Waiting on Wednesday is a meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine in which we have the opportunity to let others know about books that we are eagerly waiting for.
Bee
Hunted
by Meagan Spooner
Series: Hunted #1
Published on March 14th 2017
by HarperTeen
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Retelling
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Also by this author: These Broken Stars, These Broken Stars, Hunted, Hunted
Beauty knows the Beast’s forest in her bones—and in her blood. Though she grew up with the city’s highest aristocrats, far from her father’s old lodge, she knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who’s ever come close to discovering them.
So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved. Out in the wilderness, there’s no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas…or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman. But Yeva’s father’s misfortune may have cost him his mind, and when he goes missing in the woods, Yeva sets her sights on one prey: the creature he’d been obsessively tracking just before his disappearance.
Deaf to her sisters’ protests, Yeva hunts this strange Beast back into his own territory—a cursed valley, a ruined castle, and a world of creatures that Yeva’s only heard about in fairy tales. A world that can bring her ruin or salvation. Who will survive: the Beauty, or the Beast?
Why I’m waiting: I love a good retelling and I haven’t read many good Beauty and the Beast ones so this one definitely has my interest. Also, the cover is quite gorgeous, is it not?
Liza
Just Another Girl
by Elizabeth Eulberg
Published on March 28th 2017
by Scholastic
Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary
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Also by this author: The Lonely Hearts Club
You resent her. You can't stand her. You might even hate her.
But you don't know her at all.
Hope knows there's only one thing coming between her and her longtime crush: his girlfriend, Parker. She has to sit on the sidelines and watch as the perfect girl gets the perfect boy . . . because that's how the universe works, even though it's so completely wrong.
Parker doesn't feel perfect. She knows if everyone knew the truth about her, they'd never be able to get past it. So she keeps quiet. She focuses on making it through the day with her secret safe . . . even as this becomes harder and harder to do. And Hope isn't making it any easier. . . .
In Just Another Girl, Elizabeth Eulberg astutely and affectingly shows us how battle lines get drawn between girls -- and how difficult it then becomes to see or understand the girl standing on the other side of the divide.
You think you have an enemy. But she's just another girl.
Why I’m waiting: I adore Eulberg’s Better off Friends so I’ve been eagerly waiting for her next stand alone. I’m not crazy about the cover, but it sounds like another great tale of friendship.
What are you waiting for this week?
About Elizabeth Eulberg
The short and sweet version:
Elizabeth Eulberg was born and raised in Wisconsin before heading off to college at Syracuse University and making a career in the New York City book biz. Now a full-time writer, she is the author of The Lonely Hearts Club, Prom & Prejudice, Take a Bow, Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality, Better Off Friends, and We Can Work it Out. She lives outside of Manhattan with her three guitars, two keyboards, and one drumstick.
To check out the long version, head over to my webpage: http://www.elizabetheulberg.com/bio/
Also, I’m not checking e-mails on my Goodreads, see my website for information on contacting me! http://www.elizabetheulberg.com/faq/
Happy reading!
About Meagan Spooner
Meagan Spooner grew up reading and writing every spare moment of the day, while dreaming about life as an archaeologist, a marine biologist, an astronaut. She graduated from Hamilton College in New York with a degree in playwriting, and has spent several years since then living in Australia. She’s traveled with her family all over the world to places like Egypt, South Africa, the Arctic, Greece, Antarctica, and the Galapagos, and there’s a bit of every trip in every story she writes.
She currently lives and writes in Asheville, North Carolina, but the siren call of travel is hard to resist, and there’s no telling how long she’ll stay there.
In her spare time she plays guitar, plays video games, plays with her cat, and reads.
Twitter: Jeann Wong
That blurb for Just Another Girl was really fascinating! Love the Beauty and the Beast pick as well.
Twitter: Bieke Paesen
I love Beauty & The Beast! <3 I hope this one is good. 🙂
OMG, I must get Hunted!!!!!
Twitter: Bieke Paesen
Right??? 😀
Twitter: Liza
Haunted looks amazing Bee, Spooner’s books are awesome and the cover is gorgeous too 🙂
Twitter: Bieke Paesen
Haha, I know, right? x)
I like Beauty and the Beast retellings, and the cover of Hunted is gorgeous. I began a B&B retelling last year and I mean to finish the trilogy. I just have to buy the other books.
Oooo Hunted looks gooooooood. I don’t know why I enjoy B&tB retellings but I do. I kinda wish I didn’t know about this one though. I mean, I have to wait 7 months for it to come out. >.<
Great picks! I’m all for a Beauty and the Beast retelling. Didn’t really love the last one I read last year, so I hope this one does the job right.
Hunted sounds extremely engulfing! 😁