Waiting on Wednesday: City of Fallen Angels

This is a weekly meme hosted by Jill from Breaking the Spine. Waiting on Wednesday spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

City of Fallen Angels
por Cassandra Clare

Margaret K. McElderry
424 páginas
Hardcover
5/4/2011

Love, blood, betrayal and revenge — the stakes are higher than ever in City of Fallen Angels. Simon Lewis is having some trouble adjusting to his new life as a vampire, especially now that he hardly sees his best friend Clary, who is caught up in training to be a Shadowhunter—and spending time with her new boyfriend Jace. Not to mention that Simon doesn’t quite know how to handle the pressure of not-quite-dating two girls at once. What’s a daylight-loving vampire to do? Simon decides he needs a break and heads out of the city—only to discover that sinister events are following him. Realizing that the war they thought they’d won might not yet be over, Simon has to call on his Shadowhunter friends to save the day — if they can put their own splintering relationships on hold long enough to rise to the challenge.

Fala aí algum fã da série que não está louco pelo lançamento de CoFA? Impossível não estar! Mas bem que podemos ignorar essa capa e esse olhar bizarro da representação da Clary... Ninguém merece.

Waiting on Wednesday: The Iron Thorn

This is a weekly meme hosted by Jill from Breaking the Spine. Waiting on Wednesday spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

The Iron Thorn
por Caitlin Kittredge

Delacorte Books For Young Readers
512 páginas
Hardcover
22/2/2011

In the city of Lovecraft, the Proctors rule and a great Engine turns below the streets, grinding any resistance to their order to dust. The necrovirus is blamed for Lovecraft's epidemic of madness, for the strange and eldritch creatures that roam the streets after dark, and for everything that the city leaders deem Heretical—born of the belief in magic and witchcraft. And for Aoife Grayson, her time is growing shorter by the day.

Aoife Grayson's family is unique, in the worst way—every one of them, including her mother and her elder brother Conrad, has gone mad on their 16th birthday. And now, a ward of the state, and one of the only female students at the School of Engines, she is trying to pretend that her fate can be different.

A culpa da vez vai para a Linna, do 21 Pages. Já tinha visto o livro por aí, sem ler a sinopse (*cof cof*), mas não tinha me chamado tanto a atenção até ela começar a falar o quanto está esperando por ele. E, de fato, são bem atraentes, tanto a capa quanto a sinopse.

Waiting On Wednesday: Crush Control

This is a weekly meme hosted by Jill from Breaking the Spine. Waiting on Wednesday spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Crush Control
por Jennifer Jabaley

Razorbill
272 páginas
Paperback
9/6/2011

Willow Grey is about to learn a thing or two about life, love and total mind control...

Willow has spent most of her life as her mother's sidekick in a popular Las Vegas hypnotism show. So when she and her mom move back to their sleepy southern hometown to start over, she thinks she's in for a life of quiet normalcy. Except that her new life turns out to be anything but, when she decides to hypnotize Quinton, the hottest guy on the football team, to fall madly, deeply, head over heels in love with her.

But what started out as an innocent way to make her best friend, Max, jealous soon gets way out of hand and Willow begins to wonder if the mind—and more importantly, the heart—is something you can really control.

Essa coisa de hipnose me parece algo super original na literatura YA. Sério... Se alguém sabe de outros livros com este tema, por favor, diz aí. Espero poder ler Crush Control logo, pois a sinopse me atraiu completamente. =)

Waiting On Wednesday: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

This is a weekly meme hosted by Jill from Breaking the Spine. Waiting on Wednesday spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
por Michelle Hodkin

Simon & Schuster
372 páginas
Hardcover
27/9/2011

Mara Dyer believes life can’t get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. It can.

She believes there must be more to the accident she can’t remember that killed her friends and left her strangely unharmed. There is.

She doesn’t believe that after everything she’s been through, she can fall in love. She’s wrong.

My name is not Mara Dyer, but my lawyer told me I had to choose something. A pseudonym. A nom de plume, for all of us studying for the SATs. I know that having a fake name is strange but trust me, it's the most normal thing about my life right now. Even telling you this much probably isn't smart. But without my big mouth, no one would know that a seventeen-year-old who likes Death Cab for Cutie was responsible for the murders. No one would know that somewhere out there is a B student with a body count. And it's important that you know, so you're not next.

Mais uma vez, como sempre, comento a capa. Agora, no entanto, sem palavras. Obrigada. Tirem suas próprias conclusões. <3

Waiting On Wednesday: Divergent

This is a weekly meme hosted by Jill from Breaking the Spine. Waiting on Wednesday spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Divergent
por Veronica Roth

HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books
496 páginas
Hardcover
3/5/2011

One choice

One choice decides your friends, defines your beliefs, and determines your loyalties... Forever.

Or, one choice can transform you.

In Veronica Roth's debut novel, Divergent, a perfect society unfolds into a dystopian world of electrifying decisions, stunning consequences, heartbreaking betrayals, and unexpected romance.

In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can’t have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris, and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together, they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes-fascinating, sometimes-exasperating boy fits into the life she’s chosen.

But Tris also has a secret: one she’s kept hidden from everyone, because she’s been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly-perfect society, she also learns that her secret might be what helps her save those she loves... Or it might be what destroys her.

Mais um mundo futurístico que promete ser fantástico! Adorei tanto a sinopse quanto a capa, e ambos me convencem a lê-lo. O que vocês acham?

Waiting On Wednesday: Chain Reaction

This is a weekly meme hosted by Jill from Breaking the Spine. Waiting on Wednesday spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Chain Reaction
por Simone Elkeles

Walker
336 páginas
Hardcover
24/5/2011

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?

Continuing all the steamy romance of the first two books, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Simone Elkeles gives fans one more satisfying taste of the irresistible Fuentes boys.

Como NÃO querer ler Chain Reaction após dois romances tão bons como Perfect Chemistry e Rules of Attraction? Além dessa capa maravilhosa! Sério. Por favor, Maio, venha o mais rápido possível. Obrigada!

Waiting On Wednesday: Entangled

This is a weekly meme hosted by Jill from Breaking the Spine. Waiting on Wednesday spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Entangled
por Cat Clarke

Quercus Publishing
374 páginas
Paperback
6/1/2011

The same questions whirl round and round in my head:What does he want from me?

How could I have let this happen?

AM I GOING TO DIE?

17-year-old Grace wakes up in a white room, with a table, pens and paper - and no clue how she got here.

As Grace pours her tangled life onto the page, she is forced to remember everything she's tried to forget. There's falling hopelessly in love with the gorgeous Nat, and the unravelling of her relationship with her best friend Sal. But there's something missing. As hard as she's trying to remember, is there something she just can't see?

Grace must face the most important question of all. Why is she here?

A story of dark secrets, intense friendship and electrifying attraction.

Waiting On Wednesday: Steel

This is a weekly meme hosted by Jill from Breaking the Spine. Waiting on Wednesday spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Steel
por Carrie Vaughn

HarperTeen
304 páginas
15/03/2011

When Jill finds a rusty sword tip on a Caribbean beach, she is instantly intrigued—and little expects it will transport her through time to the deck of a pirate ship. Will a dark enchantment, salty kisses, and a duel with an evil pirate captain leave her stranded in the eighteenth century forever?

Drawing on piratical lore and historical fact, Carrie Vaughn creates a vivid world of swaying masts and swelling seas, where blood magic overrules the laws of nature, romance is in the air, and death can come at the single slip of a sword.

Estou começando a ter que admitir que as capas realmente têm uma enorme influência nas minhas escolhas literárias. E Steel não é nenhuma exceção. Além disso, parece trazer um contexto original e uma fantasia diferente do que estamos ultimamente acostumados. Quem topa?

I'm starting to have to admit book covers really have a huge influence on my reading choices. And Steel is no exception. Besides, it seems like bringing a brand new original context and a kind of fantasy different of what we have been used to lately. You're in?

Waiting on Wednesday: Whisper

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine that allow us to share the upcoming releases we're most antecipating.

Whisper

by Phoebe Kitanidis

Release Date: April 27, 2010
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Pages: 288 (Hardcover)

I’d love a cup of coffee. I wish she knew how pretty she was. I wish I could drop this kid in the dryer sometimes. I just want her to be happy. I hope she didn’t find out what Ben said about her. I wish I knew how many calories were in a bite of muffin…

Joy is used to hearing Whispers. She’s used to walking down the street and instantly knowing people’s deepest, darkest desires. She uses this talent for good, to make people happy and give them what they want. But for her older sister, Jessica, the family gift is a curse, and she uses it to make people’s lives—especially Joy’s—miserable. Still, when Joy Hears Jessica whisper: I want to kill my Hearing dead, and kill me too if that’s what it takes, she knows she has to save her sister, even if it means deserting her friends, stealing a car and running away with a boy she barely knows—a boy who may have a dark secret of his own.

I think I once said that I love the book covers. And I do. Actually, I usually first interest in the book because of its cover and then I allow myself to read the summary plot. And I definitely loved both on Whisper. Hope I don't get disappointed. So, what's the upcoming release YOU are most antecipating this week?

Waiting on Wednesday: Before I Fall

Before I Fall
by Lauren Oliver

Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Pages: 480

What if you had only one day to live? What would you do? Who would you kiss? And how far would you go to save your own life?

Samantha Kingston has it all—looks, popularity, the perfect boyfriend. Friday, February 12th should be just another day in her charmed life. Instead, it’s her last. The catch: Samantha still wakes up the next morning. In fact, she re-lives the last day of her life seven times, until she realizes that by making even the slightest changes, she may hold more power than she had ever imagined.

Gotta read this asap!