Waiting on Wednesday #WoW

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. It's to spotlight upcoming reads which I can't wait to get my hands on.

This week my book is: 

Indelible (The Twixt #1) by Dawn Metcalf

Release date: July 30th, 2013

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

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Waiting on Wednesday #WoW @laurenkatebooks

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. It's to spotlight upcoming reads which I can't wait to get my hands on.

This week my book is: 

Teardrop (Teardrop #1) by Lauren Kate

Release date: October 22nd, 2013

Never, ever cry. . . . Eureka Boudreaux's mother drilled that rule into her daughter years ago. But now her mother is gone, and everywhere Eureka goes he is there: Ander, the tall, pale blond boy who seems to know things he shouldn't, who tells Eureka she is in grave danger, who comes closer to making her cry than anyone has before.

But Ander doesn't know Eureka's darkest secret: ever since her mother drowned in a freak accident, Eureka wishes she were dead, too. She has little left that she cares about, just her oldest friend, Brooks, and a strange inheritance—a locket, a letter, a mysterious stone, and an ancient book no one understands. The book contains a haunting tale about a girl who got her heart broken and cried an entire continent into the sea. Eureka is about to discover that the ancient tale is more than a story, that Ander might be telling the truth . . . and that her life has far darker undercurrents than she ever imagined. From Lauren Kate comes an epic saga of heart-stopping romance, devastating secrets, and dark magic . . . a world where everything you love can be washed away.

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Fallen becomes a motion picture

The gothic fantasy adventure is based on Lauren Kate's best-selling YA book series about fallen angels and forbidden love.

As the movie business scrambles to discover the next Twilight, the long-gestating film adaptation of Lauren Kate's Fallen is gaining momentum.

Australian filmmaker Scott Hicks -- who earned Oscar nominations for writing and directing 1996's Shine -- is in final negotiations to direct Fallen for Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray's Mayhem Pictures and IF Entertainment, Bill Johnson's new financing and sales entity.

Fallen is the first in a series of four books, which have sold nearly 10 million copies worldwide in more than 30 countries.Kathryn Price and Nicole Millard penned the adapted screenplay in what Mayhem and IF Entertainment hope is the beginning of a franchise.

Billed as a Southern gothic supernatural romance, Fallenrevolves around 17-year-old Lucinda "Luce" Price, who is sent to a reform school in Savannah, Ga., after she is accused of starting a fire that leaves a young boy dead. Soon, Luce finds herself in the middle of a love triangle – courting two young men with dark secrets of their own.

On a quest to uncover secrets from her past, the shy Luce discovers the two are fallen angels, competing for her love for centuries. Luce must choose where her feelings lie, pitting heaven against hell in an epic battle over true love.

IF began shopping the movie adaptation to foreign buyers at the American Film Market in November, and Fallen drew heated interest -- even without a director or cast. The addition of Hicks, whose credits also include The Lucky One and No Reservations,  should make Fallen all the more appealing as IF continues shopping the project at the European Film Market in Berlin.

Kate's books have been translated into more than 30 languages, with Fallen spending a year-plus onThe New York Times best-seller list after its release in 2009. The three subsequent books --Torment, Passion and Rapture -- also were best-sellers.

Mayhem originally set up the project at Disney, but it was put into turnaround.

Hicks is repped by CAA, which is repping domestic rights for the film.

**article found on The Hollywood Reporter**

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Book Review: Amber House by Kelly Moore

Title: Amber House (The Amber House Trilogy #1)
Author: Kelly Moore, Tucker Reed, Larkin Reed
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Source: Library
Purchase: TBD | Amazon

"I was sixteen the first time my grandmother died . . ."

Sarah Parsons has never seen Amber House, the grand Maryland estate that's been in her family for three centuries. She's never walked its hedge maze nor found its secret chambers; she's never glimpsed the shades that haunt it, nor hunted for lost diamonds in its walls.

But all of that is about to change. After her grandmother passes away, Sarah and her friend Jackson decide to search for the diamonds--and the house comes alive. She discovers that she can see visions of the house's past, like the eighteenth-century sea captain who hid the jewels, or the glamorous great-grandmother driven mad by grief. She grows closer to both Jackson and a young man named Richard Hathaway, whose family histories are each deeply entwined with her own. But when the visions start to threaten the person she holds most dear, Sarah must do everything she can to get to the bottom of the house's secrets, and stop the course of history before it is cemented forever.

This was an amazing, chilling, unforgettable read. I absolutely LOVED it! From start to finish, it was impossible to put down. I even had a hard time reading this at night during some parts of the book. I usually don't get creeped out that easy when reading, but I will admit, this had me peering around my room at night catching glimpses of things that weren't there!

To me, this book was a little bit of The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton (we read this in 6th or 7th grade) and The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley.

Sarah Parsons grandmother passes away so her and her family travel from Seattle to Maryland to settle her estate. Sarah soon finds out that she has a gift, a gift that she's not sure that she really wants at first. When she touched family heirlooms, she can see glimpses of the past. With the help of new friend Jackson, she learns the gift isn't all that bad. She finds out things about her family that her mother and grandmother never told her about. Some things she wished she never knew.

Soon Sarah finds herself in a race against time to save her little brother, Sammy, who is alive, but has lost his soul inside the house, Amber House. Does she save him? Or is she too late?

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