Waiting on Wednesday 04/26/17
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine that lets us feature upcoming releases that we can’t wait to get our hands on!
Mogsy’s Pick
The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden (January 9, 2018 by Del Rey)
It’s still a long ways off, but when I saw the cover and description of this sequel to The Bear and the Nightingale, I couldn’t help my excitement. I loved the first book, and here’s hoping the follow-up will be just as lovely and magical.
“The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues 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.”
The BiblioSanctum 
Looks nice 🙂
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ah this one is new to me
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Ooh a beautiful cover. Like that one a lot.
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Ooh interesting! Totally new to me one! Hope you love it once you read it!
Here’s my WoW
Have a GREAT day!
Old Follower 🙂
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Next year huh, you are waiting. Cool to see it has a cover though, Bear and Nightingale was so good.
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Yeah, it’s quite a wait. But I’m sure it’ll sneak up on me in no time 😉
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I didn’t have any idea this was going to be a trilogy/series. That makes me want to get started on the first one even more. Hope this one turns out to be just as good for you.
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Trilogy I think. I hadn’t known either, but I’m happy 🙂
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I didn’t know this was a series either. Time to track down my copy of The Bear and the Nightingale! Bonus: pretty cover:-)
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Good idea! Because it sounds like this one continues from the events of the first 🙂
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Then I must run and read the first one, and soon! (ish… 😀 )
And what a lovely cover indeed: the colors are nothing short of amazing.
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Yes, very beautiful! 😀
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Ohhhh, this is the sequel to The Bear and the Nightingale (right?)! I LOVE that cover! Wow. And we thought the first book’s cover was great. 😀 I haven’t read the first book but I might binge-read the series when it is completed. I hope you enjoy this book when you get the chance to read it!
Have a lovely week, Mogsy. =)
Alyssa @ The Eater of Books!
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Yep, this is the follow-up! And this series is indeed blessed by the cover gods 🙂
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I’d just found out about the sequel recently, too! And the news made me SQUEE. XD And what a pretty cover!
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I’m so excited!! I hadn’t seen any news on the sequel 😀
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That cover, wow!! And riding off into the woods with the horse sounds like a good direction for poor misunderstood Vasya, Lol. Her horse was my favorite character 😀
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LOL, I loved her horse too! 😀
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Haha – you and Tammy have both trumped me with your lists this week – both books that I’m eagerly waiting for and had as my upcoming reads. I can’t wait for this one – I so loved the Bear and the Nightingale. And this has such a lovely cover.
Lynn 😀
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