okay so today we are going to be talking about my favorite books
of the season we are now officially having a
season change actually not quite officially
doesn't matter in september we move into spring
even though it's still hot so i'm gonna tell you what are the
top five books that i loved this season honorable mention two words
of radiance book two in stormlight archive i'm currently rereading the
stormlight archive it should make this list but i decided
to not talk about rereads moving forward these
are no particular order i'm just going to talk about them
in the order okay so they are in an order i'm just going to talk about them
in the order in which i read them from furthest back to most
recent so they're not in a ranking okay the
vanishing half so the vanishing half is about two
women two black women who are white passing and they're in
a town that isn't awesome one of them moves away and decides to
live life as a white woman she marries a white man she
has a white child and she doesn't tell anyone about
where she's from her background this is set in the 40s
and she has a lot of um internal hatred for her past and for
where she comes from the other sister did i mention they're twins?
her twin uh she goes back to their previous hometown and lives her
life there so we followed the twins and then
we also follow their daughters and uh these twins are
disconnected they haven't seen each other in years it's a very
complex story that is weaved together so well each of the four women that we
follow have very unique stories and very unique
struggles that they need to work through and then eventually the two daughters
meet and come together through that link
i don't want to say too much because it's all done
in this in this oh gosh i love the way this author wrote this story i
loved uh how she weaved their stories together and how each
storyline was so individual so many interesting topics
discussed and i just i enjoyed this book so much i
loved the way the author wrote it i loved the individual characters
phenomenal book next book on the list is all systems red which is a novella
it's the first in the in a series of novellas that leads up to a full-length
novel in the murderbot series this follows murderbot
um and it's it's it's it's hilarious it there's not a lot of worldbuilding
that happens there's not a lot of depth that comes from the side
characters in this first little novella and the first novella the focus is
really on murderbot this robot who is very bad at
its job um and just wants to
watch human soap operas it's very apathetic
very dry sarcastic humor that is so funny to read uh such a
relatable and hilarious character to follow this
robot is and i enjoyed it so much it was the perfect it's
it to me these little novellas i mean i've only read the first one
are perfect for in between really big heavy um epic sci-fi fantasy
whatever there's such a a little um funny
yet deep and thoughtful story i there's so many quotes in this
that i we we buddy read this over on my uh over on
my not patreon discord server and oh man
we were we just the whole chat was just quoting things
back and forth to each other as we were reading it together it was so much fun
to read with friends i will definitely be continuing with the
series i had so much fun reading it next book is fires of vengeance book two
in the burning series book one is the rage of dragons you
can't see it it's out of frame book one is the rage of dragons i
loved the first book in the series i loved the second book in the series this
is an arc copy i've already pre-ordered the
finished copy and um it it was so great so this series is about
um this world where one in every thousand women
is able to call down dragons and one in every 100 men is able to
turn change into this this fighting machine
and it's set in this incredible interesting unique world and it's it's
it follows um tao who is on a revenge plot and it's very
it's a military fantasy so go in knowing that
they're so i loved the world i loved the world building in this story
i was very attached to tao even though i don't care about
revenge plots i was very attached to him um and i was i was so in love with his
sword brothers and all the different anyway book two did such a great job i
feel like i've talked about this book so much recently
did such a great job of taking all the things that rage of dragons did
well and continuing it forward and all the things
that would have been stale if we kept going into book two
changed those things and it was just it was such a great sequel i
i loved it probably nearly as much as the first book which usually
book two in a series tends unless you're sanderson, book two tends to be my
least favorite in the series and i enjoyed this probably nearly as
much as i enjoyed book one so i loved it
next book on the list is timeline by michael creighton michael creighton is
quickly becoming one of my top authors i want to read
through everything he writes timeline follows a group of students
who are history majors and their professor turns up
in another timeline and they get a note from him and they need to go back
to where he is to try to rescue him and incidents ensue it's a great combination
of so one thing that michael creighton does really really well
is environmental starts like he has a very slow
build to his books and he will build up a an atmosphere he'll build up
a setting to the point that i feel like i'm there
with the characters so that when things start escalating i am
i think i i i think it's happening to me too because i'm so
immersed he also does an amazing job of making his books
so technical and really breaking down like in this one we're talking about
time travel um of sorts and in this in this book he
did such a great job of breaking it down in a way that he
i didn't just feel like i was reading a fun story about time travel which time
travel can really be a miss for me a lot of times because i
don't want time travel to just to be a thing that exists in the world and you
just have to accept it i tend to like more of a
hard magic system or a hard sci-fi where things are really being
broken down and explained and creighton does such a great job
of not info dumping it never feels like an info dump and yet
delivering so much information that i feel like i'm not just
reading a story but like i'm actually discussing a theory with someone who
believes in the theory he does such a great job
of breaking it down to the point where i can run with it and i'm not hung up by
a bunch of details and also delivering such an action-packed
fun exciting story i went into this looking for
a a time travel epic and it was more of a romp but not in a
negative way i don't mean that in a negative way it was just fun
there's nothing wrong with a romp it was a fun exciting
story and i thought it was going to be more epic in scope and it was much more
narrow but i still once i adjusted my
expectations i still had such a fun time reading it and it was it was so well
executed i just had a great time with this book
and i want to read more of his books i have at least three more of his books
what's the one that everybody keeps telling me to read i don't see it on my
shelves anyway i loved this book i think that it
is a great book for anybody that is especially wanting to
dip your toes into hard sci-fi this is such a
great place for that because it is more complex it is a slower start
but it's also just a thrilling fun ride once things get going um and i think
that it's a great combination of what someone would be
looking for if they were trying to transition into something a little bit
harder it was just a great it was a great story and i loved it
the last book on my list is the sleeper and the spindle by neil gaiman gaiman is
easily one of my favorite authors he's such an environmental author i
always feel so immersed in in everything about his
story and he does such a great job of very slow builds and very spooky vibes
um and and and then always delivering on this story
that i just feel like i never know i always think i know where his story is
go i always think i know what's coming and i'm never right with him but
by the time i get to the end i always think this is where it always had to go
this is the perfect place that it needed to end up this is exactly what i wanted
out of this but i thought i wanted something else but this
is what it needed to be i'm always just so captured
by his writing and his execution and his his his what he creates i just
i love okay so anyway this is it follows snow white and then our guest
star is um aurora sleeping beauty but neither of
these princesses are anything like you think they are um
they're very unique to this story
uh so snow white is this is after the fairy tale that we know and
she's getting ready for her wedding and then she
gets a word that this neighboring kingdom has all
gone into this deep deep sleep because the princess in the tower has gone into
asleep and so the whole kingdom goes into the sleep you know the story
so we follow snow white and three of her dwarves who
go on a journey to find her and attempt to wake this sleeping
kingdom and that's all i'm going to tell you i'm
just going to give you the setup because it is very very short it's only
it's only 66 pages and it's illustrated so somehow let me get a non-spoiler
so sometimes you get full illustrations with just a few words sometimes you get
more words than that but it's short i do recommend if it's
possible if it's accessible if it's and if it's something that you can do i
do recommend physically reading it the illustrations add so much to the
story so if you're capable of getting the illustrations too highly
recommend i loved this book so
much i won't tell you anything more about it because it's so short but
i just gaiman is an author that always gives me what i don't think i
want but is always perfect and i found this
story so empowering and good really really good so these are my
top five books of the season we have some sci-fi some fantasy some literary
fiction uh hopefully that there there is a book
in this stack that interests you i would love to
chat with you more are there any books in here that
you've read how did you feel about them do you plan to pick any of them up then
what were your top five books of the season
be sure to chat with me more in the comments i post videos every sunday
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