UK Cover Alerts: Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff, Hidden by Marianne Curley, Beautiful Creatures Movie Tie-In Edition & Much More!

A quick cover/trailer post today to keep you up with all the latest happenings in the world of YA!   I've included the US cover counterparts where available, so let me know your favourites! If you've already read any of the books featured, I'd love to know what you thought of them! I'm especially interested in hearing from any Beautiful Creatures fans out there -- I've never read the books, but now that there's all this movie buzz around the series, I'm thinking about it.  Is Beautiful Creatures worth checking out?

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Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff

Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK

Release date: January 2013

Ages:  12+

The city of Ludlow is gripped by the hottest July on record. The asphalt is melting, the birds are dying, petty crime is on the rise, and someone in Hannah Wagnor's peaceful suburban community is killing girls.

For Hannah, the summer is a complicated one. Her best friend Lillian died six months ago, and Hannah just wants her life to go back to normal. But how can things be normal when Lillian's ghost is haunting her bedroom, pushing her to investigate the mysterious string of murders? Hannah's just trying to understand why her friend self-destructed, and where she fits now that Lillian isn't there to save her a place among the social elite. And she must stop thinking about Finny Boone, the big, enigmatic delinquent whose main hobbies seem to include petty larceny and surprising acts of kindness.

With the entire city in a panic, Hannah soon finds herself drawn into a world of ghost girls and horrifying secrets. She realises that only by confronting the Valentine Killer will she be able move on with her life - and it's up to her to put together the pieces before he strikes again.

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 Hidden by Marianne Curley

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Release date:  March 2013

Ages: 12+

Ebony has always known that she is different. Her violet eyes mark her out, and her protective parents have kept her in a gorgeous valley, home-schooled, safe from everything—almost as if she’s being hidden. But she’s changing: glowing, getting more and more beautiful, and stronger than anyone knows. Ebony can’t stay hidden for ever, and when she meets complicated, intense Jordan, something explodes inside her—something that can be seen from the heavens; something that changes everything. Ebony is a stolen angel, concealed on Earth. Now the heavens have found her, they want her back.

Fans of Becca Fitzpatrick’s Hush, Hush Saga and L.A. Weatherly’s Angel series will adore Hidden. Full of irresistible romance and breath-taking suspense, this is a sensational start to a brilliant new series. Get ready to be swept away by this spellbinding story of eternal love.

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Beautiful Creatures (movie tie-ie edition) by Kami Garci & Margaret Stohl

Publisher: Penguin

Release date: November 20th 2012

Ages:  12+

Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.

Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.

In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.

Beautiful Creatures Movie Trailer:

Kami Garcia signs Two-Book deal with Simon & Schuster UK

Simon and Schuster Children's Books today announced the acquisition of Beautiful Creatures co-author Kami Garcia's first solo YA novels. 

Kami Garcia has shot to fame for her bestselling Beautiful Creatures series, co-written with Margaret Stohl. The movie adaptation will be released in February 2013, starring Emma Thompson, Jeremy Irons, Emmy Rossum and Alice Englert, and the publishing programme for the series is ongoing.

Venetia Gosling, Editorial Director at Simon & Schuster UK, has bought UK & Commonwealth rights, including ebook and audio, from Angharad Kowal at Writer's House in two books in Garcia's Legion series, her first solo novels. A film adaptation of the series is already in development with Mark Morgan, the producer of The Twilight saga and Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. 

In the first book, Unbreakable, seventeen-year-old Kennedy Waters' whole life changes the night she comes home to find her mother dead, and two mysterious twins breaking into her house, saying they are trying to save her from a murderous vengeful spirit. Kennedy learns that she is the fifth member of a secret society, The Legion of the Black Dove, formed 200 years ago to protect the world from a powerful demon determined to find a way out of his dimension and into ours. Kennedy and the twins, Lukas and Jared, are joined by Priest, a teenage engineer who designs ghost-hunting weapons, and Alara, a girl trained in voodoo arts, and the five teens race to find the pieces of the shift, a device they believe will help them destroy the demon. But each piece of the shift is located in a place more terrifying than the last, and the teens must battle their own personal demons to find them, even as Kennedy fights her feelings for two very different boys, who look exactly alike. Suspense, romance and dark paranormal forces meet in this frightening and thrilling urban fantasy. 

The Legion series has already sold in Italy, Germany, France and Brazil, with Little, Brown as the US publisher. Unbreakable will publish as a paperback original in Autumn 2013, with the second title in the series following in Autumn 2014. 

Gosling says: "I loved Unbreakable - it's page-turning and frightening and absolutely gripping and I'm desperate to know what happens in the second book! It's also incredibly visual, and I can absolutely see why it has been optioned for film. With this new series launch, as well as the film of Beautiful Creatures hitting cinemas in February, Kami is guaranteed a big year in 2013, and we're delighted to be part of it as we launch the Legion series on the S&S list."

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Undone by Cat Clarke

Publisher: Quercus

Release date: January 2013

Ages:  14+

A video appears online. And a boy jumps off a bridge.

Jem is determined to avenge the death of Kai - her beloved best friend who was driven to desperation after being 'outed' by the popular crew at school. Transforming herself from introverted emo to in-crowd acceptable, Jem becomes part of the clique. She's going to take down those responsible, one by one.

But what if Kai was keeping secrets from Jem? Could her quest for revenge be directed at the wrong people? And can Jem find out what really happened before someone else gets hurt?

Book Trailer for Undone by Cat Clarke:

* Please note: These covers may not be final and may be subject to change. Images sourced from publishers websites, booktrade.info, Goodreads & Amazon.

Cover Candy #19 - Recent Swoonworthy Cover Reveals!

Time for a Cover Candy catch-up! It's been a while since I've done one of these...

Let me know what you think of the featured covers in comments. Will you be adding any of these to your wish list? 

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A deserted Island, a DVD with a very scary message....TEN by Gretchen McNeil sounds all kinds of awesome! The synopsis of the book sounds like I Still Know What You Did Last Summer meets The Ring. And the cover art is so foreboding and ominous. Eeek! Bring on the scares! I can't wait to read this one! 

 

 

Ten by Gretchen McNeil

Publisher: Balzer & Bray

Release date: September 2012

Ages: 13+

It was supposed to be the weekend of their lives – an exclusive house party on Henry Island. Best friends Meg and Minnie each have their reasons for being there (which involve T.J., the school's most eligible bachelor) and look forward to three glorious days of boys, booze and fun-filled luxury.

But what they expect is definitely not what they get, and what starts out as fun turns dark and twisted after the discovery of a DVD with a sinister message: Vengeance is mine.

Suddenly people are dying, and with a storm raging, the teens are cut off the from the outside world. No electricity, no phones, no internet, and a ferry that isn't scheduled to return for two days. As the deaths become more violent and the teens turn on each other, can Meg find the killer before more people die? Or is the killer closer to her than she could ever imagine?

How amazing is the premise of Through To You by Emily Hainsworth?! I heard about this book just a little while back, and it went straight onto my wishlist. Also, the cover is awesome!

Through To You by Emily Hainsworth
Publisher: Balzer & Bray
Release date: October 2012
Ages:  14+

A romantic sci-fi thriller about love and second chances.

Camden Pike has been grief-stricken since his girlfriend, Viv, died. Viv was the last good thing in his life: helping him rebuild his identity after a career-ending football injury, picking up the pieces when his home life shattered, and healing his pain long after the pain meds wore off. And now, he’d give anything for one more glimpse of her. But when Cam makes a visit to the site of Viv’s deadly car accident, he sees some kind of apparition. And it isn’t Viv.

The apparition’s name is Nina, and she’s not a ghost. She’s a girl from a parallel world, and in this world, Viv is still alive. Cam can’t believe his wildest dreams have come true. All he can focus on is getting his girlfriend back, no matter the cost. But things are different in this other world: Viv and Cam have both made very different choices, things between them have changed in unexpected ways, and Viv isn’t the same girl he remembers. Nina is keeping some dangerous secrets, too, and the window between the worlds is shrinking every day. As Cam comes to terms with who this Viv has become, and the part Nina played in his parallel story, he’s forced to choose—stay with Viv or let her go—before the window closes between them once and for all.

I'm torn on the cover for Time Between Us by Tamara Ireland Stone, one one hand it's undeniably pretty and definitely deserving of a place in this Cover Candy post, and on the other hand I'm not really sure if it's my kind of cover. Don't get me wrong, I'm dying to read the book. I think it sounds great! But, if I saw this cover in the store, it probably wouldn't warrant a second look from me. Very pretty, but just looks like a standard contemp romance cover to me. 

This is the US cover for Time Between Us. This one is also being published in the UK, so I'll be keeping an eye out for that cover!

Time Between Us by Tamara Ireland Stone

Publisher: Hyperion

Release date:  October 2012

Ages: YA

Anna and Bennett were never supposed to meet: she lives in 1995 Chicago and he lives in 2012 San Francisco. But Bennett’s unique ability to travel through time and space brings him into Anna’s life, and with him, a new world of adventure and possibility.

As their relationship deepens, they face the reality that time might knock Bennett back where he belongs, even as a devastating crisis throws everything they believe into question. Against a ticking clock, Anna and Bennett are forced to ask themselves how far they can push the bounds of fate—and what consequences they can bear in order to stay together.

Fresh, exciting, and deeply romantic, TIME BETWEEN US is a stunning and spellbinding debut from an extraordinary new talent in YA fiction.

I love the premise of All These Lives by Sarah Wylie - sounds like it could be a tearjerker and has a great cover too! This one is on Netgalley if anyone wants to try and get it. I requested weeks back, but haven't heard anything yet...

All These Lives by Sarah Wylie
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Release date: June 2012
Ages: 12+

 Sixteen-year-old Dani is convinced she has nine lives. As a child she twice walked away from situations where she should have died. But Dani’s twin, Jena, isn’t so lucky. She has cancer and might not even be able to keep her one life. Dani’s father is in denial. Her mother is trying to hold it together and prove everything’s normal. And Jena is wasting away.

To cope, Dani sets out to rid herself of all her extra lives. Maybe they’ll be released into the universe and someone who wants to live more than she does will get one. Someone like Jena. But just when Dani finds herself at the breaking point, she’s faced with a startling realization. Maybe she doesn’t have nine lives after all. Maybe she really only ever had one.

Here are some 'next in a series' pretty covers! I  haven't included the synopsis for either of these in case of spoilers, but I've linked to them on Goodreads - just click on the book titles to read!

Hidden (Firelight #3) by Sophie Jordan

Publisher: HarperTeen

Release date: September 2012

Ages: 13+

I'm a fan of this series, even though I didn't think Vanish was the greatest follow up to the brilliant Firelight. Excited to see how it all ends, though!

The Lucky Ones (Bright Young Things #3)

Publisher: HarperTeen

Release date: September 2012

Ages: 14+

I love that dress! Anna Godbersen's covers are always gorgeous! I still haven't read  Beautiful Days (BYT #2).  Must get to it soon!

 * Please note: These covers may not be  final and may be subject to change.  
** All Cover Images have been taken from Goodreads/Amazon/Authors/Publishers websites.