Monstrous Discoveries is a feature that mentions books that I have discovered through my sidetracking excursions around the web. While my bookshelf really is not never ending, it is always exciting to share the books I would add if it was.
Drought by Pam Bachorz
Releases: January 11th 2011
Publisher: EgmontUSA
Discovered on: Goodreads
Ruby Prosser dreams of escaping the Congregation and the early-nineteenth century lifestyle that’s been practiced since the community was first enslaved.
She plots to escape the vicious Darwin West, his cruel Overseers, and the daily struggle to gather the life-prolonging Water that keeps the Congregants alive and gives Darwin his wealth and power. But if Ruby leaves, the Congregation will die without the secret ingredient that makes the Water special: her blood.
So she stays.
But when Ruby meets Ford, the new Overseer who seems barely older than herself, her desire for freedom is too strong. He’s sympathetic, irresistible, forbidden—and her only access to the modern world. Escape with Ford would be so simple, but can Ruby risk the terrible price, dooming the only world she’s
ever known?
Red Glove (The Curse Workers, #2) by Holly Black
Releases: April 5th 2011
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry
Discovered on: Amazon
The cons get twistier and the stakes get higher in Red Glove, the sequel to White Cat.
Storm Thief by Chris Wooding
Released: September 1st 2006
Publisher: Orchard Books
Discovered on: ??
Orokos is a city of chaos, lashed by probability storms that re-order the world wherever they strike. It covers every inch of the rocky island that it dominates. It has stood for so long that history has forgotten it, and its citizens no longer question what exists beyond its walls. Then three of its denizens discover a map that holds the key to the secret at the heart of Orokos. But there are others, such as the Chief of the Protectorate Secret Police who would do anything to get their hands on that power…anything at all…
Awakening by K. Lippi
Released: May 6th 2009
Publisher: Mirror Publishing
Discovered on: Borders.com
For Emilia Miani, a fifteen year old girl from San Diego, CA, the supernatural world and its creatures only existed in books and movies. But when she went to visit her father in Japan and met Shin Kurosaki, a Japanese demon assigned by one of her ancestors 500 years ago to be her guardian angel and protect her from her destiny, supernatural events begin happening to Emilia and they continue escalating. During her journey, Emilia discovered her family secrets. Her grandfather was a death angel hired by God and she is his heir and forced to step into his shoes by God and Lucifer to stop Markus, an ex-death angel set on destroying them to become a new god. She also discovers that she has a special blood – a divine blood – running through her veins. A blood that kills anything it comes into contact with, including her. Awakening is a seductive entertaining love tale between a guardian demon and its human.
Entangled by Cat Clarke
Releases: January 6th 2011
Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
Discovered on: Goodreads
The same questions whirl round and round in my head:
What does he want from me?
How could I have let this happen?
AM I GOING TO DIE?
17-year-old Grace wakes up in a white room, with table, pens and paper – and no clue how she got here.
As Grace pours her tangled life onto the page, she is forced to remember everything she’s tried to forget. There’s falling hopelessly in love with the gorgeous Nat, and the unravelling of her relationship with her best friend Sal. But there’s something missing. As hard as she’s trying to remember, is there something she just can’t see?
Grace must face the most important question of all. Why is she here?
A story of dark secrets, intense friendship and electrifying attraction.
Clarity by Kim Harrington
Releases: March 1st 2011
Publisher: Scholastic Point
Discovered on: Goodreads
Clarity “Clare” Fern sees things. Things no one else can see. Things like stolen kisses and long-buried secrets. All she has to do is touch an object and the visions come to her. It’s a gift.
And a curse.
When a teenage girl is found murdered, Clare’s ex-boyfriend wants her to help solve the case — but Clare is still furious at the cheating jerk. Then Clare’s brother — who has supernatural gifts of his own — becomes the prime suspect, and Clare can no longer look away. Teaming up with Gabriel, the smoldering son of the new detective, Clare must venture into the depths of fear, revenge, and lust in order to track the killer. But will her sight fail her just when she needs it most?
I can’t wait to read Red Glove! And now I am adding Clarity and Entangled to my wishlist too. Thanks for featuring these books!
Oh, I”m so glad to know that the sequel to White Cat is on its way! Thanks!
Yeah, Drought looks great. I can’t wait to read it!
great books Il be adding some of them to my wishlist
Entangled is definitely on my radar!