Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings to share upcoming book releases that we’re excited about! This meme is based on Waiting on Wednesday, which was created and hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.
At first glance I thought Strangebrew Apothecary sounded like a cute book, but put it on the mental backburner. I find that I keep coming back to it every time I open up Goodreads, so it’s getting it’s very own Can’t Wait Wednesday feature. Strangebrew Apothecary follows Ellastaria Strange, a woman who is hiding the fact that she is an actual supernaturally abled apothecary in a world full of fraudsters. Ellastaria and the sketchy group she’s tagging along with are on the run from a con gone wrong and they have to do that found family thing where they pull themselves together, put on their best face, and solve the problem. This will be released September 22, 2026, and I suppose it’s officially on my TBR now.
Legends & Lattes meets The Lost Apothecary in this debut adventure fantasy following a potion maker who must hide her powers under the cover of a crew of conmen, only to lean on each other for comfort, safety, and even love.
When Ellastaria Strange joins a ragtag crew of con artists and serpent-oil salesmen, she’s just trying to escape the slow death of poverty, not sell fake cure-alls in dinky rural villages. Yet Ella harbors a dangerous secret. Unlike her crooked co-workers, she’s the real thing; an apothecary with supernatural abilities, hiding from a world fearful of such powers, covertly helping people when she can.
Ella’s life of deceit takes a terrifying turn when her team swindles the wrong town and Ella accidentally reveals her true nature to fanatics with no tolerance for the supernatural. On the run from obsessed vigilantes, Ella and her crew find refuge with a beer brewer who wants nothing to do with crooks or occultists, and his starry-eyed sister who wants in on all of it.
For any hope of a future, the scrappy misfits must band together, embrace what makes them outcasts, and trust in each other’s talents—no matter how strange.
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