Fremtidige favoritter #16

Fremtidige favoritter er en spalte jeg legger ut hver eneste fredag. Her skriver jeg litt om bøker jeg ønsker meg, bøker jeg gleder meg til å lese, bøker jeg er spent på osv. Du kan også være med. Det eneste du trenger å gjøre er å skrive et innlegg, kalle det «Fremtidige Favoritter» og legge igjen linken til din bloggpost nederst i dette innlegget. Link også gjerne tilbake til denne bloggposten slik at flere som har lyst kan bli med.

 Her er bøkene jeg gleder meg til denne uken:

Joyce Carol Oates: Vi var familien Mulwaney (15.10.12)

Dette omslaget tilhører den engelske utgaven. Har hatt denne på leselisten i flere år, og nå som den endelig kommer på norsk håper jeg at jeg får begynt på den.

Familen Mulvaney lever tilsynelatende et perfekt familieliv og er respektert og likt av alle. Men på Valentinsdagen i 1976 skjer det noe som den 16 år gamle datteren Marianne er involvert i. Det blir hysjet ned i byen og blir ikke diskutert i familien. Denne hendelsen preger senere personenes liv. Flere år senere prøver Judd å få klarhet i sin egen fortid, den hemmelige sannheten fra den natten ødelegger familielivet med tragiske konsekvenser.

Debra Driza: Mila 2.0 (12.3.2013)

Denne virker spennende, og jeg har ikke lest så mye sci-fi  – alltid greit å gjøre seg bedre kjent med en sjanger.

Pitched as a «Bourne Identity»-type sci-fi thriller about a teenage girl who discovers that she is a Mobile Intel Life-like Android, an experiment in artificial intelligence created by the U.S. government, and her scientist mother, who kidnapped her when she was found to have human emotions.

Kiersten White: Mind Games (19.2.2013)

Forfatteren bak Paranormalcy – serien kommer med en psykologisk thriller, den første i en ny serie.

Fia was born with flawless instincts. Her first impulse, her gut feeling, is always exactly right. Her sister, Annie, is blind to the world around her—except when her mind is gripped by strange visions of the future. Trapped in a school that uses girls with extraordinary powers as tools for corporate espionage, Annie and Fia are forced to choose over and over between using their abilities in twisted, unthinkable ways…or risking each other’s lives by refusing to obey. In a stunning departure from her New York Times bestselling Paranormalcy trilogy, Kiersten White delivers a slick, edgy, heartstoppingly intense psychological thriller about two sisters determined to protect each other—no matter the cost.

Gail Carriger: Etiquette & Espionage (5.2.2013)

Jeg har lenge hatt lyst til å lese noe av Carriger, og denne serien virker spennende. Regner med det er steampunk. 

It’s one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It’s quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to finishing school. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is the bane of her mother’s existence. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper etiquette at tea–and god forbid anyone see her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. She enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. But little do Sophronia or her mother know that this is a school where ingenious young girls learn to finish, all right–but it’s a different kind of finishing. Mademoiselle Geraldine’s certainly trains young ladies in the finer arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also in the other kinds of finishing: the fine arts of death, diversion, deceit, espionage, and the modern weaponries. Sophronia and her friends are going to have a rousing first year at school. First in a four book YA series set 25 years before the Parasol Protectorate but in the same universe.

Victoria Schwab: The Archived (22.1.2013)

Jeg leste om denne i forbindelse med salget av boken, og har hatt lyst til å lese den siden. Plottet virker originalt, noe som er sjelden vare i endel YA -utgivelser for tiden. 

Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books. Each body has a story to tell, a life seen in pictures that only Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive. Da first brought Mackenzie Bishop here four years ago, when she was twelve years old, frightened but determined to prove herself. Now Da is dead, and Mac has grown into what he once was, a ruthless Keeper, tasked with stopping often-violent Histories from waking up and getting out. Because of her job, she lies to the people she loves, and she knows fear for what it is: a useful tool for staying alive. Being a Keeper isn’t just dangerous—it’s a constant reminder of those Mac has lost. Da’s death was hard enough, but now her little brother is gone too. Mac starts to wonder about the boundary between living and dying, sleeping and waking. In the Archive, the dead must never be disturbed. And yet, someone is deliberately altering Histories, erasing essential chapters. Unless Mac can piece together what remains, the Archive itself might crumble and fall. In this haunting, richly imagined novel, Victoria Schwab reveals the thin lines between past and present, love and pain, trust and deceit, unbearable loss and hard-won redemption.

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