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    Hey everyone,
    I'm on the lookout for books with action scenes that totally pull you in—you know, the kind where you can literally see everything happening as if it's right in front of you. I'm talking about those moments that give you chills, get your heart racing, or just make you feel like you're there with the characters.
    It could be any genre, as long as the action and buildup are so good that it’s almost cinematic. I love stories where the tension just keeps rising and the payoff is huge, almost like watching a great action scene in a movie but playing out in my head.

    Any recommendations for books like that? Thanks a lot for the help!

    by Big_Manufacturer_253

    12 Comments

    1. To be honest any well written book that aligns with your taste will fill your head with images just like a movie. At least they do for me. Its one of the main reasons i prefer single POV series. Its an uninterrupted movie. No commercial breaks to follow some other character and break the movie.

      There are many many books that i have read that do this. But i dont think any of them quite match the tension building you are looking for.

    2. absoluteinsights on

      Light of the Jedi, if you’re into Star Wars. It’s the first in the High Republic era, and it really feels movie-like.

    3. Try Larry McMurtry. Nearly all of his work is in the Western genre, but he is a master at cinematic writing. He also adapted several of his books for film/TV. My favorites are *Horseman, Pass By*, *Lonesome Dove*, and *Anything for Billy*. *Terms of Endearment* and *The Last Picture Show* also also very good.

    4. The Great Zoo of China by Matthew Reilly

      The Chinese government has been keeping a secret for forty years: they have found a species of animal no one believed even existed that will amaze the world. Now the Chinese are ready to unveil their astonishing discovery within the greatest zoo ever constructed. A small group of VIPs and journalists has been brought to the zoo deep within China to see its fabulous creatures for the first time. Among them is Dr Cassandra Jane ‘CJ’ Cameron, a writer for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC and an expert on reptiles. The visitors are assured by their Chinese hosts that they will marvel at these beasts, that they are perfectly safe, that nothing can go wrong . . .

      Leviathan James Byron Huggins

      On an Icelandic Island, an illegal experiment intended to create the perfect biological weapon has transformed a once-innocent creature into the biblical Leviathan that once terrorized the world. Able to shatter steel and granite as easily as it can melt the strongest containment shields, Leviathan escapes from its pen and is loose in a vast underground chamber harboring soldiers and scientists.

      The installation cannot allow Leviathan to reach the surface. For if Leviathan reaches the world, it could well be the end of the Earth. They must hold the line, here, and destroy it… even if they must detonate a last-chance nuclear failsafe built into the chamber itself. But, first, they must fight with every weapon at their disposal to discover if the beast can be killed at all.

      It is a battle many will not survive.

      As soldiers and scientists are vaporized by Leviathan’s hellish flame, or ripped apart by the dragon’s claws and fangs, a lone electrical engineer is forced to join the fight. And in the midst of what might well be the last battle for Mankind, Connor must find a way – any way – to save his family and kill this powerful, bloodthirsty Beast of Legend that has never been killed before.

      Before it feasts upon the world.

      Hunter by James Byron Huggins

      Hunter is the ultimate tracker, the world’s best. If you’re lost, Hunter can find you — whether you want him to or not. Still, Hunter is particular about the searches he takes on. So when the military men seeking his help are very secretive about the mission they’re recruiting him for, Hunter’s instincts tell him to refuse. But there is a beast loose somewhere north of the Arctic Circle and it’s already charged through a secret research facility, wiping out the elite military squad that had been guarding it. And this raging superhuman monster is headed south for civilization, ready to wreak bloody devastation. It’s a job that Hunter can’t turn down, but what he discovers here in the wilderness is that terror has a form, that a renegade agency has let a half-human abomination escape into the wild. This almost invulnerable creature was created through a series of outlawed genetic experiments that have left it with a hunger for human blood. And may have made it immortal.

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