Waiting on Wednesday

I apologize for my silence over the last few days - turns out taking five AP classes can really eat your brain. ("Wait! What? School is a zombie? It eats brains?" Yes. Yes indeed.) Also, physics projects are really, truly evil. (Unless you find grenade-textured water balloons to launch from your water balloon launcher, and then proceed to have a war with them in your street, as my friend and I did just a few minutes ago.)(I'm using a lot of parentheticals today....hm.)

BUT ANYWAY...this week, the cover for Tessa Gratton's upcoming YA debut, Blood Magic, was released. So this week, I'm waiting on Blood Magic. Is this cover gorgeous or what?

Description from Goodreads:
For Nick Pardee and Silla Kennicot, the cemetery is the center of everything.


Nick is a city boy angry at being forced to move back to the nowhere town of Yaleylah, Missouri where he grew up. He can’t help remembering his mom and the blood magic she practiced – memories he’s tried for five years to escape. Silla, though, doesn’t want to forget; her parents’ apparent murder-suicide left her numb and needing answers. When a book of magic spells in her dad’s handwriting appears on her doorstep, she sees her chance to unravel the mystery of their deaths.


Together they plunge into the world of dark magic, but when a hundred-year-old blood witch comes hunting for the bones of Silla’s parents and the spell book, Nick and Silla will have to let go of everything they believe about who they are, the nature of life and death, and the deadly secrets that hide in blood.

*****

This book sounds amazing and I cannot wait to read it! Blood Magic comes out April 26, 2011. I'll definitely be looking for it then! What are you waiting on this week?


EDIT: I was so wrapped up in playing with grenade-colored water balloons that I completely forgot to credit Jill at Breaking the Spine with this awesome meme! Sincerest apologies.