Waiting on Wednesday #22

Waiting on Wednesday was started by Breaking the Spine and serves to showcase those books that aren’t released yet, but that we’re eagerly awaiting!

Name: Anomaly (Schrodinger’s Consortium #1)
Author: Tonya Kuper
Number of Pages: 400 in Paperback
Published: November 25th 2014
by Entangled Publishing
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, Science Fiction

Reality is only an illusion.
Except for those who can control it…
Worst. Birthday. Ever.
My first boyfriend dumped me – happy birthday, Josie!- my dad is who knows where, I have some weird virus that makes me want to hurl, and now my ex is licking another girl’s tonsils. Oh, and I’m officially the same age as my brother was when he died. Yeah, today is about as fun-filled as the swamps of Dagobah. But then weird things start happening…
Like I make something materialize just by thinking about it.
When hot badass Reid Wentworth shows up on a motorcycle, everything changes. Like, everything. Who I am. My family. What really happened to my brother. Existence. I am Oculi, and I have the ability to change reality with my thoughts. Now Reid, in all his hotness, is charged with guiding and protecting me as I begin learning how to bend reality. And he’s the only thing standing between me and the secret organization that wants me dead…

I’ve been eying this for the longest time now. I fell in love with the cover when it was revealed February of this year. She’s gorgeous right? 🙂 And this book’s rundown is so intriguing. I love to meet Reid Wentworth now. He sounds really incredible! I’m afraid I’ll have a new book boyfriend. Yay! 😀 I’m just hoping this would not be InstaLove or this won’t be something I would be gushing about in the future after reading it. InstaLove just sucks. Don’t you think? 😉

Anyway, I tried to look for giveaways for this book, but all of them seems to be over. So I dig up a little deeper and found this..

Waiting on Wednesday #21

Waiting on Wednesday was started by Breaking the Spine and serves to showcase those books that aren’t released yet, but that we’re eagerly awaiting!

Name: Atlantia
Author: Ally Condie
Number of Pages: 368 in Kindle Edition
Published: October 28th 2014 by Dutton Children’s
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Paranormal

“Can you hear Atlantia breathing?
For as long as she can remember, Rio has dreamt of the sand and sky Above—of life beyond her underwater city of Atlantia. But in a single moment, all her plans for the future are thwarted when her twin sister, Bay, makes an unexpected decision, stranding Rio Below. Alone, ripped away from the last person who knew Rio’s true self—and the powerful siren voice she has long hidden—she has nothing left to lose. Guided by a dangerous and unlikely mentor, Rio formulates a plan that leads to increasingly treacherous questions about her mother’s death, her own destiny, and the complex system constructed to govern the divide between land and sea. Her life and her city depend on Rio to listen to the voices of the past and to speak long-hidden truths

I have been thinking of featuring this book months ago, but since I was overwhelmed with a lot of books I want to feature I’ve set this aside. Anyway, it’s here and I’ve already heard a lot of good things about Atlantia. Haven’t read a good mermaid book since The Syrena Legacy by Anna Banks so I’m pretty excited about it too.  I have always been fascinated with mermaids! 🙂

Waiting on Wednesday #20

Waiting on Wednesday was started by Breaking the Spine and serves to showcase those books that aren’t released yet, but that we’re eagerly awaiting!

Name: The Last Changeling
(Faerie Revolutions #1)
Author: Chelsea Pitcher
Number of Pages: 360 in Paperback
Published: November 8, 2014 by Flux
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Romance, Mystery

“A Kingdom at War . . . Elora, the young princess of the Dark Faeries, plans to overthrow her tyrannical mother, the Dark Queen, and bring equality to faeriekind. All she has to do is convince her mother’s loathed enemy, the Bright Queen, to join her cause. But the Bright Queen demands an offering first: a human boy who is a “young leader of men.” A Dark Princess In Disguise . . . To steal a mortal, Elora must become a mortal—at least, by all appearances. And infiltrating a high school is surprisingly easy. When Elora meets Taylor, the seventeen-year-old who’s plotting to overthrow a ruthless bully, she thinks she’s found her offering . . . until she starts to fall in love.

My apologies, but I’m so guilty of judging the book by its cover. I’m so there. Look at it. So beautiful. I just stumbled upon it on Goodreads and suddenly forgot about the book I’m intending to feature today. LOL! I’ve decided to feature it by the mere sight of the cover and realized I need to read the rundown. So silly. Fortunately, I got intrigued by the summary too and YES. I can’t wait to have this. 😀

I’ve looked for giveaways and found that the ARC and Swag giveaway from Rafflecopter is over, but I’ve found this giveaway for you guys. Click on “Enter to Win” to join this. For US book lovers only.

Waiting on Wednesday #19

Waiting on Wednesday was started by Breaking the Spine and serves to showcase those books that aren’t released yet, but that we’re eagerly awaiting!

Name: A Thousand Pieces of You (Firebird #1)
Author: Claudia Gray
Number of Pages: 368 in Hardcover
Published: November 4, 2014 by Harper Teen
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Romance, Mystery

“Marguerite Caine’s physicist parents are known for their radical scientific achievements. Their most astonishing invention: the Firebird, which allows users to jump into parallel universes, some vastly altered from our own. But when Marguerite’s father is murdered, the killer—her parent’s handsome and enigmatic assistant Paul—escapes into another dimension before the law can touch him. Marguerite can’t let the man who destroyed her family go free, and she races after Paul through different universes, where their lives entangle in increasingly familiar ways. With each encounter she begins to question Paul’s guilt—and her own heart. Soon she discovers the truth behind her father’s death is more sinister than she ever could have imagined. A Thousand Pieces of You explores a reality where we witness the countless other lives we might lead in an amazingly intricate multiverse, and ask whether, amid infinite possibilities, one love can endure.

I’ve found this book just this September and I can really say that this is something worth waiting for. The cover really pulled me in. So gorgeous! I think everybody would agree with me about that and a lot of my friends are eagerly waiting for its published date too. The rundown is equally interesting. Intriguing enough to make me want it more. I guess there would be a lot of complications and thrilling adventures throughout the book. I can’t help not to get so excited.

I’ve looked for giveaways and this is what I found:

Update: Penryn & the End of Days, Book 3

Susan Ee

– USA Today bestselling author
– Author of ANGELFALL and WORLD AFTER (Penryn & the End of Days 1 & 2)

“I’m super excited! The third book is END OF DAYS. It will be the finale of Penryn’s story! The US/Canada/Philippine version will be published on May 12, 2015. UK/AUS/NZ/Scotland version should come out right around that time as well. For all other countries, please ask your local publisher or bookstore. It’s finally happening! I can’t wait to share END OF DAYS with you.”

This is basically from Susan’s blog. Apparently, the third book for the series Penryn & the End of Days will be entitled End of Days and it will be published 12th of May next year. The thing is, Susan confirmed that this will be the finale of the series, which is in fact surprising because this was initially introduced as a five book series. I didn’t see that coming. That is just so heart breaking. 💔

You see? FIVE BOOK SERIES. What’s happened? I’m really torn about this update. Excited yet disappointed. I’ve been looking for interviews as why this was cut short to three books, but found nothing. I remember, I had a hard time liking the first, but eventually like the second book and really thrilled about the third one. It’s still a long wait until May. Perhaps Susan can still change her mind and go back to its original plan. LOL! Anyway, I’ll watch out for the date when the cover will be revealed.

Here’s my reviews 😀

Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days #1)

World After (Penryn & the End of Days #2)

Currently Reading #22

Name: Winterspell
Author: Claire LeGrand
Number of Pages: 464 in Hardcover
Published: September 30th 2014 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Retellings, Historical Fiction, Paranormal

The clock chimes midnight, a curse breaks, and a girl meets a prince . . . but what follows is not all sweetness and sugarplums.
New York City, 1899. Clara Stole, the mayor’s ever-proper daughter, leads a double life. Since her mother’s murder, she has secretly trained in self-defense with the mysterious Drosselmeyer.
Then, on Christmas Eve, disaster strikes.
Her home is destroyed, her father abducted–by beings distinctly not human. To find him, Clara journeys to the war-ravaged land of Cane. Her only companion is the dethroned prince Nicholas, bound by a wicked curse. If they’re to survive, Clara has no choice but to trust him, but his haunted eyes burn with secrets–and a need she can’t define. With the dangerous, seductive faery queen Anise hunting them, Clara soon realizes she won’t leave Cane unscathed–if she leaves at all.
Inspired by The Nutcracker, Winterspell is a dark, timeless fairy tale about love and war, longing and loneliness, and a girl who must learn to live without fear.

I’ve been waiting for this book for a long time now. I’ve even featured it on a Waiting on Wednesday post back in July and I’m really excited that I finally have it. I’m already on Chapter Seven I believe and it’s intriguing to start with. Remember when I said that I forgot what the Nutcracker is all about? I still couldn’t remember. Ha! Ha! Loser. Loser. Yeah. So I’m practically plunging blind here. I’ve read reviews for reference though.

Here’s some of the good ones..

Waiting on Wednesday #18 + First Two Chapters!

Today’s feature do not belong to a series for a change. I fell in love with this book the moment I’ve checked it’s rundown. The title and the book cover are equally intriguing! Frantically added it to my Want-To-Read list. Haha! I’m definitely waiting for this.

Lies, secrets, and magic — three things that define Kayla’s life.

Sixteen-year-old Kayla plans to spend her summer hanging out on the beach in Santa Barbara and stealing whatever she wants, whenever she wants it. Born with the ability to move things with her mind — things like credit cards, diamond rings, and buttons on cash registers — she has become a master shoplifter. She steals to build up a safety net, enough money for her and her mom to be able to flee if her dad finds them again. Well, that, and the thrill of using her secret talents.

But her summer plans change when she’s caught stealing by a boy named Daniel — a boy who needs her help and is willing to blackmail her to get it. Daniel has a talent of his own. He can teleport, appearing anywhere in the world in an instant, but he lies as easily as he travels. Together, they embark on a quest to find and steal an ancient incantation, written on three indestructible stones and hidden millennia ago, all to rescue Daniel’s kidnapped mother. But Kayla has no idea that this rescue mission will lead back to her own family — and to betrayals that she may not be able to forgive… or survive.

Expected publication would be on the 14th of October 2014 by Bloomsbury and it will be 368 pages on ebook. Yay! I’m so thrilled to have stumbled upon this book because it’s been a long time since I’ve read something like this. Telekinesis and Teleportation. Wow! Really something to look forward to. The rundown is so intriguing that I can’t wait to have a copy of my won. I’ve read this was rated Four Star on Goodreads and a lot of book lovers were posting awesome ARC reviews. Wish I could have one!

Waiting on Wednesday #17

I’ve heard about this book, but didn’t pay much attention since I’m super behind of my book reviews. Blame my blasted work for that. Anyway, I’ve marked this book on my Want-To-Read list in Goodreads and just earlier, I’ve come to realized that this is something I should be fangirling about.

A heartbroken girl. A fierce warrior. A hero in the making.

Sixteen years ago the Kingdom of Winter was conquered and its citizens enslaved, leaving them without magic or a monarch. Now, the Winterians’ only hope for freedom is the eight survivors who managed to escape, and who have been waiting for the opportunity to steal back Winter’s magic and rebuild the kingdom ever since.

Orphaned as an infant during Winter’s defeat, Meira has lived her whole life as a refugee, raised by the Winterians’ general, Sir. Training to be a warrior—and desperately in love with her best friend, and future king, Mather — she would do anything to help her kingdom rise to power again.

So when scouts discover the location of the ancient locket that can restore Winter’s magic, Meira decides to go after it herself. Finally, she’s scaling towers, fighting enemy soldiers, and serving her kingdom just as she’s always dreamed she would. But the mission doesn’t go as planned, and Meira soon finds herself thrust into a world of evil magic and dangerous politics – and ultimately comes to realize that her destiny is not, never has been, her own.

Expected publication would be on the 14th of October 2014 by Balzer + Bray and it will be 432 pages on hardcover. Look at that amazing cover. Just looking at it makes me more excited to have my own copy. I want to be wed with it. Ha ha! I really bet there would be a lot of thrilling adventure given the rundown. I’m just wishing that the InstaLove would be written well or I won’t like that part at all. Anyway, a lot of book lovers is anticipating it’s released so I’m joining in. Hooray!

I found this on Sara’s blog from Goodreads and I’m really excited to participate:

Waiting on Wednesday #16

I was sorting my want-to-read books on Goodreads when I stumbled upon this book. Intriguing. Intriguing. I actually haven’t seen or heard anything like it since most of the YA books nowadays either involve vampires, witches and the like so this is definitely something new.

At the dawn of time, there were 13 Houses in the Zodiac Galaxy. Now only 12 remain….

Rhoma Grace is a 16-year-old student from House Cancer with an unusual way of reading the stars. While her classmates use measurements to make accurate astrological predictions, Rho can’t solve for ‘x’ to save her life—so instead, she looks up at the night sky and makes up stories.

When a violent blast strikes the moons of Cancer, sending its ocean planet off-kilter and killing thousands of citizens—including its beloved Guardian—Rho is more surprised than anyone when she is named the House’s new leader. But, a true Cancrian who loves her home fiercely and will protect her people no matter what, Rho accepts.

Then, when more Houses fall victim to freak weather catastrophes, Rho starts seeing a pattern in the stars. She suspects Ophiuchus—the exiled 13th Guardian of Zodiac legend—has returned to exact his revenge across the Galaxy. Now Rho—along with Hysan Dax, a young envoy from House Libra, and Mathias, her guide and a member of her Royal Guard—must travel through the Zodiac to warn the other Guardians.

But who will believe anything this young novice says? Whom can Rho trust in a universe defined by differences? And how can she convince twelve worlds to unite as one Zodiac?

Embark on a dazzling journey with ZODIAC, the first novel in an epic sci-fi-meets-high-fantasy series set in a galaxy inspired by the astrological signs.

Expected publication would be on the 9th of December 2014 by Razorbill. It would have 368 pages on hardcover and look at that beautiful book cover. I just love it. Seriously, a book that’s based on the Zodiac Signs? I really think that set this apart from your usual Sci-Fi and fantasy books. To be honest, I usually check my daily horoscope so I’m really excited about this. Not for being superstitious or something, but I do it just for fun. The summary projects a strong world and characters. I bet this would be an action-packed and really interesting read.

Book Review: World After (Penryn & the End of Days #2)

In this sequel to the bestselling fantasy thriller, Angelfall, the survivors of the angel apocalypse begin to scrape back together what’s left of the modern world.

When a group of people capture Penryn’s sister Paige, thinking she’s a monster, the situation ends in a massacre. Paige disappears. Humans are terrified. Mom is heartbroken.

Penryn drives through the streets of San Francisco looking for Paige. Why are the streets so empty? Where is everybody? Her search leads her into the heart of the angels’ secret plans where she catches a glimpse of their motivations, and learns the horrifying extent to which the angels are willing to go.

Meanwhile, Raffe hunts for his wings. Without them, he can’t rejoin the angels, can’t take his rightful place as one of their leaders. When faced with recapturing his wings or helping Penryn survive, which will he choose?

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To be honest, I like this one better than AngelFall. Aside from the fact that it started where it carted off, it answered most of the confusion I had from the first book, but I must admit not everything. Yeah. Most of them. I love the fact that the series had progressed to something less puzzling and I didn’t even have to recall Angelfall since this book summed it up.

The POV is still on Penryn’s, but there were glimpses of Raffe’s emotions, thoughts and what happened to him when he was separated from Penryn through Pooky Bear. I know you want to ask who Pooky Bear is, but for the sake of No-Spoilery as much as possible, you would need to read it. Teehee. Believe me that was sidesplitting. Wink. Learning about Raffe’s POV, though those were merely just peeks, in a way made me understand a lot of things and that was great. I’m a little sad that Penryn and Raffe were only reunited in the last couple of chapters, but definitely proud of my girl Penryn since she made it that far without anybody saving her. Almost nobody, I may say. The romantic angle between them is not forced. I think it is just enough for the readers to be enthralled and left to be wanting more, which is significant. Her mother is still on her own creepy world, disturbingly creepy. As a matter of fact because of her, I’m so convinced that only nutters survived almost anything. Ha! Ha! Penryn’s little sister, Paige, shattered my heart in a million pieces and yet I am so horror-struck by her. Especially when Penryn was able to watched the video when she was abducted and what she did to Beliel. I also finally understands why she ended up like that and what the Angels are up to. Dee and Dum are still awesome. They have injected the humor out of nowhere. A breath of fresh air amidst all the chaos.