New Book: The Program by Suzanne Young

Hey all, saw this a while ago and thought it had an interesting premise:


Expected publication: April 30th 2013 


Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone. 


With suicide now an international epidemic, one outburst could land her in The Program, the only proven course of treatment. Sloane’s parents have already lost one child; Sloane knows they’ll do anything to keep her alive. She also knows that everyone who’s been through The Program returns as a blank slate. Because their depression is gone—but so are their memories.


Under constant surveillance at home and at school, Sloane puts on a brave face and keeps her feelings buried as deep as she can. The only person Sloane can be herself with is James. He’s promised to keep them both safe and out of treatment, and Sloane knows their love is strong enough to withstand anything. But despite the promises they made to each other, it’s getting harder to hide the truth. They are both growing weaker. Depression is setting in.


And The Program is coming for them.


Posted by Amy

City of Bones Graphic Novel Release Date

The first of 8 issues in the Mortal Instruments Graphic novel series will be released on May 7th 2013.

Anyone else super excited?!

New edition of Insurgent with bonus material

This is the post about the new books:

BIG NEWS: coming this October is INSURGENT: The Special Edition, which will have 32 pages of bonus content. It’s perfect for die-hard Divergent series fans :)

And for your friends who haven’t read the series yet (Um, what? How is that possible?), a box set of DIVERGENT and INSURGENT is also coming out!

Both go on sale October 30. Can't wait!

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New Book: Crash By Lisa McMann

A new book by Lisa McMann is on the way. It will  be the first book in a series titled, "Visions".

Book Name: Crash

Release Date: 8th January 2012

PLOT: Jules lives with her family above their restaurant, which means she smells like pizza most of the time and drives their double-meatball-shaped food truck to school. It’s not a recipe for popularity, but she can handle that.

What she can’t handle is the vision. Over and over, Jules sees a careening truck hit a building and explode... and nine body bags in the snow.

She has no idea why this is happening to her or if she’s going crazy. It hardly matters, because the visions are everywhere--on billboards, television screens, windows--and she’s the only one who can see them.

But it’s not until the vision starts coming more frequently, and revealing more clues, that Jules knows what she has to do. Because now she can see the face in one of the body bags, and it's someone she knows. Someone she’s been in love with for as long as she can remember.


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Cover and synopsis: Days of Blood and Starlight (Daughter of Smoke and Bone #2) by Laini Taylor

Here is the final cover and plot synopsis for the new book by Laini Taylor.

In this stunning sequel to the highly acclaimed "Daughter of Smoke and Bone," Karou must come to terms with who and what she is, and how far she'll go to avenge her people. Filled with heartbreak and beauty, mysteries and secrets, new characters and old favorites, Days of Blood and Starlight brings the richness, color and intensity of the first book to a brand new canvas.

Daughter of Smoke and Bone was declared a "must read" by Entertainment Weekly, was named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com, and The New York Times called it "a breath-catching romantic fantasy."

Expected publication: 6th November 2012

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New book: Once (Eve Trilogy Book #2)

This is the sequel to Eve by Anna Carey. It is expected to be published July 3rd, 2012.


PLOT: Sixteen years have passed since a deadly virus wiped out most of the Earth’s population. After learning of the terrifying part she and her classmates were fated to play in the rebuilding of New America, eighteen-year-old Eve fled to the wilds and Califia, a haven for women determined to live outside the oppressive rule of the king of New America. However, her freedom came at a price: she was forced to leave Caleb, the boy she loves, wounded and alone at the city gates. Eve quickly learns that Califia may not be as safe as it seems and soon finds herself in the City of Sand and the palace of the king. There she uncovers the real reason he was so intent on her capture, and the unbelievable role he intends her to fill. When she is finally reunited with Caleb, they will enact a plan as daring as it is dangerous. But will Eve once again risk everything—her freedom, her life—for love?

Brimming with danger and star-crossed romance, and featuring a vivid dystopian landscape, this electrifying follow-up to Eve, which bestselling author Lauren Kate called “a gripping, unforgettable adventure—and a fresh look at what it means to love” is sure to appeal to fans who crave the high-stakes adventure of The Hunger Games and the irresistible love story of Romeo and Juliet.


Posted by Alice

New Book: Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig

Name: Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig

Release: 24/4/12

PLOT:

Miriam Black knows when you will die. She’s foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart attacks, strokes, and suicides.

But when Miriam hitches a ride with Louis Darling and shakes his hand, she sees that in thirty days Louis will be murdered while he calls her name. Louis will die because he met her, and she will be the next victim.

No matter what she does she can’t save Louis. But if she wants to stay alive, she’ll have to try.

Goodreads link: (LINK)

Review of book: (LINK)

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New Book: Deity (Covenant book 3) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

This is the third book in the Covenants series:

	Daimon (Covenant, #0.5)
	Half-Blood (Covenant, #1)

Pure (Covenant, #2)

Deity (Covenant #3)

History is on repeat, and things didn't go so well the last time.

Alexandria isn't sure she's going to make it to her eighteenth birthday—to her Awakening. A long-forgotten, fanatical order is out to kill her, and if the Council ever discovers what she did in the Catskills, she’s a goner... and so is Aiden.

If that's not freaky enough, whenever Alex and Seth spend time "training"—which really is just Seth's code word for some up-close and personal one-on-one time—she ends up with another mark of the Apollyon, which brings her one step closer to Awakening ahead of schedule. Awesome.

But as her birthday draws near, her entire world shatters with a startling revelation and she’s caught between love and Fate. One will do anything to protect her. One has been lying to her since the beginning. Once the gods have revealed themselves, unleashing their wrath, lives will be irrevocably changed... and destroyed.

Those left standing will discover if love is truly greater than Fate...


The forth book (due out in 2013) is going to be called Apollyon.

Posted by Alice

J.K Rowling Announces New Book

J.K Rowling has announced the details of her new book which has been a rumour circulating for quite some time now.
It will be an Adult book published by Little Brown.

Book details...

Book Title: The Casual Vacancy

Release Date: September 27, 2012

Plot:

When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?

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New Book: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

This book was first put on my radar by the beautiful cover (seriously look at it!!). And secondly by a typing error I made on a post about its trailer release which a commenter kindly picked up on. And while the synopsis might not captivate me on the spot a mixture of the beautiful cover (it needed to be commented on again) and alot of glowing reviews made it warrent a post. Here it is...

Release Date:

PLOT: Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee. 
Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling. 
Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha…and the secrets of her heart

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New Book: Girl of Nightmares (Anna Book #2) by Kendare Blake

Here is the sequel to "Anna Dressed in Blood":

 In this follow-up to Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas begins seeing Anna everywhere: sometimes when he’s asleep, and sometimes in waking nightmares. But something is very wrong. These aren’t just daydreams. Anna seems tortured, torn apart in new and ever more gruesome ways every time she appears.

Cas doesn’t know what happened to Anna when she disappeared into Hell, but he knows she doesn’t deserve whatever is happening to her now. Anna saved Cas more than once, and it’s time for him to return the favor.

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New Release: City of Lost Souls Special Edition

A new edition of City of Lost souls has just been announced and will include a letter to Jace from his father.
Synopsis for the book:

Can the lost be reclaimed? What price is too high to pay for love? Who can be trusted when sin and salvation collide?

Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge.

Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the harrowing fifth book of the Mortal Instruments series.

And here is also a list of all of the different special editions that will be available.


IN THE US:

BARNES AND NOBLE will be carrying their own special edition. It will contain a letter from Stephen Herondale (Jace’s real father) to Jace, written before he died. It will be detachable and affixed to the back of the book.

WALMART will be carrying its own special edition. It will contain the short story “A Dark Transformation” about how Jonathan Morgenstern took over the identity of Sebastian Verlac.

COSTCO will be carrying its own special edition. It will contain “The Act of Falling”: the “alleyway kiss” from City of Fallen Angels from Jace’s perspective.

Target will be carrying its own special edition: the short story “A Question of Power” in which Alec and Camille talk about Magnus and his father.

In Canada:

INDIGO/CHAPTERS will be carrying the same special edition as BARNES AND NOBLEin the US. COSTCO CANADA will be carrying the same edition as COSTCO US.

In Australia/In the UK

Still waiting on more news

Ebooks/Kindles/Nooks:

At the time of this post no special content was included with these books.

Special Content:

Cassie does NOT have a say about what content goes in which editions. That is strictly a publisher's decisions. However, Cassie and Simon & Schuster don't except fans to buy more than one copy of the book and ALL SPECIAL content will be posted online after an exclusivity period of time, which is usually between 3-6 months.

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New Release: The Iron Legends by Julie Kagawa (+New Novella and exclusive content)

The Iron Legends by Julie Kagawa will combine Winters Passage and Summers crossing in one book. And will also be released with the new novella Irons Prophecy. And some exclusive additional content which is rumoured to be the first few chapters of the new Iron Fey novel coming this fall.

No release date as of yet but we will keep you posted.

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Casandra Clare signed to write "The Dark Artifices Trilogy"

Its offical. Cassandra Clare -bestselling author of the Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices- has signed on to write another trilogy named The Dark Artifices.

The new series will be set in L.A 2012 and the first book in the series has a current release date of 2015.

Here is her post on it:

Okay, a quick recap. I have a plan for another Shadowhunter trilogy (contemporary, but not about the characters from TMI).

Working title: The Dark Artifices. It takes place five years after the end of TMI (ie in 2012) and deals with the Shadowhunters of the Los Angeles Institute. There is a tangential connection to the characters of TMI but they are not main characters. The main characters are teens (meaning that during the events of TMI they’d be 11, 12 years old.)

The main female protagonist’s name is Emma, the main male protagonist’s name is Julian. They are both Shadowhunters. They both have always known they are Shadowhunters.

There is love, magic, romantic confusion, etc. and so on. I have not sold these books; I haven’t written any of them, I won’t until I’m done with what I’m writing now. So I don’t have a pub date beyond “after CoHF”, and I have other, non-Shadowhunter projects I’m also planning on. But thanks for being so interested, everyone!

Washington Post:

The first of “The Dark Artifices” books, currently untitled, will come out in 2015. According to a statement from the publisher, Clare, who placed her previous work in contemporary New York and Victorian England, will continue her tales of the Shadowhunters, a hybrid race “unseen but ever-present, our invisible protectors.”

“The series follows Emma Carstairs, the fiercest warrior and most skilled young Shadowhunter since Jace Wayland, and Emma’s sworn partner in arms, Julian Blackthorn,” the statement reads. “Despite Emma’s complicated feelings for Julian, the two must band together to investigate a demonic plot that stretches from the warlock-run nightclubs of the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica.”

Clare said in a statement that she was sure readers would love both her new and her established characters.

“I know readers will come to love Emma, Mark, Cristina and Julian just as they have loved Jace, Clary, Will, Tessa and Jem,” she said. “Readers have often asked what will happen in the Shadowhunter world after the events of the ‘Mortal Instruments’ and this series will give them a chance to find out.”

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Blood Red Road and Rebel Heart (Dust Lands Series) by Moira Young new covers

Here are the new covers for Blood Red Road and Rebel Heart by Moira Young featuring Saba and Jack:

Also here is the synopsis for Rebel Heart, which is due to be released October 30th 2012:

The Tonton have been defeated. Lugh has been rescued. The heartstone has brought Saba and Jack together. Now, Saba and her family head west to meet him and start a new life. All should be well. But shadows of the dead are stalking Saba. And another kind of shadow is creeping over the dustlands. Then a messenger shows up. With news of Jack.


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New Book: The way we fall by Megan Crewe

Release Date: 24th January 2012

PLOT: It starts with an itch you just can't shake. Then comes a fever and a tickle in your throat. A few days later, you'll be blabbing your secrets and chatting with strangers like they’re old friends. Three more, and the paranoid hallucinations kick in. 

And then you're dead. 

When a deadly virus begins to sweep through sixteen-year-old Kaelyn’s community, the government quarantines her island—no one can leave, and no one can come back. Those still healthy must fight for dwindling supplies, or lose all chance of survival. 

As everything familiar comes crashing down, Kaelyn joins forces with a former rival and discovers a new love in the midst of heartbreak. When the virus starts to rob her of friends and family, she clings to the belief that there must be a way to save the people she holds dearest. Because how will she go on if there isn't? 

Megan Crewe crafts a powerful and gripping exploration of self-preservation, first love, and hope. Poignant and dizzying, this heart-wrenching story of one girl’s bravery and unbeatable spirit will leave readers fervently awaiting the next book in this standout new series.

Posted by Rapunzel

New Release: Special Edition of ANGEL (Maximum Ride Series book #7) inc. First 5 Chapters of Nevermore, Nevermore Cover and Nevermore Posters

Here is a picture of the recent announcement on the Max-Dan-Wiz site saying that there will be a Special Edition of ANGEL released which will include the following...

- First 5 Chapters of Nevermore
- Nevermore Cover
- Nevermore Posters
- Collectible Tradeable bookmarks

It will be one sale 2/7/12

Here is the official announcement as it looks on the website...

Here is another post of ours with more updated information on this book: (LINK)

This news was sent into us by a wonderful anonymous commenter and I want to send out a big resounding THANKYOU to that person. We could not have gotten this information so quickly without you.

Posted by Rapunzel

Cassandra Clare talks of a new Shadowhunter series

Recently rumours have been spreading that Cassandra Clare is planning to write a new shadowhunter series and while there is nothing solid yet this is what she has had to say on their development so far...


"Okay, a quick recap. I have a plan for another Shadowhunter trilogy (contemporary, but not about the characters from TMI). Working title: The Dark Artifices. It takes place five years after the end of TMI (ie in 2012) and deals with the Shadowhunters of the Los Angeles Institute. There is a tangential connection to the characters of TMI but they are not main characters. The main characters are teens (meaning that during the events of TMI they’d be 11, 12 years old.) The main female protagonist’s name is Emma, the main male protagonist’s name is Julian. They are both Shadowhunters. They both have always known they are Shadowhunters. There is love, magic, romantic confusion, etc. and so on. I have not sold these books; I haven’t written any of them, I won’t until I’m done with what I’m writing now. So I don’t have a pub date beyond “after CoHF.” 

As it’s set 5 years after the end of CoHF it is reasonable to assume that surviving characters from TMI will make cameos. They will be in their early twenties so you’ll get to see what they’re up to in their more adult lives…we would see where they are in life, where their relationships are, how they’re moving into their positions of power in the Clave, etc.

Also, if you are curious about the characters from TDA, look out for characters either in or mentioned in CoLS and CoHF who might be 11, 12, 13 years old. (As five years later, they will be sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen.)

Now, this is all speculation. I do enjoy writing in the world of the Shadowhunters and I think there are infinite stories to tell in it. I also think that there are stories I would like to tell that are not necessarily about Shadowhunters. It is just a matter of what order I write what in."

She has also said that these will be the names of the character in this story...


"Emma, Julian, Mark, Helen, Carmen, Olivia, Tiberius, Arthur — a few others. It’s a big family."

Posted by Rapunzel

New Book: Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare

Now this book is quite well known so probably needs no introduction but I thought it was only proper seeing as it was released TODAY.


Also if anyone is interested here is a link to all our news posts on the Clockwork Prince (LINK) and this one is to posts on The Infernal Devices (LINK)


Release date: TODAY other wise known as 6th December 2011


PLOT: In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has at last found safety with the Shadowhunters. But that safety proves fleeting when rogue forces in the Clave plot to see her protector, Charlotte, replaced as head of the Institute. If Charlotte loses her position, Tessa will be out on the street and easy prey for the mysterious Magister, who wants to use Tessa's powers for his own dark ends.

With the help of the handsome, self-destructive Will and the fiercely devoted Jem, Tessa discovers that the Magister's war on the Shadowhunters is deeply personal. He blames them for a long-ago tragedy that shattered his life. To unravel the secrets of the past, the trio journeys from mist-shrouded Yorkshire to a manor house that holds untold horrors, from the slums of London to an enchanted ballroom where Tessa discovers that the truth of her parentage is more sinister than she had imagined. When they encounter a clockwork demon bearing a warning for Will, they realize that the Magister himself knows their every move and that one of their own has betrayed them.

Tessa finds her heart drawn more and more to Jem, though her longing for Will, despite his dark moods, continues to unsettle her. But something is changing in Will; the wall he has built around himself is crumbling. Could finding the Magister free Will from his secrets and give Tessa the answers about who she is and what she was born to do?

As their dangerous search for the Magister and the truth leads the friends into peril, Tessa learns that when love and lies are mixed, they can corrupt even the purest heart.

Has anybody read it yet? Its said to be Cassandra Clare's best book yet. I haven't but i got a email saying that my copy was shipped two days ago. Should get here soon!!!!

Posted by Rapunzel

Nevermore (Maximum Ride 8#) Plot Revealed (Rumour)

 So I was doing my general rounds for Nevermore, anxiously checking for some vestige of what going on and while looking at amazon I came across this...


"One last chance...

for Max, Fang, and Dylan...

before it all ends.

Are you ready for the final chapter? Are you ready for the ultimate flight? Because THIS IS IT. One last incredible, explosive adventure with an astonishing ending that no one could have seen coming."

...In the plot section. It has kinda baffled me because not just anyone can add onto Amazon but I have not seen it anywhere else. So this could be our first morsel or just another rumour... seems we will have to wait and see but it sounds professional enough.

UPDATE: here is the link to our post with the cover, synopsis and release date for NEVERMORE. (LINK)
Amy x

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