Waiting on Wednesday

"Waiting On Wednesday" is a weekly event, originally started by Jill at Breaking the Spine , that highlights upcoming book releases everyone is waiting on...hence the title. This week's pick is Half Blood by Jennifer L. Armentrout. Here is the description from Goodreads:

"The Hematoi descend from the unions of gods and mortals, and the children of two Hematoi pure-bloods have godlike powers. Children of Hematoi and mortals well, not so much. Half-bloods only have two options: become trained Sentinels who hunt and kill daimons or become servants in the homes of the pures.

Seventeen-year-old Alexandria would rather risk her life fighting than waste it scrubbing toilets, but she may end up slumming it anyway. There are several rules that students at the Covenant must follow. Alex has problems with them all, but especially rule #1:

Relationships between pures and halfs are forbidden.

Unfortunately, she's crushing hard on the totally hot pure-blood Aiden. But falling for Aiden isn't her biggest problem--staying alive long enough to graduate the Covenant and become a Sentinel is. If she fails in her duty, she faces a future worse than death or slavery: being turned into a daimon, and being hunted by Aiden. And that would kind of suck."

Striking cover? CHECK. Intriguing story? CHECK. Forbidden love? CHECK. Enough said really. Of course I want to read this book and with all of the above checked off, it kinda goes without saying that it's definitely on the wish list. Half Blood is published on 15th September, 2011 by Spencer Hill Press. No word on a UK release as of yet but you should be able to get it from an online seller.

Click here to find out more about Jennifer and her books. I believe Half Blood is the start of a new series and more books are planned! There's even a cover for the next book! Also, the series has a website which you can take a look at here.