Netgalley and Edelweiss Windowshopping
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Hey, peeps!
I've only got less than a month left in my book acquiring ban, and my control is definitely slipping :D
I'm still in London today and probably buying books among other goodies, but I'll be back tomorrow and tell you all about it. Until then let me torture you and me both with some delicious titles on Netgalley and Edelweiss waiting to be requested...
Summary
The Conclave—a secret group with twisted ideals and freakish
practices—has been wiped out, thanks to Arabella Sharp. Now there’s a new malevolence
afoot. Fishermen are getting killed, their partially devoured bodies washing up
on the shores of Scotland. Is the Ripper responsible? Or have the Conclave’s
sinister experiments left behind something more monstrous? Abbie fears the
worst when her beloved Dr. William Siddal vanishes. To save the man she loves,
Abbie must comply with the Ripper’s dreadful orders—and put her own life in
grave danger.
Summary
When Imogen, a sixteen-year-old black belt in Tae Kwon Do, freezes
during a holdup at a local diner, the gunman is shot and killed by the
police, and she blames herself for his death. Before the shooting, she
believed that her black belt made her stronger than everyone else—more
responsible, more capable. But now that her sense of self has been
challenged, she must rebuild her life, a process that includes
redefining her relationship with her family and navigating first love
with the boy who was at the diner with her during the shoot-out. With
action, romance, and a complex heroine, Bruised introduces a vibrant new voice to the young adult world—full of dark humor and hard truths.
Summary
Being a 16-year-old safecracker and active-duty daughter
of international spies has its moments, good andbad. Pros: Seeing the
world one crime-solving adventure at a time. Having parents with super
cool jobs. Cons: Never staying in one place long enough to have friends
or a boyfriend. But for Maggie Silver, the biggest perk of all has been
avoiding high school and the accompanying cliques, bad lunches, and
frustratingly simple locker combinations.
Then Maggie and her parents are sent to New York for her
first solo assignment, and all of that changes. She'll need to attend a
private school, avoid the temptation to hack the school's security
system, and befriend one aggravatingly cute Jesse Oliver to gain the
essential information she needs to crack the case . . . all while trying
not to blow her cover.
Summary
Sixteen-year-old Kyra, a highly-skilled potions master, is the only
one who knows her kingdom is on the verge of destruction—which means
she’s the only one who can save it. Faced with no other choice, Kyra
decides to do what she does best: poison the kingdom’s future ruler, who
also happens to be her former best friend.
But, for the first time ever, her poisoned dart…misses.
Now a fugitive instead of a hero, Kyra is caught in a game of
hide-and-seek with the king’s army and her potioner ex-boyfriend, Hal.
At least she’s not alone. She’s armed with her vital potions, a too-cute
pig, and Fred, the charming adventurer she can’t stop thinking about.
Kyra is determined to get herself a second chance (at murder), but will
she be able to find and defeat the princess before Hal and the army find
her?
Kyra is not your typical murderer, and she’s certainly no damsel-in-distress—she's the lovable and quick-witted hero of this romantic novel that has all the right ingredients to make teen girls swoon.
Kyra is not your typical murderer, and she’s certainly no damsel-in-distress—she's the lovable and quick-witted hero of this romantic novel that has all the right ingredients to make teen girls swoon.
Summary
Fifteen-year-old Shreve Cannon doesn't mind juvie. He's got a good
business dealing contraband candy, and three meals a day are more than
his drunk mother managed to provide. In juvie, the rules never change
and everyone is the same. In juvie, Shreve has life figured out. Then
the new fish shows up.
Jack's a quiet kid. Small. Cries himself to sleep too. He's no standard-issue titty-baby, though. There's his hands—more specifically his fingers, all twelve of 'em. And when he gets angry, something weird happens. The air wavers. You feel a slight pressure in your chest. And then…well, best take cover.
Jack isn't the only new face in juvie. There's Mr. Quincrux. Quincrux has an unusual interest in Jack and Shreve, and it quickly becomes clear that innocent bystanders aren't going to get in his way. So Jack and Shreve bust out.
On the lam, they quickly discover that Jack has abilities—hell, superpowers—that might just give them a fighting chance against Quincrux, if they can stay alive long enough to figure them out.
Jack's a quiet kid. Small. Cries himself to sleep too. He's no standard-issue titty-baby, though. There's his hands—more specifically his fingers, all twelve of 'em. And when he gets angry, something weird happens. The air wavers. You feel a slight pressure in your chest. And then…well, best take cover.
Jack isn't the only new face in juvie. There's Mr. Quincrux. Quincrux has an unusual interest in Jack and Shreve, and it quickly becomes clear that innocent bystanders aren't going to get in his way. So Jack and Shreve bust out.
On the lam, they quickly discover that Jack has abilities—hell, superpowers—that might just give them a fighting chance against Quincrux, if they can stay alive long enough to figure them out.
Summary
After casting out a dark spirit, Callie McFay, a professor of gothic
literature, has at last restored a semblance of calm to her rambling Victorian
house. But in the nearby thicket of the honeysuckle forest, and in the currents
of the rushing Undine stream, more trouble is stirring. . . .
The enchanted town of Fairwick’s dazzling mix of mythical creatures has come under siege from the Grove: a sinister group of witches determined to banish the fey back to their ancestral land. With factions turning on one another, all are cruelly forced to take sides. Callie’s grandmother, a prominent Grove member, demands her granddaughter’s compliance, but half-witch/half-fey Callie can hardly betray her friends and colleagues at the college. To stave off disaster, Callie enlists Duncan Laird, an alluring seductive academic who cultivates her vast magical potential, but to what end? Deeply conflicted, Callie struggles to save her beloved Fairwick, dangerously pushing her extraordinary powers to the limit—risking all, even the needs of her own passionate heart.
The enchanted town of Fairwick’s dazzling mix of mythical creatures has come under siege from the Grove: a sinister group of witches determined to banish the fey back to their ancestral land. With factions turning on one another, all are cruelly forced to take sides. Callie’s grandmother, a prominent Grove member, demands her granddaughter’s compliance, but half-witch/half-fey Callie can hardly betray her friends and colleagues at the college. To stave off disaster, Callie enlists Duncan Laird, an alluring seductive academic who cultivates her vast magical potential, but to what end? Deeply conflicted, Callie struggles to save her beloved Fairwick, dangerously pushing her extraordinary powers to the limit—risking all, even the needs of her own passionate heart.
Summary
Mallory's life is falling apart. Her boyfriend was stabbed. He bled to
death in her kitchen. Mallory was the one who stabbed him. But she can't
remember what happened that night. She only remembers the fear . . .
When Mallory's parents send her away to a boarding school, she thinks she can escape the gossip and the threats. But someone, or something, has followed her. There's the hand that touches her shoulder when she's drifting off to sleep. A voice whispering her name. And everyone knows what happened. So when a pupil is found dead, Mallory's name is on their lips. Her past can be forgotten but it's never gone. Can Mallory live with that?
When Mallory's parents send her away to a boarding school, she thinks she can escape the gossip and the threats. But someone, or something, has followed her. There's the hand that touches her shoulder when she's drifting off to sleep. A voice whispering her name. And everyone knows what happened. So when a pupil is found dead, Mallory's name is on their lips. Her past can be forgotten but it's never gone. Can Mallory live with that?
Summary
Celia Wird and her three sisters are just like other 20-something
girls—with one tiny exception: they're products of a backfired curse
that has given each of them unique powers that make them, well, weird…
The Wird sisters are content to avoid the local vampires, werebeasts, and witches of the Lake Tahoe region—until one of them blows up a vampire in self-defense. Everyone knows vampires aren't aggressive, and killing one is punishable by death. But soon more bloodlust-fueled attacks occur, and the community wonders: are the vampires of Tahoe cursed with a plague?
Celia reluctantly agrees to help Misha, the handsome leader of an infected vampire family. But Aric, the head of the werewolf pack determined to destroy Misha's family to keep the region safe, warns Celia to stay out of the fight. Caught between two hot alphas, Celia must find a way to please everyone, save everyone, and oh yeah, not lose her heart to the wrong guy—or die a miserable death. Because now that the evil behind the plague knows who Celia is, he’s coming for her and her sisters. This Wird girl has never had it so tough.
The Wird sisters are content to avoid the local vampires, werebeasts, and witches of the Lake Tahoe region—until one of them blows up a vampire in self-defense. Everyone knows vampires aren't aggressive, and killing one is punishable by death. But soon more bloodlust-fueled attacks occur, and the community wonders: are the vampires of Tahoe cursed with a plague?
Celia reluctantly agrees to help Misha, the handsome leader of an infected vampire family. But Aric, the head of the werewolf pack determined to destroy Misha's family to keep the region safe, warns Celia to stay out of the fight. Caught between two hot alphas, Celia must find a way to please everyone, save everyone, and oh yeah, not lose her heart to the wrong guy—or die a miserable death. Because now that the evil behind the plague knows who Celia is, he’s coming for her and her sisters. This Wird girl has never had it so tough.
Summary
Sing and the darkness will find you.
Shipwrecked on an island seven years ago, Lucy has been warned she must never sing, or disaster will strike. But on All Hallows Eve, Lucy hears tantalizing music in the air. When she sings it, she unlocks a terrible secret: She is a Chantress, a spell-singer, brought to the island not by shipwreck but by a desperate enchantment gone wrong.
Her song lands her back in England — and in mortal peril, for the kingdom lies in the cruel grasp of a powerful Lord Protector and his mind-reading hunters, the Shadowgrims. The Protector has killed all Chantresses, for they alone can destroy the Shadowgrims. Only Lucy has survived.
In terrible danger, Lucy takes shelter with Nat, a spy who turns her heart upside-down. Nat has been working with his fellow scholars of the Invisible College to overthrow the Lord Protector, and they have long hoped to find a living Chantress to help them. But Lucy is completely untrained, and Nat deeply distrusts her magic. If Lucy cannot master the songspells, how long can she even stay alive?
Beguiling and lyrical, dangerous and romantic, Chantress will capture readers in a spell they won’t want to break.
Shipwrecked on an island seven years ago, Lucy has been warned she must never sing, or disaster will strike. But on All Hallows Eve, Lucy hears tantalizing music in the air. When she sings it, she unlocks a terrible secret: She is a Chantress, a spell-singer, brought to the island not by shipwreck but by a desperate enchantment gone wrong.
Her song lands her back in England — and in mortal peril, for the kingdom lies in the cruel grasp of a powerful Lord Protector and his mind-reading hunters, the Shadowgrims. The Protector has killed all Chantresses, for they alone can destroy the Shadowgrims. Only Lucy has survived.
In terrible danger, Lucy takes shelter with Nat, a spy who turns her heart upside-down. Nat has been working with his fellow scholars of the Invisible College to overthrow the Lord Protector, and they have long hoped to find a living Chantress to help them. But Lucy is completely untrained, and Nat deeply distrusts her magic. If Lucy cannot master the songspells, how long can she even stay alive?
Beguiling and lyrical, dangerous and romantic, Chantress will capture readers in a spell they won’t want to break.
Summary
From master
storyteller Jeff Somers comes a gritty new urban fantasy series starring
a pair of unlikely heroes: low-life blood mages caught up in a violent
scheme not of their own making.
Lem has ethics in using his magic. Therefore Lem is hungry and broke most of the time.
Ethics in the world of blood magic, however, is a gray area. While Lem will grift his way through life by using small glamours to make $1 bills appear as $20s, enabling him and his none-too-bright pal Mags to eat, he won’t use other people's blood to cast. Stronger spells require more blood, and hardcore magicians use Bleeders or “volunteers” to this end. Not Lem.
So when these down-and-out boon companions encounter a girl kidnapped and marked with magic rune tattoos, it’s not at all clear that they’re powerful enough to save her…or themselves. Turning to his estranged Master for help, it quickly becomes clear to Lem that not only is this beautiful, strange girl’s life all but forfeit, but that the world’s preeminent mage had big, earth-shattering plans for her—and he and Mags just got in the way.
Lem has ethics in using his magic. Therefore Lem is hungry and broke most of the time.
Ethics in the world of blood magic, however, is a gray area. While Lem will grift his way through life by using small glamours to make $1 bills appear as $20s, enabling him and his none-too-bright pal Mags to eat, he won’t use other people's blood to cast. Stronger spells require more blood, and hardcore magicians use Bleeders or “volunteers” to this end. Not Lem.
So when these down-and-out boon companions encounter a girl kidnapped and marked with magic rune tattoos, it’s not at all clear that they’re powerful enough to save her…or themselves. Turning to his estranged Master for help, it quickly becomes clear to Lem that not only is this beautiful, strange girl’s life all but forfeit, but that the world’s preeminent mage had big, earth-shattering plans for her—and he and Mags just got in the way.
This is it. Enjoy, be that requesting or resisting the temptation!
Ohhhh nice window shopping there :D I do see books I'd love to try
ReplyDeleteI grabbed Hysteria because I'm auto-approved and it always feels like it doesn't count then... I like the idea od doing the window shopping post although it's all too easy to click that request button.
ReplyDeletea lot of nice books, trickster was interesting.
ReplyDeleteHow.. how do you expect me to resist?! You listed poison and magic-wielders and and ... damnit I've only just BEEN on an egalley spree!! D:
ReplyDelete*runs off to request Poison, Sealed With a Curse, and Chantress*
Oh this post. It just makes me realize how little willpower I have. I got the Water Witch, Chantress, and Also Known As. I feel like such a loser!! Haha.
ReplyDeleteBut...I really like the idea for this post. In case I miss anything, I know you got it covered. :)