Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event originally created and hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we are all eagerly anticipating. Jill has been MIA since August of 2016. Despite this, the meme lives on….Hope you come back Jill! Until then I will be joining Tressa at Wishful Endings and her meme Can’t-Wait Wednesday.
Happy Wednesday y’all! Today I’m eagerly waiting on Make the Fireflies Dance by Rachel Bateman, a sweet YA romcom about “first kisses and surprise romances.” While I’m not one to pick up a YA contemporary, occasionally they do find their way onto my TBR. This one is just too cute to pass up. I love the premise of trying to find a mystery kisser. It could lead to some funny situations, heartbreak, and ultimately romance. Plus that cover 😍
Make the Fireflies Dance by Rachel Bateman Published by Running Press Kids on 2023-05-16
Length: 384 pages
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A contemporary YA rom-com about blind dates, first kisses, and a surprise romance set around the end of senior year and prom.
Quincy Walker is a hopeless romantic, so when she's kissed by a stranger in a dark theater, her rom-com obsessed imagination begins plotting the perfect movie-version ending to her senior year (which ends, like all great high school rom-coms, with the prom). With the help of her friends, Operation Mystery Kisser is born: a plan to set Quin up on dates with all the guys who were at the theater that night so she can discover who kissed her. The only problem? Her friends insist on blind dates, and Quin hates letting go of control--just ask the members of her group for her final project for film class. As prom draws nearer, Quin is no closer to finding who her mystery kisser was, and she's not sure she wants to continue looking. Maybe it's her dad's failing health and her brother's absence; maybe it's the fact that she's fighting with her best friend; or maybe--just maybe--it's that she's falling for a guy who definitely isn't the one she's been looking for.
About Rachel Bateman
RACHEL BATEMAN grew up with an abundance of sisters, but an unfortunate lack of boys next door. When she’s not writing, you can find her sewing, wrangling chickens, or secretly planning her next road trip. She lives with her husband and two sons in Great Falls, Montana.
Rachel is the author of 99 Days of Laney MacGuire (2013), Someone Else’s Summer (Running Press, 2017), and the upcoming Make the Fireflies Dance (Running Press, Spring 2023).
Rachel hosts Writing in Cars With Rae, a podcast that helps creatives get out of their own way so they are free to make magic, as well as a YouTube channel where she gives in-depth writing tips, tricks, and inspiration.
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