What I want in my mailbox is my version of Waiting on Wednesday hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine.
This week I want Sleight by Jennifer Sommersby in my mailbox!
Summary:
Her mom is dead.
Ghosts follow her around.
Her best friend is an elephant.
And she's about to meet the biggest game changer of all: a boy. With a secret.
When circus-dwelling Gemma Flannery learns she will be attending public school for the first time in her seventeen years, little does she know that fitting in with her classmates will be the least of her concerns. A pro at hiding her knack for seeing the dead ("shades"), Gemma is grieving the recent suicide of her mentally ill mother, a process eased by the introduction of her first real love interest, the charming and painfully handsome Henry Dmitri, who is harboring his own collection of dangerous secrets. Together, they will be presented with a frightening challenge: to assume their roles as heirs to a 300-year-old magical text, the AVRAKEDAVRA, a book the uber-rich, sleight-of-hand master Lucian Dmitri would do anything to get his hands on. As each terrifying layer in her new reality melts away, Gemma unearths truths that her quiet, nomadic life with the Cinzio Traveling Players is not at all what she'd always cherished. Gemma and Henry must rely on each other to stop Lucian's diabolical plotting that will bring the world to its tired, scab-riddled knees, and are sent on the flight of their young lives, to save themselves, their families, and the world from the darkest kind of destruction.
Let the chase begin.
I am so completely excited to read SLEIGHT. It sounds like something I will thoroughly enjoy! Plus look at that beautiful cover. That very, very beautifully ginger cover. *eyes cover adoringly* So pretty. I honestly don't know why I am So Very Excited about this book. But it has a circus and I really like circuses.
SLEIGHT was released March 23, 2011.
What are you waiting for?
Summary:Her mom is dead.
Ghosts follow her around.
Her best friend is an elephant.
And she's about to meet the biggest game changer of all: a boy. With a secret.
When circus-dwelling Gemma Flannery learns she will be attending public school for the first time in her seventeen years, little does she know that fitting in with her classmates will be the least of her concerns. A pro at hiding her knack for seeing the dead ("shades"), Gemma is grieving the recent suicide of her mentally ill mother, a process eased by the introduction of her first real love interest, the charming and painfully handsome Henry Dmitri, who is harboring his own collection of dangerous secrets. Together, they will be presented with a frightening challenge: to assume their roles as heirs to a 300-year-old magical text, the AVRAKEDAVRA, a book the uber-rich, sleight-of-hand master Lucian Dmitri would do anything to get his hands on. As each terrifying layer in her new reality melts away, Gemma unearths truths that her quiet, nomadic life with the Cinzio Traveling Players is not at all what she'd always cherished. Gemma and Henry must rely on each other to stop Lucian's diabolical plotting that will bring the world to its tired, scab-riddled knees, and are sent on the flight of their young lives, to save themselves, their families, and the world from the darkest kind of destruction.
Let the chase begin.
I am so completely excited to read SLEIGHT. It sounds like something I will thoroughly enjoy! Plus look at that beautiful cover. That very, very beautifully ginger cover. *eyes cover adoringly* So pretty. I honestly don't know why I am So Very Excited about this book. But it has a circus and I really like circuses.
SLEIGHT was released March 23, 2011.
What are you waiting for?
"I've Just Seen A Face"-Jim Sturgess,
