A meme, hosted by Iceybooks, in which every Thursday, I select three to five books that I want to read, but can't decide which to read first. I post the cover & synopsis of each book and ask readers and participators to vote on which of my three to five book selections to read first!
I've picked up tons of books lately and I'm so confused on where to start. They all sound so good; hence, I picked them up. Here are my picks:
Maggie is a seventeen
year old girl who's had a bad year. She was smart and on track but then
her mom left, her dad is depressed, she's graduating, barely, and her
boyfriend of almost three years dumped her for a college football
scholarship. Lately she thinks life is all about hanging on by a thread
and is gripping tight with everything she has.
Then she meets
Caleb. She saves his life and instantly knows there's something about
him that's intriguing but she is supposed to be on her way to a date
with his cousin. But things change when they touch, sparks ignite.
Literally.
They imprint with each other and she sees their future
life together flash before her eyes. She learns that not only is she
his soul mate, and can feel his heartbeat in her chest, but there is a
whole other world of people with gifts and abilities that she never knew
existed. She herself is experiencing supernatural changes unlike
anything she's ever felt before and she needs the touch of his skin to
survive.
Now, not only has her dad come out of his depression to
be a father again, and a pain as well, but Caleb's enemies know he's
imprinted and are after Maggie to stop them both from gaining their
abilities and take her from him.
Can Caleb save her or will they be forced to live without each other after just finding one another?
One hour to rewrite the past . . .
For
seventeen-year-old Emerson Cole, life is about seeing what isn't there:
swooning Southern Belles; soldiers long forgotten; a haunting jazz trio
that vanishes in an instant. Plagued by phantoms since her parents'
death, she just wants the apparitions to stop so she can be normal.
She's tried everything, but the visions keep coming back. So when her
well-meaning brother brings in a consultant from a secretive
organization called the Hourglass, Emerson's willing to try one last
cure. But meeting Michael Weaver may not only change her future, it may
change her past.
Who is this dark, mysterious, sympathetic guy,
barely older than Emerson herself, who seems to believe every crazy word
she says? Why does an electric charge seem to run through the room
whenever he's around? And why is he so insistent that he needs her help
to prevent a death that never should have happened?
"'What are you thinking, Amy? The question I've asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?'"
Just how well can you ever know the person you love? This is the question that Nick Dunne must ask himself on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they aren't his. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what did really did happen to Nick's beautiful wife? And what was left in that half-wrapped box left so casually on their marital bed? In this novel, marriage truly is the art of war...
(Formerly titled The Spirit-Hunters)
The year is 1876, and there’s something strange and deadly loose in Philadelphia…
Eleanor
Fitt has a lot to worry about. Her brother has gone missing, her family
has fallen on hard times, and her mother is determined to marry her off
to any rich young man who walks by. But this is nothing compared to
what she’s just read in the newspaper—
The Dead are rising in Philadelphia.
And then, in a frightening attack, a zombie delivers a letter to Eleanor…from her brother.
Whoever
is controlling the Dead army has taken her brother as well. If Eleanor
is going to find him, she’ll have to venture into the lab of the
notorious Spirit-Hunters, who protect the city from supernatural forces.
But as Eleanor spends more time with the Spirit-Hunters, including
their maddeningly stubborn yet handsome inventor, Daniel, the situation
becomes dire. And now, not only is her reputation on the line, but her
very life may hang in the balance.
An arresting un-coming-of-age story, from a breathtaking talent
Becca
has always longed to break free from her small, backwater hometown. But
the discovery of an unidentified dead girl on the side of a dirt road
sends the town--and Becca--into a tailspin. Unable to make sense of the
violence of the outside world creeping into her backyard, Becca finds
herself retreating inward, paralyzed from moving forward for the first
time in her life.
Short chapters detailing the last days of
Amelia Anne Richardson's life are intercut with Becca's own summer as
the parallel stories of two young women struggling with self-identity
and relationships on the edge twist the reader closer and closer to the
truth about Amelia's death.
I've heard many great things about these books. I'm looking forward to
all of them, just don't know which one to read first! Yes, I do have the sequels for Insignificance & Hourglass, if that makes a difference.. lol.
Happy reading everyone :0)
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