In My Mailbox (27)

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For review:

Dark Life - Kat Falls

From my head: I am so excited to read this one. Set in the future (yay!) it imagines a world where the seas have risen and humans either have to squeeze onto the remaining high land or somehow live underwater. How? I can't wait to find out.

Many, many thanks to Simon and Schuster UK for the proof copy!

Vampirates: Empire of Night - Justin Somper

From book cover: Sidorio, fuelled by grief and revenge, is intent on becoming King of the Vampirates and building a new empire to bring terror to the oceans. But he faces growing opposition from both the Pirate Federation and from the more benign vampirate realm, led by Mosh Zu and Lorcan Furey.

Twins Grace and Connor Tempest, still reeling from the recent discovery of their true parentage and its explosive implications, are thrust deep into the heart of the conflict. As old friends and foes are thrown together unexpectedly, the twins find their allegiances shifting in ways no-one could ever have imagined...

I haven't read a Vampirates novel before, but vampire pirates? Hell yeah.

Thanks again to Simon and Schuster UK.

Bought:

Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson

From book cover: From her first moment at Merryweather High, Melinda Sordino knows she's an outcast. Her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't know glare at her. If only she could explain... but she just can't find the words.

I bought a lovely second-hand copy of this one after writer Cat Clarke recommended it on her blog. She has great taste in biscuits, so I figure she probably chooses great books too.

The Returners - Gemma Malley

From book cover: Will may be many things - friendless, unhappy, a loner - but he isn't paranoid. People are following him and they claim to know him. He can't remember them, at least not at first. And when he does, he doesn't like what he remembers.

Will discovers that he has a past far deeper than most, and the struggle to break free of the powerful hold that history has on him may well become a struggle for death over life.

Gemma Malley rocks. Fact. The Returners was my first ever Waiting On Wednesday pick, and even though my TBR pile is out of control right now I just couldn't wait any longer to buy this. Even if I can't read it right now, I can still hoard it.