2013 looks like it's going to be a great year for books - so many good ones are coming out. Here are ten that I'm specifically looking forward to (in no particular order, as always). Each book's summary is from Goodreads.
Plenty of teenagers feel invisible. Fiona
McClean actually is.
An invisible girl is a priceless weapon.
Fiona’s own father has been forcing her to do his dirty work for
years—everything from spying on people to stealing cars to breaking into bank
vaults.
After sixteen years, Fiona’s had enough.
She and her mother flee to a small town, and for the first time in her life,
Fiona feels like a normal life is within reach. But Fiona’s father isn’t giving
up that easily.
Of course, he should know better than
anyone: never underestimate an invisible girl.
Fia was born
with flawless instincts. Her first impulse, her gut feeling, is always exactly right.
Her sister, Annie, is blind to the world around her—except when her mind is
gripped by strange visions of the future.
Trapped in a school that uses girls with extraordinary powers as tools for
corporate espionage, Annie and Fia are forced to choose over and over between
using their abilities in twisted, unthinkable ways… or risking each other’s
lives by refusing to obey.
In a stunning departure from her New York Times bestselling
Paranormalcy trilogy, Kiersten White delivers a slick, edgy, heartstoppingly
intense psychological thriller about two sisters determined to protect each
other—no matter the cost.
Seventeen-year-old Vane Weston has no
idea how he survived the category five tornado that killed his parents. And he
has no idea if the beautiful, dark-haired girl who’s swept through his dreams
every night since the storm is real. But he hopes she is.
Seventeen-year-old Audra is a sylph, an air elemental. She walks on the wind,
can translate its alluring songs, and can even coax it into a weapon with a
simple string of commands. She’s also a guardian—Vane’s guardian—and has sworn
an oath to protect Vane at all costs. Even if it means sacrificing her own
life.
When a hasty mistake reveals their location to the enemy who murdered both of
their families, Audra’s forced to help Vane remember who he is. He has a power
to claim—the secret language of the West Wind, which only he can understand.
But unlocking his heritage will also unlock the memory Audra needs him to
forget. And their greatest danger is not the warriors coming to destroy
them—but the forbidden romance that’s grown between them.
Golden boy Ezra Faulkner believes
everyone has a tragedy waiting for them—a single encounter after which
everything that really matters will happen. His particular tragedy waited until
he was primed to lose it all: in one spectacular night, a reckless driver
shatters Ezra’s knee, his athletic career, and his social life.
No longer a front-runner for Homecoming King, Ezra finds himself at the table
of misfits, where he encounters new girl Cassidy Thorpe. Cassidy is unlike
anyone Ezra’s ever met, achingly effortless, fiercely intelligent, and
determined to bring Ezra along on her endless adventures.
But as Ezra dives into his new studies, new friendships, and new love, he
learns that some people, like books, are easy to misread. And now he must
consider: if one’s singular tragedy has already hit and everything after it has
mattered quite a bit, what happens when more misfortune strikes?
Robyn Schneider’s Severed Heads, Broken Hearts is a lyrical,
witty, and heart-wrenching novel about how difficult it is to play the part
that people expect, and how new beginnings can stem from abrupt and tragic
endings.
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| Nobody by Jennifer Lynn Barnes |
There are people in this world who are Nobody. No one sees them. No one notices them. They live their lives under the radar, forgotten as soon as you turn away.
That's why they make the perfect assassins.
The Institute finds these people when they're young and takes them away for training. But an untrained Nobody is a threat to their organization. And threats must be eliminated.
Sixteen-year-old Claire has been invisible her whole life, missed by the Institute's monitoring. But now they've ID'ed her and sent seventeen-year-old Nix to remove her. Yet the moment he lays eyes on her, he can't make the hit. It's as if Claire and Nix are the only people in the world for each other. And they are - because no one else ever notices them.
It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of
New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine is silently
stirring a pot of her own. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel
prostitute, Josie wants more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer. She
devises a plan get out, but a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves Josie
tangled in an investigation that will challenge her allegiance to her mother,
her conscience, and Willie Woodley, the brusque madam on Conti Street.
Josie is caught between the dream of an elite college and a clandestine
underworld. New Orleans lures her in her quest for truth, dangling temptation
at every turn, and escalating to the ultimate test.
With characters as captivating as those in her internationally bestselling
novel Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys skillfully creates a rich
story of secrets, lies, and the haunting reminder that decisions can shape our
destiny.
The final book
in the New York Times bestselling trilogy, perfect for
fans of Battlestar Galactica and Prometheus!
Amy and Elder have finally left the oppressive walls of the spaceship Godspeed behind.
They're ready to start life afresh--to build a home--on Centauri-Earth, the
planet that Amy has traveled 25 trillion miles across the universe to
experience.
But this new Earth isn't the paradise Amy had been hoping for. There are giant
pterodactyl-like birds, purple flowers with mind-numbing toxins, and
mysterious, unexplained ruins that hold more secrets than their stone walls
first let on. The biggest secret of all? Godspeed's former
passengers aren't alone on this planet. And if they're going to stay, they'll
have to fight.
Amy and Elder must race to discover who--or what--else is out there if they are
to have any hope of saving their struggling colony and building a future
together. They will have to look inward to the very core of what makes them
human on this, their most harrowing journey yet. Because if the colony
collapses? Then everything they have sacrificed--friends, family, life on
Earth--will have been for nothing.
FUELED BY LIES.
RULED BY CHAOS.
ALMOST HOME.
A breathtaking
journey toward self-discovery and true love, from the author of If I
Stay
When sheltered American good girl Allyson "LuLu" Healey first meets
laid-back Dutch actor Willem De Ruiter at an underground performance ofTwelfth
Night in England, there’s an undeniable spark. After just one day
together, that spark bursts into a flame, or so it seems to Allyson, until the
following morning, when she wakes up after a whirlwind day in Paris to discover
that Willem has left. Over the next year, Allyson embarks on a journey to come
to terms with the narrow confines of her life, and through Shakespeare, travel,
and a quest for her almost-true-love, to break free of those confines.
Just One Day is the first in a sweepingly romantic duet of novels.
Willem’s story—Just One Year—is coming soon!
Emaline works
at her family's vacation rental company the summer before she leaves for
college. She must confront her values, goals and choices as her relationship
with city-boy Theo evolves and she's forced to say goodbye to the beach town
where she grew up.
An exotic treat
set in an entirely original, fantastical world brimming with deadly mystery,
forbidden romance, and heart-stopping adventure.
Nisha was abandoned at the gates of the City of a Thousand Dolls when she was
just a child. Now sixteen, she lives on the grounds of the isolated estate,
where orphan girls apprentice as musicians, healers, courtesans, and, if the
rumors are true, assassins. Nisha makes her way as Matron’s assistant, her
closest companions the mysterious cats that trail her shadow. Only when she
begins a forbidden flirtation with the city’s handsome young courier does she
let herself imagine a life outside the walls. Until one by one, girls around
her start to die.
Before she becomes the next victim, Nisha decides to uncover the secrets that
surround the girls’ deaths. But by getting involved, Nisha jeopardizes not only
her own future in the City of a Thousand Dolls—but her own life.
