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Waiting on Wednesday (35)

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Frag­ments (Par­tials 2) by Dan Wells

26th Feb­ru­ary 2013

Kira Walker has found the cure for RM, but the bat­tle for the sur­vival of humans and Par­tials is just begin­ning. Kira has left East Meadow in a des­per­ate search for clues to who she is. That the Par­tials them­selves hold the cure for RM in their blood can­not be a coincidence–it must be part of a larger plan, a plan that involves Kira, a plan that could save both races. Her com­pan­ions are Afa Demoux, an unhinged drifter and for­mer employee of Par­a­Gen, and Samm and Heron, the Par­tials who betrayed her and saved her life, the only ones who know her secret. But can she trust them?

Mean­while, back on Long Island, what’s left of human­ity is gear­ing up for war with the Par­tials, and Mar­cus knows his only hope is to delay them until Kira returns. But Kira’s jour­ney will take her deep into the over­grown waste­land of postapoc­a­lyp­tic Amer­ica, and Kira and Mar­cus both will dis­cover that their great­est enemy may be one they didn’t even know existed.

Par­tials was one of the few dystopi­ans I read last year that I really enjoyed, so I’m really inter­ested to see where this series goes.

 

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Waiting on Wednesday (34)

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Since it’s been so long since I did a WoW post, I thought I might com­bine a few books that I can’t wait to get my hands on next year.

As always, cov­ers link to Goodreads

 

Dark Tri­umph by Robin LaFevers

 

2nd April 2013

Sybella arrives at the convent’s doorstep half mad with grief and despair. Those that serve Death are only too happy to offer her refuge—but at a price. Nat­u­rally skilled in both the arts of death and seduc­tion, the con­vent views Sybella as one of their most dan­ger­ous weapons.

But those assassin’s skills are lit­tle com­fort when the con­vent returns her to a life that nearly drove her mad. Her father’s rage and bru­tal­ity are ter­ri­fy­ing, and her brother’s love is equally mon­strous. And while Sybella is a weapon of jus­tice wrought by the god of Death him­self, He must give her a rea­son to live. When she dis­cov­ers an unex­pected ally impris­oned in the dun­geons, will a daugh­ter of Death find some­thing other than vengeance to live for?

 

 

I had some prob­lems with the first book in this series, Grave Mercy, but I’m intrigued enough to want to see where this series goes and to see how LaFevers devel­ops as a writer. I’m hop­ing Sybella, unlike Ismae, will actu­ally, you know, kill some peo­ple, what with being an assas­sin and all.

 

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Waiting on Wednesday (33)

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It’s been a while since I did one of these, I just haven’t been around and the best thing about this meme is to check out what every­one else is excited about. This week’s pick is one I’m cer­tain a lot of peo­ple are look­ing for­ward to.

As always, the cover links to Goodreads

Rebel Heart (Dust­lands 2) by Moira Young

2nd August 2012

[box]The Ton­ton have been defeated.

Lugh has been rescued.

The heart­stone has brought Saba and Jack together.

Now, Saba and her fam­ily head west to meet him and start a new life. All should be well.

But shad­ows of the dead are stalk­ing Saba.

And another kind of shadow is creep­ing over the dustlands.

Then a mes­sen­ger shows up.

With news of Jack.[/box]

 

I loved Blood Red Road, the first book in this series — I picked it up with­out know­ing any­thing about it and was com­pletely blown away. Amidst all the YA dystopi­ans that have come out these past cou­ple of years on the back of The Hunger Games (any­one else bored to death of books being com­pared to this tril­ogy by the way?), amidst all the hype and build up of these other titles, Blood Red Road wasn’t really on the radar. I cer­tainly didn’t see any other blogs talk­ing about this one until sev­eral months after I had picked it up. But Blood Red Road, in my opin­ion, turned out to be far supe­rior to the rest of then. (Though noth­ing yet comes close to Patrick Ness, nat­u­rally). Check out my review of book one here. I can­not wait to see if Young can do it again and avoid the dreaded mid­dle book syndrome.

I have to say, although the cover is cer­tainly eye-catching and I do actu­ally like the colour — I’m dis­ap­pointed at the re-design. It’s rather generic. I was hop­ing they would tie this one in to the illus­trated cover of the first book — which is what drew my atten­tion to it in the book­shop in the first place. C’est la vie.

What are you wait­ing on this week?

Wait­ing on Wednes­day is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Break­ing the Spine to spot­light any upcom­ing releases you are eagerly anticipating!