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For all those readers we have curated the list of standalone books that are similar to The Hunger Games: 1. Though The book is a trilogy there are many readers out there who don’t want to commit to a series of books and are more interested in standalone novels. The lovers of These books highly recommend these books for the readers who thoroughly enjoyed the trilogy. Each one is unique in itself and provides you with totally different storylines. *pun intended*įollowing is the list of books and series that are similar to The Hunger Games. For readers who are a major fantasy fan, these books work like magic. Now what? Well, you can read numerous other books written in the same genre and around the same theme. Well, you have read The Hunger Games and watched the movie too. With the launch of two strong female leads to the fore, these books have impressed a lot of readers. Though there is a conflict over who started the YA Dystopian fiction between Divergent and the Hunger Games it is safe to say that The Hunger Games definitely has a wider fan following. The book series has ruled the hearts of fantasy and magic lovers for years and when it got adapted into a movie starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, and Liam Hemsworth, the fan base has only extended and there has been a significant amount of increment in people loving this book. Hunger Games undoubtedly has a huge fan base across the globe and the reason is pretty obvious. Speaking of, Kaltain Rompier at the end of QOS was more badass than anybody I’ve read about before. We follow her weeks after the events of the last book: Elide’s on her way north to find her lost queen-and to also find Celaena Sardothien (she does not know yet that her two quests were one and the same) so that Elide might repay the life debt she owed to Kaltain Rompier. Part One: The Fire-Bringer starts out with Elide Lochan’s pov. Kaltain, Sorrel, Asterin, Manon, Elide, Aelin, Lysandra, Nehemia (!!!), Nesryn and Sorscha. “Because for Terrasen, for Erilea, Elena would walk into the eternal darkness lurking across the valley to buy them all a chance.”Īnd speaking of incredible females, I love this piece of fanart: Source She’s one of my favorites from this series and getting to read more about her after all this time was just a truly epic beginning. Right from the start, we get to hear from Elena Galathynius, which, finally. She handled the situations she put my favorite witches through with excellence. Initially, I was dreading this sequel because there was just so much that could go completely wrong, but Sarah J. It was unexpectedly relieving to slip back into this world. “The world will be saved and remade by the dreamers.” Meanwhile, Miss Mabel Chiltern, Sir Robert's lovely younger sister, has desires and ambitions of her own. Goring knows the lady of old and plots to help his friend. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. After Earnest, it is his most popularly produced play. "Sooner or later," Wilde notes, "we shall all have to pay for what we do." But he adds that, "No one should be entirely judged by their past." Together with The Importance of Being Earnest, it is often considered Wilde's dramatic masterpiece. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place over the course of twenty-four hours. An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. If I hadn’t been already intrigued by its premise, I would have still picked this up based on the cover alone. I have one thing to admit – I adore Furyborn’s cover. (via Goodreads I received an eARC of Furyborn via Netgalley, courtesy of Sourcebooks Fire, in exchange for an honest review. To find her, Eliana joins a rebel captain on a dangerous mission and discovers that the evil at the heart of the empire is more terrible than she ever imagined.Īs Rielle and Eliana fight in a cosmic war that spans millennia, their stories intersect, and the shocking connections between them ultimately determine the fate of their world–and of each other. Now, she believes herself untouchable–until her mother vanishes without a trace, along with countless other women in their city. When the Undying Empire conquered her kingdom, she embraced violence to keep her family alive. If she fails, she will be executed…unless the trials kill her first.Ī thousand years later, the legend of Queen Rielle is a mere fairy tale to bounty hunter Eliana Ferracora. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven trials to test her magic. The only people who should possess this extraordinary power are a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light and salvation and a queen of blood and destruction. When assassins ambush her best friend, the crown prince, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing her ability to perform all seven kinds of elemental magic in Furyborn. Dana not only experiences the cruelties of slavery on her skin but also grimly learns to accept it as a condition of her own existence in the present. Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer, Butler takes one of speculative fiction’s oldest tropes and infuses it with lasting depth and power. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul-crushing normalization of savagery, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that she may one day be born. My left arm.” Dana’s torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner’s plantation. Download Kindred Book in PDF, Epub and Kindleįrom the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. This second book covers the major historic events of World War II, the Spanish Civil War, and the development of nuclear weapons. The book follows the transnational adventures of five families through the twentieth century, beginning where Fall of Giants left off with National Socialism rising after the chaos of World War I in Europe. The third and final book of the trilogy, Edge of Eternity, came out in 2014. Published in 2012 by Dutton Penguin, following the critically acclaimed first book Fall of Giants, Winter of the World debuted number one on The New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list. Winter of the World is the second book in Welsh author Ken Follett’s The Century Trilogy, a collection of three epic works of historical fiction. Armed with this material, I blundered in, without any reservations about my minimal philosophical training, comparing the novels to the philosophy, reading the philosophy through the novels, and extrapolating her beliefs about the ethics of fiction from her interviews, in a way which I later, after reading more and meeting more philosophers, began to think was unwise and probably presumptuous. So, in 1996, I read all Murdoch’s novels and all the philosophy I could get my hands on, and collected dozens of interviews (some of which I later compiled into a book). My aim was to look at how these authors’ decisions about formal and technical matters like plotting, point of view and voice are linked with solutions to the ethical questions they identified in their work. My PhD thesis, which I completed in 2000, was titled Courage and Truthfulness: Ethical Strategies and the Creative Process in the Novels of Iris Murdoch, Doris Lessing and V.S. “It is always a significant question to ask about any philosopher: what is he afraid of?” - Iris Murdoch, Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (1992). As they navigate their uneasy relationship-brought about by Khai’s meddling mother (because, of course)-they slowly begin to know one another, and end up discovering themselves in the process. Khai is a highly successful Californian who believes he’s incapable of feeling love for anyone. Well, get excited, because Hoang has done it again! The Bride Test, like its predecessor, will make you blush, think, and smile again and again, as it proves just how complex, insightful, and current a romance novel can be.Įsme is an immigrant from Vietnam, who is desperately trying to build a better life for her young daughter and herself. Like so many others, I fell in love with Helen Hoang’s writing while reading her first book, The Kiss Quotient, so I had high hopes for The Bride Test. More incidents occur and Linnett is found murdered in the morning shot in the head and her string of pearls missing. Poirot declines being maid and tries to convince Jacqueline de Bellefort to stop hounding Ridgeway but ultimately fails.Ī life-threatening situation leaves Linnet in shock and Jacquelineas the suspect. She wants to hire Poirot and have him prevent her stalker from stalking her. While on the steamer, Poirot is approached by Linnet Doyle nee Ridgeway, a successful socialite. Hercule Poirot is on holiday and on board a steamer that is touring the Nile River. Keep reading for a short summary of the novel and why this mystery novel demands to be read! Death on the Nile Summary Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile is an action-packed mystery novel that includes all of the best features of a Christie novel. A murder mystery that takes place on the Nile River is what we will be reviewing today. |