Waiting on Wednesday #88: Mirage

Can't Wait Wednesday is a wonderful meme hosted by Wishful Endings based on Waiting on Wednesday created by Jill from Breaking the Spine where we highlighted an upcoming release that we're eagerly anticipating. 

Mirage 
by Somaiya Daud Hardcover, 320 pages 
Expected publication: August 28th 2018
by Flatiron Books
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In a star system dominated by the brutal Vathek empire, eighteen-year-old Amani is a dreamer. She dreams of what life was like before the occupation; she dreams of writing poetry like the old-world poems she adores; she dreams of receiving a sign from Dihya that one day, she, too, will have adventure, and travel beyond her isolated moon. 

But when adventure comes for Amani, it is not what she expects: she is kidnapped by the regime and taken in secret to the royal palace, where she discovers that she is nearly identical to the cruel half-Vathek Princess Maram. The princess is so hated by her conquered people that she requires a body double, someone to appear in public as Maram, ready to die in her place. 

As Amani is forced into her new role, she can’t help but enjoy the palace’s beauty—and her time with the princess’ fiancé, Idris. But the glitter of the royal court belies a world of violence and fear. If Amani ever wishes to see her family again, she must play the princess to perfection...because one wrong move could lead to her death. 

Another YA adventure in space! It sounds like the retelling of The Prince and the Pauper but with a gender twist. I hope that this YA debut will be amazing just like that blindingly beautiful cover. 

Review: My Plain Jane

My Plain Jane (The Lady Janies #2)
by Cythia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows
ebook, 
464 pages 
Published June 26th 2018 
by HarperTeen
ARC from Edelweiss
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You may think you know the story. After a miserable childhood, penniless orphan Jane Eyre embarks on a new life as a governess at Thornfield Hall. There, she meets one dark, brooding Mr. Rochester. Despite their significant age gap (!) and his uneven temper (!!), they fall in love—and, Reader, she marries him. (!!!) Or does she? Prepare for an adventure of Gothic proportions, in which all is not as it seems, a certain gentleman is hiding more than skeletons in his closets, and one orphan Jane Eyre, aspiring author Charlotte Brontë, and supernatural investigator Alexander Blackwood are about to be drawn together on the most epic ghost hunt this side of Wuthering Heights.

This book is so addictive! I can't help but smile and laugh out loud at the antics of such delightful, crazy characters. This wacky retelling of Jane Eyre even has the author as one of the characters. I would have given this 5 stars if the story were trim a bit since some of the chapters are too long. Otherwise, it's a delicious gem of a book and one of my favourite this year.