Waiting on Wednesday (88): Slide by Jill Hathaway

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Slide by Jill Hathaway 
Publisher: Balzer + Bray (HarperCollins)
Publish Date:March 27, 2012

Publisher's Description
Vee Bell is certain of one irrefutable truth—her sister’s friend Sophie didn’t kill herself. She was murdered.

Vee knows this because she was there. Everyone believes Vee is narcoleptic, but she doesn’t actually fall asleep during these episodes: When she passes out, she slides into somebody else’s mind and experiences the world through that person’s eyes. She’s slid into her sister as she cheated on a math test, into a teacher sneaking a drink before class. She learned the worst about a supposed “friend” when she slid into her during a school dance. But nothing could have prepared Vee for what happens one October night when she slides into the mind of someone holding a bloody knife, standing over Sophie’s slashed body.

Vee desperately wishes she could share her secret, but who would believe her? It sounds so crazy that she can’t bring herself to tell her best friend, Rollins, let alone the police. Even if she could confide in Rollins, he has been acting off lately, more distant, especially now that she’s been spending more time with Zane.

Enmeshed in a terrifying web of secrets, lies, and danger and with no one to turn to, Vee must find a way to unmask the killer before he or she strikes again. 

Why are we waiting on this one?
I  love young adult thrillers, can't get enough of them.  In fact one of my favorite YA thriller authors Laurie Faria Stolarz has a quote about the book:

"Jill Hathaway provides a fresh, vibrant voice to young adult literature. Skillfully filled with drama and tension, SLIDE is part mystery, part romance, and wholly engaging with its strong heroine and tornado-worthy twists. I simply could not put this book down." ~Laurie Stolarz, DEADLY LITTLE SECRET  

 I can totally see this book being enjoyed by our other reviewers as well!  - Jessica


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In My Mailbox (62)

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme run by The Story Siren which explores the books that have been delivered to our mailbox. Let us know what looks good to you and leave us a link so we can check out what you got over the week.

I've been sick all week, yep, the holiday was the worst, and the next two weeks contain 7 different exams for school, so activity around here may be quiet (on the commenting side).  I will get back to any comments that need responses and I always strive to visit blogs of those (with blogs) that visit us, it just may take me a little bit longer over these two weeks.
- Jessica

For Review

The Thirteen Hallows by Michael Scott and Colette Freedman


Titan Magic by Jodi Lamm


Everneath by Brodi Ashton


Born Wicked: The Cahill Witch Chronicles, Book One by Jessica Spotswood


Ali in Wonderland: And Other Tall Tales by Ali Wentworth

Traded

Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

Contests Won

My Name Is Mary Sutter: A Novel by Robin Oliveira

What would you read first?

Leave us a link to your IMM, we'd love to drool over your reads!

Thanks to Tor, Harper Collins, Putnam Juvenile, Penguin, and the authors!

Waiting on Wednesday (87): Above by Leah Bobet

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Above by Leah Bobet

Publisher: Arthur A Levine Books

Publish Date: March 2012

Publisher's Description

Matthew's father had lion's feet and his mother had gills, and both fled the modern-day city to live in underground Safe, a secret community of freaks, ghost-whisperers, and disabled outcasts hidden beyond the subways and sewers. Raised underground, Matthew is responsible for the keeping of both Safe's histories and the traumatized shapeshifter Ariel, the girl he took in, fell in love with – and can't stop from constantly running away.

But Safe is no longer safe: the night after a frightening encounter in the sewers, Safe's founder Atticus is murdered by the one person Safe ever exiled: mad Corner, whose coup is backed by an army of mindless, whispering shadows.

Only Matthew, Ariel, and a handful of unstable, crippled compatriots escape to the city that cast them out; the dangerous place he knows only as Above. Despite Ariel's increasingly erratic behaviour and with the odds against them, Matthew must find a way to rescue Safe from Corner's occupying army. But as his quest leads him through abandoned asylums and the dregs of urban poverty, Matthew discovers that the histories he's devoted his life to aren't true: Corner's invasion -- and Ariel's terrors – are rooted in a history of Safe much darker and bloodier than Matthew ever imagined.

And even if he manages to save both home and Ariel, he may well lose himself.

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In My Mailbox (61)

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme run by The Story Siren which explores the books that have been delivered to our mailbox. Let us know what looks good to you and leave us a link so we can check out what you got over the week.

For Review

Double Clutch: A Brenna Blixen Book (Volume 1)by Liz Reinhardt


The Kure by Jaye Frances


Partials by Dan Wells


Neversink by Barry Wolverton

Traded

Torment (Fallen, Book 2) by Lauren Kate

What would you read first? 

Leave us a link to your IMM, we'd love to drool over your reads!

Thanks to Walden Pond Press, Harper Collins and the authors!

Gratitude Giveaways Blog Hop: Nov 17-27

Hosted by I Am A Reader, Not A Writer & All-Consuming Books

Our giveaway is for a book each for two different winners.  There are four books to choose from.  All that is required is that you are a Google Friend Connect Follower (click here to follow) and that you fill out the form.  We will be having another follower giveaway soon, so be sure to check back often!
The books available to choose from are below.  Good luck!  (Make sure you check out and enter any other current contests we are having up top!)

On The Volcano by James Nelson (ARC)


Death Sentence: Escape from Furnace 3 by Alexander Gordon Smith (ARC)


I Still Dream About You: A Novel by Fannie Flagg


Down the Mysterly River by Bill Willingham

The Contest has ended.

Congrats to our first winner: Bookish Sarah

Congrats to our second winner: Hamish