Waiting on Wednesday | Twentieth Edition

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Today we feature an upcoming historical novel that is, admittedly, a long way off. But the recent excitement over its cover reveal in combination with the infectious social media persona of its author made me all the more excited to read this novel. It’s a re-telling written by the talented Nadine Brandes. I’ll admit I haven’t read any of Nadine’s books (*shame on me, I know*) let alone her new fantasy release but I know she’s talented. Not only does she have an epic bookstagram account, but she also has a Youtube channel and of course, she writes. Talk about the trifecta of amazing talent.

To further excite me about her upcoming release, Nadine goes and writes about a “Rissi-catnip” topic which is a re-telling of – wait for it – Anastasia!

*cue the dancing bears*

Now, I realize this won’t be like the animated musical, but just knowing this book is going to be a re-telling of this Russian “fairy tale” is giving me all the nostalgic feels. Plus, this book is bound to be all about the romantic – and historical, feels perfect for those of us who enjoy historical drama like Victoria.

ROMANOV

Author: Nadine Brandes | Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Genre: Fiction; Contemporary
Publication Date: May 2019

The history books say I died.

They don’t know the half of it.

Anastasia “Nastya” Romanov was given a single mission: to smuggle an ancient spell into her suitcase on her way to exile in Siberia. It might be her family’s only salvation. But the leader of the Bolshevik army is after them . . . and he’s hunted Romanov before.

Nastya’s only chances of survival are to either release the spell, and deal with the consequences, or enlist help from Zash, the handsome soldier who doesn’t act like the average Bolshevik. Nastya’s never dabbled in magic before, but it doesn’t frighten her as much as her growing attraction for Zash. She likes him. She thinks he might even like her . . .

That is, until she’s on one side of a firing squad . . . and he’s on the other.  – Goodreads

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Comment down below with your thoughts (have you read Nadine’s books? what did you feature today? what are some of your favorite re-rold reads?), Waiting on / Can’t Wait Wednesday blog links or anything else bookish. I’d look forward to chatting all things bookish with you.

I’ll be glad to visit your blogs, too – but it might take me a week to circle around. Still, I look forward to visiting.

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