Book Recs
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Over the years Stephen King has thrown evil clowns at me, as well as parasitic vampires, dream-eaters, truly despicable human beings, world pandemics, malicious gift-givers and I took that in stride.
But Fairy Tale features a sweet old dog who befriends a boy, and she has arthritis that keeps her from walking as far as she once went, and if anything happens to her I’ll be very cross with Mr. King.
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@Solstice Amazing book! I love them so much!
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@Whisky said in Book Recs:
I think this series has mostly gone under the radar but Gideon the Ninth was one of the most delightful reads I’ve had in a while.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42036538-gideon-the-ninth
Very casual to read it is about lesbian space necromancers sort of meets hunger games. Anyway, the wife did quite an in-depth review in case helpful.
The Locked Tomb series is one of my favorites ever. Tamsyn Muir is incredible, and I’ve never been so confused by a book before, in the best way.
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Just finished “Notorious Sorcerer” by Davinia Evans, and it’s a rollicking good time. Second-world fantasy, with a street alchemist getting catapulted into the spotlight in the only city in the world where alchemy works. Lots of action, fun characters, a light read with some great worldbuilding. It started out a little florid, but settles in to a good voice and has a satisfying ending.
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Grant Morison! Luda!
Just amazing! Odd, Weird, totally like his comic the Invisbles. I don’t want to spoil anything, but it was amazing!
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Some other cool books I’ve been reading lately:
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Nightstalkers is about a family caught up in an alien apocalypse. Pretty cool so far. (Only 99 cents limited time release deal)
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Cassandra In Reverse is a time-travel relationship drama featuring an autistic protagonist. Witty and relatable. (my review)
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Devil’s Ransom is the latest installment of my favorite counter-terrorism thriller series. (my review)
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Diamond Eye is a WW2 novel based on the fascinating real story of Russian sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko. (my review)
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Gutter Medicine is an interesting memoir from a firefighter/paramedic recalling the early days of EMS.
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If anyone has written a book, I’m almost always down to buy it if y’all want to post a link. I can’t promise when I’ll actually read it, but I’ll buy it.
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I’m reading Mercedes Lacky’s newest Valdemar book that has Larry Dixon as a co author.
It is PAINFULLY obvious when the story fully came from him. I’m sorry, Lacky’s style may make a joke that foxes are having sex, but wouldn’t expound on it beyond the joke.
Also, there are a solid handful of things that just DO NOT ALIGN WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD.
Kyree can suddenly talk aloud and not just with mindspeech? And they sound like scooby do?
The hawkbrothers suddenly know A LOT about Valdemar history and founding, including actually having one of the barges from the founding.
Gates work again??
Tremane is now has a magic y in the spelling?!
Silverfox was ~never~ a hawkbrother or identified as such, even after formally pairing with Firesong. He was always from White Gryphon. No, I don’t remember how to spell the ethnic group.
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@junipersky AAAAAAA.
That’s awful. My childhood. clutch heart
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I’ve fallen down a hole of bad kindle ebooks. But one that wasn’t bad was The Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. It was actually quite good and interesting. If you don’t mind a heavy romance theme in your fantasy it is very (to me) House of the Dragon/Game of Thrones-y.
(I’m mostly talking the TV shows because I’ve never read those books.)
A woman with what is likely rheumatoid arthritis and ehlers-danlos in a world were dragons are a thing, is forced by her general mother into the dragon rider’s quadrant despite having trained her entire life to be a scribe. She’s got to fight brutal battles to survive. Many people want to kill her either for revenge against her mother or because they think she’ll get other people killed.
My one biggest gripe is that there is a particular antagonist that gets to live way too long throughout the book, and then his death isn’t very satisfying.
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Fourth Wing! I’m listening to the audiobook of this, I’m enjoying it.
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@moth
So good.
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I enjoyed it! Except for the dude that somehow kept not being killed even though I was sure he was dead at one point. -.-
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@Cobalt
I just finished last weekend and didn’t know what to do with myself. A few months and the next installment will be out, though! Can’t wait!In this same vein, I pitch the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas. I’ve read her other series, A Court of Thorns and Roses and love it immensely but this one is hitting different. I think the writing is just better and I connect a lot more with the protagonist. Highly recommend both, though, if you liked Fourth Wing but with less modern influences and language.
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You both better have screamed or yelled at the end.
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@junipersky at fourth wing? Absolutely. There may have been mild phone throwing too
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YA’LL – I just finished it.
I threw my phone.
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@moth
Appropriate response
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@junipersky said in Book Recs:
You both better have screamed or yelled at the end.
ngl, I had to re-read the last paragraph about five time before my brain wrapped around it. I legit did not see the ending coming.
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I recently finished Paris Hiltons memoir via audiobook, which is narrated by her.
In the book, she details her struggle with ADHD and the trauma she experienced inside & outside the “troubled teen” schools she was placed in. It’s heartbreaking and was honestly pretty rough to listen to, I was only mildly aware of the school thing and her activism related to it. As someone who was a young adult around the time she became famous, I definitely remember the negative press and remarks about her being famous for nothing, etc. The book touches on a lot of that and gave me a lot to think about.
I highly recommend it with the clear trigger warning bc it gets very dark. I can’t say I was a huge Paris Hilton fan back in the day but it’s definitely given me a new perspective on her.
Now I’m onto Fourth Wing and liking it so far! The audiobook narrator gives me a little anxiety bc of how fast she talks sometimes but it is pretty interesting.
