Waiting on Wednesday (WoW) #18

Blind Spot by Laura Ellen

This is my 18th Waiting on Wednesday (WoW), 

therefore my #WoW may not correlate with the linked post

This meme is hosted by Jill @ Breaking the spine.

Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books (23 Oct 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0547763441

There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.

Seventeen-year-old Tricia Farni’s body floated to the surface of Alaska’s Birch River six months after the night she disappeared. The night Roz Hart had a fight with her. The night Roz can’t remember. Roz, who struggles with macular degeneration, is used to assembling fragments to make sense of the world around her. But this time it’s her memory that needs piecing together—to clear her name . . . to find a murderer.

This unflinchingly emotional novel is written in the powerful first-person voice of a legally blind teen who just wants to be like everyone else

"This is really intriguing because it isnt just a normal style of someone trying to clear her name or what happened to this girl?  Because it involves someone who is blind.  I love the fact it is first person perspective from Roz's perspective rather than third person.  It would add so much more to the story and make it more personal since it is her name that needs to be cleared and she is blind.  It must be a really scary place for Roz to clear her name in a world where she cannot see what is happening.  I really want to know what happened to poor Tricia and what they were fighting about.  I know it says it is an emotional novel but i really believe it will be and that i will be gripped. Not long till the 23rd!"

NEW RELEASE- The Star Child......

I wanted to do a blog post about this when I received the cover reveal but I didn't get around to doing the post.  But now it is RELEASE DAY, it definitely deserves a mention!

The Star Child by Stephanie Keyes.

An ancient prophecy. A stunning Star child.
The world is about to be cloaked in darkness.
Only one can stop the night.

Gorgeous Cover!

The world is about to be cloaked in darkness.                                                                      Only one can stop the night.

Kellen St. James has spent his entire life being overlooked as an unwanted, ordinary, slightly geeky kid. That is until a beautiful girl, one who has haunted his dreams for the past eleven years of his life, shows up spinning tales of a prophecy. Not just any old prophecy either, but one in which Kellen plays a key role.

Suddenly, Kellen finds himself on the run through a Celtic underworld of faeries and demons, angels and gods, not to mention a really ticked off pack of hellhounds, all in order to save the world from darkness. But will they make it in time?

There is a book trailer for this book, you have to watch this!

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Stephanie Keyes.

Stephanie Keyes holds an undergraduate degree in Management Information Systems as well as a Master’s in Education. A seasoned, facilitator, Mrs. Keyes worked in Training and Development for an international telecommunications corporation for twelve years; spending the first eight years of her career as a Software Trainer and Technical Writer and the last four working in Human Resources and Employee Development. 

In May of 2012, Mrs.Keyes left the corporate world to focus on her family and her writing full-time. She also operates a freelance graphic and instructional design business, Sycamore Road Design.

Inkspell Publishing will release her first novel, The Star Child, on September 21, 2012. She is now currently at work on the second book in The Star Child Trilogy, The Fallen Stars.

Keyes lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, two children, and Riley the dog.

Contact Stephanie
Website: www.stephaniekeyes.com 
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