Waiting on Wednesday: Blackbirds

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature at Breaking the Spine.

My pick this week is the upcoming book Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig. This will be released on April 24, 2012.

Summary: Miriam Black knows when you will die. She’s foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart attacks, strokes, and suicides.

But when Miriam hitches a ride with Louis Darling and shakes his hand, she sees that in thirty days Louis will be murdered while he calls her name. Louis will die because he met her, and she will be the next victim.

No matter what she does she can’t save Louis. But if she wants to stay alive, she’ll have to try.

Why I picked it: Wow, what can I say, I LOVE the cover. And the description is pretty compelling, too, but that cover! WOW!

Cover Crazy: Wintertown

Cover Crazy is a feature on the Book Worms.

Why I love this cover: Maybe it's because I've now spent most of my life in Minnesota, but I love the depiction of Winter on this cover. Winter is a very beautiful time, with all the snow, but it also can be a very melancholy time. I think this cover captures the beauty of snow, but also the loneliness of it. I can already guess what this book might be about without reading the description!

It looks like the snow at the bottom is confetti? I love the use of a mundane material to depict the pile of snow. Very creative.