i’m about to be on a plane for 18 hours to tokyo. the goal is to sleep through most of those, but at some point I’ll probably wake up at some point. as a result I’m hoping to get some recommendations for some easy, breezy reads that ramp up quickly to distract me from being in a sardine can in the air.
in particular fun sci-fi / fantasy stuff would be nice. minority characters would also be great. recent and old stuff i like:
- red rising
- redwall
- The Avatar F.C. Yee Books
- Cyber Shogun Revolution
- Iron Widow
- Children of Blood and Bone
i don’t care about particular tropes or “trope bundles” as I like to call them and are prevalent in sci-fi / fantasy and especially YA stuff. as long as it’s interesting I’ll read it.
i haven’t gotten to read much in grad school so i have lots to catch up on
How Long 'til Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin [goodreads link] is a collection of speculative sci-fi/fantasy short stories -a few of these were fleshed out into YA novels/series. There is a little bit of everything in there, and while not always breezy, you don’t have to commit a lot of time to get to the interesting bits.