Merry Christmas!

Hello everyone.

I just want to wish everyone a happy and awesome Christmas filled with wonderful company and presents (and books)!

Hope everyone stays safe!!

Melissa

In My Mailbox (125)

In My Mailbox is a weekly post created by The Story Siren.

For Review:

Pulling Down the Stars by James Laidler

Free Souls by Susan Kaye Quinn (Mind Jack #3)

Bought:

Touch of Power by Maria V. Snyder (Avry of Kazan #1)

What did you get in your IMM?

Songs of the Season Tour

Songs of the Season 
Event production by Random Magic Tour
Sasha Soren (Random Magic)
Dec. 10-25, 2012
 Join us for a virtual round of caroling, with Songs of the Season, a fun and quirky music hop. Discover new and wonderful songs each day of the hop, handpicked by great bloggers and vloggers - plus lots of other cool things to browse.

Always love Christina Perri's songs and was absolutely stoked when I came across this one so I had to definitely pick this for the Songs of the Season!

The Indigo Spell Teaser Trailer

I came across this Teaser and had to share.  Looking forward to picking up this book!

Red Rain by R.L. Stine Book Trailer

I loved all his Goosebumps books but haven't read too much of his books since. This one but, it sounds pretty awesome.

 

The Skeleton Key by Tara Moss

Title:  The Skeleton Key

Author:  Tara Moss

Genre:  Urban Fantasy/ Paranormal Romance

Publisher:  Pan Macmillan

Publication Date:  1 December 2012

ISBN:  9781742611631

Stand alone or series:   Pandora English #3

Pages:  304

Book Received from:  Pan Macmillan

First Lines:  It was near the end of the working day as I cast an uneasy glance at my watch and then at the empty office behind me.

Synopsis:
By day Pandora English is a lowly fashion assistant. By night, she is a supernatural scion.
The Crow Moon is rising and Pandora has a date with Civil War soldier Lieutenant Luke, who will be flesh-and-blood for one night only. When Lieutenant Luke disappears, Pandora must unlock the mysteries of Number One Addams Avenue with her skeleton key and discover the secrets that lie in the forgotten laboratory of Dr Edmund Barrett.

For Pandora has been warned: a powerful force is in the house. As Friday the Thirteenth looms, Pandora English and the citizens of Spektor are in grave danger. For the dead will rise and terror shall reign. 

My Thoughts:
I try to make it a habit to never read out of a series.  I don't know whether that is just an OCD I had or what.  But this time I made a point of reading this as I had this sent from the publishers and I was surprised at how quick I picked up on stuff that happened in the previous books.  I'm sure it's not like that for all books but yeah.

I was pretty hooked right from the get go.  This was definitely one of those books I really had trouble putting down.  I was pretty surprised how much I loved the secondary character Lieutenant Luke.  I warmed to him straight away.

Another thing I liked about the actual book is that each Chapter is decorated with a fancy design making it easier to see how far I was from the next chapter.

While I must say I'm a tad bit over Paranormal romances for the moment I really enjoyed this one.  How could I not with such fantastic characters.

Another thing I absolutely loved was the counting OCD brand new vampires have.  Pandora carries a handful of rice for just this sort of occasion and I just about cracked up laughing when she used this to get past them.  The book overall has that kind of humour all throughout it and I found it made the book so much easier to fly through because I was enjoying every part.  The spooky bits tended to stick out just that little bit more and I think it made for a well balanced book.

If you're looking for an interesting but light book to read I suggest you give this a try.  It didn't really feel like a third book in the series for me but I tend to recommend reading the beginning of a series before jumping in.  But in saying that I don't think this really is the case for this book.  Hope you all enjoy!

Waiting on Wednesday (126)

Waiting On Wednesday was created by Jill over at Breaking The Spine. It's a weekly post for you to share what upcoming books you can't wait for!

I can't wait to read Dare You To by Katie McGarry the second book in Pushing the Limits.  This will be out on 28th May 2013.

Dare You To

"I dare you..."
 If anyone knew the truth about Beth Risk's home life, they'd send her mother to jail and seventeen-year-old Beth who knows where. So she protects her mom at all costs. Until the day her uncle swoops in and forces Beth to choose between her mom's freedom and her own happiness. That's how Beth finds herself living with an aunt who doesn't want her and going to a school that doesn't understand her. At all. Except for the one guy who shouldn't get her, but does....

Ryan Stone is the town golden boy, a popular baseball star jock-with secrets he can't tell anyone. Not even the friends he shares everything with, including the constant dares to do crazy things. The craziest? Asking out the Skater girl who couldn't be less interested in him.

But what begins as a dare becomes an intense attraction neither Ryan nor Beth expected. Suddenly, the boy with the flawless image risks his dreams-and his life-for the girl he loves, and the girl who won't let anyone get too close is daring herself to want it all...

What are you waiting on?