On My Wish List (72)

On My Wish List is a fun weekly event hosted by Workaday Reads and runs every Saturday. It's where we list all the books we desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming.

Title: Hunting Lila Author: Sarah Alderson Publication Date: August 5, 2011
Synopsis: 
17-year-old Lila has two secrets she’s prepared to take to the grave. The first is that she can move things just by looking at them. The second is that she’s been in love with her brother’s best friend, Alex, since forever.

After a mugging exposes her unique ability, Lila decides to run to the only people she can trust—her brother and Alex. They live in Southern California where they work for a secret organisation called The Unit, and Lila discovers that the two of them are hunting down the men who murdered her mother five years before. And that they’ve found them.

In a world where nothing and no one is quite as they seem, Lila quickly realises that she is not alone—there are others out there just like her—people with special powers—and her mother’s killer is one of them…

This is another one of those books that escaped my grasp around release time and then quickly fell off my radar. I have seen a ton of good things about it, but I have yet to rush out and grab it. Tell me, have you read it? Should I make a better effort at getting a copy? 

How about you? What do you have waiting for you on your wish list? Leave me a link and I'll come check it out!