Can’t Wait Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings, in which we take a look at upcoming releases we’re super excited about.
Today’s selection and book I’m excitedly awaiting is:
The Floating World
by Axie Oh
Young Adult – Fantasy
May 13th, 2025
Goodreads
From Axie Oh, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, Final Fantasy meets Shadow and Bone in this romantic fantasy reimagining the Korean legend of Celestial Maidens.
Sunho lives in the Under World, a land of perpetual darkness. An ex-soldier, he can remember little of his life from before two years ago, when he woke up alone with only his name and his sword. Now he does odd-jobs to scrape by, until he comes across the score of a lifetime—a chest of coins for any mercenary who can hunt down a girl who wields silver light.
Meanwhile, far to the east, Ren is a cheerful and spirited acrobat traveling with her adoptive family and performing at villages. But everything changes during one of their festival performances when the village is attacked by a horrific humanlike demon. In a moment of fear and rage, Ren releases a blast of silver light—a power she has kept hidden since childhood—and kills the monster. But her efforts are not in time to prevent her adoptive family from suffering a devastating loss, or to save her beloved uncle from being grievously wounded.
Determined to save him from succumbing to the poisoned wound, Ren sets off over the mountains, where the creature came from—and from where Ren herself fled ten years ago. Her path sets her on a collision course with Sunho, but he doesn’t realize she’s the girl that he—and a hundred other swords-for-hire—is looking for. As the two grow closer through their travels, they come to realize that their pasts—and destinies—are far more entwined than either of them could have imagined…
After reading and loving The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, I am SO READY for another Axie Oh book inspired by Korean mythology. Also, how gorgeous is this cover?
Tell Me:
Will you be reading this book?
I haven’t read any books yet from Axie Oh but I love that it’s inspired by Korean mythology. Can’t go wrong with that!
So true 🙂
Korean mythology is new for me – that’s really cool! And yes, that cover is amazing!
It does sound so fun!
I am in between two fantasy series’s right now. So while I will be adding it to the list but I think I need a little break from fantasy.
Yes, I also love having a nice palate cleanser in between fantasies 🙂