11 Feb 2012 6 Comments

In My Mailbox: Awe-inspiring reads galore

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren that lets book bloggers and book lovers get a peek at some of the goodies that are floating around out there.

It’s that time of the week again and we have a sweet stack of goodies to share with you guys and gals. Let’s get to the good stuff…

For Review:

The Dark Rose by Erin Kelly

Some time ago, I read Kelly’s The Poison Tree and while I didn’t enjoy it all that much, I felt compelled to give her another try. The Dark Rose sounds like a thrilling read. The summary mentions that the book delves into obsessive love and loyalty, devotion and desperation. Sounds like it could get a little intense for the MC.  I have to admit I love the cover too.

Fallen by Traci L. Slatton

I started reading this beauty as soon as I pulled it out of the mailbox. The cover is absolutely gorgeous and from what I’ve read, totally fits with the story. I’m always eager to see how the cover art plays into a story. Fallen is the first in a new post-apocalyptic series and it’s so unique. Check it out; you’ll be glad you did.

Won:

The Carrier of the Mark  by Leigh Fallon (Signed ARC & Signed Postcard)

I read this one last year and it’s so good. Definitely worth a re-read. The second installment of the Carrier Trilogy is titled Dawn of the Knights. It’s due out sometime this year, if memory serves me right. LOL

The Way We Fall  by Megan Crewe (ARC)

After reading the summary for this one, I was totally freaked out. From the summary alone, it sounds like it has a realistic feel to it. I’m anxious to crack the spine and see where the story goes. As a bonus, the cover art is fantastic. This is the first book in the Fallen World series.

Incarnate by Jodi Meadows (ARC)

This is easily one of my Top 10 must-read debuts this year. The cover alone makes this an easy buy. LOL It’s so pretty. I haven’t read a lot of books about reincarnation but I love the fantasy feel I get from the summary.  If you’ve read Incarnate, I’d like to know what you thought about it.

Special thanks to Aeicha @ Word Spelunking for all of these sweet reads.

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11 Feb 2012 2 Comments

Inevitable Reads: Flawless Girls & Grim Reapers

Inevitable Reads

Happy Saturday!

Inevitable Reads is a weekly feature we’ve thrown together to highlight titles that we simply, without-a-doubt, must get our hands on; the stories we’ve been waiting for ever since we heard the author was writing them.

Sometimes the end is just the beginning.

Gabby lived under the radar until her makeover. Way under. but when she started her senior year as a blonder, better-dressed version of herself, she struck gold: Billy Nash believed she was a the flawless girl she was pretending to be. The next eight months with Billy were bliss…Until the night Gabby woke up on the ground next to the remains of his BMW without a single memory of how she got there.
And Billy’s nowhere to be found.
All Gabby wants is to make everything perfect again. But getting her life back isn’t difficult, it’s impossible. Because nothing is the same, and Gabby’s beginning to realize she’s missed more than a few danger signs along the way.

It’s time for Gabby to face the truth, even if it means everything changes.

Especially if it means everything changes.

Sixteen-year-old Lex Bartleby has sucker-punched her last classmate. Fed up with her punkish, wild behavior, her parents ship her off to upstate New York to live with her Uncle Mort for the summer, hoping that a few months of dirty farm work will whip her back into shape. But Uncle Mort’s true occupation is much dirtier than that of shoveling manure.

He’s a Grim Reaper. And he’s going to teach her the family business.

Lex quickly assimilates into the peculiar world of Croak, a town populated entirely by reapers who deliver souls from this life to the next. Along with her infuriating yet intriguing partner Driggs and a rockstar crew of fellow Grim apprentices, Lex is soon zapping her Targets like a natural born Killer.

Yet her innate ability morphs into an unchecked desire for justice—or is it vengeance?—whenever she’s forced to Kill a murder victim, craving to stop the attackers before they can strike again. So when people start to die—that is, people who aren’t supposed to be dying, people who have committed grievous crimes against the innocent—Lex’s curiosity is piqued. Her obsession grows as the bodies pile up, and a troubling question begins to swirl through her mind: if she succeeds in tracking down the murderer, will she stop the carnage—or will she ditch Croak and join in?

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