I'm finishing Oathbringer now (Stormlight Archive). I like them a lot, but I have to say… I'm a slow reader and reading for 3 months to get to the exciting Sanderlanche is starting to kill me. Especially, when I ripped through the Red Rising series last year. Loved Red Rising!
I'd like something more manageable than a Stormlight Archive book but wouldn't mind a series. I'm thinking I want sci-fi, fantasy, horror, or a blend of those three. I think I'm leaning creepy though.
Others I read recently and liked… The Hatchet (fun to re-visit a childhood classic), The River by Peter Heller (I liked the creeping anxiety of it), Pet Sematary (dark, dark, dark but I loved the creeping sense of it), Dark Matter (well-paced sci-fi thriller).
Others I read recently and didn't like… Cuckoo (it was just too sexual and horny for me to comfortably read about kids), The Lies of Locke Lamora (idk it just felt a little stagnant and I didn't love the Venice renaissance vibes I guess).
Some things on my list right now (I really have too long of a list to choose)…
Horror: Ararat (Ben Walker), Burn (Peter Heller), The Watchers (A.m. Shine), The Hollow Places (T. Kingfisher), Stolen Tongues (Felix Blackwell), The Reformatory (Tananarive Due), Abandon (Blake Crouch).
Fantasy: The Will of the Many (James Islington), The Sword of Kaigen (M.L. Wang), Ship of Magic (Robin Hobb), The Poppy War (R.F. Kuang), Empire of Silence (Christopher Ruocchio)
Sci-Fi: Scythe (Neal Shusterman), aerificial Wisdom (Thomas Weaver), Recursion (Blake Crouch), Intercepts (T.J. Payne).
Anyway, do you suggest any of these on my list first? Anything else I should prioritize ahead? Specifically, anything creepy?
by IHeartFraccing