Happy Wednesday! It’s officially a streak with this post now!
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 Shocking Experiments of Miss Mary Bennet by Melinda Taub! ⚡🧪
I loved The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch when I read it two years ago, and now Melinda Taub has another novel set in the same universe focusing on another Bennet sister. Of course it’s going on my potential TBR. (I just have so many books on my To Be Read List guys – I don’t know when and if I’m gonna get to some of these novels.)
The Shocking Experiments of Miss Mary Bennet by Melinda Taub
LENGTH: 320 pages
GENRES: Fantasy, Historical, Fiction
PUBLISHER: Amulet Books
RELEASE DATE: 30 September 2025
An utterly fantastical and undeniably queer melding of Pride and Prejudice and Frankenstein that recasts Mary Bennet as an insatiable scientist, one who creates a monster in an attempt to save herself from spinsterdom
Mary Bennet is the middlest middle child of all time. Awkward, plain, and overlooked, she’s long been out of favor not only with her own family but with generations of readers of Pride and Prejudice.
But what was Mary really doing while her sisters were falling in love? Well, what does any bright, intrepid girl do in an age when brains and hard work are only valued if they come with a pretty face? Take to the attic and teach herself to reanimate the dead of course. The world refuses to make a place for peculiar Mary, but no Bennet sister ever gives up on happiness that easily. If it won’t give this fierce, lonely girl a place, she’ll carve one out herself. And if finding acceptance requires a husband, she’ll get one. Even if she has to make him herself, too.
However, Mary’s genius and determination aren’t enough to control what she unwittingly unleashes. Her desperate attempts to rein in the destruction wreaked by her creations leads her to forge a perhaps unlikely friendship with another brilliant young woman unlike any she’s ever known. As that friendship blossoms into something passionate and all-consuming, Mary begins to realize that she may have to choose between the acceptance she’s always fought for and true happiness.
Are you looking forward to The Shocking Experiments of Miss Mary Bennet? What other books are coming out in the next few weeks that you’re looking forward to?
As always, thank you all so much for reading and have a fantastic day/night!
See ya ~Mar
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