Most Anticipated of 2015: A Book of Spirits and Thieves

I wanted to talk about the books I'm dying to have, but since I don't do the WoW weekly feature I don't really have somewhere to talk about those books. So these posts were born. It'll be a series of 6-10 posts, since I haven't decided how many I want to talk about, and they should be up every Friday as a temporary feature.

Today I'm going to talk about

A Book of Spirits and Thieves by Morgan Rhodes

expected June 23rd

New York Times bestselling author Morgan Rhodes takes readers into exhilarating new high-fantasy territory with A BOOK OF SPIRITS AND THIEVES. Written in alternating perspectives that shift between modern-day Toronto and the ancient kingdoms of Mytica, Rhodes masterfully weaves the dark, magical world of her Falling Kingdoms series into an epic contemporary saga that will leave you breathless. 

Modern-day Toronto: A heavy leather-bound book written in an unrecognizable language is delivered to the Speckled Muse, the antique bookshop owned by Crystal and Becca Hatcher’s mother. When Becca opens it, she’s sent into a coma, leaving Crys behind to uncover a series of terrifying secrets.

Ancient Mytica: A merciless goddess hunts for the elusive treasure that will make her ruler not only of Mytica, but of all the unseen worlds that lay beyond it.

Modern-day Toronto: Rich and aimless Farrell Grayson finally has the chance to prove himself when the mysterious leader of a powerful secret society invites him into his fold.

Ancient Mytica: Maddox Corso has always been different, but never remarkable. Everything changes the day he meets a pretty, unfamiliar girl from a faraway land, only to realize that he’s the only one who can see her.

Fate has brought these young people together, but ancient magic threatens to rip them apart. 

More Fallen Kingdoms books? 

More Morgan Rhodes books? 

Books alternatively Canadian and set in Mytica?

Oh, I'm in heaven!! Is it June yet??????

Most Anticipated of 2015: An Ember In The Ashes

I wanted to talk about the books I'm dying to have, but since I don't do the WoW weekly feature I don't really have somewhere to talk about those books. So these posts were born. It'll be a series of 6-10 posts, since I haven't decided how many I want to talk about, and they should be up every Friday as a temporary feature.

Today I'm going to talk about

An Ember In The Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

expected April 28th

Set in a terrifyingly brutal Rome-like world, An Ember in the Ashes is an epic fantasy debut about an orphan fighting for her family and a soldier fighting for his freedom. It’s a story that’s literally burning to be told.

LAIA is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire’s greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution.

ELIAS is the academy’s finest soldier—and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias is considering deserting the military, but before he can, he’s ordered to participate in a ruthless contest to choose the next Martial emperor.

When Laia and Elias’s paths cross at the academy, they find that their destinies are more intertwined than either could have imagined and that their choices will change the future of the empire itself. 

I need this book more than air. 

I am so happy to see it's gonna be pubbed in the UK!!! Yaaaas I'll be able to get it on the release day!! Give me An Ember In The Ashes right now.

Most Anticipated of 2015: Winter

I wanted to talk about the books I'm dying to have, but since I don't do the WoW weekly feature I don't really have somewhere to talk about those books. So these posts were born. It'll be a series of 6-10 posts, since I haven't decided how many I want to talk about, and they should be up every Friday as a temporary feature.

Today I'm going to talk about

Winter by Marissa Meyer

expected November 10th

Here is the stunning conclusion to the national bestselling Lunar Chronicles, inspired by Snow White.

When Princess Winter was thirteen, the rumor around the Lunar court was that her glamour would soon be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana. In a fit of jealousy, Levana disfigured Winter. Four years later, Winter has sworn off the use of her glamour altogether. Despite her scars, Winter’s natural beauty, her grace, and her gentleness are winning admiration from the Lunar people that no amount of mind-control could achieve.

Winter despises her stepmother, but has never dreamed of standing up to her. That is, until she realizes that she may be the only one with the power to confront the queen.

Can Cinder, Prince Kai, Scarlet, Wolf, Cress, Thorne, Princess Winter, and the palace guard Jacin find their happily ever afters? Fans will LOVE this amazing conclusion to the series. 

WHY WHY WHY IS NOVEMBER SO FAR AWAY???? I NEED ALL MY OTPS TO BE HAPPY, AND I NEED THEM TO BE HAPPY RIGHT NOW. NOT IN NOVEMBER. This is one of the best, most emotional and driven sci-fi series I've ever read. I need Winter yesterday.

Most Anticipated of 2015: The Wondrous and The Wicked

I wanted to talk about the books I'm dying to have, but since I don't do the WoW weekly feature I don't really have somewhere to talk about those books. So these posts were born. It'll be a series of 6-10 posts, since I haven't decided how many I want to talk about, and they should be up every Friday as a temporary feature.

Today I'm going to talk about

The Wondrous and The Wicked by Page Morgan

expected April 14th

For fans of Lauren Kate's Fallen series comes the exciting conclusion to the trilogy that includes The Beautiful and the Cursed and The Lovely and the Lost. The Waverly sisters must save themselves before all is lost.

Since the Waverlys arrived in Paris, the streets have grown more fearsome by the day. As Ingrid learns to master her lectrux gift, she must watch Axia's power grow strong enough to extend beyond her Underneath hive. By all indications, the fallen angel's Harvest is near-and the timing couldn't be worse.

Targeted by vengeful gargoyles, Gabby has been exiled to London for her own protection. Meanwhile, the gargoyle castes are in disarray, divided between those who want Luc to lead them and those who resent him and his fondness for humans. The Alliance is crumbling from the inside as well, its members turning against one another, and possibly against the Waverlys, too.

Axia has promised that the world will burn. And now, unable to trust the Alliance, separated from Luc, Gabby, and her twin, Grayson, Ingrid is left to face the demon uprising alone.

That recommendation is a little crazy. This series is a hundred times better than the Fallen series. Seriously. Given the last blurb had Gabby in an eye patch, I don't put much stock in these blurbs. Love the covers, though. Kinda scared to see what cover we'll get, since the UK Dispossessed covers are hit or miss for me.

I NEED this book. This is one of my favourite series ever. The romance, the lush historical period, the glitter and magic of it all - reading these books is a glorious indulgence and I can't wait for The Wondrous and The Wicked!

Most Anticipated of 2015: Rogue

I wanted to talk about the books I'm dying to have, but since I don't do the WoW weekly feature I don't really have somewhere to talk about those books. So these posts were born. It'll be a series of 6-10 posts, since I haven't decided how many I want to talk about, and they should be up every Friday as a temporary feature.

Today I'm going to talk about

Rogue by Julie Kagawa

expected May 7th

Ember Hill left the dragon organization Talon to take her chances with rebel dragon Cobalt and his crew of rogues. But Ember can't forget the sacrifice made for her by the human boy who could have killed her—Garret Xavier Sebastian, a soldier of the dragonslaying Order of St. George, the boy who saved her from a Talon assassin, knowing that by doing so, he'd signed his own death warrant. 

Determined to save Garret from execution, Ember must convince Cobalt to help her break into the Order's headquarters. With assassins after them and Ember's own brother helping Talon with the hunt, the rogues find an unexpected ally in Garret and a new perspective on the underground battle between Talon and St. George. 

A reckoning is brewing and the secrets hidden by both sides are shocking and deadly. Soon Ember must decide: Should she retreat to fight another day…or start an all-out war?

I never expected to love Talon. I expected to like and enjoy it and for the series to grow on me. That I fell head first into adoration with the book was, still is, a total shock. I need the next book asap so I can find out what happens to Garret and Ember!!

Most Anticipated of 2015: Until The Beginning

I wanted to talk about the books I'm dying to have, but since I don't do the WoW weekly feature I don't really have somewhere to talk about those books. So these posts were born. It'll be a series of 6-10 posts, since I haven't decided how many I want to talk about, and they should be up every Friday as a temporary feature.

Today I'm going to talk about

Until The Beginning by Amy Plum

expected May 5th

When Juneau's clan disappeared, she lost so much more than her friends and family. She soon discovered everything she thought she knew about her life was a lie. Her people's gifts were actually secret abilities that others wanted, desperately enough to kidnap an entire village.

Juneau and her new companion Miles's cross-country journey to find her clan has led them to a game preserve in New Mexico. Now Juneau's people are finally within reach, and she will stop at nothing to save them. But she has a target on her back too, because unbeknownst to her she is the key to unlocking everything. To rescue her people - and herself - Juneau must discover what she, and her abilities, are truly capable of.

I LOVED After The End. A perfect blend of magic, conspiracy, and thriller. 
But THAT ENDING??? Killer. I need this sequel ASAP.

Most anticipated of 2015: The Stars Never Rise

I wanted to talk about the books I'm dying to have, but since I don't do the WoW weekly feature I don't really have somewhere to talk about those books. So these posts were born. It'll be a series of 6-10 posts, since I haven't decided how many I want to talk about, and they should be up every Friday as a temporary feature.

Today I'm going to talk about

The Stars Never Rise by Rachel Vincent

expected June 9th/18th

Sixteen-year-old Nina Kane should be worrying about her immortal soul, but she's too busy trying to actually survive. Her town's population has been decimated by soul-consuming demons, and souls are in short supply. Watching over her younger sister, Mellie, and scraping together food and money are all that matters. The two of them are a family. They gave up on their deadbeat mom a long time ago.

When Nina discovers that Mellie is keeping a secret that threatens their very existence, she'll do anything to protect her. Because in New Temperance, sins are prosecuted as crimes by the brutal Church and its army of black-robed exorcists. And Mellie's sin has put her in serious trouble.

To keep them both alive, Nina will need to trust Finn, a fugitive with deep green eyes who has already saved her life once and who might just be an exorcist. But what kind of exorcist wears a hoodie?

Wanted by the Church and hunted by dark forces, Nina knows she can't survive on her own. She needs Finn and his group of rogue friends just as much as they need her.

Rachel Vincent is one of those authors I will buy anything of. I LOVE her Soul Screamers series, and I'm DYING to read the Shifters and Unbound series, but neither of those could match my extreme craving for this book. The Stars Never Rise has a blurb that just grabbed me the first time I read it. Usually I'll know I want to read a forthcoming book but forget what it's about, but this just stuck with me. And the cover is beautiful.  I'm curious to see what the Mira Ink cover will be though, since we usually get different covers. 

Most anticipated of 2015: The Wrath and The Dawn

I wanted to talk about the books I'm dying to have, but since I don't do the WoW weekly feature (because I don't want to commit to a permanent feature - one of those is quite enough for me to remember to do), I don't really have somewhere to talk about those books. So these posts were born. It'll be a series of 6-10 posts, since I haven't decided how many I want to talk about, and they should be up every Thursday as a temporary feature.

Today I'm going to talk about

The Wrath and The Dawn by Renee Ahdieh

expected May 12th

A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights

Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan to stay alive and exact revenge on the Caliph for the murder of her best friend and countless other girls. Shazi's wit and will, indeed, get her through to the dawn that no others have seen, but with a catch . . . she’s falling in love with the very boy who killed her dearest friend.

She discovers that the murderous boy-king is not all that he seems and neither are the deaths of so many girls. Shazi is determined to uncover the reason for the murders and to break the cycle once and for all.

I got a preview of this book in the Buzz Books YA sampler and I'm half glad and half cursing that I did. I read the prologue and first chapter and it was so alluring and intriguing that I want more. I want the whole book but it's so far away, and I don't think it's being published in the UK so I'll have to import a US hardcover.

Here are some of the quotes I just love

One hundred lives for the one you took. One life to one dawn. Should you fail but a single morn, I shall take from you your dreams. I shall take from you your city.

And I shall take from you these lives, a thousandfold.

I will live to see tomorrow's sunset. Make no mistake. I swear I will live to see as many sunsets as it takes.

And I will kill you.

With my own hands.

I can't express how badly I want this book. I have a gut feeling it's going to blow me away, and I got a serious Cruel Beauty vibe from it and that's one of my favourite books ever. PLUS that cover is to die for and there's a Marie Lu blurb. Is it May yet?

Most Anticipated of 2013 (#6)

I found anyone onnnnnne. By 'one' I mean amazing books due to release this year.

Only Half Alive | Konstanz Silverbow

The World's darkest creature, will be their brightest hope! 
While darkness haunts her, she craves the light. Christina is a demon, but she doesn't want to be. She is willing to sacrifice everything to change it. Only one person stands in her way, and he will stop at nothing to keep her the way she is.The greatest battle of light vs dark threatens every living creature, a battle that could destroy all. And the demon in love will only have one chance to save everyone.

I'm really fricking excited for this, I can't even tell you. It's just below Control by Lydia Kang on my GIVE ME NOW list. That's a list I have now.

The cover for this comes out really soon so keep an eye out for it!

I need it!!

Most Anticipated of 2013 (#5)

The Dispossessed: The Beautiful and The Cursed | Page Morgan

May 14th 2013

Delacorte Books

 After a bizarre accident, Ingrid Waverly is forced to leave London with her mother and younger sister, Gabby, trading a world full of fancy dresses and society events for the unfamiliar city of Paris.

In Paris there are no grand balls or glittering parties, and, disturbingly, the house Ingrid’s twin brother, Grayson, found for them isn’t a house at all. It’s an abandoned abbey, its roof lined with stone gargoyles that could almost be mistaken for living, breathing creatures.

And Grayson has gone missing.

No one seems to know of his whereabouts but Luc, a devastatingly handsome servant at their new home.

Ingrid is sure her twin isn’t dead—she can feel it deep in her soul—but she knows he’s in grave danger. It will be up to her and Gabby to navigate the twisted path to Grayson, a path that will lead Ingrid on a discovery of dark secrets and otherworldly truths. And she’ll learn that once they are uncovered, they can never again be buried.

GARGOYLES!!!!

That's 100% why I want to read this.

Okay so technically this is already out, but I'm anticipating it being in my hands! I don't think I've seen such a beautiful title for a book in a long time. And it features twins, like my Lux Guardians series does. I'm all for twins. Okay that sounded more like a fetish than I meant it to.

Ugh look at the UK cover. How ugly is that thing? I'll be importing the beautiful cover from US.

Most Anticipated of 2013 (#4)

Control: Control | Lydia Kang

December 26th 2013

Dial Books

An un-putdownable thriller for fans of Uglies

When a crash kills their father and leaves them orphaned, Zel knows she needs to protect her sister, Dyl. But before Zel has a plan, Dyl is taken by strangers using bizarre sensory weapons, and Zel finds herself in a safe house for teens who aren’t like any she’s ever seen before—teens who shouldn't even exist. Using broken-down technology, her new friends’ peculiar gifts, and her own grit, Zel must find a way to get her sister back from the kidnappers who think a powerful secret is encoded in Dyl’s DNA.

A spiraling, intense, romantic story set in 2150—in a world of automatic cars, nightclubs with auditory ecstasy drugs, and guys with four arms—this is about the human genetic “mistakes” that society wants to forget, and the way that outcasts can turn out to be heroes.

“Control blew me away.”—James Dashner, New York Times bestselling author of The Maze Runner trilogy

I'm really really excited for this one. It's too far away though!!

Most Anticipated of 2013 (#3)

Mara Dyer: The Retribution of Mara Dyer | Michelle Hodkin

October 22nd 2013

The ending of Evolution is killing me, even though I refuse to believe it is true. I need this book right now. I cannot survive the wait. Noah Shaw has taken over my life; I need to know my darling is okay.

Most Anticipated of 2013 (#2)

Legend: Champion | Marie Lu

November 5th 2013

The explosive finale to Marie Lu’s New York Times bestselling LEGEND trilogy—perfect for fans of THE HUNGER GAMES and DIVERGENT!

He is a Legend.
She is a Prodigy.
Who will be Champion?

June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic—and each other—and now their country is on the brink of a new existence. June is back in the good graces of the Republic, working within the government’s elite circles as Princeps Elect while Day has been assigned a high level military position. But neither could have predicted the circumstances that will reunite them once again. Just when a peace treaty is imminent, a plague outbreak causes panic in the Colonies, and war threatens the Republic’s border cities. This new strain of plague is deadlier than ever, and June is the only one who knows the key to her country’s defense. But saving the lives of thousands will mean asking the one she loves to give up everything he has. With heart-pounding action and suspense, Marie Lu’s bestselling trilogy draws to a stunning conclusion.

The Legend series is my absolute all time favourite Dystopian, and possibly my favourite Young Adult series. I thought I'd have to wait until next year for the final installment, but according to Goodreads it's to be released this year, and I could not be happier! The less time I have to wait to find out what happens with Day the better.