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 Queer Fires by Gregory Ashe!
Genres: Fantasy, Contemporary or Urban Fantasy, Queer Protagonists
Representation: Bisexual MC, gay MC, M/M, secondary F/F
PoV: First-person, past-tense, multiple PoVs
Published on: 27th January 2023
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Emmett might not have a job. He might not be going to school. He might not have any friends. Heck, he might not even be all that happy. But he’s clean; that’s the important thing. And all that spare time? It means he can really focus on screwing up his friendship (and absolutely nothing more than friendship) with Jim, who just happens to be the most important person in his life.
When their friend Chloe shows up at their apartment, being chased by men with guns, Emmett and Jim find themselves dragged into a conflict they don’t understand. A year ago, they saved Chloe’s life from a band of supernatural killers. Now, it seems someone is after her again. It’s up to Emmett and Jim to stop them, which might be easier if they could figure out why everyone wants her.
It won’t be that easy, of course. When Chloe’s on-and-off-again girlfriend gets taken hostage, Emmett and Jim will have to race to save her. But an invisible war is raging all around them, and they’ve just stepped into the crossfire.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Queer Fires is the sequel to Ember Boys (which I reviewed here), and I CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S ALMOST HERE!!! I literally stumbled across it completely by accident while looking for something else on Amaz*on – I guess their algorithms are good for something after all??? – and LOOK. LOOK. WE ONLY HAVE TO WAIT TILL THE END OF JANUARY.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
The Flint and Tinder series is the follow up to the Hollow Folk series – aka, one of the greatest series of all time – and I maybe lost my mind a little bit at how much Ember Boys expanded on what we learned from the Hollow Folk books. It’s not that questions were answered exactly, so much as Ashe assuring us that he does have the answers and we will be getting them too!
Like. !!!
I have so many questions about the worldbuilding, and I’m dying to get back to Emmett, and Jim, AND HEY, YOU KNOW, THERE’S THE UTTERLY JAW-DROPPING ENDING OF THE LAST BOOK TO DEAL WITH, DON’T FORGET ABOUT THAT.
But also, this is set a year after the first book??? WHAT. WHAT. WHAT.
And you know, if you have no clue what I’m talking about, both the Hollow Folk series and Ember Boys are on sale right now on Smashwords! Just click on the links in the previous sentence to collect each book for less than $1.50!!!
Then you, too, can be utterly obsessed with this utterly flawless queer-psychics-and-x-men story that honestly should be mandatory reading for absolutely everyone at this point.
NOW EXCUSE ME WHILE I GO RUN AROUND AND FLAIL AND SCREAM SOME MORE!
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