in my mailbox (35) : mostly BEA edition

In My Mailbox, hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren, allows us to share our

current reads, and books we've received/checked out/purchased over the course of the week.

I apologise in advance for the quality of the photos - by the time I got home today from work to take them I lost all natural light and had to bring a lamp around as I took them, but it was hard to juggle my DSLR (plus focus) and the lamp, so some of them are super saturated and washed out.

This is also not everything that I picked up at BEA; my mum has a pile, and there's also a bag of adult fiction and another bag of things I got at the blogger's convention. There's also a few scattered in other places, depending on where I sit to read.

I said in my last BEA-related post that the bloggers are the best thing about the whole week, and many of these books would not be possible without their assistance. Aliya, Heidi, Grace, Olivia, Jenna - the list is limitless, and you guys seriously made my week (and the lines, the crowds, the everything worth it). Thank you! :)

Warning: This post is extraordinarily image heavy.

The Dark Unwinding, Sharon Cameron

The Blessed, Tonya Hurley

Entice, Jessica Shirvington

Because It Is My Blood, Gabrielle Zevin 

Summer and Bird, Katherine Catmull

Shadows, Ilsa J. Bick (next on my TBR!)

Glass Heart, Amy Garvey (Amy is so nice)

Origin, Jessica Khoury

Carnival of Souls, Melissa Marr

Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Laini Taylor (with Days of Blood and Starlight chapters!!)

Passion Blue, Victoria Strauss

Masque of the Red Death, Bethany Griffin

Destined, Aprilynne Pike

Unraveling, Elizabeth Norris

The Vicious Deep, Zoraida Cordova

The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano, Sonia Monzano

Level 2, Lenore Appelhans (Hi, Lenore! <3)

Return to Me, Justina Chen

The Darkest Minds, Alexandra Bracken

Out of the Easy, Ruta Sepetys 

Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys (We had a John Green moment. It was fabulous.)

Fall to Pieces, Vahini Naidoo

Son, Lois Lowry (!!)

Beta, Rachel Cohn

Eve & Adam, Michael Grant & Katherine Applegate

The Turning, Francine Prose

Magisterium, Jeff Hirsch (The cover on this is hypnotising!)

Feedback, Robison Wells (Ahhh, this book!)

Who I Kissed, Janet Gurtler

Crewel, Gennifer Albin

Sanctum: Guards of the Shadowlands, Sarah Fine

Venom, Fiona Paul

Time Between Us, Tamara Ireland Stone

Can I have a moment for Tamara? Because she was amazingly sweet, and in our

discussion she not only signed a bookmark for my copy, but put a little heart

around the page number with her favorite passage. And her book is fabulous.

The Wishing Spell, Chris Colfer

Princess Academy (#2, Palace of Stone), Shannon Hale

Beautiful Lies, Jessica Warman

The Age of Miracles, Karen Thompson Walker

Point of Origin, Amanda Harvard (Lovely lady!)

Fathomless, Jackson Pearce (Who is awesome.)

The Paladin Prophecy, Mark Frost

Eternally Yours, Cate Tiernan

Becoming Holmes, Shane Peacock (Anything vaguely ACD? Yes, please.)

Chosen Ones, Tiffany Truitt

The Lifeguard, Deborah Blumenthal

Keep Holding On, Susane Colasanti

Black City, Elizabeth Richards

Endangered, Eliot Schrefer

The fact that a book exists with this topic makes me incredibly hopeful and happy.

Skinny, Donna Cooner

Cursed, Jennifer L. Armentrout

In A Glass Grimmly, Adam Gidwitz

The Spindlers, Lauren Oliver

The Raven Boys, Maggie Stiefvater (The book I wanted most to get!)

Prodigy, Marie Lu

What's Left of Me, Kat Zhang (The book I wanted second most!)

Every Day, David Levithan (Lost my tongue the moment I saw him.)

Throne of Glass, Sarah J. Mass (Great debut fantasy.)

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, William Joyce/Joe Blum (Fabulous fabulous children's book. I cried.)

The Curiosities, Maggie Stiefvater/Tessa Gratton/Brenna Yovanoff (Maggie remembered me from the Raven Boys signing; we all discussed our drawings.)

An Abundance of Katherines, John Green

Nerdfighter designed cover. DFTBA!

I have to mention that I also met the incredibly lovely and even more adorable in person Victoria Schwab, who signed a copy of The Near Witch. I was really hoping I'd get a chance to run into her. This also applies to Aimée Carter (so sweet)!

Purchased/Gifted/Won:

Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein (20% off coupon. Thanks, B&N!)

Dreamless, Josephine Angelini

Trafficked, Kim Purcell

The Immortal Rules, Julie Kagawa

Rapture, Lauren Kate (Thank you, Random House!)

From the publisher:

Outpost, Ann Aguirre

My Book of Life by Angel, Martine Leavitt (Especially looking forward to this.)

Thank you so much, Macmillan! :) I'm pretty consistently impressed with their titles, so this should be good.

If you made it to the bottom, I think you get a gold star. And a nap. Thanks for visiting, everyone! And I have a handful of these reviews written already, and scheduled for closer to the publication date so keep checking back for them. Have a great weekend, friends!