Waiting on Wednesday: Never Fade and Endless Knight

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating.

Here are my WoW picks this week (click title for the Goodreads page):

Never Fade (The Darkest Minds #2) by Alexandra Bracken

Release date: October 15th, 2013

Publisher: Disney Hyperion

Pre-Order: Amazon | Book Depository

Ruby never asked for the abilities that almost cost her her life. Now she must call upon them on a daily basis, leading dangerous missions to bring down a corrupt government and breaking into the minds of her enemies. Other kids in the Children’s League call Ruby “Leader”, but she knows what she really is: a monster. 

When Ruby is entrusted with an explosive secret, she must embark on her most dangerous mission yet: leaving the Children’s League behind. Crucial information about the disease that killed most of America’s children—and turned Ruby and the others who lived into feared and hated outcasts—has survived every attempt to destroy it. But the truth is only saved in one place: a flashdrive in the hands of Liam Stewart, the boy Ruby once believed was her future—and who now wouldn’t recognize her. 

As Ruby sets out across a desperate, lawless country to find Liam—and answers about the catastrophe that has ripped both her life and America apart—she is torn between old friends and the promise she made to serve the League. Ruby will do anything to protect the people she loves. But what if winning the war means losing herself?

I became a little less sane after reading the ending of The Darkest Minds. I might have looked like a lunatic staring in space for so long after the events in the last chapter. I'm sure all of you who have read it can understand why!

Endless Knight (The Arcana Chronicles #2) by Kresley Cole

Release date: October 1st, 2013

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Pre-Order: Amazon | Book Depository

In the second book of the Arcana Chronicles Evie has now fully come into her powers as the tarot Empress. And Jackson was there to see it all. In the aftermath of killing Arthur, the tarot Alchemist, Evie realizes that a war is brewing between the other teens that, following the apocalypse, have been given powers and its kill or be killed. 

Things get even more complicated when Evie meets Death, the mysterious, sexy Endless Knight. Somehow the Empress and Death share a romantic history - one that Evie can't remember, but Death can't forget. She is drawn to the Endless Knight, but is in love with Jack. Determined to discover why she's been granted these powers, Evie struggles to accept her place in a prophecy that will either save the world, or completely destroy it.

I swear, Poison Princess was the only book where the male lead frustrated me to no end while I ended up loving it nonetheless. I heard something about a brewing love triangle that will happen in this book, but that doesn't really bother me that much. I just want it in my hands ASAP.