“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:
Fence, Volume 5: Rise
by C.S. Pacat and Johanna The Mad
Graphic Novel Comic – Contemporary – Sports – LGBTQIA+
August 16th, 2022
Goodreads
In the highly anticipated next chapter of Fence, Nicholas will stop at nothing until he becomes Seiji’s worthy fencing rival!
USA Today best-selling author C. S. Pacat (Captive Prince) and popular web cartoonist Johanna the Mad along with colorist Joana LaFuente (Transformers) and letterer Jim Campbell (Giant Days) reunite for the highly-anticipated next chapter in this fierce and heartfelt GLAAD Media Award-nominated series. Excitement is in the air as Nicholas and his friends celebrate their prestigious invitation to the Halverton Training Camp. They immediately come face-to-face with the best teams in the country, and Nicholas struggles as he suffers defeat after defeat by an old enemy. Will a new addition to the team bring Nicholas closer to the rest of the team and awaken the resilience within he needs to prevail? But Seiji, in contrast to Nicholas, remains unchallenged and let down by the camp. With Seiji’s goal to learn (instead of win) stuck in his head, will Nicholas step up to pose a real challenge to Seiji, even growing their friendship as a result?. Get ready to say “En Garde” to the next installment of Fence!
I’m still not sure how I even got into a comic series about fencing of all things, but here we are. I love this series for its found family aspect, the humor, and the slow burn romance (like, really REALLY SLOW BURN) and I’m super excited we’ll finally get volume 5 in August. That gives me a bit more time to re-read the previous 4 volumes!
Tell Me:
Will you be reading this book?
I’ve never heard about this comic series but if you love it then I’m sure it’s great! 😀
Haha, thanks! I definitely love it, and who knows, I may even learn some things about fencing 😀
I haven’t read this comic series, but it does sound fun – fencing, how cool!
It’s definitely a fun and unique topic 🙂
I love a good found family story. 🙂
I can never say no to found families 🙂
I am curious about it now avan if I DNF Captive Prince…
Fence is definitely VERY different from Captive Prince, so I do hope you’d like it if you decided to give it a try 🙂