Lovely Listopia (7)

Hi everyone! This week since it's my first Lovely Listopia of the week, I thought I'd share a 2013 expectation list I thought looked really interesting! I'll leave you with the first few entries, and then you can click on read more to... well, read more!

This week's topic:

2013 Debut Authors (Young Adult & Middle Grade)

Taken (Taken #1)

by Erin Bowman

There are no men in Claysoot. There are boys—but every one of them vanishes at midnight on his eighteenth birthday. The ground shakes, the wind howls, a blinding light descends…and he’s gone.

They call it the Heist.

Gray Weathersby’s eighteenth birthday is mere months away, and he’s prepared to meet his fate–until he finds a strange note from his mother and starts to questio...more

Publisher: HarperTeen

Release date: April 16th

These Broken Stars (Untitled Trilogy #1)

by Amie Kaufman

Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen never should have met. She’s the socialite daughter of the richest man in the galaxy, and he’s a decorated soldier fighting back rebellions on newly terraformed planets. But when the vast luxury spaceliner they’re both traveling on crashes, they find themselves thrown together as the two sole survivors on an unknown planet.

As they survive...more

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion 

Dear Life, You Suck

by Scott Blagden

“The shrinkadinks think I have a screw loose. Ain’t playing with a full deck. Whacked-out wiring. Missing marbles.” 

Irreverent, foulmouthed seventeen-year-old Cricket is the oldest ward in a Catholic boys’ home in Maine—and his life sucks. With prospects for the future that range from professional fighter to professional drug dealer, he seems doomed to a life of “criminal...more

Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books

Release date: March 26th

Dualed (Dualed #1)

by Elsie Chapman

The city of Kersh is a safe haven, but the price of safety is high. Everyone has a genetic Alternate—a twin raised by another family—and citizens must prove their worth by eliminating their Alts before their twentieth birthday. Survival means advanced schooling, a good job, marriage—life.

Fifteen-year-old West Grayer has trained as a f...more

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Release date: February 26th

Level 2 (The Memory Chronicles #1)

by Lenore Appelhans

Three levels. Two loves. One choice. Debut novelist, Lenore Appelhans has written a thrilling otherworldly young adult novel about a place that exists between our world (Level 1) and what comes after life (Level 2).

'I pause to look around the hive - all the podlike chambers are lit up as the drones shoot up on memories ... I've wanted to get out of here before, but now the...more

Publisher: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers

Release date: January 15th

Read More

Lovely Listopia (6)

Lovely Listopia is a weekly meme I host in which book bloggers discuss our favorite Goodreads list of the week and post it on our blog, along with summaries, opinions, pictures, etc! It gives us bloggers a chance to share with you books going from “Upcoming releases” to most beautiful covers!

 This week's topic:

YA Novels of 2013

All teen fiction published in 2013.

  

  

Read More

Lovely Listopia! (5)

Lovely Listopia is a weekly meme I host  in which book bloggers discuss our favorite Goodreads list of the week and post it on our blog, along with summaries, opinions, pictures, etc! It gives us bloggers a chance to share with you books going from “Upcoming releases” to most beautiful covers!


This week's topic:

Best Kick-Ass Fantasy Female Characters From YA and Childrens

   

Read More

Lovely Listopia (4)

Lovely Listopia is a weekly meme I host  in which book bloggers discuss our favorite Goodreads list of the week and post it on our blog, along with summaries, opinions, pictures, etc! It gives us bloggers a chance to share with you books going from “Upcoming releases” to most beautiful covers!

YA Books That Start with the Letter A

    

Read More

Lovely Listopia! (3)

Lovely Listopia is a weekly meme I host  in which book bloggers discuss our favorite Goodreads list of the week and post it on our blog, along with summaries, opinions, pictures, etc! It gives us bloggers a chance to share with you books going from “Upcoming releases” to most beautiful covers!

This week’s favorite list: Best "Eye" on the cover

      

   

Read More

Lovely Listopia! (2)

Lovely Listopia is a weekly meme (on Saturdays)  in which book bloggers discuss our favorite Goodreads list of the week and post it on our blog, along with summaries, opinions, pictures, etc! It gives us bloggers a chance to share with you books going from “Upcoming releases” to most beautiful covers!

This week’s favorite list: 2012 YA Contemporaries

Contemporary YA books releasing in 2012

Click on the cover to see its Goodreads page!

    

   

Read More

Lovely Listopia! (1)

Lovely Listopia is a weekly meme (on Saturdays)  in which book bloggers discuss our favorite Goodreads list of the week and post it on our blog, along with summaries, opinions, pictures, etc! It gives us bloggers a chance to share with you books going from “Upcoming releases” to most beautiful covers!

This week's favorite list: Books That Should Be Made Into Movies

Complete list can be found here

1. City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments #1)

by Cassandra Clare

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder -- much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing -- not even a smear of blood -- to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?

This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know. . . .

Exotic and gritty, exhilarating and utterly gripping, Cassandra Clare's ferociously entertaining fantasy takes readers on a wild ride that they will never want to end.

I know this is already being made, but it should come out NOW! I'm so excited for City of Lost Souls on Wednesday!

2. The Host (The Host #1)

by Stephenie Meyer

Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. Our world has been invaded by an unseen enemy. Humans become hosts for these invaders, their minds taken over while their bodies remain intact and continue their lives apparently unchanged. Most of humanity has succumbed.

When Melanie, one of the few remaining "wild" humans, is captured, she is certain it is her end. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, was warned about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the glut of senses, the too-vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind.

Wanderer probes Melanie's thoughts, hoping to discover the whereabouts of the remaining human resistance. Instead, Melanie fills Wanderer's mind with visions of the man Melanie loves - Jared, a human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate herself from her body's desires, Wanderer begins to yearn for a man she has been tasked with exposing. When outside forces make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, they set off on a dangerous and uncertain search for the man they both love.

Again, already been made actually! It finished filming about a week ago! I'm not in love with the actor choices, but it definitely gets me excited.

Catching Fire (The Hunger Games #2)

by Suzanne Collins

Against all odds, Katniss has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol-- a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create.

Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest she's afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she's not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can't prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying.

In Catching Fire, the second novel of the Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, testing her more than ever before... and surprising readers at every turn.

ONCE AGAIN, will be made. But it's awful that I have to wait more than a year for this! The first one was amazing, but I CAN'T wait for the second one.

Uglies (Uglies #1)

by Scott Westerfeld

Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there.But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever.

NOW THIS! Oh, my! One of the best books I've read, and it really, really, should be made into a movie. Just imagine the... what were they called... hoverboards? Imagine those!

City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments #2)

by Cassandra Clare

Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. But what's normal when you're a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a magically induced coma, and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves, vampires, and faeries? If Clary left the world of the Shadowhunters behind, it would mean more time with her best friend, Simon, who's becoming more than a friend. But the Shadowhunting world isn't ready to let her go — especially her handsome, infuriating, newfound brother, Jace. And Clary's only chance to help her mother is to track down rogue Shadowhunter Valentine, who is probably insane, certainly evil — and also her father.

To complicate matters, someone in New York City is murdering Downworlder children. Is Valentine behind the killings — and if he is, what is he trying to do? When the second of the Mortal Instruments, the Soul-Sword, is stolen, the terrifying Inquisitor arrives to investigate and zooms right in on Jace. How can Clary stop Valentine if Jace is willing to betray everything he believes in to help their father?

In this breathtaking sequel to City of Bones, Cassandra Clare lures her readers back into the dark grip of New York City's Downworld, where love is never safe and power becomes the deadliest temptation.

Read More

Lovely Listopia! Intro

Lovely Listopia is a weekly memes (on Saturdays)  in which book bloggers discuss our favorite Goodreads list of the week and post it on our blog, along with summaries, opinions, pictures, etc! It gives us bloggers a chance to share with you books going from "Upcoming releases" to most beautiful covers!

If you're starting Lovely Listopia along with me, please credit me on your post.

Also, if you'd like to use the Lovely Distopia picture, here it is:

Leave your blog post link in the comment section so I can check out yours!

Read More