Waiting on Wednesday--Fearless, by Cornelia Funke

 I just found out, to my great excitement, that Fearless, the sequel to Reckless, by Cornelia Funke, is coming out this April from Little Brown!  Reckless is the story of a boy who travels to a mirror-world of fractured fairy tale magic, and it is extremely memorable and moving.  As I said in my review of Reckless,  "my only real complaint is with the ending; as the jacket flap says: "If you've come for happily ever after, you've come to the wrong place." But I wouldn't have minded just a bit more reason to think that Jacob is finally going to grow up....(oh, Fox, I feel for you so)......"  And so I am so utterly full of anticipation about what will happen to Jacob and Fox next....

"Jacob Reckless returns once again to the Mirrorworld--filled with profound characters, extraordinary creatures, and epic life-or-death treasure hunts that could only come from the mind of the master storyteller of our generation, Cornelia Funke.

Jacob Reckless has only a few months left to live. He's tried everything to shake the Fairy curse that traded his life for his brother's--legends such as the All-Healing Apple, the Well of Eternal Youth, the blood of a northern Djinn. And yet hope after hope is extinguished. After months of fruitless searching, Jacob journeys through his father's mirror one final time to deliver the bad news to Fox.

But there they hear of one last possibility--an item so legendary that not even Mirrorworlders believe it exists: a crossbow that can kill thousands, or heal one, when shot through the heart. But a Goyl treasure hunter is also searching for the prized crossbow. Jacob must find it first--and somehow convince Fox to do whatever it takes to save him."

Waiting on Wednesday is a meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.