In My Mailbox: Take Five!

"In My Mailbox" is a (great!) feature created by The Story Siren that features all books gained weekly, either by mail, from the library, or bought at a bookstore! 

This week brought....

Bewitching Season by Marissa Doyle (summary from Marissa's website)

In 1837 London, young daughters of viscounts pined for handsome, titled husbands, not careers. And certainly not careers in magic. 

  Twins Persephone (Persy) and Penelope (Pen) Leland are anticipating their first London season with mixed feelings. Pen can't wait for the balls and parties and crowds of handsome young men to flirt with, but Persy would far rather stay home with their governess, Ally, and continue her magic studies. The only thing drawing her to London is the prospect of seeing Queen Victoria, her and Pen's idol.

   But then Ally disappears from a busy London street and the twins are drawn into searching for her...and find that her disappearance is linked to a dastardly plot to enchant the soon-to-be Queen. Persy also discovers that a good lady's maid is hard to find, that one should never cast a love spell on anyone after drinking too much brandy punch at a party, that pesky little brothers can sometimes come in handy, and that even boys who were terrible teases when they were twelve can mysteriously turn into the most perfect young men.

Thanks, Marissa, for sending me a copy! I've heard tons of good things about this book, can't wait to begin!

Absolutely Maybe by Lisa Yee (summary courtesy of Amazon.com)

Meet Maybelline Mary Katherine Mary Ann Chestnut, named for two Miss Americas and her mother Chessy's favorite brand of mascara. Chessy teaches the student in her charm school her Seven Select Rules for Young Ladies, but she won't tell Maybe who her real father is -- or protect her from her latest scuzzball boyfriend. So Maybe hitches a ride to California with her friends Hollywood and Thammasat Tantipinichwong Schneider (aka Ted) -- and what she find there is funny, sad, true, and inspiring...

Thanks to Lisa and Scholastic for sending me a copy! This is Lisa's first teen novel--I've loved her books for younger readers, so hopefully Absolutely, Maybe is just as great! (:

What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell

  When Evie's father returned home from World War II, the family fell back into its normal life pretty quickly. But Joe Spooner brought more back with him than just good war stories. When movie-star handsome Peter Coleridge, a young ex-GI who served Joe's company in post-war Austria, shows up, Evie is suddenly caught in a complicated web of lies that she only slowly recognizes. She finds herself falling for Peter, ignoring the secrets that surround him...until a tragedy occurs that shatters her family and breaks her life in two. As she begins to realize that almost everything she believed to be a truth was really a lie, Evie must get to the heart of the deceptions and choose between her loyalty to her parents and her feelings for the boy she loves. Someone will have to be betrayed. The question is...who?

I'm looking forward to this one--I got it from the library and can't wait to start!