The DU Lounge

… and because I’m poor, I tend to lean toward freebie book lists. I’ll read Tolkien endlessly but will also do mysteries, sci-fi, even silly romance crap (prefer historical but will stoop to anything from modern crap to ridiculous alien hookups). Have stumbled into lots of surprisingly good stuff but off the top of my head, one of my faves is a series (or all of them) by Wendy Vella. Her Sinclair and Raven series (two odd families bound together by extrasensory abilities—in Regency-era England) is fun, often hysterical, and always fascinating. Sometimes, I have to just go with whatever’s free but there are quite a few authors that really make my day.

Biggest disappointment: Game of Thrones. Gods, that drug out so horribly that I couldn’t even care enough to finish the series. So much repetition and dragging out the story… Even worse than the way Robert Jordan floundered around with Wheel of Time—which was only salvaged because he died and Brandon Sanderson had to finish the last two books--which was soooo good, I’m also a Brandon Sanderson fan forevermore. Add any and all Sanderson series to my all-time faves—from Mistborn to even his YA books.