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'After I Do' by Taylor Jenkins Reid

From the BLURB: When Lauren and Ryan’s marriage reaches the breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a way to fall in love again. One year apart, and only one rule: they cannot contact each other. Aside from that, anything goes. Lauren embarks on a journey of self-discovery, quickly finding that her friends and family have their own ideas about the meaning of marriage. These influences, as well as her own healing process and the challenges of living apart from Ryan, begin to change Lauren’s ideas about monogamy and marriage. She starts to question: When you can have romance without loyalty and commitment without marriage, when love and lust are no longer tied together, what do you value? What are you willing to fight for? This is a love story about what happens when the love fades. It’s about staying in love, seizing love, forsaking love, and committing to love with everything you’ve got. And above all, After I Do ...

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Waiting on Wednesday (140): The Girl from the Well + I Become Shadow

Alright! I am featuring two books this week that I am REALLY, REALLY, REALLY excited about! Go on, read below!

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine

Title: The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco
Release Date: August 5th 2014
Published by: Sourcebook Fire
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Summary (from Goodreads):

You may think me biased, being murdered myself. But my state of being has nothing to do with the curiosity toward my own species, if we can be called such. We do not go gentle, as your poet encourages, into that good night.

A dead girl walks the streets.

She hunts murderers. Child killers, much like the man who threw her body down a well three hundred years ago.

And when a strange boy bearing stranger tattoos moves into the neighborhood so, she discovers, does something else. And soon both will be drawn into the world of eerie doll rituals and dark Shinto exorcisms that will take them from American suburbia to the remote valleys and shrines of Aomori, Japan.

Because the boy has a terrifying secret - one that would just kill to get out.

Why I'm waiting for The Girl from the Well:

I have many many many reasons why I am terribly excited for this book that I am almost always jumping up and down whenever someone mentions this. One: I think Rin Chupeco is the first Filipina YA author I knew of who will be published worldwide. (Feel free to correct me on this!) Two: That summary just basically screams horror and gore and all the dark, delicious things that makes me anticipate it so! And three: Shinto exorcisms! Japan! If you look at my blog and even just think of the name, this book is a perfect fit. A YA paranormal, horror book with Japanese elements. YES, I WANT IT SO BAD!

Title: I Become Shadow by Joe Shine
Release Date: June 10th 2014
Published by: Soho Teen
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Summary (from Goodreads):

Ren Sharpe was abducted at fourteen and chosen by the mysterious F.A.T.E. Center to become a Shadow: the fearless and unstoppable guardian of a future leader. Everything she held dear—her family, her home, her former life—is gone forever.

Ren survives four years of training, torture, and misery, in large part thanks to Junie, a fellow F.A.T.E. abductee who started out as lost and confused as she did. She wouldn’t admit it was possible to find love in a prison beyond imagining, but what she feels for Junie may just be the closest thing to it.

At eighteen they part ways when Ren receives her assignment: find and protect college science student Gareth Young, or die trying. Life following a college nerd is uneventful, until an attack on Gareth forces Ren to track down the only person she can trust. When she and Junie discover that the F.A.T.E. itself might be behind the attacks, even certain knowledge of the future may not be enough to save their kidnappers from the killing machines they created.

Why I'm waiting for I Become Shadow:

Tell me that summary isn't interesting. It reminds me a little bit of Natasha Ngan's The Elites (in a sense that she's been trained to be a guardian) and I'm always ready for an action packed read with a strong female lead at the helm of the story. And what a gorgeous cover! You can just tell that it's going to be a fast paced thriller by the looks of the cover.

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'After I Do' by Taylor Jenkins Reid

From the BLURB: When Lauren and Ryan’s marriage reaches the breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a way to fall in love again. One year apart, and only one rule: they cannot contact each other. Aside from that, anything goes. Lauren embarks on a journey of self-discovery, quickly finding that her friends and family have their own ideas about the meaning of marriage. These influences, as well as her own healing process and the challenges of living apart from Ryan, begin to change Lauren’s ideas about monogamy and marriage. She starts to question: When you can have romance without loyalty and commitment without marriage, when love and lust are no longer tied together, what do you value? What are you willing to fight for? This is a love story about what happens when the love fades. It’s about staying in love, seizing love, forsaking love, and committing to love with everything you’ve got. And above all, After I Do ...

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