I know we're all busy with the day-to-day life, watching a movie or getting the latest X-Factor, but what about books?
Read any novel lately that made you rediscover the joy of reading, or made you want to strangle the author for lost time?
I'll start:
YA is sort of a guilty pleasure for me, I tried a lot of series, from terrible to great. Some of the ones that I enjoyed:
Barry Lyga - Jasper Dent serieshttps://www.goodreads.com/series/77924-jasper-dentSome great characters (the son of a serial killer, his afro-american girfriend and hemophiliac best friend), mind-games and good mistery.
Two books are out and the last is coming in September.
Marie Lu - Legend seriesMy favourite out of all the distopian YA novels - two very lovable protagonists, good world-building, and almost no love triangle (there is one, sort-of, but there's no focus on it and it feels rather natural).
All three books are out.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/50673-legendFrom time to time I like a good historical fiction, and I have a thing for all Alexander the Great stuff. I was in such a mood when I discovered
Mary Renault's series on Alexander:
https://www.goodreads.com/series/42242-alexander-the-great"Fire from Heaven" and "Funeral Games" are both fine books, but it was "The Persian Boy" that blew my mind.
I'd never before read a M/M book as the genre fell under my radar. So imagine my surprise when I read this and found myself walking in the shoes of Alexander's Persian boy, the eunuch Bagoas (it's first person story-telling). The book is brutal, heart-breaking, intimate and so, so beautiful, and as far as I understand, pretty accurate from a historical pov.