Touch Jus Accardo	Warm Bodies Isaac Marion	Dawn Of Darkness Daniel A. Kaine
If I Die Rachel Vincent	Stick Andrew Smith	Burn Bright Marianne de Pierres
Forever Maggie Stiefvater	Black Swan Rising Lee Carroll	All These Things I’ve Done Gabrielle Zevin
Raised By Wolves Jennifer Lynn Barnes	The Demon’s Surrender Sarah Rees Brennan	White Cat Holly Black
Alpha Rachel Vincent	City Of Fallen Angels* Cassandra Clare	Unraveled* Gena Showalter

* Review not available

In My Mailbox is a meme hosted by The Story Siren, which allows bloggers to share what books they’ve received in the past week. They can be from stores, contests, tours or publishers!

• Personal Demons by Lisa Desrochers (borrowed from Brittany)
• Burn Bright by Marianne de Pierres (purchased)
• Bloodspell by Amalie Howard (purchased)
• Lament by Maggie Stiefvater (purchased)
• Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater (purchased)
• Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater (purchased)
• Forever by Maggie Stiefvater (purchased)
• Wildefire by Karsten Knight (purchased)
• Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton (purchased)
• Black Swan Rising by Lee Carroll (purchased) – My review
• The Watchtower by Lee Carroll (purchased)

Finally my UK copies of Shiver and Forever arrived. I also went and picked Lament and Ballad. I’m going to try and get through as many of Maggie’s books before her workshop at Brisbane Writer’s Festival in September. I can’t wait to go to that. I borrowed Personal Demons off a friend and I’ll be getting to that in September. I’ve heard some not so great things about it, so my expectations aren’t very high, but we’ll see. Bloodspell, Wildefire and Angelfire are ones I ordered from Book Depository and they arrived in only 5 days. I’ve been meaning to order them for a while so it’s good to have them on my shelf. Hopefully I get time to read them soon. I read Black Swan Rising last month when I stumbled across it at my local library. It was one I really enjoyed, so now I finally have myself a copy, plus the recently released sequel The Watchtower. Hopefully it’s just as good. There’s just too many books I want to read that I can’t pick from. If you’ve read any that you think I should put at the top of my list, let me know.

Here are my reviews from the past week:
Skovron, Jon, Misfit
Zevin, Gabrielle Birthright #1, All These Things I’ve Done

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Waiting on Wednesday was started by Breaking the Spine and serves to showcase those pesky books that aren’t released yet, but that we’re eagerly awaiting! This week, my WoW is…

Title: The Watchtower (Black Swan Rising #2)
Author: Lee Carroll
Published: 4 August, 2011 by Bantam Press

Warning: This is Book 2 in the series, so there may be spoilers in this summary.
Jewelry designer Garet James is still coming to terms with the astounding revelation in BLACK SWAN RISING that she is the last in a long line of women sworn to protect the world from evil. Now she has received a sign from Will Hughes, the 400-year-old vampire who once helped her defeat the evil threatening to destroy New York City. Hughes, tortured by his own violent history which is vividly reenacted here, has asked her to join him on a quest to rid himself of his curse of vampirism. While looking for Will in Paris, Garet encounters a number of mysterious figures — an ancient botanist metamorphosed into the oldest tree in Paris, a gnome who lives under the Labyrinth at the Jardin des Plantes, a librarian at the Institut Oceanographique, and a dryad in the Luxembourg Gardens.

Each encounter leads Garet closer to finding Will Hughes, but she realizes that she’s not the only one who’s trying to find the way to the magical world called the Summer Country. As Garet struggles to understand her family legacy, each answer she finds only leads to more questions — and to more danger…

I’ve been in a reading frenzy this past week and a half, trying to make the most of my break between semesters at Uni. Amidst all of my library books, I stumbled upon the first book, Black Swan Rising, in this new urban fantasy trilogy. You can check out my review here if you want to find out more. It was such a suprisingly enjoyable read, I really couldn’t put it down. So I’m eagerly awaiting this next instalment. Luckily, it’s only a few weeks away. I went and pre-ordered myself a copy as soon as I’d finished the first one.

Also, my giveaway ends this Sunday, so if you haven’t already entered, check it out for a chance to win one of the books in The Demon’s Lexicon trilogy.

What are you waiting on? Feel free to link me up and I’ll check yours out!

Title: Black Swan Rising (Black Swan Rising #1)
Author: Lee Carroll
Published: July, 2010 by Bantam Press
Pages: 396
Rating:  
Purchase: The Book Depository

When New York City jewelry designer Garet James stumbles into a strange antiques shop in her neighborhood, her life is about to be turned upside down. John Dee, the enigmatic shopkeeper, commissions her to open a vintage silver box for a generous sum of money. Oddly, the symbol of a swan on the box exactly matches the ring given to her by her deceased mother. Garet can’t believe her luck and this eerie coincidence until she opens the box and otherworldly things start happening. . .

On her journey, she will meet the fey folk who walk unnoticed among humans and a sexy vampire who also happens to be a hedge fund manager that she can’t stop thinking about. Whom can Garet trust to guide her? Using her newfound powers and sharp wit, Garet will muster everything she’s got to shut down the evil taking over her friends, family, New York City, and the world.

Final Thoughts:
What an unexpectedly amazing book. More people should be reading this. Plenty of action as creepy fog demons terrorise New York City. I loved the dreadlocked mentor and the vampire romance had me demanding more. This is one you shouldn’t pass up.

In My Mailbox is a meme hosted by The Story Siren, which allows bloggers to share what books they’ve received in the past week. They can be from stores, contests, tours or publishers!

• Raised By Wolves by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (library)
• Black Swan Rising by Lee Carroll (library)
• Shadow Of The Vampire by Meagan Hatfield (library)
• Old Magic by Marianne Curley (library)

None of my bookdepository orders arrived this week, hopefully they turn up soon. I did go to my local library however with Brittany from Nice Girls Read Books. I picked up these, hopefully I get time for them but I’ve got so much I want to read right now that I may have to renew them. If you’ve read any of these, let me know what you think I should get to first.

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