Post by alicenelson on Jul 31, 2014 21:20:42 GMT -5
Try the Hetta Coffey Mystery Series. The banter between the main characters, Hetta Coffey and her best friend, Jan, had me giggling all the way through. The series starts out with "Just Add Water," and there are five or six books in all. The author is jinx Schwartz. It's lighthearted reading. Perfect for summer.
"The riveting first-person narrative of a young man who grows to be the most notorious magician his world has ever seen. From his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime- ridden city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that transports readers into the body and mind of a wizard. It is a high-action novel written with a poet's hand, a powerful coming-of-age story of a magically gifted young man, told through his eyes: to read this book is to be the hero."
There's a second book called The Wise Man's Fear, and a third book forthcoming. It's easy to fall into and is pretty fast paced. The series centers around these evil people called the Chandrian and his life goal, of sorts, to bring them to justice. Meanwhile there's love and music and a magic school.
He is a reluctant Israeli assassin who is an art restorer by day. This is the only thriller series I read because the characters are so well drawn and the plots are great. Each book is fairly self contained but if I hadn't read any, I would start at the beginning.
You could also read the two books by J.K. Rowling that she wrote under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The first was Cuckoo's Calling and the sequel out this summer was Silkworm.
I am starting the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon after seeing her panel for the mini series based on her 1st book in the series at Comic Con. One if my sisters favorite series so I decided to dig in.
Post by rupertpenny on Jul 31, 2014 21:55:09 GMT -5
This is YA adjacent, but some of my favorite books of all time are the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman.
Another favorite series with more books is the Guido Brunetti books by Donna Leon. They are murder mysteries set in Venice and they have a little more depth than a lot of detective type books.
This is YA adjacent, but some of my favorite books of all time are the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman.
Another favorite series with more books is the Guido Brunetti books by Donna Leon. They are murder mysteries set in Venice and they have a little more depth than a lot of detective type books.
I'm reading the Maisie Dobbs mysteries. Super light reading in terms of effort, but a lot of emotional stuff related to WWI. I picked it up because I heard Hilary Clinton likes them for fun reading and she's pretty smart I guess. Lol.
I am starting the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon after seeing her panel for the mini series based on her 1st book in the series at Comic Con. One if my sisters favorite series so I decided to dig in.
I have outlander and I keep trying to start it but the first 100 pages are so boring. I KNOW the series is great. I need to just get over it and push through.
I'm reading the Maisie Dobbs mysteries. Super light reading in terms of effort, but a lot of emotional stuff related to WWI. I picked it up because I heard Hilary Clinton likes them for fun reading and she's pretty smart I guess. Lol.
I feel like I'm always recommending the Experiment in Terror series by Karine Halle; it's really good, but probably only if you like paranormal-type fiction. Her writing in the first and second books is not stellar, but it gets better and better as the series goes on. The eighth and final book comes out this month.
A brilliantly written YA series that never gets enough attention is the Walking Chaos trilogy by Patrick Ness. Seriously, LOVE. Fantastic, fantastic books.
I also loved Delirium by Lauren Oliver but was not a fan of the following books, however your taste may be different and you could love them.
I am starting the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon after seeing her panel for the mini series based on her 1st book in the series at Comic Con. One if my sisters favorite series so I decided to dig in.
I have outlander and I keep trying to start it but the first 100 pages are so boring. I KNOW the series is great. I need to just get over it and push through.
It's worth pushing through... I'm rereading the series and yeah, it's a slow start but it sucks you in.
"His Dark Materials" (gold compass, subtle knife and the amber spyglass) by Phillip Pullman. It's YA, but very well written. It's three books, but they're worth it.
This is YA adjacent, but some of my favorite books of all time are the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman.
Another favorite series with more books is the Guido Brunetti books by Donna Leon. They are murder mysteries set in Venice and they have a little more depth than a lot of detective type books.
This is what I get for not reading all of the replies. I LOVE the His Dark Materials trilogy (I seriously cried every other chapter during book 3). Have you checked out his website? He seems like such a super nice guy.
I have outlander and I keep trying to start it but the first 100 pages are so boring. I KNOW the series is great. I need to just get over it and push through.
It's worth pushing through... I'm rereading the series and yeah, it's a slow start but it sucks you in.
It's definitely worth pushing through for the first book. I still need to push through the second but I hated the beginning of the second book so much that I just kept putting it back down.
ETA: If you like fantasy, and don't mind Young Adult, I really enjoyed the Daughter of Smoke & Bone series. I'm pretty sure I've seen it recommended here previously.
From Amazon: "Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.
In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.
And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war.
Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she's prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks many languages--not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out.
When one of the strangers--beautiful, haunted Akiva--fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?"