Waiting on Wednesday: Renegade Magic by Stephanie Burgis

Kat Stephenson is back to cause more chaos! Stepmama drags the family to Bath to find Kat's sister a new suitor. But, unknown to most of its gossipy visitors, Bath is full of wild magic. When Kat uncovers a plot to harness this magic in the Roman Baths, she finds her brother Charles is unwittingly involved. Kat must risk her newfound magical powers as she defies the Order of the Guardians to foil the plot and clear her brother's name (Goodreads)

I saw this book last Sunday on Goodreads. I was so excited. I wonder what will happen next to Kat and her sisters. The first book, Kat, Incorrigible, was a nice reading. There are many great element in that book. You can check my review about Kat, Incorrigible here


I have just checked that there is also UK cover for Kat series. Not only the cover, they also change the title. It's hard for me to choose. Because I like them both.


The cover below is the UK edition

For those of you who have seen the first book, which one do you prefer?

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Author: Stephanie Burgis | Website | Twitter 

Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Atheneum (April 3, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416994491
ISBN-13: 978-1416994497

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Waiting on Wednesday: Monster High by Lisi Harrison

From Lisi Harrison, the New York Times bestselling author of The Clique and Alphas, comes a new series with a fresh twist on high school, romance, and the horrors of trying to fit in.

They prefer to call themselves RAD (Regular Attribute Dodgers), but some call them monsters. So far, the "monster" community has kept a low profile in Salem, but this year two new girls enroll at Master High School, and the town will never be the same.

Created just fifteen days ago, Frankie Stein is psyched to trade her father's formaldehyde-smelling basement lab for parties and cheerleading. But with a student body totally freaked out by rumors of monsters who might be stalking the halls, Frankie finds that life in the "normi" world can be rough for a chic freak like her.

She thinks she finds a friend in fellow new student Melody Carver--but can a normi be trusted with her big secret. (Goodreads)

The English version has been published on September 7th, 2010. In Indonesia the book is  about to release. Penerbit Mizan is the publisher. I am curious with the translation. I hope I can get the chance to read it soon.

I prefer the US cover. But Indonesian cover is also cute.

Have you read this book?

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Waiting on Wednesday: Vanish (Firelight #2) by Shopie Jordan

To save the life of the boy she loves, Jacinda did the unthinkable: She betrayed the most closely-guarded secret of her kind. Now she must return to the protection of her pride knowing she might never see Will again—and worse, that because his mind has been shaded, Will’s memories of that fateful night and why she had to flee are gone. 

Back home, Jacinda is greeted with hostility and must work to prove her loyalty for both her sake and her family’s. Among the few who will even talk to her are Cassian, the pride’s heir apparent who has always wanted her, and her sister, Tamra, who has been forever changed by a twist of fate. Jacinda knows that she should forget Will and move on—that if he managed to remember and keep his promise to find her, it would only endanger them both. Yet she clings to the hope that someday they will be together again. When the chance arrives to follow her heart, will she risk everything for love? 

In bestselling author Sophie Jordan’s dramatic follow-up to Firelight, forbidden love burns brighter than ever. (Goodreads)

Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins (September 6, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061935107
ISBN-13: 978-0061935107
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 1 inches
Preorder Vanish: A Firelight Novel at Amazon

I have just read the first book. I loved it. From Jacinda, the main character and the idea about  Draki. Will is also the reason why I want to read the next book. I can't help myself but jealous for those of you who have and read the ARC. Cant hardly wait.

Look at the cover, it's more gorgeous than the first book. I wonder who she is. 


I hope I can get this book when the book is released. 


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Waiting on Wednesday : Solstice by P.J. Hoover

Where Mythology and Dystopia meet...

Piper’s world is dying. Global warming kills every living thing on Earth, and each day brings hotter temperatures and heat bubbles which threaten to destroy humanity. Amid this Global Heating Crisis, Piper lives with her mother who suffocates her more than the chaotic climate. When her mother is called away to meet the father Piper has been running from her entire life, Piper seizes an opportunity for freedom.

But when Piper discovers a world of mythology she never knew existed, she realizes her world is not the only one in crisis. While Gods battle for control of the Underworld, Piper's life spirals into turmoil, and she struggles to find answers to secrets kept from her since birth. And though she’s drawn to her classmate Shayne, he may be more than he claims. Piper has to choose whom she can trust and how she can save the people she loves even if it means the end of everything she’s ever known.

Why I put this book in my WOW. First, I like its issue about Global Warming. Second this book also brought myth.

From Goodreads, It's been published on May 4th, 2011.
I wish I have my e-reader. Or at least change my recent currency into dollars.
So I can read Solstice soon.

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Waiting on Wednesday: Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Brashares comes the welcome return of the characters whose friendship became a touchstone for a generation. Now Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget have grown up, starting their lives on their own. And though the jeans they shared are long gone, the sisterhood is everlasting.

Despite having jobs and men that they love, each knows that something is missing: the closeness that once sustained them. Carmen is a successful actress in New York, engaged to be married, but misses her friends. Lena finds solace in her art, teaching in Rhode Island, but still thinks of Kostos and the road she didn’t take. Bridget lives with her longtime boyfriend, Eric, in San Francisco, and though a part of her wants to settle down, a bigger part can’t seem to shed her old restlessness.

Then Tibby reaches out to bridge the distance, sending the others plane tickets for a reunion that they all breathlessly await. And indeed, it will change their lives forever—but in ways that none of them could ever have expected.

As moving and life-changing as an encounter with long-lost best friends, Sisterhood Everlasting is a powerful story about growing up, losing your way, and finding the courage to create a new one. (Goodreads)

For those of you who have read The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, you might have recognized this books. Yes, Tibby, Lena, Carmen, and Bridget are back.!!!

Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Random House (June 14, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0385521227
ISBN-13: 978-0385521222
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.1 inches
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Waiting on Wednesday: But I Love Him by Amanda Grace

Tonight was so much worse than anything before it. Tonight he didn't stop after the first slap.

At the beginning of senior year, Ann was a smiling, straight-A student and track star with friends and a future. Then she met a haunted young man named Connor. Only she can heal his emotional scars; only he could make her feel so loved — and needed. Ann can't recall the pivotal moment it all changed, when she surrendered everything to be with him, but by graduation, her life has become a dangerous high wire act. Just one mistake could trigger Connor's rage, a senseless storm of cruel words and violence damaging everything — and everyone — in its path.

This evocative slideshow of flashbacks reveals a heartbreaking story of love gone terribly wrong.

Since I read Stay by Deb Caletti, I want to read heartbreaking book more and more. It's not difficult to imagine about this dysfunctional relationship between Ann and Connor. I could feel how hard it is for Ann to take the decision. I wish I could read this book. 

Paperback, 264 pages

Expected publication: May 8th 2011 by Flux

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Waiting on Waiting: The Summer of May by Cecilia Galante

Galante’s bittersweet story of a troubled 13-year-old stars spunky Maeve (May) O’Toole, who holds a lot of grudges. May’s most recent target is her English teacher, “Movado the Avocado,” who she blames for having to repeat English in summer school. Spending her mornings prepping and painting the classroom wall she defaced during the school year and doing writing assignments for her teacher, May has a lot of time to think. She broods about all the things that make her mad and about all the people who have abandoned her: her old group of friends; her father, who now works double shifts and is hardly ever home; and her grandmother, who spends her days in bed. But mostly May thinks about the mother she will never see again. The summer takes some unexpected turns as May discovers previously unseen sides of Miss Movado and learns that they have something profound in common. Brimming with emotion and insight into adolescent rage, Galante’s prose investigates the impact of loss and the importance of making amends.

It has been published yesterday, April 26th 2011 by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. It was Middle Grade book. Actually it was available in grab galley. But I did not paid attention. So it's expired now. Whereas I just read the fourth chapter. I wish I can read the rest of them

What are you waiting this Wednesday?

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Waiting on Wednesday: Fanfare by Renee Ahdieh

Cris Pereira hates starring in a cautionary tale. Alas, her recent heartbreak relegates her to this unbecoming fate. The only good thing about being dumped a foot from the altar is the newest layer to her punchy sarcasm. All she wants is a do-over, but this is not your average fairy tale, and wishes don't come true in the real world. One Sunday afternoon, she meets a movie star. Tom Abramson is intelligent, charming, and impetuous. In other words, he plays the role a bit too well. She isn't falling for it. She knows better. All British men are not descendants of Fitzwilliam Darcy, and movie stars are genetic mutations gone awry: X-Men with statistical disadvantages and emotional handicaps. Keep your knight in shining armor. A modern girl can rescue herself, thank you very much. After all, dreams are for the foolhardy, nightmares are just a part of life, and . . . this is not your average fairy tale

Expected publication: May 31st 2011 by Revolution Publishing


I am curious what this book bring to me. I also love the cover.

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Waiting on Wednesday: What Comes After by Steve Watkins

A gripping portrait of a teen’s struggles through grief and abuse - and the miraculous power of animals to heal us.

After her veterinarian dad dies, sixteen-year-old Iris Wight must leave her beloved Maine to live on a North Carolina farm with her hardbitten aunt and a cousin she barely knows. Iris, a vegetarian and animal lover, immediately clashes with Aunt Sue, who mistreats the livestock, spends Iris’s small inheritance, and thinks nothing of striking Iris for the smallest offense. Things come to a head when Iris sets two young goats free to save them from slaughter, and an enraged Aunt Sue orders her brutish son, Book, to beat Iris senseless - a horrific act that lands Book and his mother in jail. Sent to live with an offbeat foster family and their "dooking" ferrets, Iris must find a way to take care of the animals back at the farm, even if it means confronting Aunt Sue. Powerful and deeply moving, this compelling novel affirms the redemptive power of animals and the resilience of the human spirit

It just published yesterday, April 12th. 


The cover is so gorgeous. I love it


I have not found many reviews about this contemporary book. But three from four book bloggers recommended this book. 

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Waiting on Wednesday : Daimon by Jennifer L. Armentrout

The prequel to Half-Blood will whet your appetite for the book release!

For any of you who are waiting for Half Blood, you might have known that Jennifer, in her blog, said that the prequel is about to publish. There is no exact date yet. It will be released in a Free ebook format. You can check her blog post about this book here.

I have not read Half Blood yet. I think Daimon will be a good start before reading Half Blood that will be published on September 15th, 2011.

There is chat session with Jennifer at YA Book Lover's Chat on Thursday, April 7th, 2011. I hope I can join them. Because it's been so long since my last stop.

How about you? Which book are you waiting for?

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Waiting on Wednesday: Abandon By Meg Cabot

New from #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot, a dark, fantastical story about this world . . . and the underworld.
Though she tries returning to the life she knew before the accident, Pierce can't help but feel at once a part of this world, and apart from it. Yet she's never alone . . . because someone is always watching her. Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants you back.
But now she's moved to a new town. Maybe at her new school, she can start fresh. Maybe she can stop feeling so afraid.
Only she can't. Because even here, he finds her. That's how desperately he wants her back. She knows he's no guardian angel, and his dark world isn't exactly heaven, yet she can't stay away . . . especially since he always appears when she least expects it, but exactly when she needs him most.
But if she lets herself fall any further, she may just find herself back in the one place she most fears: the Underworld.

Hardcover, 320 pages

Expected publication: April 26th 2011 by Scholastic Inc.

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Another series from Meg Cabot. I hope It will be also published in Indonesia just like The Mediator. I also hope that they do not change the cover as they always do. Because this one is gorgeous.

Have any of you got the ARC of this book?

What book do you waiting on this wednesday?

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Waiting on Wednesday(3/23): Wither

 Synopsis From Goodreads

 What if you knew exactly when you would die?

Thanks to modern science, every human being has become a ticking genetic time bomb—males only live to age twenty-five, and females only live to age twenty. In this bleak landscape, young girls are kidnapped and forced into polygamous marriages to keep the population from dying out.

When sixteen-year-old Rhine Ellery is taken by the Gatherers to become a bride, she enters a world of wealth and privilege. Despite her husband Linden's genuine love for her, and a tenuous trust among her sister wives, Rhine has one purpose: to escape—to find her twin brother and go home.

But Rhine has more to contend with than losing her freedom. Linden's eccentric father is bent on finding an antidote to the genetic virus that is getting closer to taking his son, even if it means collecting corpses in order to test his experiments. With the help of Gabriel, a servant Rhine is growing dangerously attracted to, Rhine attempts to break free, in the limited time she has left

As all of you might have known, that Wither has been published yesterday, March 22nd 2011 by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. In Indonesia, it has been transliterated by one of my favorite translator, Maria M. Lubis. Penerbit Kantera, the publisher, who bought the book rights said it would be published in April 2011. YAY. Can't hardly wait. 

The publisher chose to use the cover above. They said they might make some changes. But still I prefer the US cover. 

What book are you waiting for?

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"Waiting" On Wednesday (3/16) : The Secret Year

Take Romeo and Juliet. Add The Outsiders. Mix thoroughly. 

Colt and Julia were secretly together for an entire year, and no one—not even Julia’s boyfriend— knew. They had nothing in common, with Julia in her country club world on Black Mountain and Colt from down on the flats, but it never mattered. Until Julia dies in a car accident, and Colt learns the price of secrecy. He can’t mourn Julia openly, and he’s tormented that he might have played a part in her death. When Julia’s journal ends up in his hands, Colt relives their year together at the same time that he’s desperately trying to forget her. 

 But how do you get over someone who was never yours in the first place?

~Synopsis From Goodreads~

This book has been published on February 17th 2011 by Speak.  The review of this is also various. But no matter what the negative one said about this book, I still want to read it. I hope fairy godmother will bring this book to my mailbox. Or I might order it from The Book Depository. 

PS: I have no idea why my eyes were teary when I read the synopsis. 

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Waiting on Wednesday (3/2) : Between Shades of Gray

Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they've known. Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded and dirty train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother slowly make their way north, crossing the Arctic Circle, to a work camp in the coldest reaches of Siberia. Here they are forced, under Stalin's orders, to dig for beets and fight for their lives under the cruelest of conditions.

Lina finds solace in her art, meticulously—and at great risk—documenting events by drawing, hoping these messages will make their way to her father's prison camp to let him know they are still alive. It is a long and harrowing journey, spanning years and covering 6,500 miles, but it is through incredible strength, love, and hope that Lina ultimately survives. Between Shades of Gray is a novel that will steal your breath and capture your heart

Hardcover, 352 pages

Expected publication: March 22nd 2011 by Philomel Books

I am sure all of have seen this book around the blogosphere. I have not check the excerpt. I have no idea if it's good or not. So why I want to read this? Not only because its lovely cover but because the genre is historical fiction. I love it. I hope it will not disappoint me. From the synopsis, the story is sad enough.

Please free to leave the link of your WOW. I will visit you back

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Waiting on Wednesday(2/23) : Dying to Meet You: 43 Old Cemetery Road

Ignatius B. Grumply moves into the Victorian mansion at 43 Old Cemetery Road hoping to find some peace and quiet so he can crack a wicked case of writer's block. But 43 Old Cemetery Road is already occupied by eleven-year-old Seymour, his cat Shadow, and an irritable ghost named Olive. It's hard to say who is more outraged. But a grumpy old ghost just might inspire this gr...more
Ignatius B. Grumply moves into the Victorian mansion at 43 Old Cemetery Road hoping to find some peace and quiet so he can crack a wicked case of writer's block. But 43 Old Cemetery Road is already occupied by eleven-year-old Seymour, his cat Shadow, and an irritable ghost named Olive. It's hard to say who is more outraged. But a grumpy old ghost just might inspire this grumpy old man--and the abandoned kid? Well, let's just say his last name's Hope.
Sisters Kate and M. Sarah Klise, the creators of the award-winning Regarding the . . . series, offer up this debut volume in a clever new series told in letters, drawings, newspaper articles, a work-in-progress manuscript, and even an occasional tombstone engraving

I have read the third book and fell for it. I got it from net Galley. I love the illustration. But there are so many question left. But I can not get the answers but reading the first book. I wish one fairy god mother will bring it to my mailbox. It's a very light reading and recommended for middle grade.

This book has been published on September 6, 2010.

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Waiting on Wednesday(2/16) : Thirteen Reasons Why

From Goodreads

Jay Asher's brilliant first novel is a moving, highly original story that focuses on a set of audiotapes made by a girl before she committed suicide, and which explain to 13 people the reasons why she decided to end her life. Told in a highly effective duel narrative -- alternating between the girl s voice and the thoughts of a boy who is listening -- this honest, poignant story reveals how other people's actions shape, and by extension can ruin, an individual's faith in people. Intensely powerful and painfully real, Thirteen Reasons Why reveals how brutal high school can be, the consequences of spreading rumors, and the lasting effects of suicide on those left behind.

In US, this book has been released on October 18th, 2007 by Razorbill. But it is about to published here. I have no idea when Penerbit Matahati will bring it out. 2011 is what I can see in their Facebook page. I hope it will be as good as the English copy

Have you read this book ?

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Waiting On Wednesday (2/9) : A Discovery of Witches

Synopsis From Author's Website
When historian Diana Bishop opens a bewitched alchemical manuscript in Oxford’s Bodleian Library it represents an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordinary life. Though descended from a long line of witches, she is determined to remain untouched by her family’s legacy. She banishes the manuscript to the stacks, but Diana finds it impossible to hold the world of magic at bay any longer.

For witches are not the only otherworldly creatures living alongside humans. There are also creative, destructive daemons and long-lived vampires who become interested in the witch’s discovery. They believe that the manuscript contains important clues about the past and the future, and want to know how Diana Bishop has been able to get her hands on the elusive volume.

Chief among the creatures who gather around Diana is vampire Matthew Clairmont, a geneticist with a passion for Darwin. Together, Diana and Matthew embark on a journey to understand the manuscript’s secrets. But the relationship that develops between the ages-old vampire and the spellbound witch threatens to unravel the fragile peace that has long existed between creatures and humans—and will certainly transform Diana’s world as well.

Author: Deborah Harkness

Hardcover, 592 pages

Published February 8th 2011 by Viking Adult

I just saw the cover of the book few days ago. The cover and color are nice. Looking at the witches word in front makes me curious what the story inside. As you can read in synopsis, it is not only about witches but there is vampire also. Yummy.

I have checked in Deborah's web, A Discovery of Witches has been translated in many languages. Unfortunately, Indonesia is not on the list (yet). I hope by posting this book here, the local published will take a look at it. On Goodreads, I saw three different covers, but I still prefer the original cover.

You can read the excerpt here

I hope this book will find its own way to my mailbox :)

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Waiting On Wednesday(2/2): Bandits

Author: LM Preston
Format: Perfect Paperback, 348 pages
Expected publication: June 1st 2011 by Phenomenal One Press
Language: English

Synopsis

Daniel’s father has gotten himself killed. A thief and a mercenary, Daniel is now determined to find the treasure his father snatched. Being a Zukar is all he knows and wants for his future. Up until his father’s murder, his father’s faltering loyalties to the Zukar hung heavy as a rift between them. But now, with his father’s blood on his hands, his time is running out to find his father’s killer, the missing treasure… and to save his world.

He wants to go alone to retrieve his father’s stolen treasure, but he is accompanied by his flight school dropout cousin Faulk, his best friend’s stubborn little sister Jade, and his own younger brother Nickel. Jade is off limits since her brother is his best friend, but unfortunately, Jade’s set on changing his mind. Daniel just can’t decide if she’s worth the beating he’ll get from his friend in order to have her.

They’re on the run from the king’s officials and an unknown killer. The king desires to kill any Zukar child who is unprotected and will stop at nothing to get them. Who’s more dangerous, Daniel doesn’t know. All he knows is someone is bent on killing him and taking the treasure he thinks his father died foolishly to protect.

Through the islands of Merwin to an unknown planet, they seek to find the treasure that changed his father’s life – all for a price that is too high. To claim the treasure, Daniel will have to test everything he knows and everything he is or will ever be in order to earn the right to save their lives and the home of those he loves.

I have a lot of books with mysterious adventure inside. Let say the setting is in the middle of nowhere with mysterious villain and unknown creature. I wonder what this book have. The excerpt do not let me make any guesses.

Check out the book trailer and the excerpt

I hope they can make a better cover.

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Waiting On Wednesday (1/26) : Ghostgirl: Lovesick (Ghostgirl #3)

Before she can rest in peace, Charlotte Usher must return to the tragic site of her death: high school. Once there, her assignment is to help a designated teen solve a personal problem in time for the all-important prom. But no one explained what happens if you fall in love with your class project. Charlotte would die (again) for love but facing the all-too-familiar feeling of invisibility may be too much for her to swallow.

(Synopsis from Goodreads)

This is the third book of Ghostgirl series. The English copy has been published in July 12th 2010 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. I have got the first and second book. They have been in my bookshelf FOREVER. By posting it in my WOW this week, I hope it will become a reminder to me to read the series soon.

The cover is cute, isn't it? I have compared it with US cover, I prefer that cover above.

Have anyone read this series?

Ghostgirl: Lovesick

Author : Tonya Harley

Publication Date In Indonesia: any days in February 2011 by Penerbit Atria

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