I Can’t Wait For…The Flowers I Deserve by Tamara Jerée
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 The Flowers I Deserve by Tamara Jerée!
The Flowers I Deserve by Tamara Jerée Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Queer Protagonists
Published on: 14th October 2025
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Weeping luna is as common as wildflowers, and in the northern kingdoms, assassination by its floral poison is rampant. Those born with immunity are coveted by heretic clerical orders and the endangered aristocracy—and shunned by a superstitious society.
One so gifted, or cursed, Carlotta embraces her newfound power as the currency to deliver her from a land in the grip of drought. Luxury and beauty, glimpsed only through the portal of her late mother’s letters, become an easy trade to consider in exchange for her life. And looming always in her imagination is the symbol of it all—King Emelia, a demon who rose to power under mysterious circumstances. Rumor claims her to be a monstrous woman like the poison girls who serve and adore her. Yet in the warnings of evil, Carlotta sees her own reflection.
Once initiated into the world of sensual indulgence and ancient magic within the castle walls, however, Carlotta finds that not even a king’s devotion is enough to sate her. As the castle’s ghosts coalesce, Carlotta must also confront what her own dead want for her and, even at the heights of her seduction, what she truly wants for herself.
The Flowers I Deserve is a spicy FFF gothic fantasy novel with lyrical prose and a quiet heart. Content notes are available on the author's website and inside the book.
I legit GASPED OUT LOUD when I learned that Jerée had a new novel coming out – somehow my book-detective skills completely failed me and I had no idea!
And then it’s THIS?!
We got the cover reveal last week and I’ve barely stopped staring at it since!!! Which, can you blame me?!
And honestly I’d be perfectly happy to pounce on a new Jerée book regardless of what it was about – but this sounds so freaking cool! I think it’s Jerée’s first secondary-world setting? ‘King Emelia’ is so promising, so far I have always fallen in love with worldbuilding that includes women bearing traditionally male titles, it is a marvellous green flag! (If you know of any books that include it, fellow readers, please drop them in the comments!)
Plus, ‘poison girls’??? I love the sound of that! Why are they so coveted though, one wonders? They wouldn’t be able to be food tasters, would they? Unless they can still detect the poison, even being immune? Possibly, possibly… My increasingly anarchist self is gleeful at the idea of an ‘endangered aristocracy’, anyway!
And what about that third F, in the promised F/F/F? There’s no mention of a third person in the synopsis! (I’m assuming the first two will be Carlotta and the king.) Maybe she’s another poison girl? Or a ghost, somehow? HMM!
Obviously I have already preordered, and obviously you should too! If you haven’t read Jerée before, you’ve got time to read her The Fall That Saved Us first, too, which I adored!
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