I’m looking for a book that really pulls me in — the kind that makes me impatient through the day just to get back to it. I love unique settings like “we all live under a giant glass dome, lets see what happens”. I just finished Dune, was awesome, bit long for what happened though. I absolutely loved PHM.
Things I enjoy:
• Plot twists and deep intrigue
• Things like people with fake identities who keep almost getting caught
• Tension that never lets up
I started Red Rising but fell off mid Golden Son — the “youth slang” style just got too annoying for me.
Recommendations in any genre welcome
Thanks in advance!
by hazardy77
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Recently, the manga series Magilumiere did this to me. It had a world where ‘magical girl’ is a profession, and the world building and corporate espionage stuff has me in a grip. I cannot WAIT for the next volume.
Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera also did this. Read all this books in the course of a week WHILE working full time.
For a standalone, Timothy Zahn’s Icarus Hunt is a sci-fi with the bones of a noir mystery. So fun to follow that plot along. His Conquerors Trilogy is also absorbing in that way.
A lighter take but one that also sucked me in is the Jackaby series. It’s basically like if Doctor Who was a human in a cobblestone/gaslamp era who is solving supernatural/folkloric mysteries with his journalist companion. Not the densest but very fun.
In the City of Shy Hunters
The Gone World. Wild concept, nonstop dread, and it sticks in your head when you’re not reading. Also Recursion by Blake Crouch. Super readable, big ideas, constant oh shit moments, no cringe slang. Both made me rush through my day just to get back to them.
Recently it was The Will of The Many and its sequel, The Strength of the Few. Now waiting for the next book in the series is reminding me that I prefer completed series for this reason
Dungeon Crawler Carl series was the only “book” that I just couldn’t stop thinking about. I desperately tried to make more time to read it/listen to audio books. I actually read the books then listen to them. The obsession runs DEEP.
Recently, Reading The Wager did that.
I just finished “i who have never known men” and I literally cannot stop thinking about it. You won’t get the answers in the end you think you need but that’s prob one of the reasons I can’t stop thinking about it.