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Flavor of the week:
The Winner’s Crime
Marie Rutkoski
Series: The Winner’s Trilogy #2
Publication date: March 3rd 2015
by Farrar Straus Giroux
Book two of the dazzling Winner’s Trilogy is a fight to the death as Kestrel risks betrayal of country for love.
The engagement of Lady Kestrel to Valoria’s crown prince means one celebration after another. But to Kestrel it means living in a cage of her own making. As the wedding approaches, she aches to tell Arin the truth about her engagement…if she could only trust him. Yet can she even trust herself? For—unknown to Arin—Kestrel is becoming a skilled practitioner of deceit: an anonymous spy passing information to Herran, and close to uncovering a shocking secret.
As Arin enlists dangerous allies in the struggle to keep his country’s freedom, he can’t fight the suspicion that Kestrel knows more than she shows. In the end, it might not be a dagger in the dark that cuts him open, but the truth. And when that happens, Kestrel and Arin learn just how much their crimes will cost them.
Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *
– The Selection Stories: The Queen & The Favorite (The Selection 0.4, 2.6) by Kiera Cass [Purchase]
– The One That Got Away by Simon Wood [Purchase]
– The Mermaid’s Sister by Carrie Anne Noble [Purchase]
– The Dead Key by D.M. Pulley [Purchase]
– Sustain by Tijan [Purchase]
– With Every Heartbeat (Forbidden Men #4) by Linda Kage [Purchase]
– An Uncertain Choice (An Uncertain Choice #1) by Jody Hedlund [Purchase]
– The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro [Purchase]
– Dead Heat (Alpha & Omega #4) by Patricia Briggs [Purchase]
– The Tragic Age: A Novel by Stephen Metcalfe [Purchase]
– Vision in Silver (The Others #3) by Anne Bishop [Purchase]
– Rebel Queen by Michelle Moran [Purchase]
– Dark Debt (Chicagoland Vampires #11) by Chloe Neill [Purchase]
– The Forgotten Sisters (Princess Academy #3) by Shannon Hale [Purchase]
– Crow Moon by Anna McKerrow [Purchase]
– Mosquitoland by David Arnold [Purchase]
– The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson [Purchase]
– Becoming Rain (Burying Water #2) by K.A. Tucker [Purchase]
– Easy Love (Boudreaux #1) by Kristen Proby [Purchase]
– The Beneath by S.C. Ransom [Purchase]
– Death Marked (Death Sworn #2) by Leah Cypess [Purchase]
– Of Silk and Steam (London Steampunk #5) by Bec McMaster [Purchase]
– Charisma by Jeanne Ryan [Purchase]
– Something Real (Reckless & Real #2) by Lexi Ryan [Purchase]
– Flunked (Fairy Tale Reform School) by Jen Calonita [Purchase]
– Hell’s Kitchen (Hell’s Kitchen #1) by Callie Hart and Lili St. Germain
– The 27 Club by Kim Karr [Purchase]
– Terminal (Virals #5) by Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs [Purchase]
– The Boy Who Lost Fairyland (Fairyland #4) by Catherynne M. Valente [Purchase]
– My Best Everything by Sarah Tomp [Purchase]
– The Devil’s Detective: A Novel by Simon Kurt Unsworth [Purchase]
– The Dark Water (The Well’s End #2) by Seth Fishman [Purchase]
– Pocket Apocalypse (InCryptid #4) by Seanan McGuire [Purchase]
– Not Otherwise Specified by Hannah Moskowitz [Purchase]
– Hung Up by Kristen Tracy [Purchase]
– The Storyspinner (The Keepers’ Chronicles #1) by Becky Wallace [Purchase]
– The Memory Key by Liana Liu [Purchase]
– Wreckage by Emily Bleeker [Purchase]
– As White as Snow (Lumikki Andersson #2) by Salla Simukka [Purchase]
– Return to Me (Covington Cove #1) by Kelly Moran [Purchase]
– Infandous by Elana K. Arnold [Purchase]
– Bone Gap by Laura Ruby [Purchase]
– Sorceress (Spellcaster #3) by Claudia Gray [Purchase]
– Mind Games by Teri Terry [Purchase]
– Lost Boy by Tim Green [Purchase]
– Kin (Tales of Beauty & Madness #3) by Lili St. Crow [Purchase]
– Deviate (The Light Key Trilogy #2) by Tracy Clark [Purchase]
– Dead to Me by Mary McCoy [Purchase]
– Razorhurst by Justine Larbalestier [Purchase]
– Black Wreath: The Stolen Life of James Lovett by Peter Sirr [Purchase]
– Silence by Deborah Lytton [Purchase]
– How to Win at High School by Owen Matthews [Purchase]
– Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy by Susan Vaught [Purchase]
– The Box and the Dragonfly (The Keepers #1) by Ted Sanders [Purchase]
– Positively Beautiful by Wendy Mills [Purchase]
– The Dead I Know by Scot Gardner [Purchase]
– Prairie Fire (Dragon Slayer of Trondheim #2) by E.K. Johnston [Purchase]
– Season of Fire (The Remnants #2) by Lisa Tawn Bergren [Purchase]
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Pili @ In Love With Handmade
Quite a lot of awesome books this week! I have my copy of Winner’s Crime en route so I hope it’ll arrive in time for release day!
Vision in Silver I’m also super excited about! And very intrigued about Mosquitoland and The Storyspinner!
Heather
I can’t wait to read the Winner’s Crime. I’m desperate to find out what happens next!
Missie
There are so many amazing reads! I cannot wait for Mosquitoland, Bone Gap and The Winner’s Curse!
Missie @ A Flurry of Ponderings
Faye
WOW! So many different books coming out this week! I only have my eye on Vision in Silver, though. I already read it as an ARC but I would loooove a physical copy.
Ramona
This is really overwhelming! So many wonderful books, never EVER enough time, right? Beautiful array, Giselle, just beautiful 🙂
Hannah
Vision in Silver was epic! <3
Also looking forward to Seanan McGuire's latest.
Kayla @ The Thousand Lives
WOW! There’s a lot coming out this week! The only one I really have my eye on is The Winner’s Crime, but I’ll probably wait till the end of March to get it, since I have so much on my TBR. It’ll be my reward for reading them all 😉
A.P.Bullard
The Bookseller looks neat, just based on the cover and title. Mosquitoland also grabbed my attention, and for the same reasons. Going to have to look up information on those.
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Sarah @ One Curvy Blogger
Holy crap so many book beauties coming out this week <3 Personally most excited for As White As Snow!
Riya
Yes, Giselle, yes!!!! This post is awesome because of so many amazing books. ESPECIALLY The Winner’s Crime! That is probably my most highly anticipated book of the year. And there are so many books that sounds wonderful that I didn’t know about before this post, so thank you for putting them on my radar! Hung Up, Sorceress and Positively Beautiful seem so great and their covers and gorgeous. Lovely post, Giselle! 🙂 x