I Can’t Wait For…Starstruck by Aimee Ogden

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 as sure of.

Okay, usually I don’t feature books from my Unmissable list in these Wednesday posts – but indie releases are an exception, they need more boosting!

Thus, this week my Can’t-Wait-For Book is Starstruck by Aimee Ogden!

Starstruck by Aimee Ogden
Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Queer Protagonists
Representation: F/F
Published on: 17th June 2025
Goodreads

Prish has always been a radish who knows what she’s about; chiefly, her wife, Alsing, a literal and figurative fox. They’ve woven together a cozy life organized around welcoming other starstruck beings into the world—plants and animals ensouled by a falling star—but when the stars stop falling, all of that unravels. Prish gives in to Alsing’s longing to move on, and their new path leads them to two unlikely companions: an abandoned human child, and, impossibly, a brand-new starstruck who is neither a plant nor an animal, but rather a chunk of anthropomorphized granite with delusions of destiny.

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I have been following Ogden’s career MOST ATTENTIVELY since her debut Sun Daughters, Sea Daughters, which is a vaguely-Little-Mermaid-inspired sci fi novella that made me go heart-eyes – especially because the prose itself is just GORGEOUS!

I cannot for the life of me remember where I first heard about Starstruck, but I know it was a WHILE back because at the time, I couldn’t find any details about it anywhere (beyond, LESBIAN RADISH which, obviously, was more than enough to sell me on it). I set up google alerts and everything!

AND NOW WE HAVE A COVER AND CAN PREORDER IT AND HELLS YES, I HAVE MINE PREORDERED, WHY DON’T YOU YET???

We already know the prose will be great, because it’s Ogden. Then there is STAR MAGIC, with everything that gets touched by a fallen star being GIVEN A SOUL. Which is the origin for the aforementioned LESBIAN RADISH. Who is married to a FOX. And they are going to find a HUMAN CHILD and a DELUDED ROCK.

YES. YES. OH MY FREAKING GODS, SO MUCH YES!!!

You can preorder it in print or ebook here!

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