These are the debuts available in the UK that I am drooling over this month.
Title: The Repossession
Series: The RepossessionAuthor: Sam HawksmoorPublisher: Hodder Children's BooksPublication Date: 1 March 2012Synopsis from Goodreads34 kids missing. Vanished without a trace.
Believing she is possessed, Genie Magee's mother has imprisoned her all summer encouraged by the sinister Reverend Schneider. Beautiful Rian, love of her life, sets her free, and their escape washes them up at Marshall's remote farmhouse downriver. But why are there newspaper clippings of the missing kids pinned to Marshall's bathroom wall? And should they believe his stories about the experiments at the Fortress, an underground research station nearby?
Genie meets Denis. Missing two years now, but hasn't grown an inch. Rian is haunted by Renée, who insists she's not actually dead. Soon they discover the terrible truth about Reverend Schneider and worse, Genie is next ... and Rian can't do a thing to prevent it.
The Repossession is just the beginning.
I am intrigued.
Title: Croak
Series: Croak #1Author: Gina DamicoPublisher: Graphia BooksPublication Date: 20 Mar 2012Synopsis from GoodreadsSixteen-year-old Lex Bartleby has sucker-punched her last classmate. Fed up with her punkish, wild behavior, her parents ship her off to upstate New York to live with her Uncle Mort for the summer, hoping that a few months of dirty farm work will whip her back into shape. But Uncle Mort’s true occupation is much dirtier than that of shoveling manure.
He’s a Grim Reaper. And he’s going to teach her the family business.
Lex quickly assimilates into the peculiar world of Croak, a town populated entirely by reapers who deliver souls from this life to the next. Along with her infuriating yet intriguing partner Driggs and a rockstar crew of fellow Grim apprentices, Lex is soon zapping her Targets like a natural born Killer.
Yet her innate ability morphs into an unchecked desire for justice—or is it vengeance?—whenever she’s forced to Kill a murder victim, craving to stop the attackers before they can strike again. So when people start to die—that is, people who aren’t supposed to be dying, people who have committed grievous crimes against the innocent—Lex’s curiosity is piqued. Her obsession grows as the bodies pile up, and a troubling question begins to swirl through her mind: if she succeeds in tracking down the murderer, will she stop the carnage—or will she ditch Croak and join in?
I just love the sound of this one.
Title: Bunheads
Author: Sophie FlackPublisher: AtomPublication Date: 1 March 2012Synopsis from GoodreadsAs a dancer with the Manhattan Ballet Company, nineteen-year-old Hannah Ward is living her childhood dream. She gets to be up on stage in front of adoring crowds every night. And while she might not be a prima ballerina yet, she's moving up the ranks and surely if she works hard enough she can make it happen.
But devoting her whole life to ballet leaves very little time for anything else: friends, family, school have all fallen by the wayside. Hannah doesn't mind, until a chance encounter in a restaurant brings Jacob into her life. He's cute, he plays guitar and he's offering a whole future that Hannah never considered. And now she must choose between her lifelong dream or what could be the love of her life..
Title: Seeing Cinderella
Author: Jenny LundquistPublisher: AladdinPublication Date: 20 March 2012Synopsis from GoodreadsCalliope Meadow Anderson wishes her life could be more of a fairy tale—just like the stories she writes. Her best friend, Ellen, is acting weird, her parent's marriage is falling apart, and to top things off, she found out she needs hideously large and geeky glasses.
But Callie soon learns they aren't just any glasses—they are magical and let her read people's thoughts. For the first time ever she's answering all the questions right in math class, and gets a glimpse of what goes through people's minds all day, including what Ellen—and her longtime crush—really think of her.
As if dealing with these crazy glasses weren't enough, Callie tries out for the lead in her school's production of Cinderella and actually gets the part. Instead, Callie chooses to let Ellen have the lead and be Ellen's understudy—just like she has done for their entire friendship.
Add in a new girl who has something to hide, a secret admirer, a best friend stealer who isn't what she seems, and Callie's year just went from ordinary to extraordinary.
Can this supporting actress learn to be a leading lady in her own life? Or is she destined to stay in the background forever—even with her super-freaky-magic glasses?
Magic Glasses - count me in.
Title: Slide
Series: Slide #1Author: Jill HathawayPublisher: Harper Collins Children's BooksPublication Date: 1 March 2012Synopsis from GoodreadsVee Bell is certain of one irrefutable truth—her sister’s friend Sophie didn’t kill herself. She was murdered.
Vee knows this because she was there. Everyone believes Vee is narcoleptic, but she doesn’t actually fall asleep during these episodes: When she passes out, she slides into somebody else’s mind and experiences the world through that person’s eyes. She’s slid into her sister as she cheated on a math test, into a teacher sneaking a drink before class. She learned the worst about a supposed “friend” when she slid into her during a school dance. But nothing could have prepared Vee for what happens one October night when she slides into the mind of someone holding a bloody knife, standing over Sophie’s slashed body.
Vee desperately wishes she could share her secret, but who would believe her? It sounds so crazy that she can’t bring herself to tell her best friend, Rollins, let alone the police. Even if she could confide in Rollins, he has been acting off lately, more distant, especially now that she’s been spending more time with Zane.
Enmeshed in a terrifying web of secrets, lies, and danger and with no one to turn to, Vee must find a way to unmask the killer before he or she strikes again
Looks brilliant.
Series: The Witch of Turlingham Academy #1Author: Ellie BoswellPublisher: AtomPublication Date: 1 March 2012Synopsis from GoodreadsIt's not easy being the only day girl at Turlingham Academy: Sophie misses out on all the midnight feasts and late night gossip. And when new girl Katy turns up it feels like she's bewitching all of Sophie's friends! Katy's no witch, but there is a witch at Turlingham. Katy comes from a long line of witch hunters whose job is to stop evil magic. Sophie is going to help her - anything to get Katy out of her life and get things back to normal. But what she discovers means nothing will ever be normal again!
Title: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Series: Mara Dyer #1Author: Michelle HodkinPublisher: Simon & Schuster Childrens BooksPublication Date: 1 March 2012Synopsis from GoodreadsSeventeen-year-old Mara cannot remember the accident that took the lives of three of her friends but, after moving from Rhode Island to Florida, finding love with Noah, and more deaths, she realizes uncovering something buried in her memory might save her family and her future.
I have been waiting for this to be published in the UK for a whole year.
Title: Dead Rules
Author: Randy RussellPublisher: QuercusPublication Date: 29 March 2012Synopsis from GoodreadsWhen high school junior Jana Webster dies suddenly, she finds herself in Dead School, where she faces choices that will determine when she, a Riser, will move on, but she strives to become a Slider instead, for the chance to be with the love of her life--even if it means killing him.
I am in drool overload this month [ ; D ]
The Repossession is fab! Some others there that look really good as well.
ReplyDeleteOne debut that no-one seems to be mentioning is Skin Deep by Laura Jarratt - out tomorrow. INCREDIBLE, one of the best contemporaries I've read in years.
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer is amazing, and the trailer for it is awesome! I'm looking forward to reading Slide and the others sound good too :)
ReplyDeleteBunheads sounds very interesting, and I've read The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer and it is awesome--I think you will deffo love it Emma!
ReplyDeleteI really really want to read Slide and Bunheads and Dead Rules! Too many awesome books!!
ReplyDeleteCroak sounds brilliant. kinda like the TV series Dead Like Me which I looooove!
ReplyDeletewow so many cool books x
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