Hello! I’ve been in a massive book slump (6 months). I THINK I’m starting to get out of it, but I thought that last time and then fell back in.
I’m looking for a book that you couldn’t put down.
I’m open to new genres, but I’m listing some books below that I’ve loved historically. I’ve also included some recent misses.
I’m mostly a fantasy reader, but I am happy to try anything people feel like sharing.
Recent Likes:
– Serpent and the Wings of Night (I’m not a heavy fantasy romance reader, but this hit the spot)
– The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi
– Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Torzs
– The Fortunes of Jaded Women
All Time Faves:
– Green Bone Saga
– Daevabad Trilogy
– Anything by Tana French
Recent Misses (hard to tell if it was the book or the slump. These were books I thought I’d love):
– Babel by RF Kuang
– In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Kline
– Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
by Yessie4242
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If you like tana French maybe try Alex North
Some of my fav fantasy books are forest of a thousand lanterns, Circe, song of the forever rains, and the raven cycle
The Dresden files audiobooks, the true blood books charlene Harris, outlander Diana g.
I read In the Lives of Puppets a few weeks ago and was disappointed just because it was TJ Klune and everything else I’ve read by him was magic. A few recent reads I’ve loved:
The Icepick Surgeon (nonfiction and messed up, but so interesting)
Piranesi
Mad Honey
Hamnet
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Station Eleven
In Order to Live (non-fiction, North Korean refugee)
Cat’s Eye
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Alias Grace
Portalwar saga (started and finished all 7 books in like 5 days for some reasons i could not stop reading them)
Kane chronicles
Percy Jackson
The dragonspire chronicles
Lord of the ring (kinda seem scary cause its a big fantasy name but actually really enjoyable and easy to read, try the hobbit first tho to get a feel for it and cause its the prequel)
The wizard of earthsea (first book on earthsea saga but not for everyone so check it and see if its for you)
My favorite (English-writing) fantasy author is Brent Weeks. I loved his debut series “The Night Angel”-Trilogy as well as his current series “The Lightbringer”.
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The first one is about assassins and is more dark fantasy with low-key magic elements IIRC. The latter is rather high fantasy as it plays in a world full of magicians who split light for their magic and control different colors – only the Prism, the most powerful of one generation, controls all colors.
But both series have complex plots, play in well-elaborated fantasy worlds and feature the view points of various characters.