I was super excited this week by all the books that I received to review!
The publishers must have known that it was my Blogoversary :)
Anyway, let’s get started:
Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan
Book #1 in the Skychasers Trilogy
From Publishers – Pan Macmillan Australia
For Readers: Children/Young Adult
Release Date – 1st October 2011
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What if you were bound for a new world, about to pledge your life to someone you’d been promised to since birth, and one unexpected violent attack made survival-not love-the issue?
A ship heading for New Earth is halfway through its incredible journey across the galaxy.
On board, sixteen year olds Waverly and Kieran are part of the first generation born in space.
They are in love.
They believe their future is written in the stars.
They have never seen a stranger before…
… until the day they are wrenched apart and suddenly find themselves fighting for their lives.
Glow is the most riveting series debut since The Hunger Games.
Dragon’s Oath by PC & Kristin Cast
A House of Night Novella
From Publishers – Hachette Australia
For Readers: Young Adult
Release Date – July 2011
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For the first time, the Cast duo will share the back stories of some of the House of Night’s most crucial – and mysterious – characters. And it all begins with Dragon’s Oath.
Before Zoey is Marked and arrives at the House of Night before she rises in power to confront utter darkness, and the House of Night is divided there s Dragon, and the dark choice that won t let him go.
Long before he s a professor at the House of Night with Zoey and the gang, in the early 19th century, Bryan Lankford is a troublesome, yet talented human teen. He thinks he can get away with anything until his father, a British nobleman, has finally had enough, and banishes him to America. When Bryan is Marked on the docks and given the choice between the London House of Night and the dragon-prowed ship to America, he chooses the Dragon and a new fate.
In 1830 s St. Louis, the Gateway to the West, Dragon Lankford becomes a Sword Master, and soon realizes there are dangerous challenges – and beautiful perks. Like Anastasia, the captivating young Professor of Spells and Rituals at the Tower Grove House of Night, who really should have nothing to do with a fledgling But when a dark power threatens, Dragon is caught in its focus. Though his uncanny fighting skills make him a powerful fledgling, is he strong enough to ward off this new darkness, while protecting Anastasia as well? Will his choices save her – or destroy them all?
Goddess of Love by PC Cast
Book #5 in the Goddess Summoning Series
From Publishers – Hachette Australia
For Readers: Adult
Release Date – July 2011
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International bestselling author P.C. Cast (co-author of the HOUSE OF NIGHT series) brings us the magical, sensual Goddess Summoning series, which retells ancient myths giving them a sexy, modern twist – original, scorchingly sexy and utterly unputdownable!
Pea Chamberlain needs help. Her shoes, hair, clothes, make-up are all disasters and she really needs a makeover – especially if she wants to attract sexy fireman Griffin DeAngelo at the firemen’s masked ball. And who better to coax Pea out of her pod than the Goddess of Love, whom she invokes when she gets her hands on a book of enchantments.
Sure enough, Venus works her magic on Pea, which is what she has been doing for eons – helping others find love. But who will help the Goddess of Love when she finds herself falling head over heels for the same sexy fireman she is trying to land for Pea Could it be that Venus needs a love makeover herself.
Goddess of Troy by PC Cast
Book #6 in the Goddess Summoning Series
From Publishers – Hachette Australia
For Readers: Adult
Release Date – August 2011
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Goddesses Hera, Athena and Venus have had it up to here with the Trojan War. So much devastation – all because of male egos. The worst of the bunch is Achilles, the Greek champion whose powers have made him practically invincible. To stop him would be to end the war. But the only way to stop a man like Achilles is to distract him – with something far more pleasurable than combat…
The three goddesses seize their chance when a twenty-first-century beauty named Kate and her best friend perish in a car crash in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In no time, they shift the friends’ souls into the bodies of a Trojan princess and her handmaiden, having no doubt that Kat will catch Achilles’s attention. But can her independent, fiery spirit match the unquenchable fire of his epic rage.
Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson
From Publishers – Simon & Schuster Australia
For Readers: Young Adult
Release Date – August 2011
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Amy Curry is having a terrible year. Her mother has decided to move all the way across the country and needs Amy to drive their car from California to the East Coast. There’s just one problem: since the death of her father, Amy hasn’t been able to get behind the wheel of a car. Enter Roger, the son of an old family friend, who turns out to be unexpectedly cute… and dealing with some baggage of his own.
Meeting new people and coming to terms with her father’s death were not part of Amy’s plans for the road trip. But then neither was driving on the Loneliest Road in America, seeing the Colorado Mountains, visiting diners, dingy motels and Graceland. But as they drive, and she grows closer to Roger, Amy finds that the people you least expected are the ones you need the most – and that sometimes you have to get lost in order to find your way home.
The Mayan Resurrection by Steve Alten
The Sequel to The Mayan Prophecy
From Publishers – Pan Macmillan Australia
For Readers: Adult
Release Date – 1st August 2011
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After sacrificing himself to prevent mankind’s extinction, Michael Gabriel is imprisoned in a torturous, purgatory-like dimension in the Mayan netherworld. The Mayan prophecy states that the Hero Twins – his sons Jacob and Immanuel, born to his wife Dominique the year after his entrapment – will travel to the Mayan realm in their twentieth year to free and resurrect him. Jacob, blessed with staggering intelligence and almost superhuman attributes, lives to embrace this destiny. Immanuel, on the other hand, fights the path chosen for him, opting to live a normal life.
Yet this struggle is not all that threatens their destiny: born the same day as the twins is a purely malevolent force, The Abomination – the evil yin to their yang – that will not stop until they succumb to its temptation. The war between good and evil wages on, as Michael Gabriel’s fate, and that of planet Earth, hangs by an increasingly thin thread.
Traversing worlds, millennia and space-time continuums, the second of the Mayan trilogy captures the imagination like few books can, making it as much of a rip-roaring page-turner as its predecessor and preparing the series for an explosive climax.
Original Sin by Lisa Desrochers
From Publishers – Pan Macmillan Australia
For Readers: Young Adult
Release Date – 1st August 2011
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Luc Cain was born and raised in Hell, but he isn’t feeling as demonic as usual lately – thanks to Frannie Cavanaugh and the unique power she never realised she had. But you can’t desert Hell without consequences, and suddenly Frannie and Luc find themselves targeted by the same demons who used to be Luc’s allies.
Left with few options, Frannie and Luc accept the protection of Heaven and one of its most powerful angels, Gabe. Unfortunately, Luc isn’t the only one affected by Frannie, and it isn’t long before Gabe realizes that being around her is too… tempting. Rather than risk losing his wings, he leaves Frannie and Luc under the protection of her recently-acquired guardian angel.
Which would be fine, but Gabe is barely out the door before an assortment of demons appears – and they’re not leaving without dragging Luc back to Hell with them. Hell won’t give up and Heaven won’t give in. Frannie’s guardian exercises all the power he has to keep them away, but the demons are willing to hurt anyone close to Frannie in order to get what they want. It will take everything she has and then some to stay out of Hell’s grasp.
And not everyone will get out of it alive.
Trial By Fire by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Book #2 in the Raised by Wolves series
From Publishers – Pan Macmillan Australia
For Readers: Young Adult
Release Date – 1st August 2011
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Sequel to the thrilling Raised by Wolves.
Bryn is now alpha of the Cedar Ridge pack and she’s convinced that her pack is different – it’s democratic and fair. Then Bryn finds a battered teenage Were, Connor, bleeding on her front porch. He begs Bryn to protect him from an abusive alpha; Bryn believes his story and takes him into her pack. But Bryn’s Were partner Chase doesn’t trust the new boy, and the more time she spends helping Connor, the more aggressive Chase becomes. Bryn is not sure if it’s jealousy, or were possessiveness but for the first time she starts to feel suffocated by the bond she and Chase share.
Filled with action, unlikely allies, and deadly conspiracies, Trial By Fire will change Bryn forever. She is soon to realise that to lead a pack of werewolves, she must give in to her animal instincts and become a little less human. And as hard as it’s going to be, Bryn is going to have to do it alone. There can only be one alpha.
Cargo by Jessica Au
From Publishers – Pan Macmillan Australia
For Readers: Young Adult
Release Date – 1st August 2011
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Gillian is fifteen, crippled by a tragic accident but dreams of swimming across oceans.
Jacob is fourteen and yearns for his brother’s life.
Frankie is fifteen and in love with the new deckhand on her father’s boat.
As the story of these three desires intertwine over the course of one lazy summer in a small coastal town, Cargo is by turns heart-wrenching, beautiful and explosive.
In a simple time of truth and change, these are characters who do not know themselves, yet through their innocence we come to understand what it means to be young, and have all the troubles in the world.
So as you can see I have just a little bit of reading to do :)
What did you get in your mailbox this week?
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About the Author: Morgan Matson received her MFA in Writing for Children from the New School. A road-trip veteran, she has driven cross-country three times…so far. She currently lives in Venice, California.
