Cover Reveal: Everbound - Brodi Ashton

Everbound (Everneath #2)

by Brodi Ashton 

Two months ago, the Tunnels of the underworld came for Nikki Beckett. That night, Nikki's boyfriend, Jack, made the ultimate sacrifice. All Nikki wants is to save Jack before it's too late. All Cole wants is to find his queen - and he thinks Nikki is the one. Both determined, both desperate, Nikki and Cole form a tense alliance, leading them on a dangerous journey to The Heart of The Everneath.

Expected publication: January 22nd 2013 by Balzer+Bray/HarperCollins

Waiting On Wednesday.

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking The Spine where you can spotlight an upcoming release that you're eagerly anticipating.

This week I'm waiting on....

Taken (Taken #1)

by Erin Bowman

Expected publication: April 16th 2013 by HarperTeen

There are no men in Claysoot. There are boys—but every one of them vanishes at midnight on his eighteenth birthday. The ground shakes, the wind howls, a blinding light descends...and he’s gone.

They call it the Heist.

Gray Weathersby’s eighteenth birthday is mere months away, and he’s prepared to meet his fate–until he finds a strange note from his mother and starts to question everything he’s been raised to accept: the Council leaders and their obvious secrets. The Heist itself. And what lies beyond the Wall that surrounds Claysoot–a structure that no one can cross and survive. 

Climbing the Wall is suicide, but what comes after the Heist could be worse. Should he sit back and wait to be taken–or risk everything on the hope of the other side?

Full Blooded (Jessica McClain #1)

by Amanda Carlson 

Expected publication: September 1st 2012 by Orbit

After living in hiding for the last twenty-six years, Jessica wakes up to find she's become a full-blooded werewolf -- claws, fangs, fur, everything. It was never supposed to happen: female werewolves don't exist. 

When a mercenary killer comes looking for her, her Pack finds themselves caught in the middle of a war. They must rise up to protect her, but no one knows if she's means the end of their race-or just a new beginning.

The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories

by Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton , Brenna Yovanoff 

Expected publication: October 1st 2012 by Carolrhoda Books

From acclaimed YA authors Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton, and Brenna Yovanoff comes The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories.

- A vampire locked in a cage in the basement, for good luck.
- Bad guys, clever girls, and the various reasons why the guys have to stop breathing.
- A world where fires never go out (with references to vanilla ice cream). 

These are but a few of the curiosities collected in this volume of short stories by three acclaimed practitioners of paranormal fiction.

But The Curiosities is more than the stories. Since 2008, Maggie, Tessa, and Brenna have posted more than 250 works of short fiction to their website merryfates.com. Their goal was simple: create a space for experimentation and improvisation in their writing—all in public and without a backspace key. In that spirit, The Curiosities includes the stories and each author's comments, critiques, and kudos in the margins. Think of it as a guided tour of the creative processes of three acclaimed authors.

So, are you curious now?

Earth Girl

by Janet Edwards

Expected publication: August 15th 2012 by Harper Voyager

2788. Only the handicapped live on Earth. While everyone else portals between worlds, 18-year-old Jarra is among the one in a thousand people born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets. Sent to Earth at birth to save her life, she has been abandoned by her parents. She can’t travel to other worlds, but she can watch their vids, and she knows all the jokes they make. She’s an ‘ape’, a ‘throwback’, but this is one ape girl who won’t give in.

Jarra invents a fake background for herself – as a normal child of Military parents – and joins a class of norms that is on Earth to excavate the ruins of the old cities. When an ancient skyscraper collapses, burying another research team, Jarra’s role in their rescue puts her in the spotlight. No hiding at back of class now. To make life more complicated, she finds herself falling in love with one of her classmates – a norm from another planet. Somehow, she has to keep the deception going.

A freak solar storm strikes the atmosphere, and the class is ordered to portal off-world for safety – no problem for a real child of military parents, but fatal for Jarra. The storm is so bad that the crews of the orbiting solar arrays have to escape to planet below: the first landing from space in 600 years. And one is on collision course with their shelter.

Adaptation

by Malinda Lo 

Expected publication: September 18th 2012 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Reese and David don’t remember what happened to them after a bird flew into their headlights on the Extraterrestrial Highway--not the resulting car accident and certainly not a bit of the 21 days of care at the military hospital in Nevada. It’s a good thing, the doctors and colonels tell them, that they crashed on a military base, but they won’t tell Reese and David what the extent of their injuries were, or how they were healed. They do tell them they’re not going home, though, until they sign a confidentiality agreement. 

When they get home, Reese can’t help but find everything a little weird. Worldwide bird strikes resulting in plane crashes have grounded air travel, David won’t talk to her, and she could swear she’s seen her military doctors around the neighborhood. It’s only when she meets Amber Grey that things in her life begin to really fall apart, and the mysteries of the bird strikes, the military, and her own treatment come together. Reese realizes that she must find out what they did to her in that hospital, but her search for the truth threatens to expose a vast global conspiracy that the government has worked for decades to keep secret.

What if we aren’t alone in the universe? What if the alien is inside us?

Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction

by Richelle Mead, Simone Elkeles,Meg Cabot , Heather Brewer, Saundra Mitchell, Diana Peterfreund, Laini Taylor, Margaret Stohl , Matt de la Pena , Kami Garcia, Malinda Lo, Lisa McMann, Michael Grant , Carrie Ryan

Expected publication: August 28th 2012 by Random House Children's Books

Have you ever been tempted to look into the future? To challenge predictions? To question fate?

It's human nature to wonder about life's twists and turns. But is the future already written—or do you have the power to alter it?

From fantastical prophecies to predictions of how the future will transpire, Foretold is a collection of stories about our universal fascination with life's unknowns and of what is yet to come as interpreted by 14 of young adult fiction's brightest stars.

Cover Reveal: Hidden - P.C Cast & Kristin Cast

Hidden (House of Night #10)

by P.C. Cast

Neferet’s true nature has been revealed to the Vampyre High Council, so Zoey and the gang might finally get some help in defending themselves and their beloved school against a gathering evil that grows stronger every day. And they’ll need it, because Neferet’s not going down without a fight. Chaos reigns at the House of Night

Expected publication: October 16th 2012 by St. Martin's Griffin

Cover Reveal: Rise - Anna Carey

Rise (Eve #3)

by Anna Carey

Expected publication: April 2013 by HarperCollins

Book Review (99) Magic Of The Moonlight - Ellen Schreiber

Magic of the Moonlight (Full Moon #2)

by Ellen Schreiber

Publication: January 2012

Publisher: Murdoch Books

Pages: 229

Genre: Paranormal

Age Appropriate: Young Adult

** Warning Contains Spoilers From The Previous Book In The Series**

Beware of a bite under a full moon…
it will complicate your love life.

Celeste has more to worry about than a secret romance with a hot guy from the wrong side of town. That guy, Brandon, is a werewolf. With gossip and hostility swirling at school, it’s time to find a cure for his nocturnal condition, and perhaps the one person who can help is his scientist father. But what if a “cure” makes things worse and Brandon becomes a werewolf full time? And with rumors circulating that there are werewolves in Legend’s Run, is it possible that there is another among their classmates?

To keep Brandon’s secret safe, Celeste must hide her relationship with him from her best friends, but with the Moonlight Ball approaching, she must make a choice. Her dream is to go with her one true love—Brandon. But once the sun goes down, the clouds separate, and the full moon appears, could she really walk into the dance on the arm of a werewolf?

In this installment of the sumptuously romantic Full Moon series, Celeste faces her fears and her friends and finds out whether she’s strong enough to stand up for herself and her one true love.

My Thoughts.

This is the second book in the Full Moon series and it starts several days after the ending of the previous book.

Nash has found out Brandon's secret and proceeds to blackmail Celeste with the information, in exchange  for not telling anybody that Brandon is a werewolf he has Celeste pretend that they are dating again, he tells her that he's protecting her because Brandon is dangerous, but that's not the case and Celeste wants nothing more than to let her friends and everyone else know that she and Brandon are dating and not only that but they are in love with each other.

But Brandon is hoping for a cure and calls his Dad a scientist who's working in Europe to come home and hopefully help him cure his ability to change into a werewolf.

One day at school Celeste decides to sit with Brandon at lunch in hopes to stop the name calling and graffiting of his car and locker but it only makes things worse especially with Nash and her idea of people accepting their relationship made clear that they won't.

I loved the ending of this because now there are two werewolf's running around in Legion's Run and it's not who you would think, but it will make for an interesting third book with this added to the storyline.

I still love Celeste and Brandon as a couple I just wish that they had more together time as that's what makes the story, I really didn't like Nash throughout most of this book  and I guess that was the point, he should have realised how much Celeste meant to him before when they were together and not now because he's jealous of all the time she spends with Brandon.

Jake and Dylan are just filler characters there so that Celeste's two best friends Ivy and Abby have boyfriends and I really could do without them, and while her friends, Ivy in particular bug me a bit they do have their good moments.

I did like this book but it wasn't as exciting as the first one, and it had it's moments of repeating the same thoughts over and over, once is enough maybe twice but we understand that they can't be a couple together in public I just don't need to read about it constantly, that's really my only complaints,

I'm looking forward to see how Schreiber moves the storyline forward in terms of an extra werewolf running around and I can't wait for the third book.

I give this 3.5/5.

A Big Thanks To Deanna @ Murdoch Books.

 

Upcoming Books That Don't Yet Have A Cover.

Loki's Wolves (Blackwell Pages #1)

by K.L Armstrong, M.A. Marr

From Publisher's Weekly - 

The Blackwell Pages will tell the story of two 12-year-old boys and one girl, all distant descendants of the Norse gods, who must journey to prevent the impending Ragnarok (the apocalypse). The first book,Loki's Wolves, is slated for publication in Spring of 2013.

Expected publication: May 2013 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 

Cainsville (Omens & Shadows #1)

by Kelley Armstrong

"The main character is 24-year-old young woman who has led a very privileged life, until she discovers she was adopted...and her birth parents are convicted serial killers. Her birth mother convinces her to investigate one of the old murders to prove their innocence. There are paranormal aspects, but they're different than the Otherworld--second sight, omen & portents etc rather than werewolves & witches."

Expected publication: 2013

Control

by Lydia Kang 

17 year-old Zelia has a fatal flaw, and it’s not being a lab geek or dressing like a small troll. If she forgets to breathe, she’ll die.

Zelia has suffered from Ondine’s Curse since birth, a malady that makes every breath a conscious effort. Yet after she and her younger sister Dyl are orphaned, it’s not Zelia’s misfit status that causes trouble. It’s her sister. Dyl isn’t just pretty and sweet—she’s illegal.

In the year 2150, DNA must be pure by law, and anyone with enhanced genes face death. Before an underground foster family can offer the sisters sanctuary, Dyl is abducted by people determined to profit from her trait, whether she’s alive, dismembered, or dead.

Zelia's only allies are the freak-show inhabitants of her new foster home. Along with the unexpected love of a very strange boy, she will need her flaws, their illicit traits, and every single breath to save the only family she has left.

Expected publication: 2013 by Dial/Penguin

ACID

by Emma Pass

This action-packed novel introduces us to Jenna Strong, a truly kick-ass heroine who is serving time in an all-male prison for the murder of her parents. With the story set one hundred years in the future in a Big Brother style society, Britain is now under the control of ACID – a terrifying all-seeing police force.

Expected publication: 2013 by Random House Children's Books

In the Shadow of Blackbirds

by Cat Winters

Cat Winters's IN THE SHADOW OF BLACKBIRDS, the story of a teen girl mourning the loss of her first love in 1918 California, where a flu has turned deadlier than a world war, and spirit communication has become a dark and dangerous obsession, illustrated with early-twentieth-century photographs.

Expected publication: 2013 by Amulet Books

A Point So Delicate

by Brandy Colbert

A ballet prodigy's life begins to unravel when she is forced to admit to the role she played in her childhood friend's abduction.

Expected publication: 2013 by Penguin

Luminance Hour

by Ryan Graudin 

In which a partying prince falls in love with a Kate Middletonesque fae, who has been protecting the British royal family for centuries, and who must make an impossible choice amidst a backdrop of a palace murder and paparazzi mayhem.

Expected publication: 2013 by HarperTeen

The Rules (Project Paper Doll #1)

by Stacey Kade

1. Never trust anyone.

2. Remember they are always searching.

3. Don’t get involved.

4. Keep your head down.

5. Don’t fall in love.

Five simple rules. Ariane Tucker has followed them since the night she escaped from the genetics lab where she was created, the result of combining human and extraterrestrial DNA. Ariane’s survival—and that of her adoptive father—depends on her ability to blend in among the full-blooded humans, to hide in plain sight from those who seek to recover their lost (and expensive) “project.”

But when a cruel prank at school goes awry, it puts her in the path of Zane Bradshaw, the police chief’s son and someone who sees too much. Someone who really sees her. After years of trying to be invisible, Ariane finds the attention frightening—and utterly intoxicating. Suddenly, nothing is simple anymore, especially not the rules…

Expected publication: April 2013 by Disney-Hyperion

Spellcaster

by Claudia Gray

A well-meaning young witch, Lia, finds she must call upon darker powers to defeat a dangerous enchantress and break the curse on the man she loves.

Expected publication: March 2013 by HarperTeen

The Nightmare Affair

by Mindee Arnett 

16-year-old Dusty Everhart breaks into houses late at night, but not because she’s a criminal. No, she’s a Nightmare. Literally. Dusty is a magical being who feeds on human dreams.

Being the only Nightmare at Arkwell Academy, a boarding school for magickind, and living in the shadow of her mother’s infamy is hard enough. But when Dusty sneaks into Eli Booker’s house, things get a whole lot more complicated. He’s hot, which means sitting on his chest and invading his dreams couldn’t get much more embarrassing. But it does. Eli is dreaming of a murder. The setting is Arkwell.

And then it comes true.

Now the Dusty has to follow the clues--both within Eli’s dreams and out of them--to stop the killer before more people turn up dead. And before the killer learns what she’s up to and marks her as the next target.

Expected publication: March 2013 by Tor Teen

Cover Reveal: The Madman's Daughter - Megan Shepherd

London, 1894. Juliet Moreau has built a life for herself—working as a maid, attending church on Sundays, and trying not to think about the scandal that ruined her life. After all, no one ever proved the rumors about her father’s gruesome experiments. But when she learns her father is alive and continuing his work on a remote tropical island, she is determined to find out if the accusations were true. 

Juliet is accompanied by the doctor’s handsome young assistant and an enigmatic castaway, who both attract Juliet for very different reasons. They travel to the island only to discover the depths of her father’s madness: he has created animals that have been vivisected to resemble, speak, and behave as humans. Worse, one of the creatures has turned violent and is killing the island’s inhabitants. Juliet knows she must end her father’s dangerous experiments and escape the island, even though her horror is mixed with her own scientific curiosity. As the island falls into chaos, she discovers the extent of her father’s genius—and madness—in her own blood.

Expected publication: January 2013 by Balzer + Bray