Waiting on Wednesday: Hallowed

"Waiting On Wednesday" is a weekly event, originally started by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that highlights upcoming book releases everyone is waiting.

For months part-angel Clara Gardner trained to face the raging forest fire from her visions and rescue the alluring and mysterious Christian Prescott from the blaze. But nothing could prepare her for the fateful decisions she would be forced to make that day, or the startling revelation that her purpose—the task she was put on earth to accomplish—is not as straightforward as she thought. Now, torn between her increasingly complicated feelings for Christian and her love for her boyfriend, Tucker, Clara struggles to make sense of what she was supposed to do the day of the fire. And, as she is drawn further into the world of part angels and the growing conflict between White Wings and Black Wings, Clara learns of the terrifying new reality that she must face: Someone close to her will die in a matter of months. With her future uncertain, the only thing Clara knows for sure is that the fire was just the beginning.

Title: Hallowed {Unearthly, book 2}

Author: Cynthia Hand

Publication: 24th January 2012

Publisher: Harper Teen

320 pages

I loved the first book, Unearthly, it was a delightful story, captivating, often funny and sweet. I totally love Tucker. Even if I know that Christian will be more present in Hallowed (give me Tucker back!) I really can't wait to read it. I hope I won't be disappointed in this sequel, but I'm really looking forward to reading it.

Happy reading and see you next week :) 

Waiting on Wednesday : Legend

"Waiting On Wednesday" is a weekly event, originally started by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that highlights upcoming book releases everyone is waiting.

What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem.

From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths - until the day June's brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect. Caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family's survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias's death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets.

Title: Legend

Author: Marie Lu

Publication: 29th November 2011

Publisher: Putnam Juvenile

336 pages

Why am I waiting for this book? Because I love dystopias and this one sounds awesome. I've read the first pages and I really loved it so I can't wait to know the rest of the story.

Happy reading and see you next week :) 

Waiting on Wednesday: Fateful

"Waiting On Wednesday" is a weekly event, originally started by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that highlights upcoming book releases everyone is waiting.

It's about a servant girl named Tess in 1912, who wants to escape from the house where she works, and most particularly the lecherous young lord of the manor. But that's not her biggest problem. While on a voyage to America, where she plans to escape and start a new life, she meets Alec, who's ruggedly handsome, fabulously wealthy, intelligent and yet so clearly troubled that she'd rather not fall for him, but she does. That also is not her biggest problem. Alec, it turns out, is a werewolf ... one cursed to change every night, unless and until he surrenders his independence and joins the Brotherhood, a pack of violently misogynistic werewolves who have been tracking him for months. You'd think that would be their biggest problem, wouldn't you?

But no. Their biggest problem -- though they don't know it yet -- is that they're aboard the RMS Titanic.

Title: Fateful

Author: Claudia Gray

Publication: 13th September 2011

Publisher: HarperCollins

356 pages

Why am I waiting for this book? I love the cover, the synopsis and the Titanic's story. When I was younger it totally fascinated me. So this one sounds totally appealling for me. I'm really looking forward to reading it.

Happy reading and see you next week :) 

Waiting on Wednesday: All These Things I've Done

"Waiting On Wednesday" is a weekly event, originally started by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that highlights upcoming book releases everyone is waiting.

In 2083, chocolate and coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water is carefully rationed, and New York City is rife with crime and poverty. And yet, for Anya Balanchine, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the city's most notorious (and dead) crime boss, life is fairly routine. It consists of going to school, taking care of her siblings and her dying grandmother, trying to avoid falling in love with the new assistant D.A.'s son, and avoiding her loser ex-boyfriend. That is until her ex is accidently poisoned by the chocolate her family manufactures and the police think she's to blame. Suddenly, Anya finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight--at school, in the news, and most importantly, within her mafia family.

Title: All These Things I've Done

Author: Gabrielle Zevin

Publication: 6th September 2011

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

368 pages

I totally love this cover, as well as dystopias. The summary sounds really promising and a society without chocolate.. no way! This book has everything to please me so I really can't wait to read it.

Happy reading and see you next week :) 

Waiting on Wednesday : Jessica Rules the Dark Side

"Waiting On Wednesday" is a weekly event, originally started by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that highlights upcoming book releases everyone is waiting.

It’s one thing to find out you’re a vampire princess. It’s a whole other thing to actually rule. Newly married Jessica Packwood is having a hard enough time feeling regal with her husband, Lucius, at her side. But when evidence in the murder of a powerful elder points to Lucius, sending him into solitary confinement, Jessica is suddenly on her own. Determined to clear her husband’s name, Jessica launches into a full-scale investigation, but hallucinations and nightmares of betrayal keep getting in her way. Jessica knows that with no blood to drink, Lucius’s time is running out. Can she figure out who the real killer is—and whom she can trust—before it’s too late?

Title: Jessica Rules the Dark Side

Author: Beth Fantaskey

Publication: 10th January 2012

Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books

320 pages

I totally loved the first book, it was often funny, entertaining and Lucius... *swoon* He is one of my favorite male characters. I also loved the short novella available on Beth Fantaskey's website. I was really happy to hear that there'll be a sequel and now I'm really looking forward to reading it. I hope I won't be disappointed, but as I love Beth Fantaskey's writing I'm sure I will love it.

Happy reading and see you next week :)

Waiting on Wednesday : Juliet Immortal

"Waiting On Wednesday" is a weekly event, originally started by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that highlights upcoming book releases everyone is waiting.

"These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume."
—Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The most tragic love story in history . . .

Juliet Capulet didn't take her own life. She was murdered by the person she trusted most, her new husband, Romeo Montague, a sacrifice made to ensure his own immortality. But what Romeo didn't anticipate was that Juliet would be granted eternity, as well, and would become an agent for the Ambassadors of Light. For 700 years, she's fought Romeo for the souls of true lovers, struggling to preserve romantic love and the lives of the innocent. Until the day she meets someone she's forbidden to love, and Romeo, oh Romeo, will do everything in his power to destroy that love.

Title: Juliet Immortal

Author: Stacey Jay

Publication: 09th August 2011

Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

304 pages

Why am I waiting for this book? I know it's a pretty lame reason, but because I fell in love with the cover. I totally love it and I find this cover perfect. I haven't read anything by Stacey Jay yet, so I think it's high time for me to start and Juliet Immortal sounds really promising. I love Romeo & Juliet so I'm utterly curious about this one :)

Happy reading and see you next week :) Feel free to comment and leave links to your Waiting on Wednesday posts. I'll try my best to visit on as many as possible.

Waiting on Wednesday : Chain Reaction

"Waiting On Wednesday" is a weekly event, originally started by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that highlights upcoming book releases everyone is waiting.

Luis Fuentes is a good boy who doesn't live with the angst that his big brothers, Alex and Carlos, have always lived with. Luis is smart, funny, and has big dreams of becoming an astronaut. But when he falls for the wrong girl, Luis enters a dark world he's never known, and just when he thinks he's got life all figured out, learns some disturbing news about his family that destroys his positive outlook on life. Will that Fuentes bad boy streak come out with a vengeance and lure Luis to live on the edge like his new girlfriend and his own father?

Title: Chain Reaction {Perfect Chemistry, book 3}

Author: Simone Elkeles

Publication: 16th August 2011

Publisher: Walker Books

336 pages

I totally loved Perfect Chemistry and Rules of Attraction. They were awesome readings and Simone Elkeles's writing is really captivating. It's often full of humor and action. Moreover, the narration is shared between two characters and I absolutely love this kind of novels. In the Perfect Chemistry series I found this addictive and with the first two books I totally couldn't stop reading. So I hope this one will be as incredible and marvelous as the first installments. I really can't wait for this sequel.

Happy reading and see you next week :) Feel free to comment and leave links to your Waiting on Wednesday posts. I'll try my best to visit on as many as possible.

Waiting on Wednesday : Silence

"Waiting On Wednesday" is a weekly event, originally started by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that highlights upcoming book releases everyone is waiting.

The noise between Patch and Nora is gone. They've overcome the secrets riddled in Patch's dark past...bridged two irreconcilable worlds...faced heart-wrenching tests of betrayal, loyalty and trust...and all for a love that will transcend the boundary between heaven and earth. Armed with nothing but their absolute faith in one another, Patch and Nora enter a desperate fight to stop a villain who holds the power to shatter everything they've worked for—and their love—forever.

Title: Silence {Hush Hush, book 3}

Author: Becca Fitzpatrick

Publication: 04th October 2011

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

400 pages

I totally loved Hush Hush and Crescendo, even if Nora was a bit annoying in Crescendo. Patch is really one of my favorite male characters. Although I'm a bit disappointed in the cover (Patch's hair.. irk.. and I also find it too dark), I'm really excited about Silence and I'm looking forward to reading it.

Happy reading and see you next week :) Feel free to comment and leave links to your Waiting on Wednesday posts. I'll try my best to visit on as many as possible.

Waiting on Wednesday : Days Like This

"Waiting On Wednesday" is a weekly event, originally started by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that highlights upcoming book releases everyone is waiting.

I want to go back to the days when life made sense. The days before our parents became strange; before the warming ate away at all the living things in the world; before The Committee and their Blacktroopers. Before the Wall.

Lily is a prisoner in her own home. Forced to stay inside by The Committee and guarded by their increasingly distant parents, Lily and her brother Daniel are beginning to ask why. Then, when Daniel disappears just before his seventeenth birthday, Lily knows she is next.

She has to escape.
But who else is out there?
And can anyone survive days like this?

Title: Days Like This

Author: Alison Stewart

Publication: 01st August 2011

Publisher: Penguin Australia

300 pages

I've wanted to read this book since I read the summary, it sounds so promising. I really love dystopias since Hunger Games, Delirium and Divergent. And Australia is so far away from France so I think it would be really interesting for me to discover this country in this book. Moreover, nearly all the books I read take place in the US so this one sounds really original and exotic.

My only problem is that I can't preorder it anywhere as, at the moment, it looks as if the rights were only sold for Australia. I've tried Bookdepository and Amazon (either Amazon.fr and Amazon.com) but it's nowhere to be seen. I really hope it won't be sold only in Australia because I so want to read it.

You can find a short extract here.

Happy reading and see you next week :) Feel free to comment and leave links to your Waiting on Wednesday posts. I'll try my best to visit on as many as possible.

Waiting on Wednesday : Fury

"Waiting On Wednesday" is a weekly event, originally started by Jill atBreaking the Spine, that highlights upcoming book releases everyone is waiting.

Sometimes sorry isn't enough....

It’s winter break in Ascension, Maine. The snow is falling and everything looks pristine and peaceful. But not all is as it seems...

Between cozy traditions and parties with her friends, Emily loves the holidays. And this year’s even better--the guy she’s been into for months is finally noticing her. But Em knows if she starts things with him, there’s no turning back. Because his girlfriend is Em’s best friend.

On the other side of town, Chase is having problems of his own. The stress of his home life is starting to take its toll, and his social life is unraveling. But that’s nothing compared to what’s really haunting him. Chase has done something cruel...something the perfect guy he pretends to be would never do. And it’s only a matter of time before he’s exposed.

In Ascension, mistakes can be deadly. And three girls—three beautiful, mysterious girls—are here to choose who will pay.

Em and Chase have been chosen.

Title : Fury {Fury, book 1}

Author : Elizabeth Miles

Publication : 30th August 2011

Publisher : Simon Pulse

352 pages

When she came to France, Lauren Oliver advised me to read this book. I really loved Lauren Oliver's books : Before I fall and Delirium so that was enough. Since then I've been dying to read Fury. It's the first book of a trilogy and I'm really excited about this one.

Happy reading and see you next week :) Feel free to comment and leave links to your Waiting on Wednesday posts. I'll try my best to visit on as many as possible.

Waiting on Wednesday : Supernaturally

"Waiting On Wednesday" is a weekly event, originally started by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that highlights upcoming book releases everyone is waiting.

 Evie finally has the normal life she’s always longed for. But she’s shocked to discover that being ordinary can be . . . kind of boring. Just when Evie starts to long for her days at the International Paranormal Containment Agency, she’s given a chance to work for them again. Desperate for a break from all the normalcy, she agrees.

But as one disastrous mission leads to another, Evie starts to wonder if she made the right choice. And when Evie’s faerie ex-boyfriend Reth appears with devastating revelations about her past, she discovers that there’s a battle brewing between the faerie courts that could throw the whole supernatural world into chaos. The prize in question? Evie herself.

So much for normal.

Title : Supernaturally {Paranormalcy, book 2}

Author : Kiersten White

Publication : 26th July 2011

Publisher : HarperTeen

352 pages

Supernaturally is the sequel to Paranormalcy, it will be released on 26th July 2011.

I've picked this book for my Waiting on Wednesday because I really loved Paranormalcy , which was brilliant. It was the kind of book that make you smile, a lot, laugh out loud but also cry -a little. I loved Evie and Lend (yeah especially Lend) so much I can't wait to know what will happen next.

Bleep! I really can't wait :D

Waiting on Wednesday : Lola and the Boy Next Door

"Waiting On Wednesday" is a weekly event, originally started by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that highlights upcoming book releases everyone is waiting.

 "For budding costume designer Lola Nolan, the more outrageous, the outfit—more sparkly, more fun, more wild—the better. But even though Lola’s style is outrageous, she’s a devoted daughter and friend with some big plans for the future. And everything is pretty perfect (right down to her hot rocker boyfriend) until the dreaded Bell twins move back into the house next door.

When the family returns and Cricket—a gifted inventor and engineer—steps out from his twin sister’s shadow and back into Lola’s life, she must finally reconcile a lifetime of feelings for the boy next door."

Title : Lola and the Boy Next Door

Author : Stephanie Perkins

Publication : 29th Septembre 2011

Publisher : Dutton

384 pages

Lola and the boy next door is a companion novel to Anna and the French Kiss, it will be released on 29th Septembre 2011.

I've picked this book for my first Waiting on Wednesday because I've just finished Anna and the French Kiss and I totally loved it. It was such a light, fun and delightful read. I really loved Stephanie Perkins' writing which was awesome and I fall in love with St. Clair.

So now, even if it will be different characters, I can't wait for Lola and the Boy Next Door. And above all, the cover is totally gorgeous, as the previous one.