“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted on Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.

Everyone knows how much I love the Fuentes Brothers from The Perfect Chemistry series by Simone Elkeles. And if you didn’t know, check out this post: Rico Suave, The Fuentes Brothers! Alex and Carlos top my fictional boyfriends list! Yes, I know it is wrong, but I can’t help it.

So imagine my delight when the cover for book 3, Chain Reaction, was released this week! And it is just as swoon worthy as the other covers! And OH EM GEEEEEE I can’t wait!

Fall in Love:

Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles
Luis Fuentes is a good boy who doesn’t live with the angst that his big brothers, Alex and Carlos, have always lived with. Luis is smart, funny, and has big dreams of becoming an astronaut. But when he falls for the wrong girl, Luis enters a dark world he’s never known, and just when he thinks he’s got life all figured out, learns some disturbing news about his family that destroys his positive outlook on life. Will that Fuentes bad boy streak come out with a vengeance and lure Luis to live on the edge like his new girlfriend and his own father?

Continuing all the steamy romance of the first two books, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Simone Elkeles gives fans one more satisfying taste of the irresistible Fuentes boys.

Pre-Order it here: Chain Reaction (Perfect Chemistry #3) by Simone Elkeles or add the book to your TBR on Goodreads
 
This title will be released on May 24, 2011

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Also, what kind of Southern Vampire Mysteries fan would I be if I didn’t post the cover for Book 11 in the Sookie Stackhouse series? Released this week, the cover for Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris.

Dead Reckoning: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel (SVM Book 11)
With her knack for being in trouble’s way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte’s, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. But Sookie suspects otherwise and she and Sam work together to uncover the culprit – and the twisted motive for the attack. But her attention is divided. Though she can’t ‘read’ vampires, Sookie knows her lover Eric Northman and his ‘child’ Pam well – and she realises that they are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master. Gradually, she is drawn into the plot -which is much more complicated than she knows. Caught up in the politics of the vampire world, Sookie will learn that she is as much of a pawn as any ordinary human – and that there is a new Queen on the board…

Pre-Order the book here: Dead Reckoning: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel

This title will be released on May 3, 2011

I’ve always been a big fan of the cover art for the Southern Vampire Series, but something about this one doesn’t sit well with me. Perhaps it is because Sookie is hanging out upside down, or perhaps it has something to do with the burning pages that are falling all around her, which are most likely foreshadowing something significant.  But really, hasn’t poor Sookie been burnt enough?