Waiting on Wednesday: Passenger by Alexandra Bracken

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

This week’s pre-publication “can’t-wait-to-read” selection is:

Passenger

By Alexandra Bracken

Publisher:  Disney Hyperion

Release date: January 5, 2016

From Goodreads:

passage, n.
i. A brief section of music composed of a series of notes and flourishes.
ii. A journey by water; a voyage.
iii. The transition from one place to another, across space and time.

In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves. Thrust into an unfamiliar world by a stranger with a dangerous agenda, Etta is certain of only one thing: she has traveled not just miles but years from home. And she’s inherited a legacy she knows nothing about from a family whose existence she’s never heard of. Until now.

Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free from the Ironwoods—a powerful family in the colonies—and the servitude he’s known at their hands. But with the arrival of an unusual passenger on his ship comes the insistent pull of the past that he can’t escape and the family that won’t let him go so easily. Now the Ironwoods are searching for a stolen object of untold value, one they believe only Etta, Nicholas’ passenger, can find. In order to protect her, he must ensure she brings it back to them— whether she wants to or not.

Together, Etta and Nicholas embark on a perilous journey across centuries and continents, piecing together clues left behind by the traveler who will do anything to keep the object out of the Ironwoods’ grasp. But as they get closer to the truth of their search, and the deadly game the Ironwoods are play­ing, treacherous forces threaten to sep­arate Etta not only from Nicholas but from her path home . . . forever

My Thoughts:

I recently read the first book in Alexandra Bracken’s trilogy, The Darkest Minds and I absolutely loved it. I enjoyed her writing style tremendously and when she announced her new book I instantly knew that I would read it. I am a huge fan of time travel (in books, movies, tv shows, you name it). This will not be my first time travel read but I always love discovering what each author brings to the subject. With each author’s take on time travel there are always new rules to learn and I for one am looking forward to see what Alexandra Bracken comes up with. She is a fantastic story teller with an amazing ability to bring her world to life. I wished for an ARC for Passenger on NetGalley, but I didn’t get one yet. Hopefully I will, but if that doesn’t work out for me, at least I don’t have that much longer to wait for Passenger to be released.

This is one of my most anticipated releases for 2016. Is this book on your TBR list? Let me know what you guys think in the comments below.