In My Mailbox (33)

June 24, 2012

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi over at The Story Siren. It’s awesome. Every week, we all get a chance to tell everyone what new books we’ve gotten so that we can tell you guys and we can all drool and squee together! Huzzah for squees!

Whew! Guys, I got lots of packages this week. Some of them were gifts from exceedingly awesome folks. Others were gifts from my exceedingly awesome wallet. (And by awesome I mean simply that I love it and am sorry for constantly abusing it, not that it’s, like, BURSTING with ca$h.) Plus a few NetGalley books, because I’m a NG whore. No secrets there. 

NETGALLEY

League of Strays  by L.B. Schulman (October 1, 2012 from Amulet Books). This one has been on my radar forever, and surprisingly, it has nothing to do with superheroes, which, I must admit, is my first thought whenever I see the word “league.” Nope, this book is about a group of outcasts at a high school who take some revenge on bullies, and a girl who starts to have some misgivings about vengeance. It sounds SUPER.

Dualed: Dualed #1 by Elise Chapman (February 26, 2013 from Random House). Guys, I have a feeling we’re going to be hearing LOTS about this book, a dystopian about a society where two copies of each person exists–an alt–and coming of age consists of those two clones doing battle to the death. FOR REALZ.

Confessions of an Angry Girl by Louise Rossett (August 28, 2012 from Harlequin). A contemp about a young girl who’s dad has just died who also has some EPIC anger issues. This one sounds great, mostly because Rose sounds like a girl who is kind of living without any care for much, and THAT makes for some great drama, friends.

(Thanks to Amulet, Random House, and Harlequin for these lovelies!)

BOUGHT & GIFTED

The Wise Man’s Fear: Kingkiller Chronicle #2 by Patrick Rothfuss. Because OBVIOUSLY. I finished the first book, THE NAME OF THE WIND, last week and started listening to this audiobook that same afternoon. But since I have a hardcopy of the first book, I needed a hardcopy of the second, hence this gorgeous hardcover on my list. Kvothe is the studliest stud there is. 

This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen. I love me some Dessen, guys, but there are still quite a few of her books I haven’t read. This is one of them. Now that the paperbacks are so GORGEOUS, I figured I’d give this one a go. Because it’s got music in it. And it’s purple.

The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen. Now THIS book is one of the Dessen’s I HAVE read, and it’s just as good as everyone says it is. PLUS, this is, BY FAR, my favorite of the new covers. I LOVE turquoise, as a color and as a stone, so my eye goes right to this cover. Also, WES.

Something Like Normal by Trish Doller. So first of all, this book is amazing. Travis and Harper are damaged and smoldery and awesome. Plus, it’s got that military angle that just GETS ME. Second of all, the actual hardcopy of this book is kind of tiny in a totally adorable way (it’s  a smaller trim size than the Dessen paperbacks). So that’s two good reasons you should both buy and read this book.

Tokyo Heist by Diana Renn. This gem came from the always fabulous Lisa from Lisa is Busy Nerding and the Debut Author Challenge ARC Tours. HOLLA to Lisa, and to Diana Renn, who wrote a book about Japan AND thievery. I just started this one today and it’s already got its hooks in me!

Jepp, Who Defied the Stars by Katherine Marsh (October 9, 2012 from Hyperion Childrens). GUYS. I have Heidi from Bunbury in the Stacks to thank for this, and THANK HER I DO. One, she’s awesome. Two, this book sounds awesome. It’s about a  young boy dwarf who is basically imprisoned in the court of the Spanish Infanta, and escapes only to be dragged around Europe as a prisoner of someone else. It’s a historical fiction…wait for it…BASED ON REAL HISTORICAL PEOPLE. I can’t even deal with that shizz. This book sounds so amazing.

  Thanks SO MUCH to Lisa and Heidi and my wallet for these killer books! I hope you guys got some awesome stuff in your mailboxes this week!