Wishlisting this Wednesday – April 18 2012
Happy Wednesday! Hope you’re having a great week! I wanted to pop on and show you a few books that are currently sitting in my Amazon WISHLIST. Here’s a few books that have found their way into my wishes over the last few weeks, and I can’t wait to see them sitting on my bookshelves!
13 Secrets by Michelle Harrison
Release Date: 2012-06-12
Happy with life at Elvesden Manor, Rowan is doing her best to put the past behind her. But it’s tough to forget the past when fairy messengers won’t leave her be, no matter how many magical boundaries are put in place to keep them away.When Tanya arrives to spend the summer at the manor, she notices that Rowan is acting strangely and becomes determined to find out what she’s hiding. As Rowan sets about a risky secret quest, those she is working with soon begin to vanish one by one — each in a way that is symbolic of the Thirteen Treasures. With time running out, will Tanya be able to prevent the past from consuming Rowan altogether?In this stunning finale to the 13 Treasures Trilogy, Michelle Harrison delivers a dark tale of mystery and adventure, set against a deliciously wicked fairy world.
NO OF PAGES: 432 | GENRE: middle grade, fantasy, adventure | BUY ON AMAZON 
Storybound by Marissa Burt
Release Date: 2012-04-03
When Una Fairchild stumbles upon a mysterious book buried deep in the basement of her school library, she thinks nothing of opening the cover and diving in. But instead of paging through a regular novel, Una suddenly finds herself Written In to the land of Story—a world filled with Heroes and Villains and fairy-tale characters. But not everything in Story is as magical as it seems. Una must figure out why she has been Written In—and fast—before anyone else discovers her secret. Together with her new friend Peter and a talking cat named Sam, Una digs deep into Story’s shadowy past. She quickly realizes that she is tied to the world in ways she never could have imagined—and it might be up to her to save it.
NO OF PAGES: 416 | GENRE: fantasty, middle grade | BUY ON AMAZON
Ripper (A Ripper Novel) by Amy Carol Reeves
Release Date: 2012-04-08
“I felt hot breath on my neck, and, horrified, I knew that he stood behind me . . .” It’s 1888, and after her mother’s sudden death, Abbie is sent to live with her grandmother in a posh London neighborhood. When she begins volunteering at Whitechapel Hospital, Abbie finds she has a passion for helping the abused and sickly women there. But within days, patients begin turning up murdered at the hands of Jack the Ripper. As more women are murdered, Abbie realizes that she and the Ripper share a strange connection: she has visions showing the Ripper luring his future victims to their deaths—moments before he turns his knife upon them. Her desperation to stop the massacres leads Abbie on a perilous hunt for the killer. And her search leads to a mysterious brotherhood whose link to the Ripper threatens not just London but all of mankind. Praise:“Well written . . . Reeves cleverly uses one of the most heinous figures from history to tell a gothic tale with a paranormal twist.”—VOYA
NO OF PAGES: 360 | GENRE: YA, thriller | BUY ON AMAZON
Grave Mercy (Book I: His Fair Assassin Trilogy) by Robin LaFevers
Release Date: 2012-04-03
Why be the sheep, when you can be the wolf?
Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts—and a violent destiny. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassin and serve as a handmaiden to Death. To claim her new life, she must destroy the lives of others.
Ismae’s most important assignment takes her straight into the high court of Brittany—where she finds herself woefully under prepared—not only for the deadly games of intrigue and treason, but for the impossible choices she must make. For how can she deliver Death’s vengeance upon a target who, against her will, has stolen her heart?
NO OF PAGES: 565 | GENRE: YA, paranormal | BUY ON AMAZON
My Soul to Take (Soul Screamers Book 1) by Rachel Vincent
Release Date: 2009-08-01
She doesn’t see dead people, but…She senses when someone near her is about to die. And when that happens, a force beyond her control compels her to scream bloody murder. Literally.
Kaylee just wants to enjoy having caught the attention of the hottest guy in school. But a normal date is hard to come by when Nash seems to know more about her need to scream than she does. And when classmates start dropping dead for no apparent reason, only Kaylee knows who’ll be next…
NO OF PAGES: 384 | GENRE: YA, Paranormal | BUY ON AMAZON
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Release Date: 1997-09-15
One of the most influential vampire novels of the 20th century, I Am Legend regularly appears on the "10 Best" lists of numerous critical studies of the horror genre. As Richard Matheson’s third novel, it was first marketed as science fiction (for although written in 1954, the story takes place in a future 1976). A terrible plague has decimated the world, and those who were unfortunate enough to survive have been transformed into blood-thirsty creatures of the night. Except, that is, for Robert Neville. He alone appears to be immune to this disease, but the grim irony is that now he is the outsider. He is the legendary monster who must be destroyed because he is different from everyone else. Employing a stark, almost documentary style, Richard Matheson was one of the first writers to convince us that the undead can lurk in a local supermarket freezer as well as a remote Gothic castle. His influence on a generation of bestselling authors–including Stephen King and Dean Koontz–who first read him in their youth is, well, legendary. –Stanley Wiater
NO OF PAGES: 317 | GENRE: Sci-fi, Paranormal, Dystopian, Horror | BUY ON AMAZON
I thought I already owned a copy of I AM LEGEND, but apparently, no, I do not. SO… wishlist – check! haha.
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