Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted over at Wishful Endings to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about but haven’t yet read. Most of the time they’re books that have yet to be released, but not always. It’s based on the Waiting on Wednesday meme, which was originally hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.
This week my Can’t-Wait-For Book is Costumes For Time Travelers by A.R. Capetta!
Genres: Fantasy, Queer Protagonists, Sci Fi, YA
Representation: Nonbinary MC, NB/M
Published on: 27th May 2025
Goodreads
Calisto and Fawkes are drawn to each other for the first time, again, as they travel from when to when to take on a threat to all they hold dear in this lyrical and playful fantasy from award-winning author A. R. Capetta.
Anyone who has hiked through time knows the town of Pocket. It’s the place travelers first reach after they stumble away from their hometime, passing through on their way to any other when. To Calisto, Pocket is home. They love their grandmother’s shop, which is filled with clothes from every era that are used to make costumes for time travelers. Calisto has no intention of traveling—it’s too dangerous. For Fawkes, traveling is life. He put on time boots when he was young and has been stumbling through eras ever since. When he floats into Pocket, Calisto meets him for the first time, though Fawkes has seen Calisto—in glimpses of what hasn’t happened yet. He’s also seen the villains chasing them both. Now Calisto and Fawkes must rush—from Shakespeare’s London to ancient Crete to California on the eve of a millennium—to save Pocket, and travelers, from being erased.
From the Lambda Literary Award–winning author of The Heartbreak Bakery comes a fairy-tale romance that weaves in and out of time, from kiss to kiss and costume to costume.
I’ve been a fan of Capetta’s since The Brilliant Death – gorgeous gendeerqueer fantasy in a setting inspired by ancient Italy! – and it has been SO AWESOME to see them become a bigger and bigger name!
Their latest book seems tailor-made (pun absolutely intended) for me in particular – a whole setting devoted to clothing time-travellers!!! And it’s called POCKET!!! And we have a nonbinary MC working in their grandmother’s shop!!!
HI, I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS.
(Including that incredible Julie Dillon cover! *swoons*)
You can read an excerpt at the publisher page – I know it sealed the deal for ME!
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