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 is The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez!

The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
Genres: Fantasy
Published on: 30th August 2022
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A reluctant warrior goes on the run with an ancient goddess through a lush world full of wild magic, wondrous creatures, and hidden enemies in this beautiful epic fantasy from the author of The Vanished Birds .

In the land of the Strangled Throat, the people suffer under the rule of a despotic Emperor. His sons, the Three Terrors, despoil the countryside and oppress its citizens. When Keema Daware--a fierce warrior who lost his left arm in battle--finds the mythic Empress, who has escaped from her royal imprisonment, at his sentry outpost, he must make a choice: turn her in and evade the wrath of the Three Terrors, or help her overthrow the government and free a nation.

Funny story: this popped up on my radar a while back – maybe it was the cover reveal? – and I was intrigued. So I went to see if the author had written anything else that I could check out (…let’s agree this was before the cover reveal, so I didn’t miss the whole author of The Vanished Birds right there under the author name!) and he had! In fact, The Vanished Birds was already on my tbr, but since it was sci fi and the blurb was pretty vague it hadn’t made it to the top of my tbr yet.

Reader, I fucking adored The Vanished Birds, and I hope I can write a worthy review for it soon. But my point is, The Spear Cuts Through Water is now right at the top of my Must-Have list. I’m hopeful that Jimenez will create a fantasy world that normalises queerness, as in his sci fi – maybe even feature queer characters, like The Vanished Birds did – but to be honest, even if he doesn’t, I’d still be making grabby-hands at this book!

And aside from all of that, I am HERE for mythic empresses of all kinds. GIMME!

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