Hey guys! Happy first day of October!
Today I am bringing you my top 7 books/ series to read this fall! So without any future ado, let's get started!
1. The Remnant Chronicles by Mary E. Pearson
From GoodReads:
A princess must find her place in a reborn world.
She flees on her wedding day.
She steals ancient documents from the Chancellor's secret collection.
She is pursued by bounty hunters sent by her own father.
She is Princess Lia, seventeen, First Daughter of the House of Morrighan.
The Kingdom of Morrighan is steeped in tradition and the stories of a bygone world, but some traditions Lia can't abide. Like having to marry someone she's never met to secure a political alliance.
Fed up and ready for a new life, Lia flees to a distant village on the morning of her wedding. She settles in among the common folk, intrigued when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive—and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deceptions swirl and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets—secrets that may unravel her world—even as she feels herself falling in love.
My Thoughts:
This series is Fast paced and full of twists and turns! Once you think you have everything figured out BOOM you are blown up by something totally different!
I gave this series 4 out 5 stars!
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2. The Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo
From GoodReads:
Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee.
Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling.
Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha . . . and the secrets of her heart.
My Thoughts:
While I did give this series 5 out 5 stars I do wish we had a bit more world-building in the first book as well as a better explanation on the magic system. That being said the trilogy does have a lot of dark and spooky elements that I find perfect for the fall months!
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3. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
From Goodreads:
Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart - and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. From that moment forward he is propelled into a world he never dreamed existed - a dark subculture flourishing in abandoned subway stations and sewer tunnels below the city - a world far stranger and more dangerous than the only one he has ever known...
My thoughts:
I gave this book a 5 out 5 stars! it had me hooked from page one on. I just wish Mr. Gaiman had written a second book in the series because I thought he kind of left it on a cliff note. Other then that loved it!
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4. The Mrs. Perigrines Home for Peculiar Children Trilogy * Please note at the time of this post the 4th book as not yet been released to the public.*
From Goodreads:
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that Miss Peregrine's children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.
My Thoughts:
This trilogy is dark but cute, charming yet terrifying! I really love this series and I give it a 5 out of 5 stars! There is a romance in this series that is super noticeable pretty quickly and let me say I ship it! the 4th book is set to come out tomorrow October 2nd and I am on pins and needles waiting for it! once I have finished it I will post a review on here for Y'all!
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5. Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco
From Goodreads:
Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege, stretched out before her. But between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life.
Against her stern father's wishes and society's expectations, Audrey often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on a string of savagely killed corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murderer, her search for answers brings her close to her own sheltered world.
My Thoughts:
As you saw in my full review of this book I loved it immensely! and I cannot wait to get my hands on the other 2 books in this series. Dark and full of Mystery this book is perfect for fall reading! 5 out of 5 stars!
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6. Mr. Mercedes by Steven King Book #1
From Goodreads:
In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes.
In another part of town, months later, a retired cop named Bill Hodges is still haunted by the unsolved crime. When he gets a crazed letter from someone who self-identifies as the “perk” and threatens an even more diabolical attack, Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, hell-bent on preventing another tragedy.
Brady Hartsfield lives with his alcoholic mother in the house where he was born. He loved the feel of death under the wheels of the Mercedes, and he wants that rush again. Only Bill Hodges, with two new, unusual allies, can apprehend the killer before he strikes again. And they have no time to lose, because Brady’s next mission if it succeeds, will kill or maim thousands.
Mr. Mercedes is a war between good and evil, from the master of suspense whose insight into the mind of this obsessed, insane killer is chilling and unforgettable.
My Thoughts:
This book hits all the home runs for me when it comes to murder mysteries and horror fiction!
Filled with sarcastic anecdotes and humor this book leaves you hanging on to every word!
I enjoyed getting into the head of the killer as well as watching Hodges go through the motions of finding the killer! 5 out 5 stars!
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7. Year One by Nora Roberts
From Goodreads:
It began on New Year's Eve.
The sickness came on suddenly and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed--and more than half of the world's population was decimated.
Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magic rose up in its place. Some of it is good, like the witchcraft worked by Lana Bingham, practicing in the loft apartment she shares with her lover, Max. Some of it is unimaginably evil, and it can lurk anywhere, around a corner, in fetid tunnels beneath the river--or in the ones you know and love the most.
As word spreads that neither the immune nor the gifted are safe from the authorities who patrol the ravaged streets, and with nothing left to count on but each other, Lana and Max make their way out of a wrecked New York City. At the same time, other travelers are heading west too, into a new frontier. Chuck, a tech genius trying to hack his way through a world gone offline. Arlys, a journalist who has lost her audience but uses pen and paper to record the truth. Fred, her young colleague, possessed of burgeoning abilities and an optimism that seems out of place in this bleak landscape. And Rachel and Jonah, a resourceful doctor and a paramedic who fend off despair with their determination to keep a young mother and three infants in their care alive.
In a world of survivors where every stranger encountered could be either a savage or a savior, none of them knows exactly where they are heading, or why. But a purpose awaits them that will shape their lives and the lives of all those who remain.
The end has come. The beginning comes next.
My Thoughts:
Once more Nora Roberts blows her reader out of the water with an adventure of epic proportions! When I first started Year One it took on a wild adventure. However, there were times when I had to check if I was reading a Steven King book or if it was still Nora Roberts. I give this book a 5 out of 5 stars and I can't wait for Of Blood and Bone which is book 2 in the series to be published in november!
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Well, there you have it! My top 7 books to read this fall! Let me know in the comments some books Y'all are hoping to read this fall!
Until next time,
Lynn.
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