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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Waiting on Wednesday #10

HOSTED BY BREAKING THE SPINE

Echo
Echo by Alicia Wright Brewster
Expected publication: February 2013 by Dragonfairy Press
The countdown clock reads less than thirteen days until the end of the world.

The citizens are organized. Everyone's been notified and assigned a duty. The problem is . . . while the end of the world has been foreseen, no one knows for sure how it will end.

Energy-hungry mages are the most likely culprit. They travel toward a single location from every corner of the continent. Fueled by the two suns, each mage holds the power of the elements: air, earth, fire, metal, water, and ether. They harness the elements to draw energy from the most readily available resource. Humans.

Ashara has been assigned to the Ethereal task group, made up of human ether manipulators and directed by Loken, a young man with whom she has a complicated past. Loken and Ashara bond over a common goal: to stop the mages from occupying their home and gaining more energy than they can contain. But soon, they begin to suspect that the future of the world may depend on Ashara's death.

When We WakeWhen We Wake by Karen Healey
Expected publication: March 5th 2013 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
My name is Tegan Oglietti, and on the last day of my first lifetime, I was so, so happy.

Sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl living in 2027 - she's happiest when playing the guitar, she's falling in love for the first time, and she's joining her friends to protest the wrongs of the world: environmental collapse, social discrimination, and political injustice.

But on what should have been the best day of Tegan's life, she dies - and wakes up a hundred years in the future, locked in a government facility with no idea what happened.

Tegan is the first government guinea pig to be cryonically frozen and successfully revived, which makes her an instant celebrity - even though all she wants to do is try to rebuild some semblance of a normal life. But the future isn't all she hoped it would be, and when appalling secrets come to light, Tegan must make a choice: Does she keep her head down and survive, or fight for a better future?

Award-winning author Karen Healey has created a haunting, cautionary tale of an inspiring protagonist living in a not-so-distant future that could easily be our own.

15 comments:

  1. Ohh Echo sounds really good! Cover looks amazing... When We Wake looks like Beta? or was it the font lol

    My WoW picks

    ~Jay
    We Fancy Books

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  2. When We Wake sounds so awesome! I am so glad I found out it today!

    Check out what I'm Waiting On.

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  3. Echo looks like a great read! I'm really intrigued about When We Wake - the synopsis is thrilling and the cover is very creepy (in a good way!)

    Thanks for sharing!

    My WoW

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  4. Both sound like really great books. When we wake really caught my eye. Thanks for stopping by today!

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  5. Both sound excellent! I love that you have an Indie pick, along with a non-Indie pick. I will be sure to check both of these out! Thanks for sharing!

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  6. This looks and sounds good. Thanks for sharing!

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  7. I really like Echo's description/cover (and it certainly helps that from what I've seen of the author on Goodreads, she's pretty cool). Thanks for sharing your picks, and thanks for stopping by my WoW post too!

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  8. We have the same great taste for When We Wake lol, Echo sounds really good too. I hadn't heard of it before, thanks for sharing.

    Thanks for stopping by my WoW

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  9. These both sound amazing! This is the first I've heard of Echo, but I'm definitely going to be adding it to my tbr pile! I love the cover :)

    My WoW

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  10. These books do sound interesting!
    Thanks for sharing,
    Dani
    http://paulettespapers.com/?p=2210

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  11. I really want to read When We Wake! Great choices! :D

    -Brad @ BookYAReview

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  12. Great picks! I love the sound of Echo & the cover WOW. It instantly drew my interest!

    Thanks for stopping by my WoW earlier :)

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  13. Haven't heard of Echo yet, but I've been anticipating WHen We Wake for a while now!

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  14. We are waiting on the same books! Hehe. I really like the sounds of Echo! Thinking I may just feature it next week!!

    Thanks for stopping by my blog :)

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