In My Mailbox (28).

In My Mailbox Is A Weekly Meme Hosted By Kristi The Story Siren

Review.

The Friendship Matchmaker - Randa Abdel-Fattah (Scholastic Australia)

Dreamless (Starcrossed #2) - Josephine Angelini (Pan Macmillan Australia)

Brought.

City Of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments #5) - Cassandra Clare

Underworld (Abandon Trilogy #2) - Meg Cabot

Angel Eyes (Angel Eyes Trilogy #1) - Shannon Dittemore

Beauty - Lisa Daily

Hereafter (Hereafter #1) - Tara Hudson

Legacy (Legacy #1) - Cayla Kluver

Emblaze (The Violet Eden Chapters #3) - Jessica Shirvington

Feature And Follow Friday (28).

Q: Summer Break is upon us! What would be the perfect vacation spot for you to catch up on your reading & relax?

Well living in Australia it's currently Winter here, but when it's Summer I like to go to Phillip Island in Victoria where I live.

And oh it's also the hometown of brothers Chris Hemsworth (Thor) and Liam Hemsworth (Gale - Hunger Games).

Unfortunately I've never spotted them, damn!

Waiting On Wednesday.

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking The Spine where you can spotlight an upcoming release that you're eagerly anticipating.

This week I'm waiting on....

Breaking Glass

by Lisa Amowitz 

9th July 2013 By Spencer Hill Press

On the night seventeen-year-old Jeremy Glass winds up in the hospital with a broken leg and a blood alcohol level well above the legal limit, his secret crush, Susannah, disappears. When he begins receiving messages from her from beyond the grave, he's not sure whether they're real or if he's losing his grip on reality. Clue by clue, he gets closer to unraveling the mystery, and soon realizes he must discover the truth or become the next victim himself.








Lovely, Dark and Deep

by Amy McNamara

13th November 2012 By Simon And Schuster

About a high-school senior, who, in the aftermath of a car accident that kills her boyfriend and throws her carefully planned future into complete upheaval, retreats to the deep woods of Maine to live with the artist father she barely knows and meets a boy who threatens to pull her from her safe, hard-won exile.

Amarok

by Angela J. Townsend

20th November 2012 By Spencer Hill Press

Life has been hell for seventeen-year-old Emma since she moved from sunny California to a remote Alaskan town. Rejected by her father and living with the guilt of causing her mother's death, she makes a desperate dash for freedom from her abusive stepfather. But when her car skids off the icy road, her escape only leads to further captivity in a world beyond her imagining. Dragged across the tundra by a crazed mountain man and his enormous black wolf, she finds that her gentle touch and kind heart earn her the wolf's friendship, and she names him Amarok, not knowing he was once a young man. When a vicious madman--trapped in bear form by an ancient Shaman--attacks the travelers and injures Amarok, Emma must find the strength to confront her fears and free the wolf she's come to love. But there's a catch--she must face down the evil shaman, a powerful Siberian mammoth hunter from the ice age, and he has no intention of giving up his power to her.

Mystic City (Mystic City #1)

by Theo Lawrence

9th October 2012 By Random House

For fans of Matched, The Hunger Games, X-Men, and Blade Runner comes a tale of a magical city divided. A political rebellion ignited. A love that was meant to last forever.

Aria Rose, youngest scion of one of Mystic City's two ruling rival families, finds herself betrothed to Thomas Foster, the son of her parents' sworn enemies. The union of the two will end the generations-long political feud—and unite all those living in the Aeries, the privileged upper reaches of the city, against the banished mystics who dwell below in the Depths. But Aria doesn't remember falling in love with Thomas; in fact, she wakes one day with huge gaps in her memory. And she can't conceive why her parents would have agreed to unite with the Fosters in the first place. Only when Aria meets Hunter, a gorgeous rebel mystic from the Depths, does she start to have glimmers of recollection—and to understand that he holds the key to unlocking her past. The choices she makes can save or doom the city—including herself. 

The Shadow Society

by Marie Rutkoski

30th October 2012 By Farrar, Straus & Giroux

What if everyone thought you were a freak of nature? What if they were right?

Darcy Jones doesn’t remember anything before the day she was abandoned as a child outside a Chicago firehouse. So she isn’t surprised that she doesn’t recognize Conn, the new boy at her high school, even though he seems to know her—or at least know something about her.

What does surprise her is how quickly she comes to trust Conn, and that he makes her feel both desire and desired in a way she hadn’t thought possible. But his interest in her is confusing. It doesn’t line up with the way he first looked at her.

As if she was his enemy.

When Conn betrays Darcy and she is arrested, she realizes that she can’t rely on anything—not Conn, not herself, and not even the laws of nature. Because this world isn’t the only one. Darcy belongs in an alternate world where the Great Chicago Fire never happened, and deadly creatures called Shades terrorize the human population.

Darcy needs some answers.

And she hates that the person most able to help her get them is Conn.

Break My Heart 1,000 Times

by Daniel Waters

16th October 2012 By Hyperion Book CH

Living in the aftermath of the Event means that seeing the dead is now a part of life, but Veronica wishes that the ghosts would just move on. Instead, the ghosts aren’t disappearing—they’re gaining power. 

When Veronica and her friend, Kirk, decide to investigate why, they stumble upon a more sinister plot than they ever could have imagined. One of Veronica’s high school teachers is crippled by the fact that his dead daughter has never returned as a ghost, and he’s haunted by the possibility that she’s waiting to reappear within a fresh body. Veronica seems like the perfect host. And even if he’s wrong, what’s the harm in creating one more ghost?

From critically acclaimed Generation Dead author Daniel Waters, comes a delectably creepy and suspenseful thriller. Break My Heart 1,000 Times will leave readers with the chills. Or is that a ghost reading over the page?

Book Review (86).

Muse (Mercy #3)

by Rebecca Lim

Publication: 27th October 2011

Publisher: Harper Collins Australia

Pages: 368

Genre: Paranormal

Age Appropriate: Young Adult

**Warning Contains Spoilers From Previous Books**

An angel in exile, caught between lives ... and loves

Mercy is an angel, exiled from heaven, and when she wakes in the body of nineteen-year-old Irina, Mercy discovers that she′s one of the world′s most infamous supermodels on the verge of a very public breakdown.

Against the glamorous background of Milan′s opulent fashion world, Mercy continues her increasingly desperate search for Ryan Daley, the mortal boy she remembers falling for in a past life. But this time, Mercy′s memories and powers are growing ever stronger - and she begins to doubt the pleas of her dream lover, Luc, as more of her mysterious past is revealed. Are Luc′s desires as selfless as her own or does he want her for a more terrifying purpose?

The grand scale celestial battle for Mercy′s soul builds to an incredible stormy crescendo as archangels and demons clash in a cataclysmic showdown that not all will survive ...

My Thoughts.

It's a compliment to the author of these books that they only get better as the series goes along, and more addictive you want to find out what's going to happen but then life intrudes and all you can think of is getting back to the book to find out what will happen next.

In a time when more often than not in a book series the books gradually get boring and shy away from the brilliance that was the first book this series has stayed constant and in my opinion exceeded the debut.

So this time Mercy finds herself inhabiting the body of a world famous russian model Irina, a junkie who isn't nice to anybody and is on the verge of her career being over due to her behaviour.

Irina for all her faults is still hounded by the paparazzi can't go anywhere without decoys being arranged her every scandal splashed across magazines and newspapers.

Thankfully Mercy has kept her memories from her time in Lela's body and she gets into contact with Ryan as soon as her assistant locates him and knowing it's for the best she tells him it's over and for him not to come and find her.

She comes to find that the Elohim are everywhere, watching her and warning her that Luc is on the way and that they wont let her leave with him and that he is to be killed for what happened between him and Mercy all that time ago that got her exiled to Earth.

Mercy comes to remember what happened and why she was sent to spend her time in countless different bodies and what she discovers shatters everything she thought was true.

I loved Mercy's reaction to having to act the supermodel it supplied a bit of humor to a book that was action filled and full of revelations.

Now onto the last book to see how the series wraps up.

I give this 4.5/5.

A Big Thanks To Lara @ Harper Collins Australia.

Book Review (85).

Exile (Mercy #2)

by Rebecca Lim

Publication: 28th May 2011
Publisher: Harper Collins Australia
Pages: 292
Genre: Paranormal
Age Appropriate: Young Adult


**Warning Contains Spoilers From The Previous Book**
An electric combination of angels, mystery and romance, EXILE is the breathtaking sequel to MERCY in a major new paranormal romance series. 


Mercy’s search continues ...

Mercy is an angel with a shattered memory, exiled from heaven for a crime she can’t remember committing.

So when she ‘wakes’ inside the body and life of eighteen-year-old Lela Neill, Mercy has only limited recall of her past life. Her strongest memories are of Ryan, the mortal boy who’d begun to fall for her – and she for him.

Mercy soon discovers that circumstances have forced Lela into waitressing at the Green Lantern, a busy city café frequented by suits, cab drivers, strippers, backpackers and the homeless, while caring for her terminally ill mother. 

Just as Mercy is adjusting to Lela’s life, her beloved, Luc, reappears in her dreams, and she begins to glimpse her true nature and true feelings for Ryan. What she does not know is that her attempts to contact Ryan may have explosive consequences for everyone around her.

Meanwhile, ‘the Eight’ — the angelic beings responsible for her banishment — remain determined to keep Mercy and Luc apart, forever …

My Thoughts.

This book was just as good as the first one, it didn't lose any of the excitement, drama or intrigue of it's predecessor and also the same as the first I didn't want to put it down.
Mercy returns to the world in the body of eighteen Lela, who has had to give up her dreams to care for her dying mother as well as working at a cafe The Green Lantern to earn money, and it's there that we spend most of the book with it's employees and customers.
At first Mercy doesn't remember Carmen's life in the previous book nor Ryan whom she fell in love with, everytime she tries to remember she gets pain in her head as if that memory is cut off and she's not allowed to remember, but thanks to Luc and through their shared dreams he helps her to remember and tells her to find Ryan go back to Paradise and that he'll come and find her there because he was so close to finding her when she was there in the previous book.
Through a customer she is able to contact Ryan and he plans his trip to come and meet her and then take them both back to Paradise, where Mercy plans to meet up with Luc but fate has other plans and nothing goes as planned.
But slowly and surely memories from Mercy's past are coming back to her and the reason why she has been made to share other people's bodies is to hide her and keep her safe from the one person she thought that she could trust.
I absolutely love this series, I love that Mercy's past is revealed in pieces and not just all at once, it keeps you guessing as to what precipitated her fall from heaven and the reason why she needs to be hidden and the fact that in every different body she's in she has someone from the Elohim (angels) watching over her to keep her safe.
Thankfully I have the last two books in the series and I don't have to bite my nails waiting to read the next two I can get into them straight away,
I give this 4/5.

In My Mailbox (27).

In My Mailbox Is A Weekly Meme Hosted By Kristi The Story Siren

Review.

The Hunt (The Hunt #1) - Andrew Fukuda (Simon And Schuster Australia)

Brought.

Wrecked - Anna Davies

Shine (Shade #3) - Jeri Smith-Ready

Born Of Silence (The League #5) - Sherrilyn Kenyon

Being Friends With Boys - Terra Elan McVoy

Silence (The Queen Of The Dead #1) - Michelle Sagara West

Insurgent (Divergent #2) - Veronica Roth

Black Dawn (The Morganville Vampires #12) - Rachel Caine

Destined (Wings #4) - Aprilynne Pike

Enchanted - Alethea Kontis

Revived - Cat Patrick

Endure (Need #4) - Carrie Jones

Last Rite (Personal Demons #3) - Lisa Desrochers

Until I Die (Revenants #2) - Amy Plum

Hemlock (Hemlock #1) - Kathleen Peacock

Enticed (The Violet Eden Chapters #2) - Jessica Shirvington

Angel Arias (Night Creatures #2) - Marianne De Pierres

Book Review (84).

Mercy (Mercy #1)

by Rebecca Lim

Publication: 1st November 2010

Publisher: Harper Collins Australia

Pages: 280

Genre: Paranormal

Age Appropriate: Young Adult

Mercy ′wakes′ on a school bus bound for Paradise, a small town where everyone knows everyone else′s business -- or thinks they do. But they will never guess the secret Mercy is hiding ....

As an angel exiled from heaven and doomed to return repeatedly to Earth, Mercy is never sure whose life and body she will share each time. And her mind is filled with the desperate pleas of her beloved, Luc, who can only approach her in her dreams.

In Paradise, Mercy meets Ryan, whose sister was kidnapped two years ago and is now presumed dead. When another girl disappears, Mercy and Ryan know they must act before time runs out. But a host of angels are out for Mercy′s blood and they won′t rest until they find her and punish her -- for a crime she doesn′t remember committing ...

An electric combination of angels, mystery and romance, MERCY is the first book in a major new series.

My Thoughts. 

I adored this book and devoured it and I just couldn't get enough, luckily I have the next three books in the series handy.

This isn't your typical angel story which is one of the reasons I loved it so much.

Mercy (she can't remember her real name so this is what she calls herself) awakes on a bus in someone else's body not knowing who she is or where she is or what's going on with the body she's inhabiting and has to act as if she knows who she is .

She comes to find out that she's in the body of Carmen with an amazing singing voice but not really very many friends.

The bus stops at  a place called Paradise (which is far from it) to sing at a competition, she is introduced to her host family which includes Ryan a gorgeous guy who's twin sister had been kidnapped two years before, and whom everybody but Ryan believes is dead.

Ryan spends his days searching Paradise after he has a dream that his sister Lauren was being held somewhere near a church,  after a rocky start and a funny line from Mercy when they meet they agree to team up to find Lauren.

We don't really get an answer in this book as to who Mercy really is, it seems as punishment for something she did eons ago she moves from body to body, everytime  Luc (who visits her in her dreams) an angel like her, nearly comes close to finding her she's moved on to the next body but not before helping the person who's body she inhabits or the people around her, whoever punished her did it also to keep her and Luc apart and she doesn't know why they erased her memory so she can't remember and everytime she leaves a body and moves onto the next she finds it hard to remember anything about the life of the  previous body she was in .

It makes it really hard when she starts to develop feelings for Ryan knowing after moving on she won't remember him.

I loved the concept of this story and the different take on angels, I also loved Mercy and Ryan together and you hope that they can somehow find each other in the next book.

I highly reccomend this book it's definitely one of my favourite angel books.

I give this 4.5/5.