In My Mailbox (15)

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme created by The Story Siren to share whatever books and bookish goodies that you've bought, borrowed, won, or been gifted and have thus entered your home the previous week. You can show off books that you are excited about and it's also a great opportunity to showcase books that you may not actually have the time to read or review.

Here's what came into my home this past week

Won:

ARCs of Glimmer, Everneath, & Slide

 Glimmer by Phoebe Kitanidis

What if you forgot your identity and had to rely on other people to tell you who you were?

And what if to discover your true self, you first had to unravel a mystery so big and terrifying you were not sure you’d survive solving it?

When Marshall and Elyse wake up in each other’s arms with zero memory of how they got there or who they are, it’s the start of a long journey through their separate pasts and shared future. 

Terrified by their amnesia, the two make a pact to work together to find the answers that could jog their missing memories. As they piece together clues, they discover they’re in the idyllic mountain resort town of Summer Falls, where everyone seems mysteriously happy, but as Marshall and Elyse quickly learn, darkness lurks beneath the town’s perfect facade. Not only is the town haunted by sinister ghosts, but none of its living inhabitants retain bad memories of anything—not the death of Marshall’s mom, not the hidden shame in Elyse’s family, not even the day-to-day anguish of high school. 

Lonely in this world of happy zombies, Marsh and Elyse fall into an intense relationship...but the secrets they uncover could be the death of this growing love—and the death of everyone, and everything, they love in Summer Falls.

Everneath by Brodi Ashton

Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath, where immortals Feed on the emotions of despairing humans. Now she's returned- to her old life, her family, her friends- before being banished back to the underworld... this time forever. 

She has six months before the Everneath comes to claim her, six months for good-byes she can't find the words for, six months to find redemption, if it exists. 

Nikki longs to spend these months reconnecting with her boyfriend, Jack, the one person she loves more than anything. But there's a problem: Cole, the smoldering immortal who first enticed her to the Everneath, has followed Nikki to the mortal world. And he'll do whatever it takes to bring her back- this time as his queen. 

As Nikki's time grows short and her relationships begin slipping from her grasp, she's forced to make the hardest decision of her life: find a way to cheat fate and remain on the Surface with Jack or return to the Everneath and become Cole's...

 Slide by Jill Hathaway
Vee Bell is certain of one irrefutable truth—her sister’s friend Sophie didn’t kill herself. She was murdered.

Vee knows this because she was there. Everyone believes Vee is narcoleptic, but she doesn’t actually fall asleep during these episodes: When she passes out, she slides into somebody else’s mind and experiences the world through that person’s eyes. She’s slid into her sister as she cheated on a math test, into a teacher sneaking a drink before class. She learned the worst about a supposed “friend” when she slid into her during a school dance. But nothing could have prepared Vee for what happens one October night when she slides into the mind of someone holding a bloody knife, standing over Sophie’s slashed body.

Vee desperately wishes she could share her secret, but who would believe her? It sounds so crazy that she can’t bring herself to tell her best friend, Rollins, let alone the police. Even if she could confide in Rollins, he has been acting off lately, more distant, especially now that she’s been spending more time with Zane.

Enmeshed in a terrifying web of secrets, lies, and danger and with no one to turn to, Vee must find a way to unmask the killer before he or she strikes again.
Also Won:

 Books from Walden Pond Press

The Emerald Casket  by Richard Newsome
The Billionaire's Curse  by Richard Newsome  
Max Cassidy: Escape from Shadow Island by Paul Adam
Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce 
The Last Words of Will Wolfkin by Steven Knight
Guys Read: Funny Business by Jon Scieszka, Mac Barnett, Adam Rex  
Guys Read: Thriller by Jon Scieszka  

 

 

Also from Walden Pond Press

The Fourth Stall by Chris Rylander 
Finding Danny by Linzi Glass
Breadcrumbs  by Anne Ursu & Erin Mcguire
Juniper Berry by M.P. Kozlowsky  

For Review:

ARC From LibraryThing

Switched by Amanda Hocking

When Wendy Everly was six-years-old, her mother was convinced she was a monster and tried to kill her. It isn't until eleven years later that Wendy discovers her mother might have been right. With the help of Finn Holmes, Wendy finds herself in a world she never knew existed - a world both beautiful and frightening, and Wendy's not sure she wants to be a part of it.

E-Books For Review:

The First Rule of Ten: A Tenzing Norbu Mystery (Dharma Detective) The Legacy of Eden The Vagabond King Soul Protector (Soul Protector Series) 
 E-books Bought (free at Smashwords):


Hollowland (The Hollows, #1) Charmed: A Sugar Maple short story (The Sugar Maple Chronicles)
E-books Bought (free at BN):

A Very Holly Christmas: An Exclusive Short Story The Glass Case: A Short Story Holiday Rush (from Holiday Flirts! 5 Romantic Short Stories)
Another great week for me...I am so thankful for the amazing ARCS and the prize package from Walden!!  And as usual...I downloaded way too many free e-books!!!