What are you reading at the moment? Recommendations welcome

[RK Wallis]

Listened to The Girl Who Was Taken by Charlie Donlea in 2 days (had to finish before it wasn't free on Audible anymore), but I'd buy this. Lots of POV's including the criminal's. Nice red herrings and a written version of the TV show, Bones, without the genius personality

 

[Sedayne]

Sometimes it can take months for me to finish a novel. Sometimes years if I've read other things in between chapters as I often do. I regularly have several novels on the go at the same time, reading or listening to a few chapters of one and then another and another before returning to the one I started before all the others. I finish most of them eventually.

But occasionally I'll get hooked enough to read from start to finish in one weekend the way I used to as a teenager.

This is what I've been doing this weekend with Gliff by Ali Smith.

Unbelievably believably brilliant.

 

[LJ Beck]

I finally finished the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. I was saving the final book 7 for a big road trip that I took last week. I listened to half of it on my way down the west coast of NZ, including through a mountain pass in a torrential downpour with water pouring from the mountains down onto the road at one point. Yeah. Over debris and through flooding. And I was alone, except I had Carl and Donut and everyone with me. I felt much less alone, and probably more daring as they battled their way through the dungeon I battled my way through 90 minutes of terrifying conditions.

I loved this series. I became so unreasonably invested in the outrageous characters I deeply cared about. For a lit RPG that is no mean feat. Plus, there were a lot of political undercurrents going on, which gave the book much depth. Not to mention the times I laughed out loud with pure joy.

The 7th book left me feeling the story wasn’t done. I guess it wrapped things up but not everything and not neatly. But that’s ok. I still cried and cheered and hated to say goodbye.

 

[RK Wallis]

I finally finished the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. I was saving the final book 7 for a big road trip that I took last week. I listened to half of it on my way down the west coast of NZ, including through a mountain pass in a torrential downpour with water pouring from the mountains down onto the road at one point. Yeah. Over debris and through flooding. And I was alone, except I had Carl and Donut and everyone with me. I felt much less alone, and probably more daring as they battled their way through the dungeon I battled my way through 90 minutes of terrifying conditions.

I loved this series. I became so unreasonably invested in the outrageous characters I deeply cared about. For a lit RPG that is no mean feat. Plus, there were a lot of political undercurrents going on, which gave the book much depth. Not to mention the times I laughed out loud with pure joy.

The 7th book left me feeling the story wasn’t done. I guess it wrapped things up but not everything and not neatly. But that’s ok. I still cried and cheered and hated to say goodbye.

I've got this and you've just made me want to find the time to read it. Maybe next month

 

[LJ Beck]

I've got this and you've just made me want to find the time to read it. Maybe next month

Book 1 takes some getting used to. It’s Lit RPG and it seems kinda silly at the start, and the MC isn’t instantly likable, but if you stay with it, it bears beautiful fruit. Let me know if you like it.