***The Starry-Eyed Revue***: firelight

Awhile on the Pile/From the Review Pile is a meme hosted by Stepping Out of the Page every Thursday but was also inspired by Rachel at My Reading Pile/Fiktshun. The aim of this meme is to showcase books that you've received for review -- or any book that you own and really want to read/review -- but haven't yet got around to reading in order to give the book some extra publicity.

Here's the book I chose to give some extra love this week:

Title: Vanish
Author: Sophie Jordan
Series: 2nd book in the Firelight series
Publisher: HarperTeen
Publication Date: September 6, 2011
Source: ARC from publisher

An impossible romance.
Bitter rivalries.
Deadly choices.

To save the life of the boy she loves, Jacinda did the unthinkable: She betrayed the most closely-guarded secret of her kind. Now she must return to the protection of her pride knowing she might never see Will again—and worse, that because his mind has been shaded, Will’s memories of that fateful night and why she had to flee are gone.

Back home, Jacinda is greeted with hostility and must work to prove her loyalty for both her sake and her family’s. Among the few who will even talk to her are Cassian, the pride’s heir apparent who has always wanted her, and her sister, Tamra, who has been forever changed by a twist of fate. Jacinda knows that she should forget Will and move on—that if he managed to remember and keep his promise to find her, it would only endanger them both. Yet she clings to the hope that someday they will be together again. When the chance arrives to follow her heart, will she risk everything for love?

So...the reason this one has been sitting on the pile for so long is because I haven't read the first book, Firelight, yet. And I am just not capable of starting a series in the middle...it just doesn't feel right. But I've heard great things about this series. I've got Firelight on my shelf, as well, but since Hidden's release is only mere months away, I think I'll just wait until then to start the series and read them all back-to-back. That way, no agonizing wait after what I've heard is a pretty big cliffhanger in Vanish.

Have you read any of this series? What do you think? Is my plan to wait a cop-out? :P