Waiting on Wednesday (15)

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme held on... you guessed it, WEDNESDAY and it's hosted by the wonderful Jill at Breaking the Spine!

Stormdancer (The Lotus War #1) by Jay Kristoff

Release Date: USA Edition - September 18, 2012
                       UK Edition - September 1, 2012 (Lucky jerks.)
Publisher: Tor UK/ Thomas Dunne Books
336 Pages

A DYING LAND 
The Shima Imperium is verging on the brink of environmental collapse; decimated by clockwork industrialization and the machine-worshippers of the Lotus Guild. The skies are red as blood, land choked with toxic pollution, wildlife ravaged by mass extinctions.

AN IMPOSSIBLE QUEST
The hunters of the imperial court are charged by their Shōgun to capture a thunder tiger—a legendary beast, half-eagle, half-tiger. But any fool knows thunder tigers have been extinct for more than a century, and the price of failing the Shōgun is death.

A SIXTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL
Yukiko is a child of the Fox clan, possessed of a hidden gift that would see her executed by the Lotus Guild. Accompanying her father on the Shōgun’s hunt, she finds herself stranded: a young woman alone in Shima’s last wilderness, with only a furious, crippled thunder tiger for company. Even though she can hear his thoughts, even though she saved his life, all she knows for certain is he’d rather see her dead than help her.

But together, the pair will form an indomitable friendship, and rise to challenge the might of an empire.

This book is less "waiting on" more "IF I DON'T GET MY HANDS ON THIS BOOK ASAP, MY LIFE MY NEVER BE HAPPY AGAIN." My mother would call me dramatic if she saw this and I was tell her that I'm an English major, not a Theater major, so I'm never dramatic.

What are you waiting on this Wednesday?