WWW Wednesdays (37) / Waiting on Wednesday (38): Of Beast and Beauty

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?






Before anything else, let me greet my beautiful country a Happy Independence Day! :)


Currently Reading:

Mind Games by Kiersten White


Finished Reading:

Stray by Monica Hesse and Phoenix by Elizabeth Richards. Both amazing books. Review soon.

Read Next:

Taken by Erin Bowman

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, originally started by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that highlights upcoming book releases everyone is waiting on.

Of Beast and Beauty

by Stacey Jay

Expected publication: July 23rd 2013 by Delacorte Press

Blurb (Goodreads):

In the beginning was the darkness, and in the darkness was a girl, and in the girl was a secret...

In the domed city of Yuan, the blind Princess Isra, a Smooth Skin, is raised to be a human sacrifice whose death will ensure her city’s vitality. In the desert outside Yuan, Gem, a mutant beast, fights to save his people, the Monstrous, from starvation. Neither dreams that together, they could return balance to both their worlds.

Isra wants to help the city’s Banished people, second-class citizens despised for possessing Monstrous traits. But after she enlists the aid of her prisoner, Gem, who has been captured while trying to steal Yuan’s enchanted roses, she begins to care for him, and to question everything she has been brought up to believe.

As secrets are revealed and Isra’s sight, which vanished during her childhood, returned, Isra will have to choose between duty to her people and the beast she has come to love.

I'd love to see how this version of Stacey Jay of Beauty and the Beast will turn out. Even if it sounds like a vampire novel.

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Tomorrow's the start of my senior year in college. I'll be busier from then on but I hope I could still have time to enjoy reading my books. Do you think I have cool books for this week? Lemme see yours below! :)

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On The Blog

This Week:

M: Music Monday (6): Paramore! * Cover Reveal + Giveaway: A French Star in New York by Anna Adams * Book Feature + Interview: Yellow Socks and Blood Spots by Bailey J. Thompson

Tue: Book Review: Towering by Alex Flinn

W: WWW Wednesday (37) / Waiting on Wednesday (38): Of Beast and Beauty

Th: Book Review: ACID by Emma Pass

F: Feature and Follow #23

Sat: What's Cool? The Escapist.

Sun: Book Review: Phoenix by Elizabeth Richards

Last Week:

M: Book Review: Click to Subscribe by L.M Augustine

Tu: Book Review: Transparent by Natalie Whipple

W: WWW Wednesdays (36) / Waiting on Wednesday (37): Taste Test

F: Feature and Follow #22 * Book Review: The Vincent Boys by Abbi Glines