Letterbox Love came about after
some drama with the American book haul memes, so the UKYA bloggers came
together on Twitter to organise one of our own. Summaries are taken from the
cover, or Amazon/NetGalley/Goodreads in the case of e-books, unless otherwise stated.
Hosted by Narratively Speaking.
For
Review:
Junk Miles – Liz
Reinhardt (paperback)
When
Brenna Blixen is offered a trip to Paris in the winter break, she jumps at the
chance.
After
a tearful goodbye with her gorgeous boyfriend, Jake Kelly, Brenna is shocked to
discover that Saxon Maclean is also headed to the City of Love.
He’s
trouble and irritating as hell. But also seriously hot.
Can
Brenna resist her animal urges, or is good girl Brenna about to turn bad...?
Slow Twitch – Liz
Reinhardt (paperback)
It’s
summer in Sussex County and things are heating up for Brenna, Jake and Saxon.
Golden
couple Brenna and Jake are worlds apart. Brenna’s in Ireland on a creative
writing course and Jake’s in New York, meeting his real family, who are super
wealthy and seriously obnoxious.
Sex
and getting drunk are pretty much all Saxon’s life is about, until he runs his
allowance dry and is sent to the middle of nowhere to learn some real life
lessons.
It’s
a summer full of romance and looking to the future. But who will end up with
who, and will all that unresolved chemistry finally get put to bed?
Surprises from RHCP! The titles
make me cringe, but I am intrigued. Just a shame that these are books two and
three and I don’t have the first one!
Salvage – Keren
David (hardback)
Aidan
Jones was my brother. But I couldn’t really remember his face. I couldn’t
remember talking to him or playing with him. He was just a gap, an absence, a
missing person.
Before
she was adopted by a loving family and raised in a leaf Home Counties town,
Cass Montgomery was Cass Jones. Her memories of her birth family disappeared
with her name. But when her adopted family starts to break down, a way out
comes in the way of a message from her lost brother Aidan. Having Aidan back in
her life is both everything she needs and nothing she expected. Who is this boy
who calls himself her brother? And why is he so haunted?
I
glance at the paper. There’s a big picture on the front page. A girl with dark
hair red hair. A girl with eyes that might have been green or they might have
been grey. I sit down and stare at Cass, and it is her, it is. My stolen
sister.
Aidan’s
survived a disrupted childhood spent shuttling between foster care and
children’s homes, with a brief disastrous return to his birth mother. Now he’s
found Cass. If only he can make her understand what it means to be part of his
family...
Eek, thank you Atom! So excited
for this!
Zom-B Gladiator – Darren
Shan (hardback)
B
Smith has seen evil in her time, but the Board are a whole new ball game. These
inhuman humans use their money and power to buy their way to safety and
entertainment...
The
bloodthirsty members of the Board want action and excitement, and it’s my job
to deliver that for them.
The zombies snarl, sniffing the air.
‘Come on,’ I growl, crooking my fingers at
them. ‘I’m not as dead as I look.’ I jump into the air, grab the pole and whirl
around.
‘Oh, nice shot,’ the Prince applauds...
Finally,
I step away and gaze at my handiwork.
The members of the Board are cheering warmly.
I glance at them numbly, blood on m hands, brains dribbling from my lips.
‘Ladies and gentlemen, a gladiator is born!’
I really do love this series. Thanks
S&S!
Longbourn – Jo
Baker (paperback)
it
is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah’s hands are
chapped and raw. Domestic life below stairs, ruled with a tender heart and an
iron will by Mrs Hill the housekeeper, is about to be disturbed by the arrival
of a new footman, bearing secrets and the scent of the sea.
A surprise from Black Swan. This
is the type of thing I love to watch on a Sunday afternoon so hopefully it’ll
be just as appealing to read!
Bought:
The Last Stand of the New York
Institute, Cassandra Clare, Maureen
Johnson and Sarah Rees Brennan (e-book)
In
the time of the Uprising, Valentine’s Circle goes after Downworlders in New
York...and the Shadowhunters of the Institute must decide whether to join him,
or fight with Magnus and his kind. This is the first time Magnus sees Jocelyn,
Luke, and Stephen – but not the last. It is not long before Jocelyn seeks him
out...
Second to last of the series L Sadtimes.
More Than This – Patrick
Ness (hardback)
A
boy drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments. He dies.
Then
he wakes, naked, bruised and thirsty, but alive.
How
can this be? And what is this strange, deserted place?
As
he struggles to understand what is happening, the boy dares to hope. Might this
not be the end? Might there be more to this life, or perhaps this afterlife>
From
the multi-award winning author Patrick Ness comes one of the most provocative
and moving novels of our time.
I spotted this on Amazon for
only about six quid and I couldn’t pass it up!
Skulduggery Pleasant – Derek
Landy (paperback)
From Goodreads: Skulduggery and Valkyrie are facing a new
enemy: Baron Vengeous, who is determined to bring back the terrifying Faceless
Ones and is crafting an army of evil to help him. Added to that, Vengeous is
about to enlist a new ally (if he can
raise him from the dead): the horrible Grotesquery, a very unlikable monster of a legend.
Once
Vengeous is on the loose, dead bodies and vampires start showing up all over
Ireland. Now pretty much everybody is out to kill Valkyrie, and the daring
detective duo faces its biggest challenge yet.
But
what if the greatest threat to Valkyrie is just a little closer to home?
It’s all Cait’s fault that I bought this.
She just won’t stop raving about this series!
The Cuckoo’s Calling – Robert
Gailbraith (e-book)
When
a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is
assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother had his doubts,
and calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case.
A
war veteran, wounded both physically and psychologically, Strike’s life is in disarray.
The case gives him a financial lifeline, but it comes at a personal cost: the
more he delves into the young model’s complex world, the darker things get –
and the closer he gets to terrible danger...
A
gripping, elegant mystery steeped in the atmosphere of London – from the hushed
streets of Mayfair, to the backstreet pubs of the East End, to the bustle of
Soho – The Cuckoo’s
Calling is remarkable. Introducing Cormoran
Strike, it is a classic crime novel unlike any other book you will read this
year.
I’ve been meaning to read this
since the news broke that it was actually JKR. Now it’s £1.99 on Kindle and I bought
it instantly.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the
Boy – Helen Fielding (e-book)
What
do you do when a girlfriend’s 60th birthday party is the same day as
your boyfriend’s 30th?
Is
it wrong to lie about your age when online dating?
Is
it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your children has head lice?
Does
the Dalai Lama actually tweet or is it his assistant?
Is
technology now the fifth element? Or is that wood?
Is
sleeping with someone after 2 dates and 6 weeks of texting the same as getting
married after 2 meetings and 6 months of letter writing in Jane Austen’s day?
Pondering
these, and other modern dilemmas, Bridget Jones stumbles through the challenges
of single-motherhood, tweeting, texting and rediscovering her sexuality in what
SOME people rudely and outdatedly call ‘middle age’.
The
long-awaited return of a much-loved character, Bridget Jones: Mad About the
Boy is tender, timely, touching, witty,
wise and bloody hilarious.
Even though I know the big,
shocking spoiler, I’m still intrigued to read this as I love Bridget. Another £1.99
Kindle bargain!
Sophie
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you remember what the first book you reviewed was?
