Saturday, May 12, 2012

Future Reads: May Releases.

These are the books coming out this month that I fully intend to read.  It's more of a mental checklist for me than it is recommendations, since I can't tell yet if they're awesome.  ^_^  They're arranged in publication date order.

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Monster High 4:  Back and Deader Than Ever
Lisi Harrison
May 1, Poppy

Amazon Book Description:
The RADs are free and Draculaura (Lala) is flashing her fangs with pride. But when Daddy Drac pays her a surprise visit everything goes batty. Mr. D. thinks RADs should have their own school, but Lala isn't ready to give up the rights they fought so hard for.

It's father against daughter in a battle for Salem's student body. Despite the many challenges, Lala is determined to save Merston High. But she might die twice while trying.

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Sweet Evil
Wendy Higgins
May 1, HarperTeen


Amazon Book Description:
What if there were teens whose lives literally depended on being bad influences?

This is the reality for sons and daughters of fallen angels.

Tenderhearted Southern girl Anna Whitt was born with the sixth sense to see and feel emotions of other people. She's aware of a struggle within herself, an inexplicable pull toward danger, but it isn't until she turns sixteen and meets the alluring Kaidan Rowe that she discovers her terrifying heritage and her willpower is put to the test.

He's the boy your daddy warned you about. If only someone had warned Anna.

Forced to face her destiny, will Anna embrace her halo or her horns?

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City of Lost Souls
Cassandra Clare
May 8, Margaret K. McElderry Books

Amazon Book Description:
Can the lost be reclaimed? What price is too high to pay for love? Who can be trusted when sin and salvation collide?
 
Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge.
 
Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the harrowing fifth book of the Mortal Instruments series.

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Hemlock
Kathleen Peacock
May 8, Katherine Tegen Books 

Amazon Book Description:
Mackenzie and Amy were best friends. Until Amy was brutally murdered.

Since then, Mac's life has been turned upside down. She is being haunted by Amy in her dreams, and an extremist group called the Trackers has come to Mac's hometown of Hemlock to hunt down Amy's killer: A white werewolf.

Lupine syndrome--also known as the werewolf virus--is on the rise across the country. Many of the infected try to hide their symptoms, but bloodlust is not easy to control.

Wanting desperately to put an end to her nightmares, Mac decides to investigate Amy's murder herself. She discovers secrets lurking in the shadows of Hemlock, secrets about Amy's boyfriend, Jason, her good pal Kyle, and especially her late best friend. Mac is thrown into a maelstrom of violence and betrayal that puts her life at risk.

Kathleen Peacock's thrilling novel is the first in the Hemlock trilogy, a spellbinding urban fantasy series filled with provocative questions about prejudice, trust, lies, and love.

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Darkness Before Dawn
J. A. London
May 29, HarperTeen


Amazon Book Description:
Only sunlight can save us.

We built the wall to keep them out, to keep us safe. But it also makes us prisoners, trapped in what's left of our ravaged city, fearing nightfall.

After the death of my parents, it's up to me—as the newest delegate for humanity—to bargain with our vampire overlord. I thought I was ready. I thought I knew everything there was to know about the monsters. Then again, nothing could have prepared me for Lord Valentine . . . or his son. Maybe not all vampires are killers. Maybe it's safe to let one in.

Only one thing is certain: Even the wall is not enough. A war is coming and we cannot hide forever.


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