Waiting On Wednesday: Penguin Fall 2012 Catalog

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill of Breaking The Spine in which an upcoming, eagerly anticipated release is highlighted on the blog.

This week, I've chosen to feature a few picks from the Penguin Fall 2012 Catalog:

Lucid by Adrienne Stoltz and Ron Bass
Date: October 2, 2012

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What if you could dream your way into a different life? What if you could choose to live that life forever?
Sloane and Maggie have never met. Sloane is a straight-A student with a big and loving family. Maggie lives a glamorously independent life as an up-and-coming actress in New York. The two girls couldn't be more different--except for one thing. They share a secret that they can't tell a soul. At night, they dream that they're each other.
The deeper they're pulled into the promise of their own lives, the more their worlds begin to blur dangerously together. Before long, Sloane and Maggie can no longer tell which life is real and which is just a dream. They realize that eventually they will have to choose one life to wake up to, or risk spiraling into insanity. But that means giving up one world, one love, and one self, forever.

Ooh okay, how trippy does Lucid sound? I love these kind of psychological thrillers that mess with your mind and leave you reeling and confused. And the cover perfectly matches the trippy-ness of the premise.

Reached by Ally Condie
Date: November 13, 2012

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Cassia faces the ultimate choices in the long-anticipated conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Matched Trilogy
After leaving Society and desperately searching for the Rising—and each other—Cassia and Ky have found what they were looking for, but at the cost of losing each other yet again: Cassia has been assigned to work for the Rising from within Society, while Ky has been stationed outside its borders. But nothing is as predicted, and all too soon the veil lifts and things shift once again.

Though I have yet to read Crossed due to some mixed reviews, I do still plan on reading it and am interested to find out how the Matched Trilogy is wrapped up. I hope Reached is everything a good conclusion should be.

Elemental by Antony John
Date: November 21, 2012

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In the near future, most of the population of the United States has been destroyed by the plague. The few remaining survivors live in colonies on the barrier islands off the East Coast. In one colony near Cape Hatteras, almost all the members have elemental powers and can control wind, water, earth, and fire. All but sixteen-year-old Thomas. When the Guardians, the powerful adult leaders, are kidnapped by pirates seeking to take over their colony, it is up to Thomas and a small group of teens to save them and preserve the mysteries of the island.

I'm loving the new inflow of books into the niche Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy genre. What could be better than combining my two favourite genres? Elemental definitely sounds like my kind of read. And it has pirates!

Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes
Date: December 11, 2012

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In a land where magic has been forgotten but peace has reigned for centuries, a deadly unrest is simmering. Three kingdoms grapple for power—brutally transforming their subjects’ lives in the process. Amidst betrayals, bargains, and battles, four young people find their fates forever intertwined:
Cleo: A princess raised in luxury must embark on a rough and treacherous journey into enemy territory in search of a magic long thought extinct.
Jonas: Enraged at injustice, a rebel lashes out against the forces of oppression that have kept his country impoverished—and finds himself the leader of a people’s revolution centuries in the making.
Lucia: A girl adopted at birth into a royal family discovers the truth about her past—and the supernatural legacy she is destined to wield.
Magnus: Bred for aggression and trained to conquer, a firstborn son begins to realize that the heart can be more lethal than the sword...
The only outcome that’s certain is that kingdoms will fall. Who will emerge triumphant when all they know has collapsed?

It seems as though there has been a great influx of books in the Historical High Fantasy genre these days - presumably due to the popularity of Game of Thrones - and I'm loving it (I'm thinking of course of Grave Mercy and Throne of Glass). Falling Kingdoms sounds like an excellent addition to the genre.


How about you? Are you waiting on any of these Penguin Fall 2012 reads? Are there any upcoming books from the Penguin Fall 2012 Catalog that I didn't include here that you feel I should add to my list?