Waiting on Wednesday: Ink, Iron, and Glass by Gwendolyn Clare

Waiting on Wednesday was hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine. This meme spotlights upcoming releases that I'm eagerly anticipating. ---

Ink, Iron, and Glass

Ink, Iron, and Glass #1 Gwendolyn Clare Expected Publication: February 20, 2017 Genre: YA Fantasy, Historical Fiction

Can she write a world gone wrong?

A certain pen, a certain book, and a certain person can craft entirely new worlds through a branch of science called scriptology. Elsa comes from one such world that was written into creation by her mother—a noted scriptologist.

But when her home is attacked and her mother abducted, Elsa must cross into the real world and use her own scriptology gifts to find her. In an alternative 19th-century Italy, Elsa finds a secret society of pazzerellones—young people with a gift for mechanics, alchemy or scriptology—and meets Leo, a gorgeous mechanist with a smart mouth and a tragic past. She recruits the help of these fellow geniuses just as an assassin arrives on their doorstep.

In this thrilling debut, worlds collide as Elsa unveils a deep political conspiracy seeking to unlock the most dangerous weapon ever created—and only she can stop it.

It's like Inkheart in reverse. Only, instead of reading characters to life into the real world in equal exchange from the imagined world, the gifted in this book are writing worlds and traveling into them. And bonus! It's an AU.