Waiting on Wednesday is a meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. The weekly event is meant to showcase eagerly anticipated upcoming releases…and to spread the word! This week I’m excited about:

Mortal DangerTitle: Mortal Danger (Immortal Game #1)

 

Author: Ann Aguirre

Publisher: Feiwel & Friends

Anticipated Publication Date: August 5th 2014

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Edie Kramer has a score to settle with the beautiful people at Blackbriar Academy. Their cruelty drove her to the brink of despair, and four months ago, she couldn’t imagine being strong enough to face her senior year. But thanks to a Faustian compact with the enigmatic Kian, she has the power to make the bullies pay. She’s not supposed to think about Kian once the deal is done, but devastating pain burns behind his unearthly beauty, making him impossible to forget.

In one short summer, her entire life changes, and she sweeps through Blackbriar, prepped to take the beautiful people down from the inside. A whisper here, a look there, and suddenly . . . bad things are happening. It’s a head rush, seeing her tormentors get what they deserve, but things that seem too good to be true usually are, and soon, the pranks and payback turn from delicious to deadly. Edie is alone in a world teeming with secrets and fiends lurking in the shadows. In this murky morass of devil’s bargains, she isn’t sure who—or what—she can trust. Not even her own mind . . .

Normally this isn’t the sort of book I’d go for, but I trust Ann Aguirre to lead me on a crazy whirlwind of originality and mind-boggling adventure. Adult and young-adult alike, I have loved all that I’ve read by Aguirre. I’m also digging the creep-tastic cover. If Mortal Danger is even half as good as the Razorland trilogy was, then it’ll be amazing.