Waiting on Wednesday

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme by Breaking the Spine that allows us bloggers a chance to spotlight upcoming books that we are dying to read!

Rie’s Pick

January 1st 2012, Kensington-Brava
TBA, Paperback
Third in the Changeling Series
Adult

RUN

Shadow and moonlight merge beneath her bare feet,
the forest floor blurring as she flees the dogs and torches. Werewolf, monster -- those are the names given her kind by the humans who hate them.

HUNT

Kenzie Macleod has spent her whole life hiding what she is, and she’s not about to open up to any man, even one as powerfully attractive as wildlife expert Josh Talarkoteen. But legend says that a Changeling cannot escape the call of her true mate, even in the wilderness of backcountry Alaska.

MATE

An isolated archeological site, a terrified Changeling cub, a secretive research center -- as Kenzie and Josh face the ultimate betrayal, his obsidian eyes promise untold pleasure and hint at dark secrets of his own

 Why I can’t wait:

Umm…have I mentioned my complete love of this series? So yeah, I’m in love. It’s one the best written, seductive books I’ve ever read. The characters are so alive. The setting is so real. I adore Dani Harper. Any more squeeing I should do. Yeah, if you haven’t read this series yet you really must.

Pabkin’s Picks

November 8th 2011, Tor Books
320 pages, Hardcover
Fourth in the Mistborn Series
Adult

Fresh from the success of The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson, best known for completing Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time®, takes a break to return to the world of the bestselling Mistborn series.


Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds.


Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history—or religion. Yet even as science and technology are reaching new heights, the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy continue to play a role in this reborn world. Out in the frontier lands known as the Roughs, they are crucial tools for the brave men and women attempting to establish order and justice.


One such is Waxillium Ladrian, a rare Twinborn, who can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will.  After twenty years in the Roughs, Wax has been forced by family tragedy to return to the metropolis of Elendel. Now he must reluctantly put away his guns and assume the duties and dignity incumbent upon the head of a noble house. Or so he thinks, until he learns the hard way that the mansions and elegant tree-lined streets of the city can be even more dangerous than the dusty plains of the Roughs.

Why I can’t wait:

This is an unanticipated treat! - or it was when I heard about it.  The Mistborn series was originally just supposed to be a trilogy.  So imagine my CRAZY delight when I found out during a book signing last year that he was actually going to write another Mistborn book in this same world.  Of course I was salivating!  This author though relatively new has become in my mind an overnight sensation! He is finishing up Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series and has also released AWESOME books of his own.  If you are a fantasy fan you simple MUST read his Mistborn series.  You won't regret it!

October 4th 2011, Baen Books
376 pages, Hardcover
First in the Stephanie Harrington Series
Young Adult

Stephanie Harrington absolutely hates being confined inside her family’s compound on the pioneer planet of Sphinx, a frontier wilderness world populated by dangerous native animals that could easily tear a human to bits and pieces. Yet Stephanie is a young woman determined to make discoveries—and the biggest discovery of all awaits her: an intelligent alien species.
 
Treecats are creatures that resemble a cross between a bobcat and a lemur (but with six legs and much more deadly claws). Not only are they fully sentient, they are also telepathic, and able to bond with certain gifted humans such as the genetically-enhanced Stephanie. But Stephanie’s find, and her first-of-its-kind bond with a treecat, brings on a new torrent of danger. An assortment of highly-placed enemies with galactic-sized wealth at stake is determined to make sure that the planet of Sphinx remains entirely in human hands—even if this means the extermination of another thinking species. Stephanie and Lionheart are about to undergo the greatest test two alien species can ever face together: how to survive first contact and win a future with liberty and justice for all!
 
The first entry in the Star Kingdom teen series and the origin saga for the incredibly-popular, multiple New York Times and USA Today bestselling Honor Harrington adult science fiction adventures. Young Stephanie Harrington is none other than the founder of a pioneering family dynasty that is destined to lead the fight for humanity’s freedom in a dangerous galaxy.

Why I can’t wait:

This is the start to a new series that I have been seriously anticipating.  For those of you who have been following Mission to Read for awhile you know that Rie likes paranormal, dytopians and YA.  Well I'm here to shake things up because while I like all of that too I have a love for fantasy (think Tolkien), horror, and yes science fiction!

I know this one is going to be awesome because one of my favorite authors Anne McCaffrey says its "Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant!"  Plus - it sounds like its going to have the most awesome alien race in it! TREECATS! Come on you cat lovers - how can you beat sentient, telepathic cats? I just don't know if its possible.  You can bet I've got this baby on pre-order!!

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