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Hosted by Book Chick City every Saturday. List the books you desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming.

 

Shifting

Author: Bethany Wiggins

Publisher: Walker Books

Released: September 27 2011

Genre: YA Paranormal

Summary:

After bouncing from foster home to foster home, Magdalene Mae is transferred to what should be her last foster home in the tiny town of Silver City, New Mexico. Now that she's eighteen and has only a year left in high school, she's determined to stay out of trouble and just be normal. Agreeing to go to the prom with Bridger O'Connell is a good first step. Fitting in has never been her strong suit, but it's not for the reasons most people would expect-it all has to do with the deep secret that she is a shape shifter. But even in her new home danger lurks, waiting in the shadows to pounce. They are the Skinwalkers of Navajo legend, who have traded their souls to become the animal whose skin they wear-and Maggie is their next target.

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This week question is: 

Go count the number of unread books sitting on your shelf. How many?

     
 At this moment I'm several thousand miles away to check. lol. If my memory serves right (and it doesn't often) I have about 12 unread books on my bookshelf. I don't like to have many. So when I start a series, if I like the first book, I make sure to buy/borrow and read all the rest. The ones I have now are first books of series I haven't started like The Uglies, Morganville Vampires, and the Nicolas Flamel Chronicles (or something like that), and others.

How many unread books do you have?

Review: Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare

Clockwork Prince

(Infernal Devices 2)

Author: Cassandra Clare

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2011

Genre: YA Paranormal Steampunk

Buy: Amazon ♥ B&N ♥ TBD

Overview

In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has at last found safety with the Shadowhunters. But that safety proves fleeting when rogue forces in the Clave plot to see her protector, Charlotte, replaced as head of the Institute. If Charlotte loses her position, Tessa will be out on the street and easy prey for the mysterious Magister, who wants to use Tessa's powers for his own dark ends.

With the help of the handsome, self-destructive Will and the fiercely devoted Jem, Tessa discovers that the Magister's war on the Shadowhunters is deeply personal. He blames them for a long-ago tragedy that shattered his life. To unravel the secrets of the past, the trio journeys from mist-shrouded Yorkshire to a manor house that holds untold horrors, from the slums of London to an enchanted ballroom where Tessa discovers that the truth of her parentage is more sinister than she had imagined. When they encounter a clockwork demon bearing a warning for Will, they realize that the Magister himself knows their every move and that one of their own has betrayed them. 

Tessa finds her heart drawn more and more to Jem, though her longing for Will, despite his dark moods, continues to unsettle her. But something is changing in Will; the wall he has built around himself is crumbling. Could finding the Magister free Will from his secrets and give Tessa the answers about who she is and what she was born to do? 

As their dangerous search for the Magister and the truth leads the friends into peril, Tessa learns that when love and lies are mixed, they can corrupt even the purest heart.