Much like May earlier this year, July is absolutely stacked in regards to new books coming out that I’m interested in. Just take a look at this.
Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Tressa @ Wishful Endings (and was previously hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine where it was known as Waiting on Wednesday) to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. They’re usually books that have not yet been released.
This week’s book is:
The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer! 📖🌳
So, I’m actually not sure when I’ll get around to reading this one, since I’ve got a few things on my TBR that I wanna read first. Not to mention there are even more new books coming out soon that I’m even more excited about reading, so this one might go by the wayside for a bit. But I’m nonetheless excited about this one – the premise just sounds so interesting!
The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer
LENGTH: 338 pages
GENRES: Fantasy, Romance, Fiction
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
RELEASE DATE: 16 July 2024
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
Inspired by C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale for grown-ups who still knock on the back of wardrobes—just in case—from the author of The Wishing Game.
As boys, best friends Jeremy Cox and Rafe Howell vanished in a West Virginia state park, only to mysteriously reappear six months later with no explanation for where they’d gone or how they’d survived.
Fifteen years after their miraculous homecoming, Jeremy is a famous missing persons investigator with an uncanny ability to find the lost, while Rafe is a reclusive artist unable to stop creating otherworldly paintings and sculptures he shows to no one. He bears scars inside and out from his disappearance but has no memory of what happened while they were gone.
Jeremy alone knows the fantastical truth behind their time in the woods. While the rest of the world was searching for them, the two missing boys were in a magical realm filled with impossible beauty and terrible danger. However, Jeremy has kept Rafe in the dark since their return for his own inscrutable reasons.
But the time for burying secrets comes to an end when vet tech Emilie Wendel hires Jeremy to find her long-lost sister… the long-lost sister he and Rafe knew while living in that hidden kingdom. Now the former lost boys must confront their shared past, no matter how traumatic the memories. Alongside the headstrong Emilie, Rafe and Jeremy return to the enchanted world they called home for six months… for only then can they get back everything and everyone they’ve lost.
Are you looking forward to The Lost Story? What other books are coming out soon that you’re looking forward to?
As always, thank you all so much for reading and have a fantastic day/night!
See ya ~Mar