Waiting on Wednesday (44)

"Waiting on Wednesday" is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine where book bloggers discuss the books that they are most anxiously waiting for! (And this fabulous button was designed by my dear blogger friend Lindsay at The Violet Hour)

This week I'm waiting on...

May B. by Caroline Starr Rose
© 10 January 2012 by Schwartz & Wade

I've known it since last night:
It's been too long to expect them to return.
Something's happened.

May is helping out on a neighbor's Kansas prairie homestead—just until Christmas, says Pa. She wants to contribute, but it's hard to be separated from her family by 15 long, unfamiliar miles. Then the unthinkable happens: May is abandoned. Trapped in a tiny snow-covered sod house, isolated from family and neighbors, May must prepare for the oncoming winter. While fighting to survive, May's memories of her struggles with reading at school come back to haunt her. But she's determined to find her way home again. Caroline Starr Rose's fast-paced novel, written in beautiful and riveting verse, gives readers a strong new heroine to love.

Tempest by Julie Cross

© 17 January 2012 by St. Martin's Griffin

The year is 2009. Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal guy… he’s in college, has a girlfriend… and he can travel back through time. But it’s not like the movies – nothing changes in the present after his jumps, there’s no space-time continuum issues or broken flux capacitors – it’s just harmless fun.

That is… until the day strangers burst in on Jackson and his girlfriend, Holly, and during a struggle with Jackson, Holly is fatally shot. In his panic, Jackson jumps back two years to 2007, but this is not like his previous time jumps. Now he’s stuck in 2007 and can’t get back to the future.

Desperate to somehow return to 2009 to save Holly but unable to return to his rightful year, Jackson settles into 2007 and learns what he can about his abilities.

But it’s not long before the people who shot Holly in 2009 come looking for Jackson in the past, and these “Enemies of Time” will stop at nothing to recruit this powerful young time-traveler. Recruit… or kill him.

Piecing together the clues about his father, the Enemies of Time, and himself, Jackson must decide how far he’s willing to go to save Holly… and possibly the entire world.

YA Book Review: Dearly, Departed by Lia Habel

Release Date: 18 October 2011

Publisher: Del Rey (Random House)
Format: eARC
Source: Publisher via NetGalley

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Goodreads description:

Love can never die.

Love conquers all, so they say. But can Cupid’s arrow pierce the hearts of the living and the dead—or rather, the undead? Can a proper young Victorian lady find true love in the arms of a dashing zombie?

The year is 2195. The place is New Victoria—a high-tech nation modeled on the manners, mores, and fashions of an antique era. A teenager in high society, Nora Dearly is far more interested in military history and her country’s political unrest than in tea parties and debutante balls. But after her beloved parents die, Nora is left at the mercy of her domineering aunt, a social-climbing spendthrift who has squandered the family fortune and now plans to marry her niece off for money. For Nora, no fate could be more horrible—until she’s nearly kidnapped by an army of walking corpses.

But fate is just getting started with Nora. Catapulted from her world of drawing-room civility, she’s suddenly gunning down ravenous zombies alongside mysterious black-clad commandos and confronting “The Laz,” a fatal virus that raises the dead—and hell along with them. Hardly ideal circumstances. Then Nora meets Bram Griswold, a young soldier who is brave, handsome, noble . . . and dead. 

My Thoughts...

(ARC) YA Book Review: Rock On by Denise Vega

Release Date: 5 March 2012

Publisher: Little, Brown BFYR
Format: ARC
Source: Around the World ARC Tours

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Goodreads description:

Ori Taylor is the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the Band To Be Named Later, a garage band he started with his friends. After years of being known as the mini version of his sports-star brother, Del, Ori is looking forward to stepping out of his older brother's shadow, learning to perform in public, and rocking the Battle of the Bands contest. Oh, and maybe finally working up the nerve to talk to a girl in person instead of just over e-mail. But when Del suddenly returns from college, he expects Ori to step back into his role of little brother, just when Ori is starting to come into his own.

With his confidence wavering, will Ori be able to overcome his stage fright and lead the band to rock glory? Will the Band To Be Named Later ever get a real name? Will their best performances remain in the garage?

My Thoughts...

Harper Imprint - January Reading Challenge

Chelsy @ Starry Sky Books is once again hosting the Harper Imprint Challenge this month! Sounds like a great way to start the year, right? I participated back in July 2011 and managed to knock 6 HarperCollins books off of my TBR list (but only got 5 of the reviews posted in July).

I'm signed up for the "Medium" level once again of 5-8 books.  On my original sign-up post you can see a list of the Harper books that I either own or have galleys of through NetGalley.  The final list had 22 books on it so I have no doubt enough choices to take on reading at least 5 or 6 of them this month.  One of my blogging goals for 2012 is to read a lot more of the books that I WANT to read...old, new, whatever. :)

I'll keep a tally of the books that I get read and reviewed here.

1. Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
2. Everneath by Brodi Ashton
3. Incarnate by Jodi Meadows 
4. Epic Fail by Claire La Zebnik
5. Unearthly by Cynthia Hand 
6. Love & Leftovers by Sarah Tregay
7. Hallowed by Cynthia Hand
   

Do you have a bunch of HaperCollins books on your TBR list/pile? Consider joining in the challenge HERE!

2012 Reading Challenges - Tracking Post

This is the post that I will update with my challenge progress throughout the year for the three year-long challenges that I'm participating in.

Sensational Seconds YA Reading Challenge - hosted by ME! 

1. Hallowed by Cynthia Hand

2. Allegiance by Cayla Kluver

3. Until I Die by Amy Plum

4. Insurgent by Veronica Roth

5. Surrender by Elana Johnson

6. The Forgetting Curve by Angie Smibert

7. Thumped by Megan McCafferty

8. Goddess Interrupte by Aimee Carter

9. Once by Anna Carey

10. Stealing Parker by Miranda Kenneally

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The Debut Author YA/MG Reading Challenge - hosted by Kristi, The Story Siren.

1. Cinder by Marissa Meyer

2. Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi

3. Everneath by Brodi Ashton

 4. Incarnate by Jodi Meadows

5. May B. by Caroline Starr Rose

6. The Invisible Tower by Nils Johnson-Shelton

7. The International Kissing Club by Ivy Adams

8. The Gathering Storm by Robin Bridges

9. Digit by Annabel Monaghan

10. The Vanishing Game by Kate Kae Myers

11. Freshman Year & Other Unnatural Disasters by Meredith Zeitlin

12. Slide by Jill Hathaway

13. The Other Life  by Susanne Winnacker

14. Kiss the Morning Star by Elissa Jane Hoole

15. Pretty Crooked by Elisa Ludwig

16. Pretty Amy by Lisa Burstein

17. Chosen Ones by Tiffany Truitt

18. Breaking Beautiful by Jennifer Wolf Shaw

The Sophomore Reading Challenge - hosted by Shayn, Chick Loves Lit

1. Hallowed by Cynthia Hand

2. The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe

3. New Girl by Paige Harbison

4. The Fine Art of Truth or Dare by Melissa Jensen

5. Pieces of Us by Maggie Gelbwasser

6. Wanderlove by Kirsten Hubbard

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1.Dearly, Departed by Lia Habel
2.  Epic Fail by Claire LaZebnik

3. Unearthly by Cynthia Hand

4. Between Sea & Sky by Jaclyn Dolamore

5. Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick by Joe Schreiber

6. Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan

7.I Am J by Chris Beam

8. The Duff by Kody Keplinger

9. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

10. Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor

11. What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones

12. Saints of Augustine by P.E. Ryan

2012 Sensational Seconds Challenge - Link Up Your Reviews!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Welcome to the first month of 2012 and thus the first month of the 2012 Sensational Seconds YA Reading Challenge!  Remember the goal is to read anywhere from 1-4 or 13+ YA/MG sequels that are being released in 2012.  You can check out the rules and sign up HERE.