Shoved Through My Mailslot is a bi-weekly meme here at a Book Lover's Ramblings, it's purpose is to showcase all the books (or bookish items) I got in the mail or bought over a two week period.
Last week: Mail
I received The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa from HarlequinTEEN, which I won in a giveaway through Ashley Suzanne. I was so excited, I still am, when I got the email saying I won, and when I opened the package I squealed with joy. My cousin looked at me like I was a giant dork, especially when I kept smiling like this ➝ :D And I absolutely LOVE this cover! I love the bloody tear, and shiny parts (they look gray in the pic). Take a look at the synopsis and tell me you wouldn't squeeee!, too.
In a future world, Vampires reign. Humans are blood cattle. And one girl will search for the key to save humanity.
Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a vampire city. By day, she and her crew scavenge for food. By night, any one of them could be eaten.
Some days, all that drives Allie is her hatred of them. The vampires who keep humans as blood cattle. Until the night Allie herself is attacked—and given the ultimate choice. Die… or become one of the monsters.
Faced with her own mortality, Allie becomes what she despises most. To survive, she must learn the rules of being immortal, including the most important: go long enough without human blood, and you will go mad.
Then Allie is forced to flee into the unknown, outside her city walls. There she joins a ragged band of humans who are seeking a legend—a possible cure to the disease that killed off most of humankind and created the rabids, the mindless creatures who threaten humans and vampires alike.
But it isn't easy to pass for human. Especially not around Zeke, who might see past the monster inside her. And Allie soon must decide what—and who—is worth dying for.
I also got a copy of
Nightspell from the author, Leah Cypess, for review (she even signed it to me!). In celebration of the
Nightspell paperback release, which is May 29, Leah is hosting a small review-only blog tour, and I'll be participating over at my other blog,
Paranormal Book Nook. I think this cover is gorgeous, too! Summary is below.
Here be ghosts, the maps said, and that was all.
In this haunted kingdom, ghosts linger--not just in the deepest forests or the darkest caverns, but alongside the living, as part of a twisted palace court that revels all night and sleeps through the daylight hours.
Darri's sister was trapped in this place of fear and shadows as a child. And now Darri has a chance to save her sister . . . if she agrees to a betrothal with the prince of the dead. But nothing is simple in this eerie kingdom--not her sister, who has changed beyond recognition; not her plan, which will be thrown off track almost at once; and not the undead prince, who seems more alive than anyone else.
In a court seething with the desire for vengeance, Darri holds the key to the balance between life and death. Can her warrior heart withstand the most wrenching choice of all?
Last week: Bought
The Selection by Kiera Cass came out on Tuesday, and I was able to pick it up Thursday! This is one of those rare books, for me at least, where I first saw the cover and was like, "I have to read this book! I don't care what it's about, it must be mine!" and then I read the description (below), which made me want it even more. The 2nd pic is of the inside cover, which I think is just too pretty to go without a pic of it's own.
For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in the palace and compete for the heart of the gorgeous Prince Maxon.
But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition for a crown she doesn't want. Living in a palace that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks.
Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she's made for herself- and realizes that the life she's always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined.
Another book I got on Thursday was
Kill Me Softly by Sarah Cross. What really made me pay attention to this book was the cover, I love bloody white roses, and then I found out it was retelling of a bunch of different fairytales, and I absolutely love fairytales and retellings of them. Check out the description below.
Mirabelle's past is shrouded in secrecy, from her parents' tragic deaths to her guardians' half-truths about why she can't return to her birthplace, Beau Rivage. Desperate to see the town, Mira runs away a week before her sixteenth birthday—and discovers a world she never could have imagined.
In Beau Rivage, nothing is what it seems—the strangely pale girl with a morbid interest in apples, the obnoxious playboy who's a beast to everyone he meets, and the chivalrous guy who has a thing for damsels in distress. Here, fairy tales come to life, curses are awakened, and ancient stories are played out again and again.
But fairy tales aren't pretty things, and they don't always end in happily ever after. Mira has a role to play, a fairy tale destiny to embrace or resist. As she struggles to take control of her fate, Mira is drawn into the lives of two brothers with fairy tale curses of their own . . . brothers who share a dark secret. And she'll find that love, just like fairy tales, can have sharp edges and hidden thorns.
Trial by Fire is yet another book I picked up Thursday. Ever since I read
Raised by Wolves back in March, I have been very impatiently waiting for
Trial by Fire to come out in paperback, which, thankfully, it did on Tuesday. I'm not gonna post the synopsis, because I think it is a bit spoilery for
Raised by Wolves.
