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MISTWALKER

by Saudra Mitchell

Hardcover, 272 pages

Expected publication: February 4th, 2014

Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books

" When Willa Dixon’s brother dies on the family lobster boat, her father forbids Willa from stepping foot on the deck again. With her family suffering, she’ll do anything to help out—even visiting the Grey Man.

Everyone in her small Maine town knows of this legendary spirit who haunts the lighthouse, controlling the fog and the fate of any vessel within his reach. But what Willa finds in the lighthouse isn’t a spirit at all, but a young man trapped inside until he collects one thousand souls.

Desperate to escape his cursed existence, Grey tries to seduce Willa to take his place. With her life on land in shambles, will she sacrifice herself?

This cover is brilliant!  I love how the girl is looking at the lighthouse, and how it's not just a random image but actually has something to do with the story line. Mistwalker doesn't come out until 2014...and right about now that seems like an eternity of waiting. Lol, I feel like it just turned 2013 and they're already marketing books that we probably won't see for another year. This story sounds so creepy and cool at the same time. I keep wondering who this grey man is. Hopefully the wait to read Mistwalker won't be as long as it seems! 

What are you waiting on?

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Waiting on Wednesday is a meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. It features novels that readers are eagerly anticipating the release of.  


ACID

by Shannon Messenger

Paperback, 431 pages

Expected publication: April 5th, 2013

Publisher: Random House Children's Publishing

" ACID - the most brutal police force in history.

They rule with an iron fist.
They see everything. They know everything.
They locked me away for life.

My crime?
They say I murdered my parents.
I was fifteen years old.

My name is Jenna Strong.

I love how fierce the girl looks on the cover of ACID! Haha, it looks like she's walking through black / red acid rain and she's staring down her enemy. This one is definitely getting tagged for one of the books I might read for the Feminist Reads Challenge. 

What are you waiting on?

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PREMEDITATED

by Josin McQuein

Hardcover, pages unknown

Expected publication: October 1st, 2013

Publisher: Delacorte Books For Young Readers

" A week ago, Dinah’s cousin Claire cut her wrists.

Five days ago, Dinah found Claire’s diary and discovered why.

Three days ago, Dinah stopped crying and came up with a plan.

Two days ago, she ditched her piercings and bleached the black dye from her hair.

Yesterday, knee socks and uniform plaid became a predator’s camouflage.

Today, she’ll find the boy who broke Claire.

By tomorrow, he’ll wish he were dead.

It's been way too long since I've read a good mystery / thriller / psychological novel so I'm pretty excited about this one.  Plus, the cover's pretty cool to look at! I am a little confused about the summary. What happened to Claire? To me it sounds as though Dinah is going to take revenge for Claire (assuming something horrible happened to her). So then Dinah probably goes to this ultra-preppy private school (wearing plaid and dying hair blond?) to go find the guy who messed up Claire's life.  So I'm guessing she either kills him or falls in love with him....? I guess I'll just have to wait until October to find out. :)

What are you waiting on?

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LET THE SKY FALL

by Shannon Messenger

Hardcover, 416 pages

Expected publication: March 5th, 2013

Publisher: Simon Pulse

" Seventeen-year-old Vane Weston has no idea how he survived the category five tornado that killed his parents. And he has no idea if the beautiful, dark-haired girl who’s swept through his dreams every night since the storm is real. But he hopes she is. Seventeen-year-old Audra is a sylph, an air elemental. She walks on the wind, can translate its alluring songs, and can even coax it into a weapon with a simple string of commands. She’s also a guardian—Vane’s guardian—and has sworn an oath to protect Vane at all costs. Even if it means sacrificing her own life...

Between the characters interesting names "Vane and "Audra", the whole guardian concept and the gorgeous cover I know this one will definitely be high on my list of 2013 books I'm really *really really* looking forward to. Also, I've followed Shannon's blog for years so I trust her to deliver something really amazing. Can't wait to read this in March! 

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The Eternity Cure

(Blood of Eden #2)

by Julie Kagawa

Hardcover, 384 pages

Expected publication: April 22, 2013

Publisher: Harlequin Teen

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Allison Sekemoto has vowed to rescue her creator, Kanin, who is being held hostage and tortured by the psychotic vampire Sarren. The call of blood leads her back to the beginning—New Covington and the Fringe, and a vampire prince who wants her dead yet may become her wary ally. Even as Allie faces shocking revelations and heartbreak like she’s never known, a new strain of the Red Lung virus that decimated humanity is rising to threaten human and vampire alike.

I am so relieved about the cover of this book! Honestly, I was really really annoyed when they white-washed Allie on the cover of THE IMMORTAL RULES. I'm glad that the publisher took the reader's thoughts into consideration when they created this and didn't change the race of the protagonist again--it honestly confused the heck out of me because I had no clue who the girl on the cover was supposed to be.  At first glance this cover looks pretty plain, but I LOVE the electric blue and the details with the branches. I am desperately waiting for THE ETERNITY CURE's release so I can finally figure out what's up between Allie and Kanin. I actually prefer him to the other dude. :)

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Mind Games

by Kiersten White

Hardcover, 304 pages

Expected publication: February 19, 2013

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Fia was born with flawless instincts. Her first impulse, her gut feeling, is always exactly right. Her sister, Annie, is blind to the world around her—except when her mind is gripped by strange visions of the future. 

Trapped in a school that uses girls with extraordinary powers as tools for corporate espionage, Annie and Fia are forced to choose over and over between using their abilities in twisted, unthinkable ways… or risking each other’s lives by refusing to obey.

In a stunning departure from her New York Times bestselling Paranormalcy trilogy, Kiersten White delivers a slick, edgy, heartstoppingly intense psychological thriller about two sisters determined to protect each other—no matter the cost.

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Transparent

by Natalie Whipple

Paperback, 352 Pages

Expected Publication: May 21st  2013

Publisher: HarperTeen

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On the run from her mind-controlling father, the infamously invisible Fiona McClean hides in a small town, hoping to finally rid herself of the crime world she has always known. But playing at “normal life” with a mother she hates, a brother she can’t trust, and a boy she can’t stand proves more difficult than she ever imagined. Soon her father is hot on her heels, and it’s up to Fiona to protect not only her family, but the friends who’ve taught her that life doesn’t have to be as lonely and cruel as she thought.

Okay, so I admit the cover is a bit confusing, but I think that was the effect that they were going for. They wanted it to look confusing.  The MC Fiona is trying to get away from her dangerous father to protect her family and herself, so I suspect she probably wants to stay hidden? I mean if she's decked out in fancy dresses like in all the other YA covers how are readers supposed to tell she's "lonely" and has a crazy father "hot on her heels"? The dresses practically scream "Look at me! I'm so pretty and want to be looked at." while this cover translates into someone wanting melt into or disappear altogether from her surroundings

I can't wait to see what this book has in store for us! I really think this is going to be amazing. 

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EVERY NEVER AFTER by Lesley Livingston
Release Date: March 12th, 2013 
It's happening again! Despite their vow to each other at the end of Once Every Never, best friends Clare and Allie once more find themselves in trouble—and travelling in time. Indulging in a low-key vacation at Glastonbury Tor, taking part in an archaeological dig while soaking up the sights of summertime England, the girls have promised each other: no time travel shenanigans; no involvement with dangerous Druids or villainous museum thieves; and definitely no weirdness about the fact that Clare is now seriously dating Milo, Allie's super-genius hottie cousin!

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Are you not getting some serious pretty cover vibes from this book? I actually haven’t heard of this series at all until very recently. I think I’ll give it a shot at one point in the future. I love the creative titles and the awesome covers!

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Title: A L T E R E D by Jennifer Rush
Release date: January 2^nd, 2013

Publisher: Little, Brown & Co

Pages: 336 

When you can’t trust yourself, who can you believe? Everything about Anna’s life is a secret. Her father works for the Branch at the helm of its latest project: monitoring and administering treatments to the four genetically altered boys in the lab below their farmhouse. There’s Nick, Cas, Trev . . . and Sam, who’s stolen Anna’s heart. When the Branch decides it’s time to take the boys, Sam stages an escape, killing the agents sent to retrieve them. Anna is torn between following Sam or staying behind in the safety of her everyday life. But her father pushes her to flee, making Sam promise to keep her away from the Branch, at all costs. There’s just one problem. Sam and the boys don’t remember anything before living in the lab—not even their true identities.

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This book is one of my top reading choices for 2013 releases, which is pretty awesome because January isn't that much far away and I’m not sure how I could have waited any longer. Hopefully ALTERED brings something both unique and enjoyable to the YA genre table.

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WoW: My First Underwater Dystopian!

 

Waiting on Wednesday is a fabulous meme hosted every Wednesday by Jill @ Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.

RENEGADE by J. A Souders 

U.S Cover!

Since the age of three, sixteen-year-old Evelyn Winters has been trained to be Daughter of the People in the underwater utopia known as Elysium. Selected from hundreds of children for her ideal genes, all her life she’s thought that everything was perfect; her world. Her people. The Law. But when Gavin Hunter, a Surface Dweller, accidentally stumbles into their secluded little world, she’s forced to come to a startling realization: everything she knows is a lie. Her memories have been altered. Her mind and body aren’t under her own control. And the person she knows as Mother is a monster…

THE deets on why I chose RENEGADE: 

It feels like I have been waiting for the release of this book for years (which would actually be a pretty accurate estimate) and it still isn’t soon enough. As J. A Souders is an an incredibly talented writer I am fully anticipating on loving this book, recommending it to all my friends, and putting it on my “re-read over and over again” shelf. Legit, it is going to be that amazing. Needless to say, I will be anxiously waiting to read this November 13^th release.

WoW: My First Underwater Dystopian!

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B E T A by Rachel Cohn

Release Date: October 16th, 2012
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Pages: 304 | ISBN: 1423157192

In a world constructed to absolute perfection, imperfection is difficult to understand—and impossible to hide.

Elysia is a clone, created in a laboratory, born as a sixteen year old girl, an empty vessel with no life experience to draw from. She is a Beta, an experimental model of teenaged clone. She was replicated from another teenage girl, who had to die in order for Elysia to be created.

Elysia's purpose is to serve the inhabitants of Demesne, an island paradise for the wealthiest people on earth. Everything about Demesne is bioengineered for perfection. Even the air there induces a strange, euphoric high that only the island's workers—soulless clones like Elysia—are immune to.

 

It wasn't until I read the summary of Beta that I realized I have not read a book about a clone before. I've seen it on TV tons of times but never in a book. The balance of colors on this cover is beautiful. Even though I have not read a book about clones yet the plot does sound a bit familiar. Let's hope this brings something new to the YA dystopian genre. :)

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A U R A C L E by Gina Rosati

Release Date: August 7th, 2012

Publisher: Roaring Books Press

Pages: 304 | ISBN: 1596437103

16 year old Anna Rogan has a secret she's only shared with her best friend, Rei; she can astrally project out of her body, allowing her spirit to explore the world and the far reaches of the universe. When there's a fatal accident and her classmate Taylor takes over Anna's body, what was an exhilarating distraction from her repressive home life threatens to become a permanent state. Faced with a future trapped in another dimension, Anna turns to Rei for help. Now the two of them must find a way to get Anna back into her body and stop Taylor from accusing an innocent friend of murder. Together Anna and Rei form a plan but it doesn't take into account the deeper feelings that are beginning to grow between them.

I absolutely LOVE the cover for Auracle! I try not to judge books by them, especially recently where I've come across WAY TOO many bad books with beautiful covers, but reading the summary gave me hope that this wasn't just a pretty face. This one could possibly be a ultra-rare GOOD book with a GORGEOUS cover.

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The book I’m waiting (and absolutely dying to read!) this week is:

Black City by Elizabeth Richards

Pages: 373 pages

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons BYR

Release date: November 13th 2012

A dark and tender post apocalyptic love story set in the aftermath of a bloody war

In a city where humans and Darklings are now separated by a high wall and tensions between the two races still simmer after a terrible war, sixteen-year-olds Ash Fisher, a half-blood Darkling, and Natalie Buchanan, a human and the daughter of the Emissary, meet and do the unthinkable—they fall in love. Bonded by a mysterious connection, that causes Ash’s long dormant heart to beat, Ash and Natalie first deny and then struggle to fight their forbidden feelings for each other, knowing if they’re caught they’ll be executed—but their feelings are too strong. When Ash and Natalie then find themselves at the center of a deadly conspiracy that threatens to pull the humans and Darklings back into war, they must make hard choices that could result in both their deaths.

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