Dreaming of Books #12
This feature/meme is very much like On The Smugglers Radar from The Book Smugglers , and I will use it when I really want to bring
to your attention some of the very cool book releases I'm looking
forward to. You are welcome to borrow this feature if you want.
Summary
The last thing Ward
de'Ath wants is more trouble. On the run from both the law and the
criminal underworld, Ward and Celia flee Brawenal City only to stumble
into the mansion of a powerful evil necromancer. And when Ward discovers
the man possesses a dangerous grimoire, his duty leaves him no choice.
He can't allow the necromancer to keep the grimoire. But the mansion is
filled with monsters--human and undead--and Ward has no way of telling
who's friend or foe. The only person he can trust is Celia who dominates
more of his thoughts and feelings everyday. But there are still laws in
the way of anything but friendship. She's still dead and he's still
alive . . . for now.
Release date: July16th 2013.
I was really happy with book #1 Ward Against Death, and I am looking forward to this one because it was a really good fantasy, and it has a kick-ass female assassin in it. Major win in my book!
Summary
What a rotten way for everything to turn out. Freighter pilot Marta Grayline is grounded, trapped on her miserable home planet by an intrasystem war that’s separated her from her beautiful girlfriend, her career, and everything she loves.
When her sister Beth offers her a way out by enlisting in the Novan Emergency Fleet, Marta jumps at the opportunity to get back into space.
But when her ship is attacked and destroyed, she finds herself stranded on a mysterious space station with a crew that won’t answer her questions.
And, of course, then there’s the aliens – the planet-destroying Abrax that somehow seem to have a hold on Beth.
They’re coming for Marta, too.
She’ll have to face ancient forces, her own doubts, and the inside of an alien mind if she wants to get some answers, complete her mission, and unlock her own latent potential. The Daughter Star, the red beacon in the night sky, may yet be the key to the freedom and understanding Marta so desperately wants.
Release date: May 28th 2013.
You know I like occasional sci-fi, and this book certainly made me curious!
Summary
Aziza Jane Stewart is living on borrowed time, and making a few mistakes in London seems like a good way to go out with a bang. But when two compelling strangers draw her into an ancient conflict, she realizes her curse isn’t about death at all…it’s about the power within her.
The sexy giant following her says he can smell trouble on her skin, the smokeless fire and magic of the demons he was born and bred to hunt. Brandon may be an enforcer, but his reaction to her is anything but adversarial. Ram, her new Jinn shadow, will do whatever it takes to come between them, and he’s just as hard for Aziza to resist.
When her dark family legacy burns to the surface, whom can Aziza trust? The alpha male who pushes all her hot buttons, the Jinn who seduces her in dreams, or the emerging Fireborne within? As danger circles closer, she must learn to embrace her newfound powers—and trust someone with her heart—before she becomes the final casualty.
Warning: Explicit content, magic, danger, voyeurism, chains, a secret ménage and carnal deeds of devilish debauchery at every other turn. Basically…fasten your seatbelts and get ready to burn.
Release date: August 27th 2013.
This has all prerequisites of a disaster - a love triangle, for God's sake! And yet... it can be very good if it racy and humorous, so I'll be keeping an eye on this release.
Summary
*If you could learn the identity of your one true love—even knowing you’d probably never meet—would you do it?*
Years have passed since refugees from a ruined earth took to space, eventually terraforming a new system of planets. Science has not only made the leaps necessary to allow time travel, but the process engineered a strange side effect—predicting people’s one true love.
The problem? If only one soul ever has been born, or will be born, that perfectly matches yours, the chances the two will exist in the same time and place are almost zero. It’s rare enough that the predictions have been reduced to a game, a parlor trick, and no one expects a happily ever after with their True.
*If you had the chance to meet your one true love—even knowing you couldn’t be together—would you go?*
Seventeen-year-old Kaia Vespasian is an apprentice to the Historians—a group charged with using time travel to document the triumphs and failures of the past—and can’t resist a peek at her long-dead one true love. Before she knows it, she’s broken every rule in the book, and the consequences of getting caught could be disastrous.
*If you could save your one true love from a terrible, untimely death, would you be able to resist?*
When Oz Truman, a fellow apprentice, discovers Kaia’s secret, he shows her the predicted trajectories that could result her from altering the history of ancient Egypt. They prove that if Kaia doesn’t ensure her True dies as he’s supposed to, the effect on the present will be catastrophic.
*Would you have the strength to watch them die?*
But when Kaia she notices Oz popping up in historical archives where he doesn’t belong, she suspects he has a secret of his own—and the conspiracy she uncovers breaks worse rules than traveling to ancient Egypt to meet a boy.
If Kaia’s experience with her one true love has taught her anything, it’s that no alteration to history comes without consequences. The Historians trained her to observe and record the past, but Kaia never guessed she might have to protect it—especially not from the people she trusts.
Release date: July 2013.
From all I've heard Trisha Leigh is a very good writer, add a captivating cover and time travel, and I'm sold!
Summary
'There is a rumour that the Elites don't bleed.'
Hundreds of years into the future, wars, riots, resource crises and rising sea-levels have destroyed the old civilisations. Only one city has survived: Neo-Babel, a city full of cultures - and racial tension. Fifteen-year-old Silver is an Elite, a citizen of Neo-Babel chosen to guard the city due to her superior DNA. She'd never dream of leaving - but then she fails to prevent the assassination of Neo Babel's president, setting off a chain of events more shocking and devastating than she could ever have imagined. Forced to flee the city with her best friend Butterfly (a boy with genetically-enhanced wings), Silver will have to fight to find her family, uncover the truth about Neo-Babel and come to terms with her complicated feelings for Butterfly.
Packed full of adventure, romance, exoticism and the power of friendship, THE ELITES is a highly compelling and beautifully written novel from a supremely talented debut author.
Release date: September 5th 2013.
I admit the only thing I like about this book is a gorgeous cover, the rest I'm suspicious about because I haven't been lucky with YA dystopians in the past few months. It might be really good, but I'll wait for some reviews from trusted sources first. :)
Summary
First in a new romance series: It’s the roaring twenties, and San Francisco is a hotbed of illegal boozing, raw lust, and black magic. The fog-covered Bay Area can be an intoxicating scene, particularly when you specialize in spirits…
Aida Palmer performs a spirit medium show onstage at Chinatown’s illustrious Gris-Gris speakeasy. However, her ability to summon (and expel) the dead is more than just an act.
Winter Magnusson is a notorious bootlegger who’s more comfortable with guns than ghosts—unfortunately for him, he’s the recent target of a malevolent hex that renders him a magnet for hauntings. After Aida’s supernatural assistance is enlisted to banish the ghosts, her spirit-chilled aura heats up as the charming bootlegger casts a different sort of spell on her...
On the hunt for the curseworker responsible for the hex, Aida and Winter become drunk on passion. And the closer they become, the more they realize they have ghosts of their own to exorcise…
Release date: January 7th 2014.
First of all, I already know that Jenn writes well. Secondly, oh my god, oh my god, it's the roaring twenties! How can I resist? :))
Summary
Reality Bites
Fortitude Scott’s life is a mess. A degree in film theory has left him with zero marketable skills, his job revolves around pouring coffee, his roommate hasn’t paid rent in four months, and he’s also a vampire. Well, sort of. He’s still mostly human.
But when a new vampire comes into his family’s territory and young girls start going missing, Fort can’t ignore his heritage anymore. His mother and his older, stronger siblings think he’s crazy for wanting to get involved. So it’s up to Fort to take action, with the assistance of Suzume Hollis, a dangerous and sexy shape-shifter. Fort is determined to find a way to outsmart the deadly vamp, even if he isn’t quite sure how.
But without having matured into full vampirehood and with Suzume ready to split if things get too risky, Fort’s rescue mission might just kill him.…
Release date: May 7th 2013.
Reviews have been favorable for this book, plus it sounds like a very good urban fantasy. I am dying to try this one!
This is it. Anything you'd like to try too?
I love your books! And I wanna know who Kaia's soulmate is now
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