hi!! i think lots of people have asked similar questions but i haven’t quite found what i’m looking for so i wanted to make my own post!
i’m almost done with sunrise on the reaping 💔 but i’m so scared to finish it because then i’ll have to say goodbye to the hunger games all over again haha! but reading it made me miss the feeling of being so obsessed with the hunger games when i was a kid. i absolutely devoured book series back then, but i haven’t found any that have really captured me as an adult. i’m in my 20s now, and i want to find a series that will make me feel that same way, with characters i can fall in love with (finnick is my fav forever and ever hehe), a plot with substance, and good writing! i’m not picky on the genre! i don’t loveee high fantasy and sci-fi (some people rec dune, i didn’t really like them), although if there’s one i absolutely must read, i will give it a try! really, im open to anything. adult books would be preferred, with adult characters and not teenagers.
i’ve read most of the popular series of the early 2010s, and i recently read acotar (before anyone recs that haha). it’s good, but i didn’t seem to love it as much as everyone else. i don’t have any interest in reading fourth wing either, and i didn’t love outlander. romance being a side plot instead of a focus is really what i’m looking for. also with well-written female characters! im fine with darker material as well, as long as it’s not strictly a dark romance/smut series. those aren’t really my thing.
sorry i feel like im looking for something SO specific 😭 but if anyone has any recommendations, please let me know!!! and thank you so much!
by angstyteenlife
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The Book that Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence! I’m also not the biggest high fantasy person but I really loved this one – an interesting and well fleshed out world, compelling characters (although some are teenagers, but being a teenager/coming of age is not the focus), and some challenging of the status quo. It’s a trilogy, the third book comes out soon.
So then you would have already read the Harry Potter series?
Okay these are my recommendations in order:
The Scholomance – like Harry Potter and The hunger games except the school is trying to eat you
The name of the wind series, the last book has not been released yet and it may not be for another 10 years.
The summer dragon – the other books will never be written, there is just this one but it is still very good. So if you want fourth Wing but you just don’t want all of the romance and the main character that is supposedly smart but then goes then does the one thing they’re not supposed to do… This book is a pretty good substitute. And there’s dragons.
Starter Villain – it has a couple of loose things of The hunger games but it’s just a different book entirely and it is a very good book. Very good. Even got a friend interested who does not read books at all was interested in this book. If you liked this book the next book to read would be Kaiju preservation society (not a series)
Firebolt by Adrianne Woods is the first book of the dragonian series, it’s not like hunger games but it does have dragons in it, and it’s a slow burn with higher and higher stakes. At one point things get really really bad. I know that it’s kind of YA but I really liked the series and they weren’t too goofy or silly, they had good pacing and I thought they were really well done. Somehow I end up reading this series once a year and I think that you will enjoy it too.
You might like Iron Widow, the sequel book is out but I didn’t like it as much as the first one.
Every heart a doorway – the series is a bit different and these books are generally smaller. These are about children who have been spirited away on a grand adventure. But they have all come back to earth. Now, they are waiting to go *home.*
Try The Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers
(Book 1 is A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet)
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Just read you don’t like sci fi and this is sci fi, but it’s not stuffy sci-fi!