In My Mailbox #7

May 13, 2012 Philippa General, In My Mailbox Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls, Dark Frost, IMM, In My Mailbox, Jennifer Eestep, Kate Kae Myers, The Vanishing Game

In My Mailbox, hosted by The Story Siren is a weekly post that allows book bloggers to share their excitement over new books they have received each week.

With a snotty sick toddler in the house with severe ear infections blogging and reading have not been on my priority list this week! I have got some reading done through the sleep deprivation haze but not as much as I would have liked.

While your here checking out my recent goodies, feel free to view my latest reviews:

Hemlock by Kathleen Peacock (published 8 May 2012)
The Hunt by Andrew Fukuda (published 8 May 2012)

Purchased

City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare

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I love this series and am loving this book so far! Only 20% in and can’t wait to find out what happens with Jace!!!

Goodreads Synopsis:

The demon Lilith has been destroyed and Jace has been freed from her captivity. But when the Shadowhunters arrive to rescue him, they find only blood and broken glass. Not only is the boy Clary loves missing–but so is the boy she hates, Sebastian, the son of her father Valentine: a son determined to succeed where their father failed, and bring the Shadowhunters to their knees.

No magic the Clave can summon can locate either boy, but Jace cannot stay away—not from Clary. When they meet again Clary discovers the horror Lilith’s dying magic has wrought—Jace is no longer the boy she loved. He and Sebastian are now bound to each other, and Jace has become what he most feared: a true servant of Valentine’s evil. The Clave is determined to destroy Sebastian, but there is no way to harm one boy without destroying the other. Will the Shadowhunters hesitate to kill one of their own?

Only a small band of Clary and Jace’s friends and family believe that Jace can still be saved — and that the fate of the Shadowhunters’ future may hinge on that salvation. They must defy the Clave and strike out on their own. Alec, Magnus, Simon and Isabelle must work together to save Jace: bargaining with the sinister Faerie Queen, contemplating deals with demons, and turning at last to the Iron Sisters, the reclusive and merciless weapons makers for the Shadowhunters, who tell them that no weapon on this earth can sever the bond between Sebastian and Jace. Their only chance of cutting Jace free is to challenge Heaven and Hell — a risk that could claim any, or all, of their lives.

And they must do it without Clary. For Clary has gone into the heart of darkness, to play a dangerous game utterly alone. The price of losing the game is not just her own life, but Jace’s soul. She’s willing to do anything for Jace, but can she even still trust him? Or is he truly lost? What price is too high to pay, even for love?

Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the harrowing fifth book of the Mortal Instruments series.

Dark Frost by Jennifer Eestep

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I really enjoyed the first 2 of this series and realised I could preorder the Kindle book while browsing Amazon earlier this week so I did! Released on 29th May yet another fantastic sequeal to add to the list of great books coming out this month!

Goodreads Synopsis:

I’ve seen so many freaky things since I started attending Mythos Academy last fall. I know I’m supposed to be a fearless warrior, but most of the time, I feel like I’m just waiting for the next Bad, Bad Thing to happen. Like someone trying to kill me—again.

Everyone at Mythos Academy knows me as Gwen Frost, the Gypsy girl who uses her psychometry magic to find lost objects—and who just may be dating Logan Quinn, the hottest guy in school. But I’m also the girl the Reapers of Chaos want dead in the worst way. The Reapers are the baddest of the bad, the people who murdered my mom. So why do they have it in for me?

It turns out my mom hid a powerful artifact called the Helheim Dagger before she died. Now, the Reapers will do anything to get it back. They think I know where the dagger is hidden, but this is one thing I can’t use my magic to find. All I do know is that the Reapers are coming for me—and I’m in for the fight of my life.

Giveaways/Gifts

The Vanishing Game by Kate Kae Myers

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I signed up for my first Random Act of Kindness this month and am very excited to have received this e-book! Thanks so much Jordon from Miss Book Reviews.

Goodreads Synopsis:

Seventeen-year-old Jocelyn follows clues apparently from her dead twin, Jack, in and around Seale House, the terrifying foster home where they once lived. With help from childhood friend Noah she begins to uncover the truth about Jack’s death and the company that employed him and Noah.

Jocelyn’s twin brother Jack was the only family she had growing up in a world of foster homes-and now he’s dead, and she has nothing. Then she gets a cryptic letter from “Jason December”-the code name her brother used to use when they were children at Seale House, a terrifying foster home that they believed had dark powers. Only one other person knows about Jason December: Noah, Jocelyn’s childhood crush and their only real friend among the troubled children at Seale House.

But when Jocelyn returns to Seale House and the city where she last saw Noah, she gets more than she bargained for. Turns out the house’s powers weren’t just a figment of a childish imagination. And someone is following Jocelyn. Is Jack still alive? And if he is, what kind of trouble is he in? The answer is revealed in a shocking twist that turns this story on its head and will send readers straight back to page 1 to read the book in a whole new light.

What books have you scored in the last week? Link me your IMM or let me know in the comments!

11 Comments:

sony@sonythebooklover says:

May 13, 2012 at 11:38 pm Reply

All of these books are on my TBR list enjoy. Want to see my IMM then click on my name.

sony@sonythebooklover says:

May 13, 2012 at 11:40 pm Reply

All of these books are on my TBR list you have good taste enjoy them. Follow the link to see what i got IMM, happy reading. http://sonythebooklover.com/2012/05/in-my-mailbox-30/

Philippa says:

May 15, 2012 at 12:19 pm Reply

I hope I enjoy them too So far I’m really enjoying City of Lost Souls!

Danie says:

May 13, 2012 at 11:47 pm Reply

I heard about The Vanishing Game last week and need to read it. It looks great!

No IMM this week, but maybe you could check out my blog anyways?

Enjoy your reading!
-Danie

Philippa says:

May 15, 2012 at 12:19 pm Reply

I’m really looking forward to The Vanishing Game – hope it lives up to my expectations lol

Laura @ The Traveling Owl says:

May 14, 2012 at 5:14 am Reply

I really enjoyed Dark Frost. Great third book in the series.

Enjoy all your books!
Laura @ The Traveling Owl

Philippa says:

May 15, 2012 at 12:20 pm Reply

So jealous that you’ve read it already I have really enjoyed the series to date so can’t wait to find out what happens next – glad to know you liked it!

Emily @ Falling For YA says:

May 14, 2012 at 7:39 am Reply

I am almost afraid to read City of Lost Souls because Cassie Clare has such amazingly heartbreaking cliffhangers and I just don’t want to put myself through that…but at the same time I can’t NOT read it! Hopefully you enjoy your reading this week. The Vanishing Game also looks really good =)

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