"Waiting On" Wednesday (5)

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. Here, we talk about books that we are highly anticipating the release of!

The Alchemy of Forever by: Avery Williams

Published: January 3, 2012
Publisher: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Page Count: 256
Series: Incarnation #1
Pre-Order: Amazon

Summary from Goodreads:

 Incarnation is a new series that introduces a fresh mythology perfect for fans of bestselling series like The Immortals by Alyson Noel and Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.

 After spending six hundred years on earth, Seraphina Ames has seen it all. Eternal life provides her with the world’s riches, but at a very high price: innocent lives. Centuries ago, her boyfriend, Cyrus, discovered a method of alchemy that allows them to swap bodies with other humans, jumping from one vessel to the next, taking the human’s life in the process. No longer able to bear the guilt of what she’s done, Sera escapes from Cyrus and vows to never kill again.

Then sixteen-year-old Kailey Morgan gets into a horrific car accident right in front of her, and Sera accidentally takes over her body. For the first time, Sera finds herself enjoying the life of the person she’s inhabiting—and falls for the human boy who lives next door. But Cyrus will stop at nothing until she’s his again, and every moment she stays, she’s putting herself and the people she’s grown to care for in great danger. Will Sera have to give up the one thing that’s eluded her for centuries: true love?

My Thoughts:

  I am a totally mythology junkie and will read anything in YA that somehow incorporates that in it. This one is chalked full of a new type of mythology, I think. While I've read books like the Wake series by Lisa McMann that involved a girl stepping into another's dreams, this introduces a whole new side of possession that I am dying to start reading! This is also on my 2012 Debut Author Challenge List.