Feed Your TBR - Summer of Horror 2026 Edition

 

Can't Wait Wednesday, which I have adapted to better suit my blog as "Feed Your TBR" is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings to spotlight highly anticipated books.  It is based on the Waiting on Wednesday meme which used to be hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.

Also, since it is Summer of Horror, each week I will be trying to do one horror and one horror pick - at least through August.  So, enjoy!

January 26, 2027

FROM GOODREADS: Milwaukee, 1997— In the eighties, the Cream City Killer, known as CCK, made Walker’s Point his hunting ground. His reign of terror gave a new name to Milwaukee’s oldest neighborhood: Scream City.

Back then, if anyone had told Rex Hale that things were about to get worse for him, he’d have thought they were yanking his chain. He’s already divorced, suspended from the police force, and serving eviction notices for a developer dead-set on gentrifying the place. The only way things could get worse is if—

The next guy he serves winds up murdered. In cold blood. Rex’s papers still fluttering nearby.

The crime appears to be the work of a copycat, someone paying homage to CCK. Rex is questioned, of course, along with Alice Foster—CCK’s granddaughter and owner of a haunted bookstore that has yet to be evicted. Sparks have crackled between Alice and Rex for years. He wants to believe she’s innocent, but the evidence is stacking up against her.

So are the bodies.

The killer has turned Rex’s paper route into their own personal path of destruction. If there’s any chance at saving Walker’s Point and clearing both of their names, Alice and Rex—two people no one trusts—will have to trust each other. But in order to suss out the killer, they’ll have to look at the past and exhume a long-buried clue the original investigation missed.

If they don’t solve it soon, the development is the least of their worries, because Scream City is hellbent on living up to its name. And this time, no one gets out alive.

WHY I CAN'T WAIT:  Serial killers and 90s!

March 9, 2027

FROM GOODREADS: When Maria returns home for her mother’s funeral, she’s left with only a cryptic inheritance to claim. But Talalora — the lush, once-fertile town she remembers — is now barren, its flowers withered, and its people devoted to a lone priest, Father Benito, who insists her mother’s estate must be earned through a series of brutal trials.

Each trial pits Maria against relatives she’s never met, and as she progresses, the town’s plants grow faster and stranger, blurring the line between reality and memory. Strange floral visions and a forgotten spirit, the Diwata, begin to surface, stirring up memories she was never meant to recall — including tender moments with a beautiful girl who now claims her mother’s death was planned. 

Maria’s fight for her inheritance becomes a quest to uncover the truth about her mother, Talalora’s cursed past, and the supernatural forces that bind them. The story builds toward the chilling revelation that what’s been buried must bloom — and that the land itself is alive with danger.

WHY I CAN'T WAIT:  That cover!

WHAT BOOK CAN'T YOU WAIT FOR THIS WEEK???