Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Waiting on Wednesday: Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell {80}

Title: Mechanica
Author: Betsy Cornwell
Release date: August 4, 2015
Nicolette’s awful stepsisters call her “Mechanica” to demean her, but the nickname fits: she learned to be an inventor at her mother’s knee. Her mom is gone now, though, and the Steps have turned her into a servant in her own home. 

But on her sixteenth birthday, Nicolette discovers a secret workshop in the cellar and begins to dare to imagine a new life for herself. Could the mysterious books and tools hidden there—and the mechanical menagerie, led by a tiny metal horse named Jules—be the key to escaping her dreary existence? With a technological exposition and royal ball on the horizon, the timing might just be perfect for Nicolette to earn her freedom at last.

Gorgeous prose and themes of social justice and family shine in this richly imagined Cinderella retelling about an indomitable inventor who finds her prince . . . but realizes she doesn't want a fairy tale happy ending after all.

Are you not in love with that cover? There are certainly elements in the synopsis that remind me of Cinder, but the author has said she sold this before Cinder came out--and I bet there will be plenty to set it apart. How about that last line of the synopsis??

 So what are you guys waiting on this week? :)

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