I am a bit hesitant with YA series – recently ive been enjoying the more grimdark, adult stories. I have also been trying to be expansive in the type of story I read and the authors but often sci-fi or fantasy is my go to. Will include my last 18 months of reading and the highlights.
Books and series I like:
Green Bone saga – loved the characters, the setting and the constant scheming between factions.
Project Hail Mary – Cool story if not a little over hyped – preferred the movie
Red Rising Series – Loved the writing, the pace, Darrow (not so much Sevro), the scale of the story and the gripping plot.
Suneater series – Really enjoyed this, characters where not as strong as red rising but I did love the politics and again, the scale of the story. Was a little dissapointed with the ending.
Red City – Cool magic, liked the setting and plot but the one downside was the dialogue could be a bit unbelievable for school kids.
The poet empress – wonderful story and loved every thing about it.
The Paper Mengaerie – A short story but probably one of the most skillful and emotional stories ive ever read.
The expanse series was great, as well as the captives war.
The sword of Kaigen – Really liked the characters development in this.
Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise – Wanted to read outside my comfort with this one – was disturbing, tragic and uncomfortable but gripping also.
Yellowface – Loved the awful narrator – fun story.
Pachinko – Really enjoyed the ambition of the story and found the characters really engaging and symphatethic.
Like the first 3 mistborn books but disliked the ones after – not keen on starting stormlight.
The will of the many/strenght of the few was interesting – I do like a rags to riches
Poppy wars – Not my favourite but enjoyed it.
Never let me go – enjoyed it but not a fun read.
Wolrd War Z – One of my favourites
Silo – was good but ending was bad imo
Shogun – great story and a gripping plot
I have the first law series on my kindle will get to that at some points as well as Ken Liu's grace of kings series. I know Dungeon Crawler Carl get a lot of hype but not one I want to start at the moment
Be very grateful if I could get some more recommendations.
by Bobs-Your-Uncle
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based on expanse try james blish cities in flight series