It's been a while since I picked up a good book. I was half way through the kingkiller chronicles, but uni got it the way. Now uni is finished I want to start reading again but need something to kick off my interest.
Looking for something relatively short, very gripping, not sad, romantic, or too dystopian (the world is fucked up enough atm). Something that will be difficult to put down. You know that feeling when you start reading faster and faster just to know what happens next?
by EzBriez_
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All Systems Red, the first book of the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, might be up your alley. It’s a novella, so you can probably knock it out extremely quickly, and it’s an incredibly tight story. The titular Murderbot is a synthetic cyborg (it wasn’t a human modified but a robot built with lab grown organic tissues) is a security guard rented to protect a survey team exploring a planet. It has hacked the governor module, the device that makes it follow orders, but instead of going on a killing spree like everyone thinks should happen, its entertaining itself watching TV it downloaded. It’s love of a space soap opera called Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon, is a recurring plot element. It’s forced to give a shit about its current clients after one of them is attacked by an alien animal and things spiral out from there.
Books I recently read and enjoyed that might fit the bill….
Horror: *Thirteen Storeys* by Jonathan Sims, *Tender Beasts* by Liselle Sambury
Mystery: *Follow Her Home* by Steph Cha, *And Then There Were None* by Agatha Christie
Contemporary: *Wrong Place Wrong Time* by Gillian McAllister, *Twice* by Mitch Albom (that has a love story though, but the main focus is the time travel)
(Short) Classics: *Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde* by Robert Louis Stevenson, *Carmilla* by Sheridan Le Fanu
Dark Matter is a great pick because it starts fast and then refuses to let you act normal until you finish it