Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Waiting on Wednesday: Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly and Every Last Breath by Juno Rushdon


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


Jenn's Pick: I Can't wait to have my hands on this!

Stepsister
Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly
May 14th, 2019
A startling, fiercely feminist re-imagining of Cinderella from the bestselling, award-winning author Jennifer Donnelly.
Isabelle should be blissfully happy – she’s about to win the handsome prince. Except Isabelle isn’t the beautiful girl who lost the glass slipper and captured the prince’s heart. She’s the ugly stepsister who’s cut off her toes to fit into Cinderella’s shoe ... which is now filling with blood.
When the prince discovers Isabelle’s deception, she is turned away in shame. It’s no more than she deserves: she is a plain girl in a world that values beauty; a feisty girl in a world that wants her to be pliant.
Isabelle has tried to fit in. To live up to her mother’s expectations. To be like her stepsister. To be sweet. To be pretty. One by one, she has cut away pieces of herself in order to survive a world that doesn’t appreciate a girl like her. And that has made her mean, jealous, and hollow.
Until she gets a chance to alter her destiny and prove what ugly stepsisters have always known: it takes more than heartache to break a girl.
Evoking the darker, older versions of the Cinderella story, bestselling author Jennifer Donnelly shows us that ugly is in the eye of the beholder, and uses her trademark wit and wisdom to send an overlooked character on a journey toward empowerment, redemption, and a new definition of beauty.


Ash's Pick: I need to read this NOW! 

Every Last Breath (Final Hour #1)
Every Last Breath by June Rushdon
April 30th, 2019
48 hours
2 covert operatives
1 chance to get it right
Maddox Kinkade is an expert at managing the impossible. Tasked with neutralizing a lethal bioweapon, she turns to the one person capable of helping her stop the threat of pandemic in time: the love of her life, back from the dead and mad as hell at her supposed betrayal. Recruiting Cole to save millions of lives may be harder than resisting the attraction still burning between them, but Maddox will do whatever it takes...even if it destroys her.
When Maddox crashes back into Cole Matthews' life, he wants to fight back. He wants to hate her. But the crisis is too strong to ignore, and soon the two former lovers find themselves working side-by-side in a breakneck race to stop a world-class killer with a secret that could end everything.



7 comments:

  1. I wouldn't mind Stepsister, it's a different point of view to a very old story

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  2. The cover for Stepsister is GORGEOUS!! I want it just for the cover. It also sounds like a good book. I'll probably check it out :)

    Elle Inked @ Keep on Reading

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  3. Jennifer Donnelly?!?!? Added to the TBR!!!

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  4. OOh nice! I am excited for Stepsister myself! The other book is totally new to me. I hope you both love your pick once you get to read it!

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    Have a GREAT day!

    Old Follower :)

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  5. Both of these sound great, especially Stepsister!

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