Looking for recommendations please!
By escapist I don't necessarily mean light read though – I mean something that really absorbs me, if that makes sense? I quite like a romantic thread to the story, but it doesn't need to be the main core of the story (and isn't necessarily mandatory either). A page-turner, if you will.
Some examples of books that fit this bill for me in recent years:
The Book of Dust
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Austen/Bronte-style classics (but I've read most of the well-known ones in this genre tbh)
Neil Gaiman – pretty much like all his books
The Glass & Steele series
The Millenium trilogy
The City & the City by China Mieville (but please don't recommend cop books lol)
An example of something I really didn't like – ACOTAR (only read the first one because I didn't like it).
Thank you!
by amotivatedgal
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Memory, Sorrow and Thorn. It’s a trilogy. The first book is called “The Dragonbone Chair.” I guess it inspired a ton of modern fantasy authors, like GRR Martin with game of thrones.
I just started the third book of the trilogy. I can’t put it down. Literally staying up late to read it every night.
The first book is kind of a slog, though it really pulled me in once the main character is forced to leave the castle grounds. Which I think was like 150 pages into the book. Before that, it’s just kind of slow paced story telling that doesn’t really give you much in the way of action. Some people love it, I had to force myself through it and trust the reviews I read that said it was worth it.
But once the story picks up, it’s the best escapism I’ve found in literature. You have to put in the work to get through the first part of book 1, but then you get to read the rest of the series which is some of the best fantasy I’ve ever read and thankfully it’s a really long series, so plenty of escapism to be had.
It’s seriously worth it. It took me a month to get through the first book, and only a week to get through the second book, which was longer than the first. There’s a romance subplot, but it’s not a huge part of the story.