Waiting on Wednesday (103): Enchanted by Alethea Kontis

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Enchanted by Alethea Kontis 
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books

Publish Date: May 8, 2012

Publisher's Description
It isn’t easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week. Sunday’s only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true.

When Sunday meets an enchanted frog who asks about her stories, the two become friends. Soon that friendship deepens into something magical. One night Sunday kisses her frog goodbye and leaves, not realizing that her love has transformed him back into Rumbold, the crown prince of Arilland—and a man Sunday’s family despises.

The prince returns to his castle, intent on making Sunday fall in love with him as the man he is, not the frog he was. But Sunday is not so easy to woo. How can she feel such a strange, strong attraction for this prince she barely knows? And what twisted secrets lie hidden in his past—and hers?

*Yes, the cover is gorgeous, but let me try not to judge by that.  It's a frog prince story.  Come on!!!!!  Awesome! - Jessica

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In My Mailbox (73)

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme run by The Story Siren which explores the books that have been delivered to our mailbox. Let us know what looks good to you and leave us a link so we can check out what you got over the week. 

FOR REVIEW

The False Prince (Ascendance Trilogy) by Jennifer A. Nielson


Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms: Magic, Mystery, & a Very Strange Adventure by Lissa Evans


Breaking Beautiful by Jennifer Shaw Wolf

The Girl in the Clockwork Collar (The Steampunk Chronicles) by Kady Cross


Year Zero: A Novel by Rob Reid


Innocent Darkness (The Aether Chronicles) by Suzanne Lazear


The Wicked and the Just by J. Anderson Coats

WON

Flyaway by Helen Landalf (Thank you A Backwards Story and The Teen Book Scene!)

What would you read first?

Leave us a link to your IMM, we'd love to drool over your reads!

Thanks to Scholastic, Sterling Publishing, Bloomsbury Children's, Harlequin, Random House, Del Rey, Harcourt, and Flux for this weeks books for review!

Waiting on Wednesday (102): Ladies in Waiting by Laura L. Sullivan

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Ladies in Waiting by Laura L. Sullivan 
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books

Publish Date: May 8, 2012

Publisher's Description
Eliza dreams of being a playwright for the king’s theater, where she will be admired for her witty turns of phrase rather than her father’s wealth.

Beth is beautiful as the day but poor as a church mouse, so she must marry well, despite her love for her childhood sweetheart.

Zabby comes to England to further her scientific studies—and ends up saving the life of King Charles II. Soon her friendship with him becomes a dangerous, impossible obsession. Though she knows she should stay away from the young, handsome king, Charles has a new bride, Queen Catherine, and a queen needs ladies in waiting.

And so Zabby, Beth, and Eliza, three Elizabeths from very different walks of life, find themselves at the center of the most scandal-filled court that England has ever seen.

*I'm liking historical fiction more and more as of late.  I love how scandalous this one sounds! - Jessica

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Waiting on Wednesday (101): The Wicked and the Just by J. Anderson Coats

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

The Wicked and the Just by J. Anderson Coats

Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books

Publish Date: April 17, 2012

Publisher's Description
Cecily longs to return to her beloved Edgeley Hall, where her father was lord of the manor. But now he has completely ruined her life. He is moving them to Caernarvon, in occupied Wales, where he can get a place for almost nothing, since the king needs good strong Englishmen to keep down the vicious Welshmen. At least Cecily will get to be the lady of the house at last—if all goes well.

Gwenhwyfar knows all about that house. Once she dreamed of being the lady there herself, until the English came and destroyed the lives of everyone she knows. Now Gwenhwyfar must wait hand and foot on this bratty English girl who has taken what should have been hers.

While Cecily struggles to find her place amongst the snobby English landowners, Gwenhwyfar struggles just to survive. And meanwhile the Welsh are not as conquered as they seem. Outside the city walls of Caernarvon, tensions are rising ever higher—until finally they must reach the breaking point.

*This sounds like a great historical fiction YA read! - Jessica

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Waiting on Wednesday (100): The Springsweet by Saundra Mitchell

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

The Springsweet by Saundra Mitchell 
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books

Publish Date:April 17, 2012

Publisher's Description
Heartbroken over the tragic death of her fiancé, seventeen-year-old Zora Stewart leaves Baltimore for the frontier town of West Glory, Oklahoma, to help her young widowed aunt keep her homestead going. There she discovers that she possesses the astonishing ability to sense water under the parched earth. When her aunt hires her out as a “springsweet” to advise other settlers where to dig their wells, Zora feels the burden of holding the key to something so essential to survival in this unforgiving land. Even more, she finds herself longing for love the way the prairie thirsts for water. Maybe, in the wildness of the territories, Zora can finally move beyond simply surviving and start living.



* This is from the author of The Vespertine, a wonderful historical fantasy (and this is a companion to The Vespertine).  This one sounds right up her alley and I love the very different storyline.- Jessica

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Waiting on Wednesday (84): Jessica Rules the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Jessica Rules the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey

Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books
Publish Date: January 10, 2012

Publisher's Description
The highly anticipated sequel to Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side.

It’s one thing to find out you’re a vampire princess. It’s a whole other thing to actually rule. Newly married Jessica Packwood is having a hard enough time feeling regal with her husband, Lucius, at her side. But when evidence in the murder of a powerful elder points to Lucius, sending him into solitary confinement, Jessica is suddenly on her own. Determined to clear her husband’s name, Jessica launches into a full-scale investigation, but hallucinations and nightmares of betrayal keep getting in her way. Jessica knows that with no blood to drink, Lucius’s time is running out. Can she figure out who the real killer is—and whom she can trust—before it’s too late?
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