In My Mailbox (53)
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.
From A Friend:
Taken at
Dusk (Shadow Falls #3) by C.C. Hunter
Step into Shadow Falls, a camp for teens with
supernatural powers. Here friendship thrives, love takes you by surprise, and
our hearts possess the greatest magic of all.Kylie Galen wants the truth so badly she can taste it. The truth about who her real family is, the truth about which boy she’s meant to be with—and the truth about what her emerging powers mean. But she’s about to discover that some secrets can change your life forever…and not always for the better.
Just when she and Lucas are finally getting close, she learns that his pack has forbidden them from being together. Was it a mistake to pick him over Derek? And it’s not just romance troubling Kylie. An amnesia-stricken ghost is haunting her, delivering the frightful warning, someone lives and someone dies. As Kylie races to unravel the mystery and protect those she loves, she finally unlocks the truth about her supernatural identity, which is far different—and more astonishing—than she ever imagined.
Brought:
Feral Sins (Phoenix Pack #1) by Suzanne
Wright {Kindle}
If your inner wolf and your body
react rather enthusiastically to a psychotic Alpha male who’s own wolf has a
tendency to turn feral, it can’t be a good thing, can it? Entering into a
bargain with him wouldn’t be good either. Unfortunately, Taryn Warner, a latent
wolf shifter, doesn’t have many options open to her right now. Okay, she has no
options. Basically it comes down to whether she’ll do what it takes to escape
the arranged mating with the sick SOB that her father set up. As the answer in
this case is yes, it looks as though she’ll have to agree to Trey Coleman’s
deal…she’ll have to mate with him instead.
Having always disliked shifter politics, Trey Coleman hadn’t bothered trying to form alliances with other packs. Now that his uncle – a wolf with many alliances – means to take Trey’s territory and his pack, he has no option but to form some alliances of his own very quickly or he’ll be easily outnumbered in the upcoming battle. He figures that the easiest way to do that would be to mate with a female who’s Alpha is powerful and influential. There’s only one problem with that – he would then be stuck with her, and the last thing Trey wants is a mate. When he hears of Taryn’s situation, he offers her a deal – if she falsely claims he’s her true mate and allows him to claim her, he’ll save her from her arranged mating and then let her leave after the battle with his uncle is over.
Sounds like a pretty straightforward deal...but soon Taryn and Trey realize they got more than they bargained for. Their mating instincts to protect and possess are weighing on them, they crave each other’s touch and company, and their inner wolves don’t like it whenever they’re apart. Add in that they’ll have to deal with this for an entire three months until the day of the battle finally arrives, and they’ve got themselves a recipe for disaster – or maybe for something quite the opposite.
Having always disliked shifter politics, Trey Coleman hadn’t bothered trying to form alliances with other packs. Now that his uncle – a wolf with many alliances – means to take Trey’s territory and his pack, he has no option but to form some alliances of his own very quickly or he’ll be easily outnumbered in the upcoming battle. He figures that the easiest way to do that would be to mate with a female who’s Alpha is powerful and influential. There’s only one problem with that – he would then be stuck with her, and the last thing Trey wants is a mate. When he hears of Taryn’s situation, he offers her a deal – if she falsely claims he’s her true mate and allows him to claim her, he’ll save her from her arranged mating and then let her leave after the battle with his uncle is over.
Sounds like a pretty straightforward deal...but soon Taryn and Trey realize they got more than they bargained for. Their mating instincts to protect and possess are weighing on them, they crave each other’s touch and company, and their inner wolves don’t like it whenever they’re apart. Add in that they’ll have to deal with this for an entire three months until the day of the battle finally arrives, and they’ve got themselves a recipe for disaster – or maybe for something quite the opposite.
Loved It. Get It
Here Be Sexist
Vampires by Suzanne Wright {Kindle}
Sam Parker is a vampire with a gift so strong and substantial that she is invited to partake in a test for a place in the Grand High Master Vampire’s private army. She finds that not only has the army never included a woman, but it has never included a Sventé vampire; a breed that is regarded by the super strong Pagori breed and the hypnotically beautiful Keja breed to be too tame and human-like. Most refuse to take her seriously, especially a Pagori commander named Jared who she craves in spite of herself.
The
Grand High Master, however, sees her potential and offers her the position of
Jared’s co-commander to help train the newest squad in time for the impending
attack on his home. Sam has to demonstrate to Jared and the squad of
chauvinists why it is incredibly foolish to underestimate a wilful,
temperamental, borderline-homicidal Sventé female.
Loved It. Get It
From Rags by Suzanne
Wright {Kindle}
There
has only been three people in Jaxxon Carter's life who truly mattered to her.
Her mum, who committed suicide. Her sister, who she hasn’t seen since her
teens. And Connor McKenzie, who disappeared from her life the same day he left
their foster home. The hardest part of that was that he never completely left
her life because she was forever seeing him on T.V. or in magazines as a
Formula One Driver. But Jaxxon refuses to live a ‘woe is me’ life, even in
spite of living alone in her one-roomed flat and being expected to survive on a
ridiculously low income. Then one night she is offered a modelling job and
before she knows it she has been catapulted to the peak of success, gaining
fame, fortune and security. Oh and a stalker.
Connor McKenzie is busy trying to shake off his crazy ex-girlfriend – another woman who thought she could get around his no marriage rule – when he sees Jaxxon on the cover of a magazine. Remembering how close they had once been, he’s shocked when she doesn’t respond to his attempts to contact her and then acts indifferently to him when they meet. But Connor can’t let it go. The only reason he had kept his hands off her ten years ago was that she had been younger than him. Now that they’re adults, he isn’t prepared to allow anything – not even Jaxxon – to stop him from having her.
Connor McKenzie is busy trying to shake off his crazy ex-girlfriend – another woman who thought she could get around his no marriage rule – when he sees Jaxxon on the cover of a magazine. Remembering how close they had once been, he’s shocked when she doesn’t respond to his attempts to contact her and then acts indifferently to him when they meet. But Connor can’t let it go. The only reason he had kept his hands off her ten years ago was that she had been younger than him. Now that they’re adults, he isn’t prepared to allow anything – not even Jaxxon – to stop him from having her.
For Review:
Flat-Out
Love by Jessica
Park
Something is seriously off in the Watkins home. And Julie Seagle, college freshman, small-town Ohio transplant, and the newest resident of this Boston house, is determined to get to the bottom of it.
When Julie's off-campus housing falls through, her mother's old college roommate, Erin Watkins, invites her to move in. The parents, Erin and Roger, are welcoming, but emotionally distant and academically driven to eccentric extremes. The middle child, Matt, is an MIT tech geek with a sweet side ... and the social skills of a spool of USB cable. The youngest, Celeste, is a frighteningly bright but freakishly fastidious 13-year-old who hauls around a life-sized cardboard cutout of her oldest brother almost everywhere she goes.
And there's that oldest brother, Finn: funny, gorgeous, smart, sensitive, almost emotionally available. Geographically? Definitely unavailable. That's because Finn is traveling the world and surfacing only for random Facebook chats, e-mails, and status updates. Before long, through late-night exchanges of disembodied text, he begins to stir something tender and silly and maybe even a little bit sexy in Julie's suddenly lonesome soul.
To Julie, the emotionally scrambled members of the Watkins family add up to something that ... well ... doesn't quite add up. Not until she forces a buried secret to the surface, eliciting a dramatic confrontation that threatens to tear the fragile Watkins family apart, does she get her answer.
Flat-Out Love comes complete with emails, Facebook status updates, and instant messages.
NetGalley:
Silver by M.J. Pullen
Beauty is pointless when no one's looking.
Brianna Paxton has been invisible to
guys since the eighth grade. She’s pretty enough, it’s just that no one bothers
to look. There’s almost nothing that can’t be explained with science, and Brianna
has a theory: she’s missing the pheromone that attracts people to one another.
Brianna’s theory is shot to hell in one frozen, silver moment, when time stops
and Blake Williams not only sees her, he recognizes something inside her that
she’s been hiding from even herself. Before Brianna fully understands who and what she is, she accidentally binds her soul to Blake. Forced to find a way to reconcile forbidden love and her bloody heritage, Brianna discovers that there's nothing pointless about her, and Blake may be in the most danger of all.
Redemption
(Heart of
Stone #1) by Jessica Kenner
Guillaume:
For five hundred years I've existed as a gargoyle. Perched atop an old Montreal
church, I've watched idly as humanity wanders by. With the witch Marguerite
gone, there is no one left to protect, nothing to care about. I never planned
to feel again. But then a girl released me from my stone restraints, allowing
me to return as a seventeen-year-old human boy. I must find out all I can about
this girl's power . . . Aude: Getting attacked twice in as many days is strange in itself, but even stranger is the intriguing guy I keep running into. There's something so familiar about him, like a primal drum rhythm from my dreams. But spending time together only raises more question-about my heritage, a native Mohawk prophecy . . . and an unearthly magic threatening our city...
Keep
Holding On by Susane Colasanti
A romantic and empowering book about bullyingNoelle's life is all about survival. Even her best friend doesn't know how much she gets bullied, or the ways her mom neglects her. Noelle's kept so much about her life a secret for so long that when her longtime crush Julian Porter starts paying attention to her, she's terrified. Surely it's safer to stay hidden than to risk the pain of a broken heart. But when the antagonism of her classmates takes a dramatic turn, Noelle realizes it's time to stand up for herself--and for the love that keeps her holding on.
The Golden Flute (Adventures of Lilli and Zane #1) by Catherine Lanigan
With
the fate of the world in their hands, Lilli and Zane will have to stay one step
ahead of danger, find the treasured artifacts, and keep them far away from
their enemies or face death—and maybe even worse.
4 comments
Aaahhh!!! I want Keep Holding On so badly! Great haul, btw =D
ReplyDeleteDrop by my IMM?
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I tried reading a Susane Colasanti book once and hated it, but I feel like I need to give her another try. I think Keep Holding On might be the one I try. I really like the cover.
ReplyDeleteGreat books this week. Happy reading!
The Flat Out Love cover looks so cool!
ReplyDeleteHappy Reading!
Patricia // My IMM
Taken at Dusk looks so mesmerizing, and I really want to read Keep Holding On.. Great books! First time coming here, and I was surprised at the header image! Nice collection!! You have a new follower as well. :)
ReplyDeleteCheck out mine? :)