Title: Grim
Author: Anna Waggener
Release date: June 2012
A fantastic debut from the winner of the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards novel contest.
When Erika wakes up after a horrific car crash, she finds herself somewhere between earth and heaven, between life and death. She doesn’t want to accept help from Jeremiah, who she’s not sure she can trust, even as she finds herself drawn to him, following him into a grim city of souls. She’s not sure who wants to help her and who wants to hurt her. And she’s desperate to get back to her children.
Shawn’s never thought about having to shoulder the responsibility of caring for his young sister Megan and his reckless older sister. And he never imagined that the three of them would find themselves in a haunted wood, sometimes chased, sometimes assisted, never sure where they’re headed.
It’s the year 2120. On one side of the Rift is a technological paradise without famine or want. On the other side is a mystery.
Sixteen-year-old Glenn Morgan has lived next to the Rift her entire life and has no idea of what might be on the other side of it. Glenn’s only friend, Kevin, insists the fence holds back a world of monsters and witchcraft, but magic isn’t for Glenn. She has enough problems with reality: Glenn’s mother disappeared when she was six, and soon after, she lost her scientist father to his all-consuming work on his mysterious Project. Glenn buries herself in her studies and dreams about the day she can escape to the cold isolation of a research station on 813, a planet on the far side of the known universe. But when her father’s work leads to his arrest, he gives Glenn a simple metal bracelet that will send Glenn and Kevin on the run, with only one place to go. The other side of the Rift will bring truths about what really happened to Glenn’s mother, and will put them at the center of an age-old struggle between two halves of a divided world.
Title: Rockoholic
Author: C.J. Skuse
Release date: November 1, 2012
She’s got it bad, and he ain’t good — he’s in her garage?
“I’m your biggest fan, I’ll follow you until you love me…”
Gonna have to face it: Jody’s addicted to Jackson Gatlin, frontman of The Regulators, and after her best bud Mac scores tickets, she’s front and center at his sold-out concert. But when she gets mashed in the moshpit and bodysurfs backstage, she’s got more than a mild concussion to deal with. By the next morning, the strung-out rock star is coming down in her garage. Jody — oops — kind of kidnapped him. By accident. With a Curly Wurly candy bar. And now he doesn’t want to leave.
It’s a rock-star abduction worthy of an MTV reality series…but who got punk’d?!
“I was sixteen the first time my grandmother died . . .”
Sarah Parsons has never seen Amber House, the grand Maryland estate that’s been in her family for three centuries. She’s never walked its hedge maze nor found its secret chambers; she’s never glimpsed the shades that haunt it, nor hunted for lost diamonds in its walls.But all of that is about to change. After her grandmother passes away, Sarah and her friend Jackson decide to search for the diamonds–and the house comes alive. She discovers that she can see visions of the house’s past, like the eighteenth-century sea captain who hid the jewels, or the glamorous great-grandmother driven mad by grief. She grows closer to both Jackson and a young man named Richard Hathaway, whose family histories are each deeply entwined with her own. But when the visions start to threaten the person she holds most dear, Sarah must do everything she can to get to the bottom of the house’s secrets, and stop the course of history before it is cemented forever.
Title: The Raven Boys (Raven Cycle #1)
Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Release date: September 18, 2012
Filled with mystery, romance, and the supernatural, The Raven Boys introduces readers to Richard “Dick” Campbell Gansey, III and Blue Sargent. Gansey has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on the hunt to find Glendower, a vanished Welsh king. Legend has it that the first person to find him will be granted a wish—either by seeing him open his eyes, or by cutting out his heart.
Blue Sargent, the daughter of the town psychic in Henrietta, Virginia, has been told for as long as she can remember that if she ever kisses her true love, he will die. But she is too practical to believe in things like true love. Her policy is to stay away from the rich boys at the prestigious Aglionby Academy. The boys there—known as Raven Boys—can only mean trouble. When Gansey and his Raven Boy friends come into her life, Blue realizes how true this is. She never thought her fortune would be a problem. But she was wrong.
What are you waiting, wanting, wishing for this week?
I seem to have this problem. I decided that I don’t really have such an interest in contemporaries, and then you go and do this. It’s not very nice of you, Katie, to suddenly make me NEED Rockoholic…
=D I kid. (Or do I?)
The Raven Boys is the only one of these I’ve heard of, so I’ll have to look up the rest of them:)
Rockaholic sounds like it could be a funny book. Kidnapping an adult with a candy bar – *g*.
Rockaholic sounds like a funny book. I know tons of people are dying for The Raven Boys. A few of these I haven’t heard of.
I love the cover of Grim and Rockaholic definitely looks like it will be good! I know a lot of people want The Raven Boys, but I’m not all that interested.
so many new ones i’ve never heard of
adding to wishlist ^_^
Why in the world haven’t I heard of so many of these?!? Grim, Magisterium, and The Amber House are all new to me, but sound really good. And of course, I’m excited about The Raven Boys. I mean, come on, it’s Stiefvater!
I am so excited for Grim and The Raven Boys. They both sound fantastic!
Grim sounds great! Love how it’s a fairytale retelling in a contemporary setting.
Have you read it ? If so, did you like it?