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I’ve been totally ecstatic about the books that I’ve received and borrowed this week! Firstly, my Dad went to the Folio Society, who sell BEAUTIFUL hardback, illustrated editions of books (go check out their website crammed with some gorgeous volumes of brilliant books, here! http://www.foliosociety.com/), and got a copy of Miss Marple Short Stories, by Agatha Christie. It’s a really beautiful edition, with colour illustrations and I really can’t wait to start it, after reading one of her Poirot books!
Also, the lovely, lovely people at Harper Collins have sent me an ARC of The Taming Of The Tights, by Louise Rennison. I can’t even put into words how hilariously brilliant the first two books in this series were! I’ve already begun this, and I don’t think I even got to ten pages in without laughing out loud. Review of this soon!
And, finally, more lovely people, this time at Faber, sent me a copy of The Diaries of Bluebell Gadsby: After Iris! The cover is absolutely gorgeous, and this looks like a really great but emotional read. I can’t wait to see what it’s like!
A massive THANK YOU to everyone who entered the giveaway for a copy of Half Lives by Sara Grant! I wasn’t expecting that many entries, seeing as it’s my first giveaway, but I got quite a few! Maybe I’ll run some more in the future.
Goodreads synopsis: 1910. A cabin north of the Arctic Circle. Fifteen-year-old Sig Andersson is alone. Alone, except for the corpse of his father, who died earlier that day after falling through a weak spot on the ice-covered lake. His sister, Anna, and step-mother, Nadya, have gone to the local town for help. Then comes a knock at the door. It’s a man, the flash of a revolver’s butt at his hip, and a mean glare in his eyes. Sig has never seen him before but Wolff claims to have unfinished business with his father. As Sig gradually learns the awful truth about Wolff’s connection to his father, Sig finds his thoughts drawn to a certain box hidden on a shelf in the storeroom, in which lies his father’s prized possession – a revolver. When Anna returns alone, and Wolff begins to close in, Sigs choice is pulled into sharp focus. Should he use the gun, or not?
Goodreads synopsis: ‘I am Friday Brown. I buried my mother. My grandfather buried a swimming pool. A boy who can’t speak has adopted me. A girl kissed me. I broke and entered. Now I’m fantasising about a guy who’s a victim of crime and I am the criminal. I’m going nowhere and every minute I’m not moving, I’m being tail-gated by a curse that may or may not be real. They call me Friday. It has been foretold that on a Saturday I will drown…’
Goodreads synopsis: The impossible was just the beginning. Now in their second year as superhuman government weapons-in-training at the Pentagonal Spire, Tom Raines and his friends are mid-level cadets in the elite combat corps known as the Intrasolar Forces. But as training intensifies and a moment arrives that could make or break his entire career, Tom’s loyalties are again put to the test.
Although it doesn’t really sound the same as the last two titles, Divergent and Insurgent, it still looks amazing. I enjoyed Divergent so much, and it’s a close contender with The Hunger Games, my favourite series. Insurgent I really liked, but I think it could have been a bit less wild. It’s quite frantic in my opinion compared to the first book of the series. However, I really really really want to see how the trilogy ends, though I really don’t want it to finish. I love Tris and Four too much! And the future Chicago setting is so cool… I just wanna live there, in Dauntless.
Yay!! I actually thought that the fifth installment of the TMI series, City of Lost Souls, was the last one. And then Lucy@ Queen of Contemporary told me it wasn’t. So YAAAAY. More Jace! More Clary! More MAGNUS!! I only discovered The Mortal Instruments when I heard the movie was coming out, and there was a voucher to get City of Bones. I’m so happy I found that voucher. Because then I found that book. And then I found all of the other books after it. And then I read them all and fell in love with them. As well as Allegiant, TMI is in my top-three-favourite-series. And it’s no wonder why. They’re just so brilliant. Note this cover is NOT the final cover, obviously.
This book is not as well known as the two above mentioned. But, it’s previous installment absolutely blew me away. The Wells Bequest is a companion, but not a sequel. It’s set before The Grimm Legacy and focuses on a different aspect of the building, not to do with fairy tales this time. It’d take me a while to explain the whole concept, so 
I’m in a very happy mood now. I’ve just realised, reading Goodreads, that THIS COMES OUT TOMORROW. I can’t even wait twenty four hours, though! Siobhan Curham is, hands down, my favourite UKYA author this year. Finding Cherokee Brown I loved so much- and I enjoyed Siobhan’s other book, Dear Dylan, just as much. They’re both contemporary books, based around teenage girls living in a normal world, but it seems Siobhan’s sailing (geddit? Because it’s called Shipwrecked?!) into new territory with a book based around a dance crew that find themselves on a shipwrecked cruise boat on an island, where tension is rising. Sounds so brilliant, and I can’t wait to read it!
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