Waiting on Wednesday: Wish Me Dead and Someone Else's Life

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine and features books that we just can't wait to get our hands on!

This week's picks:

Wish Me Dead by Helen Grant

 
Goodreads' description:

"The funny thing is I never even meant the first one.

Now I bitterly regret visiting the cursed witch's house, deep in the middle of the forest. It's where I made my wishes.


I wished Klara Klein dead.
It came true.


I wished for the most gorgeous boy in town to finally notice me.
It came true.


I wished to be rid of the poisonous busybody who destroyed my family.
It came true.


I didn't mean for this to happen. Not me, Steffi Nett, the shy one who never says anything. But as the body count increases with every wish I make . . .

Who else could it be?"

Love the premise of this one – stories about wishes can be so entertaining! Although this one sounds like it has quite a dark angle to it... (And is it just me, or does the girl's face on the cover look totally creepy?)

Someone Else's Life by Katie Dale

From the author's blog:

"When seventeen-year-old Rosie’s mother, Trudie, dies from Huntington’s Disease, her pain is intensified by the knowledge that she has a fifty-per-cent chance of inheriting the crippling disease herself.

Only when she tells her mum’s best friend, ‘Aunt Sarah’ that she is going to test for the disease does Sarah, a midwife, reveal that Trudie was not her real mother after all – that she was swapped at birth for a baby destined to die…

Devastated, Rosie decides to trace her real mother, hitching along on her ex-boyfriend’s GAP year to follow her to Los Angeles.

But all does not go to plan, and as Rosie discovers yet more of her family's deeply-buried secrets and lies, she is left with an agonising decision of her own - one which will be the most heart-breaking and far-reaching of all... "

Woah. Seems like there will be lots of secrets revealed here! Why was that first baby destined to die - because it had inherited the disease? *Did* it die? And what is this decision Rosie has to make? This one sounds like it's going to be emotionally intense. Also, love the simplicity of the cover (although the disembodied head is a little unsettling...)

What books are you waiting on?