Please give me a moment as I squee uncontrollably over my first IMM!!
I got so many books at the Foyles' Summer Scream yesterday, that I thought I'd do a post to acknowledge them all (and show off. I'll admit it :P).
The In My Mailbox meme was started by Kristi at
The Story Siren and is used by many bloggers to show... well what they've been sent. ^^
All summaries are from
Goodreads.
Books I won from the Summer Scream giveaway:
Witch Crag - Kate Cann
In a tribe where basic
survival is the only priority, Kita must make a choice: to accept
arranged marriages and being treated with less value than sheep, or
escape and journey to the place that even the strongest men fear with
their lives — Witch Crag.
But a common threat is facing the
witches and sheepmen alike. The tribes must somehow overcome their
prejudices and join together if they are to win a war that threatens to
destroy everything they hold as good.
Breathe - Sarah Crossan
When oxygen levels
plunge in a treeless world, a state lottery decides which lucky few will
live inside the Pod. Everyone else will slowly suffocate.
Years after
the Switch, life inside the Pod has moved on. A poor Auxiliary class
cannot afford the oxygen tax which supplies extra air for running,
dancing and sports. The rich Premiums, by contrast, are healthy and
strong. Anyone who opposes the regime is labelled a terrorist and
ejected from the Pod to die.
Sixteen-year-old Alina is part of the
secret resistance, but when a mission goes wrong she is forced to escape
from the Pod. With only two days of oxygen in her tank, she too faces
the terrifying prospect of death by suffocation. Her only hope is to
find the mythical Grove, a small enclave of trees protected by a
hardcore band of rebels. Does it even exist, and if so, what or who are
they protecting the trees from? A dystopian thriller about courage and
freedom, with a love story at its heart.
I've actually ended up with two copies of this ^^ So I'm giving one to a friend.
Love, Inc. - Yvonne Collins and Sandy Rideout
Zahra, Kali, and Syd
would never have met if their parents' marriages hadn't fallen apart.
But when the three girls collide in group counseling, they discover they
have something else in common: they've each been triple-timed by the
same nefarious charmer, Eric, aka Rico, aka Rick. Talk about eye-opening
therapy.
Cheerful, diplomatic Zahra is devastated. Rico had
been her rock and sole confidant. How could she have missed the signs?
Folksy, flirtatious Kali feels almost as bad. She and Rick had only been
on a few dates, but they'd felt so promising. Hardened
vintage-vixen Syd is beyond tears. She and Eric had real history... Or
so she'd thought. Now all three girls have one mission: to show that
cheater the folly of his ways.
Project Payback is such a
success, the girls soon have clients lining up for their consulting
services. Is your boyfriend acting shady? Dying to know if your crush is
into you? Need match-making expertise? Look no further than Love, Inc.
Plus one that a wonderful and very, very kind blogger called Ewa gave me!
Dearly Departed - Lia Habel
A sharp, slick, blisteringly paced debut novel, with an unconventional but tender love story at its heart.
I
parted the curtains. A skeletal face peered back at me, blackened eyes
rolling in sockets seemingly unsupported by flesh. It smiled...
It
should be game over for Nora Dearly when she is ambushed and dragged
off into the night by the living dead. But this crack unit of teen
zombies are the good guys, sent to protect Nora from the real monsters
roaming the country and zeroing in on cities to swell their ranks.
Can
Nora find a way to kill off the evil undead once and for all? Can she
trust her protectors to resist their hunger for human flesh? And can she
stop herself falling for the noble, sweet, surprisingly attractive,
definitely-no-longer-breathing Bram...?
This looks so amazing! I can't wait to read it!
Brought (and had signed ^^):
Daughter of the Flames - Zoë Marriott
What if your deadliest enemy were the only one who could save you?
Inside
an ancient temple in the mountains, fifteen-year-old Zira trains in the
martial arts to become a warrior priestess who can defend the faith of
the Ruan people. Bearing a scar on her face from the fire that killed
her parents, the orphaned Zira is taught to distrust the occupying
Sedornes. Terror strikes when the forces of the tyrannical Sedorne king
destroy the only home she knows. To survive, Zira must unravel the
secrets of her identity, decide her people’s fate — and accept her
growing feelings for a man who should be her enemy.
I'm really, really looking forward to this! It was the one book I knew I was definitely going to buy.
A Witch in Winter - Ruth Warburton
Anna Winterson doesn't
know she's a witch and would probably mock you for believing in magic,
but after moving to the small town of Winter with her father, she learns
more than she ever wanted to about power. When Anna meets Seth, she is
smitten, but when she enchants him to love her, she unwittingly
amplifies a deadly conflict between two witch clans and splits her own
heart in two. She wants to love Seth, to let him love her – but if it is
her magic that's controlling his passion, then she is as monstrous as
the witch clan who are trying to use her amazing powers for their own
gain.
This series looks so cool! Just the sort of thing that I like!
Burn Mark - Laura Powell
Glory is from a family
of witches and lives beyond the law. She is desperate to develop her
powers and become a witch herself. Lucas is the son of the Chief
Prosecutor for the Inquisition—the witches’ mortal enemy—and his
privileged life is very different to the forbidden world that he lives
alongside.
And then on the same day, it hits them both. Glory and
Lucas develop the Fae—the mark of the witch. In one fell stroke, their
lives are inextricably bound together, whether they like it or not . . .
Seriously, how incredible does this book look!? I want to read it now!
Angel - L.A. Weatherly
Angels are all around us: beautiful, awe-inspiring, irresistible.
Ordinary
mortals yearn to catch a glimpse of one of these stunning beings and
thousands flock to The Church of Angels to feel their healing touch.
But what if their potent magnetism isn't what it seems?
Willow knows she's different from other girls. And not just because she loves tinkering around with cars.
Willow
has a gift. She can look into people's futures, know their dreams,
their hopes and their regrets, just by touching them. But she has no
idea where she gets this power from.
Until she meets Alex…
Alex is one of the few who know the truth about angels. He knows Willow's secret and is on a mission to stop her.
The dark forces within Willow make her dangerous – and irresistible.
In spite of himself, Alex finds he is falling in love with his sworn enemy.
I've heard such good things about this series and the Author was lovely ^^
Haunters - Thomas Taylor
Eddie, Adam and David
have the same gift. Separated by generations, they are linked by their
ability to time-travel. Using their dreams, they can appear like ghosts,
wherever and whenever they want. The first is the genius who discovers
dreamwalking. The second is a Haunter, a dream-terrorist, determined to
change history foris own ends. The last is the novice dreamwalker who
must battle to save his family, and himself, from oblivion.
This looks a bit creepy for me :') Still, it looks really good.
The Wood Queen - Karen Mahoney
"The wood monster is dead. I know this is true because I killed it. And yet my dreams are still full of fear and pain . . ."
To
keep her best friend, Navin, from being killed at the hands of vicious
wood elves, Donna Underwood stole the elixir of life. Now she's facing
an alchemist tribunal while her mother lies dying, succumbing to the
elven curse that shattered her mind. In desperation, Donna seeks an
audience with Aliette, the fierce and manipulative Wood Queen, who
offers a deal: if Donna can use her strange and burgeoning powers to
help the wood elves, Aliette will free her mother from the curse. Along
with Navin and Xan, the half-fey guy she's falling for, Donna struggles
to unlock the secrets of her iron tattoos in time to save her mother's
life. But some secrets are better left untold.
I really liked The Iron Witch so I've been meaning to get a hold of a copy of this. And now I have one!
