Sunday 18 September 2011

My Book Haul/ In My Mailbox

The Story Siren hosts a weekly meme where bloggers can share what goodies they've purchased/received this week. If you get a chance head over to The Story Siren and check out what everyone is up to!
 
This week has been a pretty good selection of books through the post - 4 pre-orders finally arrived, another Transworld book for review and a friend lent me a book.
 
The Crying Tree - Naseem Rakha
Publisher: Pan McMillian
Irene Stanley thought her world had come to an end when her teenage son, Shep, is murdered. Daniel Robbin, who had spent his teenage years in and out of trouble, gave himself up to the police and was given the state's harshest sentence: death by lethal injection. Now, nineteen years later, as the state penitentiary prepares to execute Robbin, Irene Stanley must reveal what she has been hiding from her family. That in order to survive the anger and grief she had at loosing her so, she not only had forgiven the man who killed him, but had come to be his friend. Her revelation stuns her family and cracks open the secrets that had been surrounding her son's death. Secrets that reveal how little she understood Shep, her husband, or herself.

One of my friends lent me this after she read it as part of her book group. She said it was a really emotional book and was curious to know what I would think.

Death Sentence - Mikkel Birkegaard
Publisher: Black Swan
Frank Føns is a very successful crime writer. His novels, famed for their visceral descriptions of violent death, have made him a household name. But now someone is copying his crimes. For Frank what once seemed a clever, intriguing plot twist, has suddenly become a terrifying, blood-spattered reality.In the novel, a redhead who was scared of water is drowned. In the mirror-image of the real world, she has become an ex-girlfriend chained and left to die at the bottom of the harbour. A corrupt police-officer tortured to death becomes a contact who dies with fear in his eyes. Someone is taking Franks’ fiction and using it to destroy his life. The writer must become the detective.In fiction, the bad guy always gets caught, but in real life there is no such guarantee. Fear becomes real. The knife cut hurts like hell. Our narrator may not survive. No-one is promising you a happy ending. For Frank what had once been a game is now a matter of life and death.

This is my third book as part of the Transworld reading challenge. After a historical fantasy and contemporary romance, this one is a crime mystery so I'm mixing it up a bit! :-)

Blood Bound - Rachel Vincent
Publisher: UK - MIRA
Most can't touch the power. But Liv Warren is special – a paranormal tracker who follows the scent of blood. Liv makes her own rules, and the most important one is trust no one. But when her friend's daughter goes missing, Liv has no choice but to find the girl. Thanks to a childhood oath, Liv can't rest until the child is home safe. But that means trusting Cam Caballero, the former lover forbidden to her. Bound by oath and lost in desire for a man she cannot have, Liv is racing to save the child from a dark criminal underworld where secrets, lies, trauma and danger lurk around every corner...every touch...every kiss. And more blood will be spilled before it's over...

The first of my pre-orders that came through this week...I loved Rachel's Shifters series and all the reviews I've read so far have been overwhelmingly positive. Plush how pretty is the UK cover? I love sun sets! :-)

Bloodlines - Richelle Mead
Publisher: UK - Razor Bill
Sydney is an alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of human and vampires. They protect vampire secrets - and human lives. When Sydney is torn from her bed in the middle of the night, at first she thinks she's still being punished for her complicated alliance with dhampir Rose Hathaway. But what unfolds is far worse. Jill Dragomir - the sister of Moroi Queen Lissa Dragomir - is in mortal danger, and the Moroi must send her into hiding. To avoid a civil war, Sydney is called upon to act as Jill's guardian and protector, posing as her roommate in the last place anyone would think to look for vampire royalty - a human boarding school in Palm Springs, California. But instead of finding safety at Amberwood Prep, Sydney discovers the drama is only just beginning... 

Another pre-order, I loved the Vampire Academy series so I'm really looking forward catching up with some those characters again!

Blood Rights - Kristin Painter
Publisher: Orbit
Born into a life of secrets and service, Chrysabelle’s body bears the telltale marks of a comarré—a special race of humans bred to feed vampire nobility. When her patron is murdered, she becomes the prime suspect, which sends her running into the mortal world…and into the arms of Malkolm, an outcast vampire cursed to kill every being from whom he drinks. Now Chrysabelle and Malkolm must work together to stop a plot to merge the mortal and supernatural worlds. If they fail, a chaos unlike anything anyone has ever seen will threaten to reign.

I just fell in love with the gorgeous cover and the intriguing blurb as soon as I saw them so took a risk and pre-ordered them. I can't wait to start reading!

Tempest's Legacy - Nicole Peeler
Publisher: UK - Orbit
After a peaceful hiatus at home in Rockabill, Jane True thinks that her worst problem is that she still throws like a girl - at least while throwing fireballs. Her peace of mind ends, however, when Anyan arrives one night with terrible news . . . news that will rock Jane's world to its very core. After demanding to help investigate a series of gruesome attacks on females -- supernatural, halfling, and human -- Jane quickly finds herself forced to confront her darkest nightmares as well as her deepest desires. And she's not sure which she finds more frightening.

I've been looking forward to this arriving as the first two Jane True books were great fun!

So what have you picked up this week?

17 comments:

  1. 3 books with blood in the title! I loved Blood Bound it was fantastic, I have Bloodlines sitting on my shelf and I really want to get Blood Rights just reading that blurb again makes me determined to get it. Great books Mel I hope you enjoy them all.

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  2. You are having a BLOODY week! Enjoy your new books.

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  3. Absulutely awesome IMM! Blood Rights were amazing :) And I'm dying to read Blood Bound. Enjoy!

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  4. The Crying Tree sounds very good, can't wait to see what you think of it.

    And I can't believe you're on your 3rd Transworld already! I have received book 2 but I'm bogged down in a classic at the moment so won't get to it until next week.

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  5. As usual I want all your books! I shouldn't look at your IMM I always get book envy! :D

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  6. I have only just realised Bloodlines isn't part of a series!
    Will need to try that one out.
    Enjoy your books =)

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  7. Blood Rights looks interesting. I don't think I've come across that one before. Bloodlines looks awesome. Enjoy!

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  8. i recently bought bloodlines too and i'm so excited to read it. i haven't heard of it before but the crying tree looks awesome. great imm this week--enjoy all your books. :)

    hope you can stop by our IMM too.

    -michelle

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  9. Yay Blood Bound :D And I agree the UK cover is so much better!

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  10. I need to read them all! Haha. Rachel Vincent's Shifter series I've been semi eyeing up. I love shapeshifter angles and heard fantastic things about the series.

    Once Upon A Time

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  11. Now this is an amazing week in books! Lol. I love the ones you have here. A few that I'm wanting and have. Hope you have a wonderful week and enjoy you reading picks. :)

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  12. A wonderful Mailbox! I am so eager to get hold of Blood Rights..

    My IMM, http://obsessionwithbooks.blogspot.com

    Have a nice week.

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  13. Bloody hell! I always want to say that you are intending to feed a vampire with your mailbox. LOL

    Enjoy, Mel.

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  14. Amazing books! Blood Bound looks really good. Happy reading :)

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  15. I'm very curious about Blood Rights by Kristin Painter, I've heard so great things about this book

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  16. Oh I hope you enjoy Blood Rights and I still need to read the Nicole Peeler books! Great haul!

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