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 Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr!
Genres: Queer Protagonists
Representation: Gay MC
Published on: 2nd April 2024
Goodreads
An extraordinary, gloriously uplifting novel about the power of friendship and the puzzling ties that bind us
Clayton Stumper might be twenty-six years old, but he dresses like your grandpa and drinks sherry like your aunt. Abandoned at birth on the steps of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, he was raised by a group of eccentric enigmatologists and now finds himself among the last survivors of a fading institution.
When the esteemed crossword compiler and main maternal presence in Clayton's life, Pippa Allsbrook, passes away, she bestows her final puzzle on him: a promise to reveal the mystery of his parentage and prepare him for life beyond the walls of the commune. As Clay begins to unpick the clues, he uncovers something even the Fellowship have never been able to solve—and it's a secret that has the potential to change everything.
I don’t step away from SFF very often, but every now and then a book comes along that I just can’t resist. And The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers is definitely one of them.
I mean – AN INFANT RAISED BY ECCENTRIC ENIGMATOLOGISTS?! In a commune of puzzlemakers, no less?! That is such a whimsically weird premise that I cannot help but be utterly delighted by it. Can you blame me? Really? Who does not want to read about a young man who has spent his entire life in a commune of puzzlemakers??? That’s just!
*FLAILS*
And I’m not gonna lie, I’m very curious about what kind of mystery/puzzle ‘could change everything’. What is the ‘everything’ here? The commune? The culture of puzzlemaking (and seriously, is puzzlemaking distinct from puzzle-solving?) Or something even bigger, something that might revitalise the ‘fading institution’ and draw more people to devote their lives to puzzlemaking???
(What would convince you to devote your life to puzzlemaking???)
How big a deal could Clay’s parentage actually be, really?
It all sounds like just-silly-enough FUN that I can’t wait to get to dive into it!
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