Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme originally hosted by Breaking the Spine and now taken over by Wishful Endings that highlights upcoming book releases we're excited to read. On my blog, I include movies as well.
Publication Date: 10th October 2017.
An East Asian fantasy reimagining of The Evil Queen legend about one peasant girl's quest to become Empress--and the darkness she must unleash to achieve her destiny. Eighteen-year-old Xifeng is beautiful. The stars say she is destined for greatness, that she is meant to be Empress of Feng Lu. But only if she embraces the darkness within her. Growing up as a peasant in a forgotten village on the edge of the map, Xifeng longs to fulfill the destiny promised to her by her cruel aunt, the witch Guma, who has read the cards and seen glimmers of Xifeng's majestic future. But is the price of the throne too high? Because in order to achieve greatness, she must spurn the young man who loves her and exploit the callous magic that runs through her veins--sorcery fueled by eating the hearts of the recently killed. For the god who has sent her on this journey will not be satisfied until his power is absolute.
This looks so amazing!! I love the idea of the world and the characters, and it sounds so fascinating and unique and eerie!! And I LOVE re-imaginings and retellings!!!
AHHHH I SO desperately want a copy!!
But the cover makes me nervous. Snakes. I really really hate snakes. Please let there be no graphic descriptions of snakes in this otherwise beautiful book.
Anyone else excited for Forest of a Thousand Lanterns?
Gosh, I have the same problem with the cover . . . *shivers* The blurb sounds good, though, and I do hope you get to read it soon :)
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Curious about this one! Sounds like a good read, though yeah, not feeling the snake on the cover either!
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Lol, yeah the snake is a turnoff!
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This sounds really interesting, and that cover is so striking! Great choice, Amy!
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DeleteThanks Angela :)
YAASSSS this book is really fantastic! I hope you enjoy it :) Wonderful WoW pick!
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Yay so glad to hear it! Thanks Brittany :)
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Oh thanks!! That sounds cool! Will check it out :) <3
DeleteI am not feeling the cover at all. The story sounds interesting though.
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YES!!! I'm absolutely dying to get my hands on an ARC of this book because I need to read it so bad.
ReplyDeleteI hope we both love it when it comes out :)
Aneta @ Angelic Book Reviews
SAME!! *high five*
DeleteThanks Aneta, I hope so too :)
You are definitely not the first person I've seen mentioning how they hate snakes. :D I think the cover is pretty cool and I especially love the light green background. I hope you enjoy this book when you get the chance to read it!
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Alyssa @ The Eater of Books!
Haha ;)
DeleteI'm glad! I'm not quite sold on it...
Thanks Alyssa!
YES!!! I AM DYING TO READ THIS BOOK!!!!!!! :DDDD
ReplyDeleteYAAAY I AM SO GLAD!!
DeleteI'm waiting on this one, too! And I don't like snakes, either. In fact, I hesitated before featuring it in my "Can't Wait Wednesday" post, some time back...but then I was won over by that AWESOME plot!! I do wish the cover were different, though.... (And you know what they say about great minds, lol.)
ReplyDeleteThanks for coming by and leaving such a nice comment, Amy!! Hope you have an AMAZING weekend!! HUGS!! <3 <3 <3 :) :) :)
Yay! And lol, they are horrible ;)
DeleteI KNOW RIGHT?! The plot does sound amazing! But yeah, I'm not sold on the cover either :(
Sure :) Thanks, you too Maria! HUGS! <3 <3 :) :) :)
Me too, me too!
ReplyDeleteIt's been on my TBR for months now :D
I've been away for a while so I'm currently catching up on your posts ;)
Also, SNAKES *shudders*. My fear of snake is pretty much the normal kind of fear a human has of snakes... like them being poisonous. It's not a phobia for me, but I have other phobias to know how scary it is *_*
YAY!! *high five*
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THEY ARE HORRIBLE! But I'm glad yours isn't a phobia.... mine kinda is ;) Lol.
Thanks for the comment, Zoey!
This sounds wonderful! I've seen it around, but haven't actually read the synopsis until now. I actually really like the cover! I guess it's because I'm not too afraid of snakes. :) Thanks for sharing Amy!
ReplyDeleteIt does! Haha lucky you ;)
DeleteThanks Genni :)