I Can’t Wait For…We Who Hunt Alexanders by Jason Sanford
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 100% sure will be five star reads.
This week my Can’t-Wait-For Book is We Who Hunt Alexanders by Jason Sanford!
We Who Hunt Alexanders by Jason Sanford Genres: Adult, Horror
Representation: Brown MCs
Published on: 22nd July 2025
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Amelia is a ripper, a monster who feeds on violent people who have so thoroughly forsaken love that they’ve burned away their souls. Unseen and unnoticed by most of society and living as both hunter and hunted, the only emotion rippers feel is anger. But Amelia is different from her fellow rippers and also feels happiness and sadness, fear and love. To her mother, Danjay, that makes Amelia the strangest of all monsters.
Driven from their home by religious zealots, Amelia and Danjay must learn to survive in the city of Medea, where violent men rule and kill anyone who opposes them. Worse, Amelia has never hunted on her own, and her mother is ill and growing weaker by the day. Only a chance encounter with a human who can see Amelia gives her any hope that she might be able to save her mother.
To succeed, Amelia must learn to hunt in an increasingly dangerous city brought to the brink of war by the corrupt, rich and powerful. Amelia will also have to discover if her differences from her fellow rippers makes her weak, as her mother believes, or if she can instead be a new kind of monster that the world has never seen before.
Jason Sanford has been on my radar since his book Plague Birds (which is on my ereader, and has been for YEARS, but which I have tragically not yet read); more recently, I subscribed to his Patreon, where he reports on news in the SFF community and on the ongoing situation around the garbage predictive-text algorithms people call LLMs (except they’re not learning anything) or AIs (except they’re not intelligent). Both kinds of news reports have been godsends for me, since my fibro makes it really hard to stay up to date on news I care about. So having someone gather a lot of it in once place for me is wonderful.
I didn’t realise at first that We Who Hunt Alexanders was written by the same person who writes those news reports! I found out about the book somewhere else, not on his Patreon (where, I can’t remember now) and only today put it together!
Anyway, on to the book!
We Who Hunt Alexanders sounds dark as fuck – but also absolutely fascinating??? Between the thumb’s up from Samantha Mills – author of one of my favourite books, The Wings Upon Her Back – and these two blurbs–
“If you could rid the world of evil by eating it―by literally becoming the hell that will torture the blackguards you consume―would you? Jason Sanford’s We Who Hunt Alexanders puts this very moral quandary before us, in a grisly, action-packed tale of murder, loyalty, and moral zugzwangs. By testing the human heart under the most unimaginably difficult circumstances, Sanford delivers a frightening, cathartic meditation on just how far we’d go for the ones we love―even when we aren’t sure what love even is.”―Carlos Hernandez, author of Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe
“Amelia, the protagonist of this remarkable novella by Jason Sanford, is at once adorable and arcane, and her experiences are both deeply relatable and utterly terrifying. What I loved the most was that underneath everything, this is a story of friendship, in all its myriad forms: from the mysterious sisterhood of the rippers to the individual friendships between characters that aren’t coaxed into becoming ‘something more.’ It’s also a story about families, both biological and found. Unexpected pockets of tenderness are folded into every scene of this book about ancient man-eating monsters with entirely too many teeth.” ―Mimi Mondal, author of His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light
–I’m convinced this is something I need to try and read. It might well be too dark for me! But I want to TRY. Monster sisterhood? A central mom/daughter relationship? A horror-twist on the ‘sin-eater’ concept? FLAILING WITH EMOTIONS? That all sounds amazing! Well worth some potential nightmares.
*grabby hands*
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