Sunday 16 October 2011

In My Mailbox #20

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme created by Kristi @ The Story Siren. All links go to the Book Depository UK.

I got my lost my NetGalley cherry this week and received my first book for review:


Crave by Melissa Darnell
I know it's vampires (again) but making the protagonist a female vamp is still quite rare in YA. I'm interested in what the author does with this premise.


I also received a book in a swap with ReadItSwapIt:


The Half-Life of Planets by Emily Franklin and Brendan Halpin
I first saw a review for this about a year ago and remembered the title. I didn't realise until I received this copy that it's written by the same authors of Jenna and Jonah's Fauxmance (which I haven't read but have heard a lot about, whereas I've heard very little about this one). I'm intrigued that this book has a teenage boy with Asperger's, who's a fan of Kirsty Maccoll - I hope it'll be good enough to recommend to my students with Asperger's and, well, I like Kirsty Maccoll, too.

7 comments:

  1. I still cannot get over how great the cover of crave is. Hope you enjoy it and will check back for your review :)

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  2. I hadn't heard of The Half-Life for Planets - seems interesting!

    http://jaimeliredeslivres.blogspot.com/2011/10/in-my-mailbox-2.html

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  3. As always, wonderful books this week! I have a few fun things going on my blog right now, too. I have three giveaways Signed ARC of Out of OZ, Love and Marriage Giveaway, October Book Giveaways and they have a total of 13 books and a swag pack you can win. Stop by to check it out!

    I hope you have a fabulous week of reading!

    -Amanda
    Hippies, Beauty, and Books. Oh My!

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  4. I love NetGalley and have Crave waiting for me as well. I hope you enjoy your new books! :)

    Have a lovely week,
    Carina @ Fictional Distraction

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  5. I love the cover of Crave! It's so pretty. I really want to read it too! Enjoy.
    Books of Amber

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  6. Now you're going to join the rest of us and end up with WAY TOO MANY NetGalley books and unable to stop requesting more! :D

    The Half-Life of Planets looks really interesting - I hadn't heard of it before, and I can't wait to see what you think.

    I answered your Netgalley question in a reply on my blog so if you didn't get the notif, it's over there!

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  7. Fab set! I can't wait to read Crave. I hope you love it.
    My IMM

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