As you know, I recently reviewed the book Marked: A House of Night Novel by PC Cast and Kristin Cast for CurledUp.com. You can read my review here. It's the first in a new YA Vampire series and I was really impressed with how good it was. Yesterday, I went out to the mailbox and there was a package waiting for me from CurledUp. Now...I thought this was strange, since I got a package of Young Adult books last week. Imagine my surprise when I opened it to find the second installment of the House of Night Novels called Betrayed!! This book is not scheduled for release until Oct. 2nd! I was doing a happy dance in front of the mailbox!! It looks like I'll be reading this one.....sooner than I had hoped!! 
This has actually be a great week for receiving ARC's. (not that I need anything to read mind you, but who can pass up on free books!) As I said, I just last week got a box of YA books from CurledUp. I like reviewing YA books, so they sent me some more!! 7 books that I would like to have reviewed by the end of the year:
- Girl 15, Charming but Insane by Sue Limb
- Better than Running at Night by Hillary Frank
- Journey to Mythaca by Eve Baumohl Neuhaus
- Kiss & Blog by Alyson Noel
- Saving Zoe by Alyson Noel
- School's Out by Christophe Dufosse
- Psyche in a Dress by Francesca Lia Block
In addition to those, 4 more came this week. Barnes & Noble book groups is now offering a "First Look" club (and I think you can still sign up for it). They sent me an ARC that looks just fabulous, as well as 3 others from various publishers:
- The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff (B&N First Look)
- The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry (FlapJack Press)
- The Spanish Bow by Andromeda Romano-Lax (Harcourt)
- The Reincarnationist by M. J. Rose (Mira)
Having a book blog has definitely increased my list of review books!! In fact, I need to finish up some challenge books and get going on these!!
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Wow...WOW! That's some bunch of books! I really need to get more into this ARC thing. I signed up for Harper Collins' first look program, but they always deny me the books :( I got one ARC from LibraryThings new early reviewer program and I was so excited about that one! :) Looks like you have some very cool reading ahead of you!!
I don't know you do it ;)
I got The Lace Reader in the mail today too. I hope it's as good as it looks.
Those look great! I love reading young adult books, gives a nice break when I'm reading darker stuff.
Chris - yeah...I'm not sure what happened!! Every once in a while, I still get a First Look book from Harper Collins. But I signed up to do reviews with CurledUp and they have a HUGE selection of books to pick from! My first box had 8 and the second one had 7 (not including Betrayed!) The other just kind of fell into my lap. You should look at the B&N thing. The book looks really good!
Chris - I don't know either!! The Lace Reader DOES look better than I was expecting! I'll get to it in the next month or so!
Angela - YA books are usually lighter and quicker reads for me. Like now, I'm in the middle of a couple long books and it's just taking me forever to read them! They all look really good. I'm excited!!
I signed up for the B&N thing too, Steph! So, we have the same book. :)
I have the M.J. Ross book, too. I see some other interesting books from you as well.
very cool reading!
Wow! Lucky you! 'Christmas in September' is a very good title for this post! I wish I lived somewhere that publishers would like to send books to! I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the books as you read them.
That is Christmas in September! I don't see how you do it all. You still amaze me!
Fabulous! I've heard that the Spanish Bow is a good read.
hey stephanie, its dana from classic club. you have a nice blog.
can you tell me how i can leave comments on my blog. i can't figure it out. you can check out my blog at danamusselman.blogspot.com.
I even bought a book to help me make my blog better. hope you enjoy it. Dana
Free books--how wonderful!
ooh ooh ooh!!
i hope "betrayed" is good, it'll be nice if it becomes a reallly good series.
I loved The Spanish Bow! Hope you enjoy it, too.
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