On My Wishlist is a fun weekly event hosted by Book Chick City and runs every Saturday. It’s where I list all the books I desperately want but haven’t actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming. It’s also an event that you can join in with too – Mr Linky is always at the ready for you to link your own ‘On My Wishlist’ post. If you want to know more click here.
This is a special Young Adult Edition for my YA event ‘21 Days of Young Adult Fiction‘!
This sounds great and I love the cover – simple but effective.
Misfit
Jon Skovron (Amulet)
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Genre: Fantasy
Young Adult
Goodreads Summary:
Jael Thompson has never really fit in. She’s changed schools too many times to count. The only family she’s ever known is her father, a bitter ex-priest who never lets her date and insists she attend the strictest Catholic school in Seattle. And her mother—well, she was a five thousand year old demon. That doesn’t exactly help.
But on her sixteenth birthday, her father gives her a present that brings about some unexpected changes. Some of the changes, like strange and wonderful powers and the cute skater boy with a knack for science, are awesome. But others, like the homicidal demon seeking revenge on her family? Not so much.
Steeped in mythology, this is an epic tale of a heroine who balances old world with new, science with magic, and the terrifying depths of the underworld with the ordinary halls of high school.
I haven’t read a ‘dragon’ novel before, so I think I’ll start with this one, sounds fun.
Flying Blind (The Dragon Diaries #1)
Deborah Cooke (NAL)
Publication Date: June 2011
Genre: Fantasy
Young Adult
Goodreads Summary:
Zoë Sorensson is perfectly normal, except she’s been told she’s destined for great things. Zoë’s the one female dragon shapeshifter of her kind. But Zoë is at the bottom of the class when it comes to being Pyr and her powers are AWOL, so she’s sent to a Pyr boot camp.
Zoë quickly realizes that she has to master her powers yesterday, because the Pyr are in danger and boot camp is a trap. The Mages want to eliminate all shifters and the Pyr are next in line-unless Zoë and her friends can work together and save their own kind.
Anything to do with Jack the Ripper and I’m there!!
The Name of the Star (Shades of London #1)
Maureen Johnson (Hyperion)
Publication Date: Sept 2011
Genre: Paranormal Mystery
Young Adult
Goodreads Summary:
The day Louisiana teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London marks a memorable occasion. For Rory, it’s the start of a new life at a London boarding school. But for many, this will be remembered as the day a series of brutal murders broke out across the city, gruesome crimes mimicking the horrific Jack the Ripper events of more than a century ago.
Soon “Rippermania” takes hold of modern-day London, and the police are left with few leads and no witnesses. Except one. Rory spotted the man police believe to be the prime suspect. But she is the only one who saw him. Even her roommate, who was walking with her at the time, didn’t notice the mysterious man. So why can only Rory see him? And more urgently, why has Rory become his next target? In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, full of suspense, humor, and romance, Rory will learn the truth about the secret ghost police of London and discover her own shocking abilities.
Fab wintery cover – sounds like a great read too.
Witchlanders
Lena Coakley (Atheneum)
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Genre: Fantasy
Young Adult
Goodreads Summary:
High in their mountain covens, red witches pray to the Goddess, protecting the Witchlands by throwing the bones and foretelling the future.
It’s all a fake.
At least, that’s what Ryder thinks. He doubts the witches really deserve their tithes—one quarter of all the crops his village can produce. And even if they can predict the future, what danger is there to foretell, now that his people’s old enemy, the Baen, has been defeated?
But when a terrifying new magic threatens both his village and the coven, Ryder must confront the beautiful and silent witch who holds all the secrets. Everything he’s ever believed about witches, the Baen, magic and about himself will change, when he discovers that the prophecies he’s always scorned—
Are about him.
I’ve seen this one around the blogosphere quite a bit – sounds good and the cover is just lush.
Possessions (Possessions #1)
Nancy Holder (Razorbill)
Publication Date: Sept 2009
Genre: Paranormal
Goodreads Summary:
The It Girl meets The Exorcist in this chilling, haunted boarding school tale
New-girl Lindsay discovers all is not right at the prestigious Marlwood Academy for Girls. Ethereal, popular Mandy and her clique are plotting something dangerous. Lindsay overhears them performing strange rituals, and sees their eyes turn black. It doesn’t help that the school itself is totally eerie, with ancient, dilapidated buildings tucked into the Northern California woods, a thick white fog swirling through campus. There are hidden passageways, odd reflections in the windows at night, and scariest of all is the vast lake rumored to have captured the ghost of a girl who drowned many years ago.
What Lindsay doesn’t yet realize is that Mandy and her cohorts are becoming possessed by spirits who have haunted the school for two hundred years. Spirits who want someone dead…
And that someone is Lindsay.
Interesting premise, sounds familiar but good all the same
Born at Midnight (Shadow Falls #1)
C. C. Hunter (St. Martin’s Griffin)
Publication Date: March 2011
Genre: Paranormal
Goodreads Summary:
One night Kylie Galen finds herself at the wrong party, with the wrong people, and it changes her life forever. Her mother ships her off to Shadow Falls—a camp for troubled teens, and within hours of arriving, it becomes painfully clear that her fellow campers aren’t just “troubled.” Here at Shadow Falls, vampires, werewolves, shapshifters, witches and fairies train side by side—learning to harness their powers, control their magic and live in the normal world.
Kylie’s never felt normal, but surely she doesn’t belong here with a bunch of paranormal freaks either. Or does she? They insist Kylie is one of them, and that she was brought here for a reason. As if life wasn’t complicated enough, enter Derek and Lucas. Derek’s a half-fae who’s determined to be her boyfriend, and Lucas is a smokin’ hot werewolf with whom Kylie shares a secret past. Both Derek and Lucas couldn’t be more different, but they both have a powerful hold on her heart.
Even though Kylie feels deeply uncertain about everything, one thing is becoming painfully clear—Shadow Falls is exactly where she belongs…
So, that’s what’s on my wishlist this week – what’s on yours?
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The covers on these are really interesting.
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wow now thats a wishlist! Im really interested in Witchlanders and The Name of the Star!
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The Name of the Star is my wishlist too!
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very nice picks! i'd love to have born at midnight too!
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Flying Blind is definitely on my wishlist! XD
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This week's feature wish is a picture book about a construction site. Come see why I added it.
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Witchlander and Misfits are both on my list now too. Thanks for making my TBR pile bigger.
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The name of the star is one book that really intrigues me – plus I love the look of the cover!
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I do wanna read that withclander book!
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Great picks! I think I want all of them, especially the Ripper and dragon choices. I don't think I've ever seen a YA dragon paranormal either.
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Oh I've been wanting several of these for a while. Yep… great choices!
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SO funny because I JUST saw Possessions yesterday! (The first time I've seen it) and you post about it today! Awesome list… as usual!
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Great list! I've recently made a visit to the bookstore and picked up a bunch of books on my wishlist so my list this week was really short!
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I'm really looking forward to Misfit!
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All books I'm looking forward to reading myself.
Happy reading
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Witchlander sounds great! I am adding it to my TBR list.
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I can't believe how much the Young Adult books have delved into the Paranormal romance world. It is giving the Adult PR genres a run for thier money…..Great choices. I hope that they will be everything you hope them to be when you finally get them. Check out what I an am putting On My Wishlist..
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BORN AT MIDNIGHT was a fun read, more so than I expected. Not a book that sticks with you, but definitely an enjoyable one and I look forward to the next one in the series.
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Hi, awesome wishlist! I want a few of these too!
Hope you get them soon!
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I like the idea of Flying Blind. The description reminds me a bit of Firelight and Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Kiesha'ra series. Born at Midnight is on my wishlist as well.
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I love those books! A couple of them found their way onto my wishlist *^_^*
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Those all look good! A few are on my own TBR list!
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All of these look really interesting…and all the covers are amazing. Great wishlist!
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The first four look really good – all of those are on my tbr priority list, too! Nice picks!
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