Waiting on Wednesday (38): Second Star

Nov 13

Waiting on Wednesday

Second Star by Alyssa B. Sheinmel

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Second Star

WHAAAAAT a retelling of Peter Pan. DO. NOT. TEASE. I’m totally psyched for SECOND STAR. First of all, Peter Pan is one of my favorite stories. I always loved the movie versions when I was a kid, and I don’t just mean the Disney one. I am still fascinated by Neverland, and Peter Pan and Captain Hook and all of it. The idea of this contemporary retelling of Peter Pan with lost brothers and surfers and drug dealing bad boys is just making me all fidgety. BRING IT, Alyssa B. Sheinmel. I am ready for your words.

SECOND STAR comes out May 13, 2014 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Waiting on Wednesday (37): Defy

Nov 6

Waiting on Wednesday

Defy: Defy #1 by Sara B. Larson

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So you all know that the first hint I get of a new fantasy novel, I’m basically ALL OVER IT, adding it to Goodreads, clapping like a fool, and generally getting PSYCHED. Such was the case when I first heard of DEFY, the debut first book in a new series where the MC is a girl who has to dress up as a boy so she can be in the military. STOP IT RIGHT NOW. Plus there’s an evil sorcerer and secrets and a prince named Damian who is “dark” and “intriguing.”

Speaking of the prince, there’s also another guy. In fact, I’m maybe slightly worried about the way this synopsis doesn’t even hide the triangle. But like who am I kidding? As if that’s even going to stop me from reading this book. Besides, triangles are sometimes LEGIT, so I’ll reserve judgement on that. There’s just too much potential awesome here.

DEFY comes out January 7, 2014 from Scholastic Press

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Tripping Over November

Nov 3

November

Lots of great books coming out this month, friends! For me, though, there’s one in particular that I have been SALIVATING for since last year. But no worries: The other books sound amazing, too, and I’m stoked for all of them. November is shaping up to be a pretty legit month!

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Waiting on Wednesday (36): The Winner’s Curse

Oct 30

Waiting on Wednesday

The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski

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The Winner's Curse

THE WINNER’S CURSE by Marie Rutkoski has been on my radar since some lucky ducks got SUPER early copies at BEA. It immediately set off a bunch of my “OOOOH! THIS SOUNDS EXCELLENT” bells because it’s a fantasy, and we all know how much I’m all over those. Any time I hear about a new fantasy series starting I get the happy fidgets; I just want to read them all.

But when I read the synopsis, a few bonus things jumped out at me: First, right off the bat, Kristin Cashore’s name flashed like a huge neon sign in front of my face. KRISTIN CASHORE. Done. I’m in. (Cassandra Clare, too, but if I’m being honest, Kristin Cashore is more of a draw for me.) But then there’s also this music angle, and war and slavery. This sounds like some legit drama, friends. Can’t wait to get my mitts on it!

THE WINNER’S CURSE comes out March 4, 2014 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Waiting on Wednesday (35): Maybe One Day

Oct 16

Waiting on Wednesday

Maybe One Day by Melissa Kantor

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Tripping Over October

Oct 1

October

We are getting into the heart of what I always think of as big book season. SO MANY highly anticipated releases always seem to come out in the fall, the same way that movies released in the fall are meant to be bigger contenders for the season’s awards. I’m pretty stoked to get my mits of these titles coming out this October!

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Waiting on Wednesday (34): The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

Sep 25

Waiting on Wednesday

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton

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Magical realism, lyrical prose, and the pain and passion of human love haunt this hypnotic generational saga.

Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for its most recent progeny, Ava Lavender. Ava—in all other ways a normal girl—is born with the wings of a bird. In a quest to understand her peculiar disposition and a growing desire to fit in with her peers, sixteen-year old Ava ventures into the wider world, ill-prepared for what she might discover and naïve to the twisted motives of others. Others like the pious Nathaniel Sorrows, who mistakes Ava for an angel and whose obsession with her grows until the night of the Summer Solstice celebration. That night, the skies open up, rain and feathers fill the air, and Ava’s quest and her family’s saga build to a devastating crescendo. First-time author Leslye Walton has constructed a layered and unforgettable mythology of what it means to be born with hearts that are tragically, exquisitely human.

WHOA. This debut sounds like it’s going to ROCK MY SOCKS RIGHT OFF MY FEET. Read that synopsis again and count the awesome things. It’s ok. I’ll wait. *waits and hums and daydreams about Ichabod Crane from the Sleepy Hollow TV show* So, did you see all the awesome things?! Magical realism, a girl who LITERALLY has wings, teenage angst, trouble with love, a boy who thinks said girl with feathers is an angel–I can’t deal. Like, I am ready to read this book NOW NOW NOW. Plus, I’m very much looking forward to the fact that THE STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL SORROWS OF AVA LAVENDER  is Leslye Walton‘s debut, and that even the SYNOPSIS sounds pretty. That is some kind of good sign, I think.

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender is coming out on March 25, 2014 from Candlewick PressGoodreads

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Top Ten Tuesday (94)

Sep 17

Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Books on My Fall TBR

Friends, fall is my favorite season. I love basically everything about it. EVERYTHING. The crispy air, the colorful leaves, pumpkin eats, Thanksgiving. In addition to all those awesome fallish things and more, I’m STOKED to read these books!  [Read more…]

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Waiting on Wednesday (33): The Glass Casket

Sep 11

Waiting on WednesdayThe Glass Casket by McCormick Templeman

 

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Death hasn’t visited Rowan Rose since it took her mother when Rowan was only a little girl. But that changes one bleak morning, when five horses and their riders thunder into her village and through the forest, disappearing into the hills. Days later, the riders’ bodies are found, and though no one can say for certain what happened in their final hours, their remains prove that whatever it was must have been brutal.

Rowan’s village was once a tranquil place, but now things have changed. Something has followed the path those riders made and has come down from the hills, through the forest, and into the village. Beast or man, it has brought death to Rowan’s door once again.

Only this time, its appetite is insatiable.

So, this cover. I love it, but I can’t figure out why it looks like she’s about to make herself puke all over her nice manicure. Or like she is licking the cream cheese frosting off her fingers, which is at least understandable. But even considering the finger-in-the-mouth thing, the cover looks so atmospheric, which seems to be perfect for THE GLASS CASKET. The fantasy/paranormal/mystery vibe I get from the synopsis just rings so many of my bells.

Also, there are so many elusions to the Snow White, Rose Red fairy tale, just in the title and the cover and synopsis: the pop of red, the glass casket itself, the main character’s name being Rose–I’m incredibly intrigued by this beast and the death and the “insatiable appetite”! THE GLASS CASKET can’t come out fast enough.

THE GLASS CASKET is coming out on February 11, 2014 from Delacorte

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Waiting on Wednesday (32): Since You’ve Been Gone

Sep 4

Waiting on Wednesday

 Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson

 

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 The Pre-Sloane Emily didn’t go to parties, she barely talked to guys, she didn’t do anything crazy. Enter Sloane, social tornado and the best kind of best friend—the one who yanks you out of your shell. But right before what should have been an epic summer, Sloane just… disappears. No note. No calls. No texts. No Sloane. There’s just a random to-do list. On it, thirteen Sloane-selected-definitely-bizarre-tasks that Emily would never try… unless they could lead back to her best friend. Apple Picking at Night? Ok, easy enough. Dance until Dawn? Sure. Why not? Kiss a Stranger? Wait… what?

Getting through Sloane’s list would mean a lot of firsts. But Emily has this whole unexpected summer ahead of her, and the help of Frank Porter (totally unexpected) to check things off. Who knows what she’ll find?
Go Skinny Dipping? Um…

HOW DID I MISS THIS COVER. I disconnect from Twitter for a few days and I miss the cover and title reveal for one of my must-read, favorite authors around. At least I think it happened over the past few days. ANYWHO, Morgan Matson is an auto-read, auto-buy author for me. Her books are just perfect. (I seriously can’t think of a thing about AMY & ROGER’S EPIC DETOUR and SECOND CHANCE SUMMER that I didn’t like. I’m trying. I got nothing.)

SINCE YOU’VE BEEN GONE sounds like another winner to me. I love this list of things, I love the friendship angle, and I am really intrigued by this disappearance of Sloane. I hope we get to know what that’s about. But most of all I am really looking forward to Emily getting yanked out of her shell and living the crap out of her life. Morgan Matson doing a friendship between girls is going to be SUPER.

Since You've Been Gone

SINCE YOU’VE BEEN GONE is coming out May 13, 2014 from Simon & Schuster

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