1 June 2011

WAITING ON WEDNESDAY: WITCHLANDERS

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted over at Breaking the Spine, that highlights upcoming releases that we are eagerly anticipating. Here is my choice for this week:

Witchlanders by Lena Coakley
Published by: Antheneum
Release date: 30th August 2011
Genre: YA, Fantasy

Summary (from Goodreads): High in their mountain covens, red witches pray to the Goddess, protecting the Witchlands by throwing the bones and foretelling the future. It’s all a fake. At least, that’s what Ryder thinks. He doubts the witches really deserve their tithes—one quarter of all the crops his village can produce. And even if they can predict the future, what danger is there to foretell, now that his people’s old enemy, the Baen, has been defeated? But when a terrifying new magic threatens both his village and the coven, Ryder must confront the beautiful and silent witch who holds all the secrets. Everything he’s ever believed about witches, the Baen, magic and about himself will change, when he discovers that the prophecies he’s always scorned—Are about him.

1 comment:

kaye (paper reader) said...

I haven't read too many books about witches, so I sort of like the idea that this touches upon the idea of witches but from a non-main perspective. It'll ease me into more stories that have to do with the subject. Not to mention the cover is gorgeous.