I remember I enjoyed Parasite but it didn't have the same emotional and mental oomph of Newsflesh. I've loved Seanan/Mira for ages though so I'll probably read and love everything she ever publishes for a very long time. :D
I'm starting This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner.
My thoughts exactly about Parasite. Haven't read any Seanan proper yet, what do you suggest?
I'm reading The Children of Hurin, and gosh I've forgotten so much about Middle Earth...
My favourite is her October Daye series which is the urban fantasy with faeries, the first book is called Rosemary & Rue. She also has her InCyptids series which is more humans vs monsters and the first one is called Discount Armageddon. Definitely don't start with Indexing... it was originally published as a serial so it's a bit chaotic and not a great introduction to her. I'm actually about to start reading her ghost story, Sparrow Hill Road, myself.
More books for the to read list.
Currently reading The Knife Of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness, and it's quite good, but gosh such a frustrating protagonist.
Currently reading the Horrible Histories book series, based on the television show. It's hilarious and I'm actually learning! I recommend it to everyone!
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I love Horrible Histories! My life was pretty much ruined when they removed Helen of Troy (and almost everything else) from youtube.
I'm reading Scent of Magic by Maria Snyder. I read Touch of Power when it first came out, then apparently forgot completely about it. I walked into a second hand book shop the other day and found both Scent of Magic and Taste of Darkness, not even realising that they'd been released! The delights of second hand books.
I've also recently read nine of the ten Avatar The Last Airbender comics, though I guess I should put that in the Avatar thread.
Just read Slaughterhouse Five, and well, it was different.
Now onto The Ask and Answer by Patrick Ness!
I'm reading "The Oath" by Frank Peretti
Just getting past the first chapter and it is looking pretty good.
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Wed Jan 14 2015, 11:38amjossie
I'm reading Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld which is very meta and interesting! I love that it's YA and NOT terrible in writing!
Rereading Robin Hobb's Fitz books. Will probably also reread the Liveship Traders and make my way through the Rainwild Chronicles, though I am far less fond of those, as there is supposed to be relevant information in them. All in aid of reading the new Fitz book she released last year :). I love Robin Hobb. She writes masterfully and her worlds are so very real.
Bleuch. Just read the Emma rewrite by Alexander McCall Smith and it was truly awful. I had such high hopes of the Austen project and whilst I really enjoyed Val McDermid's take on Northanger Abbey, the other two have been awful.
Just finished The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness, and my head just exploded. It's pure genius and is amazing, and UGH. It says it won all these 'children's books' awards. THIS IS NOT FOR CHILDREN. I can't deal with all that happened, so children can't! JUST SO GOOD!
I loved that trilogy. It was great and savage at the same time.
I just read Across A Star Swept Sea by Diana Peterfruend which is basically a science fiction retelling of the Scarlet Pimpernel which is one of my all time favourite books and it was AMAZING. SO GOOD. I AM STILL SWOONING.
Moving on to Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness, read the first page and already had goosebumps!
Also just read Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods, a really fun easy book for learning about Greek mythology!
I've hit a reading slump this week so I'm onto Doctor Sleep by Stephen King. His books are usually so easy to read they get me out of slumps.
Just finished Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness, and oh it killed me. Conclusion of the Chaos Walking trilogy.
Now onto The Long War by Prachett and Baxter, it's good so far, but not amazing.
I am re-reading the Miriam Black books by Chuck Wendig, just about to finish Blackbirds and the on to Mockingbird and then the Cormorant (which I actually haven't read before).
I've been rereading everything so far this year, which has turned out to be a bit of a mistake since I'm finding I'm liking the books a lot less. [act]sigh[/act]
At the moment I'm on Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke and Bone which had such great potential but preferred to make the entire latter half of the book an incredibly predictable love story.
Just finished consuming Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews... it was very slow to start but really got me in those last few chapters. I look forward to getting into the next book!
Still stuck on The Girl with All the Gifts by MR Carey... it kind of started well and was interesting, and then got to the middle and it's like a slow word-by-word version of the TV show Walking Dead. So many people have raved about it but I'm wondering when it will ever pick up and blow me away at the end as people keep saying.....
While Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld was good to begin with and was written well (considering it is YA, I have encountered too many dumbed down YA fictions lately) but it was like I didn't care enough or relate enough to either character in either storyline... and it just didn't hit the highs or grip me as much as I would have liked. I recall moments when I had to stop reading because I was a little scared (ghosts are something I am terrified of! The unknowns, you know...) and I loved having an insight into the writing world and promoting your book and editing etc... but it just didn't get there for me! Sadly.
I am reading Death on the Nile. Meanwhile someone way back there mentioned Robin Hobb. I loved the Fitz stories and the Fool stories. But the Rainwilds stuff...not so much.
I started reading Switched by Amanda Hocking because it is about Changelings and YAY, but it turned into a big boo because the writing is so so so terrible. It's the equivalent of eating paper. Dry, tasteless, and entirely lacking in nutrients.
I'm reading the Earthsea quartet, really enjoying it, I'm half way through 'The Farthest Shore' at the moment
A friend talked me into giving Pratchett another try (I read the Colour of Magic and wasn't impressed) which I think I only agreed to because I trust her judgement and loved Good Omens. So I've just finished Equal Rites which was a lot of fun and pulled me out of a near miss reading slump of my own which was good.