fast. The lines between right and wrong, fantasy and reality, heartache and happiness are all about to get very blurry, as Marci faces the most difficult choices of her life.
Instead, Marci lives alone in 480 square feet of converted motel space next to a punk rock band, hundreds of miles from her friends and family. She works in a temporary accounting assignment that has somehow stretched from two weeks into nine months. And the only bright spot in her life, not to mention the only sex she’s had in two years, is an illicit affair with her married boss, Doug. Thirty is not at all what it is cracked up to be.
Then the reappearance of a cocktail napkin she hasn’t seen in a decade opens a long-forgotten door, and Marci’s life gets complicated, fast. The lines between right and wrong, fantasy and reality, heartache and happiness are all about to get very blurry, as Marci faces the most difficult choices of her life.
Night Swim by Jessica Kenner
Sixteen-year-old Sarah Kunitz lives in a posh, suburban world of 1970
Boston. From the outside, her parents’ lifestyle appears enviable – a world
defined by cocktail parties, expensive cars, and live-in maids to care for their
children – but inside their five-bedroom house, all is not well for the Kunitz
family. Coming home from school, Sarah finds her well-dressed, pill-popping
mother lying disheveled on their living room couch.
At
night, to escape their parents’ arguments, Sarah and her oldest brother, Peter,
find solace in music, while her two younger brothers retreat to their rooms and
imaginary lives. Any vestige of decorum and stability drains away when their
mother dies in a car crash one terrible winter day. Soon after, their father, a
self-absorbed, bombastic professor begins an affair with a younger colleague.
Sarah, aggrieved, dives into two summer romances that lead to unforeseen
consequences.
In
a story that will make you laugh and cry, Night Swim shows how a family, bound
by heartache, learns to love again.
5 comments
Ooh - loving this peek inside your new books :-) I've seen lots of buzz about 50 Shades of Grey so I'm looking forward to seeing what you think.
ReplyDeleteCool new books! I heard a lot about Fifty Shades of Grey, but I'm not so big on erotic romance so I'm not sure whether or not I should pick it up.
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Celine ~ Nyx Book Reviews
My IMM
I never really read erotic fiction so I am quite intrigued by all the hype around Fifty Shades of Grey! I want to know why it's so popular! Will look out for your review!
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You got a lot of nice books this week. The Marriage Pact sounds like a fun read. I will have to add it to my list.
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Book Sniffers Anonymous
Quite a few good sounding books :D Happy reading!
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