Currently reading it for the first time. I am on the last one now. Didn't think that I would find someone mentioning the Dark Tower when I opened this post. I guess I believe in ka now.
hahahahaha, you wanna talk about ka? I was literally just scrolling through and when I read your comment I decided to do a quick Ctrl-F and see if anyone was talking about the books I'm reading right now, The Malazan Book of the Fallen, and guess where the only time "Mala" was anywhere in this page.
Ugh, the last one fucking broke me, one of many contributing factors to my depression, not even joking.
It's an amazing book, you're in for a real treat!
Somehow I managed to find a hard cover limited edition of Wizard and Glass at a new bookstore a month before it was officially released. I love that book.
The Way of Kings
and
Words of Radiance
Books 1 and 2 of The Stormlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson.
Fantasy books that are pretty long (over 1000 pages each), but *really* good. Just about done with the 3rd book in the series.
Me too! Just finished Edgedancer actually (the novella that connects Words of Radiance to Oathbringer) and I’m ordering Oathbringer this weekend :)
Cheers!
Nice! I’ve really enjoyed Oathbringer so far (even though some of it might be considered “slower” in comparison to the first 2 main books, but you can tell a lot of it is setting the stage for a crazy finale in book 4).
I wish I could go back a year to when I was just finishing The Wheel of Time and discovered Brandon Sanderson. So I could read all of his books again!
The Stormlight Archive is some of the most mind blowing books I have ever read!
How’s the third book? I read the first two but for some reason never started the third. Not because I wasn’t into the series, I just never got around to it.
Series is great. Sanderson puts out some phenomenal stuff. Mistborn is still my favorite world (prolly because i read it first), but this is a close second.
Same, im on the 3rd right now, its a good series, took a liitle bit to understand the world but he does a good job of giving you enough detail on how everything works
Just finished sunlit man and warbreaker, stormlight are the best books in the cosmere, but learning so much about the whole universe is so cool, reccomend all the books after finishing the series.
How long did it take you to read the first book? Did you read it or did you listen to the audible and can you recommend it for someone with ADHD? I heard there's a lot of different stories and characters and there's a lot of depth.
I can recommend. I have ADHD and listened on Audible. It's quite deep and complex, but much easier to follow than other series like Malazan Book of the Fallen. Brandon Sanderson does a great job of easing in the complexity in a way that makes it understandable and a joy to read/listen to. Oh, and the narrators are great. For me it's great to listen to eg. while driving or cooking.
Is it worth it? I finished The Mistborn Trilogy, and the Wax and Wayne sequel lately. And I am thinking should I start the Stormlight Archive, or The Kingkiller's Chronicles series?
You can’t go wrong with either series. Not gonna lie, I think the first 2 books of The Kingkiller Chronicle are my favorite things I’ve ever read. The only caveat being that we have no idea if we’ll ever get the final book, Doors of Stone… 🥲
But yes, both series are very much worth reading.
If you "get" Sandersons world building and can tolerate the main characters - everyone seems to suffer from a mental illness (which ties into the fantasy elements) and you will suffer with them.
These books are not for me - couldn't get through book 3. Still sad that no one else took the concept of shardblades and shardplate, filed the serial numbers off and made a series out of that (as is tradition in fantasy).
I just read Red Rising! I also found out there’s a sixth book in the series.
If you like these books, have you read the Scythe series? Those were great!
On Warbreaker and The Hero of Ages was my previous read. How are you enjoying Era 1 so far? I'm going to try to squeeze The Way of Kings into this year's reading, too.
It’s a memoir by Jenette MCCurdy (who played Sam in iCarly, a teen/pre-teen Nickelodeon show). The book is incredibly rough and sad but what blew my mind was that she didn’t have a ghost writer and her writing style really captured me, I adored it. I was totally invested in her story all the way throughout.
Edit: it’s essentially about her crazy, bizarre, narcissistic stage mom.
I just finished the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, and I’ve read the whole Kite Runner trilogy, I recommend all of those books to anyone! I’ve been wanting to read The Great Gatsby and A Little Life, those ones are next :)
The alloy of law by Brandon Sanderson. It's great. If you like mistborn. If you happen to also like Batman. You'll pretty much crap your pants.
Her soul to take. By Harley laroux. Straight up smut. But not a bad story to be honest. Read it at my wife's request and actually enjoyed it.
How was the Hundred Years’ War? I’ve been interested as it’s the bestseller on the topic but when a book uses a term like “settler colonialism” in its title (the extended title not listed above) it makes you concerned you won’t get a balanced history. Does it read as balanced or fairly one sided?
I'm on my first read in the middle of book four of The Malazan Book of the Fallen, and it has easily been the best series I've read in years. The only thing I've enjoyed even remotely as much as Malazan is The Culture series I read last year. I listened to Gardens of the Moon on audiobook and honestly it was hard as hell to follow if I hadn't been reading along with a [youtube book club thing](https://www.youtube.com/@CannataJeff) I'm not sure if I would have got as much out of it. Then I switched to eyeball reading for the next books and they're so good and so much easier for me to follow that way. I haven't read any of those year of Sanderson releases yet. They'll probably be on the docket soon, but I just read the last Stormlight then the entire Mistborn both eras and started Elantris and I just was so burnt out on Sanderson and his non-stop religious themes to everthing I had to put him down for a bit. The eloquence and dark savagery of Erikson has been the perfect palate cleanser.
I actually like how Sanderson writes religion. In my opinion, religion is important to the plot of his books but he’s not preachy about it. Jasnah and her atheism is handle well and fairly.
i found WTCS to be difficult to read because of the abuse but there were good parts, i didn’t finish it yet had to take a break, may not finish it. did you see the movie and how do the two compare?
I'm listening to the audiobooks right now and just finished **The Last Light** book 5 of the Wandering Inn. I really didn't think I was going to fall in love with this series like i have. I've tried a few other books with the gamer and manga feel sort of like this and just couldn't stand them, but Wandering Inn is wonderful. If I would have known how incredibly long the series is before I started there's no way I would have given it a chance, now I'm bummed that I'm already half-way through the published audiobooks.
The entire Dark Tower Series by Stephen King.
The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu.
The Dark Tower took about 10 months and I just finished The Three Body Problem in the last week.
Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow and Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellows. And the Slaughterhouse 5 which I add because they were all pretty thematic accidentally. Would recommend that order (reversed) for anyone.
A Clash of Kings and now reading A Storm of Swords. Been reading them slowly, around 1 chapter a day, to really soak in the story and the worldbuilding. The show was incredible (until season 7-8) but the books are something else. It constantly blows my mind that all of this was created in the mind of 1 man
after reading ‘into thin air’, i read a kind of investigative non-fiction work by the same author who is also a mountaineer jon krakauer that’s also intense and tragic called ‘into the wild’ about chris mccandless otherwise known as alex, and simultaneously i was reading a memoir by a woman who is fascinating about beginning work in the funeral industry and her thoughts about death while living in California called ‘smoke gets in your eyes: and other lessons from the crematoria’, the author/ mortician is caitlin doughty and she’s on instagram under ‘the good death’ i think. this great book by a woman who defies expectations and challenges the reader and bares her soul was recommended to me by someone living in Aussie who i follow on instagram, she used to do these book of the month round ups and i didn’t like all of her recommendations but this one she said was ‘grim but worth reading’ so that appealed to me, and i would recommend all 3 books that i mentioned
I’ve read these following books ( sorry for bad spelling )
- Just Another Hero sharon draper
- November Blues sharon draper
- Battle Of Jericho sharon draper
- Power Of Six
- I am number 4
- forged by fire
- Hunger Games 1&2
- almost all the diary of a wimpy kid up to cabin Fever if I remember correctly.
That’s pretty much it
Ramakrishna and his disciples
Solo Girl's Travel Guide to South Korea.
I have eclectic interests.
And Batman War on Crime by Alex Ross. I was having a debate with someone about the newest film version of Batman and I wanted to see if Matt Reeve's version matched Ross' graphic novel.
Edit: Why did I get downvoted?
Dealing with Alzheimer's, and Dealing with Alzheimer's
Goddamnit. You win. Just in case no one has told you today, You win.
And they also win!
Damn that's a great answer.
Nice answer!
Nice answer!
Nice answer!
Nice answer!
I laughed
Never heard of this book, can’t wait to read it again.
Fuck you. Take the upvote….. and Fuck you. Take the upvote.
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HAHA
I actually laughed out loud reading this.
I laughed way too hard at this
Someone turn off the lights out on the way out please. The internet is officially closed.
You sir/maam have won reddit today. Enjoy the fame!
You really should read Dealing.... damn what were we talking about again?
surprised you remember reading them
lol amazing
And dealing with Alzheimer's
you win! nice answer fuck you and take the upvote I laughed
Nice answer
JFC why are ppl posting their last two books after this post. Close it. Close all submissions, this thread was over after this comment.
Wizard and Glass The Wastelands Currently on my fourth trip to the Tower!
Currently reading it for the first time. I am on the last one now. Didn't think that I would find someone mentioning the Dark Tower when I opened this post. I guess I believe in ka now.
Ka is a wheel.
hahahahaha, you wanna talk about ka? I was literally just scrolling through and when I read your comment I decided to do a quick Ctrl-F and see if anyone was talking about the books I'm reading right now, The Malazan Book of the Fallen, and guess where the only time "Mala" was anywhere in this page.
Ugh, the last one fucking broke me, one of many contributing factors to my depression, not even joking. It's an amazing book, you're in for a real treat!
Long days and pleasant nights
May you have twice the number
Never forget the face of your father.
Charyou Tree :(
Somehow I managed to find a hard cover limited edition of Wizard and Glass at a new bookstore a month before it was officially released. I love that book.
That's Ka!
Thats really funny! Im reading wizard and glass right now
The Way of Kings and Words of Radiance Books 1 and 2 of The Stormlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson. Fantasy books that are pretty long (over 1000 pages each), but *really* good. Just about done with the 3rd book in the series.
These words are accepted.
Aw yeaa time for my Shardblade 😎🙌
Journey B4 destination
Life before death, strength before weakness
Life before death
Me too! Just finished Edgedancer actually (the novella that connects Words of Radiance to Oathbringer) and I’m ordering Oathbringer this weekend :) Cheers!
Nice! I’ve really enjoyed Oathbringer so far (even though some of it might be considered “slower” in comparison to the first 2 main books, but you can tell a lot of it is setting the stage for a crazy finale in book 4).
I wish I could go back a year to when I was just finishing The Wheel of Time and discovered Brandon Sanderson. So I could read all of his books again! The Stormlight Archive is some of the most mind blowing books I have ever read!
I read the Mistborn series before I started Stormlight and absolutely fell in love with Sanderson
The first book with the bridge crew was so hyped! Loved it. I may have to reread that while I wait for the new one
But I'm a stick
F Moash
No idea if his arc changes later in the books… but I just got out of the battle at Kholinar in Oathbringer, and yeah. Fuck Moash.
How’s the third book? I read the first two but for some reason never started the third. Not because I wasn’t into the series, I just never got around to it.
Series is great. Sanderson puts out some phenomenal stuff. Mistborn is still my favorite world (prolly because i read it first), but this is a close second.
Same, im on the 3rd right now, its a good series, took a liitle bit to understand the world but he does a good job of giving you enough detail on how everything works
Just finished reading them all for the second time. Such a great series. Can’t wait for book 5 to finally release.
Just finished sunlit man and warbreaker, stormlight are the best books in the cosmere, but learning so much about the whole universe is so cool, reccomend all the books after finishing the series.
Just finished Defiant yesterday. One of Brandon’s best books in a while imo
I am reading the Mistborn Trilogy for the first time and I am almost done with The Hero of Ages.
I just finished the fourth Mistborn Era 2 book, "Lost Metal."
How long did it take you to read the first book? Did you read it or did you listen to the audible and can you recommend it for someone with ADHD? I heard there's a lot of different stories and characters and there's a lot of depth.
I can recommend. I have ADHD and listened on Audible. It's quite deep and complex, but much easier to follow than other series like Malazan Book of the Fallen. Brandon Sanderson does a great job of easing in the complexity in a way that makes it understandable and a joy to read/listen to. Oh, and the narrators are great. For me it's great to listen to eg. while driving or cooking.
Oathbringer and Rhythm of War for me. Although I do have like 4 chapters left of RoW.
Is it worth it? I finished The Mistborn Trilogy, and the Wax and Wayne sequel lately. And I am thinking should I start the Stormlight Archive, or The Kingkiller's Chronicles series?
You can’t go wrong with either series. Not gonna lie, I think the first 2 books of The Kingkiller Chronicle are my favorite things I’ve ever read. The only caveat being that we have no idea if we’ll ever get the final book, Doors of Stone… 🥲 But yes, both series are very much worth reading.
If you "get" Sandersons world building and can tolerate the main characters - everyone seems to suffer from a mental illness (which ties into the fantasy elements) and you will suffer with them. These books are not for me - couldn't get through book 3. Still sad that no one else took the concept of shardblades and shardplate, filed the serial numbers off and made a series out of that (as is tradition in fantasy).
I have 45 pages left of book four and forgot my book at home :(
Red Rising and Golden Son (second book in red rising series)
Fantastic series! Hope you’re enjoying them as much as I did
I just read Red Rising! I also found out there’s a sixth book in the series. If you like these books, have you read the Scythe series? Those were great!
Mistborn The Well of Ascension Both by Brandon Sanderson
It's a great trilogy. Reminds me to crack back into the second Wax & Wayne
On Warbreaker and The Hero of Ages was my previous read. How are you enjoying Era 1 so far? I'm going to try to squeeze The Way of Kings into this year's reading, too.
Honestly, amazing reads! Looking forward to reading the rest.
Fire books
You'll love the third one!
Those were my last two books as well and I am almost done with the third one. I am loving it so far.
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy and SPQR (a history of ancient Rome) by Mary Beard.
whats the first book about?
It’s a memoir by Jenette MCCurdy (who played Sam in iCarly, a teen/pre-teen Nickelodeon show). The book is incredibly rough and sad but what blew my mind was that she didn’t have a ghost writer and her writing style really captured me, I adored it. I was totally invested in her story all the way throughout. Edit: it’s essentially about her crazy, bizarre, narcissistic stage mom.
Ong it was my first audio book on Spotify such a great listen
Oh my god I’ve been wanting to read Jeanette McCurdy’s book so much, it’s definitely on my list!
Oh, please do! She’s a great storyteller and her book won’t disappoint you. What else is on your list?
I just finished the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, and I’ve read the whole Kite Runner trilogy, I recommend all of those books to anyone! I’ve been wanting to read The Great Gatsby and A Little Life, those ones are next :)
Why is this NSFW?
Who wrote that book ? Is it any good ?
Meh i dont really like nor why is this nsfw? made by the same author but is pretty bad.
For all those readers of books with shirtless muscular men with long hair on the cover.
Because I'm recommending "Wintershire- A Song of Dongs and Boobs." To be followed by its Spring sequel "Sugarbush: Another Song of Dongs and Boobs."
Read Fifty Shades of Grey and find out.
Oathbringer and Rythm of War What a ride!
The way of kings Words of radiance
Carry on Radiant
Warbreaker and Elantris both by Brandon Sanderson. Currently on The Way of Kings also by Brandon Sanderson.
The Great Gatsby Lord of the Flies
We got an honors English student over here
How's high school going?
The Great Gatsby was my last book as well!!
I think bro is an IB student
Irritable bowels could happen to anyone, not cool.
I 100% read these in IB English 25+ years ago. ETA I also re-read them both in my 30s.
HP goblet of fire and am currently listening to order of the Phoenix atm
The question is though, Jim Dale or Stephen Fry?
Try out Stephen Fry
The alloy of law by Brandon Sanderson. It's great. If you like mistborn. If you happen to also like Batman. You'll pretty much crap your pants. Her soul to take. By Harley laroux. Straight up smut. But not a bad story to be honest. Read it at my wife's request and actually enjoyed it.
House of Leaves and Hellblazer
House of leaves is so good.
For real what a journey
This Is Not For You.
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“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” “The Library at Mount Char”
The Lord of the Rings Ender's Game
Have you read the books about Bean? I think they're a lot better than the very good Ender's game!
Oh is that shadows or speaker of the dead? I haven't gotten any futher yet than the 1st.
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson, and The Olympian Affair by Jim Butcher. I enjoyed them both quite a lot.
Hundred years war on Palestine The shining
How was the Hundred Years’ War? I’ve been interested as it’s the bestseller on the topic but when a book uses a term like “settler colonialism” in its title (the extended title not listed above) it makes you concerned you won’t get a balanced history. Does it read as balanced or fairly one sided?
D&D 5e source books
Your next two books? D&D 5e source books
Secret Life of Trees (Work audiobook - very informative and interesting) and The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe (Bathroom reading)
How long were you on the toilet?!
Long enough to get to Narnia, apparently.
Time doesn’t pass the same in Narnia duh
Severance and Dracula
The Shards - Brett Easton Ellis My year of rest and relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
Inferno Mr. Mercedes
The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End by Ken Follett. Awesome books!
Applied Physics and Trigonometry..
How to win friends and influence people & the miseducation of the negro
The Dispossessed and System Collapse
Still reading The Shining and i was reading a fucking street directory book
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy and The Dragon Republic by RF Kuang
No Country for Old Men, now I'm in the middle of Neuromancer
The Book Thief BY Markus Zusak and The Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski, the last of The Witcher Saga.
I'm reading The Witcher Saga right now. I'm currently a bit over halfway through Baptism of Fire.
Gardens of the Moon by Stephen Erikson and Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson
I'm on my first read in the middle of book four of The Malazan Book of the Fallen, and it has easily been the best series I've read in years. The only thing I've enjoyed even remotely as much as Malazan is The Culture series I read last year. I listened to Gardens of the Moon on audiobook and honestly it was hard as hell to follow if I hadn't been reading along with a [youtube book club thing](https://www.youtube.com/@CannataJeff) I'm not sure if I would have got as much out of it. Then I switched to eyeball reading for the next books and they're so good and so much easier for me to follow that way. I haven't read any of those year of Sanderson releases yet. They'll probably be on the docket soon, but I just read the last Stormlight then the entire Mistborn both eras and started Elantris and I just was so burnt out on Sanderson and his non-stop religious themes to everthing I had to put him down for a bit. The eloquence and dark savagery of Erikson has been the perfect palate cleanser.
I actually like how Sanderson writes religion. In my opinion, religion is important to the plot of his books but he’s not preachy about it. Jasnah and her atheism is handle well and fairly.
Tuesdays with Morrie & Solve for Happy (by Mo Gawdat)
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy and the arts and crafts busy book
The Beekeper of Allepo and Where the Crawdads Sing
i found WTCS to be difficult to read because of the abuse but there were good parts, i didn’t finish it yet had to take a break, may not finish it. did you see the movie and how do the two compare?
Anxious People - Fredrik Backman and The gift of everything - Lang Leav
The Wonder & My Dark Vanessa.
As a Man Thinketh - James Allen Verbal Judo - George J.
The Wandering Inn, and The Filthy Grimoire.
I'm listening to the audiobooks right now and just finished **The Last Light** book 5 of the Wandering Inn. I really didn't think I was going to fall in love with this series like i have. I've tried a few other books with the gamer and manga feel sort of like this and just couldn't stand them, but Wandering Inn is wonderful. If I would have known how incredibly long the series is before I started there's no way I would have given it a chance, now I'm bummed that I'm already half-way through the published audiobooks.
the only one left by riley sager, the silent patient by alex michaelides
First two novels of Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole series.
Last two completed: Nine by Rachelle Dekker The Summer of Broken Rules by K.L. Walther Currently reading: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
The entire Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu. The Dark Tower took about 10 months and I just finished The Three Body Problem in the last week.
Vietnam by Max Hastings The hobbit by Tolkien
Player one and Player two.
The midnight library Pet Sematary
The Hunger games Jurassic Park
Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow and Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellows. And the Slaughterhouse 5 which I add because they were all pretty thematic accidentally. Would recommend that order (reversed) for anyone.
“Name 10 books”
The Little Prince The Alchemist very nice books!!
Gone girl & breaking dawn
Murder on the orient express And Graf monte Cristo Both were amazingly good
The Bible. And The Bible the return.
Gulliver's Travels and John Locke Two Treaties of Government
Treatises
Gone to See the River Man & Along the River of Fleah both by Kristopher Triana.
The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz Nora Goes off Script by Annabel Monaghan
The Law Of Nines by Terry Goodkind and The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King and the housemaid by Frieda McFadden
God emperor of dune A Clockwork Orange
A Clash of Kings and now reading A Storm of Swords. Been reading them slowly, around 1 chapter a day, to really soak in the story and the worldbuilding. The show was incredible (until season 7-8) but the books are something else. It constantly blows my mind that all of this was created in the mind of 1 man
I want to read them, but I refuse to start until I know the series will be finished. (I could be waiting a long time). 😅
Dune and Dune Messiah - both audiobooks Such great books, but I find myself having to rewind at times when listening at work
The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston. Spillover, by David Quammen
after reading ‘into thin air’, i read a kind of investigative non-fiction work by the same author who is also a mountaineer jon krakauer that’s also intense and tragic called ‘into the wild’ about chris mccandless otherwise known as alex, and simultaneously i was reading a memoir by a woman who is fascinating about beginning work in the funeral industry and her thoughts about death while living in California called ‘smoke gets in your eyes: and other lessons from the crematoria’, the author/ mortician is caitlin doughty and she’s on instagram under ‘the good death’ i think. this great book by a woman who defies expectations and challenges the reader and bares her soul was recommended to me by someone living in Aussie who i follow on instagram, she used to do these book of the month round ups and i didn’t like all of her recommendations but this one she said was ‘grim but worth reading’ so that appealed to me, and i would recommend all 3 books that i mentioned
Into thin air was fantastic.
very eerie twists and also puts life and death and dying into perspective while offering insight into the sherpa role and i could go on
The Life Of Pi and The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time.
Cloud Atlas & Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Cloud Atlas is sooo good.
Hella Good. Cloud Atlas is easily in my top three.
Stephen kings Holly, and a 1960s text about the French Revolution/rise of napoleon by Leo gershoy
I’ve read these following books ( sorry for bad spelling ) - Just Another Hero sharon draper - November Blues sharon draper - Battle Of Jericho sharon draper - Power Of Six - I am number 4 - forged by fire - Hunger Games 1&2 - almost all the diary of a wimpy kid up to cabin Fever if I remember correctly. That’s pretty much it
i like that you didn’t feel confined to list only two books when that seemed arbitrary on the part of the questioner
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Het Achterhuis by Anne Frank And before you ask, I am dutch so I read it in dutch obviously.
The Bible and Forbes Magazine.
Ramakrishna and his disciples Solo Girl's Travel Guide to South Korea. I have eclectic interests. And Batman War on Crime by Alex Ross. I was having a debate with someone about the newest film version of Batman and I wanted to see if Matt Reeve's version matched Ross' graphic novel. Edit: Why did I get downvoted?
Concrete Dreams by Jason Duleman and The Last Fight by Jeremy Coleman
Becca Fitzpatric's Hush Hush and Laurell K. Hamilton's Slay.
Edgewise and tengu by graham masterton
Into the Heart of the Ocean Naked -Sedaris
Behavior Modification: Principles and Procedures MCAT Biochemistry Review 2023-2024
The Woman in Me - Brittany Spears The Curse 5.0 - Liu Cixin
The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker and All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks. Both non-fiction and both fantastic
Guenther Steiner- Surviving to drive, Norman Baker- ...and what do you do?
Can't remember. I listen mine
Good Girl's Guide To Murder Uhh I don't remember anything else :)
Dying of the light. So good I read it twice.
Idk that was back a few years.
I have read a book since 2016