Waiting on Wednesday: The Suburban Strange!

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.

The Suburban Strange
Nathan Kotecki
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
October 2nd, 2012
Young Adult

Synopsis via Goodreads
Shy Celia Balaustine is befriended by a mysterious group of outliers called The Rosary at her new school, Suburban High. The Rosary exposes Celia to new experiences and ideas that help her break out of her shell. Soon though, Celia discovers something is not quite right at Suburban. Girls at the school begin having near fatal accidents on the eve of their sixteenth birthdays. Who is causing the accidents and why? Celia's own sixteenth birthday is fast approaching and she is inexorably drawn into an underground conflict between good and evil—the Kind and the Unkind—that is bubbling beneath Suburban High.

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Okay so I actually really like this cover for some reason. At least most of it. The design around the girl's head looks a bit like a weird hat or shower cap the way they've done it. O_o Kinda awkward. Moving on though. This sounds like a mysterious and thrilling read and I hope it turns out to be as good as it sounds. What do you think? Does this sound like something you'd like to read?

Giveaway: Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness & Swag!

Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
Publisher: Viking Adult
Pub. Date: July 10th, 2012
Pages: 592
Series: All Souls Trilogy, #2
Age Level: Adult (w/ YA Appeal)

Synopsis via Goodreads
Deborah Harkness exploded onto the literary scene with her debut novel, A Discovery of Witches, Book One of the magical All Souls Trilogy and an international publishing phenomenon. The novel introduced Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and reluctant witch, and the handsome geneticist and vampire Matthew Clairmont; together they found themselves at the center of a supernatural battle over an enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782.

Now, picking up from A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night plunges Diana and Matthew into Elizabethan London, a world of spies, subterfuge, and a coterie of Matthew’s old friends, the mysterious School of Night that includes Christopher Marlowe and Walter Raleigh. Here, Diana must locate a witch to tutor her in magic, Matthew is forced to confront a past he thought he had put to rest, and the mystery of Ashmole 782 deepens.

Deborah Harkness has crafted a gripping journey through a world of alchemy, time travel, and magical discoveries, delivering one of the most hotly anticipated novels of the season.

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Contest Details
Thanks to Shannon with Viking/Penguin, one lucky winner will receive a finished copy of Shadow of Night along with the temporary tattoo and six buttons shown above. Please read terms and condition before entering.

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An Update & My Book Haul from 6/3 to 6/25!

Hey folks. So I know I've been really MIA lately. I was busy with BEA earlier this month and then staying with a couple of other bloggers for a few days before finally getting settled in at my friend's house. Not long after which, my computer quit working (along with my phone and iPod, but we won't talk about that). I have just recently got it back, fixed and ready to go. I realize I still haven't gotten BEA wrap up posts up yet but I will. I promise! And soon too. I also have an interview and a couple reviews coming up before too long as well. In the meantime, I haven't done anything mentioning the books I've received in quite sometime. So I'm doing a book haul wrap up below that contains all the books I've received between June 3rd and now. This will NOT include BEA books. Those will be in the BEA wrap up posts. Also, not all the books I'll have listed will be in the picture, either because they showed up at home or they are kindle books.



Books from The Strand
~Siren by Tricia Rayburn
~Undercurrent by Tricia Rayburn
~A Breath of Eyre by Eve Marie Mont
~Saving June by Hannah Harrington
~The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong
~The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter
~Soul Screamers Vol. 1 by Rachel Vincent
~The Splendor Falls by Rosemary Clement-Moore
~House of Dance by Beth Kephart
~ARC Personal Effects by E.M. Kokie

From Booktrader Used Book Store
~Other by Karen Kincy
~The Season by Sarah MacLean
~Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost
~13 Treasures by Michelle Harrison

From The Cranbury Bookworm Used Book Store
~The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
~Subject Seven by James A. Moore
~Incantation by Alice Hoffman
~If I Should Die Before I Wake by Han Nolan

From Lexie/Tegan
~ARC Transcendence by C.J. Omololu*
~ARC Speechless by Hannah Harrington*
~Spin by Catherine McKenzie*
~13th Reality by James Dashner*
~Isle of Night by Veronica Wolff*
~ARC Unraveling by Elizabeth Norris*~ARC Point of Origin by Amanda Havard*
~Secret Society by Tom Dolby
~ARC Dearly Departed by Lia Habel
~ARC Illuminate by Aimee Agresti
~Saving Juliet by Suzanne Selfors

For Review from Author
~ARC Serial Hottie by Kelly Oram*

For Review from S&S
~This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel*
~ARC Such Wicked Intent by Kenneth Oppel*

For Review from Netgalley/LB
~Perfect Escape by Jennifer Brown*

Bought for Kindle
~Eve by Anna Carey*
~Shifting by Bethany Wiggins*
~The Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale*
~David by Mary Hoffman*
~Stolen Away by Alyxandra Harvey*
~The Girl is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines*
~We Hear the Dead by Dianne Salerni*
~Little Women and Me by Lauren Baratz-Logsted* (* = Not Pictured)

Waiting on Wednesday: Break My Heart 1,000 Times!

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.

Break My Heart 1,000 Times
Daniel Waters
Hyperion
October 16th, 2012
Young Adult

Synopsis via Goodreads
Living in the aftermath of the Event means that seeing the dead is now a part of life, but Veronica wishes that the ghosts would just move on. Instead, the ghosts aren’t disappearing—they’re gaining power.

When Veronica and her friend, Kirk, decide to investigate why, they stumble upon a more sinister plot than they ever could have imagined. One of Veronica’s high school teachers is crippled by the fact that his dead daughter has never returned as a ghost, and he’s haunted by the possibility that she’s waiting to reappear within a fresh body. Veronica seems like the perfect host. And even if he’s wrong, what’s the harm in creating one more ghost?

From critically acclaimed Generation Dead author Daniel Waters, comes a delectably creepy and suspenseful thriller. Break My Heart 1,000 Times will leave readers with the chills. Or is that a ghost reading over the page?

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Okay well first off, I'm not loving this cover. At all. For a book that sounds so haunting and darkly enticing, I feel it could have gotten a better cover. And it really reminds me of the cover for the anthology Dear Bully. Anyway, despite the lackluster cover job, this book sounds oh so deliciously dark and twisty. I haven't read of any of Waters' work before and didn't really have a particular desire to, until this one, which sounds soooo good! What do you think?