23rd February 2016 Releases

Happy Release Day to:

Karen Bao
Dove Exiled (Dove Chronicles, Book 2)
Penguin Viking (US & CA: 23rd February 2016)
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Phaet Theta is a fugitive. Hiding in plain sight with her friend Wes’s family on the drowned planet Earth, Phaet discovers the rugged beauty of the world her ancestors once called home. All her life, she’s been taught to fear the “Earthbound,” and their generosity and kindness surprise and touch Phaet. But when the Lunar Bases attack Wes’s isolated village, Phaet’s past catches up with her, and she’s forced to choose: stay on Earth and fight beside the boy she’s falling for, or stow away on a Moon-bound ship so she can save her brother and sister from the government that killed their mother.

Jessica Brody
Unchanged (Unremembered, Book 3)
Macmillan Square Fish (US: 23rd February 2016)
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After returning to the Diotech compound and undergoing an experimental new memory alteration, Seraphina is now a loyal, obedient servant to Dr. Alixter and the powerful company that created her. Happy and in love with Kaelen, another scientifically-enhanced human designed to be her perfect match, Sera’s history with a boy named Zen is just a distant memory from a rebellious past she longs to forget. But as Sera and Kaelen embark on a nationwide tour to promote Diotech’s new product line – a collection of controversial genetic modifications available to the public – Sera’s mind starts to rebel. She can’t stop the memories of Zen from creeping back in. As more secrets are revealed, more enemies are uncovered, and the reality of a Diotech-controlled world grows closer every day, Sera will have to choose where her true loyalties lie, but it’s a choice that may cost her everything she’s ever loved.

Martin Leicht & Isla Neal
A Stranger Thing (Ever-Expanding Universe, Book 2)
Simon & Schuster Saga (US & CA: 23rd February 2016)
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Pregnancy was pretty rough for Elvie Nara, what with the morning sickness, constant food cravings, and the alien race war she found herself in the middle of. But if she thought giving birth to an extraterrestrial’s baby would be the hard part, she was sorely mistaken. After Elvie’s baby is not what was expected, the Almiri completely freak out. Suddenly Elvie’s supposed allies have shipped her – along with her father, her best friend, Ducky, and her maybe-boyfriend, boneheaded Almiri commando Cole Archer – off to a remote “retention facility” (aka alien jail) in Antarctica. Talk about cold. But things really get complicated when a new group of hybrid aliens arrive with information that sends Elvie’s world spinning. Before long, Elvie is trekking across the bottom of the Earth with a band of friends and frenemies to uncover the secrets of her own origin. Will Elvie ever be able to convince the Almiri that a conspiracy to conquer the planet is a greater threat than a sixteen-year-old girl and a newborn that won’t stop crying?

Kim Savage
After the Woods
Macmillan Farrar, Straus and Giroux (US: 23rd February 2016)
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Julia knows she beat the odds. She escaped the kidnapper who hunted her in the woods for two terrifying nights that she can’t fully remember. Now it’s one year later, and a dead girl turns up in those same woods. The terrible memories resurface, leaving Julia in a stupor at awkward moments – in front of gorgeous Kellan MacDougall, for example. At least Julia’s not alone. Her best friend, Liv, was in the woods, too. When Julia got caught, Liv ran away. Is Liv’s guilt over leaving Julia the reason she’s starving herself? Is hooking up with Shane Cuthbert, an addict with an explosive temper, Liv’s way of punishing herself for not having Julia’s back? As the devastating truth about Liv becomes clear, Julia realizes the one person she thinks she knows best – Liv – is the person she knows least of all. And that after the woods was just the beginning.

Gena Showalter
Firstlife (Everlife, Book 1)
Harlequin Teen (US: 23rd February 2016)
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Tenley “Ten” Lockwood is an average seventeen-year-old girl…who has spent the past thirteen months locked inside the Prynne Asylum. The reason? Not her obsession with numbers, but her refusal to let her parents choose where she’ll live – after she dies. There is an eternal truth most of the world has come to accept: Firstlife is merely a dress rehearsal, and real life begins after death. In the Everlife, two realms are in power: Troika and Myriad, longtime enemies and deadly rivals. Both will do anything to recruit Ten, including sending their top Laborers to lure her to their side. Soon, Ten finds herself on the run, caught in a wild tug-of-war between the two realms who will do anything to win the right to her soul. Who can she trust? And what if the realm she’s drawn to isn’t where the boy she’s falling for lives? She just has to stay alive long enough to make a decision…

February 2016 Releases

Done with January 2016 Releases? Here are February 2016 Releases. For future releases, check Reading Wishlist.

5 New Covers (Arthur, Rollins, Showalter, Stiefvater, Vega)

Now Available for US Pre-Order

V. C. Andrews: SAGE’S EYES: 26 January 2016: Buy (US)
Kelley Armstrong: EMPIRE OF NIGHT (paperback): 8th March 2016: Buy (US)
Madeline Ashby: REV: 5th April 2016: Buy (US)
Jenna Black: NIGHTSTRUCK: 5th April 2016: Buy (US)
Liz Coley: MISTAKEN: 1st July 2015: Buy (US)
Danielle Rollins: BURNING: 5th April 2016: Buy (US)
Madeleine Roux: THE ASYLUM NOVELLAS (THE SCARLETS, THE BONE ARTISTS, & THE WARDEN): 2nd February 2016: Buy (US)
Gena Showalter: FIRSTLIFE: 23rd February 2016: Buy (US)
Jessica Verday: OF MONSTERS & MADNESS (revamped edition): 16th June 2015: Buy (US)
Melissa West: SURGE: 5th April 2016: Buy (US)

[COVER REVEAL] The Queen of Zombie Hearts – Gena Showalter

I’m going to preface this with a mini-rant, so YOU’VE BEEN WARNED.

I’m totally okay with cover reveals being specified for a particular day. Fine. I’m NOT okay with a specific time for a reveal. Because timezones, y’all. They (the tour organisers, the publisher, I don’t know) “embargoed” the cover until Thursday 13th February, 10:15AM New York time. (Even though it showed up on Google Images before then, and no, not on my blog.)

Anyway, that would’ve been Friday 14th February, 2:15AM Melbourne time. I don’t schedule posts (except for a note to myself), because as soon as I post a post, I share the links on all my various social media. Maybe they could be scheduled, too, but I prefer to do it myself, so I have control.

I went offline circa 11PM last night (Thursday), without posting this cover, because it was still only about 7AM New York time. Which means I’m late posting this cover.

MORAL OF THE STORY: By all means specify a particular DATE for cover revealing, but do NOT specify a specific TIME. Because that’s just douchey to other timezones (particularly my timezone).

And now, the cover…

Gena Showalter
The Queen of Zombie Hearts (White Rabbit Chronicles, Book 3)
Harlequin Teen (US: 30th September 2014)
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Alice “Ali” Bell thinks the worst is behind her. She’s ready to take the next step with boyfriend Cole Holland, the leader of the zombie slayers…until Anima Industries, the agency controlling the zombies, launches a sneak attack, killing four of her friends. It’s then she realises that humans can be more dangerous than monsters…and the worst has only begun. As the surviving slayers prepare for war, Ali discovers she, too, can control the zombies…and she isn’t the girl she thought she was. She’s connected to the woman responsible for killing – and turning – Cole’s mother. How can their relationship endure? As secrets come to light, and more slayers are taken or killed, Ali will fight harder than ever to bring down Anima – even sacrificing her own life for those she loves.

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Now Available for US Pre-Order

Jenna Black: REVOLUTION: 11th November 2014: Buy (US)
Amanda Grace: NO ONE NEEDS TO KNOW: 8th September 2014: Buy (US)
Erica Hayes: HUNTER’S HEART: 12th February 2014: Buy (US)
Mary Miller: THE LAST DAYS OF CALIFORNIA (paperback): 2nd September 2014: Buy (US)
Diana Peterfreund: ACROSS A STAR-SWEPT SEA (paperback): 14th October 2014: Buy (US)
Tiffany Reisz: MISBEHAVING: 11th February 2014: Buy (US)
M. J. Scott: THE WOLF WITHIN: Buy (US)
Melanie Scott: THE DEVIL IN DENIM: 26th August 2014: Buy (US)
Gena Showalter: THE QUEEN OF ZOMBIE HEARTS: 30th September 2014: Buy (US)
Jessica Verday: FLESH WHICH IS NOT FLESH: 5th March 2014: Buy (US)
Rachel Vincent: MENAGERIE: 30th September 2014: Buy (US)
Melissa West: SURGE: 2nd September 2014: Buy (US)

February 2014 Releases

Done with January 2014 Releases? Here are February 2014 Releases. For future releases, check Reading Wishlist.

October 2013 Releases

Done with September 2013 Releases? Here are October 2013 Releases. For future releases, check Reading Wishlist.

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24th September 2013 Releases

Happy Release Day to:

S. A. Bodeen
The Fallout (The Compound, Book 2)
Macmillan Feiwel & Friends (US: 24th September 2013)
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Eli and his family lived in an underground shelter they called the Compound for six years. They thought they were the only survivors of a nuclear attack, but when Eli learned that it was all a twisted experiment orchestrated by his tech-visionary father, he broke the family out. His father died trying to keep them imprisoned. Now, the family must readjust to life in the real world. Their ordeal has made them so famous, they must stay in hiding – everyone from fatalists preparing for doomsday to the tabloid media wants a piece of them. Even worse, their father’s former adviser continues to control the company Eli and his twin brother are the heirs of. As Eli tries to determine who the family can trust, he learns the nightmare of the Compound – and his father’s experiment – might not be over.

Steven Brust & Skyler White
The Incrementalists
Macmillan Tor (US: 24th September 2013)
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The Incrementalists – a secret society of two hundred people with an unbroken lineage reaching back forty thousand years. They cheat death, share lives and memories, and communicate with one another across nations, races, and time. They have an epic history, an almost magical memory, and a very modest mission: to make the world better, just a little bit at a time. Their ongoing argument about how to do this is older than most of their individual memories. Phil, whose personality has stayed stable through more incarnations than anyone else’s, has loved Celeste – and argued with her – for most of the last four hundred years. But now Celeste, recently dead, embittered, and very unstable, has changed the rules – not incrementally, and not for the better. Now the heart of the group must gather in Las Vegas to save the Incrementalists, and maybe the world.

Kat Falls
Inhuman
Scholastic (US: 24th September 2013)
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In the wake of a devastating biological disaster, the United States east of the Mississippi has been abandoned. Now called the Feral Zone, a reference to the virus that turned millions of people into bloodthirsty savages, the entire area is off-limits. The punishment for violating the border is death. Lane McEvoy can’t imagine why anyone would risk it. She’s grown up in the shadow of the great wall separating east from west, and she’s curious about what’s on the other side – but not that curious. Life in the west is safe and comfortable…just how she likes it. But Lane gets the shock of her life when she learns that someone close to her has crossed into the Feral Zone. And she has little choice but to follow. Lane travels east, completely unprepared for what she finds in the ruins of civilisation…and afraid to learn whether her humanity will prove her greatest strength or a fatal weakness.

Megan Hart
Stranger
Harlequin MIRA (US: 24th September 2013)
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I pay strangers to sleep with me. I have my reasons…but they’re not the ones you’d expect. For starters, I’m a funeral director taking over my dad’s business. Not exactly the kind of person you’d expect to fork over cash for the intimacy and urgency only skin-to-skin contact can create. Looking at me, you wouldn’t have a clue I carry this little secret so close it creases up like the folds of a fan. Tight. Personal. Ready to unravel in the heat of the moment. Unsurprisingly, my line of work brings me face-to-face with loss. So I decided long ago that paying for sex would be one of the best (and most arousing) ways to save me from the one thing that would eventually cut far too deep. But Sam was a mistake. Literally. I signed on to “pick up” a stranger at a bar, but took Sam home instead. And now that I’ve felt his heat, his sweat and everything else, can I really go back to impersonal? Let’s just hope he never finds out about my other life…

Mindy McGinnis
Not a Drop to Drink
HarperCollins Katherine Tegen (US & CA: 24th September 2013)
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Lynn knows every threat to her pond: drought, a snowless winter, coyotes, and, most important, people looking for a drink. She makes sure anyone who comes near the pond leaves thirsty or doesn’t leave at all. Confident in her own abilities, Lynn has no use for the world beyond the nearby fields and forest. Having a life means dedicating it to survival and the constant work of gathering wood and water. Having a pond requires the fortitude to protect it, something Mother taught her well during their quiet hours on the rooftop, rifles in hand. But wisps of smoke on the horizon mean one thing: strangers. The mysterious footprints by the pond, the night-time threats, and the gunshots make it all too clear Lynn has exactly what they want, and they won’t stop until they get it…

Michelle Rowen
Countdown
Harlequin Teen (US: 24th September 2013)
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Kira Jordan survived her family’s murder and months on plague-devastated city streets with hard-won savvy and low-level psi ability. She figures she can handle anything. Until she wakes up in a barren room, chained next to the notorious Rogan Ellis. Their every move is controlled and televised for a vicious exclusive audience. And as Kira’s psi skill unexpectedly grows and Rogan’s secrets prove ever more deadly, Kira’s only chance of survival is to risk trusting him as much as her instincts. Even if that means running head-on into the one trap she can’t escape.

Gena Showalter
Through the Zombie Glass (White Rabbit Chronicles, Book 2)
Harlequin Teen (US: 24th September 2013)
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Alice Bell has lost so much. Family. Friends. A home. She thought she had nothing else to give. She was wrong. After a new zombie attack, strange things begin to happen to her. Mirrors come to life, and the whispers of the dead assault her ears. But the worst? A terrible darkness blooms inside her, urging her to do very wicked things. She’s never needed her team of zombie slayers more, but ultra bad-boy Cole Holland, the leader and her boyfriend, suddenly withdraws from her…from everyone. Now, with her best friend Kat at her side, Ali must kill the zombies, uncover Cole’s secret and learn to fight the darkness. But the clock is ticking…and if she fails at a single task, they’re all doomed.

September 2013 Releases

Done with August 2013 Releases? Here are September 2013 Releases. For future releases, check Reading Wishlist.