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Pois... a inspiração e vontade para escrever no blogue não têm sido muitas, mas há sempre livros que quero ler. Essa é uma constante. O livro desta semana é mais uma distopia ao género de "Breathe" (mas será que eu nunca aprendo?). A sinopse parece bastante boa, mas nunca se sabe. De qualquer modo ainda falta um bocado para sair. (E sim, eu sei que não é quarta).

Solstice - P.J.Hover
Editora: Tor Teen
Data de Publicação: 21 de Junho de 2013
Páginas: 384
Idioma: Inglês

Descrição: "Piper's world is dying. 

Each day brings hotter temperatures and heat bubbles that threaten to destroy the earth. Amid this global heating crisis, Piper lives under the oppressive rule of her mother, who suffocates her even more than the weather does. Everything changes on her eighteenth birthday, when her mother is called away on a mysterious errand and Piper seizes her first opportunity for freedom.

Piper discovers a universe she never knew existed—a sphere of gods and monsters—and realizes that her world is not the only one in crisis. While gods battle for control of the Underworld, Piper’s life spirals out of control as she struggles to find the answer to the secret that has been kept from her since birth.

An imaginative melding of mythology and dystopia, Solstice is the first YA novel by talented newcomer P. J. Hoover."

E vocês? De que livros é que estão à espera? (What books are you anxiously waiting for?)

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Mais um livro que descobri pelo Goodreads e que parece bastante interessante. :)

O tema parece-me ter umas parecenças com lendas de sereias e tal, e como eu gosto muito desta criatura mitológica...

Chantress - Amy Butler Greenfield
Editora: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Data de Publicação: 7 de Maio de 2013
Páginas: 336
Idioma: Inglês

Sinopse (GR): "Sing and the darkness will find you.

Shipwrecked on an island seven years ago, Lucy has been warned she must never sing, or disaster will strike. But on All Hallows Eve, Lucy hears tantalizing music in the air. When she sings it, she unlocks a terrible secret: She is a Chantress, a spell-singer, brought to the island not by shipwreck but by a desperate enchantment gone wrong.

Her song lands her back in England — and in mortal peril, for the kingdom lies in the cruel grasp of a powerful Lord Protector and his mind-reading hunters, the Shadowgrims. The Protector has killed all Chantresses, for they alone can destroy the Shadowgrims. Only Lucy has survived.

In terrible danger, Lucy takes shelter with Nat, a spy who turns her heart upside-down. Nat has been working with his fellow scholars of the Invisible College to overthrow the Lord Protector, and they have long hoped to find a living Chantress to help them. But Lucy is completely untrained, and Nat deeply distrusts her magic. If Lucy cannot master the songspells, how long can she even stay alive?

Beguiling and lyrical, dangerous and romantic, Chantress will capture readers in a spell they won’t want to break."

E vocês? De que livros é que estão à espera? (What books are you anxiously waiting for?)

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Nova entrada da rubrica "Waiting on Wednesday". Hoje trago mais um livro pós-apocalíptico que me faz lembrar um pouco a nova série de TV "Revolution". Está a ser publicitado como uma mistura de Matrix com a lenda de Pandora. Parece bastante bom, por isso apesar de não ter gostado especialmente de um livro que li da autora, gostava bastante de ler este!

Doomed - Tracy Deebs
Editora: Penguin Group USA
Data de Publicação: 8 de Janeiro de 2013
Páginas: 480
Idioma: Inglês

Descrição (GR): "Beat the game. Save the world.

Pandora’s just your average teen, glued to her cell phone and laptop, surfing Facebook and e-mailing with her friends, until the day her long-lost father sends her a link to a mysterious site featuring twelve photos of her as a child. Unable to contain her curiosity, Pandora enters the site, where she is prompted to play her favorite virtual-reality game, Zero Day. This unleashes a global computer virus that plunges the whole world into panic: suddenly, there is no Internet. No cell phones. No utilities, traffic lights, hospitals, law enforcement. Pandora teams up with handsome stepbrothers Eli and Theo to enter the virtual world of Zero Day. Simultaneously, she continues to follow the photographs from her childhood in an attempt to beat the game and track down her father, her one key to saving the world as we know it. Part The Matrix, part retelling of the Pandora myth, Doomed has something for gaming fans, dystopian fans, and romance fans alike."

E vocês? De que livros é que estão à espera? (What books are you anxiously waiting for?)

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Costuma sair um livro todos os anos no Verão, mas este ano a publicação do novo dos Dresden Files foi adiada alguns meses. Depois da leitura explosiva que foi Ghost Story, estou bastante curiosa em relação a esta nova entrega da série que, 14 livros depois, ainda continua a ser uma boa leitura! 

Cold Days (Dresden Files, #14) - Jim Butcher
Editora: Penguin Group USA
Data de Publicação: 27 de Novembro 2012
Páginas: 528
Idioma: Inglês

Descrição (GR): "After being murdered by a mystery assailant, navigating his way through the realm between life and death, and being brought back to the mortal world, Harry realizes that maybe death wasn’t all that bad. Because he is no longer Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard.

He is now Harry Dresden, Winter Knight to Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness. After Harry had no choice but to swear his fealty, Mab wasn’t about to let something as petty as death steal away the prize she had sought for so long. And now, her word is his command, no matter what she wants him to do, no matter where she wants him to go, and no matter who she wants him to kill. 

Guess which Mab wants first?

Of course, it won’t be an ordinary, everyday assassination. Mab wants her newest minion to pull off the impossible: kill an immortal. No problem there, right? And to make matters worse, there exists a growing threat to an unfathomable source of magic that could land Harry in the sort of trouble that will make death look like a holiday. 

Beset by enemies new and old, Harry must gather his friends and allies, prevent the annihilation of countless innocents, and find a way out of his eternal subservience before his newfound powers claim the only thing he has left to call his own…

His soul."

E vocês? De que livros é que estão à espera? (What books are you anxiously waiting for?)

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Esta semana voltamos aos livros YA. Este é de uma autora bem conhecida no género do romance paranormal, que, como tantas outras, decidiu lançar um livro direccionado para o público "young adult". "Poison Princess" é o primeiro livro de uma nova série pós-apocalíptica, e parece-me bastante interessante (se bem que confesso ter algum medo que acabe por resvalar para os clichés habituais do romance instantâneo e o foco na relação adolescente).

Poison Princess - Kresley Cole
Editora: Simon & Schuster
Data de Publicação: 2 de Outubro 2012
Páginas: 384
Idioma: Inglês

Descrição (GR): "Sixteen year old Evangeline “Evie” Greene leads a charmed life, until she begins experiencing horrifying hallucinations. When an apocalyptic event decimates her Louisiana hometown, Evie realizes her hallucinations were actually visions of the future—and they’re still happening. Fighting for her life and desperate for answers, she must turn to her wrong-side-of-the-bayou classmate: Jack Deveaux.

But she can’t do either alone.

With his mile-long rap sheet, wicked grin, and bad attitude, Jack is like no boy Evie has ever known. Even though he once scorned her and everything she represented, he agrees to protect Evie on her quest. She knows she can’t totally depend on Jack. If he ever cast that wicked grin her way, could she possibly resist him?

Who can Evie trust?

As Jack and Evie race to find the source of her visions, they meet others who have gotten the same call. An ancient prophesy is being played out, and Evie is not the only one with special powers. A group of twenty-two teens has been chosen to reenact the ultimate battle between good and evil. But it’s not always clear who is on which side…" 

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No Waiting on Wednesday desta semana apresento um dos livros mais desejados (por mim e por outros, eheh) este ano. "The Casual Vacancy" de J.K. Rowling. Sou uma das inúmeras fans da saga Harry Potter e estou muito curiosa em relação a este novo livro, a primeira obra direccionada para o público adulto. Como ficámos a saber há algumas semanas atrás, este livro será traduzido e editado em Portugal pela Editorial Presença.

The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling
Editora: Little, Brown
Data de Publicação: 27 de Setembro de 2012
Páginas: 512
Idioma: Inglês

Descrição (GR): "When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock.

Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.

Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…Pagford is not what it first seems.

And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?

A big novel about a small town, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults. It is the work of a storyteller like no other."

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E cá está mais um Waiting on Wednesday, desta vez no dia certo. O livro desta semana justifica-se da seguinte forma: eu cá leio tudo o que tenha a ver com a Kate Daniels. Este livro é um spin-off, dizem vocês? Ora passem para cá uma cópia! :)

Gunmetal Magic - Ilona Andrews

Editora: Ace

Data de Publicação: 31 de Julho de 2012

Páginas: 448

Idioma: Inglês

Descrição (GR): "The New York Times bestselling Kate Daniels novels have been hailed as “top-notch urban fantasy” (Monsters and Critics). Now, Ilona Andrews delves deeper into Kate’s world, and reveals its untold stories…

After being kicked out of the Order of the Knights of Merciful Aid, Andrea’s whole existence is in shambles. She tries to put herself back together by working for Cutting Edge, a small investigative firm owned by her best friend. When several shapeshifters working for Raphael Medrano—the male alpha of the Clan Bouda, and Andrea’s former lover—die unexpectedly at a dig site, Andrea is assigned to investigate. Now she must work with Raphael as her search for the killer leads into the secret underbelly of supernatural Atlanta. And dealing with her feelings for him might have to take a back seat to saving the world…"

E vocês? De que livros é que estão à espera? (What books are you anxiously waiting for?)

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Hoje temos mais um Waiting on Wednesday (apesar de ser quinta-feira, mas pronto). Tenho andado a explorar no Goodreads e encontrei alguns livros que me parecem interessantes. Aqui está um. Ficção científica distópica meets romance adolescente (e triângulo amoroso, hmm). Tem potencial para ser interessante... ou muito mau.

Breathe (Breathe, #1) - Sarah Crossan

Editora: Greenwillow

Data de Publicação: 2 de Outubro de 2012

Páginas: 400

Idioma: Inglês

Sinopse (GR):  "The world is dead. 

The survivors live under the protection of Breathe, the corporation that found a way to manufacture oxygen-rich air. 

ALINA

has been stealing for a long time. She’s a little jittery, but not terrified. All she knows is that she’s never been caught before. If she’s careful, it’ll be easy. If she’s careful.

QUINN

should be worried about Alina and a bit afraid for himself, too, but even though this is dangerous, it’s also the most interesting thing to happen to him in ages. It isn’t every day that the girl of your dreams asks you to rescue her. 

BEA

wants to tell him that none of this is fair; they’d planned a trip together, the two of them, and she’d hoped he’d discover her out here, not another girl.

And as they walk into the Outlands with two days’ worth of oxygen in their tanks, everything they believe will be shattered. Will they be able to make it back? Will they want to?"

E vocês? De que livros é que estão à espera? (What books are you anxiously waiting for?)

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Xiii, há tanto tempo que esta rubrica não aparece! Mas também, ultimamente tenho andado com muito pouca vontade (e tempo) para me embrenhar nos livros por isso não admira. De qualquer modo não sei se sabem (se não sabem ficam a saber, eheh) que gosto muito de histórias com sereias e este livro aqui chamou-me a atenção (yay, sereias más!). 

Lies Beneath (Lies Beneath, #1) - Anne Greenwood Brown
Editora: Delacort Books

Data de Publicação: 12 de Junho de 2012

Páginas: 303

Idioma: Inglês

Descrição (GR): "Calder White lives in the cold, clear waters of Lake Superior, the only brother in a family of murderous mermaids. To survive, Calder and his sisters prey on humans, killing them to absorb their energy. But this summer the underwater clan targets Jason Hancock out of pure revenge. They blame Hancock for their mother's death and have been waiting a long time for him to return to his family's homestead on the lake. Hancock has a fear of water, so to lure him in, Calder sets out to seduce Hancock's daughter, Lily. Easy enough — especially as Calder has lots of practice using his irresistible good looks and charm on unsuspecting girls. Only this time Calder screws everything up: he falls for Lily — just as Lily starts to suspect that there's more to the monsters-in-the-lake legends than she ever imagined. And just as his sisters are losing patience with him."

E vocês? De que livros é que estão à espera? (What books are you anxiously waiting for?)

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Esta semana no "Waiting on Wednesday" temos uma sequela! O segundo livro da série "Deviants" sai aparentemente no início do ano que vem e desde que li "Vesper" estou com muita curiosidade em saber como se vai desenvolver a história de Emily. Aqui está a minha opinião do primeiro livro, se estiverem com curiosidade. :)

Havoc (Deviants, #2) - Jeff Sampson

Editora: Balzer + Bray

Data de Publicação: 24 de Janeiro de 2012

Páginas: 352

Idioma: Inglês

Descrição (GR): "Emily Webb thought life would return to normal after the death of the man who attacked her and her fellow “Deviants.” Or as normal as it could be, after discovering that she has nighttime superpowers . . . and she’s a werewolf. But when Emily awakes one night to find an otherworldy Shadowman watching her, she knows the danger has only just begun.

So Emily and her pack-mates set out to find the people who made them what they are, and why. But as they get closer to the truth, they realize they aren’t the only ones in town with special powers: The most popular girls in school might just have a secret of their own–and they might just have it out for Emily.

With shadowy beings stalking them, a mysterious company doing all it can to keep the truth hidden, and the secrecy of her new identity in jeopardy, life threatens to spiral out of control for Emily. Soon these dangers will come together in one terrifying confrontation that may force her to make the toughest choice of her life . . . so far."

E vocês? De que livros é que estão à espera? (What books are you anxiously waiting for?)

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Mais uma quarta-feira, mais uma edição de "Waiting on Wednesday". A escolha de hoje tem um pouco de tudo: ficção científica, distopia, romance e algumas semelhanças (intencionais) com a história da Cinderela. Parece bastante interessante! E olhem-me só para a capa!! ^__^

Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1) - Marissa Meyer

Editora: Feiwel & Friends

Data de Publicação: 3 de Janeiro de 2012

Páginas: 400

Idioma: Inglês

Descrição (GR): "Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. . . .

Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future."

E vocês? De que livros é que estão à espera? (What books are you anxiously waiting for?)

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A escolha desta semana parece extremamente interessante. Reapers, deuses egípcios e muito provavelmente a maioria dos clichés YA reunidos num só livro? Que mais se pode pedir? :D

Mais um livro de fantasia urbana que parece que vai dar uma boa leitura!

Undeadly (The Reaper Diaries, #1) - Michele Vail

Editora: Harlequin Teen

Data de Publicação: 28 de Fevereiro de 2012

Páginas: 304

Idioma: Inglês

Descrição (GR): "The day I turned 16, my boyfriend-to-be died. I brought him back to life. Then things got a little weird...

Molly Bartolucci wants to blend in, date hottie Rick and keep her zombie-raising abilities on the down-low. Then the god Anubis chooses her to become a reaper—and she accidentally undoes the work of another reaper, Rath.

Within days, she’s shipped off to the Nekyia Academy, an elite school that trains the best necromancers in the world. And her personal reaping tutor? Rath. Who seems to hate her guts.

Rath will be watching closely to be sure she completes her first assignment-reaping Rick, the boy who should have died. The boy she still wants to be with.

To make matters worse, students at the academy start turning up catatonic, and accusations fly—against Molly. The only way out of this mess? To go through hell. Literally."

E vocês? De que livros é que estão à espera? (What books are you anxiously waiting for?)

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Esta semana o tema são as bruxas, eheh. Acho que este livro não é tão publicitado como os outros que apresentei mas pareceu-me interessante por isso... :D No entanto acho que vou esperar por algumas opiniões antes de ler.

Born Wicked (The Cahill Witch Chronicles, #1) - Jessica Spotswood

Editora: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers

Data de Publicação: 7 de Fevereiro de 2012

Páginas: 326

Idioma: Inglês

Descrição (GR): "A Great and Terrible Beauty meets Cassandra Clare in this spellbinding fantasy

Everybody knows Cate Cahill and her sisters are eccentric. Too pretty, too reclusive, and far too educated for their own good. But the truth is even worse: they're witches. And if their secret is discovered by the priests of the Brotherhood, it would mean an asylum, a prison ship—or an early grave.

Before her mother died, Cate promised to protect her sisters. But with only six months left to choose between marriage and the Sisterhood, she might not be able to keep her word . . . especially after she finds her mother's diary, uncovering a secret that could spell her family's destruction. Desperate to find alternatives to their fate, Cate starts scouring banned books and questioning rebellious new friends, all while juggling tea parties, shocking marriage proposals, and a forbidden romance with the completely unsuitable Finn Belastra.

If what her mother wrote is true, the Cahill girls aren't safe. Not from the Brotherhood, the Sisterhood—not even from each other."

E vocês? De que livros é que estão à espera? (What books are you anxiously waiting for?)

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É quarta-feira, dia de "Waiting on Wednesday". O livro de hoje é uma sequela de outro que li recentemente e de que gostei bastante. Girl of Nighmares é o segundo livro da série Anna dressed in Blood. O primeiro é... bem, Anna Dressed in Blood. Eh. Podem ler a minha opinião aqui.

Girl of Nightmares (Anna..., #2) - Kendare Blake

Editora:  Tor Teen

Data de Publicação: 2012

Páginas:N/A

Idioma: Inglês

Descrição: N/A. Sequela do livro "Anna Dressed in Blood".

E vocês? De que livros é que estão à espera? (What books are you anxiously waiting for?)

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Segunda edição da rubrica Waiting on Wednesday. O objectivo é evidenciar futuros lançamentos, livros pelos quais espero ansiosamente. Antes de aderir a esta rubrica "oficial", fazia o mesmo com o "Esperando por...".

Foi difícil escolher um livro para apresentar esta semana, porque de repente parece que os livros interessantes andam a nascer como cogumelos. Enfim, é a desvantagem de ter as listas de futuros lançamentos vários meses antes das obras saírem. Este chamou-me a atenção (Orgulho e Preconceito meets O Retrato de Dorian Grey? Como resistir?). :)

Darker Still (Magic Most Foul, #1) - Leanna Renee Hieber

Editora:  Sourcebooks Fire

Data de Publicação: Novembro de 2011

Páginas: 320

Idioma: Inglês

Descrição (GR): "The Picture of Dorian Gray meets Pride and Prejudice, with a dash of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
New York City, 1882. Seventeen-year-old Natalie Stewart's latest obsession is a painting of the handsome British Lord Denbury. Something in his striking blue eyes calls to her. As his incredibly life-like gaze seems to follow her, Natalie gets the uneasy feeling that details of the painting keep changing...
Jonathan Denbury's soul is trapped in the gilded painting by dark magic while his possessed body commits unspeakable crimes in the city slums. He must lure Natalie into the painting, for only together can they reverse the curse and free his damaged soul."

E vocês? De que livros é que estão à espera? (What books are you anxiously waiting for?)

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"Esperando Por", "Waiting on Wednesday"... no fundo sempre foi a mesma coisa. Por isso é que decidi aderir ao "Waiting on Wednesday", o 'meme' oficial, criado pela autora do blogue Breaking the Spine. A única diferença é que em vez de postar à segunda (quando me lembrar) posto à quarta. Mas o "Waiting on Wednesday" continuará a ser, tal como o "Esperando por", uma rubrica onde apresento livros que estou ansiosa por ler.

O livro desta semana deverá ser eventualmente traduzido para português (penso eu), uma vez que é o segundo de uma série que já começou a ser editada pela Saída de Emergência. Como gostei bastante de Celestial - podem ler o quanto a obra me surpreendeu aqui - estou ansiosa por ler a continuação. Espero, no entanto, que a SdE adopte as capas originais que são bem bonitas.

Hallowed (Unearthly, #2) - Cynthia Hand

Editora:  HarperCollins

Data de Publicação: Janeiro de 2012

Páginas: 320

Idioma: Inglês

Descrição (GR): "For months part-angel Clara Gardner trained to face the raging forest fire from her visions and rescue the alluring and mysterious Christian Prescott from the blaze. But nothing could prepare her for the fateful decisions she would be forced to make that day, or the startling revelation that her purpose—the task she was put on earth to accomplish—is not as straightforward as she thought. Now, torn between her increasingly complicated feelings for Christian and her love for her boyfriend, Tucker, Clara struggles to make sense of what she was supposed to do the day of the fire. And, as she is drawn further into the world of part angels and the growing conflict between White Wings and Black Wings, Clara learns of the terrifying new reality that she must face: Someone close to her will die in a matter of months. With her future uncertain, the only thing Clara knows for sure is that the fire was just the beginning.

Described by Richelle Mead as “utterly captivating,” Unearthly received outstanding reviews, garnered accolades from New York Times bestselling authors, and was named an Indie Next Pick. In this heart-wrenching sequel, Cynthia Hand expertly captures the all-consuming joy of first love—and the agony of loss."

E vocês? De que livros é que estão à espera?

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Bem... não é Segunda-Feira e já passaram não sei quantas semanas desde o último "Esperando por..." mas ontem encontrei a imagem da capa do novo livro de uma série de que gosto imenso e claro, não podia deixar de assinalar o 'acontecimento'. Quero mesmo ler este quarto livro da série e estou muito contente por a autora ter decidido escrever mais do que os três livros programados! :)

Sacrificial Magic (Downside Ghosts, #4) - Stacia Kane

Editora:  HarperVoyager

Data de Publicação: Março de 2012

Páginas: N/A

Idioma: Inglês

Descrição (Goodreads): "When Chess Putnam is ordered by an infamous crime boss—who also happens to be her drug dealer—to use her powers as a witch to solve a grisly murder involving dark magic, she knows she must rise to the challenge. Adding to the intensity: Chess’s boyfriend, Terrible, doesn’t trust her, and Lex, the son of a rival crime lord, is trying to reignite the sparks between him and Chess.

Plus there’s the little matter of Chess’s real job as a ghost hunter for the Church of Real Truth, investigating reports of a haunting at a school in the heart of Downside. Someone seems to be taking a crash course in summoning the dead—and if Chess doesn’t watch her back, she may soon be joining their ranks.

As Chess is drawn into a shadowy world of twisted secrets and dark violence, it soon becomes clear that she’s not going to emerge from its depths without making the ultimate sacrifice."

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Uma das desvantagens de ler um livro pouco depois dele ser publicado é termos de ficar imenso tempo à espera da sequela! Gostei bastante de "Angelfire" de Courtney Allison Moulton, pelo que tenho imensa curiosidade em ler a sequela, até porque a sinopse parece interessante.

Wings of the Wicked - Courtney Allison Moulton

Editora:  HarperCollins / Katherine Tegen Books

Data de Publicação: 2012

Páginas: 516

Idioma: Inglês

Descrição (Goodreads): "Life as the Preliator is harder than Ellie ever imagined.
Balancing real life with the responsibility of being Heaven’s warrior is a challenge for Ellie. Her relationship with Will has become all business, though they both long for each other. And now that the secret of who she really is has come out, so have Hell’s strongest reapers. Grown bold and more vicious, the demonic threaten her in the light of day and stalk her in the night.

She’s been warned.
Cadan, a demonic reaper, comes to her with information about Bastian’s new plan to destroy Ellie’s soul and use an ancient relic to wake all the souls of the damned and unleash them upon humanity. As she fights to stay ahead of Bastian’s schemes , the revelations about those closest to her awaken a dark power within Ellie that threatens to destroy everything—including herself.

She’ll be betrayed.
Treachery comes even from those whom she loves, and Ellie is broken by the deaths of those who stood beside her in this Heavenly war. Still, she must find a way to save the world, herself, and her love for Will. If she fails, there will be hell to pay."

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O livro desta semana é bem conhecido de muitos leitores portugueses e de todos os amantes de Fantasia. "A Dance with Dragons" está quase a chegar! Estou mesmo com muita vontade de o ler, até porque as "Crónicas do Gelo e do Fogo" é uma das minhas séries favoritas. Eu já fiz a "pre-order" da minha cópia, mas mesmo assim espero ansiosamente as edições da Saída de Emergência. :)

A Dance with Dragons - George R. R. Martin

Editora:  Voyager

Data de Publicação: 12-07-2011

Páginas: 1040

Idioma: Inglês

Descrição (Goodreads): "In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance once again - beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has three times three thousand enemies, and many have set out to find her. Yet, as they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind.

To the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone - a structure only as strong as those guarding it. There, Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, will face his greatest challenge yet. For he has powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice.

And from all corners, bitter conflicts soon reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Some will fail, others will grow in the strength of darkness. But in a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics will lead inevitably to the greatest dance of all..." 

Esperando por... (5)

E lá se passaram mais uma(s) semana(s) sem um "Esperando por...". É que apesar de eu ter uma lista de desejos algo extensa, são poucos os livros que me despertam uma curiosidade tão grande que tenha de os mencionar aqui.

Descobri o livro desta semana há pouco tempo mas pela sinopse pareceu-me excelente. Pena que só saia em Agosto, gostava mesmo de deitar a mão a este. :D

Anna Dressed in Blood - Kendare Blake

Editora: Tor Teen

Data de Publicação: 30-08-2011

Páginas: 320

Idioma: Inglês

Descrição (Amazon.com): "Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.

So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. Together they follow legends and local lore, trying to keep up with the murderous dead—keeping pesky things like the future and friends at bay.

When they arrive in a new town in search of a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas doesn't expect anything outside of the ordinary: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home.

But she, for whatever reason, spares Cas's life."