Waiting on Wednesday: The Pledge

The lovely Jill (a fellow Alabamian!) over at Breaking the Spine created the Waiting on Wednesday meme for us bloggers to showcase books we're waiting on.

This week's selection has such a cool premise that I can't wait to read it...and the cover isn't bad, either. If you've never heard of this one, you might wanna add it to your To-Be-Read List now. My choice this week is...




The Pledge
By Kimberly Derting
Pub Date 11/15/11

product description from goodreads.com



In the violent country of Ludania, the classes are strictly divided by the language they speak. The smallest transgression, like looking a member of a higher class in the eye while they are speaking their native tongue, results in immediate execution. Seventeen-year-old Charlaina has always been able to understand the languages of all classes, and she’s spent her life trying to hide her secret. The only place she can really be free is the drug-fueled underground clubs where people go to shake off the oppressive rules of the world they live in. It's there that she meets a beautiful and mysterious boy named Max who speaks a language she's never heard before . . . and her secret is almost exposed.

Charlie is intensely attracted to Max, even though she can’t be sure where his real loyalties lie. As the emergency drills give way to real crisis and the violence escalates, it becomes clear that Charlie is the key to something much bigger: her country’s only chance for freedom from the terrible power of a deadly regime.



I love that description, and the cover is mysterious (and the model looks a bit like Kimberly herself, IMO)...and it's coming out just in time for Thanksgiving!