Waiting on Wednesday - February 22, 2012

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event from Jill at Breaking the Spine. To participate, simply share that book(s) you are eagerly awaiting the release of and report back to Breaking the Spine with the link to your post. Clicking the link above will take you straight to her post and widget.

Wow!  I hadn't realized it, but I haven't done one of these since mid-DECEMBER.  I know I've been pretty busy since then, but wow, that's a long time to refrain from participating in one of my favorite memes.

My top pick this week is a June release from Balzer+Bray.  Ever since I first heard that this book is inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion (one of my very favorite Austen novels), I knew I had to read it.  The fact that it is a post-apocalyptic novel with a dystopian bent further cemented my need to read this book.  In fact, it is currently on my "books I would dance a jig for" shelf at Goodreads.  The sooner I read it, the happier I will be.  What book do I refer to?  The book in question is For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund, to be released on June 12th.  

From Goodreads:

Generations ago, a genetic experiment gone wrong—the Reduction—decimated humanity, giving rise to a Luddite nobility who outlawed most technology.

Eighteen-year-old Luddite Elliot North has always known her place in this caste system. Four years ago Elliot refused to run away with her childhood sweetheart, the servant Kai, choosing duty to her family’s estate over love. But now the world has changed: a new class of Post-Reductionists is jumpstarting the wheel of progress and threatening Luddite control; Elliot’s estate is floundering; and she’s forced to rent land to the mysterious Cloud Fleet, a group of shipbuilders that includes renowned explorer Captain Malakai Wentforth—an almost unrecognizable Kai. And while Elliott wonders if this could be their second chance, Kai seems determined to show Elliot exactly what she gave up when she abandoned him.

But Elliot soon discovers her childhood friend carries a secret—-one that could change the society in which they live…or bring it to its knees. And again, she’s faced with a choice: cling to what she’s been raised to believe, or cast her lot with the only boy she’s ever loved, even if she has lost him forever.

Inspired by Jane Austen’s PERSUASION, FOR DARKNESS SHOWS THE STARS is a breathtaking romance about opening your mind to the future and your heart to the one person you know can break it.