I Can’t Wait For…An Amateur Witch’s Guide to Murder by K. Valentin
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.
This week my Can’t-Wait-For Book is An Amateur Witch’s Guide to Murder by K. Valentin!
An Amateur Witch's Guide to Murder: A Novel by K. Valentin Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Contemporary or Urban Fantasy, Queer Protagonists
Representation: Queer Puerto Rican MC, M/M
Published on: 14th October 2025
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A wannabe witch tries to break a curse on a clueless client in this laugh-out-loud debut for fans of queer fantasy like TJ Klune and Tamsyn Muir.
Mateo Borrero has ninety-nine problems, and all of them hinge on the fact that his terrifying and currently-missing bruja mother trapped a demon in his body when he was born. His mother forbade him from ever using magic, but now that she’s gone, magic’s his only marketable skill, and he’d really like an exorcism—which costs money he doesn’t have. What’s the harm in making a quick buck by calling himself an Occult Specialist and chanting a few half-remembered spells in his crappy Spanish?
Enter Topher, a naive nepo baby with a curse that keeps killing people around him. Most importantly, he’s rich, and too clueless to clock that Mateo–and his (absolutely-not-the-assistant) astral-projecting best friend Ophelia–have never actually had a client before. Lifting Topher’s bad luck curse should be simple, but as luck would have it, nothing is simple, and Topher–who Mateo sort of, kind of likes–might be at the center of a deadly magical conspiracy.
To make matters worse, the more magic Mateo does, the stronger the demon inside him grows and the more he wants to eat people. But would caving to the urges of an ancient evil really be that bad if it helps him get a payday?
Legends and Lattes meets A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Catching a Killer in this hilarious and charming contemporary fantasy readers won’t want to miss.
I was browsing Edelweiss, as one does if one is an unhealthily obsessed bookwyrm, when the cover caught my attention – because the MC on the front looked very queer-coded to me – and then I saw the GIDEON THE NINTH MEETS LEGENDS AND LATTES bit on the Edelweiss listing.
…Okay. All right. I actually didn’t enjoy Legends and Lattes that much, but I suspect you don’t mean that the lack of plot-beats are going to be the same as L&L, so sure, I’m listening!
I immediately want to know whether Mateo’s mom stuck a demon in him on purpose, or was it an accident? I really can’t tell from the blurb. And what do we think the chances are of her disappearance being unrelated to the conspiracy Topher’s caught up in? I wouldn’t bet on it…!
But power up the demon inside you to make ends meet sounds like a painfully on-point metaphor for capitalism, welp! That alone has me convinced I’m going to enjoy Valentin’s sense of humour. The Millennial vibes are strong with this one!
We don’t get this one until October, but I’m hopeful it’ll be worth the wait!
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