In My Mailbox (32)

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I've just had a really great blogging week. I hit 300 followers, got my celebratory contest up yesterday, and also received some awesome-looking books for review. I also read some seriously amazing books, and signed up for The Bookette's Song Quest book tour.

Bought:

Pretty Bad Things - C.J. Skuse

I've wanted to read this one for a while, but I've found it hard to pin down exactly why. I've now read it and I'm not sure how my review is ever going to do it justice. It's like no other book I've ever read.

My So-Called Afterlife - Tamsyn Murray

After reading the first chapter of this one over at Tamsyn Murray's website, I just had to read the rest. I'm hoping to get a review up for this one in the next two weeks, but in the meantime it's one of the possible prizes in my current contest.

For review:

The Prophecy - Gill James

From book cover: Kaleem Malkendy is different - and, on Terrestra, different is no way to be.

Everything about Kaleem marks him out from the rest: the blond hair and dark skin, the humble cave where he lives and the fact that he doesn't know his father. He's used to unwelcome attention, but even so, he'd feel better if some strange old man didn't keep following him around. Then the man introduces himself and begins to explain the Babel Prophecy - and everything in Kaleem's life changes forever.

This one's set in the future, which is my very favourite time of all. It sounds right up my street. Thanks to Red Telephone Books for the review copy.

Kiss and Break Up - Kate Kingsley

From my head: Kiss and Break Up is part of the Young, Loaded and Fabulous series. Set in a British boarding school, the press release likens the series to a UK version of Gossip Girl.

Now, I've never read the Gossip Girl books, but the TV series is one of the very few shows these days I really like. So, I'm extremely psyched about reading this.

Thank you to Headline for this one.

The Chosen One - Carol Lynch Williams

From book cover: Thirteen year old Kyra has grown up in her isolated community without even questioning the fact that her father has three wives and she has twenty brothers and sisters; without ever questioning the strict rules imposed the 'the Prophet' who leads them. But now Kyra has started keeping secrets. She reads books that are forbidden and sneaks away to meet Joshua, the boy she hopes to choose for herself, instead of having a husband chosen for her. Kyra knows that it's only a matter of time before her two secret loves are discovered. And when the Prophet decrees that she is to become the seventh wife of her sixty-year-old uncle, Kyra is forced to make a desperate choice. But saving herself means endangering everyone she's ever cared for. How far should she go for freedom?

This one sounds amazing. Thank you Simon and Schuster UK.

What did everyone else get?