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Anyone looking for book recs or want so share about a book they love?

I'm making a library run this week. I'm looking for any recent fantasy or anything that is a scifi/fantasy fusion. Meaning, I guess, scifi that has more of a fantasy feel than a hard scifi feel.

Did you ever read Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion books?

I think you would enjoy them perhaps.

No. I read some of her Vorkosigan saga and really only liked the ones centering around Cordelia because I didn't much likes Miles. But I haven't read her other stuff.

I think you would like Curse of Chalion decently and I think you would love Paladin of Souls.

Re: Book recs

philstar22 - 2015-11-08 21:09 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Book recs

(Anonymous) - 2015-11-09 08:31 (UTC) - Expand

Do you use goodreads? I finally started using it and omg I get so many recommendations from them and will just check the popular books that were recently published for new stuff.

Do you read young adult scifi/fantasy? I have a bunch of recs for that genre you might like.

I've enjoyed some young adult stuff, yes.

I don't know if I'd categorize all of these as fantasy or young adult, but books I've read and enjoyed recently.

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley
The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson (this is an amazing graphic novel)
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

Have you read the Dorothy Must Die series? I know you like Wizard of Oz but I don't know if you've read these books, they're a little different and not for everyone. I liked Dorothy Must Die and the Stories collection, but The Wicked Will Rise was so so.

I just read Seraphina by Rachel Hartman, and it was a fun read. A bit of an unexpected take on fantasy, too.

Have you read Rivers of London, by Ben Aaronovitch? Urban crime fantasy, first book pub 2011 (if in the USA, you may see it called "Midnight Riot". The protag is keen on architecture so there's a fair bit of architecture porn in there, plus a lot of crime-procedural stuff.

Anyone know of some good audiobooks to listen to? Either urban fantasy, horror, or thrillers.

I have some vague memories of reccing this on f!s, and I'm not sure it wasn't you I recced it to, but the Rivers of London audiobooks are a gift from Heavens. Honestly, in my entire life I have heard very few voice actors that would be as good as Kobna Holdbrook-Smith. And he does all the accents perfectly.

Looks like what I want exactly!

I'm... not sure if the Young Wizards books would count as urban fantasy? YA with magical plotlines happening in the modern world and colliding with the characters' attempts at a 'normal' life. But at any rate, I really love the audio versions of them.

I'll give them a go! If I don't like them, I'll just stop listening. :D

Dresden Files as read by JAMES FRIGGING MARSTERS. Perfect fit. I will warn that you mill have to overlook some extremely vile misogyny from the protagonist and some from the writer, but the world is interesting, the stories are fairly well put together, and James Marsters' voice does some good work in my ears and my other parts.

YOU HAD ME AT JAMES MARSTERS! I fucking love him.

Is there a lot of romance? I am only vaguely familiar with the stories.

Re: Audiobooks

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Re: Audiobooks

kaijinscendre - 2015-11-08 23:53 (UTC) - Expand

The plot was only so-so, but there was an audiobook called The Child that was so well put together that I didn't care. It's also the only recommendation I have that's not first person.

The Utterly Uninteresting & Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant was surprisingly fun

Necronomicon, a recent HP Lovecraft collection was a lot of fun

Soon I Will Be Invincible. A very good superhero story and the two narrators are both very good

I've only listened to the first Sandman Slim book, but I enjoyed it. A rather good supernatural noir tale

Simon R Green's "Tales of the Nightside" was another good short story collection and I plan to check out the rest of the series now.

Thank you! I'll look them all up and try them out. ;D

"Felidae" by Akif Pirinçci. Murder, conspiracy and cats. What's not to like? It was also made into an animated movie that is not quite suitable for kids.

I still need to read that. And find a copy of the movie to own.

ooh, I totally remember watching parts of that movie as a child! I turned it off, but I was also oddly fascinated by it. Nice to know the name.

Edited 2015-11-08 23:49 (UTC)

Ahahaah. Yeah, grab that while you can. He recently got kicked out of all his contracts with publishers because he's a right wing tinfoil hat asshole and made some remarks at a speech for a recent populist right wing movement that were... in really bad taste, I'd say.
I have very fond memories of that book though. Listened to the audioplay when I was 7... really disturbed me.

I am a little in love with The Goblin Emperor, by Katherine Addison. Court intrigue fantasy, a genuinely nice main character, and a murder mystery. I will warn any prospective readers that it does have a real 'fantasy language' problem (using made-up words and terms for things that could easily have been described in English), and a lot of the characters have confusing names, but I got through it without too many troubles.
Oh, and a special note for its use of, and distinction between, 'you' and 'thee' (and 'thou').

The Satanic Witch by Anton LaVey, LOL.

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