I Can’t Wait For…A Light From the Nether by Molly Dowd Sullivan
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 A Light From the Nether by Molly Dowd Sullivan!
A Light From the Nether by Molly Dowd Sullivan Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Horror, Queer Protagonists, Contemporary or Urban Fantasy, Historical Fantasy
Representation: Gay MC
Published on: 18th June 2025
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Molly Dowd Sullivan marks her debut with a thrilling urban fantasy novel that grabs you and won't let go. Dark elements of psychic infection, body horror, trauma, and tragic love play against the backdrop of a compelling murder mystery. For fans of A Song of Achilles, CS Pacat, and Stephen King.
Liam O'Connor is special. When a Fissure opens in someone's mind, he's the one who sews it up again. When a parasite creeps through that Fissure, Liam is the exterminator who purges it. And when Liam loses everything, he's the coward who runs. But when he moves to an old house in coastal New England, hoping for isolation, something from his past follows. Fissures start tearing open; minds are devoured. People die. It's not long before Liam realizes a murderer has come to Shoalport, and he's the only one who can stop them.
Well, him, and the man who keeps haunting his dreams.
I am thrilled by how weird this sounds: fissures in people’s MINDS? A fissure to WHAT? Somewhere monster-y things live, I guess! I saw it mentioned in an early review that some of the beasties eat trauma, which a) is fantastic, b) begs the question: does that work as a cure for PTSD? and c) makes me wonder what OTHER things the monsters might eat???
And what does that DO to you, if one of these things eats your trauma (or whatever else)? Presumably it’s not good, since if it were you wouldn’t need or want exterminators…
The romance is apparently not at all the focus of the story; instead, it’s supposed to be a mix of cosmic body horror, urban fantasy, and historical? I don’t know how historical fits in with this premise, but I am EAGER to find out!
And I should find out soon, because the book comes out next week!
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