Waiting on Wednesday (19)

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine where we all feature upcoming books we're eagerly anticipating.

I've altered things a little to include one book that hasn't come out yet and one that has already been published but I still haven't gotten around to reading yet.

Juliet Immortal by Stacey Jay 
Intrinsical by Lani Woodland

Goodreads description of Juliet Immortal (September 2011):

Juliet Capulet didn't take her own life. She was murdered by the person she trusted most, her new husband, Romeo Montague, a sacrifice made to ensure his own immortality. But what Romeo didn't anticipate was that Juliet would be granted eternity, as well, and would become an agent for the Ambassadors of Light. For 700 years, she's fought Romeo for the souls of true lovers, struggling to preserve romantic love and the lives of the innocent. Until the day she meets someone she's forbidden to love, and Romeo, oh Romeo, will do everything in his power to destroy that love.

Why I want to read it: 

I was never a fan of Romeo and Juliet, so I have no purist qualms with Stacey Jay’s revamping this classic tale. In fact, I never bought their super-duper love, and so I’m really digging the new spin of making Romeo a double crossing sleaze. And making Juliet some kick butt immortal? Ha, I love it! I want to see these two go toe to toe, and I want it to be epic.

 Goodreads description of Intrinsical (August 2010):

Sixteen-year-old Yara Silva has always known that ghosts walk alongside the living. Her grandma, like the other females in her family, is a Waker, someone who can see and communicate with ghosts. Yara grew up watching her grandmother taunted and scorned for this unusual ability and doesn't want that to be her future. She has been dreading the day when she too would see ghosts, and is relieved that the usually dominant Waker gene seems to have skipped her, letting her live a normal teenage life. 

However, all that changes for Yara on her first day at her elite boarding school when she discovers the gene was only lying dormant. She witnesses a dark mist attack Brent, a handsome fellow student, and rushes to his rescue. Her act of heroism draws the mist's attention, and the dark spirit begins stalking her. Yara finds herself entrenched in a sixty-year-old curse that haunts the school, threatening not only her life, but the lives of her closest friends as well. Yara soon realizes that the past she was trying to put behind her isn't going to go quietly.

Why I want to read it: 

I like ghosts, I like suspense and mystery, and I love decades-old curses. I haven’t read many reviews for this one, but the few I have read have all been very positive. The next book in the series (Indelible) comes out this September and, I have to admit, Indelible’s beautiful cover has given me renewed interest in Intrinsical.

Have any of you read either of these books? Would you recommend them?

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