Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted over at Wishful Endings to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about but haven’t yet read. Most of the time they’re books that have yet to be released, but not always. It’s based on the Waiting on Wednesday meme, which was originally hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. 

You can find the releases I’m most anticipating this year over on my Unmissable list, but I use Can’t-Wait Wednesday to feature books I’m hopeful about but aren’t 100% sure will be five star reads.

This week my Can’t-Wait-For Book is Fawn’s Blood by Hal Schrieve!

Fawn's Blood by Hal Schrieve
Genres: Fantasy, Contemporary or Urban Fantasy, Queer Protagonists, YA
Representation: Trans MC, bisexual MC
Published on: 16th September 2025
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Vampires, vampire slayers, and a bloodthirsty underground resistance converge in a campy YA fantasy about being a queer teen in a world that wishes they did not exist.

Kids’ librarian and critically acclaimed author of Out of Salem puts a pulpy spin on vampire fiction, and bites back at anti-trans moral panic.

Fawn and Silver share nearly coming out together as trans in their small Maryland town, clocking a copious number of hours in detention, and spending their sleepovers secretly making out. They’re also uniquely obsessed with vampires, who are being hunted, imprisoned, and executed for the danger they allegedly pose to human life.

Rachel is a bisexual teen, who has secretly been turned vampire and who is contending with the fact that her mom is a notorious vampire slayer. When Silver disappears and Fawn goes west in search of him, her and Rachel’s fates converge, both falling into the hands of Cain, an edgelord vampire known for his proselytizing for the drinking of human blood.

But in discovering hidden tunnels and secret bars, youth shelters and punk shows and safe houses, Fawn find herself in the middle of a vampire underground in Seattle—an organized resistance keeping each other alive through a network of blood distribution and protection from slayers.

Fawn’s Blood is a timely antidote to the anti-trans moral panic of today. Taking the queer-coded villain and flipping it on its’ head, this multi-voiced vampire novel offers a paranormal YA fantasy full of complicated queer characters—human and monster alike—all of whom are simply trying to survive in a world that wants them dead.

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Schrieve’s debut, Out Of Salem, is a freaking INCREDIBLE take on urban/contemporary fantasy – creating a world where magical elements are woven into the every-day in a way so few urban fantasies manage! Not to mention teenagers that actually feel and read like teenagers.

Which is why I fully intent to POUNCE on this next book – I mean, queer teens biting back??? YES PLEASE!

I’m not expecting a new take on vampire lore, exactly, but I’m willing to bet the relationship between humans and vampires won’t map neatly onto anything I’ve seen before. And I’m interested in seeing what an underground network looks like here – Out Of Salem gave us a glimpse of one for werewolves, but it sounds like we’ll be seeing much more of the vampire one!

Plus, ‘taking the queer-coded villain and flipping it on its’ head’??? GIMME!

So excited for this – and we’re only a week away from pub day now!

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