Waiting on Wednesday: WINTERLING by Sarah Prineas

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine. This event highlights our most-wanted upcoming releases!



Title: WINTERLING
Author: SARAH PRINEAS
Release Date: Jan. 3, 2012
Publisher: HarperChildrens
Add it: Goodreads

WHY?
Reason #1? Kristin Cashore blurbed it.

Reason #2? Jason Chan once again created some FABULOUS cover art. (Yes, you know who he is. Small Review did an awesome compilation of several of his covers HERE. Books that include the Théâtre Illuminata trilogy by Lisa Matchev and my new recent love THE PRINCESS CURSE by Merrie Haskell.)

Reason #3? When am I NOT up for a good fantasy?? Check out this summary:

SUMMARY:
With her boundless curiosity and wild spirit, Fer has always felt that she doesn’t belong. Not when the forest is calling to her, when the rush of wind through branches feels more real than school or the quiet farms near her house. Then she saves an injured creature—he looks like a boy, but he’s really something else. He knows who Fer truly is, and invites her through the Way, a passage to a strange, dangerous land.Fer feels an instant attachment to this realm, where magic is real and oaths forge bonds stronger than iron. But a powerful huntress named the Mor rules here, and Fer can sense that the land is perilously out of balance. Fer must unlock the secrets about the parents she never knew and claim her true place before the worlds on both sides of the Way descend into endless winter.Sarah Prineas captivates in this fantasy-adventure about a girl who must find within herself the power to set right a terrible evil.

What are you anxiously waiting for this Wednesday?