I Can't Wait for... We Rule the Night

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they're books that have yet to be released.

I fell in love with the cover... then I read the blurb.

We Rule the Night

Standalone?
By Claire Eliza Bartlett
YA Fantasy
eBook, Hardcover, Audiobook, 400 Pages
April 2, 2019 by Little, Brown Books For Young Readers



Blurb

Two girls use forbidden magic to fly and fight–for their country and for themselves–in this riveting debut that’s part Shadow and Bone, part Code Name Verity.

Seventeen-year-old Revna is a factory worker, manufacturing war machines for the Union of the North. When she’s caught using illegal magic, she fears being branded a traitor and imprisoned. Meanwhile, on the front lines, Linné defied her father, a Union general, and disguised herself as a boy to join the army. They’re both offered a reprieve from punishment if they use their magic in a special women’s military flight unit and undertake terrifying, deadly missions under cover of darkness. Revna and Linné can hardly stand to be in the same cockpit, but if they can’t fly together, and if they can’t find a way to fly well, the enemy’s superior firepower will destroy them–if they don’t destroy each other first.

We Rule the Night is a powerful story about sacrifice, complicated friendships, and survival despite impossible odds.

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{Book Spotlight} BLOODLEAF by Crystal Smith

Today I'm excited to spotlight one of this week's new releases... BLOODLEAF by  debut author, CRYSTAL SMITH! 

BLOODLEAF

by Crystal Smith

Book 1 of the Bloodleaf Trilogy

YA Fantasy

ebook, Hardcover, Audiobook, 384 pages

March 12, 2019 from HMH Teen

Perfect for fans of RED QUEEN and UPROOTED, Crystal Smith’s debut novel, BLOODLEAF, is an imaginative retelling of the Grimm Fairy tale “The Goose Girl” that takes a ghostly mystery and sets it inside an epic fantasy world.

Princess Aurelia is a prisoner to her crown and the heir that nobody wants. Surrounded by spirits and banned from using her blood-magic, Aurelia flees her country after a devastating assassination attempt. To escape her fate, Aurelia disguises herself as a commoner in a new land and discovers a happiness her crown has never allowed. As she forges new bonds and perfects her magic, she begins to fall for a man who is forbidden to rule beside her. But the ghosts that haunt Aurelia refuse to abandon her, and she finds herself succumbing to their call as they expose a nefarious plot that only she can defeat. Will she be forced to choose between the weight of the crown and the freedom of her new life?

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"OFTEN, WHEN SOMEONE SAYS THEY WANT TO PROTECT YOU,

THEY ACTUALLY MEAN THEY WANT TO CONTROL YOU."

-Bloodleaf

Little Details I Love in the Bloodleaf Cover...

Woven into the thorny silver swirls in Bloodleaf's cover are:

- A Crown of Thorns

- A Bare Tree With Roots

- A Crescent Moon

- A Raven

- A Ribbon Tied In A Bow

- A Castle

and

- A Dagger

I really love when smaller objects are hidden (or in this case not so much hidden as integrated int0) book covers. This cover in particular gives you all the fairytale fantasy vibes with the crown and the castle, the dagger, and the bird. The font of the title is clean and crisp and doesn't overburden the beautiful details framing the lettering. I also love the white leaf with the droplet of blood. 

"The strongest magic requires the greatest sacrifice."

About the Author:

Crystal Smith is a writer and artist who developed an early love of fantasy and fairy tales in a house full of sisters (six to be exact, plus one lonely brother) that continues despite her dad’s efforts to win her over to science fiction with readings of Ender’s Game and marathoning videotaped episodes of Star Trek: the Next Generation.

Though born and raised in Utah, she spent grades 4 through 8 living in Napoleon Dynamite’s hometown of Preston, Idaho, in fiberglass dome building purchased by an eccentric grandfather. It was in Preston, at age ten, that she had her first story published: a one-page story of a prince rescuing a princess from a monster, printed in a local anthology. It was at that point she realized how much she wanted to publish again—only the next time, it would be the princess rescuing everybody.

After moving back to Utah, she met her high school sweetheart in her sophomore English class; they married in 2005 and now have two sons. She’s convinced that one is a middle-aged British gentleman in an 10-year-old’s body, and that the 7-year-old probably belongs in the jungle.

After attending Weber State University on an art scholarship, she discovered she wasn’t well suited to modern art and threw herself wholeheartedly into wedding photography. As an unabashed love story enthusiast, capturing connection and chemistry is what moves her to writing and art.

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