Book Haul #7 & First Ever Giveaway!!!

In My Mailbox & Letterbox Love

 

 IMM is something that was started on TheStorySiren so click on the link and check out her blog if you want to find out more about it and how to participate. Letterbox Love was started over at NarrativelySpeaking and is a more UK based version of IMM. This is basically a way for me to show what books I have received, borrowed or bought each week.

Also check out Friday Finds over on ShouldBeReading and Stacking the Shelves over at TyngaReviews, I am in love with all of these as I love finding other blogs to follow and books to read through these! So check them all out and see what you find, Stacking the Shelves has a lot of participants as well which is great.



This week I won!:

Remember When 1 & 2 by T. Torrest

Years before Trip Wiley could be seen on movie screens all over the world, he could be seen sitting in the desk behind me in my high school English class. 
This was back in 1990, and I cite the year only to avoid dumbfounding you when references to big hair or stretch pants are mentioned. Although, come to think of it, I am from New Jersey, which may serve as explanation enough. We were teenagers then, way back in a time before anyone could even dream he'd turn into the Hollywood commodity that he is today.
In case you live under a rock and don't know who Trip Wiley is, just know that these days, he's the actor found at the top of every casting director's wish list. He's incredibly talented and insanely gorgeous, the combination of which has made him very rich, very famous and very desirable.
And not just to casting directors, either.
I can't confirm any of the gossip from his early rears out in Tinseltown, but based on what I knew of his life before he was famous, I can tell you that the idea of Girls-Throwing-Themselves-At-Trip is not a new concept. 
I should know. I was one of them.
And my life hasn't been the same since.

Thank you so, so much to Kimberly Faye Reads for these two awesome Ebooks! This is actually the first giveaway I have ever won. She highly recommends them and so I am pretty excited, hope I absolutely love them too.


This week I borrowed:

Breathe & Resist by Sarah Crossan

When Oxygen levels plunge in a treeless world, a state lottery decides who will live inside the the Pod. Everyone else will slowly suffocate.
Years later, society has divide into Premiums and Auxiliaries. Only Premiums can afford enough Oxygen to live a normal life. Dissenters to the regime are ejected from the Pod. 
Alina belongs to a rebel group. On the verge of capture, she is rescued by a Premium boy. They escape the Pod but with only two days' worth of air. Outside they unearth conspiracy on a breathtaking scale.
Everything depends on their survival.

I have already read Breathe before and ended up really loving it. Thankfully, Resist is the last book as it's a two part series, so now I can finally see how it all ends. Very excited.



The Killables & The Disappearances by Gemma Malley

Everyone accepted that people were different physically.
But inside?
Inside, they were different too. You just had to know how to tell, what to look for.
Evil has been eradicated. The City has been established. And citizens may only enter after having the 'evil' part of their brain removed. They are labelled on the System according to how 'good' they are. If they show signs of the evil emerging, they are labelled a K... But no one knows quite what that means. Only that they disappear, never to be seen again...

I loved Gemma Malley's first dystopian series The Declaration, so I was excited to read The Killables. This will be my first reread of it, so that I can read the sequel. I'm obsessed with dystopian fiction right now, just can't get enough.




Rot and Ruin/Dust and Decay/Flesh and Bone/Fire and Ash by Jonathan Maberry

Nearly fourteen years ago, a freak virus swept across the world turning the living into the undead. Benny Imura was only a toddler, but his last memory of his parents is tainted by the image of them becoming zombies, and he blames his older brother, Tom, for not saving them.
Now Benny is fifteen, and Tom wants them to put their difficult relationship behind them and work together in the "family business": as zombie killers. It's the last thing Benny wants to do, but he needs a job and he thinks it'll be an easy ride.
But when they head into the Rot and Ruin, an area full of wandering zombies, Benny soon realises that there's more to the job than just whacking zombies. And, as he's confronted with the truth about the world around him, Benny makes the most terrifying discovery of all, that the worst monsters you can imagine might actually be human...

This kind of sounds like the zombie version of Supernatural. Two brothers working together to hunt down some monsters. I have actually heard some really great things about the whole series so I am quite excited.



This week I bought:


Hopeless & Losing Hope by Colleen Hoover

Sometimes discovering the truth can leave you more hopeless than believing the lies...
That's what seventeen-year-old Sky realises after she meets Dean Holder. A guy with a reputation that rivals her own and an uncanny ability to invoke feelings in her she's never had before. He terrifies and captivates her all in the span of just one encounter, and something about the way he makes her feel sparks buried memories from a past she wishes could just stay buried.
Sky struggles to keep him at a distance knowing he's nothing but trouble, but Holder insists on learning everything about her. After finally caving to his unwavering pursuit, Sky soon finds that Holder isn't all who he's been claiming to be. When the secrets he's been keeping are finally revealed, every single facet of Sky's life will change forever.

I absolutely loved Slammed by Colleen Hoover, even though I was sure I wouldn't. So I couldn't stop myself from downloading these two. Very exciting!




Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter

She won't rest until she's sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Forever.
Had anyone told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please. But that's all it took. One heartbeat. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything she knew and loved was gone.
Her father was right. The monsters are real...
To avenge her family, Ali must learn to fight the undead. To survive, she must learn to trust the baddest of the bad boys, Cole Holland. But Cole has secrets of his own, and if Ali isn't careful, those secrets might just prove to be more dangerous than the zombies...

I couldn't resist this one. Have seen it so much lately and it was only £0.99 on Amazon, how could I say no!



This week I received for review:


Nil by Lynne Matson

On the mysterious island of Nil, the rules are set. You have one year. Exactly 365 days- to escape, or you die.
Seventeen year old Charley doesn't know the rules. She doesn't even know where she is. The last thing she remembers is blacking out, and when she wakes up, she's lying naked in an empty rock field.
Lost and alone, Charley finds no sign of other people until she meets Thad, the gorgeous leader of a clan of teenage refugees. Soon Charley learns that leaving the island is harder than she thought... and so is falling in love. With Thad's time running out, Charley realises that to save their future, Charley must first save him. And on an island rife with dangers, their greatest threat is time.

Was excited to receive this on Netgalley, but can't download to kindle so must work out where I can actually read this! Argh!




Faking Normal by Courtney C. Stevens

Alexi Littrell hasn't told anyone what happened to her over the summer. Ashamed and embarrassed, she hides in her closet and compulsively scratches the back of her neck, trying to make the outside hurt more than the inside does.
When Bodee Lennox, the quiet and awkward boy next door, comes to live with the Littrells, Alexi discovers an unlikely friend in "the Kool-Aid Kid," who has secrets of his own. As they lean on each other for support, Alexi gives him the strength to deal with his past, and Bodee helps her find the courage to finally face the truth.

This sounds really great, so was really excited to receive this through Edelweiss.



My first ever
Giveaway!

To celebrate finally getting a replacement laptop, after mine unceremoniously died on me last week, I am going to host a giveaway. I will be giving away a copy of one of my favourite books ever, Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma but also your choice of a book from Book Depository up to £10. This is open internationally and I'm excited to see what book you would pick. One winner will win both.
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On the blog last week:

Feature & Follow Friday
Insurgent by Veronica Roth: The Review
2014 TBR Reading Challenge
Musing Mondays
Allegiant by Veronica Roth (Spoiler FREE)
Allegiant by Veronica Roth (Spoiler FILLED)
WWW Wednesday
Best of the Bunch: October 2013

Thanks to everyone who followed me this week. I will thank you all personally on my Top Ten Tuesday post next week.