Flipping Bookworm

Waiting on Wednesday "Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine , that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. I have already seen so many fantastic books featured on other bloggers WOW's I am just dying to be able to go without sleep so I can read all these books. But I decided to check out the new crop of debuts and see what I could find. Gilded by Christina Farley Releases: March 1, 2014 Goodreads - Sixteen-year-old Jae Hwa Lee is a Korean-American girl with a black belt, a deadly proclivity with steel-tipped arrows, and a chip on her shoulder the size of Korea itself. When her widowed dad uproots her to Seoul from her home in L.A., Jae thinks her biggest challenges will be fitting in to a new school and dealing with her dismissive Korean grandfather. Then she discovers that a Korean demi-god, Haemosu, has been stealing the soul of the oldest daughter of each generation in her family for centuries. And she's nex...

Welcome to my stop on the tour for The Warrior & the Flower by Camille Picott.  This is an adult high fantasy. To celebrate Chinese New Year the tour is running Jan. 27th-31st with mostly reviews and only a few interviews and spotlight posts.  Be sure to check out the tour page with additional info and list of tour stops. The Warrior and the Flower by Camille Picott Yi, a retired soldier, has lost everything he loves—his wife, his daughter, and his home. He seeks refuge from his heartache by plunging into a secret mission for the World Emperor. The assignment takes him to the doorstep of a brothel, where he witnesses the madam beating a young girl. Drawn by the child’s striking resemblance to his lost daughter, Yi rushes to her defense and negotiates for her purchase—after all, how hard can it be to care for one little girl? But between the child’s inquisitive nature and the dangerous secret she carries, he gets more than he bargained for. Goodreads | Amazon | BN | Sm...

Red Rising by Pierce Brown Available January 28th Publisher: Del Rey Hardback 400 pages To Buy Links- Amazon / Kindle / Barnes and Noble / Book Depository / / Kobo/   Goodreads -   The war begins... Darrow is a Helldiver, one of a thousand men and women who live in the vast caves beneath the surface of Mars. Generations of Helldivers have spent their lives toiling to mine the precious elements that will allow the planet to be terraformed. Just knowing that one day people will be able to walk the surface of the planet is enough to justify their sacrifice. The Earth is dying, and Darrow and his people are the only hope humanity has left. Until the day Darrow learns that it is all a lie. Mars is habitable - and indeed has been inhabited for generations by a class of people calling themselves the Golds. The Golds regard Darrow and his fellows as slave labour, to be exploited and worked to death without a second thought. With the help of a mysterious group of rebels, Darrow disgui...

The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson Audible Book Narrator Jennifer Ikeda To Buy Links- Audible / Amazon/ Kindle / Barnes and Noble / Book Depository / Indiebound / Kobo Goodreads-  Once a century, one person is chosen for greatness. Elisa is the chosen one.  But she is also the younger of two princesses, the one who has never done anything remarkable. She can't see how she ever will.  Now, on her sixteenth birthday, she has become the secret wife of a handsome and worldly king—a king whose country is in turmoil. A king who needs the chosen one, not a failure of a princess.  And he's not the only one who seeks her. Savage enemies seething with dark magic are hunting her. A daring, determined revolutionary thinks she could be his people's savior. And he looks at her in a way that no man has ever looked at her before. Soon it is not just her life but her very heart that is at stake.  Elisa could be everything to those who need her most. If the prophecy is fu...

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Available Now Dutton Books To Buy Links:   Amazon / Kindle / Audio BookCD / Audible Barnes and Noble / Book Depository / Indiebound / Kobo Goodreads-  Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. ****This review contains some spoilerish comments***** It's hard to review a book that is already being made into a movie. That has over 7,000 reviews on Amazon alone. So I'll tell it to you differently. I have avoided reading this book for almost a year. I was one of the first to get it of course. It was John Green. Nerdfighter. DFTBA. One half of the Vlogbrothers.  Hank Green's bro. And it was signed?? (How did Amazon do that??) So of course mine was preordered. I have eve...

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up For Education and Was Shot By The Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb Available Now Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Audiobook Narrator: Archie Panjabi To Buy Links: Amazon / Kindle / Audible / Audio CD / Barnes and Noble / Book Depository / Indiebound / Kobo Goodreads-  I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday. When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive.  Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she ha...

Tin Star by Cecil Castellucci Release Date February 25, 2014 Publisher Roaring Brook Press Source: NetGalley e-ARC for review e-Book 240 pages From Goodreads- On their way to start a new life, Tula and her family travel on the  Prairie Rose , a colony ship headed to a planet in the outer reaches of the galaxy. All is going well until the ship makes a stop at a remote space station, the Yertina Feray, and the colonist's leader, Brother Blue, beats Tula within an inch of her life. An alien, Heckleck, saves her and teaches her the ways of life on the space station. When three humans crash land onto the station,   Tula's desire for escape becomes irresistible, and her desire for companionship becomes unavoidable. But just as Tula begins to concoct a plan to get off the space station and kill Brother Blue, everything goes awry, and suddenly romance is the farthest thing from her mind.  I don't usually tell you I have DNF'd a book, but I'm going to start telling you. ...