In My Mailbox is hosted by The Story Siren
For review:
Keeper
by Kathi Appelt
To ten-year-old Keeper, this moon is her chance to fix all that has gone wrong...and so much has gone wrong. But she knows who can make things right again: Meggie Marie, her mermaid mother who swam away when Keeper was just three. A blue moon calls the mermaids to gather at the sandbar, and that's exactly where she is headed -- in a small boat, in the middle of the night, with only her dog, BD (Best Dog), and a seagull named Captain.
When the riptide pulls at the boat, tugging her away from the shore and deep into the rough waters of the Gulf of Mexico, panic sets in, and the fairy tales that lured her out there go tumbling into the waves. Maybe the blue moon isn't magic and maybe the sandbar won't sparkle with mermaids and maybe -- Oh, no..."Maybe" is just too difficult to bear. Kathi Appelt follows up to her New York Times bestseller, The Underneath, with a tale that will pull right at your very core -- stronger than moon currents -- capturing the crash and echo of the waves and the dark magic of the ocean.
Bought:
Alex Rider: Stormbreaker
by Anthony Horowitz (thought I would try this series so got book one)
Alex Rider's world is turned upside down when he discovers that his uncle and guardian has been murdered. The 14-year-old makes one discovery after another until he is sucked into his uncle's undercover world. The Special Operations Division of M16, his uncle's real employer, blackmails the teen into serving England. After two short weeks of training, Alex is equipped with several special toys like a Game Boy with unique cartridges that allow it to scan, fax, and emit smoke bombs. Alex's mission is to complete his uncle's last assignment, to discover the secret that Herod Sayle is hiding behind his generous donation of one of his supercomputers to every school in the country. When Alex enters Sayle's compound in Port Tallon, he discovers a strange world of secrets and villains including Mr. Grin, an ex-circus knife catcher, and Yassen Gregorovich, professional hit man. The novel provides bang after bang as Alex experiences and survives unbelievably dangerous episodes and eventually crashes through the roof of the Science Museum to save the day. Alex is a strong, smart hero. If readers consider luck the ruling factor in his universe, they will love this James Bond-style adventure. With short cliff-hanger chapters and its breathless pace, it is an excellent choice for reluctant readers.
Skulduggery Pleasant: Scepter of the Ancients
by Derek Landy
Stephanie led a pretty quiet existence until her uncle died. Not only did he leave her his mansion, he left her a new best friend--Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton detective (sorry, a supernatural skeleton detective)-- who waltzes into her life for keeps. Now she's acquiring magical powers, endangering her life to fight evil, and trading snappy combacks with something without a body.
So much for her quiet existence.
Stephanie's big job is to find the Scepter of the Ancients-- a weapon capable of destroying anyone and anything--before the evil Faceless Ones steal it for themselves. She just has to defeat a bunch of ghouls, kick the butts of a clan of vampires, and hide her powers from the entire world (oh, and her parents)
No Worries. She's got a bunch of bones on her side.
The Werewolf's Guide to Life
by Ritch Duncan and Bob Powers
Have you been attacked by a wolf-like creature in the last 30 days? Was it after the sun had set and under a full moon? If you answered, “yes” to both these questions, there’s a very good chance that you were bitten by a werewolf. You now have less than a month before the full moon returns and with it your first transformation into a savage, bloodthirsty beast.
Survival is an option, but first, know this:
* Werewolves are real.
* The majority of lycanthropes who do not have access to this book die during or shortly after their first transformations, generally due to heart failure, gunshot wounds, exposure, drowning or suicide.
* Hollywood horror movies are NOT to be used as guides to living as a werewolf. Their goal is not to educate, but to entertain. As a result, they are largely ignorant of the realities of the condition.
* Ignorance creates monsters; lycanthropy does not.
* You are not a monster.
The Werewolf's Guide to Life cuts through the fiction and guides you through your first transformation and beyond, offering indispensable advice on how to tell if you’re really a werewolf, post-attack etiquette, breaking the news to your spouse, avoiding government abduction, and how to not just survive, but thrive. You cannot afford to not read this book. Your very life depends on it.
For Review:
Muffins and Mayhem: Recipes for A Happy (if disorderly) Life
by Suzanne Beecher
"While it’s well known that food and stories make for a great combination, Muffins & Mayhem takes their relationship to a whole new level. Brimming over with the stuff of life, this is a book to curl up with and devour." —JOEL BEN IZZY, storyteller and author of The Beggar King and The Secret of Happiness
Suzanne Beecher’s happy, loving voice has brought more than 350,000 people to her online book club at DearReader.com, where her daily column offers her candid, thought-provoking reflections on life, inspiring countless readers to look at their "ordinary" lives in a new way. By turns funny and poignant, Suzanne is the reassuring friend across the kitchen table with a refreshing, jaunty attitude about life, even in the face of whatever difficulties it may bring.
Suzanne has had her own share of troubles to overcome. Left home alone at an early age, she struggled with difficult and distant parents, dealt with heartbreak, became a hard-working single mom, and overcame two substance addictions and a physical impairment. But along the way, she found comfort in baking and sharing food with her friends and family. She learned to take the good with the bad, and her life is now inspiring proof that faith and persistence are the keys to success.
This beautifully written celebration of food, friends, and family will nourish Suzanne’s numerous fans and those who have yet to discover her simple, homespun magic.
Won from Oribits:
Feed
by Mira Grant
The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED.
NOW, twenty years after the Rising, Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives-the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will out, even if it kills them.
(this one is going into my July giveaway since I am not a huge zombie fan..lol)
Books to be used in a giveaway in July (I am gathering stuff for a huge giveaway in that I am calling Blog Follower Appreciation Month, its to celibrate my birthday as well as my followers. Any other bloggers who want to participate just send me a
email)
Thicker than Blood
by C.J. Darlington
Calculated Revenge
by Jill Elizabeth Nelson
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Its Monday! What are you reading? is hosted by One Persons Journey Through a World of books.
Finished last week:
Jekel Loves Hyde
by Beth Fantaskey
Moonlight Falls 
Vincent Zandri
Marked
by P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast
Reading this week:
Muffins and Mayhem by Suzanne Beecher
Keeper by Kathi Appelt
For fun book:
Vampire Academy 
by Richelle Mead
Next Week:
Going Bovine
by Libba Bray
by R. J. Anderson (review to come later this week)
by Kristin Walker ( little over half way through with this one and even though its pretty funny, I really want to smack the main character up side the head and say 'GET A CLUE'. UGH Its not a bad book but she is getting on my nerves.)
by Neil Landau with Matthew Frederick
by Seth Grahame Smith (Audio)
by Maggie Stiefvater.
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