30 January 2013

Waiting on Wednesday: Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

 
 
This is Breaking the Spine's Waiting for Wednesday, where bloggers post about a book they just can't wait to get their hands on! 
 
 
 



 

  Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

February 5th 2013


Cinder returns in the second thrilling installment of the New York Times-bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She’s trying to break out of prison—even though if she succeeds, she’ll be the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive.

Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit’s grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn’t know about her grandmother and the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother’s whereabouts, she has no choice but to trust him, though he clearly has a few dark secrets of his own.

As Scarlet and Wolf work to unravel one mystery, they find another when they cross paths with Cinder. Together, they must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen who will do anything to make Prince Kai her husband, her king, her prisoner.


I loved Cinder, and the future adventures of our Cyborg Cinderella are certainly on top of my to-read list!

25 January 2013

YA Books for Adult Readers panet at Arisia 2013 Notes

Links lead to Goodreads

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
Ratters by Daniel Krause
Nicholas Flamel series
Seraphina by Rachel Hartmann
Tales from the Sinister Cities by Higgins
The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Justine Larbalestier
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Lainey Taylor
Flora's Fury by Ysabeau Wilce
Vessel by Sarah Beth Durst
Jumper by Stephen Gould
Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler
Ready Player One by Ernst Kline
Dresden Files
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Dragonriders of Pern
Gilman - Lunabooks
CE. Murphy - Lunabooks
Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder
Incarceron by Katherine Fisher
Gregory the Overlander by Collins
The Shattering by Karen Healey
Planesrunner by Ian McDonald
Wolfmark by Bruchae
Pseudonymous Bosch
Terry Pratchett
Mothership by Leicht and Neal
The Dead Trilogy  by LeGuin
Patricia McKillip
Don Kurtz
Touch of Frost by Jennifer Estep
Demon Trappers by Jana Oliver
Of Blood and Honey by Steina Leicht
And All the Stars by Andrea K. Host
Kronos Chronicles - Ursu
Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
Every Other Day by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standoferd

YA You Want To Read panel at Arisia 2013 Notes



Links go to Goodreads

Enclave byAnn Aguirre

23 January 2013

Waiting on Wednesday: Homeland by Cory Doctorow

 
 
This is Breaking the Spine's Waiting for Wednesday, where bloggers post about a book they just can't wait to get their hands on! 
 
 
 



 

  Homeland by Cory Doctorow

February 5th 2013


In Cory Doctorow’s wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco—an experience that led him to become a leader of the whole movement of technologically clued-in teenagers, fighting back against the tyrannical security state.

A few years later, California's economy collapses, but Marcus’s hacktivist past lands him a job as webmaster for a crusading politician who promises reform. Soon his onetime girlfriend Masha emerges from the political underground to gift him with a thumbdrive containing a Wikileaks-style cable-dump of hard evidence of corporate and governmental perfidy. It’s incendiary stuff—and if Masha goes missing, Marcus is supposed to release it to the world. Then Marcus sees Masha being kidnapped by the same government agents who detained and tortured Marcus years earlier.

Marcus can leak the archive Masha gave him—but he can’t admit to being the leaker, because that will cost his employer the election. He’s surrounded by friends who remember what he did a few years ago and regard him as a hacker hero. He can’t even attend a demonstration without being dragged onstage and handed a mike. He’s not at all sure that just dumping the archive onto the Internet, before he’s gone through its millions of words, is the right thing to do.

Meanwhile, people are beginning to shadow him, people who look like they’re used to inflicting pain until they get the answers they want.

Fast-moving, passionate, and as current as next week, Homeland is every bit the equal of Little Brother—a paean to activism, to courage, to the drive to make the world a better place.

This sounds even more complicated and deadly than Little Brother!

16 January 2013

Waiting on Wednesday: Prodigy by Marie Lu

 
 
This is Breaking the Spine's Waiting for Wednesday, where bloggers post about a book they just can't wait to get their hands on! 
 
 
 



 

 Prodigy by Marie Lu

January 29th 2013


June and Day arrive in Vegas just as the unthinkable happens: the Elector Primo dies, and his son Anden takes his place. With the Republic edging closer to chaos, the two join a group of Patriot rebels eager to help Day rescue his brother and offer passage to the Colonies. They have only one request—June and Day must assassinate the new Elector.

It’s their chance to change the nation, to give voice to a people silenced for too long.

But as June realizes this Elector is nothing like his father, she’s haunted by the choice ahead. What if Anden is a new beginning? What if revolution must be more than loss and vengeance, anger and blood—what if the Patriots are wrong?

In this highly-anticipated sequel, Lu delivers a breathtaking thriller with high stakes and cinematic action.

I loved Legend, and I hope this book takes just as many risks and is just as good!