Your fave books that have turns of phrase that made you go “wow” and fall in love with the written word all over again?

**Torchlight Parade** by **Jéanpaul Ferro**

**Frog** by **Mo Yan**

**Tender is the Night** by **F. Scott Fitzgerald**

**Tales of the Jazz Age** by **F. Scott Fitzgerald**. Some of his short stories in this collection have some of the best writing I’ve ever experienced.

_The Names_ by Don Delillo

> “Along some northern coast at sundown a beaten gold light is waterborne, sweeping across lakes and tracing zigzag rivers to the sea, and we know we’re in transit again, half numb to the secluded beauty down there, the slate land we’re leaving behind, the peneplain, to cross these rainbands in deep night. This is time totally lost to us. We don’t remember it. We take no sense impressions with us, no voices, none of the windy blast of the aircraft on the tarmac, or the white noise of flight, or the hours waiting. Nothing sticks to us but smoke in our hair and clothes. It is dead time. It never happened until it happens again. Then it never happened.”

#1 
Divinity: 
It’s a fantasy about two opposing races (more or less vampires known as Daemons vs. innocent-natured Seraphs who have all but been wiped out, except one remaining seraph who managed to evade detection being rescued & raised as a human child under a false identity by a noble family as one of their own. 

But one day & a mistaken case of identity later, her life is turned upside down when curiosity gets the best of her and she accidentally reveals what she is to none other than the tyrannical Prince of all Daemons, who drags her away with him to a new life in a scary land far from all she’s ever known. 

But she’s not the only one with a deadly secret. There’s two sides to this prince- quite literally- and I don’t just mean conflicting feelings- it’s a secret that not even the prince’s closest aids know as it could threaten his life & claim to the throne- he has a split personality but there’s a secret to why he was born this way. 

The writer is gifted in her character portrayals and the way she seamlessly portrays them acting off one another. The dialogue makes for a very intriguing read on top of the already unique plot. 

#2 
Heart of the Wolf Prince –  

A bloodline known for its madness and cursed to never have a fated mate- that is fate of the sole prince of the kingdom whose cruel father wouldn’t think twice about throwing him away. Raised to be cruel and heartless, he yearns for something more…. someone more.  

A runt, a nobody- shunned and looked down upon by all those in her family (feels similar to the Cinderella treatment lol), this young woman through a chance meeting of fate with a prince will go through a journey of self-discovery, love, hardship, sacrifice, and more as she climbs her way to the top of them all. 

This little runt will be queen of them all, a queen of insurmountable power like no one has ever seen from a non-royal before. 

Will they become each other’s lights in the darkness and overcome the obstacles that stand in the way to their happy ending? Or will it all be too much/ short lived? (I’m hinting at drama in the sequel & prequels. Oh and the arrival of another guy🤫🤭)

#3 
Plutonian-  

It’s spicy once the ball gets rolling. Slowburn, story building up. The love story aspect is not the main focus until later on in the story. It’s a sci-fi romantasy where humans are enslaved by Plutonians who they are descended from and existed thousands of years before them. Their origin long-forgotten until the Plutonian’s returned, deeming them an inferior race & began abducting them for their own use & purposes. 

The story follows a girl taken as a child- now a teen/ young adult coming of age- who fights her way up the ranks, quite literally, while catching the eye of a notorious Plutonian prince known for having no interest in humans and their initial contract turned love story, while fighting to take down the system and save Earth, begins. 

They’re basically over glorified humans with super strength lol. They look just like ordinary humans, except they’re all seemingly perfect & strikingly beautiful which should be the only giveaway 😉

#4 
Struck (A Vampire Novel)- 

A girl just minding her own business, living her life- coming home from another exhausting, mundane day of work, until- unexpectedly- she finds herself abducted out of revenge towards someone she’s never met in a world she didn’t even know existed! (lol)  

This is the life of Elysia thanks to the father she’s never met, but by a strange twist of fate, the worse experience of her life becomes the catalyst for discovering the secrets of her birth, the lover she never knew she was fated to love, friendships (spicy humor- they’re loyal but an attracted-to-her-mess lol), laughter, drama, suspense and more. 

(Note: this author is also the author of divinity. Her writing style is brilliant like poems coming off the pages it’s so eloquent, similar to Heart of the Wolf Prince’s author) 

For amazing turn of phrase I always think of Douglas Adams. He uses language in a way that you wouldn’t expect but immediately understand. A few of his many, many popular quotes:
“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t”

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”

“The Road” by Cormac McCarthy.

Lolita. Out of the hundreds of novels I read as a literature major, this was the only one that made my jaw drop because of the words themselves. I have the first paragraph tattooed on my hip, that’s how big of an impression it made on me.

Anything by David Mitchell.