Books on my Radar

Here are a list of books that I think sound interesting, as I have time I’ll add links, release dates and descriptions etc. plus I’ll add links to my reviews after I have read them :)

The Iron Witch (The Iron Witch, #1) by Karen Mahoney
Release Date: Random House Australia
Publisher: 1st February 2011

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FREAK.
That’s what her classmates call seventeen-year-old Donna Underwood. When she was seven, a horrific fey attack killed her father and drove her mother mad. Donna’s own nearly fatal injuries from the assault were fixed by magic, which branded her hands and arms with iron tattoos. The child of alchemists, Donna feels cursed by the magical heritage that destroyed her parents and any chance she had for a normal life. The only
thing that keeps her sane and grounded is her relationship with her best friend, Navin Sharma.

When the vicious wood elves – the darkest outcasts of Faerie – abduct Navin, Donna finally has to accept her role in the centuries-old war between the humans and the fey. Assisted by Xan, a gorgeous half-fey dropout with secrets of his own, Donna races to save her friend – even if it means betraying everything her parents fought to protect.

A Touch Mortal by Leah Clifford
Release Date: March 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins

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Eden didn’t expect Az.

Not his saunter down the beach toward her. Not his unbelievable pick-up line. Not the instant, undeniable connection. And not his wings.

Yeah.

So long, happily-ever-after.

Now trapped between life and death, cursed to spread chaos with her every touch, Eden could be the key in the eternal struggle between heaven and hell. All because she gave her heart to one of the Fallen, an angel cast out of heaven.

She may lose everything she ever had. She may be betrayed by those she loves most. But Eden will not be a pawn in anyone else’s game. Her heart is her own.

And that’s only the beginning of the end.

XVI by Julia Karr
Release Date: January 6, 2011 (US)
Publisher: Speak (US)

In the year 2150, being a girl isn’t necessarily a good thing, especially when your sixteenth (read sex-teenth) birthday is fast approaching. That in itself would be enough to make anyone more than a little nuts, what with the tattoo and all – but Nina Oberon’s life has taken a definite turn for the worse. Her mother is brutally stabbed and left for dead. Before dying, she entrusts a secret book to Nina, telling her to deliver it to Nina’s father. But, first Nina has to find him; since for fifteen years he’s been officially dead. Complications arise when she rescues Sal, a mysterious, and ultra hot guy. He seems to like Nina, but also seems to know more about her father than he’s letting on. Then there’s that murderous ex-government agent who’s stalking her, and just happens to be her little sister’s dad.

Wildthorn by Jane Eagland
Release Date: May 1st, 2009
Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Dark secrets and deep betrayals haunt this extraordinary debut set in a Victorian madhouse.
Seventeen-year-old Louisa Cosgrove thinks she is being shipped off to a grand country house to be a Lady’s Companion. But the truth is far more sinister. Louisa has been incarcerated in an asylum for the insane – and she has lost everything: her beloved Grace, her family – even her own name. Now the only way out is to unravel the treacherous plot that led to her imprisonment. But will the truth be too terrible to bear?

Firelight by Sophie Jordan
Release Date: October 1st 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins (Aus)
My Review

Marked as special at an early age, Jacinda knows her every move is watched. But she longs for freedom to make her own choices. When she breaks the most sacred tenet among her kind, she nearly pays with her life. Until a beautiful stranger saves her. A stranger who was sent to hunt those like her. For Jacinda is a draki—a descendant of dragons whose greatest defense is her secret ability to shift into human form.

Forced to flee into the mortal world with her family, Jacinda struggles to adapt to her new surroundings. The only bright light is Will. Gorgeous, elusive Will who stirs her inner draki to life. Although she is irresistibly drawn to him, Jacinda knows Will’s dark secret: He and his family are hunters. She should avoid him at all costs. But her inner draki is slowly slipping away—if it dies she will be left as a human forever. She’ll do anything to prevent that. Even if it means getting closer to her most dangerous enemy.

Remember Me by Christopher Pike
Release Date: October 1st 2010
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Shari Cooper wakes up dead. The last thing she can remember is falling from a balcony during her friend’s party. Her death has been ruled a suicide, but Shari knows she was murdered. All of her closest friends are now suspects. As she tries to find her killer from the other side, she discovers her friends may not have been so loyal to her after all. Now Shari is not just out for justice, she’s out for revenge.

Ripple by Mandy Hubbard
Release Date: July 21st 2011
Publisher: Razorbill

Lexi is cursed with a dark secret. The water calls to her, draws her in, forces her to sing her deadly song to unsuspecting victims. If she succumbs, she kills. If she doesn’t, the pain is unbearable. To keep herself and those she cares about safe, she shuts herself off, refusing to make friends or fall in love—again. Because the last time she fell in love with a boy, he ended up dead. Then Lexi meets Cole. Against her better judgment, she finds herself opening up again, falling in love when she knows she shouldn’t. But when she’s offered the chance to finally live a normal life, she learns that the price she must pay to be free of her curse is giving him up. In Ripple, Mandy Hubbard spins a sea-ravaged tale of melancholy beauty, and the choices one girl makes between land and waves, love and freedom, her future—and her heart.

Afterlife by Claudia Gray (Evernight #4)
Release Date: March 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins
My Review

Bianca and Lucas have always believed they could endure anything to be together. When a twist of fate not only transforms Bianca into a ghostly wraith, but also turns Lucas into a vampire—the very creature he spent his life hunting—they are left reeling.

Haunted by his powerful need to kill, Lucas can turn to only one place for help… Evernight Academy. Bianca is determined to remain with him. But with the vampire leader of Evernight waging a war against wraiths, her former home has become the most dangerous place she could be, despite the new powers her transformation has given her.

A battle between wraiths and vampires looms, and Bianca and Lucas face a terrifying new reality. They’ve overcome every obstacle life has thrown at them, but is their love strong enough to survive the challenges after life?

Entwined by Heather Dixon
Release Date: March 2011
Publisher: HarperTeen

Azalea is trapped. Just when she should feel that everything is before her . . . beautiful gowns, dashing suitors, balls filled with dancing . . . it’s taken away. All of it. The Keeper understands. He’s trapped, too, held for centuries within the walls of the palace. And so he extends an invitation.
Every night, Azalea and her eleven sisters may step through the enchanted passage in their room to dance in his silver forest. But there is a cost. The Keeper likes to keep things. Azalea may not realize how tangled she is in his web until it is too late.

Vampire Crush by A.M. Robinson
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Publisher: HarperTeen

First, six mysteriously pale new students show up at Sophie McGee’s high school. Then, Sophie’s childhood nemesis James reappears, still displaying a knack for making Sophie’s blood boil. When Sophie finds out that James has a connection to the new students, she decides to investigate…never expecting her life will quickly begin to resemble a campy horror movie, complete with budding crushes and bloodthirsty villains.

Fallen Angel by Heather Terrell
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins

The first book in a dark, edgy new angel series about a girl who finds herself forced to choose sides in the battle between fallen angels, even if that means going against the boy she loves.

When Ellie Faneuil first sees Michael Chase she feels an instantaneous connection. But she does not realize how much they have in common, including the ability fly and to see what others are thinking – not to mention a taste for blood. Reveling in their new powers and their growing feelings for each other, Ellie and Michael are determined to uncover what they are, and how they got this way.. together.

But the truth has repercussions neither could have imagined. Soon they find themselves center stage in an ancient conflict between fallen angels that threatens to destroy everything they love. And it is no longer clear whether Ellie and Michael will choose the same side.

Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
Release Date: April 2010
Publisher: Simon and Schuster

In the wake of a love spell gone horribly wrong, Sophie Mercer, a sixteen-year-old witch, is shipped off to Hecate Hall, a boarding school for witches, shapeshifters and faeries. The traumas of mortal high school are nothing compared to the goings on at “Freak High.” It’s bad enough that she has to deal with a trio of mean girls led by the glamorous Elodie, but it’s even worse when she begins to fall for Elodie’s gorgeous boyfriend, Archer Cross, and frankly terrifying that the trio are an extremely powerful coven of dark witches. But when Sophie begins to learn the disturbing truth about her father, she is forced to face demons both metaphorical and real, and come to terms with her own growing power as a witch.

Demonglass by Rachel Hawkins
Release Date: March 2011
Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Sophie Mercer thought she was a witch.
That was the whole reason she was sent to Hex Hall, a reform school for delinquent Prodigium (aka witches, shapeshifters, and fairies). But that was before she discovered the family secret, and that her hot crush, Archer Cross, is an agent for The Eye, a group bent on wiping Prodigium off the face of the earth.
Turns out, Sophie’s a demon, one of only two in the world—the other being her father. What’s worse, she has powers that threaten the lives of everyone she loves. Which is precisely why Sophie decides she must go to London for the Removal, a dangerous procedure that will destroy her powers.
But once Sophie arrives she makes a shocking discovery. Her new friends? They’re demons too. Meaning someone is raising them in secret with creepy plans to use their powers, and probably not for good. Meanwhile, The Eye is set on hunting Sophie down, and they’re using Archer to do it. But it’s not like she has feelings for him anymore. Does she?

Ghost Town by Rachel Caine (Morganville Vampires #9)
Release Date: October 2010

While developing a new system to maintain Morganville’s defenses, student Claire Danvers discovers a way to amplify vampire mental powers. Through this, she’s able to re-establish the field around this vampire-infested Texas college town that protects it from outsiders.

But the new upgrades have an unexpected consequence: people inside the town begin to slowly forget who they are-even the vampires. Soon, the town’s little memory problem has turned into a full-on epidemic. Now Claire needs to figure out a way to pull the plug on her experiment- before she forgets how to save Morganville…

Cryer’s Cross by Lisa McMann
Released: 1st April 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins (Aus)

The tiny town of Cryer?s Cross is shocked when local schoolgirl Tiffany disappears without a trace. Already off-balance due to her OCD, sixteen-year-old Kendall is freaked out by seeing Tiffany?s empty desk in the one-room school house, but somehow life goes on… until Kendall?s boyfriend Nico also disappears.

Alone in her depression and with her OCD at an all-time high, Kendall notices something that connects Nico and Tiffany. She knows it?s crazy, but Kendall finds herself drawn to the desk that both Nico and Tiffany sat at… Then she begins receiving messages from someone who can only be Nico. Can he possibly be alive somewhere? And how can Kendall help him? The only person who believes her is Jacian, the new guy she finds irritating…and attractive. As Kendall and Jacian grow closer, Kendall digs deeper into Nico?s mysterious disappearance only to stumble upon some ugly – and deadly – local history.

Kendall is about to find out just how far the townspeople will go to keep their secrets buried…

 

Silvermay by James Moloney
Shift by Jeri Smith-Ready
Possession by Elana Johnson
Wildefire by Karsten Knight
Almost Final Curtain by Tate Hallaway

Wither by Lauren DeStefano
Nightshade by Michelle Rowen (Nightshade #1)
Marked by Moonlight by Sharie Kohler (Sophie Jordan)
The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group by Catherine Jinks
The Frenzy by Francesca Lia Block
Once in a Full Moon by Ellen Schreiber
Teeth: Vampire Tales by Various Authors
Plague by Michael Grant
A Touch Mortal by Leah Clifford
Crave (Fallen Angels #2) by J. R. Ward
The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance 2 (Anthology) by Helen Scott Taylor
Angel (Angels trilogy #1) by L A Weatherly
Slayed by Amanda Marrone
Beautiful Darkness (Beautiful Creatures #2) by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Trance by Linda C. Gerber
Eternal: More Love Stories with Bite (Anthology) by P. C. Cast
Crave by Melinda Metz
The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
Dead Beautiful by Yvonne Woon
Awakened (The Guardian Legacy, #1) by Ednah Walters
Entice (Needs #3) by Carrie Jones
Extraordinary by Nancy Werlin
Losing Faith by Denise Jaden
End of Days by Max Turner
Nevermore by Kelly Creagh
Entangled by Cat Clarke
The Iron Queen by Julie Kagawa
Paranormalcy by Kiersten White
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
The Frenzy by Francesca Lia Block
Dangerous Angel by Francesca Lia Block
Entangled by Cat Clarke
Wake Unto Me by Lisa Cach
Crash into me by Albert Borris
Kisses from Hell Anthology
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Unearthly by Cynthia Hand
The Raising by Laura Kasischke
Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton
Thirst No. 3 The Eternal Dawn by Christopher Pike
Firespell by Chloe Neill
The Summoning by Kelly Armstrong
Hush Money by Susan Bischoff
Haven by Kristi Cook
Unraveled by Gena Showalter
Banished by Sophie Littlefield