In My Mailbox/Letterbox Love #3

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 bought: 

Drowning Instinct

by

Ilsa J. Black

Falling for a teacher breaks all the rules...
...what if he wants to break them too?
Jenna's parents say they love her. So why do they ignore her?
Jenna's brother says he loves her. So why hasn't he visited her in years?
Jenna's teacher says he loves her. He treats her well, he protects her and he tells her she's beautiful.
Mr Anderson is the only one she can trust.
So why is Jenna telling her story to a detective?

I have two student/teacher romance books this week. I have this authors other book, Ashes, but have still not read it.



 

How I Live Now

by

Meg Rosoff

The summer I went to England everything changed.
Part of that was because of the war, which supposedly changed lots of things, but I can't remember much of life before the war anyway so it doesn't count in my book, which this is.
Mostly everything changed because of Edmond.
And so here's what happened.

I have to read this before the movie comes out.
Embarrassingly, I already own an older edition of this book (see below) but as it's in one of my many storage boxes filled with books, I could not track it down. So I bought another one. Seriously what is wrong with me?

I much prefer this cover. It's just so pretty!

Love Lessons

by

David Belbin

Rachel has a crush on her English teacher. Mike fancies Rachel too. Neither plans to do anything about it. Then a school play brings them closer together. Really close.
Romeo and Juliet is a very romantic play, but this is real life. The star-crossed ,lovers are constantly afraid of discovery, of losing everything. What begins as a schoolgirl fantasy has turned into an X-rated nightmare.

Yes, two student/teacher romances in one week. This was a book that was recommended to me but I am not 100% sold on it at this point. The cover snob in me was put off by the plain cover. But also, it's really hard to describe, but the book just feels wrong when you hold it. I know I sound crazy but you would understand if you felt it.

This week  I borrowed:

 Belle Epoque
by
Elizabeth Ross
In the search for perfect beauty, the ugly face of Paris will be revealed...
When sixteen-year-old Maude runs away to Paris, her romantic dreams vanish as quickly as her savings. Increasingly desperate for money, she turns to the mysterious Durandeau Agency, who convince Maude to become repoussoir - an unattractive young woman hired by Parisian socialites to enhance their beauty.
Maude is humiliated - but what choice does she have?
Thrown into a world of parties, glamour and astonishing cruelty, Maude quickly discovers that a disturbing ugliness lurks beneath bohemian Paris's glittering facade. 
This is a story of fate, love, friendship and the true meaning of being beautiful.

This was new in at work, but if I am honest I will probably not end up reading it. However, I rather adored the cover and had to share it with you all.






 The Weight of Souls
by 
Bryony Pearce

Sixteen-year-old Taylor Oh is cursed: if she is touched by the ghost of a murder victim then they pass a mark to her skin. She has three weeks to find their murderer and pass the mark to them - and if she doesn't make it in time? The Darkness will come for her...
When Justin Hargreaves - one of the most popular boys at school and Taylor's worst enemy - is murdered, life gets a whole lot worse for her. Justin denies that he was ever killed, so Taylor has to solve the mystery before she can lay him to rest. This leads her to the terrifying V society, and a game of Truth or Dare that has gone very wrong.

For some reason we received a large selection of Strange Chemistry books this week, who I have never heard of. Again, I don't think I will read this one but I can never seem to help myself when it comes to books. I love this cover as well.






 Ask the Passengers
by
A. S. King

How do you give your love away when no one seems to want it? You send it to the sky and hope the right person catches it.
Astrid Jones spends hours lying on the backyard picnic table watching aeroplanes fly overhead. She doesn't know the passengers inside, but they're the only people who won't judge her when she asks them her most personal questions... like what it means that she is falling in love with a girl. Astrid can't share the truth with anyone else in her life - her pushy mother, her uninterested father, and over-interested friends wouldn't understand. But little does Astrid know just how much even the tiniest connection with the people at thirty thousand feet will affect their lives - and her own - for the better.
In this truly original portrayal of a girl who refuses to be labelled, Printz Honor author A. S. King offers hope to those struggling to break free of society's boxes and definitions. 

First and foremost, I have to say I love the authors name because it spells asking. Yes, I am a loser! I  ordered this book in because I had seen it on multiple best read of 2013 lists. It sounds really interesting and I am definitely going to read this one.. eventually.



This week  I received for review:

 

 Pawn

by 

Aimee Carter

You can be a VII. If you give up everything.
For Kitty Doe, it seems like an easy choice. She can spend her life as a III in misery, looked down upon by the higher ranks and forced to leave the people she loves, or she can become a VII and join the most powerful family in the country.
If she says yes, Kitty will be Masked - surgically transformed into Lila Hart, the Prime Minister's niece, who died under mysterious circumstances. As a member of the Hart family, she will be famous. She will be adored. And for the first time, she will matter. 
There's only one catch. She must also stop the rebellion that Lila secretly fostered, the same one that got her killed... and one Kitty believes in. Faced with threats, conspiracies and a life that's not her own, she must decide which path to choose - and learn how to become more than a pawn in a twisted game she's only beginning to understand.

Damn you NetGalley. You keep adding titles that I just have to have, that I stupidly request and then have to wait ages before I actually have the time to read them. I just had to have this though, it's got amazing reviews and I need a new book series to fall in love with.



 
These Broken Stars
by
Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner

It's a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lila LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone.
Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a young war hero who learned long ago that girls like Lilac are more trouble than they're worth. But with only each other to rely on, Lilac and Tarver must work together, making a tortuous journey across the eerie, deserted terrain to seek help.
Then, against all odds, Lilac and Tarver find a strange blessing in the tragedy that has thrown them into each other's arms. Without the hope of a future together in their world, they begin to wonder - would they be better off staying here forever?
Everything changes when they uncover the truth behind the chilling whispers that haunt their every step. Lilac and Tarver may find a way off this planet. But they won't be the same people who landed on it.
The first in a sweeping science fiction trilogy, These Broken Stars is a timeless love story about hope and survival in the face of unthinkable odds.

Another amazing title from NetGalley. I have seen this on so many blogs that I have been reading that I had to request it myself. I was unsure whether I would get it, so I was really happy when my request was accepted. This had some really incredible reviews so I hope I can read it soon.




Crash Into You
by
Katie McGarry

The girl with straight As, designer clothes and the perfect life - that's who people expect Rachel Young to be. So the private-school junior keeps secrets from her wealthy parents and overbearing brothers... and she's just added two more to the list. One involves racing strangers down dark country roads in her Mustang GT. The other? Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Walker - a guy she has no business even talking to. But when the foster kid with the tattoos and intense grey eyes comes to her rescue, she can't get him out of her mind.
Isaiah has secrets too. About where he lives, and how he really feels about Rachel. The last thing he needs is to get tangled up with a rich girl who wants to slum it on the south side for kicks - no matter how angelic she might look.
But when their shared love of street racing puts both their lives in jeopardy, they have six weeks to come up with a way out. Six weeks to discover just how far they'll go to save each other.

Another one I have seen everywhere. Getting approved for this probably means I should read the first two books but we shall see.




Well that's all the books for this week.
Please post links to your own book hauls so I can come check them out.


I also need to say hello and thank you to SomeLikeItParanormal. My second follower ever. I am new to blogging so this is kind of a big deal for me!

W... W... W... #1

 

This is from ShouldBeReading and is simple to take part in. All you need to do is answer the following three questions:

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finished reading?
• What do you think you'll read next?

Currently Reading:

Time After Time by Tamara Ireland Stone

The sequel to Time Between Us. I am absolutely loving the fact that I am now getting Bennett's point of view. It's really refreshing and I am enjoying getting to know him better as a character. Will probably have this finished rather quickly, so expect a review soon!

Recently Finished:

Time Between Us by Tamara Ireland Stone

I enjoyed this book, I loved the time travel aspect of it and found the romance really cute and believable. Check out my review to see my thoughts on this book.

What will I read next:

Pawn by Aimee Carter

This looks really interesting and I am always looking to find another new series that I can fall in love with. So I am really hoping that this turns out to be unbelievably amazing!!!

If you have your own Waiting on Wednesday post then leave a link, I'd love to come check it out.

P.S I got my very first follower today & literally squealed with excitement.

So thank you RallyTheReaders, you made my day!

Time Between Us by Tamara Ireland Stone: The Review

Time Between Us

by

Tamara Ireland Stone

Title: Time Between Us

Author: Tamara Ireland Stone

Publisher: Random House

Buy This Book: Amazon

When Anna is taking her usual running route round her schools track, she sees a guy about her age staring down from the bleachers, smiling at her like he knows her. Once she makes it back round the track he has already vanished and she has no clue who he is. When she goes to school and the new boy turns out to be the mysterious guy from the track, Anna is intrigued. But Bennett Cooper acts like he has never seen Anna before, like he wasn't at the track even though she knows he was there. Anna is immediately intrigued by Bennett and begins to spend more and more time with him. Anna soon comes to realise there is more to Bennett than meets the eye and when she realises he has the ability to time travel she realises their relationship just got a whole lot more complicated. Especially since Bennett has come from 2012, a whole sixteen years away from where Anna is in 1995. Will Bennett be able to find a way to make it work, a way to stay?

I loved the whole concept of this book, I absolutely loved The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger and have always been looking for another amazing time travel romance. I really adored Time Between Us and am really happy I can jump straight in to the sequel Time After Time (review coming soon!)

The romance in this book seemed really real to me. There was none of the stupid insta-love you see so much in romance. You know, where the characters are around each other for all of two seconds and are already head-over-heels in love with one another. No, this has real romance. Where it takes time and getting to know one another. Where you can still find fault in a person, even if it is just the length of their hair. I loved that about this book, that they made the romance realistic (if you take out the time travel that ).

Anna. Where can I start with Anna? I found her to be a really strong character, she had her goals - she wants to get a scholarship through her running and she wants to travel the world one day. I really rooted for her the whole book, I wanted her to get everything she wanted. But most importantly, I really wanted her to get Bennett.  Bennett, a romantic male lead that I can really root for. He is trying so hard to be there for Anna and you feel like he really, really does care for her. 

This book handled the time travel storyline really well, as it can lead to lots of unanswered questions. But I was satisfied with this part of the storyline, there wasn't too much of an explanation which I actually preferred. Too much explanation on how the time travel works can usually just lead to too many ways you can poke holes in it. 

I am really glad that there is a sequel as when I finished reading it I needed to know what came next. I still needed to know more about Anna and Bennett's story and what happens to both of them. This book was really great and I highly recommend it to all who are fans of romance or just looking for a good young adult book to get stuck into. 

4/5 Stars

Musing Mondays #2

 

This is a weekly meme hosted by shouldbereading, which is where you can post your musings of the week. 

This week the main muse was: 

What do you do when life gets in the way, and you just don’t have much time to read? Do you complain? Do you accept it? Do you do everything in your power to make time to read? Share your thoughts!

I personally always try to make time for reading. Whether it is on my lunchbreak, in the bath, before bed or whenever. I just hate if I go a day without reading, especially if I am halfway through reading a book that I am loving. Then I can't seem to get enough and all I do is read, read, read until I finish. 

I am 84 books into my goal of 100 this year so I am pretty happy with how much time I am finding to read.

This week I am also musing the fact I forgot to mention that the wonderful Severed Heads, Broken Hearts by Robyn Schneider, that I reviewed last week, is also known by a different name - The Beginning of Everything. Which also means that it also comes with another cover and I must admit I think I love it more than the Severed Heads, Broken Hearts cover!  *Gasp* I know!                                              But also the fact I forgot to mention how I loved how the book kept referencing The Great Gatsby, a book that I read and adored this year. I loved where Ezra is staring out his window and across the park hoping to see Cassidy flash her light on and off to him. I just loved how it matched so perfectly with the many times in the Great Gatsby where Jay stands on his dock and looks out across the water hoping to catch a glimps of Daisy's light.


 

This week I am reading Time Between Us by Tamara Ireland Stone. I am almost done and luckily have the sequel Time After Time waiting for me already. I will be posting a review of Time Between Us soon, so check back in for that.

Crazy Library Story No.2

So this week I have a story about a customer who had his bag 'stolen'. This story, to this day, still makes me laugh as much as it did when it first happened. I was doing extra time at a different library and obviously  with my luck  I had to get the crazy drunk library user.

So I am standing behind the counter when this middle-aged grey haired man comes stumbling towards me and shouts at me that his bag has been stolen and I best 'call the f***ing police'. Now the senior who I am working with that night is obviously not very happy with this man swearing at us and tells him if he wants to report it stolen he must go phone them himself or walk down to the police station. It soon becomes clear that he has been in before, is a regular nuisance there and is usually always inebriated. Which I soon realise as he gets closer to me and I can smell alcohol on him so badly I'm almost gagging.

He reiterates the fact his bag and belongings were stolen from right next to him as he sat there on the computer. But as he is swearing and being aggressive (threatening to hit a father with his two young children) we demand he leaves. He becomes very aggravated and verbally aggressive; calling us more swear words than I even think I know. He finally gives up and stumbles out and as he turns around I see a giant (and I mean giant) bottle of vodka hanging out of his jogging bottom pocket. 

Not two minutes later someone from the computer room comes out carrying loads of paper and some pens and tells us the man had left them behind. We check the CCTV to see what happened to his 'stolen' bag and what we discovered still makes me laugh. He is sitting with all his belongings at a computer when he gets up to go to the toilet. When he stumbles back he heads to a different table, sits down and then gets up and knocks over a computer screen in anger and then he marches/stumbles out to the desk. 

So as it transpires this borrower who was adamant that us 'stupid b***hes' best call the police to report his bag stolen had actually been sooooooooo drunk that in the space of the two minutes he was in the bathroom he had forgotten where he had been sitting.

I grudgingly went after him and gave him back his belongings but I was really loathe to do it.

Hope you enjoyed my little musing and that if you ever get a moody librarian serve you one day that you realise it might just be because they had to deal with someone like the person above.

Next weeks crazy library story is a good one, so check back next Monday !
Post your links to your own musings and I shall come check them out.

In My Mailbox/Letterbox Love #2

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.

Warning: This weeks haul was huge!

This week  I bought:

All adult fiction surprisingly!

 

Dark Places

by 

Gillian Flynn

Libby Day was just seven years old when her evidence put her fifteen-year-old brother behind bars. Since then, she had been drifting. But when she is contacted by a group who are convinced of Ben's innocence, Libby starts to ask questions she never dared to before. Was the voice she heard her brother's? Ben was a misfit in their small town, but was he capable of murder? Are there secrets to uncover at the family farm, or is Libby deluding herself because she wants her brother back?

 She begins to realise that everyone in her family had something to hide that day... especially Ben. Now, twenty-four years later, the truth is going to be even harder to find out.

I was interested in this since I had heard a lot of good things about it. Plus it is also being made into a movie and I am a sucker for movie adaptions of books (even though most of the time they disappoint). I have read Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn and it was okay, but a little weird at times and I wasn't 100% sold on it. So let's hope this is really good as I am really intrigued by this one.

Snow White Must Die
by
Nele Neuhaus

In a small town in Germany a boy is accused of murdering his beautiful girlfriend.
On a September evening eleven years ago, two 17-year old girls vanished without a trace from the tiny village of Altenhain, just outside Frankfurt. In a trial based on circumstantial evidence, 20-year-old Tobias Sartorius was convicted and imprisoned for the murder of his childhood friend Laura and his beautiful girlfriend Stefanie - otherwise known as Snow White.
After serving his sentence, Tobias returns home. His presence in the little German village stirs up the events of the past. Events that the locals would prefer to remain hidden. When the Sartorius family is subjected to a number of attacks, Detective Inspector Pia Kirchhoff and DS Oliver von Bodenstein are tasked with monitoring the tense atmosphere in the tight-knit community. As the village's inhabitants close ranks it becomes apparent that the disappearance of Snow White and her friend was far more complex than was first imagined. 


I saw this on the Richard and Judy Book Club website. I don't read a lot of crime fiction, but I do enjoy them and this had some really great reviews.

The Husband's Secret
by
Liane Moriarty

Mother or three and wife of John-Paul, Cecilia discovers an old envelope in the attic. Written in her husband's hand, it says: to be opened only in the event of my death. 
Curious she opens it - and time stops.
John-Paul's letter confesses to a terrible mistake which, if revealed, would wreck their family as well as the lives of others.
Cecilia wants to do the right thing, but right for who? If she protects her family by staying silent, the truth will worm through her heart. But if she reveals her husband's secret, she will hurt those she loves most...

I saw this in a book store and then realised it is also on the Richard and Judy Book Group list. I read What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty and really enjoyed it so I am looking forward to this one. Loved the blurb as I immediately wanted to know what the secret was!

 Never Coming Back
by
Tim Weaver
 
It was supposed to be the start of a big night out. But when Emily Kane arrives at her sister Carrie's house, she finds the front door unlocked and no one inside. Dinner's cooking, the TV's on, Carrie, her husband and their two daughters are gone.
When the police draw a blank, Emily turns to investigator David Raker. He's made a career out of finding missing people. He knows how they think. But it's clear someone doesn't want this family found.
As he gets closer to the truth, Raker begins to unravel a sinister cover-up, spanning decades and costing countless lives. And worse, in trying to find the missing family, he might just have made himself the next target...


It will be no big shocker for me to reveal that is is also a Richard and Judy Book Club pick. I can't help myself, I read the blurbs on them and I instantly think: I need to read this book! But the worst thing is that it will probably sit on my bookshelf for months before I manage to get to it.


 

 The Shining Girls
by
Lauren Beukes

The girl who wouldn't die...
Kirby is lucky she survived the attack. She is sure there were other victims less fortunate, but the evidence she finds is... impossible.
Hunting a killer who shouldn't exist 
Harper stalks his shining girls through the years - and cuts the spark out of them. But what if the one that got away came back for him?


I actually saw this for the first time in, the amazing, Forbidden Planet in London. It had an amazing looking cover and I immediately picked it up to see what it was about. The blurb of the hardback was different from the one above, off of the paperback. It seemed clear from the other blurb that this was going to be a science fiction meets crime thriller  book and I was really excited. But again it's probably going to be sitting, abandoned, on my shelf for quite some time.



This week I borrowed: 

All teenage fiction and most new in this week!

 

Time Between Us

by

Tamara Ireland Stone

Chicago, 1995

Anna is sixteen, and fiercely determined to travel the world.

San Fransisco, 2012

Bennett is seventeen... and desperately tying to stay in one place.

Their paths are never supposed to cross. But Bennett has the incredible ability to travel through time and space, and suddenly finds himself in Anna's world.

They are inescapably drawn together - but it can never last. For no matter how hard Bennett tries to stay with Anna, his unpredictable gift will inevitably knock him right back to where he belongs - and Anna will be left alone to pick up the pieces.

I really, and I mean really, lucked out on this one. I was doing extra time at a different library when I saw this on the new books display there. I had seen this in the giant Waterstones(if you ever go London make sure you go there) at Piccadilly during a London Day but hadn't picked it up at the time. I lucked out because I had requested a title on Netgalley called Time After Time, which, it turns out, is the sequel to this book. I'm starting it straight aways as I am really intrigued. Since I read the amazing Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger and absolutely loved it, I have been really trying to find another time travel based romance that I can love as much as that. So here's hoping this is it!

All Our Yesterdays
by
Cristin Terrill

Yesterday - Lover
Today - Tormentor
Tomorrow - Liberator
Yesterday - Eliminator

Yesterday Marina was safe, privileged, wealthy. She was falling for James - the super-brainy youngest son of a very powerful family. Yesterday ended badly.
Today Em is in a cell she may never get out of alive. There's a flicker of hope when she talks to the boy in the cell next to hers - and when she remembers who she used to be... Yesterday.
Tomorrow Em has a mission. She must escape and travel back in time. She must kill the boy Marina loved - to save her future.

Another book with time travel in, I am so excited to read all of them that it really sucks that I will have to wait so long before I get to them all!!! I never look up extra information about a book other than what it says on the back; so this one is keeping me guessing for the minute.

Briar Rose
by
Jana Oliver

Briar Rose believes in fairy tales.
And now because of a family curse, she's living one. Doomed to fall asleep for one hundred years on her sixteenth birthday, Briar has woken up in the darkest, most twisted fairy tale she could ever  dream of - miles away from the safe, boring small-town life that she has left behind.
Briar must fight her way out of the story, but she can't do it alone. She always believed in handsome princes, and now she's met one her only chance is to put her life in his hands, or there will be no happy ever after and no waking up...

 I am not so sure about this one, I can't really make up my mind if I want to read it or not. But the idea of a reworking of Sleeping Beauty seems like such a cool idea. Who knows, maybe it'll end up just going back to the library. If anyone has read it and loved it, let me know!

 The Elites
by
Natasha Ngan

'You might be an Elite, Silver, but remember that in the end you're nothing more than a dirty Red.'

Hundreds of years into the future, only one city has survived: Neo-Babel, a melting pot of cultures and peoples - and fear and discrimination. As a 'Red'- an ethnic Chinese - Silver could never have dreamed of becoming an elite, a guard of the city's council, yet she is now on the brink of her first major covert assignment.
But when Silver's parents go missing, she is forced to confront the Outside - life beyond the walls of Neo-Babel. Silver is plunged into a strange new world of slums and dissidents, of secret splinter groups and deeply guarded secrets. And as the dirty truths about Neo-Babel begin to reveal themselves, Silver has to search deep within herself for the strength to fight against all she has ever known.

I hate when new books are delivered as I immediately grab anything that I like the look of an borrow it. Regardless of the fact I don't actually have the time to read even half of them. I borrowed this as I loved the cover, I didn't even really read the back of it to find out what it was about.

 Ender's Game
by
Orson Scott Card

To save mankind
they need a hero
but are they creating
a monster?

 That is literally all the back of this book says about what the book is about. But this comes highly recommended by one of the people I work with, who adores it. So let's hope it's good because the movies coming out and I want to be able to go see it and sit there being all judgemental going "That's wrong!" "They left that out!".

This Is What Happy Looks Like

by

Jennifer E. Smith

If fate sent an email, would you answer?

It's June - seventeen-year-old Ellie O'Neill's least favourite time of year. Her tiny hometown is annually invaded by tourists, and this year there's the added inconvenience of a film crew. Even the arrival of Hollywood heart-throb Graham Larkin can't lift her mood.

But there is something making Ellie very happy. Ever since an email was accidentally sent to her a few months ago, she's been corresponding with a mysterious stranger, the two of them sharing  their hopes and fears. Their developing relationship is not without its secrets though - there's the truth about Ellie's past... and her pen pal's real identity. When they finally meet in person, things are destined to get more complicated. Can two people, worlds apart but brought together by chance, make it against all odds?

I read Jennifer E. Smith's other novel The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight and really enjoyed it. I thought it was one of the best purely romance novels I had read in a long time. So I am hoping this is god as well. Although her pen pal's identity is quite obviously Graham Larkin!

Picture Me Gone

by

Meg Rosoff

Mila has a gift.

She can read a room,

a person,

a situation - 

and tell if you're happy,

or pregnant,

or having an affair.

When her father's best friend, Matthew, goes missing, Mila joins in the search. She sees clues no one else notices, facts everyone else overlooks.

But the answers refuse to line up and Matthew refuses to be found.

Is there something Mila has missed?

Something closer to home than she ever imagined?

Love the cover. Love the premise. Love everything. I wish I had time to read all of these; I wish I could book time off work just to sit at home and read constantly so I could get through most of these! 

 

Projection

by

Risa Green

In ancient Rome, it was whispered that the great philosopher Plotinus could project his soul into another human in a ritual that hinged on a kiss.

In present-day Delphi, California, the sole remaining guardians of the Plotinus Ability hide in plain sight as members of the exclusive Oculus Society - until their leader, Octavia Harris, is killed in her own home. With no leads in the case, Octavia's daughter, Gretchen, vows to find her mother's murderer at any cost.

One piece of the puzzle falls into place when Gretchen's best friend, Jessica Shaw, discovered the Plotinus Ability. Skeptical but curious, the two can't resist trying the ritual, but they're not alone. Ariel Miller, an outsider with a well-known hatred of all things Occulus Society, films the friends exchanging their first kiss, and it isn't long before the YouTube video ("Popular Girls = Secret Lovers") goes viral. As Ariel's guilt and the girl's suspicions of her mount, the three must forget the past and trust one another if they are to find the murderer still in their midst.

Another new book which I picked up because of the cover. After reading the blurb it does seem kind of weird and I am not so sure about it. The whole ancient secret society meets viral YouTube videos just seems so funny to me. Loved to hear if someone has read it and if it is actually any good.

This week I received for review:

 Time After Time
by
Tamara Ireland Stone


Calling Anna and Bennett's romance long distance is an understatement: she's from 1995 Chicago and he's a time traveller from 2012 San Francisco. The two of them never should have met, but they did. They fell in love, even though they knew they shouldn't. And they found a way to stay together, against all odds.
It's not a perfect arrangement, though, with Bennett unable to stay in the past for more than brief visits, skipping out on big chunks of his present in order to be with Anna in hers. They each are confident that they'll find a way to make things work...until Bennett witnesses a single event he never should have seen (and certainly never expected to). Will the decisions he makes from that point on cement a future he doesn't want?
Told from Bennett's point of view, Time After Time will satisfy readers looking for a fresh, exciting, and beautifully-written love story, both those who are eager to find out what's next for Time Between Us's Anna and Bennett and those discovering their story for the first time.


Sometimes I really hate sequels that are essentially the first book from a different character's point of view. But I have just started Time Between Us and am already hooked so I am actually really looking forward to this one. Especially in a book where one of the characters time travels I believe it is really useful to have both points of view. EXCITED! Got this for review from the wonderful Netgalley.

 Alienated
by
Melissa Landers

Two years ago, the aliens made contact. Now Cara Sweeney is going to be sharing a bathroom with one of them. 
Handpicked to host the first-ever L'eihr exchange student, Cara thinks her future is set. Not only does she get a free ride to her dream college, she'll have inside information about the mysterious L'eihrs that every journalist would kill for. Cara's blog following is about to skyrocket.
Still, Cara isn't sure what to think when she meets Aelyx. Humans and L'eihrs have nearly identical DNA, but cold, infuriatingly brilliant Aelyx couldn't seem more alien. She's certain about one thing though: no human boy is this good-looking.
But when Cara's classmates get swept up by anti-L'eihr paranoia, Midtown High School suddenly isn't safe anymore. Threatening notes appear in Cara's locker, and a police officer has to escort her and Aelyx to class. Cara finds support in the last person she expected. She realises that Aelyx isn't just her only friend; she's fallen hard for him. But Aelyx has been hiding the truth about the purpose of his exchange, and its potentially deadly consequences. Soon Cara will be in for the fight of her life-not just for herself and the boy she loves, but for the future of her planet. 

I really can't help myself. I read the descriptions and I just have to read it even if I don't have the time. Another Netgalley ARC.

The Naturals
by
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want. But, it’s not a skill that she’s ever taken seriously. That is, until the FBI come knocking: they’ve begun a classified program that uses exceptional teenagers to crack infamous cold cases, and they need Cassie. What Cassie doesn’t realise is that there's more at risk than a few unsolved homicides—especially when she’s sent to live with a group of teens whose gifts are as unusual as her own. Soon, it becomes clear that no one in the Naturals program is what they seem. And when a new killer strikes, danger looms close. Caught in a lethal game of cat and mouse with a killer, the Naturals are going to have to use all of their gifts just to survive. 

Sounds intriguing. Thanks again Netgalley, I adore thee. 



And...
DONE.



So sorry there are so many but I really went book crazy this week. So many new books were delivered at work and I just can't help myself. I have to take them! Please leave a comment if you have read any of the above and tell me what you thought about it. Could use some ideas as to where to start after I have finished Time Between Us and Time After Time.


Please leave links to your own IMM or LL as I always love checking them out & am always looking for new blogs to follow so I can share the love!