The upcoming year is just around the corner, and with it
brings more exciting books! My TBR pile keeps growing and growing whenever I
discover new books or authors. The following list are books I’m looking forward
to reading in the 1st half of 2013 (there will be another list for
the 2nd half of 2013). There are a lot of great reads, but I
narrowed it down to 13 books (listed in order of release date).
What books are you looking forward in 2013? Did any of the
books on my list catch your eyes? Would love to hear what you guys think :) .
JANUARY 29, 2013
Vivian’s life is finally
on track. She has a job she loves as an ER doctor and has just met –
literally – the man of her dreams. But when her eccentric grandfather is
murdered and designates her as his next of kin, she discovers that she
is the last of a race of beings known as dreamshifters. It is her task
to guard the doorways between waking and dreaming, which have already
begun to unravel, spilling dangerous creatures from dream into the
waking world. When she sets out to close the open doors and protect her
town and the people she loves, Vivian confronts dragons, intrigue, and
the dark secrets of her own family history. In the end she comes face to
face with a sorceress seeking eternal life and ultimate power. Vivian
must find a way to stop her, or reality will be forever altered.
FEBRUARY 5, 2013
It's one thing to learn
to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a
knife at the same time. Welcome to finishing school.
Fourteen-year-old
Sophronia is the bane of her mother's existence. Sophronia is more
interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper
etiquette at tea--and god forbid anyone see her atrocious curtsy. Mrs.
Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. She
enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for
Young Ladies of Quality.
But little do Sophronia or her mother
know that this is a school where ingenious young girls learn to finish,
all right--but it's a different kind of finishing. Mademoiselle
Geraldine's certainly trains young ladies in the finer arts of dance,
dress, and etiquette, but also in the other kinds of finishing: the fine
arts of death, diversion, deceit, espionage, and the modern weaponries.
Sophronia and her friends are going to have a rousing first year at
school.
FEBRUARY 5, 2013
When her brother Val gets
in over his head in an investigation of Half-Blood disappearances and
goes missing himself, it's up to Xandra, newly crowned Goblin Queen, to
get him back and bring the atrocities to light. Xandra must frequent the
seediest parts of London, while also coping with what she is, the
political factions vying for her favor, and the all too-close scrutiny
of Queen Victoria, who wants her head. Add this to a being a suspect in a
murder investigation, a werewolf boyfriend with demands of his own, and
a mother hell bent on destroying the monarchy, and Xandra barely knows
which way is up. One thing she does know is that she's already lost one
sibling, she's not about to lose another.
Xandra Varden is the newly crowned Goblin Queen of England. But her complicated life is by no means over.
There
are the political factions vying for her favor, and the all too-close
scrutiny of Queen Victoria, who for some reason wants her head. Not to
mention her werewolf boyfriend with demands of his own, and a mother
hell bent on destroying the monarchy. Now she's the suspect in a murder
investigation --- and Xandra barely knows which way is up.
What she does know is that nothing lasts forever---and immortality isn't all its cracked up to be.
FEBRURY 5, 2013
As the seventh
daughter of a seventh daughter—and a member of Ipswitch’s Royal
family—Xandra Morgan should be a witch of incredible power. But things
don’t always turn out like you expect…
While she hasn’t
lived up to her family’s expectations, Xandra has come to terms with her
latent magic and made a life for herself in Austin, Texas, running a
coffee shop where she makes potions of a non-magical nature. While
things aren’t perfect, Xandra is happy—until she runs into powerful
warlock Declan Chumomisto.
Xandra hasn’t seen Declan in years,
and though she’s still overwhelmed by his power, she doesn’t trust him.
And when her own powers awaken one night and lead her to the body of a
woman in the woods bearing the symbol of Isis—the same one that has
marked Xandra since the day she met Declan—she’s filled with a terrible
suspicion, soon confirmed: the woman is connected to him.
Xandra doesn’t want to believe that Declan is capable of murder, but as
the body count mounts, and Xandra’s own powers spiral out of control,
she’s not sure she can trust her own instincts…
FEBRUARY 12, 2013
Some places are too good to be true.
Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map.
In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things.
After
a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her
long-dead mother's home in Wink, New Mexico. And the closer Mona gets to
her mother's past, the more she understands that the people of Wink are
very, very different ...
From one of our most talented and original
new literary voices comes the next great American supernatural novel: a
work that explores the dark dimensions of the hometowns and the
neighbors we thought we knew.
FEBRUARY 21, 2013
Twenty-four-year-old Natasha Wiley lives in America-Five—a high-tech,
underground, utopian settlement where hunger and money do not exist,
everyone has a job, and all basic needs are met. But when her mentor and
colleague, Jeffrey, selects her to join a special team to venture
Outside for the first time, Natasha’s allegiances to home, society, and
above all to Jeffrey are tested. She is forced to make a choice that may
put the people she loves most in grave danger and change the world as
she knows it.
FEBRUARY 26, 2013
Lem has ethics in using his magic. Therefore Lem is hungry and broke most of the time.
Ethics in the world of blood magic, however, is a gray area. While Lem will
grift his way through life by using small glamours to make $1 bills
appear as $20s, enabling him and his none-too-bright pal Mags to eat, he
won’t use other people's blood to cast. Stronger spells
require more blood, and hardcore magicians use Bleeders or “volunteers”
to this end. Not Lem.
So when these down-and-out boon companions
encounter a girl kidnapped and marked with magic rune tattoos, it’s not
at all clear that they’re powerful enough to save her…or themselves.
Turning to his estranged Master for help, it quickly becomes clear to
Lem that not only is this beautiful, strange girl’s life all but
forfeit, but that the world’s preeminent mage had big, earth-shattering
plans for her—and he and Mags just got in the way.
MARCH 5, 2013
Sixteen-year-old Dusty Everhart breaks into houses late at night, but not because she’s a criminal. No, she’s a Nightmare.
Literally.
Being the
only Nightmare at Arkwell Academy, a boarding school for magickind, and
living in the shadow of her mother’s infamy, is hard enough. But when
Dusty sneaks into Eli Booker’s house, things get a whole lot more
complicated. He’s hot, which means sitting on his chest and invading his
dreams couldn’t get much more embarrassing. But it does. Eli is
dreaming of a murder.
Then Eli's dream comes true.
Now
Dusty has to follow the clues—both within Eli’s dreams and out of
them—to stop the killer before more people turn up dead. And before the
killer learns what she’s up to and marks her as the next target.
MARCH 5, 2013
As a cassandra sangue,
or blood prophet, Meg Corbyn can see the future when her skin is cut—a
gift that feels more like a curse. Meg’s Controller keeps her enslaved
so he can have full access to her visions. But when she escapes, the
only safe place Meg can hide is at the Lakeside Courtyard—a business
district operated by the Others.
Shape-shifter Simon Wolfgard is
reluctant to hire the stranger who inquires about the Human Liaison
job. First, he senses she’s keeping a secret, and second, she doesn’t
smell like human prey. Yet a stronger instinct propels him to give Meg
the job. And when he learns the truth about Meg and that she’s wanted by
the government, he’ll have to decide if she’s worth the fight between
humans and the Others that will surely follow.
MARCH 5, 2013
It is 1903, and the
world is divided between light and shadow. On the side of light is a
wondrous science that has transformed everyday life by harnessing
magical energies to ingenious new technologies. But each advance of
science has come at the expense of shadow—the traditional realm of the
supernatural.
Now two ancient powers are preparing to strike
back. Blood-sucking immortal Nightwalkers and their spellcasting
Alchemist allies have a plan to cover the whole world in shadow. All
they require is the sacrifice of a certain young woman whose past
conceals a dangerous secret.
But when they come after Elle,
they get more than they bargained for. This enterprising young woman,
the daughter of a scientific genius, has reserves of bravery and
determination that even she scarcely suspects. Now she is about to meet
her match in more ways than one: a handsome yet infuriating Warlock
named Hugh Marsh, whose agenda is as suspect as his charms are
annoyingly irresistible.
APRIL 23, 2013
It hasn't been the best week for Jessica McClain.
Her mate has been kidnapped by a Goddess hell-bent on revenge --- but Jessica is playing for keeps.
Because she's the only female werewolf in town...it comes with its own set of rules...and powers.
Aided
by two vamps, two loyal Pack members, and one very reluctant human,
Jessica must rescue her man while coming to terms with what being a wolf
really means.
All in a day's work for a girl.
The second
novel in the Jessica McClain series is a full on action adventure
featuring one angry Goddess and plenty of monsters, demons, and a few
newly risen beasties...
APRIL 23, 2013
Chava is a golem, a
creature made of clay, brought to life to by a disgraced rabbi who
dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic. When her master-the husband who
commissioned her-dies at sea on the voyage from Poland, she is unmoored
and adrift as the ship arrives in New York harbor in 1899.
Ahmad
is a jinni, a being of fire, born in the ancient Syrian desert. Trapped
in an old copper flask by a Bedouin wizard centuries ago, he is released
accidentally by a tinsmith in a Lower Manhattan shop. Though he is no
longer imprisoned, Ahmad is not entirely free-an unbreakable band of
iron around his wrist binds him to the physical world.
Overwhelmed
by the incessant longing and fears of the humans around her, the
cautious and tentative Chava-imbued with extraordinary physical
strength-fears losing control and inflicting harm. Baptized by the
tinsmith who makes him his apprentice, the handsome and capricious
Ahmad-an entity of inquisitive intelligence and carefree pleasure-chafes
at monotony and human dullness. Like their immigrant neighbors, the
Golem and the Jinni struggle to make their way in this strange new place
while masking the supernatural origins that could destroy them.
Meeting by chance, Chava
and Ahmad become unlikely friends whose tenuous attachment challenges
their opposing nature-until the night a terrifying incident drives them
back into their separate worlds. But a powerful threat will soon bring
the Golem and the Jinni together again, challenging their existence and
forcing them to make a fateful choice.
MAY 28, 2013
Renegade mage and
bartender Cady Bell has had a rough year, but now the door to her
already unstable world is coming completely unhinged. When a citywide
crime wave erupts, Cady’s demon-friendly tiki bar is robbed by
Earthbounds wielding surreal demonic abilities that shouldn’t exist.
With the help of her devilishly delicious boyfriend, Lon Butler, Cady
sets out to find the people who wronged her. But the criminals aren’t
the only ones experiencing unnatural metamorphoses—Cady’s own Moon Child
abilities are evolving beyond her control. Can Cady track down the
monsters responsible before the monster inside destroys everything—and
everyone—she loves?
