Clearly I decided to start my schedule now instead of next
week. Today I feel like highlighting some of my favorite book covers. I know it’s
wrong to judge a book by its cover but sometimes you just can’t help it. I have
not read all of these but the ones I haven’t are obviously on my wish list.
Entwined
by Heather Dixon
472 pages
Published March 29th 2011 by Greenwillow Books
Azalea and her younger sisters dance
in the mysterious silver forest every night, escaping from the sadness of the
palace and their father’s grief. What they don’t understand—although as time
passes they begin to get an inkling of the danger they are in—is that the
mysterious and dashing Keeper is tightening his snare with deadly purpose.
Luckily, Azalea is brave and steadfast. Luckily, a handsome young army captain
also has his eye on Azalea. . . . Lush, romantic, and compelling, this debut
novel by Heather Dixon will thrill fans of Shannon Hale, Robin McKinley, and
Edith Pattou.
452 pages
Published September 27th 2011 by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Rated 5/5 Stars
Mara Dyer doesn’t
think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of
how she got there.
It can.
She believes there must be more to the accident she can’t remember that killed
her friends and left her mysteriously unharmed.
There
is.
She doesn’t believe that after everything she’s been through, she can fall in
love.
She’s wrong.
358 pages
Published March 22nd 2011 by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Rated 5/5 Stars
By age sixteen, Rhine
Ellery has four years left to live. She can thank modern science for this
genetic time bomb. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males
with a lifespan of 25 years, and females with a lifespan of 20 years.
Geneticists are seeking a miracle antidote to restore the human race, desperate
orphan’s crowd the population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and young
girls are being kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to bear more children.
When Rhine is kidnapped and sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to
escape. Her husband, Linden, is hopelessly in love with her, and Rhine can’t
bring herself to hate him as much as she’d like to. He opens her to a magical
world of wealth and illusion she never thought existed, and it almost makes it
possible to ignore the clock ticking away her short life. But Rhine quickly
learns that not everything in her new husband’s strange world is what it seems.
Her father-in-law, an eccentric doctor bent on finding the antidote, is
hoarding corpses in the basement. Her fellow sister wives are to be trusted one
day and feared the next, and Rhine is desperate to communicate to her twin
brother that she is safe and alive. Will Rhine be able to escape--before her
time runs out? Together with one of Linden's servants, Gabriel, Rhine attempts
to escape just before her seventeenth birthday. But in a world that continues
to spiral into anarchy, is there any hope for freedom?
341 pages
Published February 21st 2012 by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Running away brings
Rhine and Gabriel right into a trap, in the form of a twisted carnival whose
ring mistress keeps watch over a menagerie of girls. Just as Rhine uncovers what
plans await her, her fortune turns again. With Gabriel at her side, Rhine travels
through an environment as grim as the one she left a year ago - surroundings
that mirror her own feelings of fear and hopelessness.
The two are determined to get to Manhattan, to relative safety with Rhine’s
twin brother, Rowan. But the road there is long and perilous - and in a world
where young women only live to age twenty and young men die at twenty-five,
time is precious. Worse still, they can’t seem to elude Rhine’s father-in-law,
Vaughn, who is determined to bring Rhine back to the mansion...by any means
necessary.
In the sequel to Lauren DeStefano’s harrowing Wither, Rhine must decide if freedom is worth the
price - now that she has more to lose than ever.
Miss Peregrine’s Home
For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Goodreads|Amazon
352 pages
Published June 7th 2011 by Quirk
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange
collection of very curious photographs. Fiction is based on real black and
white photographs. The death of grandfather Abe sends sixteen-year-old Jacob
journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the
crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, and explores
abandoned bedrooms and hallways. The children may still live.
338 pages
Published November 15th 2011 by Harper/HarperCollins
Rated 5/5 Stars
Juliette hasn't touched
anyone in exactly 264 days.
The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her
up for murder. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. As long as she
doesn't hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling
to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the
population, food is hard to find, birds don't fly anymore, and the clouds are
the wrong color.
The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they
threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are
whispering war-- and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette
is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she's exactly
what they need right now.
Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or
be a warrior
Let me know if you have read any of these or what some of your
favorites are!
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