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 The Church of the Mountain of Flesh by Kyle Wakefield!
Genres: Adult, Horror, Queer Protagonists
Representation: MLM trans MC
PoV: 1st-person, past-tense
Published on: 6th September 2024
Goodreads
THE CHURCH OF THE MOUNTAIN OF FLESH is a cosmic horror novel about mad artists, bodies spiralling out of control, and a trans man's merciless desperation.
Sole De Gasinis drowns his grief in wine and buries his hatred of his body in twisted sculptures. When, one drunken night on the beach, God orders him to rebuild his village's church, he knows he wasn't chosen for his piety.
Instead, he and God make a deal. If Sole rebuilds the church, God will give him the body of a man.
As Sole works in a frenzy for salvation, lifelong friendships decay, a village united to tear down its church fractures into pariahs and zealots, and power and grief reshape the prophet into a tyrant. Grief for a boy he fell in love with ten years ago, who claimed to be a virgin birth, who died in agony in the church crypt when the God inside him wanted out -- and whose monstrous remnant Sole must commune with for every piece of his prize.
Come on, exactly WHICH part of this am I not supposed to be rabid for??? Queer religious fuckery! Eldritch horror! Arcane deals for the transition you want! The dead virgin-birthed boy you loved, now a monster!
I believe the word I want for this is…GIMME!
‘when the God inside him wanted out’ gives me the BEST kind of chills, honestly, and I am HEART EYES thinking about how a virgin-birthed miracle boy turns into a monster. What kind of monster? Why did God allow that? And WHAT is with this village, that they’re turning on the church but God is very invested, apparently, in getting them back in his flock??? Why this particular village?
And there are TENTACLES and COSMIC HORROR and I spot an ANGEL WING on the cover! *FLAILS*
I feel very bad for Sole, but wow do I want his story!
If you have yet to be convinced, you can read the first chapter here!
It’s out NEXT WEEK, so there’s still time to get your preorders in!
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