Waiting on Wednesday (108): This Is Not A Test by Courtney Summers

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


This Is Not a Test by Courtney Summers

Publish Date: June 19, 2012
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Publisher's Description
It’s the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won’t stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous version of their former self. To Sloane Price, that doesn’t sound so bad. Six months ago, her world collapsed and since then, she’s failed to find a reason to keep going. Now seems like the perfect time to give up. As Sloane eagerly waits for the barricades to fall, she’s forced to witness the apocalypse through the eyes of five people who actually want to live. But as the days crawl by, the motivations for survival change in startling ways and soon the group’s fate is determined less and less by what’s happening outside and more and more by the unpredictable and violent bids for life—and death—inside. When everything is gone, what do you hold on to?

Zombies!  I like that this one is going to focus on the group trying to make it through it and the problems the group has without the zombies.- Jessica

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Waiting on Wednesday (105): Nightshifted by Cassie Alexander

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Nightshifted by Cassie Alexander
Publish Date: May 22, 2012
Publisher:  St. Martin's Paperbacks

Publisher's Description
From debut author Cassie Alexander comes a spectacular new urban fantasy series where working the nightshift can be a real nightmare.

Nursing school prepared Edie Spence for a lot of things. Burn victims? No problem. Severed limbs? Piece of cake. Vampires? No way in hell. But as the newest nurse on Y4, the secret ward hidden in the bowels of County Hospital, Edie has her hands full with every paranormal patient you can imagine—from vamps and were-things to zombies and beyond… 

Edie’s just trying to learn the ropes so she can get through her latest shift unscathed.  But when a vampire servant turns to dust under her watch, all hell breaks loose. Now she’s haunted by the man’s dying words—Save Anna—and before she knows it, she’s on a mission to rescue some poor girl from the undead. Which involves crashing a vampire den, falling for a zombie, and fighting for her soul. Grey’s Anatomy was never like this…

Oh, I love the sound of this one.  The fact that I'm in nursing school adds to my interest!- Jessica

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Waiting on Wednesday (76): Dead of Night: A Zombie Novel by Jonathan Maberry

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

Dead of Night: A Zombie Novel by Jonathan Maberry

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Publish Date: October 25, 2011

Publisher's Description
A prison doctor injects a condemned serial killer with a formula designed to keep his consciousness awake while his body rots in the grave. But all drugs have unforeseen side-effects. Before he could be buried, the killer wakes up. Hungry. Infected. Contagious. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang…but a bite.

Why Jessica want to read this: It's a zombie novel.  Do I really need to explain more?

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