Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Breaking the Spine, and is a fun way to share upcoming books that you’re excited about with other bloggers and readers.
This week’s pick is diverging slightly from my normal read. I can’t really tell from the description whether or not there are any speculative elements in this story, but it sounds amazing anyway:
With echoes of The Night Circus, a spellbinding story about two gifted orphans in love with each other since they can remember whose childhood talents allow them to rewrite their future.
The Lonely Hearts Hotel is a love story with the power of legend. An unparalleled tale of charismatic pianos, invisible dance partners, radicalized chorus girls, drug-addicted musicians, brooding clowns, and an underworld whose economy hinges on the price of a kiss. In a landscape like this, it takes great creative gifts to thwart one’s origins. It might also take true love.
Two babies are abandoned in a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1910. Before long, their talents emerge: Pierrot is a piano prodigy; Rose lights up even the dreariest room with her dancing and comedy. As they travel around the city performing clown routines, the children fall in love with each other and dream up a plan for the most extraordinary and seductive circus show the world has ever seen.
Separated as teenagers, sent off to work as servants during the Great Depression, both descend into the city’s underworld, dabbling in sex, drugs and theft in order to survive. But when Rose and Pierrot finally reunite beneath the snowflakes after years of searching and desperate poverty the possibilities of their childhood dreams are renewed, and they’ll go to extreme lengths to make them come true. Soon, Rose, Pierrot and their troupe of clowns and chorus girls have hit New York, commanding the stage as well as the alleys, and neither the theater nor the underworld will ever look the same.
With her musical language and extravagantly realized world, Heather O’Neill enchants us with a novel so magical there is no escaping its spell.
The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill releases in February 2017 from Riverhead Books. Whether or not there is actual “magic” in this story, it sounds magical, if you know what I mean. Plus I’m a sucker for anything to do with the circus.
Let me know what you’re waiting on:-)
Sounds interesting but I’ll have to see some reviews before deciding if it might be for me or not. I still haven’t read The Night Circus and I’ve owned the hardback for years! I think the cover is really pretty though and hope you enjoy it!
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I do love this cover, and despite the words “lonely hearts” which immediately makes me think of a romance, I think I’m going to love this:-)
You’re so right about the “magical” bit. Sometimes you read a book’s blurb, and you think, “Oh my goodness. I HAVE to read this.” That just happened to me here, so I added The Lonely Hearts Hotel to my Goodreads shelf. Thanks for letting us know about it!
I just found out about this book myself (and now I can’t even remember where I saw it) but I’m so glad I did:-)
Great pick, this is my WoW choice for next week… It does sound fascinating and it’s about a circus, I’m intrigued to see if there is any magic or if it is just a magical book too!
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I can’t get enough of the circus genre, and this one sounds strange and different!
This book sounds BEYOND amazing. I am seriously in love with the cover as well!! Basically this book has the potential to be the complete perfect package <3 Thank you so much for featuring it and introducing me to another must have book 🙂
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Charismatic pianos! I’m already enchanted.
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This sounds awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Oh my goodness! I haven’t heard of this book before and I am totally hooked! I love that cover and you are right, this book does sound magical. Thank you so much for sharing it!
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I’ve heard of this one, but haven’t read too much into it! I hope you enjoy it when it comes out.
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Your pick sounds really good. Adding it to my TBR. Thanks for sharing it!
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I think a step out of character is just the ticket some times and this sounds amazing. I’m definitely going to keep my eye out for this one.
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Lynn 😀
OMG THE TYPOGRAPHY! Wow! I love this book’s cover. It really does sound magical, too. I hope you enjoy this book when you get a chance to read it!
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Oh, this does sound intriguing. Mention of the Night Circus makes me thing there may be speculative aspects to it, but hard to tell for sure.
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Yes, this looks interesting! These days I tend to get really nervous about blurbs that mention The Night Circus though – I enjoyed TNC, but too many publishers abuse comparisons to it nowadays, much like they do with Game of Thrones, The Hunger Games, and Harry Potter 😛
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I haven’t read enough circus stories. I might have to check this one out. I hope you enjoy it!
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Sandy @ Somewhere Only We Know
Ayyyy Canadian lit! Heather O’Neill is kind of a superstar in the Canadian literary scene and her books are very intense and emotional. She hasn’t written anything speculative before (to my knowledge) so I’m very curious to see what this one has to offer!
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This does sound great and I love that cover so much!!
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