Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Waiting on Wednesday 11/28

"Waiting on Wednesday" is a weekly event that features the books that we (the bloggers) are highly anticipating. "Waiting on Wednesday" was started by Jill at Breaking the Spine.


Rosie Only Secretly Inevitably Expects (to read)

Touch of Death by Kelly Hashway
Expected Publication: January 15, 2013 by Spencer Hill Press
Paperback, 229 pages
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Jodi Marshall isn’t sure how she went from normal teenager to walking disaster. One minute she’s in her junior year of high school, spending time with her amazing boyfriend and her best friend. The next she’s being stalked by some guy no one seems to know.

After the stranger, Alex, reveals himself, Jodi learns he’s not a normal teenager and neither is she. With a kiss that kills and a touch that brings the dead back to life, Jodi discovers she’s part of a branch of necromancers born under the 13th sign of the zodiac, Ophiuchus. A branch of necromancers that are descendents of Medusa. A branch of necromancers with poisoned blood writhing in their veins.


Jodi’s deadly to the living antd even more deadly to the deceased. She has to leave her old, normal life behind before she hurts the people she loves. As if that isn’t difficult enough, Jodi discovers she’s the chosen one who has to save the rest of her kind from perishing at the hands of Hades. If she can’t figure out how to control her power, history will repeat itself, and her race will become extinct. --GoodReads

Pre-order Touch of Death at: Amazon/ B&N/ TBD

Jenny is "Waiting On":


This Is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith 
Expected Publication: April 2nd 2013 by Poppy

If fate sent you an email, would you answer?

In This is What Happy Looks Like, Jennifer E. Smith's new YA novel, perfect strangers Graham Larkin and Ellie O'Neill meet—albeit virtually—when Graham accidentally sends Ellie an email about his pet pig, Wilbur. In the tradition of romantic movies like "You've Got Mail" and "Sleepless in Seattle," the two 17-year-olds strike up an email relationship, even though they live on opposite sides of the country and don't even know each other's first names.

Through a series of funny and poignant messages, Graham and Ellie make a true connection, sharing intimate details about their lives, hopes and fears. But they don't tell each other everything; Graham doesn't know the major secret hidden in Ellie's family tree, and Ellie is innocently unaware that Graham is actually a world-famous teen actor living in Los Angeles.

When the location for the shoot of Graham's new film falls through, he sees an opportunity to take their relationship from online to in-person, managing to get the production relocated to picturesque Henley, Maine, where Ellie lives. But can a star as famous as Graham have a real relationship with an ordinary girl like Ellie? And why does Ellie's mom want her to avoid the media's spotlight at all costs?

Just as they did in The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, the hands of fate intervene in wondrous ways in this YA novel that delivers on high concept romance in lush and thoughtful prose.    -- Goodreads

Pre-Order This is What Happy Looks Like at: Amazon / B&N / TBD


Angie is impatiently dying for:

Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes
Expected Publication: December 11, 2012 by Razorbill
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In a land where magic has been forgotten but peace has reigned for centuries, a deadly unrest is simmering. Three kingdoms grapple for power—brutally transforming their subjects’ lives in the process. Amidst betrayals, bargains, and battles, four young people find their fates forever intertwined:

Cleo: A princess raised in luxury must embark on a rough and treacherous journey into enemy territory in search of a magic long thought extinct.

Jonas: Enraged at injustice, a rebel lashes out against the forces of oppression that have kept his country impoverished—and finds himself the leader of a people’s revolution centuries in the making.

Lucia: A girl adopted at birth into a royal family discovers the truth about her past—and the supernatural legacy she is destined to wield.

Magnus: Bred for aggression and trained to conquer, a firstborn son begins to realize that the heart can be more lethal than the sword... 

The only outcome that’s certain is that kingdoms will fall. Who will emerge triumphant when all they know has collapsed? --Goodreads

Pre-order Falling Kingdoms here: Amazon/ B&N/ TBD

3 comments:

  1. Wow! Seeing a lot of Falling Kingdoms today! So can't wait for that one either!

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  2. I want all three of these. They sound amazing.

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  3. I am waiting on all of these but I'm definitely dying for This Is What Happy Looks Like the most. I fell in love with The Statistical Probablity of Love at First Sight and will read anything by Jennifer E. Smith! Great picks :)

    Jesse @ Pretty In Fiction

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