Can't Wait Wednesday!

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

I am combining CWW with Books From the Backlog hosted by Carole at Carole's Random Life in Books. This will allow me to feature some newly "rediscovered" books, which I plan on reading, alongside a new release.

This week I can't wait for

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The Spy and I by Tiana Smith
Published by Berkley on February 13, 2024
Age/Genres: Adult, Romance, Action & Adventure
Goodreads

Right place. Wrong person. After a case of mistaken identity, one woman must work with her sister’s sexy spy partner to save the world in this heart-pounding romantic comedy.

The first thing to know about Dove Barkley is that, even though she works as a cyber security analyst, she is one hundred percent not an undercover CIA operative. But when a group of bad guys mistake her for her super-spy sister (news to her!), Dove gets roped into a dangerous government mission that she’d very much rather be left out of, thank you.

Too bad Mendez, the man who claims to be her sister’s partner, says she's in too deep to back out now. He’s smart, capable, and has a body almost distracting enough to make Dove forget about the team of trained assassins after her.

Dove has information that can help prevent a national tragedy, but there’s mounting evidence that Mendez might not be who he claims. More importantly, she's running out of time to save her sister. Because the last thing Dove wants is for either of them to go out with a bang.

I saw people comparing this book to The Blonde Identity. If it's anything like that, I know I will love it! I have never been a huge action/adventure reader, but I am really enjoying all these romantic adventure books. I am also curious to read this adult debut, as I had enjoyed Smith's young adult books. I think this could be a winner for me. 

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Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Published by Berkley on January 1, 2020 (July 1, 1995)
Age/Genres: Adult, Fiction
Goodreads

The Owens sisters confront the challenges of life and love in this bewitching novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic, Magic Lessons, and The Book of Magic.

For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape. One will do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they share will bring them back—almost as if by magic...

I won't normally read a book for which I have seen the adaptation. But, I am not sure if I ever saw this whole movie, and I was so taken by Hoffman's short story, The Bookstore Sisters, that I had to make an exception. I read another book in this series, The Rules of Magic, and it was also very good. So, why not go back to the beginning? 

What are you waiting on?
Let us know in the comments!