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"Waiting On"

A book I cannot wait to get my hands on.

hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine

Gravity (The Taking #1)

by Melissa West

Expected publication: October 16th 2012 by Entangled Publishing, LLC

In the future, only one rule will matter:

Don’t. Ever. Peek.

Seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander just broke that rule and saw the last person she expected hovering above her bed — arrogant Jackson Locke, the most popular boy in her school. She expects instant execution or some kind of freak alien punishment, but instead, Jackson issues a challenge: help him, or everyone on Earth will die.

Ari knows she should report him, but everything about Jackson makes her question what she’s been taught about his kind. And against her instincts, she’s falling for him. But Ari isn’t just any girl, and Jackson wants more than her attention. She’s a military legacy who’s been trained by her father and exposed to war strategies and societal information no one can know — especially an alien spy, like Jackson. Giving Jackson the information he needs will betray her father and her country, but keeping silent will start a war.

What caught my attention is this line from the blurb: "... Jackson issues a challenge: help him, or everyone on Earth will die." Don't you just love blackmail? It makes for an interesting story line.

Three more reasons why I cannot wait:

Aliens.
SciFi.
Entangled Publishing.

Swoon:

Lines and/or scenes from a book that made me swoon.

hosted by the girls at YA Bound

Today's swoon comes from The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa.

Her arms laced around my neck; mine slid into her hair and down to the small of her back, holding us together. No more illusions, no more hiding from myself. I needed this girl; I needed her laughter and fearlessness, the way she kept pushing me, refusing to be intimidated. I’d kept people at arm’s length for so long, scared of what the fey would do to them if I got close, but I couldn’t do that anymore. Not to her.

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