In my Mailbox! (#2)

I am usually keeping IMM till a Sunday but l have got quite a few books lately!
Thanks Netgalley
Trickster's Girl - Hilari Bell

Blurb : In the year 2098 America isn't so different from the USA of today. But, in a post-9/11 security-obssessed world, "secured" doesn't just refer to borders between countries, it also refer to borders between states. Teenagers still think they know everything, but there is no cure for cancer, as Kelsa knows first-hand from watching her father die.

 The night Kelsa buries her father, a boy appears. He claims magic is responsible for the health of Earth, but  human damage disrupts its flow. The planet is dying.

 Kelsa has the power to reverse the damage, but first she must accept that magic exists and see beyond her own pain in order to heal the planet.

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Always a witch - Carolyn MacCullough

I haven't actually read the first book called 'Once a Witch' and with my TBR growing by the day l don't think l will get the chance to read it before 'Always a Witch' (I am trying not to buy new books!)

The Blurb : Since the gripping conclusion of Once A Witch, Tamsin Greene has been haunted by her grandmother's prophecy that she will soon be forced to make a crucial decision—one so terrible that it could harm her family forever. When she discovers that her enemy, Alistair Knight, went back in time to Victorian-era New York in order to destroy her family, Tamsin is forced to follow him into the past. Stranded all alone in the nineteenth century, Tamsin soon finds herself disguised as a lady's maid in the terrifying mansion of the evil Knight family, avoiding the watchful eye of the vicious matron, La Spider, and fending off the advances of Liam Knight. As time runs out, both families square off in a thrilling display of magic. And to her horror, Tamsin finally understands the nature of her fateful choice.

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The Vespentine - Saundra Mitchell 

The Blurb : It’s the summer of 1889, and Amelia van den Broek is new to Baltimore and eager to take in all the pleasures the city has to offer. But her gaiety is interrupted by disturbing, dreamlike visions she has only at sunset—visions that offer glimpses of the future. Soon, friends and strangers alike call on Amelia to hear her prophecies. However, a forbidden romance with Nathaniel, an artist, threatens the new life Amelia is building in Baltimore. This enigmatic young man is keeping secrets of his own—still, Amelia finds herself irrepressibly drawn to him.

When one of her darkest visions comes to pass, Amelia’s world is thrown into chaos. And those around her begin to wonder if she’s not the seer of dark portents, but the cause.

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Lost Voices - Sarah Porter 

I have been wanting to read this book ever since l seen the cover

The Blurb : What happens to the girls nobody sees—the ones who are ignored, mistreated, hidden away? The girls nobody hears when they cry for help?

Fourteen-year-old Luce is one of those lost girls. After her father vanishes in a storm at sea, she is stuck in a grim, gray Alaskan fishing village with her alcoholic uncle. When her uncle crosses an unspeakable line, Luce reaches the depths of despair. Abandoned on the cliffs near her home, she expects to die when she tumbles to the icy, churning waves below. Instead, she undergoes an astonishing transformation and becomes a mermaid. 
Read the rest at goodreads
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Stone Kissed - Keri Stevens

My favourite cover along with Lost Voices 
The Blurb : When Delia Forrest talks to statues, they talk back. She is, after all, the last of the Steward witches.
After an arsonist torches her ancestral home with her estranged father still inside, Delia is forced to sell the estate to pay his medical bills. Her childhood crush, Grant Wolverton, makes a handsome offer for Steward House, vowing to return it to its former glory. Delia agrees, as long as he’ll allow her to oversee the restoration.
Working so closely with Grant, Delia finds it difficult to hide her unique talent—especially when their growing passion fuels her abilities.
But someone else lusts after both her man and the raw power contained in the Steward land. Soon, Delia finds herself fighting not just for Grant’s love, but for both their lives…
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Everything l was -  Corinne Demas
The Blurb : "My walls were stripped, and all that was left in the room was a pile of boxes and my mattress propped against the wall." 
So begins Irene's journey from an Upper West Side penthouse to—well, she's not entirely sure where. Irene's investment banker father is "downsized" when his company merges with another. When he can't find work, her family's lifestyle—and her socialite mother's spending—quickly catches up with them. Eventually, they're forced to move in with Irene's grandfather in the big family farmhouse upstate. But what begins as the most disastrous summer of her life takes a surprising turn when she meets a most remarkable family


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New books in!

Charlaine Harris series (l didn't realise these were a set till l got them!)

All 3 for £5 on The Book People and also got free delivery as it was my first order (well my second by it was free delivery on my first as an offer going on there for everyone)

Harper Connelly series

#1 Grave Sight

Harper Connelly has what you might call a strange job: she finds dead people. She can sense the final location of a person who's passed, and share their very last moment. The way Harper sees it, she's providing a service to the dead while bringing some closure to the living-but she's used to most people treating her like a blood-sucking leech. Traveling with her step-brother Tolliver as manager and sometime-bodyguard, she's become an expert at getting in, getting paid, and getting out fast. Because for the living it's always urgent-even if the dead can wait forever.

#2 Grave Surprise # 3 An Ice Cold Grave

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There is also #4 Grave Secret which l don't yet have

Stacia Kane

Stacia Kane is a pretty new author, her first book released in 2008, she now has two different series of books currently out. Her Downside Ghost series has 3 books which were all released this year! They are as follows (There are a number of different covers but these were my favourite) :

Downside Ghost series

#1 Unholy Ghosts

THE DEPARTED HAVE ARRIVED.

The world is not the way it was. The dead have risen, and the living are under attack. The powerful Church of Real Truth, in charge since the government fell, has sworn to reimburse citizens being harassed by the deceased. Enter Chess Putnam, a fully tattooed witch and freewheeling ghost hunter. She’s got a real talent for banishing the wicked dead. But Chess is keeping a dark secret: She owes a lot of money to a murderous drug lord named Bump, who wants immediate payback in the form of a dangerous job that involves black magic, human sacrifice, a nefarious demonic creature, and enough wicked energy to wipe out a city of souls. Toss in lust for a rival gang leader and a dangerous attraction to Bump’s ruthless enforcer, and Chess begins to wonder if the rush is really worth it. Hell, yeah.

#2 Unholy Magic #3 City of Ghosts

Megan Chase Series

#1 Personal Demons

Megan promises listeners to her new radio call-in show that she'll "slay their personal demons," and they believe her. So do the personal demons... although she doesn't know it, Megan is the only human without a demon on her shoulder! Megan and her allies - a demon lover who both protects and seduces her with devilish intensity, a witch with poor social skills, and three cockney guard demons - have to deal not only with the personal demons, but a soul-sucker, ghosts of Megan's past, and a reporter who threatens to destroy Megan's career!

#2 Demon Inside #3 Demon Possessed

Stacia's official website

Angel theme!

Well at the moment l am currently reading 'Angel - L.A Weatherly' which l find myself enjoying quite a bit, it's very different from the only other Angel book series which l have read 'Hush hush and Crescendo' and so decided to have a look around for other angel books which l thought you might enjoy.

I found these :

Alexandra Adornetto - Halo series

#1 Halo

Nothing much happens in the sleepy town of Venus Cove. But everything changes when three angels are sent from heaven to protect the town against the gathering forces of darkness: Gabriel, the warrior; Ivy, the healer; and Bethany, a teenage girl who is the least experienced of the trio. They work hard to conceal their true identity and, most of all, their wings.

But the mission is threatened when the youngest angel, Bethany, is sent to high school and falls in love with the handsome school captain, Xavier Woods. Will she defy the laws of Heaven by loving him? Things come to a head when the angels realize they are not the only supernatural power in Venus Cove. There′s a new kid in town and he′s charming, seductive and deadly. Worst of all, he′s after Beth.

Due for release on 20th January 2011 in paperback, already released in hardback. The best place to buy the hardback which l have found is Waterstones for £4.99.

#2 Hades - Due for release in 2011

Elizabeth Chandler - Kissed by an Angel Series

#1 Kissed by an Angel

Ivy always believed in angels. When she meets Tristan, it's the love of a lifetime. When he dies, her heart is broken and her belief in angels vanishes. And without that belief, she is unable to feel Tristan's presence when he returns--as an angel. Now Ivy is in terrible danger, and Tristan is struggling to save her. How can he protect her if she's lost her faith in angels?

#2 The Power of Love

#3 Soulmates

#4 Evercrossed

These book were first realeased in 1995!! The 4th one is due to be released in 2011. I absolutely love the first book cover, definitely a book l would pick up and be interested in reading, the second two book covers for the 2nd and 3rd books l am not so sure about but then the 4th one is even more amazing than the first one, so simple yet very interesting book cover!

Here they are in order -

Will be looking out for these

I am loving reading a series of books at the moment, getting to know the characters in the first one then the story continuing, saves the disappointment of a great book being over!

Lisa McMann - Dream Catcher series

#1 Wake

For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people’s dreams is getting old. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody-notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. Janie’s seen enough fantasy booty to last her a lifetime.

She can’t tell anybody about what she do

es they’d never believe her, or worse, they’d think she’s a freak. So Janie lives on the fringe, cursed with an ability she doesn’t want and can’t control.

Then she falls into a gruesome nightmare, one that chills her to the bone. For the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else’s twisted psyche. She is a participant…

#2 Fade

#3 Gone

Aprilynne Pike - Wings series

#1 Wings

Laurel was mesmerized, staring at the pale things with wide eyes. They were terrifyingly beautiful—too beautiful for words.

Laurel turned to the mirror again, her eyes on the hovering petals that floated beside her head. They looked almost like wings.

In this extraordinary tale of magic and intrigue, romance and danger, everything you thought you knew about faeries will be changed forever.

#2 Spells

#3 Illusions (To be released in 2011)

New books in!

So excited!

Just got my 10 Sookie Stackhouse series books from TheBookPeople!

The book's in order (also in order in the picture)

#1 Dead Until Dark

#2 Living Dead in Dallas

#3 Dead to the World

#4 Club Dead

#5 Dead as a Doornail

#6 Definitely Dead

#7 All together Dead

#8 From Dead to Worse

#9 Dead and Gone

#10 Dead in the Family (Not in my collection)

In order :

Now to find a place in my room for them! Would love to hear your opinions on the series if you have read any of them.

New books in!

4 more books in today! Very excited to read all of them, it will be towards the end of November/early December when l get to these books.

Hope you find a book you like the look of =)

The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness

Todd Hewitt is the last boy in Prentisstown.

But Prentisstown isn't like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts in a constant, overwhelming, never-ending Noise. There is no privacy. There are

no secrets.
Or are there?
Just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man, Todd unexpectedly stumbles upon a spot of complete silence.
Which is impossible.
Prentisstown has been lying to him.

And now he's going to have to run...

This is the first to a series of three books

#2 Ask and the Answer

#3 Monsters of Men

Scarred - Julia Hoban

This is also called 'Willow'

Seven months ago, on a rainy March night, sixteen-year- old Willow's parents drank too much wine and asked her to drive them home. They never made it—Willow lost control of the car and her parents died in the accident. Now she has left behind her old home, friends, and school, and blocks the pain by secretly cutting herself. But when Willow meets Guy, a boy as sensitive and complicated as she is, she begins an intense, life-changing relationship that turns her world upside down.

Shade - Jeri Smith-Ready

Like everyone born after The Shift, sixteen year-old Aura can see and talk to ghosts. She's always found this mysterious ability pretty annoying, wishing only that she could reverse it and have some peace. But when her boyfriend, Logan, dies unexpectedly, Aura is forced to reconsider her connections to the dead...Devastated by Logan's sudden death, Aura realises that her ability to see ghosts might actually be a blessing. Surely a violet-hued spirit Logan is better than no Logan at all? But just when Aura is coming to terms with having a ghost as a boyfriend, she starts developing feelings for her new friend Zachary, who is understanding, supportive and, most of all, alive. Each boy holds a piece of her heart - as well as vital cues to the secret of the Shift - and it's time for Aura to choose between loving the living, or embracing the dead...

Can't let go - Jane Hill

I'm watching you. I know everywhere you go. When Beth Stephens opens the first mysterious note, she is terrified. Someone out there, someone who seems to be stalking her every footstep, has prised open the terrible secret she's been hiding for over a decade. And he is threatening to exact revenge. All these years, Beth has carefully built her life on a lie, kept to herself, been wary of close relationships and protective of her privacy. And now, just when she finally thinks herself safe, her days filled with new friendships, a boyfriend and a steady job as a teacher, everything starts to unravel. Suddenly, she can trust no one, seeing danger everywhere, and she realises that she has to find the stalker before he closes in on her...

Undead/Betsy series

I love the look of this series and that after only just discovering them l can read them without having to wait till the next one to be released! The first book is on it's way to me, can't wait to get started on this series of books. The official website of the author and find more out about her other books HERE

Undead series - MaryJanice Davidson

The first book is called 'Undead and Unwed'

First Betsy Taylor loses her job, then she's killed in a car accident. But what really bites is that she can't seem to stay dead. And now her new friends have the ridiculous idea that Betsy is the prophesied vampire queen, and they want her help in overthrowing the most obnoxious power-hungry vampire in five centuries.

The books which follow on from this :

#2 Undead and Unemployed (2004)

#3 Undead and Unappreciated (2005)

#4 Undead and Unreturnable (2005)

#5 Undead and Unpopular (2006)

#6 Undead and Uneasy (2007)

#7 Undead and Unworthy (2008)

#8 Undead and Unwelcome (2009)

#9 Undead and Unfinished (2010)

#10 Undead and Undermined (2011)

New books in!

Two lovely friends on readitswapit posted two books to me which look great, can't wait to read both of them!

Jeffery Deaver - The Sleeping Doll

California Bureau of Investigation Special agent Kathryn Dance is an expert in kinesics: the science of interpreting behaviour. It makes her a brilliant interrogator. But she's up against Daniel Pell, a master of control who mesmerises, seduces and exploits people for his own murderous ends. A convicted killer who is known as The Son of Manson for the chilling parallels between him and the notorious ritual murderer.

To track down Pell before he destroys yet more lives, Kathyn Dance must enlist the help of four people from the killer's past. The three women who lived under his sadistic sway in the cult he once headed. And the young girl known as the Sleeping Doll, the only survivor of her family's slaughter at Pell's hands . . .

L.A. Weatherly

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 peoples futures, know their dreams, their hopes and their regrets, just by touching them. She has no idea where she gets this power from... But Alex does. Gorgeous, mysterious Alex knows Willows 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.

Coming up reads/New books in!

Three new books in, so excited to read them! One is a break from paranormal books as l want to try and read some books here and there that aren't paranormal.
#1
Fallen - Lauren Kate

There's something achingly familiar about Daniel Grigori.

Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price's attention from the moment she sees him on her first day at the Sword & Cross boarding school in sultry Savannah, Georgia. He's the one bright spot in a place where cell phones are forbidden, the other students are all screw-ups, and security cameras watch every move.

Even though Daniel wants nothing to do with Luce--and goes out of his way to make that very clear--she can't let it go. Drawn to him like a moth to a flame, she has to find out what Daniel is so desperate to keep secret . . . even if it kills her.

#2 - Don't read if you haven't read the first one!

Torment - Lauren Kate

Hell on earth.
That's what it's like for Luce to be apart from her fallen angel boyfriend, Daniel.
It took them an eternity to find one another, but now he has to

ld her he must go away. Just long enough to hunt down the Outcasts - immortals who want to kill Luce. Daniel hides Luce at Shoreline, a school on the rocky California coast with unusually gifted students: Nephilim, the offspring of fallen angels and humans.
At Shoreline, Luce learns what the Shadows are, and how she can use them as windows to her previous lives. Yet the more Luce learns, the more she suspects that Daniel hasn't told her everything. He's hiding something - something dangerous.
What if Daniel's version of the past isn't actually true? What if Luce is really meant to be with someone else?

Before l die - Jenny Downham

Tessa has just a few months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It's her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is sex. Released from the constraints of 'normal' life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. Tessa's feelings, her relationships with her father and brother, her estranged mother, her best friend, her new boyfriend, all are painfully crystallized in the precious weeks before Tessa's time finally runs out. "Before I Die" is a brilliantly-crafted novel, heartbreaking yet astonishingly life-affirming. It will take you to the very edge.

House of Night series

Have just come across this series of books by Kristin Cat and P C Cast called 'House of Night' which you can find more out about HERE. There is so far 7 books (!) in the series and a new one coming out in 2011

I am going to try and get my hands on the first one (at least) so l can give you all a review by the end of 2010 (I have a big pile of books at the moment which are looking at me and l find myself desperate to read!)

The first book is called 'Marked'

After she is Marked, 16-year-old Zoey Redbird enters the House of Night and learns that she is no average fledgling. She has been Marked as special by the vampyre Goddess Nyx. But she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special powers. When she discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school's most elite club, is mis-using her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must look deep within herself for the courage to embrace her destiny— with a little help from her new vampyre friends.

Look good? You can read the first chapter of the book HERE

I wont write about the others or put the blurb in case your like me and haven't read the first one yet!

#2 Betrayed

#3 Chosen

#4 Untamed

#5 Hunted

#6 Tempted

#7 Burned

#8 Awakened (Not yet released)

Coming up reads

Two books which l will be reading before the end of 2010 and are listed on my 'Next 5 reads' list :

Finding Sky - Joss Stirling

You have half our gifts, I have the other . . . When English girl Sky, catches a glimpse of bad boy Zed in her new American high school, she can't get him out of her head. He talks to her with his thoughts. He reads her mind. He is the boy she will love for ever. Dark shadows stalk her past but a new evil threatens her future. Sky must face the dark even if it means losing her heart.

I am reading this book after the Alyson Noel series of books

Over you - Lucy Diamond

Josie, Nell and Lisa go back a long way – they were flatmates, soulmates and best mates back in their twenties when life was one long party.

Five years later, things are different. Josie is married with kids in deepest suburbia, free-spirit Nell has travelled the world, and Lisa is on the path to career glory (and the salary Premiership). A reunion weekend in London seems a great idea to Josie . . . until she discovers something which will change the course of her life forever.

This will give me a break from paranormal books and give me a chance to get through my TBR (To be read) which l haven't touched for a few weeks.

You can pick up your copy from Play.com for under £3.00 second hand.

Watch out for the reviews!