Waiting on Wednesday (#32)

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, and it's a weekly meme all about the books that are coming out soon that we really can't wait to read.

One book on my list this week.  And it is...

Unravelling

By: Elizabeth Norris
Published: 7th June2012

Published By: HarperCollins
Found: On Amazon

Synopsis From Goodreads:

Two days before the start of her junior year, seventeen-year-old Janelle Tenner is hit by a pickup truck and killed—as in blinding light, scenes of her life flashing before her, and then nothing. Except the next thing she knows, she’s opening her eyes to find Ben Michaels, a loner from her high school whom Janelle has never talked to, leaning over her. And even though it isn’t possible, Janelle knows—with every fiber of her being—that Ben has somehow brought her back to life.
But her reincarnation, and Ben’s possible role in it, is only the first of the puzzles that Janelle must solve. While snooping in her FBI-agent father’s files for clues about her accident, she uncovers a clock that seems to be counting down to something—but to what? And when someone close to Janelle is killed, she can no longer deny what’s right in front of her: Everything that’s happened—the accident, the murder, the countdown clock, Ben’s sudden appearance in her life—points to the end of life as she knows it. And as the clock ticks down, she realizes that if she wants to put a stop to the end of the world, she’s going to need to uncover Ben’s secrets—and keep from falling in love with him in the process.
From debut author Elizabeth Norris comes this shattering novel of one girl’s fight to save herself, her world, and the one boy she never saw coming.

OH MY GOD!!!!!!   This looks SO good!  As in, I may DIE waiting for it good!  Ok.  I'll stop now.

Well, that's the book I'm waiting for.

What're you waiting for today?

Waiting on Wednesday (#32)

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, and it's a weekly meme all about the books that are coming out soon that we really can't wait to read.

One book I'm really, really waiting for this week and it is...

Heart-Shaped Bruise

By: Tanya Byrne
Published: 10th May 2012

Published By: Headline
Found: On Amazon

Synopsis From Amazon:

I think of all the things I could have been... a music student, in love, happy.
But then Juliet stabbed my father and shattered everything I thought I knew about myself.
She turned me into someone else, into this hard, angry, miserable girl who did the most terrible things. Things that make people take a step back when I walk into a room.
That's what hurts... that you all think you know who I am. But the one thing Google will never tell you is who I used to be... who I might have become.
But I can tell you. So here we go - I'll be me and you be the stranger on the bus.

Although this has no front cover yet, I can't wait to read it!  It just sounds so, so, so good!!  I can't wait for it to come out!

Well, that's what I'm waiting for.

What's on your list this week?

Waiting on Wednesday (#31)

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, and it's a weekly meme all about the books that are coming out soon that we really can't wait to read.

One awesome-looking book this week!  And it is...

Harbringer

By: Sara Wilson Etienne

Published: 2nd February 2012

Published By: Putnam Publishing

Found: On Most Anticipated Debut Novels of 2012

Synopsis From Goodreads:

Girl, Interrupted meets Beautiful Creatures in this fast-paced thriller
When sixteen-year-old Faye arrives at Holbrook Academy, she doesn’t expect to find herself exactly where she needs to be. After years of strange waking visions and nightmares, her only comfort the bones of dead animals, Faye is afraid she’s going crazy. Fast.
But her first night at Holbrook, she feels strangely connected to the school and the island it sits on, like she’s come home. She’s even made her first real friends, but odd things keep happening to them. Every morning they wake on the floors of their dorm rooms with their hands stained red.
Faye knows she’s the reason, but what does it all mean? The handsome Kel tries to help her unravel the mystery, but Faye is certain she can’t trust him; in fact, he may be trying to kill her—and the rest of the world too.
Rich, compelling writing will keep the pages turning in this riveting and tautly told psychological thriller.

I think this looks awesome, and I can't wait for it to come out.

Well, that's what I'm waiting for.

What are you waiting for this week?  :)

Waiting on Wednesday (#29)

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, and it's a weekly meme all about the books that are coming out soon that we really can't wait to read.

Two awesome-looking books that I can't wait for!  I found then both on Sammee's awesome blog: I Want To Read That.  :D  Thank you for finding them Sammee!!

Anyhoo, these books are...

Undeadly

Series: The Reaper Diaries, Book One

By: Michele Vail

Published: 28th February 2012

Published By: Harlequin

Found: On Sammee (I Want To Read That)'s Blog

Synopsis From Goodreads:

The day I turned 16, my boyfriend-to-be died. I brought him back to life. Then things got a little weird...
Molly Bartolucci wants to blend in, date hottie Rick and keep her zombie-raising abilities on the down-low. Then the god Anubis chooses her to become a reaper—and she accidentally undoes the work of another reaper, Rath.
Within days, she’s shipped off to the Nekyia Academy, an elite school that trains the best necromancers in the world. And her personal reaping tutor? Rath. Who seems to hate her guts.
Rath will be watching closely to be sure she completes her first assignment-reaping Rick, the boy who should have died. The boy she still wants to be with.
To make matters worse, students at the academy start turning up catatonic, and accusations fly—against Molly. The only way out of this mess? To go through hell. Literally.

Amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing!  I love, love, love the sound of this one!  I can't wait!

This Is Not A Test

By: Courtney Summers

Published: 19th June 2012

Published By: St. Martin's Griffin

Found: On Sammee (I Want To Read That)'s Blog

Synopsis From Goodreads:

It’s the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won’t stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous version of their former self. To Sloane Price, that doesn’t sound so bad. Six months ago, her world collapsed and since then, she’s failed to find a reason to keep going. Now seems like the perfect time to give up.
As Sloane eagerly waits for the barricades to fall, she’s forced to witness the apocalypse through the eyes of five people who actually want to live. But as the days crawl by, everyone’s motivations to survive begin to change in startling ways and soon the group’s fate is determined less and less by what’s happening outside and more and more by the unpredictable and violent bids for life–and death–inside.
When everything is gone, what do you hold on to?

I've wanted to read Fall For Anything for ages, but just haven't had the time-slash-funds.  And this one sounds like it's going to  be just as amazing as I bet her other book is.  I can't wait to get my hands on it!! :D

Well, these are the books I'm waiting for.

What are you waiting for this week?

Waiting on Wednesday (#28)

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, and it's a weekly meme all about the books that are coming out soon that we really can't wait to read.

I was skimming through Little, Brown's Spring catalogue the other day, seeing if there were any books I would go bananas for.  Turns out, there were quite a few.  Add a couple from the Bloomsbury catalogue, and I suddenly have a very, very long list...  Oh, well.  I think I may just have something for everyone though!  Spies, witches, nurses, mystery...  A nice mix of genres.  Anyhoo, this is what I'm waiting for...

 

The Witch of Turlingham Academy

Series: The Witch of Turlingham Academy, Book One

By: Ellie Boswell

Published: 1st March 2012

Published By: Atom

Found: Little, Brown Book Group, Spring Catalogue, January-June

Synopsis From Goodreads:

It's not easy being the only day girl at Turlingham boarding school: Sophie misses out on all the midnight feasts and late night gossip. Things take a turn for the worse when a new girl - Katy - shows up and all Sophie hears is Katy, Katy, Katy from her friends. It's like she's put a spell on everyone. Katy's no witch, but there is a witch at Turlingham. Katy comes from a long line of witch hunters whose fate is to stop evil magic once and for all. Sophie is going to help her - anything to get Katy out of her life and get things back to normal. But what she finds out means nothing will ever be normal again!

I love the sound of this!  It's only 9+, but I want it!  It sounds so, so good!  Plus, it's for fans of the Gallagher Girls - I love that series!  :D

The Invisible Assassin

Series: The Malichea Quest, Book One

By: Jim Eldridge 

Published: 12th April 2012

Published By: Bloomsbury

Found: Bloomsbury Children's Books New Titles Catalogue

Synopsis From Goodreads:

As a Junior Press Officer for the British government, Jake is sent to cover a 'non-story' - a demonstration against the construction of a laboratory on the supposed site of an ancient fairy ring. But what Jake sees there is shocking and terrifying and leads him to investigate a clandestine organisation - the Order of Malichea. And then sinister things start happening: Jake is 'accidentally' pushed, almost falling under a tube train; Lauren, Jake's girlfriend, has all her notes on the Order stolen; and then Jake returns home to find a dead body in his flat and is accused of murder. Who is trying to scare Jake? Is it the British government? Or other, more sinister agencies? Either way, Jake and Lauren must fight for their lives ...

I love, love, love the sound of this one!  I mean, c'mon!  It sounds amazing!  I can't wait for it to come out! :D  Plus, the cover: so cool!

Until I Die

Series: Renevants, Book Two

By: Amy Plum

Published: 3rd May 2012

Published By: Atom

Found: Little, Brown Book Group, Spring Catalogue, January-June

Synopsis From Goodreads:

Kate may have defeated her boyfriend's nemesis, showing off her sword skills in the process, but Vincent is sure that she will be at risk as long as they stay together. What's more, it's becoming clear that their relationship might prevent him from fulfilling his true purpose: saving the lives of others.
They might have the romance of the century, but will that be enough?

I loved Die For Me (see my review of it: here), so I am really, really excited about Until I Die.  I want more Charlotte and Jules and Kate and Vincent!  'Though, gotta say, I'm not quite as sure of this cover as I was of the first one...  Does it mean a darker book? 

In The Shadow Of The Lamp

By: Susanne Dunlap
Published: 12th April 2012

Published By: Bloomsbury

Found: Bloomsbury Children's Books New Titles Catalogue

Synopsis From Goodreads:

 When sixteen-year-old Molly meets Florence Nightingale, she jumps at the chance to join the nurses heading to war. The work is grueling, but it soon becomes more than just a mission of mercy. Molly falls in love with both a dashing young doctor and a soldier who has joined the army to be near her. But with the battle raging ever nearer, can Molly keep the two men she cares for safe from harm? A love story to savor and a fascinating behind-the-scenes imagining of the woman known as "the lady with the lamp".

I've always loved Florence Nightingale and stories from that era, so I'm really, really excited about this one!

Night School

By: C.J. Daugherty
Published: January 2012

Published By: Atom

Found: Little, Brown Book Group, Spring Catalogue, January-June

Synopsis From Goodreads:

Sometimes school is murder.
Allie Sheridan's world is falling apart. She hates her school. Her brother has run away from home. And she's just been arrested.
Again.
This time her parents have finally had enough. They cut her off from her friends and send her away to a boarding school for problem teenagers.
But Cimmeria Academy is no ordinary school. Its rules are strangely archaic. It allows no computers or phones. Its students are an odd mixture of the gifted, the tough and the privileged. And then there's the secretive Night School, whose activities other students are forbidden even to watch.
When Allie is attacked one night the incident sets off a chain of events leading to the violent death of a girl at the summer ball. As the school begins to seem like a very dangerous place, Allie must learn who she can trust. And what's really going on at Cimmeria Academy.

I sooooooooo want this!  It looks amazing, amazing, amazing!  And the cover makes me want to know more!  Who can I trust?!  Well, if you haven't gathered, I really, really can't wait for this one.  :D

Well, that's my suprisingly long WoW.  I hope you all found one more (or yet another) book coming out in 2012 to add to the TBR pile!

What are you waiting for this week?

Waiting on Wednesday (#27)

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, and it's a weekly meme all about the books that are coming out soon that we really can't wait to read.

Two more books this week that are published by Bloomsbury and come out next year.  Again: amazing-looking - in my opinion anyway! :D

Burn Marks

By: Laura Powell

Published: 7th June 2012

Published By: Bloomsbury

Found: Bloomsbury Children's Books New Titles Catalogue

Synopsis From Goodreads:

Cleo is from a family of witches. She is desperate to develop the ‘Fae’ and become a witch herself.
Lucas is the son of the Chief Prosecutor for the Inquisition and his privileged life is very different to the world of witches that he lives alongside.
And then on the same day, Cleo and Lucas both develop the Fae. In one fell stroke, Cleo and Lucas’s lives are inextricably bound together, whether they like it or not . . .

No cover image yet, I'm afraid, but this book just looks amazing!  I seriously cannot wait!!  :D

Chime

By: Laura Powell

Published: 7th June 2012

Published By: Bloomsbury

Found: Bloomsbury Children's Books New Titles Catalogue

Synopsis From Bloomsbury:

Briony knows she is a witch. She knows that she is guilty of hurting her beloved stepmother. She also knows that, now her stepmother is dead, she must look after her beautiful but complicated twin sister, Rose. Then the energetic, electric, golden-haired Eldric arrives in her home town of Swampsea, and everything that Briony thinks she knows about herself and her life is turned magically, dizzyingly, upside down.

Don't you love this paperback cover?!  I cannot get over how much I love it!  I've wanted this book since forever - so I can't wait for this to come out!  :D

Those are what I'm waiting for.   I'm super excited about them both!

What are you waiting for this week?

Waiting on Wednesday (#26)

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, and it's a weekly meme all about the books that are coming out soon that we really can't wait to read.

Two books this week, that are published by Bloomsbury and come out next year.  They look amazing, if you ask me! :D

Stolen Away

By: Alyxandra Harvey

Published: 5th January 2012

Published By: Bloomsbury

Found: Bloomsbury Children's Books New Titles Catalogue

Synopsis From Goodreads:

 For seventeen years, Eloise Hart had no idea the world of Faery even existed. Now she has been abducted and trapped in the Rath of Lord Strahan, King of Faery. Strahan was only meant to rule for seven years, as Faery tradition dictates, and then give up his crown to another. But he won't comply, and now chaos threatens both worlds.
The only one who can break his stranglehold on the Faery court is his wife. . . Eloise's aunt Antonia. Using Eloise to lure Antonia, Strahan captures his wife, desperate to end the only threat to his reign. Now Eloise must become the rescuer. Together with her best friends Jo and Devin, she must forge alliances with other Fae, including a gorgeous protector named Lucas, and Strahan's mysterious son, Eldric-who may or may not betray them.

I love, love, love, love Alyxandra Harvey, and I love, love, love faeries.  This book has both.  And it looks amazing.  And the cover is so, so pretty! :D

Scarlet

By: A.C. Gaughen

Published: 7th June 2012

Published By: Bloomsbury

Found: Bloomsbury Children's Books New Titles Catalogue

Synopsis From Goodreads:

Many readers know the tale of Robin Hood, but they will be swept away by this new version full of action, secrets, and romance. Posing as one of Robin Hood’s thieves to avoid the wrath of the evil Thief Taker Lord Gisbourne, Scarlet has kept her identity secret from all of Nottinghamshire.
Only the Hood and his band know the truth: the agile thief posing as a whip of a boy is actually a fearless young woman with a secret past. Helping the people of Nottingham outwit the corrupt Sheriff of Nottingham could cost Scarlet her life as Gisbourne closes in.
It’s only her fierce loyalty to Robin—whose quick smiles and sharp temper have the rare power to unsettle her—that keeps Scarlet going and makes this fight worth dying for.

Gotta love Robin Hood.  And this one sounds awesome!!  Can't wait for it! :D

Well, that's what I'm waiting for this week.  I'm so excited about them!

What are you waiting for this week?

Waiting on Wednesday (#25)

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, and it's a weekly meme all about the books that are coming out soon that we really can't wait to read.

Two books, this week, that come out next year.  They look amazing, if you ask me! :D

By: Kristen Simmons

Article 5
Series: Article 5, Book One

Published: 15th February 2012
Published By: Tor Books
Found: YA Novels of 2012

Synopsis From Goodreads:
New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., have been abandoned.
The Bill of Rights has been revoked, and replaced with the Moral Statutes.
There are no more police—instead, there are soldiers. There are no more fines for bad behavior—instead, there are arrests, trials, and maybe worse. People who get arrested usually don't come back.
Seventeen-year-old Ember Miller is old enough to remember that things weren’t always this way. Living with her rebellious single mother, it’s hard for her to forget that people weren’t always arrested for reading the wrong books or staying out after dark. It’s hard to forget that life in the United States used to be different.
Ember has perfected the art of keeping a low profile. She knows how to get the things she needs, like food stamps and hand-me-down clothes, and how to pass the random home inspections by the military. Her life is as close to peaceful as circumstances allow.
That is, until her mother is arrested for noncompliance with Article 5 of the Moral Statutes. And one of the arresting officers is none other than Chase Jennings…the only boy Ember has ever loved.
Love the look of this one!  It sounds amazing!  That Compliance is Mandatory thing really got my attention.  :D



The Other Life

Series: Weepers, Book One

By: Susanne Winnacker

Published: May 2012

Published By: Marshall Cavendish

Found: YA Novels of 2012

Synopsis From Goodreads:

3 years, 1 month, 1 week and 6 days since I’d seen daylight. One-fifth of my life.
Sherry and her family have lived sealed in a bunker in the garden since things went wrong up above. Her grandfather has been in the freezer for the last three months, her parents are at each other’s throats and two minutes ago they ran out of food.
Sherry and her father leave the safety of the bunker and find a devastated and empty LA, smashed to pieces by bombs and haunted by ‘Weepers’ - rabid humans infected with a weaponized rabies virus.
While searching for food in a supermarket, Sherry’s father disappears and Sherry is saved by Joshua, a boy-hunter. He takes her to Safe-haven, a tumble-down vineyard in the hills outside LA, where a handful of other survivors are picking up the pieces of their ‘other lives’. As she falls in love for the first time, Sherry must save her father, stay alive and keep Joshua safe when his desire for vengeance threatens them all.

I am super excited about this one!  It sounds amazing!  Seriously fantastic!  It's bad that we have to wait 'til May.  *pouts*  By the sound of it, though, I think it'll be worth the wait!

Well, those are my books.  I'm so looking forward to them! 

What are you waiting for this week?

Waiting on Wednesday (#24)

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, and it's a weekly meme all about the books that are coming out soon that we really can't wait to read.

 I was surfing various Goodreads Listopias, and these three just popped out at me.  They're all out 2012, and they all look - in my opinion - amazing!  And they are...

Cursed

By: Jennifer L. Armentrout

Published: 18th September 2012

Published By: Spencer Hill Press

Found: Paranormal Titles of 2012

Synopsis From Goodreads:

Dying sucks--and high school senior Ember McWilliams knows firsthand. After a fatal car accident, her gifted little sister brought her back. Now anything Ember touches dies. And that, well, really blows.
Ember operates on a no-touch policy with all living things--including boys. When Hayden Cromwell shows up, quoting Oscar Wilde and claiming her curse is a gift, she thinks he’s a crazed cutie. But when he tells her he can help control it, she’s more than interested. There’s just one catch: Ember has to trust Hayden's adopted father, a man she's sure has sinister reasons for collecting children whose abilities even weird her out. However, she’s willing to do anything to hold her sister's hand again. And hell, she'd also like to be able to kiss Hayden. Who wouldn't?
But when Ember learns the accident that turned her into a freak may not've been an accident at all, she’s not sure who to trust. Someone wanted her dead, and the closer she gets to the truth, the closer she is to losing not only her heart, but her life. For real this time.

Ok, doesn't this just sound amazing?!  I am super, super, super excited about this!  It just looks absolutely sensational!  I can't wait for it!  :-D

  

Struck

By: Jennifer Bosworth

Published: 3rd May 2012

Published By: Doubleday Childrens

Found: 2012 Debut Authors (Young Adult & Middle Grade)

Synopsis From Goodreads:

Mia Price is a lightning addict.
She’s been struck so many times she’s lost count. She can’t sleep, she’s covered in veiny red “lightning scars,” and repeated strikes have even stopped her heart on occasion. Still, Mia can’t resist a storm.
That's why Los Angeles, where it never rains, is the perfect place for her to find peace . . . until a massive earthquake devastates the city.
Now Mia finds herself struggling to hold her family together in a strange and terrifying new version of Los Angeles. The beaches have become massive tent cities populated by millions of homeless. Downtown is a wasteland, where a traveling party moves to a different empty building each night, the attendees drawn to the destruction by a magnetic force they cannot deny.
The blind prophet of a doomsday cult called the Church of Light, who predicted the earthquake with frightening accuracy, says a storm is coming to usher in the end of days, and only his Followers will be saved. Mia’s traumatized mom has become obsessed with the Church of Light, while her younger brother Parker is desperate to join a second doomsday cult called the Seekers. But Mia is the one both cults need.
The Seekers are recruiting people with an energy-based power they call the “Spark,” and Mia has it stronger than most. They claim the false prophet of the Church of Light will bring about the end of the world, and they are the only ones who can stand against him.
But without Mia on their side, they will fail.
Mia’s lightning addiction is both the key to saving the world . . . and destroying it.

This one sounds really different, and absolutely amazing!  I mean, lightning addict?  I've never read like it before - never even heard anything like it before!  And the cover is gorgeous.

Illuminate

Series: Gilded Wings, Book One

By: Aimee Agresti

Published: 6th March 2012

Published By: Harcourt Children's Books

Found: Most Anticipated reads for 2012

Synopsis From Goodreads:

Haven Terra is a brainy, shy high school outcast. But everything begins to change when she turns sixteen. Along with her best friend Dante and their quiet and brilliant classmate Lance, she is awarded a prestigious internship in the big city— Chicago—and is sent to live and work at a swanky and stylish hotel under the watchful eyes of a group of gorgeous and shockingly young-looking strangers: powerful and alluring hotel owner Aurelia Brown; her second-in-command, the dashing Lucian Grove; and their stunning but aloof staff of glamazons called The Outfit.

     As Haven begins falling for Lucian, she discovers that these beautiful people are not quite what they seem. With the help of a mysterious book, she uncovers a network of secret passageways from the hotel’s jazz-age past that leads her to the heart of the evil agenda of Aurelia and company: they’re in the business of buying souls. Will they succeed in wooing Haven to join them in their recruitment efforts, or will she be able to thwart this devilish set’s plans to take the souls of her classmates on prom night at the hotel?

     Illuminate is an exciting saga of a teen’s first taste of independence, her experience in the lap of luxury, and her discovery she may possess strength greater than she ever knew.

Also cannot wait for this!  It sounds absolutely amazing.  And the cover is just the prettiest!

Well, that's what I'm waiting for.  :D

What are you waiting for this week?