Waiting on Wednesday (for Thursday)

This particular Wednesday marks a very special date for Bookworm Boulevard. I've been blogging for exactly six months today! I guess that means I'm shedding my "newbie" status, although I hardly feel like a blogging expert. Either way, I'm having fun - I hope you all are enjoying it as much as I am!

Anyway, I won't have to wait long for the book I'm featuring today, because it comes out tomorrow! So this is sort of a combined Waiting on Wednesday/New-Release Alert post. I've been meaning to put this in a WoW for a while, but I never got around to it - and suddenly release day is here! Anyway, this week I can't wait to read XVI by Julia Karr.

Description from Goodreads: 
Nina Oberon's life is pretty normal: she hangs out with her best friend, Sandy, and their crew, goes to school, plays with her little sister, Dee. But Nina is 15. And like all girls she'll receive a Governing Council-ordered tattoo on her 16th birthday. XVI. Those three letters will be branded on her wrist, announcing to all the world—even the most predatory of men—that she is ready for sex. Considered easy prey by some, portrayed by the Media as sluts who ask for attacks, becoming a "sex-teen" is Nina's worst fear. That is, until right before her birthday, when Nina's mom is brutally attacked. With her dying breaths, she reveals to Nina a shocking truth about her past—one that destroys everything Nina thought she knew. Now, alone but for her sister, Nina must try to discover who she really is, all the while staying one step ahead of her mother's killer.

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I think this sounds darkly creepy and immensely intriguing. (Plus, I love the name Nina Oberon.) I want to know what this life-changing secret about the past is. Fortunately, I don't have to wait long, because it's out tomorrow! Yay!

What are you waiting on this week? Leave a link in the comments and I'll stop by!

*Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.*