Waiting on Wednesday: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly meme, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine 

that spotlights upcoming releases we can't wait to read.

This week I can't wait for: 

 

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers is part of the parent company Hachette. Along with LB Kids and Poppy, they publish about 135 books a year for children and teens. LBBYR  features their core list of picture books and hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction for middle grade and young adults.

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I start shaking whenever I see this book! I'm dying to find out the conclusion of Karou and Akiva's journey. 

Dreams of Gods and Monsters

Laini Taylor

April 17, 2014

By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her, if there can even be a future for the chimaera in war-ravaged Eretz.

Common enemy, common cause.

When Jael's brutal seraph army trespasses into the human world, the unthinkable becomes essential, and Karou and Akiva must ally their enemy armies against the threat. It is a twisted version of their long-ago dream, and they begin to hope that it might forge a way forward for their people.

And, perhaps, for themselves. Toward a new way of living, and maybe even love.

But there are bigger threats than Jael in the offing. A vicious queen is hunting Akiva, and, in the skies of Eretz ... something is happening. Massive stains are spreading like bruises from horizon to horizon; the great winged stormhunters are gathering as if summoned, ceaselessly circling, and a deep sense of wrong pervades the world.

What power can bruise the sky?

From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy. 

At the very barriers of space and time, what do gods and monsters dream of? And does anything else matter?

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I've seen this book listed a lot recently, but I finished The Diviners last night and it was amazing. Now I can't wait for book 2. 

Lair of Dreams

by Libba Bray

April 22, 2014

After a supernatural showdown with a serial killer, Evie O'Neill has outed herself as a Diviner. Now that the world knows of her ability to "read" objects, and therefore, read the past, she has become a media darling, earning the title, "America's Sweetheart Seer." But not everyone is so accepting of the Diviners' abilities...

Meanwhile, mysterious deaths have been turning up in the city, victims of an unknown sleeping sickness. Can the Diviners descend into the dreamworld and catch a killer?

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YES! I love thief books. Add superpowers and I'm completely sold. I really hope this one is going to be a winner. 

Illusive

Emily Lloyd-Jones

July 15, 2014

Pitched as X-Men meets Ocean's Eleven.

A group of underground high-class thieves with super powers become embroiled in a deadly race against the government to find the formula for the vaccine that gave them their powers.

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Is it shallow that I just want to read this for the "tattooed harpoon boy?" Just kidding...mostly. Actually, this island culture with whalers and witches sounds really interesting. 

Salt & Storm
By Kendall Kulper
September 2014

Sixteen-year-old Avery Roe wants only to take her rightful place as the witch of Prince Island, making the charms that keep the island’s whale men safe and prosperous at sea. But before she could learn how to control her power, her mother, the first Roe woman in centuries to turn her back on magic, stole Avery away from her grandmother. Avery must escape from her mother before her grandmother dies, taking with her the secrets of the Roes’ power.

When Avery awakens from a dream foretelling her own murder, she realizes time is running short—for her and for the people of her island, who, without the Roes, will lose their ships and the only life they know.

With the help of Tane, a tattooed harpoon boy from the Pacific Islands, Avery plots her escape from her mother and unravels the mysteries of her mother’s and grandmother’s pasts. Becoming a witch may prevent her murder and save her island from ruin, but Avery discovers it will also require a sacrifice she never expected—one she might not be able to make.

Are you excited about any Little, Brown books this week?