It's Friday! What are you reading? (5/5)

[turboteal]

Obvs I just read ACOWAR, which I kept in those threads. I also read The Girl with All the Gifts last week, which was very interesting and well written, I thought. Basically, it's a zombie apocalypse book, but it's got a couple unique twists that make it quite different from a typical zombie survival story kind of book. It's quite twisted actually. I think I'd be interested to read more by this author, if his other books are like this I'd say he and Stephen King are on the same shelf.

litskispeciality, I second the Dark Tower series endorsement, with the caveat that the Gunslinger was also kind of slow/not super interesting to me. The next book is much more engrossing, and basically from there on, even though they get longer, I couldn't set them down because the story was very interesting and well paced.

[ufcasey]

May 8, 2017 23:55:15 GMT -5 turboteal said:

Obvs I just read ACOWAR, which I kept in those threads. I also read The Girl with All the Gifts last week, which was very interesting and well written, I thought. Basically, it's a zombie apocalypse book, but it's got a couple unique twists that make it quite different from a typical zombie survival story kind of book. It's quite twisted actually. I think I'd be interested to read more by this author, if his other books are like this I'd say he and Stephen King are on the same shelf.

litskispeciality , I second the Dark Tower series endorsement, with the caveat that the Gunslinger was also kind of slow/not super interesting to me. The next book is much more engrossing, and basically from there on, even though they get longer, I couldn't set them down because the story was very interesting and well paced.

A sequel of sorts to that book was released today, The Boy on the Bridge. I've read the author's other book, Fellside, but it was quite a bit different and I only liked half of the story really so I can't recommend it. But I do plan to read the new book as soon as my library gets it

[frog]

Late to the post, but I'm reading a couple of things. We just finished Chomp by Carl Hiassen. It was a fun read. I'm currently working on The Shadow Queen by CJ Redwine, which... meh. I'm also working on The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan. The description of the book really drew me in (below). So far I'm enjoying it, but it's a bit of work to get into... lots of characters to keep straight.

"The Gray House is an astounding tale of how what others understand as liabilities can be leveraged into strengths.

Bound to wheelchairs and dependent on prosthetic limbs, the physically disabled students living in the House are overlooked by the Outsides. Not that it matters to anyone living in the House, a hulking old structure that its residents know is alive. From the corridors and crawl spaces to the classrooms and dorms, the House is full of tribes, tinctures, scared teachers, and laws—all seen and understood through a prismatic array of teenagers’ eyes.

But student deaths and mounting pressure from the Outsides put the time-defying order of the House in danger. As the tribe leaders struggle to maintain power, they defer to the awesome power of the House, attempting to make it through days and nights that pass in ways that clocks and watches cannot record."