Waiting on Wednesday {9}: Annabel; The Darkest Minds

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, where bloggers post about much-awaited releases!

 

Title: Annabel (Delirium #0.5)

Author: Lauren Oliver

Release Date: December 26th 2012

Publisher: HarperCollins

Goodreads

Lena's mother, Annabel, has always been a mystery—a ghost in Lena's past. Until now. 

Discover her secrets in Lauren Oliver's brilliant original digital story set in the world of New York Times bestsellers Delirium and Pandemonium. 

Lena Halloway's mother, Annabel, supposedly committed suicide when Lena was only six years old. That's the lie that Lena grew up believing, but the truth is very different. As a rebellious teenager, Annabel ran away from home and straight into the man she knew she was destined to marry. The world was different then—the regulations not as stringent, the cure only a decade old. Fast forward to the present, and Annabel is consigned to a dirty prison cell, where she nurtures her hope of escape and scratches one word over and over into the walls: Love. 

But Annabel, like Lena, is a fighter. Through chapters that alternate between her past and present, Annabel reveals the story behind her failed cures, her marriage, the births of her children, her imprisonment, and, ultimately, her daring escape.

I was shocked when I learned about this point-five. I mean, it's about Lena's mother who got her brain cracked open without anesthetics! And I guess it'll be similar to Pandemonium, with the alternating then's and now's. I would've been happier if this was about Alex, though. Anyway, last night, Lauren said the three Delirium novellas (the third being about Raven! I love her) will be released all together in print! I'm glad because purchasing ebooks is a hassle for me - an impossibility, actually, since I don't have the means to pay online yet. I need to figure that out soon.

Title: The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds #1)

Author: Alexandra Bracken

Release Date: December 18th 2012

Publisher: Disney Hyperion

Goodreads

When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government "rehabilitation camp". She might have survived the mysterious disease that's killed most of America's children, but she and the others have emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they cannot control.  

Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones.  

When the truth comes out, Ruby barely escapes Thurmond with her life. Now she's on the run, desperate to find the one safe haven left for kids like her—East River. She joins a group of kids who escaped their own camp. Liam, their brave leader, is falling hard for Ruby. But no matter how much she aches for him, Ruby can't risk getting close. Not after what happened to her parents. 

When they arrive at East River, nothing is as it seems, least of all its mysterious leader. But there are other forces at work, people who will stop at nothing to use Ruby in their fight against the government. Ruby will be faced with a terrible choice, one that may mean giving up her only chance at a life worth living.

Eep, a book guy named Liam, finally! Haha, I just love that name, sorry. Anyway, so I guess this is another dystopian X-Men book but I don't care; I love those! (If you don't know what I'm talking about, then you should read Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi and Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi).

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