I’m looking for a book that will completely engulf my thoughts! I love fantasy and am open to sci/fi, paranormal, mystery, thriller. I’m hoping for a book that is perfect for escapism— something with an engrossing world, compelling characters, not too dark or too heavy or too contemplative. Special request, little to no romance plot line please!
A good example of a book I’ve read in the past that fits this request is The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.
The setting is exciting and different, the plot clips along at a nice swift pace, there’s mystery, there’s fantasy, there’s heist, it does have dark elements but it doesn’t dwell on the sad/despairing things.
Any suggestions??
by waking_dream96
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Snowcrash starts a million miles an hour. Careens around like a pinball machine and ends with the love of man’s best friend.
Blake Crouch’s man-on-the-run sci-fi thriller **Dark Matter**.
Matthew Reilly Ice Station (1st in the Scarecrow series)
AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GLOBE,
Anarctica is the last unconquered continent, a murderous expanse of howling winds, blinding whiteouts and deadly crevasses. On one edge of Antarctica is Wilkes Station. Beneath Wilkes Station is the gate to hell itself…IN THE COLDEST PLACE ON EARTH, A team of U.S. divers, exploring three thousand feet beneath the ice shelf has vanished. Sending out an SOS, Wilkes draws a rapid deployment team of Marines-and someone else…THE HEAT IS ON…
First comes a horrific firefight. Then comes a plunge into a drowning pool filled with killer whales. Next comes the hard part, as a handful of survivors begin an electrifying, red-hot, non-stop battle of survival across the continent and against wave after wave of elite military assassins-who’ve all come for one thing: a secret buried deep beneath the ice…