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 Roxy and Coco by Terese Svoboda!
Genres: Fantasy, Contemporary or Urban Fantasy
Published on: 1st February 2024
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Roxy and Coco, sisters and glamorous harpies (mythical bird women), work to save the world by stopping child abuse, while also trying to evade capture. For readers of Neil Gaiman and Karen Russell.
Sisters Roxy and Coco are two glamorous harpies—mythical bird women—attempting to outrun extinction and fix the planet by preventing child abuse, one child at a time.
When Roxy is suddenly attracted to her human supervisor at a social work agency a hundred years too early, Coco is very suspicious. Luring Roxy with his scent, Tim is also on the payroll of a fake conservationist intent on her less-than-legal collection. Coco swoops in to vet Tim, but Interpol is hot on her trail for a series of curious homicides. (Surveillance has a very hard time convincing his boss of what he’s monitoring.) When the sisters find themselves trapped, Chris, a bipolar skateboarding truant, tries his best to rescue them but it’s Stewie, Coco’s colleague, who turns the story inside out. Roxy and Coco climaxes at a gala of egg fanciers who scramble to escape the harpies’ talons.
Action figure–worthy, for readers of Neil Gaiman and Karen Russell, this modern take on these fabled women touches on mental illness, racism, animal rights, and the rights of children.
This sounds extremely strange and kinda bonkers and I love it??? I’m always here for vigilantes against child abuse, and these ones are actual harpies?! That is so cool!
There’s so much going on in this blurb – Roxy is attracted to her supervisor? Does that mean the harpies aren’t vigilantes, exactly? That they work as part of a group? How else could she have a supervisor? Or can Roxy and Coco take human form, and have human day jobs on top of being vigilantes, and Roxy has a supervisor in that job? Perhaps???
(And – she’s experiencing attraction a hundred years too early? How long does it take for harpies to reach maturity? Ages, it sounds like!)
Does this fake conservationist have a collection of other beasties and beings from myth? Exactly what does Interpol think is going on here? And what are egg fanciers??? I’m almost afraid to find out the answer to that last one!
I love weird stories, and this one sounds both weird and awesome. Can’t wait!
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