Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill from Breaking the Spine, and specifically spotlights upcoming novels we can't wait to read. As always, there are some amazing upcoming books, but this week I'm particularly excited for...
Author: Adrienne Maria Vrettos
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry
Published: September 13, 2011
Genre: YA, Contemporary
Pages: 208
On the day after Halloween, Nan wakes up in a subway car. She is not dreaming. She doesn’t know where she’s been or what she’s done. She’s missing a whole day from her life. And she’s wearing skeleton makeup and a too-small Halloween costume that she doesn't remember putting on.
Nan is not supposed to wake up in places like this anymore. She’s different now, so far from that dangerously drunk girl who hit bottom in the Nanapocalypse. She needs to find out what happened to her, and fast. As she tries to put together the pieces of the last twenty-four hours, she flashes back to memories of her previous life. But she would never go back to her old friends and her old ways. Would she?
The deeper Nan digs, the more disturbing things get. This time, she may have gone one step too far. This time, she may be a walking ghost.
I like creepy stories, and I have a bit of a penchant for the dark and twisty. So sue me. Burnout seems like the perfect combination of the two, and the main character seems to have a past, which makes this even more enticing. If a story tells about a character's past catching up with them in the present, I'm sold, and this sounds like a thrill ride from start to finish. Plus, it doesn't hurt that the cover is all dark and pretty and all that jazz. What do you think, and what are you waiting on this week?
Be sure to check out today's stop for The Long Weekend Blog Tour hosted by yours truly! The all-too-awesome Stacey from Flippin Fabulous: A Reader's Record has a fabulous review/guest post/international giveaway for all of you, so be sure to drop by and check it out!
