Waiting on Wednesday – 6

Posted by Kay on June 6, 2012 1:26 pm in Book talk | 4 comments

“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.

If I was excited last week about the books I had picked for my W.o.W., then I don’t know what I am today! I have been a follower of Lenore’s blog for what seems like forever, when Level 2 was only a dream. Knowing what she likes and doesn’t like in YA fiction, which authors she admires and books that are her favorites, I am even more looking forward to reading this one. The summary is, in fact, something that would have made me curious even if I didn’t know of Lenore before.

Her strikingly gorgeous cover :

Level 2 by Jay Lenore Appelhans

(The Memory Chronicles, book 1 – January 15th, 2013)

Since her untimely death the day before her eighteenth birthday, Felicia Ward has been trapped in Level 2, a stark white afterlife located between our world and the next. Along with her fellow prisoners, Felicia passes the endless hours downloading memories and mourning what she’s lost—family, friends, and the boy she loved, Neil.

Then a girl in a neighboring chamber disappears, and nobody but Felicia seems to recall she existed in the first place. Something is obviously very wrong. When Julian—a dangerously charming guy Felicia knew in life—comes to offer Felicia a way out, she learns the truth: a rebellion is brewing to overthrow the Morati, the guardians of Level 2.

Felicia is reluctant to trust Julian, but then he promises what she wants the most—to be with Neil again—if only she’ll join the rebels. Suspended between Heaven and Earth, Felicia finds herself in the center of an age-old struggle between good and evil. As memories from her life come back to haunt her, and as the Morati hunt her down, Felicia will discover it’s not just her own redemption at stake… but the salvation of all mankind.

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What are you waiting on this week?