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11th September 2012 Releases

Happy Release Day to:

Stacey Jay
Juliet Immortal
Random House Ember (US & CA: 11th September 2012)
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Juliet Capulet didn’t take her own life. She was murdered by the person she trusted most, her new husband, Romeo Montague, a sacrifice made to ensure his own immortality. But what Romeo didn’t anticipate was that Juliet would be granted eternity, as well, and would become an agent for the Ambassadors of Light. For 700 years, she’s fought Romeo for the souls of true lovers, struggling to preserve romantic love and the lives of the innocent. Until the day she meets someone she’s forbidden to love, and Romeo, oh Romeo, will do everything in his power to destroy that love.

Sophie Littlefield
Hanging by a Thread
Simon & Schuster Delacorte (US & CA: 11th September 2012)
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Summer is the best part of the year in Winston, California, and the Fourth of July is the highlight of the season. People consider themselves lucky to live in the quaint, serene beachside town, and native Clare Knight, now a city girl, feels doubly lucky to be moving back there a week before the July festivities kick off. But the perfect town Clare remembers has changed, and everyone is praying that this summer will be different from the last two – that this year’s Fourth of July festival won’t see one of their own vanish without a trace, leaving no leads and no suspects. The media are in a frenzy predicting a third disappearance, but the town depends on tourist dollars, so the residents of Winston are trying desperately to pretend nothing’s wrong. And they’re not the only ones hiding something. Clare has been blessed – or perhaps cursed – with a gift: she can see people’s pasts when she touches their clothes. And since she’s a seamstress who redesigns vintage clothing, her visions are frequent – and usually unwanted. When she stumbles across a denim jacket that once belonged to Amanda Stavros, last year’s Fourth of July victim, Clare sees her perfect town begin to come apart at the seams.

September 2012 Releases

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[REVIEW] Hanging by a Thread – Sophie Littlefield

Sophie Littlefield
Hanging by a Thread
Random House Delacorte (US & CA: 11th September 2012)
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Psychometry is becoming more common in fiction, no more so than in YA. In Hanging by a Thread, Clare Knight can touch an item of second-hand clothing, and if the previous owner had a traumatic event whilst wearing that item, Clare knows what happened. Apparently this has been happening for years, yet she doesn’t get around to buying bolts of fabric and making her stuff from scratch until the very end of the novel. Okay, if she’d figured that out earlier, there wouldn’t even be this novel.

This is not a bad book, but it is rather meh. It’s just not fresh – not the premise, requisite bad boy, scheming teens, or [spoiler redacted]. Still, it’s nice that Clare has a hobby.

8 New Covers (Anderson, Hart, Kane, Kittredge, Littlefield, Norris, Roth, Stiefvater)

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