In My Mailbox 30th October 2011

In My Mailbox is a weekly event hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren where book bloggers can talk about the books they've gotten the past week- whether bought, borrowed, swapped or given for review. This feature was started to increase interaction between bloggers and increase our awareness of all the new books coming out.

It also gives me a chance to be nosy and see what everyone else has got to read, and so gives me plenty of new books to pine after!

I got so many fantastic books this week. I got-

Bought:

On my birthday last week I got some money and vouchers which I used to buy... books!

• Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson, I love the sound of this book which sounds really unique and original, with magic, prophecies, a love story and a quest.

Review by Mel at Mel's Random Reviews

• Fade and Gone by Lisa McMann. These are books 2 and 3 in the Dream Catcher series. I read book 1- Wake earlier this year and really enjoyed it, but my library didn't have the rest of the series. It's about a girl who can fall into other people's dreams while they are sleeping, and a romance with another outcast at school- Cabel.

I also went a bit mad on the Zombie books this week- Braaaaains!

• The First Days by Rhiannon Frater. A post-zombie apocalypse novel with kick-ass girl heroines. I first noticed this book in a review by Ashley of The Bookish Brunette (whose blog is awesome, and her enthusiam for zombie novels is infectious). But all the 5 star reviews on Amazon and Goodreads speak for themselves. I can't wait to read this.

• I Kissed A Zombie, And I Liked It by Adam Selzer.

The title says it all really. Fluffy high-school romance- with zombies.

• Zombie Queen of Newbury High by Amanda Ashby. I bought Ashby's other novel Fairy Bad Day earlier in the year, but still haven't read it yet. Both these books look like funny light-hearted fun, and I hope I get a chance to read them soon, probably when I need an injection of fluffy silliness.

From the Library:

• Heist Society by Ally Carter. Ally Carter's other series Gallagher Girls is very clever, very sweet and really funny, so I'm really looking forward to reading this new series about a teenage cat burglar.

• Sweetly by Jackson Pearce. This is a modern retelling of the old fairystory Hansel and Gretel and a companian novel to Sisters Red (which was a fantastic book).

Audiobook:

• Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan. This is a futuristic sci-fi novel about a family travelling in a spaceship to a distant planet. Love triangles, betrayals and attacks on the ship from outside. This sounds like a really good book.

Those were the books that came into my house the past week- what did you get?
Happy reading!