Can anyone give me some ideas for spec fiction that is so good I won't want to put it down - it feels like ages since I've read anything that made me not want to do anything but read. Some of the books I've loved (to give you an idea) are Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments, Lauren Kate's Fallen series...ummmm...I'm sure there are others but I can't think right now. Any suggestions gratefully accepted!
I recently read
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver and couldn't put it down from the moment I bought it.
"For popular high school senior Samantha Kingston, February 12—"Cupid Day"—should be one big party, a day of valentines and roses and the privileges that come with being at the top of the social pyramid. And it is…until she dies in a terrible accident that night.
However, she still wakes up the next morning. In fact, Sam lives the last day of her life seven times, until she realizes that by making even the slightest changes, she may hold more power than she ever imagined."
Also, have you read The Infernal Devices? They're a prequel series to Mortal Instruments, and I actually liked that series much better than Mortal Instruments. It's set in Victorian England and has some steampunk mixed in. The series is finished now so you can read them all without interruptions.
the feels were real ;~;
EDIT:: Oh, and I've heard of a lovely book called
Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley.
"Aza Ray is drowning in thin air.
Since she was a baby, Aza has suffered from a mysterious lung disease that makes it ever harder for her to breathe, to speak—to live.
So when Aza catches a glimpse of a ship in the sky, her family chalks it up to a cruel side effect of her medication. But Aza doesn't think this is a hallucination. She can hear someone on the ship calling her name.
Only her best friend, Jason, listens. Jason, who’s always been there. Jason, for whom she might have more-than-friendly feelings. But before Aza can consider that thrilling idea, something goes terribly wrong. Aza is lost to our world—and found, by another. Magonia.
Above the clouds, in a land of trading ships, Aza is not the weak and dying thing she was. In Magonia, she can breathe for the first time. Better, she has immense power—and as she navigates her new life, she discovers that war is coming. Magonia and Earth are on the cusp of a reckoning. And in Aza’s hands lies the fate of the whole of humanity—including the boy who loves her. Where do her loyalties lie?"
