Feb. 11th, 2014

books: a list

Feb. 11th, 2014 11:28 am
muladhara: (reading)
Right, I am after books with male points of view, preferably YA.

So I've accrued myself a list so far (some of these are YA, some are adult), and this is what I've got:

- Easy - Tammara Webber (apparently this is awful)
- What I Was - Meg Rosoff
- Beastly - Alex Flinn
- Beautiful Creatures - Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
- Night's Kiss - Amanda Ashley (vampires!)
- Dead To Me - Anton Strout (apparently this is terrible, and a knock-off of Harry Dresden. Which I didn't like, but hey ho. If it is a bad book I will read it, because apparently that's a thing I do)
- Nightlife - Rob Thurman
- The Fallen - Thomas E. Sneigoski (apparently this is also terrible but has angels, so IDK?)
- Among The Living - Jordan Castillo Price (this has a gay protag and his boyfriend)
- Something Like Normal - Trish Doller
- The Secret Year - Jennifer Hubbard
- Beautiful Disaster - Jamie McGuire (apparently this is awful AND the worst book ever. It's only on the list because I thought we owned it, but it seems we don't) (and actually it's the sequel - Walking Disaster - that's from the male POV, not this one BUT ANYWAY).
- Personal Effects - E.M. Kokie (this will allegedly make me cry)

I know nothing about any of these, except for what I read on Goodreads. Who tell me four of these books are awful (the one they all loved, I had no desire to read). And that Beautiful Disaster is the worst book ever (and boy can the author wank up a storm defending her point of view - she seems to be a proponent of Laurell K. Hamilton's mantra: "if you don't like it, don't read it.")

If you have any recs I can add to the list, that would be aces! (They don't have to be YA, and they most certainly don't have to be Urban Fantasy / Paranormal Romance (which some of the above are, some of them aren't. Though I think the ones that aren't are in the minority).

I'm going to the library in a bit. This could be really good, or it could be really bad.

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