The Queen's Library (44): Dreamers, Summers, & Misfits

The Books

The Perilous Sea (eARC from Edelweiss)

Falling into Place (eARC from Edelweiss)

The Perfectionists (eARC from Edelweiss)

Anatomy of a Misfit (eARC from Edelweiss)

The Vault of Dreamers (print ARC from publicist)

Open Road Summer (print HC from Anna Reads & Bloomsbury)

Open Road Summer postcard

Once I finish Open Road Summer, I have to write down why I loved the novel and drop the postcard in the mail to Bloomsbury. Judging by my reactions so far, it's going to be tricky to find a way to express what I loved in only a couple lines! Such a wonderful story. 

Thanks to Edelweiss, HarperCollins, Macmillan + Mary, and Bloomsbury + Anna!

Weekly Recommendation

Wanderlove by Kirsten Hubbard

Traveling, friendship, romance, and art - a fabulous book, especially for summer!


What new books did you get?

Covers: Perilous Sea, Ruin & Rising, & Fires of Calderon

Mortal Heart

Invaded

Snow Like Ashes

The Thousand Dollar Tan Line (Veronica Mars #1)

Illusions of Fate

Ruin and Rising

The Perilous Sea

Take Me On

The cover for The Fires of Calderon was revealed today, too! Looks like an exciting MG story. 

I'm loving a few of them (especially Ruin & Rising, Snow Like Ashes, The Perilous Sea), but I'm a bit underwhelmed by the VMars cover + title. 

What are your thoughts? 

Waiting on Wednesday (109): PROMISE OF SHADOWS and THE BURNING SKY

WOW is hosted by Breaking the Spine

PROMISE OF SHADOWS by Justina Ireland

March 11th, 2014

"Zephyr Mourning has never been very good at being a Harpy. She'd rather watch reality TV than learn forty-seven ways to kill a man, and she pretty much sucks at wielding magic. Zephyr was ready for a future pretending to be a normal human instead of a half-god assassin. But all that changes when her sister is murdered--and she uses a forbidden dark power to save herself from the same fate.

Zephyr is on the run from a punishment worse than death when an unexpected reunion with a childhood friend (a surprisingly HOT friend) changes everything. Because it seems like Zephyr might just be the Nyx, a dark goddess made flesh that is prophesied to change the power balance. For hundreds of years the half-gods have lived in fear, and Zephyr is supposed to change that.

But how is she supposed to save everyone when she can’t even save herself?"

Harpy? Forbidden dark power? I'm in.  

THE BURNING SKY by Sherry Thomas

"It all began with a ruined elixir and an accidental bolt of lightning…

Iolanthe Seabourne is the greatest elemental mage of her generation—or so she's being told. The one prophesied for years to be the savior of The Realm. It is her duty and destiny to face and defeat the Bane, the greatest mage tyrant the world has ever known. A suicide task for anyone let alone a sixteen-year-old girl with no training, facing a prophecy that foretells a fiery clash to the death.

Prince Titus of Elberon has sworn to protect Iolanthe at all costs but he's also a powerful mage committed to obliterating the Bane to revenge the death of his family—even if he must sacrifice both Iolanthe and himself to achieve his goal.

But Titus makes the terrifying mistake of falling in love with the girl who should have been only a means to an end. Now, with the servants of the Bane closing in, he must choose between his mission and her life."

I love fantasy, so this is definitely high on my wishlist!
What are you waiting on?