I've been picking up and not finishing a LOT of books lately and I think the problem is me. Trying to fix that.
I need to rebuild my tolerance for exposition, but in order to do that, I need to know I'm not going to be let down by a story. Please, please, please give me your best and fastest-paced favorites.
I'm a lifelong reader, but reading book-books has just not been working for me for longer than I like. I write for fun and I want to get back into actually looking at the books I'm reading. I have had no problem reading fanfic or essays or short stories. Just novels. Which, frankly, really bums me out.
So far the only series I have been able to read physically was the entire Gregor the Overlander series. It was my childhood favorite, and Suzanne Collins is one of my favorite writers ever so I knew it was a safe bet.
Still, it's not comforting to me that the only book I've been able to read and enjoy is middle-grade. (Not that I don't love middle-grade books, but I am hoping for something for adults that still manages to read quickly but still has some depth.)
I live for the drama, I love high stakes, messy fictional families, curses, historical fiction, Ireland, the iron age, medieval stuff, Shakespeare, Lgbt+ themes are always a plus but I will read anything, any genre if it gets me to care about the characters.
Books I've liked listening to recently (audio only): Station Eleven, Chain-Gang All-Stars, How to Sell a Haunted House, Kindred
by Accurate-Rich-7846