In My Mailbox (2)

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren.
Here are the books I got this week! Most of them you have probably read, and most also ren't my regular preference but I thought about widening my reading horizons - voila, they're now under my bed waiting to be read :)

*Bought

The Awakening (Kelley Armstrong)

If you had met me a few weeks ago, you probably would have described me as an average teenage girl—someone normal. Now my life has changed forever and I'm as far away from normal as it gets. A living science experiment—not only can I see ghosts, but I was genetically altered by a sinister organization called the Edison Group. What does that mean? For starters, I'm a teenage necromancer whose powers are out of control; I raise the dead without even trying. Trust me, that is not a power you want to have. Ever.

Now I'm running for my life with three of my supernatural friends—a charming sorcerer, a cynical werewolf, and a disgruntled witch—and we have to find someone who can help us before the Edison Group finds us first. Or die trying.

The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)

In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.

Freshers (Kevin Sampson). I'm an incoming fresher this year - quite fitting, no? :)

Kit Hannah is about to start University. He’s funny, clever and popular -- anybody would think he’d relish the prospect. But Kit is harbouring a dark foreboding he dare not share with anyone else. It’s with a heavy heart that he leaves home to begin a new life in Sheffield. At the vast and alienating hall of residence he meets Jinty, a psychology student six years older and much more worldly-wise. She becomes fascinated by Kit. When he wants to be, he’s the life and soul of the party -- and there are lots of parties, lots of sex, lots of very bad behaviour. Kit is naughty, witty and compassionate and everyone wants to be his friend. But more often than not, he withholds that friendship and retreats from the gang. The object of Kit’s affections is Colette -- yet whenever he gets close to her, something seems to hold him back. It is Jinty, and the experience of surviving away from home for the first time, that help him confront himself and beat his demons.

Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story (Carolyn Turgeon)

Lil is an old woman who spends her days shelving rare books in a tiny Manhattan bookstore and lonely nights at home in her apartment. But Lil has an intriguing secret. Tucked and bound behind her back are white feathery wings-the only key to who she once was: the fairy godmother responsible for getting Cinderella to the ball to unite with her Prince Charming.

But on that fateful night, something went terribly and beautifully wrong. Lil allowed herself the unthinkable: to feel the emotions of human beings and fall in love with the prince herself, going to the ball in place of Cinderella in her exquisitely gorgeous human guise. For her unforgivable mistake, she was banished to live among humans, far from her fairy sisters and their magical underwater world. But then one day she meets Veronica, a young, fair-skinned, flame-haired East Village beauty with a love of all things vintage and a penchant for falling in love with the wrong men and suddenly it becomes clear to Lil that she's been given a chance at redemption. If she can find a soul mate for Veronica, she may right her wrong and return to the fairy world she so deeply longs for. . .

While everyone's celebrating the release of The Dead Tossed Waves, I got: The Forest of Hands and Teeth (Carrie Ryan)

In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. 

But, slowly, Mary's truths are failing her. She's learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their power, and about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness. When the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, she must choose between her village and her future - between the one she loves and the one who loves her. And she must face the truth about the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Could there be life outside a world surrounded in so much death?

Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colfer)

Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. With two trusty sidekicks in tow, he hatches a cunning plot to divest the fairyfolk of their pot of gold. Of course, he isn't foolish enough to believe in all that "gold at the end of the rainbow" nonsense. Rather, he knows that the only way to separate the little people from their stash is to kidnap one of them and wait for the ransom to arrive. But when the time comes to put his plan into action, he doesn't count on the appearance of the extrasmall, pointy-eared Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police Reconnaisance) Unit--and her senior officer, Commander Root, a man (sorry, elf) who will stop at nothing to get her back.

Angelology (Daniel Trussoni)

Sister Evangeline was just a girl when her father entrusted her to the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in upstate New York. Now, at twenty-three, her discovery of a 1943 letter from the famous philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller to the late mother superior of Saint Rose Convent plunges Evangeline into a secret history that stretches back a thousand years: an ancient conflict between the Society of Angelologists and the monstrously beautiful descendants of angels and humans, the Nephilim.

For the secrets these letters guard are desperately coveted by the once-powerful Nephilim, who aim to perpetuate war, subvert the good in humanity, and dominate mankind. Generations of angelologists have devoted their lives to stopping them, and their shared mission, which Evangeline has long been destined to join, reaches from her bucolic abbey on the Hudson to the apex of insular wealth in New York, to the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris and the mountains of Bulgaria.

Rich in history, full of mesmerizing characters, and wondrously conceived,Angelology blends biblical lore, the myth of Orpheus and the Miltonic visions ofParadise Lost into a riveting tale of ordinary people engaged in a battle that will determine the fate of the world. 

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All these I bought from  Books and Comics Exchange shop at Notting Hill Gate. If you live in London or are accessible to Notting Hill, check it out! Sure, they sell second hand books, but they have a good collection, most of which are in good condition. Angelology for example, I got for £5, which says a lot considering the hardback is £12.99 and it's not even released til 1st April. Such a bargain! I've been grinning a lot since I got this :D