This week I'm waiting on All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin, because I've read her two other young adult novels (Memoirs Of A Teenage Amnesiac and Elsewhere) and loved them. Chocolate and coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water is increasingly scarce, and New York City is rife with crime and poverty. And yet, for Anya Balanchine, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the city’s most notorious (and dead) crime boss, life is fairly routine—going to school, taking care of her siblings and her dying grandmother, trying to avoid falling in love with the new assistant D.A.'s son, and avoiding her loser ex-boyfriend. That is until someone in her inner circle ends up poisoned by the chocolate her family manufactures and the police think she’s to blame. Suddenly, Anya finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight—at school, in the news, and most importantly, within her mafiya family.
All These Things I've Done is the first in the Birthright series, and is expected to come out on the 27th of September.
Feel free to leave a link to your own Waiting On Wednesday post in the comments, and I'll be sure to have a look.
