Waiting on Wednesday (2)

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme started by Breaking the Spine.

So, I've spent tons of time exploring the web and other blogs in the past week since I've had tons of free time (next week will suck. Just watch.) This means I've found tons of new books, especially ones that haven't been released yet. I'm so excited and have found tons of books yet to be released, so I'm excited to share them with you guys over the next few weeks!

Magic Under Glass
Jaclyn Dolamore
[Released 12/22/09]

Nimira is a foreign music-hall girl forced to dance for mere pennies. When wealthy sorcerer Hollin Parry hires her to sing with a piano-playing automaton, Nimira believes it is the start of a new and better life. In Parry's world, however, buried secrets are beginning to stir. Unsettling below-stairs rumors swirl about ghosts, a madwoman roaming the halls, and Parry's involvement with a league of sorcerers who torture fairies for sport. Then Nimira discovers the spirit of a fairy gentleman named Erris is trapped inside the clockwork automaton, waiting for someone to break his curse. The two fall into a love that seems hopeless, and breaking the curse becomes a race against time, as not just their love, but the fate of the entire magical world may be in peril.


This book just sounds all kinds of cool, doesn't it? I want to eat this book. I really wanted to win the prize pack the author had, but didn't. I went to my emo corner for five minutes after seeing I wasn't the winner. I consider this a justified response because I WANT THIS BOOK.

So, what books do you want that aren't out yet?

A Season of Eden by JM Warwick

A Season of Eden
JM Warwick

He's my teacher. I shouldn't be alone with him. But I can't help that he's irresistible. I let the door silently close at my back. He stared at me, and a taut quiet stretched between us.
"I like hearing you play," I said, moving toward him.
He turned, in sync with my slow approach. He looked up at me but didn't say anything. I rested my clammy hand on the cold, slick body of the baby grand. "May I?" The muscles in his throat shifted, then he swallowed.
"Eden." My knees weakened, like a soft tickling kiss had just been blown against the backs of them.
"Is it okay?" I asked. His gaze held mine like two hands joined. He understood what I was really asking. "Let me stay," I said. "Please."
"You're going to get me in trouble," he said. --[Shelfari]

Eden's life is perfect. She has her perfect friends and hair and house and life, besides her dysfunctional family. She even has the perfect boyfriend of *gasp* six whole months. I know right? Who doesn't want to be her?

She's a senior just looking for easy classes for her last half of the year and decides on Concert Choir for the easy grade, like everyone else in the class. She expects her old, decrepit teacher but instead meets Mr. James Christian.

Not only is Mr. Christian, according to Eden, hot, he also has this whole dorky, I-don't-know-girls-drool-over-me thing going for him. And he's some kind of musical genius at the piano and singing. He's had limited experience in the dating department and doesn't see his appeal, or that half the girls are drooling over him. He lives with his protege pianist of a mother.

As you can probably tell, Eden falls hard for him, he falls for her, so on and so forth. But I won't spoil the ending except to say I WANT A SEQUEL NOW.

Otherwise, Eden has her stalkerish moments, but she's also a character you can easily sympathize with. She's, when you really look at it, just a regular girl. That's probably one of the best things about the book, this is the kind of thing that can happen. She's not perfect. She knows it, everyone knows it. She feels negative emotions, her family life can be rough, and she doesn't get everything she wants. These are normal things.

My only dislikes were the semi-stalkerish scenes (but that's mostly because I was discussing a DIFFERENT Student/Teacher romance book with a friend and that main character had MAJOR stalking issues) and, as I stated, the ending. I'll be poking around the internet a ton lately to find a sequel, or just SOMETHING else from JM Warwick.

If you don't get all squicky about Teacher/Student books (there is NOTHING more than kissing, no worries), then read the book. Because it's just really, really good.

In My Mailbox (1)

In My Mailbox is a meme started by The Story Siren and inspired by Alea at Pop Culture Junkie.

I've been DYING to make this post since Wednesday, when I got the first four books of the week, but made myself restrain until I knew I wouldn't be getting anymore books. This week, I've gotten SIX books and I'm ecstatic over it.



A Season of Eden by JM Warwick I already finished this book and I'll try to put up a review by Tuesday, since tomorrow I'll be really busy.

The Queen's Soprano by Carol Dines I'm about half way through this book. I'll try to review this one too.

Loving Will Shakespeare by Carolyn Meter



The Rules of Gentility by Janet Mullany

A Gathering of Gargoyles (Sequel to The Darkangel) by Meredith Ann Pierce

Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessem

Insane right? I had to physically restrain myself from buying more books THREE times this weekend. Sadly, I'm starting to think I'll finish all the books I have by Wednesday.

What'd you guys get this week?

Contests

I'm blog browsing again, so I'll be posting all of today's contests here. Don't worry, I'm going to put together a list of contests, very much organized, for another blog and then this one as well. I'll try to make it a weekly feature. Then you'll only get one of these once a week.

http://ellzreadz.blogspot.com/2009/11/giveaway-fallen-by-lauren-kate.html
This ends TONIGHT and she has 5 copies. I mean, I want it, but I'll be nice and tell you to enter too.

Waiting on Wednesday (1)

Waiting on Wednesday was started by Jill over at Breaking The Spine! I found this one on B.A.M too.

I have an issue where I rarely ever actually look up books in advance unless it's from a series I'm reading or an author I love and follow devotedly.

That being said, I'm a HUGE Meg Cabot fan. I read the first 9 Princess Diary books, Avalon High, and two of her series for adults (Size 12 is Not Fat/Heather Wells series and the Queen of Babble series). Yet I didn't know about this little beauty until earlier today when browsing books. So, I'll do this first one using this book.

Insatiable

Sick of vampires? So is Meena Harper.


But her boss is making her write about them anyway, even though Meena doesn’t believe in them.


Not that Meena isn’t familiar with the supernatural. See, Meena Harper knows how you’re going to die (not that you’re going to believe her; no one ever does).


But not even Meena’s precognition can prepare her for what happens when she meets—then makes the mistake of falling in love with—Lucien Antonescu, a modern-day prince with a bit of a dark side . . . a dark side a lot of people, like an ancient society of vampire-hunters, would prefer to see him dead for.


The problem is, he already is dead. Maybe that’s why he’s the first guy Meena’s ever met that she could see herself having a future with. See, while Meena’s always been able to see everyone else’s future, she’s never been able look into her own.


And while Lucien seems like everything Meena has ever dreamed of in a boyfriend, he might turn out to be more like a nightmare.


Now might be a good time for Meena to start learning to predict her own future . . .


If she even has one. [Found on Steph Su's blog, and she found it on GoodReads].

So, it's Meg Cabot. One of my favorite authors of all time? Check.

Vampires that aren't traditional vampires, but also aren't part-fairy? Check.

Romance? Check.

Pretty cover? Check.

Other supernatural elements? Check.

The flaw? This book isn't released until June. Unless we can get some ARCs. Which I WOULD NOT reject.

What books are you waiting for?

Wishlist Wednesday (1)

I found this little meme on B.A.M. Book Reviews and thought it would be cool.


Anybody that knows me knows me will also know that my book wish list is...monstrous at best. Approximately 70 books at any given time. I just got 4 books in the mail today, but I also added two or three books to my list since I played the order for them.

Insane right?

But, now I can put my obsession/insanity to good use.

The Musician's Daughter
by Susanne Dunlap

After Theresa's father is murdered on Christmas Eve, his body is discovered in a Gypsy camp, his precious violin missing. Her mother is with child and not well, so it is up to Theresa to make funeral arrangements and to figure out how their family will survive without Papa's income. Theresa has had an unusual upbringing for a young woman in 18th-century Vienna: she has been taught to play the viola. Even so, it is unlikely that anyone would hire a 15-year-old girl, so she seeks the help of her father's friend and employer, the composer Franz Joseph Hayden. He reveals a secret to her: he is going blind and needs her assistance putting his compositions to paper. While working for him, the teen is also intent upon solving the mystery of her father's death, and she discovers that Hayden's blindness is not the only secret Papa had been keeping. Despite a slow start and an ending that wraps things up a bit too tidily, this book is a rip-roaring adventure with music, murder, and espionage. It's clearly well researched, and the level of detail in the narrative makes readers believe that this story might have actually happened. Theresa's first-person narrative reveals her to be a quick-thinking, courageous, and likable individual. Pair this book with Philip Pullman's "Sally Lockhart" series (Knopf) for some entertaining historical mysteries with plucky heroines. --From Amazon's website.

It's got a musician and a young girl and mystery and it's historical fiction. What more can I ask for?

I'm going to leave it at just this book since blogger is being whiny and won't let me post without issues and I have another post to do. But what's on your wishlist?

Another Contest

I'm just FULL of contests aren't I? Yes well, I'm kind of bored now that I don't have to write anything. So, I keep finding them. I think I'll probably just edit in any new ones here. And keep in mind, I'm only posting the ones that I'm entering and want a better shot at. If you want other ones or are looking for a specific book, just let me know and I'll see what I can find. :)

http://agoodaddiction.blogspot.com/2009/11/contest-win-1-of-5-copies-of-fallen.html
This one is to win a copy of the new book Fallen. The cover is gorgeous and it comes out on 12/8. And if the synopsis bores me, then it becomes a Christmas present for someone! Win/Win, no?

Hey there...again! I found another contest I want to enter. My dream contest honestly. You pick three books you want, list them, and if you win, she'll buy you one of the books, maybe even two, depending on the price. Amazing, yes?
http://casey62588.blogspot.com/2009/11/200-follower-giveaway.html

AND HERE LOOK! I've got another one. I'll just post the book's trailer, made by a friend of the author:



Want to win a hardcover of MAGIC UNDER GLASS by Jaclyn Dolamore plus more prizes? See http://fabulousfrock.livejournal.com for details!