In My Mailbox #9

Here's some books I borrowed, bought and received! IMM (In My Mailbox) is a meme hosted by The Story Siren! Sorry, no pictures, it's too dark here. What a surprise!

bought

These I bought a while ago, just forgot them..




I found Lucian as a hardcover from a bookstore's sale, I'm happy!

for review
These were all received from lovely Veronica Blade! And I've already read two of them.

Thanks again to Veronica! :)

Nothing to read?

Yeah, I visited Kindle Shop, again. But this time I only thought about my readers! ;)


Here's some free Kindle books! Hope you enjoy them, and find something to read!

(.. and yes, I have all of these on my TBR-pile..)

Feyland: The Dark Realm Giveaway has a winner!

I'm happy to tell you, that Feyland: The Dark Realm has a winner!

The winner was decided with Random.org, and the lucky number was 16, and the winner is..


Gwen Lim Ce

I'll forward your contact information to Anthea! :)

TBR January Update

Here's an update for this list, and yeah, I did not stick with it.. Or I did, I just added some books! Yeah.

TBR - January 2012

• Something Witchy This Way Comes by Veronica Blade
  
  
• A Bite's Tale (A Furry Fable) by Veronica Blade
  
  
• Seeing Cinderella by Jenny Lundquist
  
  
• Blood and Bullets by James R. Tuck
  
  
• The Dig by Audrey Hart
  
  
• Divergent by Veronica Roth
  
  
• The Start-Up by Sadie Hayes
  
  
• The Stubborn Dead by Natasha Hoar
  
  
• Touch of Power by Maria V. Snyder
  
  
• A Vampire for Christmas by Laurie London, Michele Hauf, Caridad Piñeiro, Alexis Morgan
  
  
• The Stuttering Tattoo by Greg Logsted
  
  
• dancergirl by Carol M. Tanzman
  
  

On My Wishlist #10

Meme hosted by Book Chick City!

Tempest (Tempest #1)
by Julie Cross


The year is 2009. Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal guy… he’s in college, has a girlfriend… and he can travel back through time.
But it’s not like the movies – nothing changes in the present after his jumps, there’s no space-time continuum issues or broken flux capacitors – it’s just harmless fun.

That is… until the day strangers burst in on Jackson and his girlfriend, Holly, and during a struggle with Jackson, Holly is fatally shot.
In his panic, Jackson jumps back two years to 2007, but this is not like his previous time jumps. Now he’s stuck in 2007 and can’t get back to the future.

Desperate to somehow return to 2009 to save Holly but unable to return to his rightful year, Jackson settles into 2007 and learns what he can about his abilities.

But it’s not long before the people who shot Holly in 2009 come looking for Jackson in the past, and these “Enemies of Time” will stop at nothing to recruit this powerful young time-traveler. Recruit… or kill him.

Piecing together the clues about his father, the Enemies of Time, and himself, Jackson must decide how far he’s willing to go to save Holly…
and possibly the entire world.

A Bite's Tale (A Furry Fable) by Veronica Blade

A Bite's Tale (A Furry Fable) by Veronica Blade

Expected publication: January 7th 2012
Publisher: Crush Publishing Ink
Format : Ebook
Pages: 155
Source : Review request from the author
Buy : Amazon

A Cinderella who spends her nights as a wolf. A prince with a taste for blood. This is more than your average fairy tale.

The Cinderella: Seventeen year old Cydney struggles against her werewolf nature, attempting to keep everyone around her safe.
She tries to carve out some semblance of a life, but can’t forget the boy she loved three summers ago — or what she did to him after losing control and shifting.
No way will Cydney risk exposing the beast at the prince’s ball, no matter how her two cousins try to persuade her.

The Prince: Turned into a vampire to save his life, the prince refuses to live up to his royal duties.
He just wants to find the girl he loved and lost...the werewolf girl who bit him. But his father, the king, commands him to attend a ball where he must choose a wife.
Can he find his Cinderella before he's forced to marry another?
He doesn’t even have her real name, much less a glass slipper.

*MAY CONTAIN SOME SPOILERS*
Fairy tale brought to modern world, how much do I love that! (In case you wonder, very much! I just watched A Cinderella story, Another Cinderella story and A Cinderella Story: Once upon a song)

This really isn't an ordinary Cinderella story. Cinderella is a werewolf. After a little accident, Prince is a vampire. Cinderella's cousins are the "two evil stepsisters", but it's a refreshing change to see that they're not that evil (though kind of mean and inconsiderate in occasions). And the "evil stepmother" isn't evil, either.

The story begins with Cinderella and Prince just hanging out. They don't use their real names, but that doesn't stop them from liking each other. Then Cinderella turns into werewolf for the first time, and that's when their paths separate.

Until years later, when it's time for the ball.

I just loved this story! There's romance, humor and happily ever afters, which I can't resist. I just have to quote few LOL- moments!

Well, I could put her in a container -- parts of her anyway.

But that would be gross.

I scrunched up my face. "Let's just say I hope you like guys who howl at the moon." "No, I don't", she hissed.

...

"Oh, c'mon. Could you really date a guy who gets that hairy? I bet they shed too, which means I could never wear black.

Either that or I'd go broke buying lint removers."

Everything was fluent, and even though you expect to know how the story goes, there's few surprises. This reminded me of my favorites, Hex Hall and Paranormalcy.
Just like them, I couldn't stop reading until I was finished. Which was too soon, since this was a novella. I just wanted to keep on reading, so another 155 pages would've been nice! So that's a small minus. There's no more down sides, though Cinderella might have been a little too whiny occasionally.
But maybe it's understandable, since she attacked a boy she loves and doesn't trust herself.

As said, I could have read another 155 pages, and would love to see more of Cinderella and Prince.

+ ½



Thanks again to author, Veronica Blade, for this book! I was not disappointed :)


Don't forget: Feyland: The Dark Realm giveaway is still on, check it out here!

Veronica Blade lives in Southern California with her husband and children.

By day she runs the family business, but each night she slips away to spin her tales.
She writes stories about young adults to relive her own childhood and to live vicariously through her characters.
Except her heroes and heroines lead far more interesting lives — and they are always way hotter.




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The Time Will Come #15

The Time Will Come is a meme hosted by Books for Company!

The Rules
* Pick a book from your bookshelf that you've had for a while and really can't wait to read, but haven't managed to get to yet.
* Put the details on your blog and head back over to Jodie's blog to fill in the Mr Linky.
* Go and visit some other bloggers who are joining in.

Hollowland (The Hollows #1) by Amanda Hocking


"This is the way the world ends - not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door."

Nineteen-year-old Remy King is on a mission to get across the wasteland left of America, and nothing will stand in her way - not violent marauders, a spoiled rock star, or an army of flesh-eating zombies.





I got this from Kindle Store, since it was FREE, and it was on my to-read- list for the Zombie Challenge! :)

This or That

Hi everyone! I just wanted to let you know that I'm guest posting on Jodie's blog today!

If you'd like to check it out, CLICK HERE!

WWW Wednesday #13

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Should be Reading.

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…
* What are you currently reading?
* What did you recently finish reading?
* What do you think you’ll read next?

What are you currently reading?
Seeing Cinderella by Jenny Lundquist
Well, I haven't really started this yet, but nearly.

What did you recently finish reading?
A Bite's Tale (A Furry Fable) by Veronica Blade
Extremely fun book! Review coming up soon!

What do you think you'll read next?
The Dig (Zoe and Zeus Trilogy #1) by Audrey Hart
This got postponed a little, when I received Seeing Cinderella. But it's on this month's TBR pile.

Waiting on Wednesday #12

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Enchanted by Alethea Kontis

Expected publication May 8th 2012


It isn’t easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week.
Sunday’s only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true.

When Sunday meets an enchanted frog who asks about her stories, the two become friends. Soon that friendship deepens into something magical.
One night Sunday kisses her frog goodbye and leaves, not realizing that her love has transformed him back into Rumbold, the crown prince of Arilland—and a man Sunday’s family despises.

The prince returns to his castle, intent on making Sunday fall in love with him as the man he is, not the frog he was.
But Sunday is not so easy to woo. How can she feel such a strange, strong attraction for this prince she barely knows? And what twisted secrets lie hidden in his past—and hers?

Why?
It's a well known fact that I have weakness for fairy tales :)