Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books To Read If You Like These TV shows, movies, plays etc.

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Top Ten Books To Read If You Like These TV shows, movies, plays etc.

 

A great one here. Mine are mainly SF/F/H related, though a few thriller and literary books crept in at the end.

 

 

If you like X-Men, then read: Myke Cole's Shadow Ops series. A combination of fantasy, military fiction and X-men type superheroes. Great stuff!

 

If you like The West Wing, then read: Star Trek: Articles of the Federation. A bit of a cheat here since the book is also based on a tv show and obviously if you aren't a Star Trek fan your mileage may vary but this is a great political sci-fi book in its own right.

 

If you like Star Trek, then read: David Weber's Honor Harrington series. A great military SF series with a kick-ass female character. Plus the first book in the series is free for Kindle!

 

If you like Dune, then read: David Louis Edelman's Jump 225 trilogy. Sold as Dune meets Wall Street, this is a very different animal to Frank Herbert's seminal novel, in terms of character and story, but it is definitely reminiscent in its use of world building. Plus it is a fantastically intricate sci-fi thriller that doesn't get nearly enough readers thrown its way!

 

If you like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, then read: Christopher Golden's The Shadow Saga. Vampires, magicians, demons, snark... Golden actually wrote some Buffy tie-in fiction around the time he released the first of this series. Plus they have recently been rereleased with new covers.

 

If you like 24, then read: Daniel Silva's Gabriel Allon series. A kick-ass assassin/spy, Gabriel Allon has all of the hard ass persona of Jack Bauer, with the added artistic soul of a painter. The series itself is a great mixture of art history, spy-fi and real-world politick.

 

If you like Disney's Alladin, then read: Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed. Sorcery, adventure, swash-buckling in an Arabian Nights type world.

 

If you like Revenge, then read: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. The book that inspired the up-and-down in quality tv show, you should also read The Count of Monte Cristo because it is a fantastic book. Revenge, betrayal, love, murder, vampires, drugs, Paris, Venice, disguises, spies... What isn't to love?!

 

If you like Downton Abbey, then read: Fall of Giants by Ken Follett. Set in the same era, Fall of Giants has much more an epic scope than the ITV series, following a number of families spread across Germany, Britain, the US and Russia in the lead-up to WW1.

 

If you like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, then read: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. Dealing with similar concepts of mortality and the impact we have on those around us, Life After Life is a glorious exploration of the power of choice.

 

 

What books would you recommend to fans of certain tv shows and movies?

Showcase Sunday

A bit frazzled this weekend, so no time (or energy) to put up a full review. Thought I would try out a new meme and found Showcase Sunday, which seemed to be right up my alley.

SS is a weekly blog hop hosted by Vicky over at Books, Biscuits and Tea allowing bloggers to showcase what books and bookish things they have received in the past week.

This has been a pretty good week, including a few approvals from Netgalley for books I was looking forward to, so... :)

Here goes...

For Review:

Flirting with French by William Alexander
The Red Hot Fix by T.E. Woods
The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne
The Buried Life by Carrie Patel

Bought:

Afterparty by Daryl Gregory
Heaven's Queen by Rachel Bach
Unwrapped Sky by Rjurik Davidson
Lover at the Chameleon Club by Francine Prose
Buried Angels by Camilla Lackberg
She Is Not Invisible by Marcus Sedgwick

 

So what exciting finds/purchases have you received or made this past week?

Peacemaker by Marianne de Pierres

 

 

Gold faded to purple and then a dying red. Sunset from the butte.

In the last open natural space in the world, Virgin 'Ginny' Jackson works as a park ranger, charged with protecting the natural habitat from anyone who might wish to encroach on its borders. When she stumbles upon a murder, though, Ginny finds herself on the wrong end of official police interest. Her situation is made even more complex by the presence of a United States Marshall apparently seconded to the Rangers, a Marshall who seems to be able to see the invisible eagle that Ginny has always believed was only a delusion...

I had heard a lot about Marianne de Pierres in connection with her Parrish Plessis series and the space opera quadrology Sentients of Orion. Although I never got around to reading either of these series, the blurbs and covers had definitely put de Pierres on my radar and so when I saw that she had a new book in a new series coming out this year I decided this would be the perfect opportunity to have a read. When the book was made available on Netgalley - without needing approval to get it - I jumped at the chance and added it to this month's To Read List so that I could get through it before the release date. The setting sounded interesting, as did the mixture of future cyberpunk elements with what sounded like an urban fantasy type main character and plot.

Peacemaker takes place in an undisclosed future year, one where huge arc-like cities cover the Earth and a single open park area remains in modern-day Australia, policed and protected by a group of Park Rangers. Our main character, Ginny, is one of these, and she has a personal stake in the job - her father was one of the founders of the Park and he lost his life soon after it opened. When Ginny stumbles upon a murder within the park, then, it is in her direct interest to see that the murder does not escalate and harm the place she is charged with protecting. Things are made more complicated, though, when she is assigned to work with a US Marshall and she begins to see an invisible eagle that she has not seen since she was a girl, an eagle she has spent her adulthood convincing herself that she imagined. When the Marshall reveals that he can see it too, and that he has one of these Mythos himself, Ginny is drawn into a worldwide conspiracy.

I really wanted to like Peacemaker more than I did. The mixture of urban fantasy with a post-cyberpunk type world sounded intriguing and it is certainly a nice twist on both. However, this very setting is where the book was really let down for me. I never got the feeling of a clear-cut world around Ginny. The Park does not appear as much as would seem expected given its prominence in the blurb, while the city around it is a dull array of names of districts, none of which have a clearly defined sense of place. The level of technology was another disappointment - while we are dealing with a future far enough away from our own to have allowed for the construction and development of these huge cities that have extended so far as to leave hardly any free open spaces left, there was little other obvious technological development. Every time one of the characters uses a cellphone or a tablet, it created a dissonance for me that yanked me right out of the book. Surely, at the rate at which technology changes in the real world, by the time we reach these huge megalopolises, we would have moved beyond the same hardware we all use today. This of course may be my own personal peeve and your own mileage may vary.

On the other hand, de Pierres has created a nice cast of characters. All of them are multidimensional, affording for some strong, snappy dialogue between the main characters. Ginny herself is a good, strong female character, but there was nothing in her personality that drew me to her or allowed me to create an emotional attachment. I did not feel for her as she struggled against the various difficulties she encountered and because of that it was easy for me to disconnect from the plot and put the book down.

In terms of the plot, there were some very well done twists throughout and the way the book concluded affords a glimpse of some interesting ideas planned for future volumes. The romantic subplots were well done, believable and not in any way diverting attention from what was happening around them. However the mystery that Ginny is investigating never engaged and I found myself skimming through certain parts, waiting for the story to take off. Unfortunately, for this reader at least, it never did.

An interesting twist on the urban fantasy model that combines two genres, Peacemaker lacked a distinct setting and a captivating plot. Although the well-rounded, interesting characters made up for both of those slightly, I found it difficult to get to the end, skimming through and looking for something to catch my attention. I had high hopes for the book from everything I had heard about de Pierres up until now, but I was left disappointed. I would definitely try another book by the author in a different world, but I very much doubt I would pick up the sequel to Peacemaker. I gave Peacemaker 2.5 pistols out of 5.

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WWW Wednesdays: 23rd April 2014

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

What are you currently reading?

What did you recently finish reading?

What do you think you'll read next?

 

My answers:

 

 

What are you currently reading? I'm almost finished with The Midnight Witch by Paula Brackston, which is not as good as I had hoped it would be, and my Netgalley ARC of Fool's Assassin by Robin Hobb, which is a hundred times better!

 

 

What did you recently finish reading? Just finished Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderons. I have been reading and listening to it since the beginning of the month. A fantastic epic fantasy, with great characters, Sanderson's trademark worldbuilding and a tight plot despite the huge page count!

 

 

What do you think you’ll read next? After a fantasy heavy week of reading, I'm going to be reading some sci-fi at the end of the month, including one of the latest Star Wars books, Honor Among Thieves by James S.A. Corey, and Adam Christopher's The Burning Dark.

What have you/are you/will you be reading at the moment?

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Characters Who Stayed With Me Long After I Closed Their Books

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Top Ten Characters Who Stayed With Me Long After I Closed Their Books

 

Not an easy one this week as the prompt was very broad - Top Ten Characters Who... And the rest was left up to each of us to make up. I have seen some great ones already today, notably Top Ten Characters Who Were Well Portrayed on the Screen, but I decided to go with the ten characters who were so memorable that they still rattle around in my mind long after I have finished reading about them.

Fitz and the Fool

Two glorious characters, Fitz especially has a wonderful voice that resonated with me long after I had closed the last page of Fool's Fate. But as anyone who has read Robin Hobb's fantastic series can tell you, Fitz cannot exist without his Fool. Their relationship is by turns tender, troubling, exhilarating and confusing. The two of them together will always be amongst my favourite characters.

NOTE: I am almost half way through Fool's Assassin at the moment and it is so good to hear Fitz's voice again!

The Entire Harry Potter Cast of Characters

One of my - if not my all-time - favourite series, I love all of the characters in J.K Rowling's universe, even the villainous ones. Harry, Hermione, Dumbledore, Hagrid, Voldemort, Draco, even Snape, they all came to life in those pages and do so again every time I pick up the books. They will always live in my mind, and did so long after I closed the cover on Deathly Hallows.

Harry Dresden

The only wizard in the phone book, Harry Dresden is cool, sarcastic, powerful and a total bad-ass. But that isn't why he stays with me every time I close one of his books. It is because no matter what he goes through (and man, he has been through a lot!) he always gets back up and keeps on fighting.

Roland

There are so many Stephen King characters who resonate with me, but Roland has such a hold on all of King's œuvre, that he really stands out. The tragic circular nature of his quest only heightens that and he definitely still whispered in my ear long after I finished the last Dark Tower book.

Phedre

From the moment she begins to tell her tale, Phedre has such a unique, compassionate, strong voice that it is impossible not to fall in love with her. Following her through two trilogies cemented her place in my list of amazing characters and her voice is still there, somewhere, in the back of my mind.

Lisbeth Salander

A unique character, strong and tragic at the same time, Lisbeth has such an amazing arc through the three books. Although she shares the billing with Blomkvist, the trilogy is definitely her story through and through, and her way of seeing the world and reacting to it stayed with me for a long time.

Edmond Dantes

A man who rises from the deepest depths of despair to turn himself into a vengeful count, but who retains enough humanity to show compassion and find love at the last, Edmond Dantes is a great character. I discovered him in the pages of the Count of Monte Cristo and return to him often as I can.

 

Honor Harrington

Star of a vast series of novels, Honor has grown from a callow captain to one of the most powerful women in the Manticoran Star Kingdom. She has wits, she is brave and loyal to a fault, she is a woman who has known love and loss and has never allowed any of it to make her bitter. I look forward to every new book with her in it.

 

 

Gabriel Allon

Like Honor, Gabriel is a man who has known great loss, and who has managed to not only stand up and carry on doing what he needs to do, but also has been able to embrace a new love and a new family. The soul of an artist combined with the mind of a killer, he is incomparable in his field.

 

 

 

Daniel Sempere and Fermin

And we end as we began, with two characters so memorable together that they are inseparable. The heroes of the first and third Cemetery of Lost Books novels, Daniel and Fermin are similar to Fitz and the Fool in that they are great friends who both have secrets that they keep hidden from the other. Daniel's voice in The Shadow of the stayed with me for a long time, and it was great to be gifted with Fermin's voice in the sequel. Both of them are extremely human characters, witty, cultivated and saddled with sorrow and darkness. Two great characters to add to the collection.

 

Those are mine, what are some of the characters you still hear whispering to you in the night?

Ruin Falls by Jenny Milchman

 

The children had never been this far from home before. Liv had spent most of yesterday driving around, hunting for no-mess Crayola coloring books, praying they weren't too juvenile to keep a six- and eight-year-old occupied in the car, then running up and down the supermarket aisles in search of bars and snack pouches in case they couldn't find food on the road. Or in case they did find something, and Paul wouldn't allow the kids to eat it.

Liv Daniels and her family leave on holiday for the first time in years on a trip to see her husband's parents. When they stop for the night in a hotel, everything seems to be going well. But when Liv wakes up the next morning, she finds her two children missing. The police are called and a search begins, but it soon becomes apparent that the person responsible may be closer than Liv thinks...

Ruin Falls showed up in a Most Anticipated Books column on one of my go-to blogs, and the atmospheric cover caught my attention. The blurb seemed to promise a tense thriller so I added it to my To Be Read list. When it showed up on Netgalley I requested it and was pleasantly surprised when it was accepted - one of the first ARCs I asked for and received! I decided to wait until shortly before the release date to read it and devoured it in a single day. Ruin Falls is a thriller novel done right and I loved it!

Set over a two week period, Ruin Falls tells the story of Liv Daniels. A mother, wife and business owner, she shares a farm with her professor husband and two children. Following her husband's eco-friendly lifestyle, they avoid consumer culture as much as possible. Leaving on vacation, Liv's world is torn apart by the disappearance of her children. But it is the identity of the kidnapper that really sends Liv reeling as she is forced to reexamine everything she thought she knew and every belief she held dear in the light of a horrendous betrayal.
I don't think I will give away any major spoilers if I reveal that the kidnapper is Liv's husband, Paul. The reveal itself happens very early in the novel, an  the true mystery is not who took the children but why and where he has taken them. The fact that Paul is the one to be behind the abduction allows Milchman to play around with the standard kidnapping storyline as the police relegate it to a domestic dispute, leaving Liv alone to try and recover her children.

Milchman does a fantastic job of creating tension - right from the first page we are dragged into Liv's frame of mind as more and more events ramp up her feeling that something is wrong. Even before we discover the kidnapping, Liv is stressed, convinced that something is wrong or about to happen. From an agressive truck driver to her son disappearing in a crowd, Liv is constantly on tenderhooks and so is the reader.

Having your children taken is any parent's ultimate nightmare and Milchman does a fantastic job of portraying that in Ruin Falls. That is made even worse by the aforementioned fact that the police will not do anything because the father is the one who has taken them. Liv's feeling of helplessness fills the pages and it is great to see her slowly gain the confidence she needs to save her children. She really develops through the course of the novel, and I loved the fact that despite the presence of a male character who assists her, at the end Liv is totally alone when it comes time to face the true villain of the piece.

Of the supporting characters, most are well developed, though unfortunately Paul comes across as a bit of a cipher whose aims and motivations are left quite fuzzy. His parents are much more interesting characters, and the truth about his past is done in a very nice way, keeping you guessing and putting together the various pieces all the way through. I would have liked there to be a little more closure to his storyline, though what does happen to him is definitely well deserved.

As I mentioned above, the conclusion is worthy of the build-up, pitting Liv against everything she has feared and forcing her to stand up and fight for her children. The book ends with a hopeful twist, though one that remains bittersweet when you consider the implications of everything that has happened.

Ruin Falls does not break any major ground when it comes to this kind of family-in-danger thriller, but it does do what it set out to extremely well. Edge-of-your-seat, nail-biting tension from the first page to the last, it is not the kind of book that I found myself laying aside without a tug of reluctance, wanting to read a little bit more to find out what would happen next or how a situation would resolve. The mystery was well done and did not ever feel drawn out, and the conclusion was worthy of everything that had been set up until then. I felt for and related to Liv and the other characters. At its heart, Ruin Falls is about motherhood and the lengths any of us (mothers or fathers) go to protect our children (although I have to admit that Dads do not come out of this one particularly well!) I will definitely be adding Jenny Milchman to my Must-Read List. I gave Ruin Falls 4 shoemaking psychopaths out of 5.

Ruin Falls will be released on April 22nd.

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The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld

This is an enchanted place. Other's don't see it but I do.

From his cell, the narrator of The Enchanted tells us the story of the inmates, guards and other inhabitants of the ancient stone prison where he is being held on death row. Through his sometimes almost supernatural sight, he tells us of the Lady, an investigator hired by lawyers to try and get death row inmates out of their death sentences, the Fallen Priest, who struggles to make sense of the tragedy that caused his fall from grace, the warden whose wife is fighting a losing battle against cancer, and York, a brutal killer with a heartbreaking past of his own. As his own execution draws closer, the narrator draws all of these characters together in the enchanted place where wild horses run...

An Amazon pick of the month, The Enchanted has received quite a lot of attention in the past couple of months. After reading the blurb, and hearing the comparisons to such great books as The Green Mile, I added it to my To-Read list, unsure quite what to expect but looking forward to discovering what it was all about. What I found was a heart-wrenching literary fantasy, definitely worthy of the positive vibes that have been rippling through the blogosphere recently.
Told by a nameless narrator - whose identity is hinted at throughout but not fully revealed until the very end - The Enchanted brings together a number of disparate characters, all of them with dark secrets in their pasts, all of them struggling to make sense of the world around them and such concepts as justice, forgiveness and morality in a place where morals are a commodity and not a necessity. As our narrator skips between the characters, we get a fully rounded glimpse into the enchanted place that is this prison: a dark place where guards turn a blind eye to murder and rape in return for drug-money kickbacks, but also an enchanted place where the slightest act of goodwill can shine like a star gone suddenly nova.

Combining fantastical elements with a harrowing examination of the penal system and an investigative subplot surrounding the Lady and her attempts to see York escape the death penalty, the novel is able to constantly surprise and astonish, drawing out revelations about characters that turn monsters into victims without shying away from the dark truths. While examining something as sensitive as the death sentence and the way we treat men and women in prison, The Enchanted never goes for the easy answer or the simple emotion, forcing the reader to make their own minds up or at least go away from the book asking themselves questions.

Denfeld's writing combines short, sharp sentences with a poetic turn of phrase at times that culminates in a final scene that I defy anyone to read without at least a lump in their throat. Told mainly in the first person, the story moves skillfully between the characters, giving them all space to breath and develop despite the short length. While there are a few truly villainous characters (one each especially amongst the guards and the prisoners), most of them are far from simply cardboard cutouts - every single one of them has a story to tell.
The ending is bitter sweet, depending on the characters, but most of the story questions posed by the novel are answered while the more philosophical conundrums are left - as I said above - to the reader to make sense of. The fantastical elements, while present, are left in the background and again it is left up to the reader to decide how much of them are real and how much of them are wish fulfillment on the part of the narrator.

Harrowing and yet uplifting, dark and yet full of hope, The Enchanted is one of my books of the year so far and I imagine that it will be somewhere in my top ten by the end. Filled with real people and brimming over with beautiful, dark imagery, the book is a thought provoking novel that doesn't forget that the first job of any novel is to tell a story. I will most definitely be looking out for Rene Denfeld's next work. I gave The Enchanted 5 flibber-gibbets out of 5.

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The Lost Sisterhood by Anne Fortier

The young men completed their training row in record time.

All her life, Diana Morgan has been obsessed with Amazons. Told stories of these empowered female warriors by her grandmother when she was a child, she has devoted her career to proving that they actually existed. Dismissed by many as a deluded fool, Diana jumps at the opportunity that is presented to her by a strange old man who claims to need her assistance at an archaeological dig that may just prove all of her theories. What she discovers, though, will take her on a journey from Algeria to Greece to Turkey to the far north on a quest that includes bronze bracelets, a secret society and the truth about the Trojan War...

Although the cover for The Lost Sisterhood did not really catch my attention, when I read the blurb describing Amazons, Troy and a quest that spans the globe, I couldn't resist giving it a go. And boy am I glad that I did! Combining historical fiction and a thriller-type quest, The Lost Sisterhood is a sprawling novel set in two time frames and filled with great twists and exciting set pieces.
 
The modern part of the novel follows Diana Morgan as she chases clues left behind for her by her grandmother across the world in search of the 'real' Amazons. Caught in the middle between two powerful men - each with their own reasons for trying to find the mythical warrior women - Diana must stay one step ahead of them at all times, with the help and support of Rebecca, her best friend from childhood, now an archaeologist, and Nick, the obligatory love interest, a man who is at first antipathic to her and her quest but gradually becomes an ally and more. The love story between the two, while well done, was the least interesting part of the novel to me, mainly because the thawing out between the two of them did not strike me as all that realistic based on what happens to them.

Where the novel excels, though, is in the historical part of the story. Following two young women from the deserts of modern-day Algeria, this section of the book - with chapters interspersed with the modern-day ones - combines what little is known about the Amazons from ancient sources with a masterful retelling of a number of ancient myths and legends, primarily the fall of Troy and the Trojan War. Fortier does a fantastic job of reinventing all of these stories and characters, giving them a new twist. What she does with Paris and the story of Helen was especially well done.

I found the beginning of the love story between Myrina and Paris to be slightly more believable than that between Diana and Nick, although the way it develops caused me problems. Myrina's willingness to - at first - take on a more submissive role in the relationship grated with her personality as seen up until then, and yet Fortier was able to make sense of it as the story progressed and bring Myrina back to the strong female character she had been in the earlier chapters.

The Lost Sisterhood does a great job of combining historical fiction and a modern thriller, bringing some neat twists to age-old stories and reinventing them for a new audience. Overall the female characters are worthy of the subject matter - each one of them is an Amazon in her own right, although the love stories for both main characters tarnish that slightly by taking away some of their freedom and power. Still, a fantastic read and I will be looking out for the next book Anne Fortier may write. I gave The Lost Sisterhood 4 bronze bracelets out of 5.

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WWW Wednesdays: 16th April 2014

Found this over at Should Be Reading and thought I would take part, always fun to take stock of what you're reading...

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

What are you currently reading?

What did you recently finish reading?

What do you think you'll read next?

 

My answers:

 

What are you currently reading? I'm just about finished with The Demon's Brood by Desmond Seward, about the Plantaganet Kings of England, and Half Bad by Sally Green.

 

 

What did you recently finish reading? The last book I finished was Missing You by Harlan Coben. Not his greatest, but a solid thriller with a 'surprise' twist at the end that I personally saw coming from miles away. Enjoyed it nevertheless!

 

What do you think you’ll read next? I have recently received my first (!!!)Netgalley books and two of them will be coming out this month so am going to read those so as to get the reviews up as close to the release as possible. They are Ruin Falls by Jenny Milchman and Peacemaker by Marianne de Pierres. Two very different books, but both of them look great!

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Bookish Things (That Aren't Books) That I'd Like To Own

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Top Ten Bookish Things (That Aren't Books) That I'd Like To Own

Kindle Paperwhite

I already have a Kindle Touch and a Kindle Fire, but I'm hoping that I can get the next gen Paperwhite in the next few months.

Book Shelves (Already Have)

We moved about six months ago and one of the first things I did when looking for our new apartment was to find a place to put all my books. I'm really happy with these shelves and had a great time arranging them!

A comfy reading chair

To go with the shelves, I would love to have a really nice comfortable leather chair to read in.

Kindle Covers

There are some great covers out there, but these ones are absolutely fantastic. I would leave a real bookish cover to proclaim to all that I'm a voracious reader!!!

 

 

Reading Lamp (Already Have)

In the same office as the shelves, this is great for avoiding eye strain, especially with the adjustable smaller lamp in the middle. These really do not hurt the eyes.

Go Away Reading Mug

Stolen from What Comes Next Review, this would be perfect to use in the break room at work to tell people to Leave Me Alone!!! :)

Marauder's Map Replica (Already Have)

Cheating a little bit on this one since it is just as much based on the movie as the book but hey the book came first! I actually brought myself one of these at Universal Studios a few years ago, along with a Voldemort wand.

Book Map

Stolen from Hidden in Pages, this is a great idea - a map made of book titles.

 

 

LOTR Ring

Huge fan of the book, huge fan of the movies, I so want to have one of these!!

 

 

Bookish Computer Case

As much of a computer geek as I am a bookish one, I saw this over at Great Imaginations and decided I must have one! How cool is this??!

So what is on your Wish List?