What's Next? is a weekly meme hosted by IceyBooks.
Every Thursday, select 3-5 books (not
too many, not too little!) that you want to read but can't decide which
one to read first.
Post the cover, and if you want, the synopsis or even a random line from the book, for each of your selections.
At the end of your post, ask readers to vote on which one you should read next!
Even if you don't end up reading your readers' top choice, you'll know what the majority is excited for.
For more info, visit the introduction post HERE!
My picks this week are:
Indelible (The Twixt, #1) by Dawn Metcalf
Some things are permanent.
Indelible.
And they cannot be changed back.
Joy
Malone learns this the night she sees a stranger with all-black eyes
across a crowded room — right before the mystery boy tries to cut out her
eye. Instead, the wound accidentally marks her as property of Indelible
Ink, and this dangerous mistake thrusts Joy into an incomprehensible
world—a world of monsters at the window, glowing girls on the doorstep,
and a life that will never be the same.
Now, Joy must pretend to
be Ink’s chosen one — his helper, his love, his something for the
foreseeable future...and failure to be convincing means a painful death
for them both. Swept into a world of monsters, illusion, immortal honor
and revenge, Joy discovers that sometimes, there are no mistakes.
Somewhere between reality and myth lies…THE TWIXT.
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor.
At
seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a
monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn't the monster Conor's
been expecting - he's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the
nightmare he's had nearly every night since his mother started her
treatments. The monster in his backyard is different. It's ancient. And
wild. And it wants something from Conor. Something terrible and
dangerous. It wants the truth.
From the final idea of award-winning
author Siobhan Dowd - whose premature death from cancer prevented her
from writing it herself - Patrick Ness has spun a haunting and darkly
funny novel of mischief, loss, and monsters both real and imagined.
Heart of Briar by Laura Anne Gilman
He has been taken. And you are his only chance.
That
wasn't something Jan expected to hear, especially from strangers who'd
just rescued her from some mysterious and ferocious creatures. And she
really hadn't expected her rescuers to be shape-shifters.
Now it
turns out her boyfriend, Tyler, hasn't gone missing, he's been stolen
and Jan's the only one who might be able to get him back...
Yeah,
Jan's pretty sure the entire world's gone crazy. Even if the shifters
claim that the naturals (like her) and the supernaturals (like them)
belong in this world, but the preternaturals, what humans call elves,
don't. And they've found a portal into our world. A doorway they can use
to infiltrate, to take, to conquer.
And now Jan's not just Ty's only hope he's got to rescue humanity, as well.
So, what do you think, which one of these should I read next?
Leave me a comment & help me decide!
I haven't read any of these yet, but I would read Indelible first! I have an ARC in ebook, but I was waiting until I have an actual copy to my read it! I can't wait to read it too! Thanks for stopping by my WN @ Addicted Readers and commenting! :)
ReplyDeleteI've read Indelible, it's good, hard to grasp the world-building though. I'd go with "The Monster Inside" by Patrick Ness it sounds very interesting!
ReplyDelete