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Waiting on Wednesday: Siren by @TriciaRayburn

April 27, 2011 By 7 Comments

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Waiting on Wednesdays is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. In Waiting on Wednesdays, you are supposed to list and discuss a book you are waiting on that hasn’t been published yet (or maybe a book you are waiting for in the mail).

Title: Siren Author: Tricia Rayburn (@TriciaRayburn) Pages: 368 ISBN: 9781606842126

Synopsis:

Seventeen-year-old Vanessa Sands is afraid of everything–the dark, heights, the ocean–but her fearless older sister, Justine, has always been there to coach her through every challenge.  That is until Justine goes cliff diving one night near the family’s vacation house in Winter Harbor, Maine, and her lifeless body washes up on shore the next day.

Vanessa’s parents want to work through the tragedy by returning to their everyday lives back in Boston, but Vanessa can’t help feeling that her sister’s death was more than an accident.  After discovering that Justine never applied to colleges, and that she was secretly in a relationship with longtime family friend Caleb Carmichael, Vanessa returns to Winter Harbor to seek some answers.

But when Vanessa learns that Caleb has been missing since Justine’s death, she and Caleb’s older brother, Simon, join forces to try to find him, and in the process, their childhood friendship blossoms into something more.
Soon it’s not just Vanessa who is afraid.  All of Winter Harbor is abuzz with anxiety when another body washes ashore, and panic sets in when the small town becomes home to a string of fatal, water-related accidents . . . in which all the victims are found grinning from ear to ear.

As Vanessa and Simon probe further into the connections between Justine’s death and the sudden rash of creepy drownings, Vanessa uncovers a secret that threatens her new romance, and that will change her life forever.

Release Date: May 2011

Discussion:

I haven’t seen anyone mention this book and I have never heard of this author. But I was checking out coming soon books on Barnes and Noble and this one popped up. The cover is kind of spooky and the synopsis sounds really engaging! I can’t wait to get my hands on this book.

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Waiting on Wednesday: Bumped by @MeganMcCafferty

April 20, 2011 By 4 Comments

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Waiting on Wednesdays is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. In Waiting on Wednesdays, you are supposed to list and discuss a book you are waiting on that hasn’t been published yet (or maybe a book you are waiting for in the mail).

Title: Bumped Author: Megan McCafferty (@MeganMcCafferty) Pages: 336 ISBN: 9780061962745

Synopsis:

When a virus makes everyone over the age of eighteen infertile, would-be parents pay teen girls to conceive and give birth to their children, making teens the most prized members of society. Girls sport fake baby bumps and the school cafeteria stocks folic-acid-infused food.

Sixteen-year-old identical twins Melody and Harmony were separated at birth and have never met until the day Harmony shows up on Melody’s doorstep. Up to now, the twins have followed completely opposite paths. Melody has scored an enviable conception contract with a couple called the Jaydens. While they are searching for the perfect partner for Melody to bump with, she is fighting her attraction to her best friend, Zen, who is way too short for the job.

Harmony has spent her whole life in Goodside, a religious community, preparing to be a wife and mother. She believes her calling is to convince Melody that pregging for profit is a sin. But Harmony has secrets of her own that she is running from.

When Melody is finally matched with the world-famous, genetically flawless Jondoe, both girls’ lives are changed forever. A case of mistaken identity takes them on a journey neither could have ever imagined, one that makes Melody and Harmony realize they have so much more than just DNA in common.

From New York Times bestselling author Megan McCafferty comes a strikingly original look at friendship, love, and sisterhood—in a future that is eerily believable.

Release Date: April 26, 2011

Discussion:

I tried scoring an ARC on GoodReads to no avail. Doesn’t GoodReads understand my devout dedication to Dystopian literature?! This novel sounds pretty awesome; a land riddled by infertility after a certain age and teenagers profiting off giving birth. Can you imagine if humanity was dependent on adolescents to be the only ones to have babies?

On top of that, I am interested to see just how fundamentalist Harmony is and how it will affect her relationship with the twin sister she has never known. I can’t wait until I can read this book!

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Waiting on Wednesday: The Scorch Trials @JamesDashner

September 29, 2010 By 10 Comments

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Waiting on Wednesdays is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. In Waiting on Wednesdays, you are supposed to list and discuss a book you are waiting on that hasn’t been published yet (or maybe a book you are waiting for in the mail).

Title: The Scorch Trials
Author: James Dashner (@JamesDashner)
Pages: 368
ISBN: 978-0385738750

I read the first in the trilogy, The Maze Runner, almost a year ago (back in November of 2009). Ever since then, I have been in love. It’s right up there equal to (in my opinion) The Hunger Games in best all time Dystopian novels. I was a bit heart broken not to receive an ARC of the sequal, The Scorch Trials, but I guess all good things will come to those who wait.

I have high hopes for The Scorch Trials and hope it’s just as intense as The Maze Runner was when I read that back in November. I want to be so enthralled in the book that I neglect everything around me (Sorry kids. Sorry Forrest). It’s been a while since I’ve been truly enthralled into a novel. I hope that this one does it!

Only a few weeks left until we find out!

Synopsis: Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end. No more puzzles. No more variables. And no more running. Thomas was sure that escape meant he and the Gladers would get their lives back. But no one really knew what sort of life they were going back to.

In the Maze, life was easy. They had food, and shelter, and safety . . . until Teresa triggered the end. In the world outside the Maze, however, the end was triggered long ago.

Burned by sun flares and baked by a new, brutal climate, the earth is a wasteland. Government has disintegrated—and with it, order—and now Cranks, people covered in festering wounds and driven to murderous insanity by the infectious disease known as the Flare, roam the crumbling cities hunting for their next victim . . . and meal.

The Gladers are far from finished with running. Instead of freedom, they find themselves faced with another trial. They must cross the Scorch, the most burned-out section of the world, and arrive at a safe haven in two weeks. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them.

Thomas can only wonder—does he hold the secret of freedom somewhere in his mind? Or will he forever be at the mercy of WICKED?

Release Date: October 12th, 2010

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