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 Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera!
Genres: Fantasy
Published on: 11th July 2023
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Nestled at the head of a supercontinent, framed by sky and sea, lies Luriat, the city of bright doors. The doors are everywhere in the city, squatting in walls where they don’t belong, painted in vivid warning. They watch over a city of art and avarice, of plagues and pogroms, and silently refuse to open. No one knows what lies beyond them, but everyone has their own theory and their own relationship to the doors. Researchers perform tests and take samples, while supplicants offer fruit and flowers and hold prayer circles. Many fear the doors as the source of hauntings from unspeakable realms. To a rare unchosen few, though, the doors are both a calling and a bane. Fetter is one of those few.
When Fetter was born, his mother tore his shadow from him. She raised him as a weapon to kill his sainted father and destroy the religion rising up in his sacred footsteps. Now Fetter is unchosen, lapsed in his devotion to both his parents. He casts no shadow, is untethered by gravity, and sees devils and antigods everywhere he goes. With no path to follow, Fetter would like to be anything but himself. Does his answer wait on the other side of one of Luriat’s bright doors?
The Saint of Bright Doors is a Tordotcom book, which means it was already on my radar – I always pay attention to Tordotcom releases, because 92% of the time they are exactly what I never knew I wanted – but only kind of vaguely? I knew about it, but the super short premise we initially had didn’t make my heart beat faster or anything. I didn’t write it into my (obsessively kept) book releases calendar.
BUT THEN.
Then they released the cover, and that didn’t do it – it wasn’t until later that I looked at it closely enough to see that the outline of the blue part makes the silhouette of a city! – but the excerpt they posted with the cover?
That had me hooked SO FAST.
Go on, go check it out, if you haven’t already. I’ll wait!
There, see? DOESN’T IT SOUND AMAZING?
It was love at first line for me;
The moment Fetter is born, Mother-of-Glory pins his shadow to the earth with a large brass nail and tears it from him.
Picture me swooning, okay?
Usually, a book has to be queer for me to need it this bad. I have no idea if Bright Doors is queer or not, and for once, folx, I do not care. I am in love. I HAVE A MIGHTY NEED. I will be counting the days until this one releases!
Obviously I’ve pre-ordered it already. YOU SHOULD TOO!
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