Waiting on Wednesday: Tempest and Ripper

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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!

January 17th 2012, St. Martin's Press
320 pages, Hardcover
First in the Tempest series
Young Adult

The year is 2009.  Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal guy… he’s in college, has a girlfriend… and he can travel back through time. But it’s not like the movies – nothing changes in the present after his jumps, there’s no space-time continuum issues or broken flux capacitors – it’s just harmless fun.

That is… until the day strangers burst in on Jackson and his girlfriend, Holly, and during a struggle with Jackson, Holly is fatally shot. In his panic, Jackson jumps back two years to 2007, but this is not like his previous time jumps. Now he’s stuck in 2007 and can’t get back to the future.

Desperate to somehow return to 2009 to save Holly but unable to return to his rightful year, Jackson settles into 2007 and learns what he can about his abilities.
But it’s not long before the people who shot Holly in 2009 come looking for Jackson in the past, and these “Enemies of Time” will stop at nothing to recruit this powerful young time-traveler.  Recruit… or kill him.

Piecing together the clues about his father, the Enemies of Time, and himself, Jackson must decide how far he’s willing to go to save Holly… and possibly the entire world.

Why Rie can’t wait:

I adore time travel novels, with The Time Traveler’s Wife being one of my favorite novels of all time, and this sounds similar although I think this one will be more light hearted. I’m excited to read this twist on time travel.

April 8th 2012, Flux
360 pages, Paperback
Young Adult

A paranormal mystery involving London’s most notorious killer.

In 1888, following her mother’s sudden death, seventeen-year-old Arabella Sharp goes to live with her grandmother in a posh London neighborhood. At her grandmother’s request, Abbie volunteers at Whitechapel Hospital, where she discovers a passion for helping the unfortunate women and children there.
But within days, female patients begin turning up brutally murdered at the hands of Jack the Ripper. Even more horrifying, Abbie starts having strange visions that lead her straight to the Ripper’s next massacres. As her apparent psychic connection with the twisted killer grows stronger, Abbie is drawn into a deadly mystery involving the murders, her mother’s shadowed past, and a secret brotherhood of immortals—who’ll stop at nothing to lure Abbie into its “humanitarian” aims

Why Pabkins can’t wait:

I've always enjoyed the story of Jack the Ripper.  What can I say I'm a total hack and slash kinda gal.  I also really liked the movie with Johnny Depp - From Hell, Ripper story with dream boat Johnny Depp - be still my vicious heart.  Ok back to the book - I found this on Goodreads browsing 2012 releases and thought - ooo goody goody, the kind of bloody dark twisted story I like with some potential paranormal spice thrown in!  I am very interested to see what kind of twists, sick or otherwise *insert very evil Pabkins laughter here* Amy Carol Reeves has got in store for me.

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