Book Sake: January 2012

Sunday, January 29, 2012

In My Mailbox (68)

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme run by The Story Siren which explores the books that have been delivered to our mailbox. Let us know what looks good to you and leave us a link so we can check out what you got over the week.

For Review

Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed (Finished copy - so freaking excited! - Jessica)

Asylum: Book One of the Birch Harbor Series by Kristen Selleck

The Earthquake Machine by Mary Pauline Lowry

What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness by Candia McWilliam (ARC)

Katja from the Punk Band by Simon Logan (ARC)

Into the Darkest Corner: A Novel by Elizabeth Haynes (ARC)

Won

My Father's Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness by Gwyneth Paltrow

What would you read first?

Leave us a link to your IMM, we'd love to drool over your reads!

Thanks to HarperCollins, DAW, Penguin, ChiZine Publications, Grand Central Publishing and the authors for this weeks books!

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Waiting on Wednesday (96): Chrysanthe by Yves Meynard

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Chrysanthe by Yves Meynard
Publisher:Tor Books

Publish Date: March 13, 2012

Publisher's Description
Christine, the princess and heir to the real world of Chrysanthe, is kidnapped as a small child by a powerful magician and exiled in a Made World that is a version of our present reality. In exile, supervised by her strict "uncle"(actually a wizard in disguise), she undergoes bogus memory recovery therapy, through which she is forced to remember childhood rape and abuse by her parents and others. She is terribly stunted emotionally by this terrifying plot, but at seventeen discovers it is all a lie. Christine escapes with a rescuer, Sir Quentin, a knight from Chrysanthe, in a thrilling chase across realities.

Once home, the magical standoff caused by her exile is broken, and a war begins, in spite of the best efforts of her father, the king, and his wizard, Melogian. And that war, which takes up nearly the last third of the work, is a marvel of magical invention and terror, a battle between good and evil forces that resounds with echoes of the great battles of fantasy literature.

* A princess, an adventure, magic, a knight, and a battle...yes! - Jessica

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