Hi Munchworms!
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine and gives us a chance to show off the books we are really looking forward to.
November’s almost gone. Who’s ready to dive into some December releases?!
December 5th
Marriages of convenience are so…inconvenient.
Rescued by Calvin McLoughlin from a would-be subway attacker, Holland Bakker pays the brilliant musician back by pulling some of her errand-girl strings and getting him an audition with a big-time musical director. When the tryout goes better than even Holland could have imagined, Calvin is set for a great entry into Broadway—until he admits his student visa has expired and he’s in the country illegally.
Holland impulsively offers to wed the Irishman to keep him in New York, her growing infatuation a secret only to him. As their relationship evolves from awkward roommates to besotted lovers, Calvin becomes the darling of Broadway. In the middle of the theatrics and the acting-not-acting, what will it take for Holland and Calvin to realise that they both stopped pretending a long time ago?
And because I know that there are some of you who’ve read The Bear and the Nightingale, let’s just remind you all that the sequel is coming out December 5th as well!
The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingalecontinues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose between marriage or life in a convent and instead flees her home—but soon finds herself called upon to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under siege.
Orphaned and cast out as a witch by her village, Vasya’s options are few: resign herself to life in a convent, or allow her older sister to make her a match with a Moscovite prince. Both doom her to life in a tower, cut off from the vast world she longs to explore. So instead she chooses adventure, disguising herself as a boy and riding her horse into the woods. When a battle with some bandits who have been terrorizing the countryside earns her the admiration of the Grand Prince of Moscow, she must carefully guard the secret of her gender to remain in his good graces—even as she realizes his kingdom is under threat from mysterious forces only she will be able to stop.
Have you read The Bear and the Nightingale? Or are you planning on it?
I very much enjoyed The Bear and the Nightingale. I hope to have my review up for The Girl in the Tower on Monday.
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I’ll be on the look-out for it!
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Yay!
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I’m looking forward to The Girl in the Tower. If it gets as lovely of reviews as its predecessor, I’ll just have to read them both.
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Same here!
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I have no read The Bear and the Nightingale, but I do have a copy on my shelf starting me down. I keep failing to pick it up. I can’t remember – did you read the first one and enjoy it? 🙂 Wonderful post, Kathy! 🙂
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I haven’t read the first one; but I did hear a lot about it so far so I might just have to get myself a copy eventually!
We’re all getting stared to death by all the unread books on our shelves, haha. There’s nowhere to hide.
Thank you, Mandy!! 🙂
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ooooooooh, a christina lauren book about an irish guy? heck yeah!!!
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Hahaha!
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