In My Mailbox #2!

In My Mailbox is hosted by Kristi of The Story Siren – who in turn was inspired by Alea of Pop Culture Junkie.

So. This is what I call a ‘Between Week’ which means we’re in-between checks. So, not too many books this week, but complete awesomeness still!

Before I get to it though, I want to thank everyone who commented on last weeks post! We’re still new to this, so not sure if this wears off or not but we had SO much fun looking through everything all of you got in your mailbox’s – adding things to our ‘To Read’ lists on the way! Hopefully we can do this again this week too!

So without further ado, here is what we’ve got to show you (poet, I know haha):

Anna:
Bad Girls Don’t Die by Katie Alender

Alexis thought she led a typically dysfunctional high school existence. Dysfunctional like her parents’ marriage; her doll-crazy twelve-year-old sister, Kasey; and even her own anti-social, anti-cheerleader attitude.

When a family fight results in some tearful sisterly bonding, Alexis realizes that her life is creeping from dysfunction into danger. Kasey is acting stranger than ever: her blue eyes go green sometimes; she uses old-fashioned language; and she even loses track of chunks of time, claiming to know nothing about her strange behavior. Their old house is changing, too. Doors open and close by themselves; water boils on the unlit stove; and an unplugged air conditioner turns the house cold enough to see their breath in.

Alexis wants to think that it’s all in her head, but soon, what she liked to think of as silly parlor tricks are becoming life-threatening–to her, her family, and to her budding relationship with the class president. Alexis knows she’s the only person who can stop Kasey — but what if that green-eyed girl isn’t even Kasey anymore?

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Jenny:
The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf

It happens quietly one August morning. As dawn’s shimmering light drenches the humid Iowa air, two families awaken to find their little girls have gone missing in the night.

Seven-year-old Calli Clark is sweet, gentle, a dreamer who suffers from selective mutism brought on by tragedy that pulled her deep into silence as a toddler.

Calli’s mother, Antonia, tried to be the best mother she could within the confines of marriage to a mostly absent, often angry husband. Now, though she denies that her husband could be involved in the possible abductions, she fears her decision to stay in her marriage has cost her more than her daughter’s voice.

Petra Gregory is Calli’s best friend, her soul mate and her voice. But neither Petra nor Calli has been heard from since their disappearance was discovered. Desperate to find his child, Martin Gregory is forced to confront a side of himself he did not know existed beneath his intellectual, professorial demeanor.

Now these families are tied by the question of what happened to their children. And the answer is trapped in the silence of unspoken family secrets.

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We also got Artemis Fowl 2: The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer from BookMooch, but we’ve already read it, this one is for my Mom!

So! That’s it for this week! These will probably be the first two books we do double reviews on! I know I will def be reading The Weight of Silence, since I’m the one that actually told Jenny about it – and I’m pretty sure she was interested in Bad Girls Don’t Die as well! We’re both almost done with our books so there should be reviews soon!