Waiting on Wednesday (45): A Tale of Two Centuries

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. Visit Breaking The Spine to see more entries!

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

A Tale of Two Centuries by Rachel Harris 

 Release Date:  August 6th 2013 by Entangled

Format: Paperback

 Goodreads Summary:

Alessandra D’Angeli is in need of an adventure. Tired of her sixteenth-century life in Italy and homesick for her time-traveling cousin, Cat, who visited her for a magical week and dazzled her with tales of the future, Alessandra is lost. Until the stars hear her plea.

One mystical spell later, Alessandra appears on Cat’s Beverly Hills doorstep five hundred years in the future. Surrounded by confusing gadgets, scary transportation, and scandalous clothing, Less is hesitant to live the life of a twenty-first century teen…until she meets the infuriating—and infuriatingly handsome—surfer Austin Michaels. Austin challenges everything she believes in…and introduces her to a world filled with possibility.

With the clock ticking, Less knows she must live every moment of her modern life while she still can. But how will she return to the drab life of her past when the future is what holds everything she’s come to love?

Reasons I want to read & own this book: 

1. The synopsis. Time travel. Spells. A character named Austin Michaels. What an awesome name, right? I just love the sound of it all.

2. The author. Rachel Harris. I just think Rachel is so awesome. She is super nice and has a massive love for the young adult genre that shows in her writing, on twitter, on her website. This book will be amazing. I know it!

3. The cover. So pretty. I love the blue-ish purple colors on it and the bits of pink (sue me, I'm a girl, of course I'm gonna like it, haha). The girl on the cover has an amazing outfit. A really cool modern loose-fitting sweater/shirt and a whimsical skirt. Maybe a hint that she is not from modern times? I dunno. But I like it. The guy on the cover has a nice modern outfit and I love the slight hint of a city backdrop.

What do you guys think? :)

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Showcase Sunday (15) - Stacking the Shelves (7)

Showcase Sunday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Vicky at the Books, Biscuits and Tea blog. It is a meme inspired by Pop Culture Junkie and The Story Siren. The goal of this meme is for us bookish peeps to showcase & highlight the books that we have either bought, borrowed, won, downloaded, or received for review the past week :)

Stacking the Shelves is a meme hosted by Tynga's Review to highlight the books us bloggers have gotten during the week, as well.

 

 

 

I like both memes, so I've decided to take part in both =)

BOUGHT

• Two journals

One with pink flowers and another one with a picture of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris

 

•  Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor (Paperback)

 

•  The Curse Girl by Kate Avery Ellison - ebook

• Easy Tammara Webber - ebook

• The Unloved by Jennifer Snyder - ebook

• Spark (Elemental #2) by Brigid Kemmerer - ebook

• Destroy Me by Tahereh Mafi - ebook

• My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century by Rachel Harris - ebook

• Sweet Venom by Tera Lynn Childs - ebook (Freebie on Amazon Kindle)

 

 FOR REVIEW

• Under the Desert Moon by Emma Meade - ebook

 What book loveliness did you receive this week? :)

Cover Reveal Thursday

Hey guys.

So, lately there have been a lot of cover reveals for either new books, upcoming releases or re-releases and I wanted to share with you, my readers, my favorite three covers that I have seen over the last few weeks.

Cover #1

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

Release Date: October 16, 2012 by Harper

Format: Paperback

Shatter Me is already out in Hardcover. It is an amazing dystopian & incredibly poetic novel. Read my review here. But yea, for the paperback release, they decided to change the cover because they wanted a cover that more accurately reflected the story.

Cover #2

Finale (Hush, Hush, #4) by Becca Fitzpatrick

Release Date: October 23rd 2012 by Simon & Schuster

Format: Hardcover

I have not read the Hush, Hush series yet. But I am crazy over the covers for these books. They are just so gorgeous & full of drama & artistic. I just love them. A lot of my fellow book bloggers have gushed about this series so I look forward to starting it eventually since I luckily own the 1st installment in this Hush, Hush saga.

Cover #3

My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century by Rachel Harris

Release Date: September 11th 2012 by Entangled Publishing 

Format: Paperback

I just can't even. I want to hug this cover. Isn't that dress just amazeballs and the backdrop with the castle and everything? <3 I'm a historical geek, what can I say. And speaking of geekery LOL --> I totally geek out for the Italian Renaissance and the premise of this book is that the main character, Cat Crawford, goes to Italy on vacation and through magic of some sorts or something like that, she gets transported to the 16th century in Italy. The Italian Renaissance to be more specific. And, I cannot wait to read about it. I just think that this book is gonna be incredibly fun and I love Rachel. She is so nice, and if you don't, follow her on twitter. Sweetest person evahh.

What do you guys think? Are there any book covers that you are gushing about? And if so, which ones are they? :)

Thanks for reading lovelies <3