I had planned to read a book with a more direct movie connection, but wasn't able to fit it in so the book I want to highlight is one I read at the beginning of the month that will maybe be a movie or tv show one day, but the writing was easy to visualize, so it was like a movie was playing in my head while reading.
On my brother's recommendation, I started reading the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson. I don't read a ton of fantasy that doesn't also have a heavy romance emphasis, but I really loved the first book in the series, The Final Empire. The book features a rag tag group of rebels who work together to try to figure out the secrets that the corrupt government is hiding and also take the government down. The magic system in the book is around burning different metals that each have a different power which results in some cool action sequences.
While it isn't a movie or tv show yet (rights have been sold but it has struggled to get off the ground), I absolutely loved the different characters and how it all comes together in the end while also leaving you excited for book 2. I have already started reading the next book and ended up getting the audiobook to listen to while reading the ebook, which has been a fun experience.
I'm forever pining for books to be adapted and I'll be keeping my fingers crossed on this one! I love this audiobook-ebook combo idea -- how smart, to keep yourself fully immersed.
I haven't quite dipped my toe into the Fantasy genre yet (I still have to read the Harry Potter books 🙈) but I'm being lured by all the Romantasy that's out there right now.
Yeah, the romantasy genre has really taken off. I don't know if you got into the dystopian books in the 2000s (Hunger Games, Divergent), but even if you didn't, I highly recommend Powerless as a good romantasy intro book. It was nostalgic for me because it is a lot like Hunger Games but with a magical/fantasy element that is fun and I really enjoyed.
I had planned to read a book with a more direct movie connection, but wasn't able to fit it in so the book I want to highlight is one I read at the beginning of the month that will maybe be a movie or tv show one day, but the writing was easy to visualize, so it was like a movie was playing in my head while reading.
On my brother's recommendation, I started reading the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson. I don't read a ton of fantasy that doesn't also have a heavy romance emphasis, but I really loved the first book in the series, The Final Empire. The book features a rag tag group of rebels who work together to try to figure out the secrets that the corrupt government is hiding and also take the government down. The magic system in the book is around burning different metals that each have a different power which results in some cool action sequences.
While it isn't a movie or tv show yet (rights have been sold but it has struggled to get off the ground), I absolutely loved the different characters and how it all comes together in the end while also leaving you excited for book 2. I have already started reading the next book and ended up getting the audiobook to listen to while reading the ebook, which has been a fun experience.
I'm forever pining for books to be adapted and I'll be keeping my fingers crossed on this one! I love this audiobook-ebook combo idea -- how smart, to keep yourself fully immersed.
I haven't quite dipped my toe into the Fantasy genre yet (I still have to read the Harry Potter books 🙈) but I'm being lured by all the Romantasy that's out there right now.
Yeah, the romantasy genre has really taken off. I don't know if you got into the dystopian books in the 2000s (Hunger Games, Divergent), but even if you didn't, I highly recommend Powerless as a good romantasy intro book. It was nostalgic for me because it is a lot like Hunger Games but with a magical/fantasy element that is fun and I really enjoyed.