Can’t Wait Wednesday: The Unicorn Hunters by Katherine Arden

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“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme that was originally created by Breaking the Spine.  Unfortunately Breaking the Spine are no longer hosting so I’m now linking my posts up to Wishful Endings Can’t Wait Wednesday. Don’t forget to stop over, link up and check out what books everyone else is waiting for.  If you want to take part, basically, every Wednesday, we highlight a book that we’re really looking forward to.  This week my book is: The Unicorn Hunters by Katherine Arden.  Oh yes, I’m so excited for this.  Here’s all the info you need:

With her country’s future and her own life at stake, an orphaned duchess must journey into a world of myth and there discover a power that may be her salvation—or her demise—in this enchanting new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Winternight Trilogy and The Warm Hands of Ghosts.

Anne of Brittany was a child when her realm was invaded, her home besieged, and her royal father driven to his death.

Now her treasury is empty, her land occupied by her enemies, and she is ordered, under threat of renewed war, to become queen of her conquerors and marry the King of France.

This marriage means her country’s annexation. But Anne promised her father that Brittany would never be conquered.

Defiantly, she betroths herself in secret to France’s greatest enemy. But in a world where courts may spy on each other by magic, there is only one way to solemnize this illicit union.

Anne takes her court deep into a legendary forest, where the court diviners’ skill cannot reach. The world thinks they are only a hunting party, coursing after unicorns. But that is a lie, a trick, a feint. No one in living memory has seen a unicorn. All Anne wants is this secret wedding, which is her only hope of salvation.

But when against all hope a unicorn appears and a stranger out of legend stumbles from the trees and falls at her feet, Anne is plunged into a world of enchantment where a doomed sovereign might find the power to change her own and her country’s destiny—or be lost in the shadows forever.

Expected publication: June 2026

4 Responses to “Can’t Wait Wednesday: The Unicorn Hunters by Katherine Arden”

  1. Susy's Cozy World's avatar Susy's Cozy World

    I love the colours of the cover! I don’t know if this would work for me, because of the historical setting, but it sounds interesting all the same! Thanks for sharing!!

    • @lynnsbooks's avatar @lynnsbooks

      Its a lovely cover and I hope its as good as her usual work.

      Lynn 😀

  2. Tammy's avatar Tammy

    I’m excited for this too, and the cover is so pretty😁

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