Lisa’s Looking Forward To #34 – October 15th, 2019

Back to joining up with the Waiting on Wednesday Posts, and the Can’t
Wait Wednesday posts hosted by Wishful Endings.  And once again it seems like the list of books coming out is getting smaller than the week before.

From my ARC list for October 15th, 2019:

Love the cover and sounds good, but as a dragon book, it’s not a top priority as they aren’t always my favorites.

Here is the blurb from Goodreads:

Game of Thrones meets Red Rising in a debut young adult fantasy that’s full of rivalry, romance… and dragons.

Annie
and Lee were just children when a brutal revolution changed their
world, giving everyone—even the lowborn—a chance to test into the
governing class of dragonriders.

Now they are both rising stars
in the new regime, despite backgrounds that couldn’t be more different.
Annie’s lowborn family was executed by dragonfire, while Lee’s
aristocratic family was murdered by revolutionaries. Growing up in the
same orphanage forged their friendship, and seven years of training have
made them rivals for the top position in the dragonriding fleet.

But everything changes when survivors from the old regime surface, bent on reclaiming the city.

With
war on the horizon and his relationship with Annie changing fast, Lee
must choose to kill the only family he has left or to betray everything
he’s come to believe in. And Annie must decide whether to protect the
boy she loves . . . or step up to be the champion her city needs.

From
debut author Rosaria Munda comes a gripping adventure that calls into
question which matters most: the family you were born into, or the one
you’ve chosen.

Sound good?  Add to Goodreads HERE. 
 

I have an ARC of this one, need to get to reading it!  I really like this author.

Here is the blurb from Goodreads:

A WOMAN ON THE RUN. A CAPTAIN ADRIFT IN SPACE. ONE OF THEM IS INFECTED WITH AN ALIEN PARASITE.

In this dark science fiction thriller, a young woman must confront her past so the human race will have a future.

Rosalyn
Devar is on the run from her famous family, the bioengineering job
she’s come to hate, and her messed-up life. She’s run all the way to
outer space, where she’s taken a position as a “space janitor,” cleaning
up ill-fated research expeditions. But no matter how far she goes,
Rosalyn can’t escape herself. After too many mistakes on the job, she’s
given one last chance: take care of salvaging the Brigantine, a research
vessel that has gone dark, with all crew aboard thought dead.

But
the Brigantine’s crew are very much alive–if not entirely human. Now
Rosalyn is trapped on board, alone with a crew infected by a mysterious
parasitic alien. The captain, Edison Aries, seems to still maintain some
control over himself and the crew, but he won’t be able to keep
fighting much longer. Rosalyn and Edison must find a way to stop the
parasite’s onslaught…or it may take over the entire human race.

Sound good?  Add to Goodreads HERE.

I know that I really need to read this author!  And this one sounds really good!

Here is the blurb from Goodreads:

From the author of the

New York Times

bestseller

Dear Martin

–which Angie Thomas, the bestselling author of

The Hate U Give,

called “a must read”–comes a pitch-perfect romance that examines
class, privilege, and how a stroke of good luck can change an entire
life.

Meet Rico: high school senior and afternoon-shift cashier at
the Gas ‘n’ Go, who after school and work races home to take care of
her younger brother. Every. Single. Day. When Rico sells a
jackpot-winning lotto ticket, she thinks maybe her luck will finally
change, but only if she–with some assistance from her popular and
wildly rich classmate Zan–can find the ticket holder who hasn’t claimed
the prize. But what happens when have and have-nots collide? Will this
investigative duo unite…or divide?

Nic Stone, the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin and Odd One Out,
creates two unforgettable characters in one hard-hitting story about
class, money–both too little and too much–and how you make your own
luck in the world.

Sound good?  Add to Goodreads HERE. 

Sounds like it could be a good spooky story.

Here is the blurb from Goodreads:

 
Sixteen-year-old Clara
Morris is facing an awkward summer with her father in the tiny upstate
town of Redmarch Lake. Clara’s relationship with her parents—and with
life in general—has been strained since she lost her twin sister, Zoe,
when the girls were eight. As a child, her sister had been her whole
world—they even shared a secret invented twin language. Clara has
managed to rebuild herself as best she can, but she still feels a hole
in her life from the absence of her twin, and she suspects she always
will.

She soon finds that Redmarch Lake, where her father’s
family has lived for generations, is a very unusual place. The
townspeople live by odd rules and superstitions. The eerily calm lake
the town is named for both fascinates and repels her. The town’s young
people are just as odd and unfriendly as their parents. Clara manages to
befriend the one boy willing to talk to an outsider, but he disappears
during a party in the woods.

The next day, he is found dead in
the lake under mysterious circumstances. The townspeople all treat this
as a tragic accident. Clara isn’t buying it, but she doesn’t know what
to do until she receives a mysterious note hinting at murder—a note
written in the language she shared with her twin sister, Zoe.

Sound good?  Add to Goodreads HERE. 

Final Thoughts:
I’ve got one of these as ARCs this week, but still a bit behind.  Have you read any of these yet?  Are they
on your TBR?  And hey, while you’re here, you should go try to win some
of my ARCs from Cleaning Up My TBR Post HERE.  The US only giveaway is open till Friday at midnight, there are even some 2019 ARCs that can be one of your two choices.