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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

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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Sunday, March 11, 2012

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!

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

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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