Waiting and Wishing On Wednesday: #Scandal by Sarah Ockler

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine and Wishlist Wednesday is hosted over at Pen to Paper. These are weekly memes that are a chance to share new books that you're most excited about getting you hands on. 

                                      What I'm Waiting and Wishing For…

#Scandal by Sarah Ockler

Lucy’s learned some important lessons from tabloid darling Jayla Heart’s all-too-public blunders: Avoid the spotlight, don’t feed the Internet trolls, and keep your secrets secret. The policy has served Lucy well all through high school, so when her best friend Ellie gets sick before prom and begs her to step in as Cole’s date, she accepts with a smile, silencing about ten different reservations. Like the one where she’d rather stay home shredding online zombies. And the one where she hates playing dress-up. And especially the one where she’s been secretly in love with Cole since the dawn of time.

When Cole surprises her at the after party with a kiss under the stars, it’s everything Lucy has ever dreamed of… and the biggest BFF deal-breaker ever. Despite Cole’s lingering sweetness, Lucy knows they’ll have to ’fess up to Ellie. But before they get the chance, Lucy’s own Facebook profile mysteriously explodes with compromising pics of her and Cole, along with tons of other students’ party indiscretions. Tagged. Liked. And furiously viral.

By Monday morning, Lucy’s been branded a slut, a backstabber, and a narc, mired in a tabloid-worthy scandal just weeks before graduation. 

Lucy’s been battling undead masses online long enough to know there’s only one way to survive a disaster of this magnitude: Stand up and fight. Game plan? Uncover and expose the Facebook hacker, win back her best friend’s trust, and graduate with a clean slate.

There’s just one snag—Cole. Turns out Lucy’s not the only one who’s been harboring unrequited love…(Goodreads)

Why I'm Waiting and Wishing…

Well this just sounds…scandalous and intriguing! So I'm thinking it sounds like a perfect summer read. The authors is new to me but I'm loving the blurb and cover, so fingers crossed maybe I've found another author to follow. Can't wait to give this one a try! :)

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Please feel free to share links to your highly anticipated reads below. It's so exciting to read about everyone else's picks and find new books to add to my TBR list!

Jenn

Tale of Two Doxies

www.taleoftwodoxies.blogspot.com

Waiting and Wishing On Wednesday: Coin Heist by Elisa Ludwig

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine and Wishlist Wednesday is hosted over at Pen to Paper. These are weekly memes that are a chance to share new books that you're most excited about getting you hands on. 

                                      What I'm Waiting and Wishing For…

Coin Heist by Elisa Ludwig -

The last place you’d expect to find a team of criminals is at a prestigious Philadelphia prep school. But on a class trip to the U.S. Mint – which prints a million new coins every 30 minutes – an overlooked security flaw becomes far too tempting for a small group of students to ignore.

United by dire circumstances, these unlikely allies – the slacker, the nerd, the athlete, and the "perfect" student – band together to attempt the impossible: rob the U.S. Mint. The diverse crew is forced to confront their true beliefs about each other and themselves as they do the wrong thing for the right reasons.

Elisa Ludwig's Coin Heist is a fun, suspenseful, and compelling thriller, told from the revolving perspectives of four teens, each with their own motive for committing a crime that could change all of their lives for the better—if they can pull it off. (Goodreads)

Why I'm Waiting and Wishing…

I think by now I've established my love for heist and spy books, especially of the young adult variety. This one reminds me very much of one of my favorite series Heist Society by Ally Carter - granted her series featured a team of trained teens. Still, I love a good heist story and I'm excited to see how a team of amateurs handle a heist - I have very high hopes for this one!

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Please feel free to share links to your highly anticipated reads below. It's so exciting to read about everyone else's picks and find new books to add to my TBR list!

Jenn

Tale of Two Doxies

www.taleoftwodoxies.blogspot.com

Waiting and Wishing On Wednesday: The Crystal Heart (May 13)

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine and Wishlist Wednesday is hosted over at Pen to Paper. These are weekly memes that are a chance to share new books that you're most excited about getting you hands on. 

                                      What I'm Waiting and Wishing For…

A girl in a tower. An underground kingdom. This retelling of Rapunzel offers a gripping blend of magic, romance, adventure, fairytale, and mystery.

When 17-year-old army conscript Kasper Bator is chosen to join the elite guard that keeps watch over a dangerous prisoner in a tower, he believes what he's been told: the prisoner is a powerful witch. But when he meets the prisoner, Kasper's life will change forever—for the prisoner is no witch, but a beautiful young girl. The daughter of the country's enemy, the Prince of Night, Izolda has been held hostage since she was three. And she is in imminent danger, for a prophecy says she must die on her 16th birthday if Krainos is to be saved from the Prince of Night. Kasper decides to help her escape. As the days pass, their friendship turns into real love, but their hiding place won't stay safe forever. 

 - (blurb from Goodreads)

Why I'm Waiting and Wishing…

Okay, so I haven't heard much about this release, but I did happen to run across it on one of the blogs I read and I was immediately captured by the cover. (That's right *gasp* I am guilty of being a dirty-little-book-cover-judger!). 

Anyway, so I didn't have a lot to go on or tons of early praise, and I haven't read anything by the author…but here are two reasons I'm excited for this one:

 1. Have you read that blurb? I mean seriously: fairy tale retelling, rapunzel, love story, intrigue - this books got it all. 

2. Look at that cover art - beautiful! I must have it! 

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Please feel free to share links to your highly anticipated reads below. It's so exciting to read about everyone else's picks and find new books to add to my TBR list!

p.s. please feel free to check out the Giveaway and my review for The Biggest Flirts by Jennifer Echols as part of it's pre-release Blog Tour 

Jenn

Tale of Two Doxies

www.taleoftwodoxies.blogspot.com

Waiting On/ Wishlist Wednesday - Take Me On by Katie McGarry

                            Waiting On Wednesday: Take Me On - Katie McGarry

                                           

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine and Wishlist Wednesday is hosted over at Pen to Paper. These are weekly memes that are a chance to share new books that you're most excited about getting you hands on. 

Why I'm Waiting...

Yes, I know, it's another Katie McGarry book - and you might be thinking "Hmmm…hasn't she already featured Katie McGarry as her Waiting On/Wishlist choice recently?" Why yes, yes I have. You know why? Because I love Katie McGarry books! And also, she is fabulous and has 3 (yeah you read that right) new books out in 2014!! 

I love Katie McGarry! Her Pushing the Limits series is the best, I love all of the characters - I also adore that you get to revisit favorite characters in each and they work as stand alones as well. This one is about one of Rachel's (Crash Into You) brothers, West. I'm excited to see more of him, and also I've heard there is more Abby in this one!! (Abby is also from Crash and by far my fave character!) Additionally, it's Katie McGarry - which guarantees it's bound to be excellent. 

This will Katie McGarry's second publication in 2014! Red At Night was out on April 1st and Breaking the Rules will be out in December. Annnnd, there's another one coming out in 2015!! --- Now let's all cross our fingers and hope for Abby's story next! :)

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Please feel free to share links to your highly anticipated reads below. It's so exciting to read about everyone else's picks and find new books to add to my TBR list!

Jenn

Tale of Two Doxies

www.taleoftwodoxies.blogspot.com

Waiting On Wednesday: The One by Kiera Cass

 Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. This weekly meme is a chance to share upcoming books that you're most excited about.

Why I'm Waiting…

Well, I have to admit - this is not what I might typically go for in a book. It's YA yes, and has romance - but it also has many of the elements that I don't love to see in a book: love triangles, drama, a bit of over-the-top angst…However, in this case it's completely a guilty pleasure! Plus, I'm loving the covers and I need to find out who she ends up with so I guess I'm waiting…

Please feel free to share links to your highly anticipated reads below. It's so exciting to read about everyone else's picks and find new books to add to my TBR list!

Jenn

 Tale of Two Doxies

www.taleoftwodoxies.blogspot.com

Waiting On Wednesday: Breaking the Rules by Katie McGarry

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. This weekly meme is a chance to share upcoming books that you're most excited about.

You're probably looking at the cover of Pushing the Limits and wondering what I'm thinking. Yes, Pushing the limits has already been released, but I'm waiting on Breaking the Rules which was just announced as a new book continuing the story of Noah and Echo.

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In BREAKING THE RULES, Katie McGarry continues the story of Echo Emerson and Noah Hutchinson (PUSHING THE LIMITS) as the pair set out on a road trip so Echo can chase her dream of becoming an artist and for Noah to meet his remaining blood relatives, but as the realities of the world outside the walls of high school begin to press down on Echo and Noah the couple tries to discover if their love is strong enough to survive.

BREAKING THE RULES is a full length novel that starts a month or so into the trip Echo and Noah take after they graduated from high school. The time period of this book is between PUSHING THE LIMITS and DARE YOU TO. 

BREAKING THE RULES will be released through Harlequin Teen in paperback and e-book formats on December 30, 2014 in North America. It will also be available in the United Kingdom and Australia around the same time period.
What’s even more exciting? There will be a brief teaser of BREAKING THE RULES in the back of TAKE ME ON (release date: May 27, 2014)! 

(taken from -http://www.katielmcgarry.com/blogs.aspx, read the full post and find out more at the link)

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Why I'm Waiting...

I love Katie McGarry books! Pushing the Limits was the first of her books I had read, and I loved Noah and Echo so I'm very excited to get another whole book about the two of them and see where there at. Plus, it's Katie McGarry - which pretty much means it's bound to be excellent. This will also be her third publication in 2014! It totally makes it a Katie McGarry reading year, and with the releases staggered (Red At Night on April 1st, Take Me On in May, and now Breaking the Rules in December) it means much more time to enjoy and not pine for new books. (Especially since I'm hoping the next PTL book will be an Abby book released in 2015!!)

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Please feel free to share links to your highly anticipated reads below. It's so exciting to read about everyone else's picks and find new books to add to my TBR list!

Jenn

 Tale of Two Doxies

www.taleoftwodoxies.blogspot.com

Also be sure to check out my first giveaway before it ends this week. Here's the rafflecopter sign up below, for more information - click the link and go to the Giveaway page to sign up :

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Waiting On Wednesday: Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith (March 26)

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. This weekly meme is a chance to share upcoming books that you're most excited about.

Why I'm Waiting...

This one just sounds really sweet, fun, and heartwarming. I’m excited to give it a try, plus I like the idea of a long distance, long-term connection. Will they reunite? Will they fall in love? It sounds like a perfect springtime read.

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Please feel free to share links to your highly anticipated reads below. It's so exciting to read about everyone else's picks and find new books to add to my TBR list!

Jenn

 Tale of Two Doxies

www.taleoftwodoxies.blogspot.com

Waiting On Wednesday: Rebel Belle by Rachel Hawkins (March 19)

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. This weekly meme is a chance to share upcoming books that you're most excited about.

Why I'm Waiting...

More like – why would I not be waiting for this one? What’s not to like? Look at that cover – already intrigued right? And then there’s the description – sounds like Jen Calonita’s Belles series meets Rachel Hawkin’s Hex Hall series. I think it sounds super fun and I’m definitely very eager to read this one! How about you? Are you waiting for Rebel Belle?

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Please feel free to share links to your highly anticipated reads below. It's so exciting to read about everyone else's picks and find new books to add to my TBR list!

Jenn

 Tale of Two Doxies

www.taleoftwodoxies.blogspot.com

Waiting on Wednesday: Red At Night by Katie McGarry (March 12)

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. This weekly meme is a chance to share upcoming books that you're most excited about.

Why I'm Waiting...

I am very excited for this one, because it is a Katie McGarry book and it comes out on April 1^st! So this one is exciting for several reasons (to me anyway):

1.    It’s a Katie McGarry Contemporary Romance

2.    It’s a opposite attracts type romance

3.    I think the cover is really cute and…

4.    It appears to be a romance outside of the Pushing Limits world,

which I’m excited to see :)

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Please feel free to share links to your highly anticipated reads below. It's so exciting to read about everyone else's picks and find new books to add to my TBR list!

Jenn

 Tale of Two Doxies

www.taleoftwodoxies.blogspot.com

           

Waiting On Wednesday: Stolen Songbird by Danielle L. Jensen (March 5)

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. This weekly meme is a chance to share upcoming books that you're most excited about.

Title: Stolen Songbird 
Author:  Danielle L. Jensen
Release Date: April 1, 2014

For those who have loved Seraphina and Graceling comes another truly fabulous fantasy...

For five centuries, a witch’s curse has bound the trolls to their city beneath the ruins of Forsaken Mountain. Time enough for their dark and nefarious magic to fade from human memory and into myth. But a prophesy has been spoken of a union with the power to set the trolls free, and when Cécile de Troyes is kidnapped and taken beneath the mountain, she learns there is far more to the myth of the trolls than she could have imagined.

Cécile has only one thing on her mind after she is brought to Trollus: escape. Only the trolls are clever, fast, and inhumanly strong. She will have to bide her time, wait for the perfect opportunity.

But something unexpected happens while she’s waiting – she begins to fall for the enigmatic troll prince to whom she has been bonded and married. She begins to make friends. And she begins to see that she may be the only hope for the half-bloods – part troll, part human creatures who are slaves to the full-blooded trolls. There is a rebellion brewing. And her prince, Tristan, the future king, is its secret leader.

As Cécile becomes involved in the intricate political games of Trollus, she becomes more than a farmer’s daughter. She becomes a princess, the hope of a people, and a witch with magic powerful enough to change Trollus forever. (Goodreads)

Why I'm Waiting...

I first found this book looking around other blogs, and was immediately grabbed by the cover and intrigued by the premise. I think the cover art is gorgeous, and I am so intrigued by a book that centers on trolls. I mean trolls? How many fantasy books have you seen that centers around trolls?! Very excited to check this one out!

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Please feel free to share links to your highly anticipated reads below. It's so exciting to read about everyone else's picks and find new books to add to my TBR list!

Jenn

 Tale of Two Doxies

www.taleoftwodoxies.blogspot.com

Waiting On Wednesday (February 26)

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. This weekly meme is a chance to share upcoming books that you're most excited about.

Why I'm Waiting...

When I first spotted this book on some blogs, I was immediately grabbed by the cover. The cover picture is just amazing, and of course made me want to know more about the book. After following up on Goodreads and reading the premise, the book sounded so intriguing that I knew I would definitely need to pick this one up. 

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Please feel free to share about your favorite go to authors and your links to books your highly anticipated reads below. It's so exciting to read about everyone else's picks and find new books to add to my TBR list!

Jenn

 Tale of Two Doxies

www.taleoftwodoxies.blogspot.com

Waiting On Wednesday: Better Off Friends by Elizabeth Eulberg

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. This weekly meme is a chance to share upcoming books that you're most excited about.

                 

Why I'm Waiting...

I have only read a few of Elizabeth Eulberg's novels so far (The Lonely Hearts Club and Prom & Prejudice), but I'm very excited to try this one. I think the cover looks really sweet, and it sounds like a really fun YA Contemporary Romance.

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Please feel free to share about your favorite go to authors and your links to books your highly anticipated reads below. It's so exciting to read about everyone else's picks and find new books to add to my TBR list!

Jenn

 Tale of Two Doxies

www.taleoftwodoxies.blogspot.com

Waiting On Wednesday - The Unpredictable Consequences of Love (February 12)

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. This weekly meme is a chance to share upcoming books that you're most excited about.

  

Why I'm Waiting...

I'm very excited for this one because it's a Jill Mansell novel and Ms. Mansell is one of the newer additions to my auto-buy list. I first came across Ms. Mansell as a recommended read on Amazon, and a few of her books happened to be on sale that week. I downloaded one to my kindle and - well the rest, as they say, is history. I was hooked. I loved her fun romantic comedies, and her quirky, fun and relatable characters. I loved her books so much in fact that  I ended up ordering all the ones not available in the US yet from Amazon UK and had them sent to me (including this one).

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Anyone else have any favorite authors that belong on their auto-buy list?
Please feel free to share about your favorite go to authors and your links to books your highly anticipated reads below. It's so exciting to read about everyone else's picks and find new books to add to my TBR list!

Jenn

 Tale of Two Doxies

www.taleoftwodoxies.blogspot.com

Waiting On Wednesday - Dangerous by Shannon Hale (February 5)

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. This weekly meme is a chance to share upcoming books that you're most excited about.

Publisher -           Bloomsbury USA

Release Date –   March 4, 2014


I love Shannon Hale, her books are always amazing: the characters, the plots, and the settings! She is another one of my auto-buy authors; I always enjoy her books so I know I have to try each of them. I’m really excited about Dangerous because it sounds very different from the other novels I’ve read by her before.

Anyone else have any favorite authors that belong on their auto-buy list?

Please feel free to share about your favorite go to authors and your links to books your highly anticipated reads below. It's so exciting to read about everyone else's picks and find new books to add to my TBR list!

Thanks!

Jenn

Tale of Two Doxies