fairy skeletons.: Books I'm Waiting For

Why don't I make a list? These are my holds at the library, basically, because I want them. Now. With summaries, too, so that you can see what they're all about. :)

Cinder returns in the second thrilling installment of the New York Times-bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She’s trying to break out of prison—even though if she succeeds, she’ll be the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive.

Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit’s grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn’t know about her grandmother and the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother’s whereabouts, she has no choice but to trust him, though he clearly has a few dark secrets of his own.

As Scarlet and Wolf work to unravel one mystery, they find another when they cross paths with Cinder. Together, they must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen who will do anything to make Prince Kai her husband, her king, her prisoner.

This is a sequel, to Cinder. I read Cinder a while back and posted a review on this blog. You can read that here: http://lifeisinexpressible.blogspot.com/2012/07/book-review-cinder-by-marissa-meyer.html.

So basically I loved Cinder and am coming back for more, I suppose. As you can tell, this one's based on Red Riding Hood. YAY.

June and Day arrive in Vegas just as the unthinkable happens: the Elector Primo dies, and his son Anden takes his place. With the Republic edging closer to chaos, the two join a group of Patriot rebels eager to help Day rescue his brother and offer passage to the Colonies. They have only one request—-June and Day must assassinate the new Elector.

It’s their chance to change the nation, to give voice to a people silenced for too long.

But as June realizes this Elector is nothing like his father, she’s haunted by the choice ahead. What if Anden is a new beginning? What if revolution must be more than loss and vengeance, anger and blood—what if the Patriots are wrong?

Another sequel. The first book is called Legend. I wrote a review for that as well: http://lifeisinexpressible.blogspot.com/2012/07/book-review-legend-by-marie-lu.html. As you'll read in the review, it's based on Les Miserables. I watched the movie and I caught the bug baaaadddd. So yeah, which makes me appreciate this even more.

Still loving all these sequel covers. LAAAA. LA LA LA.

One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.

Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.

Now, this is obviously the sequel to Divergent. And really, do I need to talk much about that at all?

It's just. So. Amazing. GAAAHHH.

So that's Starry, signing off for now.