Wating on & Recommendtions with @emilyrathbooks @tillie_cole

Welcome to my new weekly post where I give you one book I am waiting for and one book that I recommend.  

#WaitingOnWednesday: The River Has Roots by @tithenai

COMING 3.4.25

Dear Readers,

 

Have you ever wanted to pick a fight with a song?

 

This book – like rivers, and roots – had a long, meandering path through the world, but its source and seed was a seventeenth century folk ballad that I loved and wanted to fix. “The Cruel Sister” – and its many variants – is a ballad type where an older sister murders her younger sister for the love of a man.

 

As an eldest child who loves her younger sister more than anything, I had opinions about this! Not least of which: I couldn’t countenance the idea that a man could court two sisters at the same time and not be the villain of the story.

 

The River Has Roots is a love letter to ballads and the sisters who sing them together; to harp music and riddle songs; and to the landscape and history of Dartmoor, with its Stannary Towns and mysterious stone outcroppings that, whatever else they are, seem to mark a path into other worlds.

 

When This Is How You Lose the Time War came out in 2019, I couldn’t have been happier with its reception. I used to work in a bookstore, and felt so privileged to see This Is How You Lose the Time War on the receiving end of the kinds of passionate shelf-talkers and hand-selling that I used to do with Holly Black’s Tithe, Terri Windling’s The Wood Wife, and Hope Mirlees’ Lud-in-the-Mist. But seeing booksellers embrace the wild, madcap wonder of Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood last summer and be such kind stewards of that renewed enthusiasm was its own tremendous gift. Bookstores and booksellers have repeatedly changed my life for the better, and I’m so thrilled and excited to commit The River Has Roots – my solo debut! – into your hands. If this twisty little book finds its audience, I know it will be because of your generous work.

 

Wishing you all the very best,

Amal El-Mohtar

#WaitingOn: The Christmas Tree Farm (Dream Harbor #3) by @GilmoreLau27606

From the author of the viral TikTok sensation, The Pumpkin Spice Café, comes the only spicy grumpy x sunshine Christmas romcom you need this year!

Kira North hates Christmas. Which is unfortunate since she just bought a Christmas tree farm in a town that’s too cute for its own good.

Bennett Ellis is on vacation in Dream Harbor taking a break from his life in California. And most importantly, taking a break from his latest run of disastrous dates.

After a run in with Kira in her fields, Ben has no intention of offering to help the grumpy owner set up her tree farm, despite the fact she’s clearly got no idea what she’s doing.

Kira knows she should stop being so stubborn, but her farm is not all cute and cozy like people always show on social media, it’s borderline dangerous with no heating, and she’d rather no one saw it.

But somehow fate finds Ben at Kira’s farm once more, and as Kira watches him swing an ax at the first tree, she finds herself appreciating his strength and questionning why she refused help in the first place..

The Christmas Tree Farm is a spicy romantic mystery for fans of Gilmore Girls with a HEA guaranteed!

Tropes:

• grumpy x sunshine
• small town
• forced proximity
• one bed

#WaitingonWednesday: The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3) by @naominovik

Synopsis: Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the New York Timesbestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate.

The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll do when you get out. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. But it’s all we dream about: the hideously slim chance we’ll survive to make it out the gates and improbably find ourselves with a life ahead of us, a life outside the Scholomance halls.

And now the impossible dream has come true. I’m out, we’re all out—and I didn’t even have to turn into a monstrous dark witch to make it happen. So much for my great-grandmother’s prophecy of doom and destruction. I didn’t kill enclavers, I saved them. Me and Orion and our allies. Our graduation plan worked to perfection: We saved everyone and made the world safe for all wizards and brought peace and harmony to all the enclaves everywhere.

Ha, only joking! Actually, it’s gone all wrong. Someone else has picked up the project of destroying enclaves in my stead, and probably everyone we saved is about to get killed in the brewing enclave war. And the first thing I’ve got to do now, having miraculously gotten out of the Scholomance, is turn straight around and find a way back in.

#WaitingOnWednesday: Queen of Myth and Monsters (Adrian X Isolde #2) by @ScarlettStClai1 @Read_Bloom

Synopsis: The next book in the epic fantasy series by USA Today bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair.

Isolde, newly coronated queen, has finally found a king worthy of her in the vampire Adrian. But their love for each other has cost Isolde her father and her homeland. With two opposing goddesses playing mortals and vampires like chess pieces against one another, Isolde is uncertain who her allies are in the vampire stronghold of Revekka.

Now, as politics in the Red Palace grow more underhanded and a deadly blood mist threatens all of Cordova, Isolde must trust in the bond she's formed with Adrian, even as she learns troubling information about his complicated past.

#WaitingOnWednesday: The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance #3) by @naominovik @DelReyBooks

Synopsis: Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate.

Almost singlehandedly--although backed by an increasingly large cadre of genuine friends--El has changed the nature of the Scholomance forever. But now that she is back in the real world, how will the lessons she learned inside the school apply? Will her grandmother's prophecy come true? Will she really spell the doom of all the enclaves forever?

As the quest to save her one true love ramps up, however, El is about to learn the most significant lesson of all--the dire truth on which the enclaves and the whole stability of the magical world are founded. And being El, she is not likely to let it lie....

#WaitingOnWednesday with @colleenhoover

This Wednesday we are waiting for Regretting You from one of our all time favorite authors Colleen Hoover!! From #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us comes a poignant novel about family, first love, grief, and betrayal that will touch the hearts of both mothers and daughters.

#WaitingOnWednesday with @girlinthelens Girls of Storm and Shadow! @jimmy_books

I fell in love with the first book in this series! It was such an amazing story with a wonderful heroine! And I can not wait to get my hands on book two! Let us know what your waiting for in the comments! 

#WaitingOnWednesday: Novice Dragoneer (Dragoneer Academy #1) by @EE_Knight @AceRocBooks

This week were waiting on this amazing looking coming of age fantasy by author E.E. Knight!! 

 In the first book in an exciting and charming new coming-of-age fantasy series from the author of the Age of Fire series, an impoverished girl enters into a military order of dragonriders, but her path won't be as easy or as straightforward as she expected.

#WaitingOnWednesday: with Veronica Roth

This week were waiting on something that we don't normally read which is an anthology.  Now this one is a little different than most. As it contains novella-length stories!! So its going to be very interesting to see what Roth has done! 

#WaitingOnWednesday with The Candle and the Flame by @Nafizaa

This one comes out in just one week or so but man I totally can't wait for it!! It has gotten amazing reviews with a ton of different places.  * "A must-read for lovers of fantasy." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review What book can't you wait for this month?  Let us know in the comments below! 

#WaitingOnWednesday with @sashaalsberg @authorlindsayc

OMG its almost here!!!! Zenith was one of the best science fiction titles that I have ever read!! It has one of those stories that just pull you in and it's just so vast that these amazing authors can pretty much create millions of stories set in this same world.  So of course I am totally waiting on book two Nexus!!! I am so sad that Barnes & Nobles no longer does their B-Fest Event because that is where I received an ARC of book one and it would have been amazing to have the chance to get one of this.  

#WaitingOnWednesday with @hollyblack

I think I say this for everyone when I say that I CAN NOT WAIT for this title! I have loved the Cruel Prince and this series since that first book and OMG this last one is almost here but so very far away!! I can not wait for this and I know neither can you!! 

#WaitingOnWednesday with @laurampohl and The Last 8 Book #2

This week we are waiting on a book that doesn't even have a title.  Goodreads says it will be out sometime in 2020 but so far there's no other information that I could find.  But I am so exited to get my hands on book two to The Last 8 that I just read a few days ago.  I devoured the story and so can't  wait for the next one!!   So here is the information for book one and man if you haven't read it you should.  

#WaitingOnWednesday with @RLLaFevers @CCHunterBooks @HollyBlack

This week has been very slow! Our AC died and our scum landlord took forever to fix it.  So it was not a good place to read or sleep with it being 84 in the house.  So this week I am finally up to an upcoming book! 

#WaitingOnWednesday with @RLLaFevers @CCHunterBooks @Penchant4Words

Welcome to this weeks Waiting On Wednesday this week I have three titles for you.  What I just finished, What I am reading now, and One title that I just can't wait for!! What are you reading right now?  Let us know in the comments!