“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, which encourages fellow bloggers to spotlight upcoming releases that we’re excited about. However, as Jill is no longer actively posting, from now on I’ll be linking to Can’t Wait Wednesday, hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings, which is a spinoff of the original WoW meme.
Today’s selection and book I’m excitedly awaiting is:
So This Is Ever After
by F.T. Lukens
Young Adult – Fantasy – LGBTQIA+
March 29th 2022
Goodreads
Carry On meets Arthurian legend in this funny, subversive young adult fantasy about what happens after the chosen one wins the kingdom and has to get married to keep it…and to stay alive.
Arek hadn’t thought much about what would happen after he completed the prophecy that said he was destined to save the Kingdom of Ere from its evil ruler. So now that he’s finally managed to (somewhat clumsily) behead the evil king (turns out magical swords yanked from bogs don’t come pre-sharpened), he and his rag-tag group of quest companions are at a bit of a loss for what to do next.
As a temporary safeguard, Arek’s best friend and mage, Matt, convinces him to assume the throne until the true heir can be rescued from her tower. Except that she’s dead. Now Arek is stuck as king, a role that comes with a magical catch: choose a spouse by your eighteenth birthday, or wither away into nothing.
With his eighteenth birthday only three months away, and only Matt in on the secret, Arek embarks on a desperate bid to find a spouse to save his life—starting with his quest companions. But his attempts at wooing his friends go painfully and hilariously wrong…until he discovers that love might have been in front of him all along.
I read In Deeper Waters by F.T. Lukens last year and it was such a nice, feel-good fantasy that I’m very eager to try their next novel. And wow, I’m already loving the fact that this book explores what happens after the chosen one wins the kingdom… and is forced to married to keep both his kingdom and his life. Also, I am getting a friends-to-lovers vibe and an Arthur/Merlin vibe from this blurb and I AM HERE FOR IT.
Tell Me:
Will you be reading this book?
I’m super excited for this one too!
Hope it’ll live up to our expectations!
Love the cover! I haven’t read any book by this author, but the whole Arthurian vibe is catching my attention!
Genesis @ Whispering Chapters
The cover is indeed so cute! I read only one other book by this author, but I really enjoyed that one so I have high hopes for this one 🙂
I enjoyed this one (read an arc).
That’s great, so glad to hear you enjoyed this one!
🙂
That cover is so cute!
It is such a cute cover indeed!
Everything about this book just looks and sounds fantastic. The cover is amazing, the synopsis just kills and I need it in my life ASAP!
Ahh me too, it sounds (and looks) so great!
What a cute cover!
This author does have so much luck in the cover department 🙂
I might have put this on my wishlist after I saw this appear on my feed on Wednesday 😀
It does look and sound amazing – let’s hope we’ll both love it 🙂
I’ll at least read the reviews because it’s gathered a lot of attention lately 😉
It does seem to get a lot of attention, let’s hope it’ll live up to the hype 🙂
This sounds great and that cover is so cute.
This author does have some super cute covers!