In My Mailbox #28

Welcome to another edition of In My Mailbox hosted by The Story Siren! I went shopping yesterday and that always means I come home with a book or two or five. I am in the mood for some science fiction and I can't go wrong with these authors!

Bought:

Bellwether by Connie Willis

Willis is one of my favourite scifi writers so I naturally picked one by her!

From Goodreads:
Pop culture, chaos theory and matters of the heart collide in this unique novella from the Hugo and Nebula winning author of Doomsday Book.
Sandra Foster studies fads and their meanings for the HiTek corporation. Bennet O'Reilly works with monkey group behavior and chaos theory for the same company. When the two are thrust together due to a misdelivered package and a run of seemingly bad luck, they find a joint project in a flock of sheep. But series of setbacks and disappointments arise before they are able to find answers to their questions.

Steal Across the Sky by Nancy Kress

Another author I enjoy, I have a review coming up later today of her latest novel!

From Goodreads:
The aliens appeared one day, built a base on the moon, and put an ad on the internet:

“We are an alien race you may call the Atoners. Ten thousand years ago we wronged humanity profoundly. We cannot undo what has been done, but we wish humanity to understand it. Therefore we request twenty-one volunteers to visit seven planets to Witness for us. We will convey each volunteer there and back in complete safety. Volunteers must speak English. Send requests for electronic applications to witness@Atoners.com."

At first, everyone thought it was a joke. But it wasn’t.

This is the story of three of those volunteers, and what they found on Kular A and Kular B.

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In My Mailbox #27

Welcome to another edition of In My Mailbox hosted by The Story Siren! I've definitely had a good couple weeks since I last posted an IMM. I even bought a book!

For Review:

Fair Coin by E.C. Myers

I already started reading this one and am liking it a lot so far! Stay tuned next week for the review.

Sixteen-year-old Ephraim Scott is horrified when he comes home from school and finds his mother unconscious at the kitchen table, clutching a bottle of pills. The reason for her suicide attempt is even more disturbing: she thought she’d identified Ephraim’s body at the hospital that day.

Among his dead double’s belongings, Ephraim finds a strange coin—a coin that grants wishes when he flips it. With a flick of his thumb, he can turn his alcoholic mother into a model parent and catch the eye of the girl he’s liked since second grade. But the coin doesn’t always change things for the better. And a bad flip can destroy other people’s lives as easily as it rebuilds his own.

The coin could give Ephraim everything he’s ever wanted—if he learns to control its power before his luck runs out.

Wide Open by Deborah Coates

I'm going to be part of another blog tour for Wide Open, with a guest post from the author on March 24th. Can't wait!

When Sergeant Hallie Michaels comes back to South Dakota from Afghanistan on ten days' compassionate leave, her sister Dell's ghost is waiting at the airport to greet her.

The sheriff says that Dell's death was suicide, but Hallie doesn't believe it. Something happened or Dell's ghost wouldn't still be hanging around. Friends and family, mourning Dell's loss, think Hallie's letting her grief interfere with her judgment.

The one person who seems willing to listen is the deputy sheriff, Boyd Davies, who shows up everywhere and helps when he doesn't have to.

As Hallie asks more questions, she attracts new ghosts, women who disappeared without a trace. Soon, someone's trying to beat her up, burn down her father's ranch, and stop her investigation.

Hallie's going to need Boyd, her friends, and all the ghosts she can find to defeat an enemy who has an unimaginable ancient power at his command.

Eyes Like Leaves by Charles de Lint

I cannot wait to read this fantasy by de Lint. I just love the cover!

Taking a delightful departure from his more common urban-fantasy settings, this epic tale from acclaimed author Charles de Lint weaves elements of Celtic and Nordic mythology while bringing sword and sorcery to the forefront.

Summer magic is waning in the Green Isles, and the evil Icelord is encasing the lands in a permanent frost while coastal towns are pillaged by snake ships. Mounting one last defense against the onslaught, a mysterious old wizard instructs his inexperienced apprentice in the art of shape-changing. Mercilessly pursued by the Icelord's army, this newfound mage gathers allies—a seemingly ordinary young woman and her protective adoptive family—and they flee north in a desperate race to awaken the Summerlord.

Time is running short for the Summerborn, especially when a treacherous family betrayal is discovered

Bought:

Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire

I'll be reading this one asap. It's currently on my Most Anticipated Books of 2012 list!

Ghoulies. Ghosties. Long-legged beasties. Things that go bump in the night... The Price family has spent generations studying the monsters of the world, working to protect them from humanity-and humanity from them. Enter Verity Price. Despite being trained from birth as a cryptozoologist, she'd rather dance a tango than tangle with a demon, and is spending a year in Manhattan while she pursues her career in professional ballroom dance. Sounds pretty simple, right? It would be, if it weren't for the talking mice, the telepathic mathematicians, the asbestos supermodels, and the trained monster-hunter sent by the Price family's old enemies, the Covenant of St. George. When a Price girl meets a Covenant boy, high stakes, high heels, and a lot of collateral damage are almost guaranteed. To complicate matters further, local cryptids are disappearing, strange lizard-men are appearing in the sewers, and someone's spreading rumors about a dragon sleeping underneath the city...

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In My Mailbox #26

Welcome to another edition of In My Mailbox hosted by The Story Siren!

For Review:

Triggers by Robert J. Sawyer

I'll be participating in a Triggers tour this April and just got the ARC. It looks awesome!

On the eve of a secret military operation, an assassin's bullet strikes President Seth Jerrison. He is rushed to the hospital, where surgeons struggle to save his life.

At the same hospital, researcher Dr. Ranjip Singh is experimenting with a device that can erase traumatic memories.

Then a terrorist bomb detonates. In the operating room, the president suffers cardiac arrest. He has a near-death experience-but the memories that flash through Jerrison's mind are not "his" memories.

It quickly becomes clear that the electromagnetic pulse generated by the bomb amplified and scrambled Dr. Singh's equipment, allowing a random group of people to access one another's minds.

And now one of those people has access to the president's memories- including classified information regarding the upcoming military mission, which, if revealed, could cost countless lives. But the task of determining who has switched memories with whom is a daunting one- particularly when some of the people involved have reason to lie...

Blue Magic by A.M. Delamonica

Oh my, I actually was able to get a copy of this early! It's available on NetGalley. It's on my most anticipated books of 2012 list and I. Can't. Wait. to read it! Oh, and it's a sequel to Indigo Springs, so be sure to check that out first!

The sequel to Indigo Springs, “A psychologically astute, highly original debut—complex, eerie, and utterly believable.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

This powerful sequel to the A.M. Dellamonica's Sunburst Award–winning contemporary fantasy Indigo Springs starts in the small town in Oregon where Astrid Lethewood discovered an underground river of blue liquid—Vitagua—that is pure magic. Everything it touches is changed. The secret is out—and the world will never be the same. Astrid’s best friend, Sahara, has been corrupted by the blue magic, and now leads a cult that seeks to rule the world. Astrid, on the other hand, tries to heal the world.

Conflicting ambitions, star-crossed lovers, and those who fear and hate magic combine in a terrible conflagration, pitting friend against friend, magic against magic, and the power of nations against a small band of zealots, with the fate of the world at stake.

Blue Magic is a powerful story of private lives changed by earthshaking events that will ensnare readers in its poignant tale of a world touched by magic and plagued by its consequences.

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In My Mailbox #25

Welcome to another edition of In My Mailbox hosted by The Story Siren! I haven't posted on in a while since I'm sort of locking down my spending on buying new books. BUT I did get some great books in the mail this week.

For Review:

Arctic Rising by Tobias S. Buckell

This review is coming up in March and possibly an interview with the author to go along with it. Stay tuned!

Global warming has transformed the Earth, and it's about to get even hotter. The Arctic Ice Cap has all but melted, and the international community is racing desperately to claim the massive amounts of oil beneath the newly accessible ocean.

Enter the Gaia Corporation. Its two founders have come up with a plan to roll back global warming. Thousands of tiny mirrors floating in the air can create a giant sunshade, capable of redirecting heat and cooling the earth's surface. They plan to terraform Earth to save it from itself—but in doing so, they have created a superweapon the likes of which the world has never seen.

Anika Duncan is an airship pilot for the underfunded United Nations Polar Guard. She’s intent on capturing a smuggled nuclear weapon that has made it into the Polar Circle and bringing the smugglers to justice.

Anika finds herself caught up in a plot by a cabal of military agencies and corporations who want Gaia Corporation stopped. But when Gaia Corp loses control of their superweapon, it will be Anika who has to decide the future of the world. The nuclear weapon she has risked her life to find is the only thing that can stop the floating sunshade after it falls into the wrong hands.

In the Lion's Mouth by Michael Flynn

I'm looking forward to this recently released space opera.

It’s a big Spiral Arm, and the scarred man, Donavan buigh, has gone missing in it, upsetting the harper Mearana's plans for a reconciliation between her parents. Bridget ban, a Hound of the League, doubts that reconciliation is possible or desirable; but nonetheless has dispatched agents to investigate the disappearance.

The powerful Ravn Olafsdottr, a Shadow of the Names, slips into Clanthompson Hall to tell mother and daughter of the fate of Donovan buigh. In the Long Game between the Confederation of Central Worlds and the United League of the Periphery, Hound and Shadow are mortal enemies; yet a truce descends between them so that the Shadow may tell her tale. There is a struggle in the Lion’s Mouth, the bureau that oversees the Shadows—a clandestine civil war of sabotage and assassination between those who would overthrow Those of Name and the loyalists who support them. And Donovan, one-time Confederal agent, has been recalled to take a key part, willingly or no.

After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress

I'm super excited to have received an ARC for Kress' next novel. I loved Beggars in Spain and look forward to reading more by her.

In the year 2035, all that is left of humanity lives in the Shell. After ecological disasters have nearly destroyed the Earth, twenty-six survivors are imprisoned in a sterile enclosure built by an alien race. Fifteen-year-old Pete is one of the six children who were born in the Shell. Though he possesses birth defects common to the Six, including sterility, Pete is resolved to lead humanity to a new beginning.

However, as one by one the adults of the Shell grow mysteriously sick and die, Pete struggles to control his dangerous anger at the aliens. Though the Earth appears to be slowly healing itself, the survivors may not live long enough to repopulate it. Their only hope lies within randomly brief time-portals into the recent past, where Pete and the Six are abducting children to increase their gene pool.

In the year 2013, brilliant mathematician Julie Kahn is working with the FBI to track the seemingly-random kidnappings. Her predictive algorithms and investigatory intuition are beginning to reveal more than just criminal activity. As Julie nears the catastrophe about to happen both on the Earth and in the Shell, she is closing in on the truth, and realizing that she may have to make a terrible sacrifice. Julie and Pete are rapidly converging in both the past and the future—a future that might never unfold for humanity.

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In My Mailbox #24

Welcome to another edition of In My Mailbox hosted by The Story Siren! The past couple weeks have been quiet in terms of receiving books, but I wanted to make an IMM post before the holidays anyways. I'll be going away to visit relatives and probably won't be making another IMM post until 2012! So here goes:

For Review
The Thirteen Hallows by Michael Scott and Colette Freedman - I'm super excited to have received this book as it was on my want list. I'm going to be participating in something of a blog tour in January with an interview with the authors. Look for my review then!

The Hallows. Ancient artifacts imbued with a primal and deadly power. But are they protectors of this world, or the keys to its destruction?  A gruesome murder in London reveals a sinister plot to uncover a two-thousand-year-old secret. For decades, the Keepers guarded these Hallows, keeping them safe and hidden and apart from each other. But now the Keepers are being brutally murdered, their prizes stolen, the ancient objects bathed in their blood. Now, only a few remain.
With her dying breath, one of the Keepers convinces Sarah Miller, a practical stranger, to deliver her Hallow—a broken sword with devastating powers—to her American nephew, Owen.  The duo quickly become suspects in a series of murders as they are chased by both the police and the sadistic Dark Man and his nubile mistress.  As Sarah and Owen search for the surviving Keepers, they unravel the deadly secret the Keepers were charged to protect. The mystery leads Sarah and Owen on a cat-and-mouse chase through England and Wales, and history itself, as they discover that the sword may be the only thing standing between the world… nd a horror beyond imagining.  
The Thirteen Hallows is the beginning of a spellbinding new saga, a thrilling tale of ancient magic and modern times by a New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning playwright.

Gifted
Chasing the Moon by A. Lee Martinez - I received this as an early Christmas present. I saw a review for this on The Book Smugglers and it promptly made it onto my wishlist.

Diana's life was in a rut - she hated her job, she was perpetually single, and she needed a place to live. But then the perfect apartment came along. It seemed too good to be true - because it was.
As it turns out, the apartment was already inhabited - by monsters. Vom the Hungering was the first to greet Diana and to warn her that his sole purpose in life was to eat everything in his path. This poses a problem for Diana since she's in his path...and is forbidden from ever leaving the apartment.
It turns out though that there are older and more ancient monstrous entities afoot - ones who want to devour the moon and destroy the world as we know it. Can Diana, Vom, and the other horrors stop this from happening? Maybe if they can get Vom to stop eating everything...and everyone.

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In My Mailbox #24

Welcome to another edition of In My Mailbox hosted by The Story Siren! I received some goodies in the past couple weeks, so here they are!

For Review
Endurance by Jay Lake - this is one I wasn't expecting, but am pleasantly surprised as it has fantastic cover art. It's actually the second in a series (the first being Green) but I hope to start from the beginning in the future.

Green is back in Copper Downs. Purchased from her father in sunny Selistan when she was four years old, she was harshly raised to be a courtesan, companion, and bedmate of the Immortal Duke of Copper Downs. But Green rebelled. Green killed the Duke, and many others, and won her freedom. Yet she is still claimed by the gods and goddesses of her world, and they still require her service. Their demands are greater than any duke&’s could have been.

Godslayers have come to the Stone Coast, magicians whose cult is dedicated to destroying the many gods of Green’s world. In the turmoil following the Immortal Duke’s murder, Green made a God out of her power and her memories. Now the gods turn to her to protect them from the Slayers.

Jay Lake brings us an epic fantasy not “in the tradition of Tolkien,” but, instead, sensual, ominous, shot through with the sweat of fear and the intoxication of power.

Shaedes of Gray by Amanda Bonilla - an anticipated new release for me. Can't wait to read this one!

In the shadows of the night, Darian has lived alone for almost a century. Made and abandoned by her former love, Darian is the last of her kind—an immortal Shaede who can slip into darkness as easily as breathing. With no one else to rely on, she has taught herself how to survive, using her unique skills to become a deadly assassin.

When Darian's next mark turns out to be Xander Peck, King of the Shaede Nation, her whole worldview is thrown into question. Darian begins to wonder if she's taken on more than her conscience will allow. But a good assassin never leaves a job unfinished...

The Placebo Effect by David Rotenberg - this one grabbed my attention with its promise of an action packed plot. It's also by a Canadian author, so that's a bonus!

Decker Roberts has the dangerous gift of detecting the truth (synaesthesia). But when his carefully compartmentalized life starts to fall apart he has to go on the run and figure out why he’s being targeted. There’s also a government agency hunting him down who seems to know everything about him and other people of “his kind.” How will Decker find out which truth was endangering his life? Who betrayed him and revealed all his secrets? Decker needs to find answers quickly, before knowing the truth turns from a gift into a deadly curse.

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In My Mailbox #23

Welcome to another edition of In My Mailbox hosted by The Story Siren! This week was good week for books. I made a big order at BookCloseouts that should arrive in the next week or two which I'll post about after I receive it. Also, today was the breakfast Scholastic Canada set up for us Montreal Book Bloggers with author Cecil Castellucci, but I'll detail that in a post tomorrow. Anyways, here's what I got this week:

For Review
Heart of Steel by Meljean Brook - this is the second book in the Iron Seas series, the first being The Iron Duke (I loved it). Thanks to Penguin Canada! Can't wait to read this one.

Return to the gritty, alluring world of steampunk with the New York Times bestselling author of The Iron Duke.

Growing up in the dangerous world of the Iron Seas, the mercenary captain of the airship Lady Corsair, Yasmeen, has learned to keep her heart hard as steel. Ruthless and cunning, her only loyalty is to her ship and her crew-until one man comes along and changes everything...Treasurehunter Archimedes Fox isn't interested in the Lady Corsair-just the captain and the valuable da Vinci sketch she stole from him. When it attracts a dangerous amount of attention, Yasmeen and Archimedes journey to Horde-occupied Morocco- and straight into enemy hands.

Bought
Chalice by Robin McKinley - I tried to read Sunshine by McKinley and had no success, but after reading this review of Chalice, I decided I had to try the author again.

As the newly appointed Chalice, Mirasol is the most important member of the Master’’s Circle. It is her duty to bind the Circle, the land and its people together with their new Master. But the new Master of Willowlands is a Priest of Fire, only drawn back into the human world by the sudden death of his brother. No one knows if it is even possible for him to live amongst his people. Mirasol wants the Master to have his chance, but her only training is as a beekeeper. How can she help settle their demesne during these troubled times and bind it to a Priest of Fire, the touch of whose hand can burn human flesh to the bone? 


A captivating tale that reveals the healing power of duty and honour, love and honey.

Borrowed
A Door Into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski - I enjoyed Slonczewski's latest novel The Highest Frontier and fellow Montreal Book Blogger Avis was kind enough to let me borrow her copy of the author's well known science fiction novel.

A Door into Ocean is the novel upon which the author's reputation as an important SF writer principally rests. A ground-breaking work both of feminist SF and of world-building hard SF, it concerns the Sharers of Shora, a nation of women on a distant moon in the far future who are pacifists, highly advanced in biological sciences, and who reproduce by parthenogenesis—there are no males—and tells of the conflicts that erupt when a neighboring civilization decides to develop their ocean world, and send in an army.

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In My Mailbox #22

Welcome to another edition of In My Mailbox hosted by The Story Siren! In the past couple weeks I only picked up a few books, but they are ones I'm excited about!

For Review
First Day On Earth by Cecil Castellucci - I'm excited to read this young novel and also excited that I and other Montreal Book Bloggers will be able to have breakfast with Ms. Castellucci next week. We're going to discuss the book and other bookish things! Can't wait!

A startling, wonderful novel about the true meaning of being an alien in an equally alien world.
"We are specks. Pieces of dust in this universe. Big nothings.
"I know what I am."
Mal lives on the fringes of high school. Angry. Misunderstood. Yet loving the world -- or, at least, an idea of the world.
Then he meets Hooper. Who says he's from another planet. And may be going home very soon.

The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson - this is one of my most anticipated releases of the year! Can't wait to get back into the Mistborn universe.

Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds.

Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history—or religion. Yet even as science and technology are reaching new heights, the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy continue to play a role in this reborn world. Out in the frontier lands known as the Roughs, they are crucial tools for the brave men and women attempting to establish order and justice.

One such is Waxillium Ladrian, a rare Twinborn, who can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will.  After twenty years in the Roughs, Wax has been forced by family tragedy to return to the metropolis of Elendel. Now he must reluctantly put away his guns and assume the duties and dignity incumbent upon the head of a noble house. Or so he thinks, until he learns the hard way that the mansions and elegant tree-lined streets of the city can be even more dangerous than the dusty plains of the Roughs.

Bought

The Bards of Bone Plain by Patricia A. McKillip - found this book in the bargain bin and couldn't resist. It has a great cover.

Scholar Phelan Cle is researching Bone Plain-which has been studied for the last 500 years, though no one has been able to locate it as a real place. Archaeologist Jonah Cle, Phelan's father, is also hunting through time, piecing history together from forgotten trinkets. His most eager disciple is Princess Beatrice, the king's youngest daughter. When they unearth a disk marked with ancient runes, Beatrice pursues the secrets of a lost language that she suddenly notices all around her, hidden in plain sight.

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In My Mailbox #21

Welcome to another edition of In My Mailbox hosted by The Story Siren! I had another decent week this week in regards to receiving mail. I got two great looking books and I look forward to reading them!

Won:
Ward Against Death by Melanie Card - thanks Tynga's Reviews!

Twenty-year-old Ward de’Ath expected this to be a simple job—bring a nobleman’s daughter back from the dead for fifteen minutes, let her family say good-bye, and launch his fledgling career as a necromancer. Goddess knows he can’t be a surgeon—the Quayestri already branded him a criminal for trying—so bringing people back from the dead it is.

But when Ward wakes the beautiful Celia Carlyle, he gets more than he bargained for. Insistent that she’s been murdered, Celia begs Ward to keep her alive and help her find justice. By the time she drags him out her bedroom window and into the sewers, Ward can’t bring himself to break his damned physician’s Oath and desert her.

However, nothing is as it seems—including Celia. One second, she’s treating Ward like sewage, the next she’s kissing him. And for a nobleman’s daughter, she sure has a lot of enemies. If he could just convince his heart to give up on the infuriating beauty, he might get out of this alive…

For Review:
Eyes to See by Joseph Nassise

In an urban fantasy that charts daring new territory in the field, Jeremiah Hunt has been broken by a malevolent force that has taken his young daughter and everything else of value in his life: his marriage, his career, his reputation. Desperate to reclaim what he has lost, Hunt finally turns to the supernatural for justice.

Abandoning all hope for a normal life, he enters the world of ghosts and even more dangerous entities from beyond the grave. Sacrificing his normal sight so that he can see the souls of the dead and the powers that stalk his worst nightmares, Hunt embarks upon a strange new career—a pariah among the living; a scourge among the dead; doomed to walk between the light of day and the deepest darkness beyond night.

His love for his departed daughter sustains him when all is most hopeless, but Hunt is cursed by something more evil than he can possibly imagine. As he descends into the maelstrom of his terrifying quest, he discovers that even his deepest fears are but prelude to yet darker deeds by a powerful entity from beyond the grave…that will not let him go until it has used him for its own nefarious purposes.

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In My Mailbox #20

Welcome to another edition of In My Mailbox hosted by The Story Siren! After many weeks of no mail (where did it all go?!) I finally received some books I was expecting! I hope the others make it here all right. Anyways, I received two great looking books and I can't wait to get started!

For Review:
Drink, Slay, Love by Sarah Beth Durst
The Highest Frontier by Joan Slonczewski

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In My Mailbox #19

Welcome to another edition of In My Mailbox hosted by The Story Siren! I don't know what the issue's been lately, but I haven't been getting very much mail. I still have packages that need to be delivered, I hope they arrive soon! Luckily, I got a couple this week:

Won:
Skyship Academy: The Pearl Wars by Nick James
- I won this during Nick James' author chat. Thanks Flux!

For Review:
Lionheart by Sharon Kay Penman
- I love this author's historical fiction and I'm dying to read her newest release! 

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In My Mailbox #18

Welcome to another edition of In My Mailbox hosted by The Story Siren! In the past two weeks I got some great books and managed to not buy anything! 

Won:
The Relic Master Series by Catherine Fisher - thanks, Janicu's Book Blog!

For Review:
Shadow Kin by M. J. Scott

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In My Mailbox #17

Welcome to another edition of In My Mailbox hosted by The Story Siren! Here's two great looking books I received this week:

Bought:
Working Stiff by Rachel Caine
I bought this after reading the great review from the Book Smugglers and also because of the clever premise: a company that revives the dead and blackmails them into working for them.

For Review:
Broken by Susan Jane Bigelow
Another book that got a good review from the Book Smugglers, I was delighted to have been offered this book to read. It's part of the new speculative fiction publisher Candlemark & Gleam - and they have some great upcoming books lined up. Stay tuned for more! (also: I love superhero fiction)

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In My Mailbox #16

Welcome to another edition of In My Mailbox hosted by The Story Siren! I received too awesome books for review this week. Both are urban fantasies and I can't wait to get started! Sins of the Angels was my very first Goodreads First Reads win, yay!

For Review:
Retribution by Sherrilyn Kenyon - thank you St. Martin's Press!
Sins of the Angels by Linda Poitevin - thank you Penguin and Goodreads!

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In My Mailbox #15

Welcome to another edition of In My Mailbox hosted by The Story Siren! I only received one book this week but boy, was it a book! :) My review for this one will be coming up late September for a blog tour.

For Review:

The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory - thank you Simon and Schuster Canada!

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In My Mailbox #14

Welcome to another edition of In My Mailbox hosted by The Story Siren! I've received quite a few books in the last couple weeks, mostly due to me buying them (*gasp*), but I did receive a couple freebies which my wallet definitely appreciates! I kind of went on a Star Wars buying binge. These are my first Star Wars books.

Bought:
Knight Errant by John Jackson Miller
Darth Bane: Path of Destruction by Drew Karpyshyn
Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn
The Enchantment Emporium by Tanya Huff

For Review:

Hexed by Kevin Hearne - thank you Dreams and Speculation!

Won:

Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier - thank you La Femme Readers!

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In My Mailbox #13

Welcome to another edition of In My Mailbox hosted by The Story Siren! Wow, an IMM post two weeks in a row? I'm on a roll! Thanks to that 4 for 3 sale at Indigo, I managed to snatch up some more books. This time the obvious theme is manga. I'm preparing for a super awesome secret manga project on the blog but I won't announce yet what it is! But you'll want to be here to find out in a couple weeks! The last non-manga was bought for Calico Reaction's book club.

Bought:
Arisa vol. 1 by Natsumi Ando
Spice and Wolf vol. 1 by Isuna Hasekura
Maximum Ride vol. 2 and 3 by James Patterson and NaRae Lee
Santa Olivia by Jaqueline Carey

What did you get this week?

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In My Mailbox #12

Welcome to another edition of In My Mailbox hosted by The Story Siren! Yes, it's been a while since I've posted an IMM, mostly because I got so many books at BEA that I don't need anymore. But as I walked into Indigo (Canadian book store chain) this weekend, I noticed they had a buy 3 get 1 free sale. Of course I couldn't resist so I took this opportunity to buy the A Song of Ice and Fire series books:

Bought:
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin

What did you get this week?

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