Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Waiting on Wednesday - May 16, 2012


 Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme from Jill at Breaking the Spine. To join in, share the book or books that you are currently drooling over as you await their release and report back to Breaking the Spine with the link to your post. The gorgeous badge above is brought to us by Lindsay at The Violet Hour!

Hey there, friends! My picks this week are from authors that I absolutely love to read. Either one of these wonderful ladies could re-write the phone book and I would buy it. Both write beautifully and I am sure these will be the page-turners like their predecessors.


The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa 
Paperback
Expected publication: October 23rd 2012 by Harlequin Teen
From Goodreads:
Set several years after the events of the first, this trilogy will star an older Ethan Chase, Meghan's brother.
Julie's new series stars Ethan, Meghan Chase's younger brother. We barely got a glimpse of him in The Iron Fey series and now we get to dive in head first into his mind.
The cover kind of ....shocked...me  for a YA book. LOL It's a little daring compared to others, but I concluded it to be perfect after reading the first few pages of the story from an exert in The Iron Knight.  This is a world I wish I could live in and I am so thankful for the chance to revisit it. I can't wait to see where Ethan's adventures take us and to hopefully see cameos of some old friends. ;)
 

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Hardcover, 416 pages
Expected publication: September 18th 2012 by Scholastic Press
From Goodreads:
“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”

It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.

His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.

But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.

For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.

From Maggie Stiefvater, the bestselling and acclaimed author of the Shiver trilogy and The Scorpio Races, comes a spellbinding new series where the inevitability of death and the nature of love lead us to a place we’ve never been before.
The synopsis alone on this one says it all. Since it is a Stiefvater book, we can be almost guaranteed amazing characters and intriguing plot lines that will steal our hearts.

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Waiting on Wednesday - May 9, 2012


 Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme from Jill at Breaking the Spine. To join in, share the book or books that you are currently drooling over as you await their release and report back to Breaking the Spine with the link to your post. The gorgeous badge above is brought to us by Lindsay at The Violet Hour!

This week I bring you a couple of books I am excited about. The first, Covet, is the second book in "The Clann" series by Melissa Darnell. The first book, Crave, was one of my first NetGalley books and I applied for it on a whim actually. I was pleasantly surprised by it, because I wasn't expecting it to be as good as it was. I hope that the series continues to get better. Also, I adore the covers on these books. Simply amazing.
The other book is from a series I have yet to start. I've only managed to read the first chapter of  The Faerie Ring due to classes and other books taking priority. That's all it took for me and I am itching to get back to it. I may hold off on finishing it so I can snatch The Torn Wing up right when I finish it! 


Covet by Melissa
Paperback, 304 pages
Expected publication: September 25th 2012 by Harlequin Teen
From Amazon:
Dangerous to be together. Painful to be apart.
Savannah Colbert knows she broke up with Tristan Coleman for the right reasons. Most of all, to keep from killing him with her new vampire abilities. But try telling her heart. Now, lost in a sea of hostile Clann faces, Sav tries to come to terms with what she's becoming and what that means for her future. And that someone is doing their best to bully her into making a terrible mistake.
Tristan can't believe Sav won't even talk to him. If being apart is her decision, fine. Just don't expect him to honor it. But even as he prepares to fight for the girl he loves, forces beyond their control take them both in directions neither could have foreseen or prepared for.
A reckoning is coming...and not everyone will survive.

 prepares to fight for the girl he loves, forces beyond their control take them both in directions neither could have foreseen or prepared for.
A reckoning is coming...and not everyone will survive.
prepares to fight for the girl he loves, forces beyond their control take them both in directions neither could have foreseen or prepared for.
A reckoning is coming...and not everyone will survive. prepares to fight for the girl he loves, forces beyond their control take them both in directions neither could have foreseen or prepared for.
A reckoning is coming...and not everyone will survive. prepares to fight for the girl he loves, forces beyond their control take them both in directions neither could have foreseen or prepared for.
A reckoning is coming...and not everyone will survive.
prepares to fight for the girl he loves, forces beyond their control take them both in directions neither could have foreseen or prepared for.
A reckoning is coming...and not everyone will survive.

THE CLANN
"A spellbinding, compelling and completely enjoyable debut." -Electrifying Reviews blog on Crave
"Crave is such a refreshing, intoxicating paranormal read." -Mundie Moms blog
 prepares to fight for the girl he loves, forces beyond their control take them both in directions neither could have foreseen or prepared for.  
A reckoning is coming...and not everyone will survive.


The Torn Wing by Kiki Hamilton
Expected publication: October 2nd 2012 Tor Teen/Macmillian
From Goodreads:
Tiki’s greatest fear suddenly becomes all too real: the fey have returned to London seeking revenge. As war escalates in the Otherworld, Queen Victoria’s youngest son, Prince Leopold, is attacked. In order to protect her family and the ones she loves, she needs to know the meaning of an fáinne sí, the birthmark that winds around her wrist. But will Tiki be brave enough to face the truth?

A bloody escape, a deadly threat, a shocking revelation…