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Waiting On Wednesday! (55)
Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted over at Breaking The Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.
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The Cirque
Release Date: 03/02/13
265 pages
Summary from Goodreads:
Eighteen-year-old ballerina Ariel is determined to experience life outside the dance studio. She auditions for the cirque on a whim, and though ballet training didn’t prepare her for dodging knives, she refuses to flinch and wins the spot of target girl alongside Gabriel, the mysterious knife-thrower. There’s something unmistakably dangerous yet tempting about Gabriel’s crystal blue eyes and tattoos. She’s determined to solve the mystery of his past after learning he’s on the run from the law. Especially since the distraction is just what she needs to avoid admitting to her parents she was dismissed from her ballet contract.
The more she learns about Gabriel, the scars on his body, the foster homes he grew up in, and his fascination with knives, she knows she should run the other way, but that boy’s like crack, oh so bad for you, yet addicting as hell. When he’s arrested and forced to deal with his past, she has to choose between putting her own life back together and dealing with her parents, or taking a chance on Gabriel, as no one else has.
The Cirque is a contemporary young adult romance.
Rebel Spring (Falling Kingdoms #2)
Release Date: 2013
Book Summary:
Auranos has been conquered and the three kingdoms — Auranos, Limeros, and Paelsia — are now unwillingly united as one country called Mytica. But alluring, dangerous magic still beckons, and with it the chance to rule not just Mytica, but the world…
CLEO is now a prisoner in her own palace, forced to be an ambassador for Mytica as the evil King Gaius lies to her people
MAGNUS stands to eventually inherit the new kingdom but is still obsessed with his feelings for his adopted sister Lucia
LUCIA is haunted by the outcome of the breathtaking display of magic that allowed her father to capture the kingdoms
JONAS watches at the palace gates, a troop of rebels behind him, waiting for him to tell them how he plans to overtake King Gaius
When Gaius announces that a road is to be built into the Forbidden Mountains, formally linking all of Mytica together, he sets off a chain of events that will forever change the face of this land. Because Gaius is not just burrowing into a pile of rock. He’s tunneling directly into the Watchers’ Sanctuary. And his actions will have cosmic consequences.
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Any of these beauties in your TBR? What are you waiting for this week?
Jennifer Messerschmidt
Dying for Rebel Springs! I also just saw the cover reveal for The Cirque and it looks great! Love circus plots.
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Shane
Cool picks!
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Ellen
Both of these sounds great. Nice picks!
Amy
I didn’t read Falling Kingdoms, but The Cirque sounds really good and I love that cover!! Great picks!
Andrea @The Bookish Babes
The Cirque looks so good. I love Ryann’s writing! Thanks for sharing!
Jessica@a GREAT read
Oooh nice! I still need to read Falling Kingdoms! Love the cover, must read it soon so I can read this cover description!!
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Giselle
Ooh I am intrigued! Especially about The Cirque! I know it says YA but the character is 18! I wonder if it’s a little more on the NA side.
Great picks, love!