Waiting On Wednesday: HarperCollins Spring 2016 Catalog

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

This week, I've chosen to feature a few picks from the HarperCollins Spring 2016 Catalog:

This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab
Date: June 7, 2016

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The city of Verity has been overrun with monsters, born from the worst of human evil. In North Verity, the Corsai and the Malchai run free. Under the rule of Callum Harker, the monsters kill any human who has not paid for protection. In the South, Henry Flynn hunts the monsters who cross the border into his territory, aided by the most dangerous and darkest monsters of them all—the Sunai, dark creatures who use music to steal their victim’s souls.
As one of only three Sunai in existence, August Flynn has always wanted to play a bigger role in the war between the north and the south. When the chance arises to keep an eye on Kate Harker, daughter of the leader of North Verity, August jumps on it.
When Kate discovers August’s secret, the pair find themselves running for their lives and battling monsters from both sides of the wall. As the city dissolves into chaos, it’s up to them to foster a peace between monsters and humans.

How does Victoria Schwab come up with all these unique fantastical worlds?! I swear her imagination knows no bounds. And as a reader, I feel lucky that I get to benefit from that. Very intrigued by This Savage Song!

My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
Date: July 7, 2016

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For fans of The Princess Bride comes the comical, fantastical, romantical, (not) entirely true story of Lady Jane Grey.
Lady Jane Grey, sixteen, is about to be married to a total stranger—and caught up in an insidious plot to rob her cousin, King Edward, of his throne. But that’s the least of Jane’s problems. She’s about to become Queen of England. Like that could go wrong.

Last year, I got to see a ton of graffiti inscribed into cell walls of the Tower of London on behalf of Lady Jane Grey, the Nine-Day Queen (she was executed when Queen (Bloody) Mary I came into power). So I'm definitely curious to see this take on her life. My Lady Jane has three authors - Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows - which I also find interesting: how on earth does the writing process work when there are three authors writing one point of view??

Ivory and Bone by Julie Eshbaugh
Date: June 14, 2016

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The only life seventeen-year-old Kol knows is hunting at the foot of the Great Ice with his brothers. But food is becoming scarce, and without another clan to align with, Kol, his family, and their entire group are facing an uncertain future.
Traveling from the south, Mya and her family arrive at Kol’s camp with a trail of hurt and loss behind them, and hope for a new beginning. When Kol meets Mya, her strength, independence, and beauty instantly captivate him, igniting a desire for much more than survival.
Then on a hunt, Kol makes a grave mistake that jeopardizes the relationship that he and Mya have only just started to build. Mya was guarded to begin with—and for good reason—but no apology or gesture is enough for her to forgive him. Soon after, another clan arrives on their shores. And when Mya spots Lo, a daughter of this new clan, her anger intensifies, adding to the already simmering tension between families. After befriending Lo, Kol learns of a dark history between Lo and Mya that is rooted in the tangle of their pasts.
When violence erupts, Kol is forced to choose between fighting alongside Mya or trusting Lo’s claims. And when things quickly turn deadly, it becomes clear that this was a war that one of them had been planning all along.

I've read a lot of historical fiction, but never PRE-historical fiction. It's kind of surprising actually, because I've long been fascinated in prehistory and the evolution of early humans. I'm definitely looking forward to Ivory and Bone!


How about you? Are you waiting on any of these HarperCollins Spring 2016 reads? Are there any upcoming books from the HarperCollins Spring 2016 Catalog that I didn't include here that you feel I should add to my list?