Mailbox Monday.

Monday's Mailbox.
I've decided that I will stop participating in In My Mailbox, the reason being I seem to get a lot of books every week and it takes me forever to put them all together in one post and link them up.
So I will be doing Mailbox Mon-Fri every week 

Review...

Anew (The Archers Of Avalon #1) - Chelsea Fine (Acacia Publishing)
Received For An Upcoming Blog Tour

Unbreakable Love - Angela Carling (Acacia Publishing)

Shackled - Angela Carling (Acacia Publishing)

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky (Simon And Schuster Australia)

Zom-B (Zom-B #1) - Darren Shan (Simon And Schuster Australia)

Brought...

Kiss Of Steel (London Steampunk #1) - Bec McMaster

Carnival Of Souls - Melissa Marr

Fathomless (Fairytale Retellings #3) - Jackson Pearce

Monstrous Beauty (Monstrous Beauty #1) - Elizabeth Fama

Sweet Shadows (Medusa Girls #2) - Tera Lynn Childs

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Upcoming Books That Don't Yet Have Covers.

Unbreakable (Legion #1)

by Kami Garcia

Kennedy Waters’ entire life changes when she finds her mother dead and discovers she is a member of a secret society formed two hundred years ago to protect the world from a powerful demon determined to find a way out of his dimension and into ours, and from the dangerous spirits he controls.

Expected publication: 2013 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

After You

by Jessica Corra

Seventeen-year-old Camilla Jay has the power of second chances. She can rewind to any day and relive it, and she remembers everything. A tragedy like the death of her twin sister Madelyn shouldn’t be possible. Camilla rewinds to the same day over and over, but Madelyn dies each time – by her own hand. Madelyn doesn’t want saving.

Madelyn’s death allows Cam to finally connect with her long-time crush Wall. As they grow closer, Camilla uncovers a series of writings Madelyn did about her own ability to forward in time. Madelyn believed killing herself was the only way to save Camilla from a horrible fate. Cam’s not convinced.

Cam tries to find a way to save Madelyn without bringing about the things her sister saw. Madelyn didn’t think it was possible, and that by trying to save her, Camilla will destroy herself. Camilla doesn’t know what to believe, but one thing becomes clear: if she saves Madelyn, she’ll lose Wall. Is she willing to gamble everything?

Expected publication: 2014 by Dial Books for Young Reader (Penguin

All the Rage

by Courtney Summers

A 17-year-old girl’s attempt to blackmail her rich classmates results in her waking up on a dirt road with no money, no memory of how she got there and a semi-erased message she left for herself the only clue as to why. When she tries to piece together the evening before and all the events leading up to it, a dark and sinister game is revealed. Likened toBrick and Veronica Mars.

Expected publication: 2013

Another Little Piece

by Kate Karyus Quinn

A girl wakes up wandering the roads of Oklahoma knowing that she is occupying another girl's body -- and that she has killed the girl whose body she is in -- who then returns to the girl's parents in upstate New York to uncover who she really is, and who else she has killed.

Expected publication: 2013 by HarperTeen

Arclight

by Josin L. McQuein

There is the Light. There is the Dark. And no one survives The Fade. These are the absolutes... until a teenage girl stumbles out of the shadows with no memory of how she survived.

Her appearance brings hope, but also danger as a race of parasitic, chameleon-like creatures known as The Fade begin attacking those who have given her shelter. Torn between the possibility that she's the key to defeating the Fade, and the growing dissent that would sacrifice the girl in hopes of stopping the attacks, she's hard pressed to find anyone she can trust.

She finds a strained ally in the son of the man who died to bring her to safety. And when the two teens stumble across a captive Fade who begs them for help locating his lost mate, they begin to wonder if the Fade are the enemy they've been taught to believe.

A sci-fi thriller

Expected publication: May 1st 2013 by Greenwillow

The Murder Complex (The Murder Complex #1)

by Lindsay Cummings

Your mind is not your own...
20-year-old Lindsay Cummings' debut novel, THE MURDER COMPLEX, is described as an action-packed, blood-soaked, futuristic thriller set in a world where the murder rate is higher than the birth rate, and follows a 15-year-old girl who has been trained by her father to fight, kill, and to survive in any situation, and the boy she falls in love with, whose sole purpose is to keep her from discovering the haunting truth about her family, even if it puts them both in mortal danger.

Expected publication: 2013 by Greenwillow / HarperCollins

The Weight of Stars (Songs of New Asgard #1)

by Tessa Gratton

First book in a new series which presents an alternate history of the U.S. in which the country was founded on elements of Norse religions, and gods walk among humans, with some maintaining powerful positions in the government. Book one follows two teenagers who embark on a cross-country search for a missing god. As the kids travel through the United States of Asgard they encounter “smalltown zealots, trickster gods, and sadistic field trolls.”

Expected publication: 2013 by Random House Children’s Books

Don't Look Back

by Jennifer L. Armentrout 

"..DON'T LOOK BACK, pitched as Black Swan meets Pretty Little Liars, featuring a teen girl who had it all until the night she and her friend go missing, and she loses all recollection of who she is, but must piece together a life she no longer wants and the events that led to her friend's disappearance.."

From Jennifer L. Armentrout's official blog:

Samantha's popular, rich, and dating one of the most sought after boys in school, and even though she's more frenemy with her best friend Cassie, she had it all… until the night she and Cassie disappeared and then Sammy resurfaced with no recollection of who she is or what happened.

Sammy's a stranger in her own life--a life where she took 'mean girl' to a whole new level. But now she gets a second chance at being a better daughter, sister, all around better person, and that includes falling in love. And you guys know me. I'm heavy on the romance! But something did happen to Cassie and everyone's a suspect: her family, friends, and even the boy she's falling for... and even our dear Sammy, because the old Samantha... well, she was capable of anything.

Expected publication: 2013 by Disney-Hyperion

All Our Yesterdays

by Cristin Terrill

Marina has everything. She’s got money, popularity, and a bright future. Plus, she’s best friends with the boy next door, who happens to be a gorgeous prodigy from one of America’s most famous families.

Em has nothing. Imprisoned in a small white cell in the heart of a secret military base, all she has is the voice of the boy in the cell next door and the list of instructions she finds taped inside the drain.

But Marina and Em have one big thing in common: they’re the same person.

Now Em must travel back four years in time in order to avert the terrible future from which she’s fled, and there’s only one way to do it. She must kill the person who invented the time machine in the first place: someone from her past. A person she loved.

But Marina won’t let them go without a fight.

Expected publication: 2013 by Disney Hyperion

Life After Theft

by Aprilynne Pike

Moving to a new high school sucks. Especially a rich-kid private school. With uniforms. But nothing is worse than finding out the first girl you meet is dead. And a klepto.

Jeff walks into his new school and finds Kimberlee (with two 'E's and don't you forget it!) in the hall. Well, on the hall floor. Chewing gum. What else is a clueless ghost stuck in limbo supposed to do? No one can see or hear Kimberlee except Jeff and, threatened with Kimberlee turning his life into total chaos, he agrees to help her complete her "unfinished business," which is to return a few things. What could it hurt?

But an entire cave full of stolen merchandise is not what Jeff signed up for. Always the nice guy, Jeff sticks with it but when the enmity between Kimberlee and Jeff's new girlfriend manages to extend posthumously, Jeff's not so sure he made the right choice. After several run-ins with 
Kimberlee's so-called friends and being escorted home by the cops, Jeff is overjoyed when the cave is empty and Kimberlee can be on her ghostly way. So why isn't she gone?

Expected publication: 2013

Cover Reveal: False Sight - Dan Krokos

False Sight (False Memory #2)

by Dan Krokos

Expected publication: August 2013 by Hyperion

Mailbox Friday.

Friday's Mailbox.
I've decided that I will stop participating in In My Mailbox, the reason being I seem to get a lot of books every week and it takes me forever to put them all together in one post and link them up.
So I will be doing Mailbox Mon-Fri every week

Review...

(ARC) The Raven Boys (Raven Cycle #1) - Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic Australia)
I definitely did some squealing when I opened the package and saw this!

(ARC) The Lost Prince (The Iron Fey: The Call Of The Forgotten #1) - Julie Kagawa
(Harlequin Teen Australia)

Brought...

Dangerous Boy - Mandy Hubbard

Tiger's Destiny (The Tiger Saga #4) - Colleen Houck

Enshadowed (Nevermore #2) - Kelly Creagh

Fear The Darkness (Guardians Of Eternity #9) - Alexandra Ivy

The Iron Legends (The Iron Fey #1.5, #3.5, #4.5) - Julie Kagawa

Book Review (135): The Day Of First Sun - Sheryl Steines

The Day of First Sun (Annie Loves Cham)

by Sheryl Steines 

Publication: 23rd Feburary 2012

Publisher: Createspace

Pages: 379

Genre: Fantasy/Paranormal

Age Appropriate: Young Adult

When Princess Amelie of Amborix is murdered by magical means, Annie Pearce and Bobby “Cham” Chamsky of the Wizard’s Guard are called in by the FBI. Their job is to help solve the crime while keeping the non-magical world from discovering the existence of the Wizard Council.

During their investigation, Annie and Cham discover that Princess Amelie’s death is connected to a series of other crimes in the Chicago area. A larger plot involving, a vampire, a rogue wizard and an army of soul-less zombies is revealed, but can Annie and Cham discover who is responsible before The Day of First Sun?

My Thoughts...

What I really liked about this book was all the different paranormal factions represented, we have: witches, vampires and fairies, which make for a fun and exciting story.

Annie and Cham childhood friends have grown up doing everything together including partnering up at work, but theirs isn't any workplace they work at the Wizard Council, a magical police force which deals with the paranormal, and they and all working there are wizard's.

Annie and Cham are both brought in on a case when it's found that Princess Amelie of Amborix was killed by magical means, their investigation leads them to her boyfriend Jordan who was there at the time but managed to escape and is now in hiding, they manage to find him, and not just him but a vampire Sturtagaard whom Annie has been trying to capture for quite a while now.

They discover that Jordan and the princess had stolen an orb not knowing how powerful it is or the drastic measures the owner will go to, to get it back, and Sturtagaard was planning on stealing the orb back from Jordan to help his employer create a zombie army to take over the Wizard Council.

Annie and Cham work to find out who this mysterious employer of Sturtagaard is, and also to find the traitor working at the Wizard Council, and while all this is going on Annie and Cham finally admit their feelings for one another much to the delight of evryone around them.

This book makes for a great start to what I'm sure will be a fantastic series now off to start the second book She Wulf.

I give this 3.5/5. 

Book Trailer: Iridescent - Carol Oates

I will be taking part in the blog tour for this book, above is the book trailer so you can see what the book is all about.
Hope you enjoy!