On My Wish List (70)

On My Wish List is a fun weekly event hosted by Workaday Reads and runs every Saturday. It's where we list all the books we desperately want but haven't actually bought yet. They can be old, new or forthcoming.

Title: The Tragedy Paper

Author: Elizabeth Laban

Publication Date: January 8, 2013

Synopsis:

Tim Macbeth, a seventeen-year-old albino and a recent transfer to the prestigious Irving School, where the motto is “Enter here to be and find a friend.” A friend is the last thing Tim expects or wants—he just hopes to get through his senior year unnoticed. Yet, despite his efforts to blend into the background, he finds himself falling for the quintessential “It” girl, Vanessa Sheller, girlfriend of Irving’s most popular boy. To Tim's surprise, Vanessa is into him, too, but she can kiss her social status goodbye if anyone ever finds out. Tim and Vanessa begin a clandestine romance, but looming over them is the Tragedy Paper, Irving’s version of a senior year thesis, assigned by the school’s least forgiving teacher.

Jumping between viewpoints of the love-struck Tim and Duncan, a current senior about to uncover the truth of Tim and Vanessa, The Tragedy Paper is a compelling tale of forbidden love and the lengths people will go to keep their .

I've seen this all over the place the last few weeks. I love the cover so much! I also like that this is told in multiple points of view and that one of them is not part of the relationship. Usually we hear from the two people involved, so I'm curious to see how this is going to play out. I'm guessing not well. This is being bumped up to the top of my wish list!

What about you? What are you wishing for this week? Leave me a link and I'll come check it out!