"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine that invites readers to share the unreleased books they're most excited for.
I haven't participated in awhile, but The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff was recently brought to my attentnion...and now I reallyreally want to read it.
Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, Mackie comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess. He is a Replacement—left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now, because of fatal allergies to iron, blood, and consecrated ground, Mackie is slowly dying in the human world.
Mackie would give anything to live among us, to practice on his bass or spend time with an oddly intriguing girl named Tate. But when Tate’s baby sister goes missing, Mackie is drawn irrevocably into the underworld of Gentry, known as Mayhem. He must face the dark creatures of the Slag Heaps and find his rightful place, in our world, or theirs.
Coming from Razorbill/Penguin Group September 21, 2010.
It's been a busy first week of college, and you may have noticed that I haven't been online much--partly because of time issues as well as figuring out how to access the internet outside of the crowded campus computer labs. But that's all figured out now, and I can promise at least a few posts this week.
And now, for your viewing pleasure, the hilarious book trailer for Libba Bray's new book Going Bovine:
There will be four prizes to four people: 1) One advanced review copy of BALLAD, mailed immediately upon end of contest 2) One finished copy of BALLAD, mailed when I get my copies (September) 3) One OTHER finished copy of BALLAD, mailed when I get my copies 4) A frame of the winner's choice from the video
Want to win? All you have to do is post the below book trailer on your blog, facebook, or twitter. Leave a comment linking your posts here, and read the rest of the rules here as well. ("here" as in follow the links; the contest is on Maggie's blog, not mine.)
Want more information? Here it is:
Release Date: October 1, 2009 Publisher: Flux Age Group: Young Adult Summary: Nuala is part muse, part psychic vampire. While the freedom to sing or write or create is denied her, her mark across history is unmistakable: a trail of brilliant poets, musicians, and artists who have died tragically young. She has no sympathy for their abbreviated life spans; every thirteen Halloweens she burns in a bonfire and rises from her ashes with no memories of what has come before other than the knowledge of how her end will come.
James is the best bagpiper in the state of Virginia—maybe in the country—plus he's young and good-looking: just Nuala's thing. But James, supremely confident in his own abilities and in love with another girl, becomes the first to ever reject Nuala's offer. He's preoccupied with bigger things than Nuala: an enigmatic horned figure who appears at dusk and the downward spiral of Dee, his girlfriend-who-isn't.
It becomes obvious to James that Nuala's presence, the horned king of the dead, and Dee's slow self-destruction are all related, and that Dee is the center of a deadly faerie game. While James struggles to unwind the tangled threads of the story, Nuala shadows him, seeing her conflicted, dual nature reflected back at her in him. She finds herself lending him inspiration for nothing. Not quite for nothing—for the hope of requited affection. But even as James begins to realize his feelings for both Dee and Nuala have changed, the thirteenth Halloween descends, with its bonfires and rituals for the dead, one deadly to Nuala and the other to Dee. James can only save one. (From maggiestiefvater.com) ________________________________________ I am so very excited for this book!
