“Sunrise on the reaping” is the book in question. When I was a kid I read all the big hits like Harry Potter, series of unfortunate events, the first two eragon books, ready player one, LOTR, and ofc the original hunger games. Usually would blow through them at a similar pace, I’m a big fan of the “underdog vs insurmountable odds” angle I suppose.
Add to that I enjoy fantasy, post apocalypse, dystopia, and time travel.
I’ve seen the maze runner movies already, and I figure I’ll just wait to watch dune 3 so probably wouldn’t do those.
I was watching black mirror and someone mentioned the book “prey” in relation to an episode but what else do you think I might enjoy ? Thanks!
by Rakayum
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The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djeli Clark
Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
The Library of the Dead by TL Huchu
You might enjoy **Red Rising** by Pierce Brown, a fast-paced, twisty, dystopian sci-fi/fantasy revenge story. Great characters and cool world building, lots of action, and grows into quite an epic series.
**Dungeon Crawler Carl** by Matt Dinniman is another dystopian series that’s a lot of fun. A regular dude from Seattle and his ex-girlfriend’s cat get pulled into a real life video game ‘dungeon’ when aliens bring about the end of human civilization on Earth. A silly premise for sure, but it gets surprisingly good, with complex characters, constantly creative world building, and an emotional/deep story, along with all the absurdity, pop-culture references, violence, and internet humor. The audiobooks are also ridiculously good, and really bring the characters to life, narrated by Jeff Hays.
For a great underdog vs insurmountable odds story, check out **The Way of Kings** by Brandon Sanderson, the first book in The Stormlight Archive. Giant magic swords, power armor, gravity-manipulating powers, ancient secrets being rediscovered, and an epic story with great characters, all set on a world constantly blasted by gigantic, magical storms.
If you want to get weird with it, check out The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, his dark fantasy magnum opus. It follows a badass ‘Gunslinger’ from an alternate reality, on a mysterious quest that puts him in contact with a few different characters from Earth. It’s King just going off the rails with the creative ideas, getting meta, involving time travel and all kinds of good stuff. The first book is **The Gunslinger**, I enjoyed it a lot, but it’s short and was written awhile before the others, has a bit of a different style. So give **The Drawing of the Three** a shot, that’s where the series really kicks off, introducing the main cast of characters, as well as more humor and direction.