In My Mailbox 9

In my mailbox was started by The Story Siren and is a list of what you received in books over the past week either through the mail, library, or a bookstore.

The Received:

SIGNED!!!

Summary from Barnes and Noble:
About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She’ll eat the best meals, have room in the palace–and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.

And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly’s Dust–and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonizing death from the poison.

As Yelena tries to escape her new dilemma, disasters keep mounting. Rebels plot to seize Ixia and Yelena develops magical powers she can’t control. Her life is threatened again and choices must be made. But this time the outcomes aren’t so clear…

Summary from Amazon:
Rosemary Watson lives in the small town of Clarksbury, where news travels fast and gossip sticks around. Years before, her brother Theo suffered a nervous breakdown, and Rosemary, now entering junior high, is constantly teased about it. She wonders if she might go crazy like her brother, and she feels guilty for not being able to save him. She tries to hide in books, but even there she’s uneasy: she can’t stand to see characters suffer. She’s happiest in the cool world of fact and figures.

Rosemary and Peter – the new kid in school with issues of his own – are thrown together, and soon find themselves on a life-or-death quest to rescue Rosemary’s brother, who has lost himself in a book. With the help of Peter and her guide, faerie shape-shifter Puck, Rosemary must face the storybook perils of the Land of Fiction and learn to open her heart, before it is too late.

Summary from Amazon:
On the surface, Peter McAllister has a good life: a good school, good friends, good times. So what if his best friend is a girl — and sort of a geek? And so what if she might be more than a friend.

Underneath, it’s a different story. It’s been years since the death of his parents landed him in this small town with his hardly-there uncle, but he still feels as if his life in Clarksbury is just an inch deep. Does he really belong? Only Rosemary seems real. But that reality comes crashing down the first time he kisses her — and she rejects him.

Then a mysterious woman named Fiona appears. She tells him he’s a changeling — a fairy child left to live in the human world — and that it’s time to come home. Can Rosemary convince him that Fiona is lying? Or is it possible that Fiona is telling the truth?

Summary from Amazon:
Rosemary Watson and Peter McAllister think their future is clear: they’re finally heading off for university. They’re thinking about finding apartments, picking courses, living like adults.

But what happens when the future becomes the past? While helping Rosemary’s brother move into an apartment in Toronto, Peter and Rosemary fall into an underground river and are swept back in time, to Toronto in 1884. It’s a struggle to survive and adapt to the alien culture of the late nineteenth century. Peter and Rosemary are forced to work together, to live together, and to become the adults they’ve only been pretending to be.

As the days stranded turn to weeks, then months, Rosemary and Peter begin to wonder if they’re really ready for a future together – and what they will do if they can’t get back.

Then someone brings them a watch, powered by a battery, made in Taiwan.

Summary from Amazon:
Paige, Spencer, and Madison have it all: the looks, the connections, the money, the boys. As the daughters of three of the most prestigious families on Philadelphia’s Main Line (read: old money, and lots of it) and the ruling juniors at Bradford Prep, nothing can stand in their way….except, perhaps, their own dark secrets. When an old frenemy from Paige’s hidden past shows up at Bradford and plays nice–too nice–Paige is desperate to smother the threat. How far will she go to silence the truth?

The Won(from contests):

I won this from The Epic Rat!

I won this from Presenting Lenore!

The Bought:

From Frugal Muse:
Raven by Alison Van Diepen
Sophomore Switch by Abby McDonald
Reincarnation by Suzanne Weyn
Hush by Donna Jo Napoli
Fate by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Shimmer by Dallas Reed
Kisses and Lies by Lauren Henderson
The One by Ed Decter

From Barnes and Noble:
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
City of Glass by Cassandra Clare

So, I definitely had another good week. What about you guys?

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  1. There’s an adult fantasy with a similar premises as Poison Study. Sounds interesting. And it does look like a very good week. Happy reading.