**I’ve recently finished Scholomance and Fourth Wing, where the respective protagonist challenges a status quo and slowly uncovers horrible secrets and I’m hooked.**
**I also loved the** **heavy consequences and not-completely-happy endings**.
Similar Vibes in SciFi would be The Astronaut and the Ship Parts of Children of Time. I’m looking for something similar.
I don’t care for romance as it is written in typical fantasy books like the above mentioned, though I like a tender slow burn like in The Paper Magician.
I’m quite comfortable with (YA) Fantasy and Hard SciFi, and I got a soft spot in my heart for LitRPGs like New Era Online or Awaken Online (Not the Progression Fantasy mainly, but the Protagonist Therapy Part. I love seeing flawed MCs grow with their challenges).
I don’t like High Fantasy or Isekai type novels. I prefer Fade-to-black kind of Intimacy if the book has any.
A huge plus would be if there is an audiobook version as I got a long daily commute.
You can suggest anything even if it does not meet the “criteria” I am quite open and got a lot of hours to kill 😀 Do give me popular suggestions as I am not caught up with BookTok or any Bestseller list or whatever.
Thanks in Advance!
by LadyBird_BirdLady
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Flawed mc growing through the book, try the Drowning Province by Celine Harvelle! Google it or go on goodreads/Amazon kindle for the full summary maybe it hits the spot! Hope this helps
The dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Roadside Picnic is my absolute favourite (Strugatsky bros)
SlaughterHouse Five by Vonnegut
Hope it helps
You sound like somebody after my own heart. I own the paper magician series here on paperback and they are not too many books that I own in paperback. The author who wrote them has some new books out in the series but I heard that they are not very good.
Are you a Dutch reader? Your titles are a slightly different than the English ones.
I can’t tell if you read project hail Mary or the Martian but read the other one that you haven’t. They are both very good but I would say that project hail Mary is better.
For fantasy recommendations:
The magicians- hands down this is going to be your next stop, it is written by Lev grossman. There is also a television show that is very good and you can view them as two separate timelines. I would recommend reading the books first though. They have very big consequences.
Emily Wilde’s encyclopedia of Faeries is a slow burn fantasy book with A touch of romance and a lot of academia but it does not have a lot of epic consequences. There is a sequel book that came out just last month.
The ninth house – I think this might be your second read, but I’m worried it may be a little too much school for you. It is about a magical Yale secret society set in modern day. It does have some consequences for a select group of secret people and the areas they influence. There is a second book that came out last year that is a fun read and goes further into new places but it has a little less gravitas. There is a little romance but it’s fade to black.
This is how you lose the time war – is a very short, very interesting page Turner book that hooks you from the beginning and keeps you going. It doesn’t have a lot of sense of big consequences.
The dark Tower by Stephen King – this is a very long series by Stephen King that spans several huge volumes. He just gets really long-winded and doesn’t edit himself well but it is still worth it. It has a huge sense of gravitas and consequences for the world.
Every heart a door is the last book that I wanted to recommend, this one is a little strange and a little odd but I think that you will like it. So sometimes kids get spirited away into this other place right? They have their grand adventure? But then they come back. These are about the kids who have come back and now spend their lives longing to go back home, back to that spirit realm. It doesn’t have a sense of epic consequences but it is cute. It hardly has any romance.
Out of the dark – what is the reason that we haven’t met any other aliens is because the aliens have been calling them according to their rubric before we ever met them? This book series by David Weber sort of goes into that and it has some epic battles and some epic consequences. There is a huge plot twist that I did not see coming and it is truly awesome.
The Themis Files – this is a book that is told in in the style of different reports and it is very good. It is a complete series about finding alien stuff and the consequences. It has epic consequences.
The girl with all the gifts – this is a realistic zombie apocalypse book that they did a really good job on and seems very believable. It has very big consequences indeed.
Annihilation – by Jeff vandermeer he writes some really weird really believable stuff that takes you on a trip. I think that you might like this book also, it has a movie by the same title that is very good. You also might enjoy his book called Bourne which is about a non-human entity and the way that it thinks but it has some pretty big consequences. It is the start of a trilogy. I think this trilogy became the TV series the third reach or something like that.
Unsouled by Will wright – I put off this lit RPG because I was afraid that it would be another boring caught in another World fanfiction or something like that. Boy was I wrong. Once I reached the 10% Mark I was addicted to this book and could not put it down. It went some places that I have absolutely love and I have purchased the next couple books in the series. It does some things that are very different that I haven’t seen done before that I just loved so much.
All systems red – I also wanted to recommend the murderbot diaries by Martha wells, it is an up-and-coming series that is quickly becoming mainstream because it is so well done. It is about a murder robot who does not want to murder, all he wants to do is to watch tv. I would say that he is cripplingly addicted to television and his social skills are pretty bad. I read through the first book and loved it.