[Source: Author's Facebook]

The Gathering is the first book of a new a companion series to The Darkest Powers (The Summoning, The Awakening and The Reckoning) by Kelley Armstrong. This new series is called Darkest Rising, and it was named by a fan in one of Kelley Armstrong’s twitter contests.

Synopsis:

“Maya lives in a small medical-research town on Vancouver Island. How small? You can’t find it on the map. It has less than two-hundred people, and her school has only sixty-eight students—for every grade from kindergarten to twelve.

Now, strange things are happening in this claustrophobic town, and Maya’s determined to get to the bottom of them. First, the captain of the swim team drowns mysteriously in the middle of a calm lake. A year later, mountain lions start appearing around Maya’s home, and they won’t go away. Her best friend, Daniel, starts experiencing “bad vibes” about certain people and things. It doesn’t help that the new bad boy in town, Rafe, has a dangerous secret—and he’s interested in one special part of Maya’s anatomy: Her paw-print birthmark.”

[Source: Author's website]

Title is releasing April 12, 2011.

The Lost Saint is the sequel to The Dark Divine (The Divine Series) by Bree Despain.

No synopsis has been released for this title yet.

Book is coming out Dec 28, 2010.

[Source: Author's Blog]

The Sky Is Everywhere
By: Jandy Nelson
Level: Young Adult
Pages: 288 pages

SUMMARY
Seventeen-year-old Lennie Walker, bookworm and band geek, plays second clarinet and spends her time tucked safely and happily in the shadow of her fiery older sister Bailey. But when Bailey dies abruptly, Lennie is catapulted to center stage of her own life and, despite her nonexistent history with boys, suddenly finds herself struggling to balance two. Toby was Baileys boyfriend; his grief mirrors Lennies own. Joe is the new boy in town, a transplant from Paris whose nearly magical grin is matched only by his musical talent. For Lennie, they’re the sun and the moon; one boy takes her out of her sorrow, the other comforts her in it. But just like their celestial counterparts, they cant collide without the whole wide world exploding. Just as much a celebration of love as it is a portrait of loss, Lennies struggle to sort her own melody out of the noise around her is always honest, often hilarious, and ultimately unforgettable.
MY REVIEW
I really really enjoyed this book. I loved the voice and tone and the entire feeling of the book. I was wrapped in it right from the beginning. Typically sad stories and dealing with loss are not my style of books that I enjoy. This was a beautiful heart felt story with sadness and well with enough romance and love to be my style. I loved the intensity of the moments and the drama of being torn between two love interest. The book was a bit on the mature side so I must suggest that this book be for the more older readers, however I still completely really loved this book and couldn’t keep from wanting to know more. Reading it I was on edge and sad at times, and sometimes I burst with laughter so it was quite the astounding rollercoaster ride of emotions.
Characters: I really loved Jandy’s characters, but characterization in this book is quite complicated. I liked the different attitudes and approaches to the characters. The voice and point of view of the book allows the reader to learn, approach and interpret the characters similarly as the main character does, which was quite unique to me, so even though you get a fairly great understanding and visualization of them its all viewed from the thoughts and mind of Lennie. I liked Joe as the love interest, he was quite a unique individual and i found him fascinating just as Lennie did.
Writing: I really really loved Jandy Nelson’s writing. I loved the voice and writing perspective. I liked her writing language, meaning pretty much excellent word choices and descriptors. However the author did seem to have quite the dramatic usage of modern acronyms, IM language and exclamatories and perhaps it was quite recognizable and understandable for the Young Adult world, but I just feel that literary wise, authors should tread lightly with such grammar and structure, and its usage, as it can become rather harmful to the authors writing. I did like Jandy’s use of analogies and it help bring a better understanding. Jandy’s writing can make you feel so strongly and deeply of the emotions of the character. The connection between you (the reader) and the main character (Lennie) is so enthralled and entailed that it’s almost impossible to differentiate the ending of one and the beginning of the other.

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Here is the revealed cover of Afterlife by Claudia Gray. Afterlife is the 4th book in the Everninght Series. It’s due out March 8, 2011.

[Source-Claudi Gray Facebook]

Red Glove is the sequel to White Cat, second book in The Curse Workers Series by the gifted Holly Black.

No synopsis for Red Glove has been released so far.

Title is coming out April 5, 2011.

I Am Number Four is the first book of a new YA series about teenage aliens (number four is one of nine on Earth). The series is written by Pittacus Lore, and Elder alien from the planet Lorien, who managed to secure a six-book deal with HarperCollins! Note that Lore is nom the plume of authors James Frey and Jobie Hughes.

What is most amazing about this new series is that a movie adaptation is already in the works, produced by none other than Michael Bay (The Transformers) and Steven Spielberg.

Title releasing Aug 3, 2010

Source: Ew’s Shelf Live

Darkest Mercy is the 5th and final book of the Wicked Lovely Series by Melissa Marr.

Marr’s words: “This is . . . well, almost the final cover.  The vines are still wrong, but the effects are in place now.  I love it.  Please, meet Donia (portrayed by Linda) on the cover of the final WICKED LOVELY book . . . LOVE the steam & sunlight.”

Source: Marr’s LiveJournal

Okay I found another book trailer created by the same person who did Beautiful Creatures.

I am linking her site because she has SEVERAL others that I think you should check out!

Created by @reverieBR!

Visit here site by Clicking Here!

Here site is pretty cool; she is a photographer who works with all things books.

From Author photo shoots to book trailers. Very awesome and worth checking out!

Beautiful Creatures Book Trailer created by

VLCPhotoProductions .

This was tweeted by @LittleLauren on Twitter

and I thought it was pretty amazing.

You can follow the artist who made this video on Twitter:

@ReverieBR