Author: Jim Butcher
Goodreads Rating: 4.29
Pages: 451
Harry Dresden,
Chicago's only practicing professional wizard, should be happy that
business is pretty good for a change. But now he's getting more than he
bargained for.
A duel with the Red Court of Vampires' champion, who must kill Harry to end the war between vampires and wizards...
Professional hit men using Harry for target practice...
The missing Shroud of Turin...
A handless and headless corpse the Chicago police need identified...
Not
to mention the return of Harry's ex-girlfriend Susan, who's still
struggling with her semivampiric nature. And who seems to have a new man
in her life.
Some days, it just doesn't pay to get out of bed. No matter how much you're charging.
Author: Catherine Fisher
Goodreads Rating: 3.65
Pages: 384
Format: ARC from NYCC12
Jake's father disappears while working on mysterious experiments with the obsessive, reclusive Oberon Venn. Jake is convinced Venn has murdered him. But the truth he finds at the snow-bound Wintercombe Abbey is far stranger ... The experiments concerned a black mirror, which is a portal to both the past and the future. Venn is not alone in wanting to use its powers. Strangers begin gathering in and around Venn's estate: Sarah - a runaway, who appears out of nowhere and is clearly not what she says, Maskelyne - who claims the mirror was stolen from him in some past century. There are others, a product of the mirror's power to twist time. And a tribe of elemental beings surround this isolated estate, fey, cold, untrustworthy, and filled with hate for humans. But of them all, Jake is hell-bent on using the mirror to get to the truth. Whatever the cost, he must learn what really happened to his father.
Author: Lauren Destefano
Goodreads Rating: 4.25
Pages: 356
Format: Bound Manuscript from BEA13
On Internment, the floating island in the clouds where 16-year-old Morgan Stockhour lives, getting too close to the edge can lead to madness. Even though Morgan's older brother, Lex, was a Jumper, Morgan vows never to end up like him. She tries her best not to mind that her life is orderly and boring, and if she ever wonders about the ground, and why it is forbidden, she takes solace in best friend Pen and her betrothed, Basil.
Then a murder, the first in a generation, rocks the city. With whispers swirling and fear on the wind, Morgan can no longer stop herself from investigating, especially when she meets Judas. He is the boy being blamed for the murder — betrothed to the victim — but Morgan is convinced of his innocence. Secrets lay at the heart of Internment, but nothing can prepare Morgan for what she will find — or who she will lose.
Author: Carey Corp and Laurie Langdon
Goodreads Rating: 4.15
Pages: 368
Format: ARC from ALA13
DOON…
Veronica
doesn't think she's going crazy. But why can't anyone else see the
mysterious blond boy who keeps popping up wherever she goes? When her
best friend, Mackenna, invites her to spend the summer in Scotland,
Veronica jumps at the opportunity to leave her complicated life behind
for a few months.
But the Scottish countryside holds other plans.
Not
only has the imaginary kilted boy followed her to Alloway, she and
Mackenna uncover a strange set of rings and a very unnerving letter from
Mackenna's great aunt—and when the girls test the instructions Aunt
Gracie left behind, they find themselves transported to a land that
defies explanation. Doon seems like a real-life fairy tale, complete
with one prince who has eyes for Mackenna and another who looks
suspiciously like the boy from Veronica's daydreams. But Doon has a dark
underbelly as well. The two girls could have everything they've longed
for...or they could end up breaking an enchantment and find themselves
trapped in a world that has become a nightmare.
DOON is loosely
based on the premise of the musical Brigadoon, with permission from the
Alan Jay Lerner Estate and the Frederick Loewe Foundation. Follow the
journey at http://www.DoonSeries.com
~Destiny awaits!
Author: Kirsty McKay
Goodreads Rating: 4.22
Pages: 288
Format: ARC from BEA13
Fresh meat! From a hospital of horrors to a runaway zombie train, it's an all-new onslaught of the slavering undead in the sequel to Kirsty McKay's killer debut!
Just when you think you're out...it's the morning after the night of the return of the living dead. Or something like that. After running/bus-driving/snowboarding for her life alongside rebel Smitty, geeky Pete, and popular Alice, Bobby thought she'd found the antidote to the Carrot Man Veggie Juice that had turned the rest of their classmates into zombies. When Smitty (mmm...nom, nom) got chomped, Bobby pumped a syringe full of it into him herself.
But now Bobby's a prisoner in some hospital of horrors, with no clue how she got there. And Smitty is missing. What if he isn't cured after all? Bobby knows she's got to find him, even if it means facing Scotland's hungry hordes -- plus Alice's buckets of snark -- again. And this time, zombies aren't the only evil stressing her out. The brain-dead are bad enough, but how can Bobby stop the big pharma business behind the epidemic? Especially when her own mom works for the company?
Author: Jim Butcher
