Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Waiting on Wednesday

Waiting on Wednesday August 27th 2014
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating. In my case not so patiently waiting for the new releases, which I lack.

I'm really on a Dystopia kick. I like the cover for this one and the synopsis sounds good. I've not heard about it before which for me is shocking. 

Radiant
by Karina Sumner-Smith
Expected Publication - September 23rd 2014
(Goodreads)

Synopsis 

Xhea has no magic. Born without the power that everyone else takes for granted, Xhea is an outcast—no way to earn a living, buy food, or change the life that fate has dealt her. Yet she has a unique talent: the ability to see ghosts and the tethers that bind them to the living world, which she uses to scratch out a bare existence in the ruins beneath the City’s floating Towers.

When a rich City man comes to her with a young woman’s ghost tethered to his chest, Xhea has no idea that this ghost will change everything. The ghost, Shai, is a Radiant, a rare person who generates so much power that the Towers use it to fuel their magic, heedless of the pain such use causes. Shai’s home Tower is desperate to get the ghost back and force her into a body—any body—so that it can regain its position, while the Tower’s rivals seek the ghost to use her magic for their own ends. Caught between a multitude of enemies and desperate to save Shai, Xhea thinks herself powerless—until a strange magic wakes within her. Magic dark and slow, like rising smoke, like seeping oil. A magic whose very touch brings death.

With two extremely strong female protagonists, Radiant is a story of fighting for what you believe in and finding strength that you never thought you had.


What are you waiting on?

5 comments:

  1. This is a new one to me and I think it sounds really good. Thanks for introducing it to me, great pick.

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  2. Awesome post! I can't wait to read this book. Please come check out my "Waiting on Wednesday" on my blog: http://charlottevhbooks.blogspot.com/2014/08/waiting-on-wednesday-jackaby-by-william.html

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  3. OOh what an eyecatching cover!! Sounds intriguing!

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  4. Oh wow, I love the cover! I love dystopians, and this one sounds really good. I haven't come across it before either. Hope you love it!

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  5. Wow, I had never heard of this one before, and it sounds really good. More like a fantasy than a dystopia, but either way, I think I need to read it!
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