I Can’t Wait For…Tadek and the Princess by Alexandra Rowland

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Posted 20th December 2023 by Sia in Can't-Wait Wednesday / 0 Comments

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 Tadek and the Princess by Alexandra Rowland!

Tadek and the Princess by Alexandra Rowland
Genres: Fantasy, Queer Protagonists
Published on: 12th January 2024
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From the author of the critically-acclaimed fantasy novel A TASTE OF GOLD AND IRON comes a sequel/spinoff novella about loyalty and grief:

Long before Tadek Hasira ever made it to the Gold Court to serve as one of the royal family’s elite bodyguards and servants, he was nothing more than a grubby street urchin in the poorest district of the capital city—that is, until her Highness, the Crown Princess Mihrişah, held out her hand in kindness, lifted him out of his circumstances, and gave him a future to dream of.

But that was twenty years ago, and tragedy befell the palace only a few years into Tadek’s training. Ever since, Tadek held his unwavering love and loyalty to his princess in silence. No one knows what she was to him, and he is prepared to carry that secret for the rest of his life...

Unless someone—the right person—happens to find him standing vigil at her portrait.

A TASTE OF GOLD AND IRON IS GETTING A SEQUEL!!!

You remember A Taste of Gold and Iron, right? That indulgent delicious prince/bodyguard fantasy with the politics and the anxiety and the hair-washing??? I loved it – it went on my Best of 2022 list! – and you can bet the entire Discord FLIPPED OUT when Rowland announced we were getting a follow-up novella!!!

Tadek and the Princess will be a prequel, too – prequel and sequel in alternating chapters. We’ll get to see how exactly Tadek – one of everyone’s favourite characters from the novel – became one of the khaya, and hopefully we’ll also get a glimpse of how Kadou and Evemer are doing after the events of A Taste of Gold and Iron!!!