Waiting on Wednesday: The Diviners by Libba Bray and The Forsaken by Lisa M. Stasse

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Breaking the Spine,

meant to spotlight an upcoming release we are eagerly awaiting!

The Diviners by Libba Bray
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 608 Pages
Expected US Release: September 18, 2012 (!!! Bumped up from November!)

Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is pos-i-toot-ly thrilled. New York is the city of speakeasies, shopping, and movie palaces! Soon enough, Evie is running with glamorous Ziegfield girls and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is Evie has to live with her Uncle Will, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult--also known as "The Museum of the Creepy Crawlies."
When a rash of occult-based murders comes to light, Evie and her uncle are right in the thick of the investigation. And through it all, Evie has a secret: a mysterious power that could help catch the killer--if he doesn't catch her first.
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I will follow Libba Bray and her writing to the ends of the earth, into other realms, onto remote islands with guerrilla beauty queens...anywhere. The Gemma Doyle series is some of my favourite books ever, and I'm so excited to see this period in historical YA fiction.  Plus, it sounds pretty awesome, too.

The Forsaken by Lisa M. Stasse

Simon & Schuster, 384 pages

Expected US Release: July 10, 2012

As an obedient orphan of the U.N.A. (the super-country that was once Mexico, the U.S., and Canada), Alenna learned at an early age to blend in and be quiet—having your parents taken by the police will do that to a girl. But Alenna can’t help but stand out when she fails a test that all sixteen-year-olds have to take: The test says she has a high capacity for brutal violence, and so she is sent to The Wheel, an island where all would-be criminals end up. The life expectancy of prisoners on The Wheel is just two years, but with dirty, violent, and chaotic conditions, the time seems a lot longer as Alenna is forced to deal with civil wars for land ownership and machines that snatch kids out of their makeshift homes. Desperate, she and the other prisoners concoct a potentially fatal plan to flee the island. Survival may seem impossible, but Alenna is determined to achieve it anyway.

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First, THE COVER. I'm crazy about the cover. I know some people don't like it, but I am definitely down. It's just so evocative, I could make an entire story based on the image.  And then you read the summary, and it just sounds so...horrifically awesome, right?? I mean, being sent and stranded on an island with others who are deemed too brutal to live in regular society - because you are too?! That just has to bring about some really great things.

What books are you waiting for?

Leave your link in the comments and I'll hop by!