Waiting On.... Some Kickass Heroines!

 Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking The Spine where you can spotlight a book you're giddy with excitement to read so other people can be giddy with excitement too :)

Author: Jay Kristoff
Release Date: 1st September 2012
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A DYING LAND
The Shima Imperium is verging on the brink of environmental collapse; decimated by clockwork industrialization and the machine-worshippers of the Lotus Guild. The skies are red as blood, land choked with toxic pollution, wildlife ravaged by mass extinctions.

AN IMPOSSIBLE QUEST
The hunters of the imperial court are charged by their Shōgun to capture a thunder tiger—a legendary beast, half-eagle, half-tiger. But any fool knows thunder tigers have been extinct for more than a century, and the price of failing the Shōgun is death.

A SIXTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL
Yukiko is a child of the Fox clan, possessed of a hidden gift that would see her executed by the Lotus Guild. Accompanying her father on the Shōgun’s hunt, she finds herself stranded: a young woman alone in Shima’s last wilderness, with only a furious, crippled thunder tiger for company. Even though she can hear his thoughts, even though she saved his life, all she knows for certain is he’d rather see her dead than help her.

But together, the pair will form an indomitable friendship, and rise to challenge the might of an empire.

Author: Elsie Chapman

Release Date: 26th February 2013

Publisher: Random House
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Would you live through the ultimate test of survival?

The city of Kersh is a safe haven, but the price of safety is high. Everyone has a genetic Alternate—a twin raised by another family—and citizens must prove their worth by eliminating their Alts before their twentieth birthday. Survival means advanced schooling, a good job, marriage—life.

Fifteen-year-old West Grayer has trained as a fighter, preparing for the day when her assignment arrives and she will have one month to hunt down and kill her Alt. But then a tragic misstep shakes West’s confidence. Stricken with grief and guilt, she’s no longer certain that she’s the best version of herself, the version worthy of a future. If she is to have any chance of winning, she must stop running not only from her Alt, but also from love . . . though both have the power to destroy her

Stormdancer: I think every mother and her illegitimate son are excited for this book. It screams READ ME!! As most of you know, the US cover was recently released, but I'm featuring the UK cover because it's the same that will be used by Australia! YES. Australia is publishing this too... cue the SQUEE! Our cover has both elegance and an undertone that whispers, 'One step closer and I'll extract your kidneys with my super scary katana.' I am predicting awesome on an EPIC scale from Stormdancer.

Dualed: Heroine has been trained throughout her short 15 years of life to kill her "genetic Alternate" aka twin version of herself in order to prove she's a worthy citizen? If that doesn't suggest TWISTED SOCIETY (but secretly, between you and me... kinda freaking AWESOME), I don't know what does. What's more twisted is we have to wait until 2013 to get this deadly book in our hands.

What are you waiting on this Wednesday?

And which kickbutt heroines (and heroes) are you frothing at the mouth to finally meet?