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Hm, well, I love Fawkes by Nadine Brandes and The Princess Companion by Melanie Cellier.

Oh, I think the concept of GLORIOUS books (not necessarily objectively wonderful in every way but they wowed you too much not to love) is so interesting. A few for me (trying to exclude obvious ones that I also don’t think have many flaws, like LOTR or The Perilous Gard or Every Queen’s Thief Book That Exists lol):

-Spinning Silver
-Mistborn
-Code Name Verity
-Reilly’s Luck (also The Daybreakers, except I don’t really think that one has flaws so it doesn’t belong in this list :P)
-Silver Canyon
-Neither Five Nor Three
-the Ashtown Burials series (esp. books 2&3)
-The Man Who Was Thursday

That's a great question! I just finished Spindle by W.R. Gingell and it was pretty glorious! Not quite a five star read but SO MUCH FUN. You'd love it!

Katherine wrote: "Hm, well, I love Fawkes by Nadine Brandes and The Princess Companion by Melanie Cellier."

Thank you, Katherine! I've a hardcopy of Fawkes but never really got into it enough to make much headway at the time ^_^ will try again!

Have heard a lot of good stuff about Cellier as well. I think I have a couple of her books saved onto Kindle and Chirp audio =) Thank you for the recs!!

Rebecca wrote: "Oh, I think the concept of GLORIOUS books (not necessarily objectively wonderful in every way but they wowed you too much not to love) is so interesting. A few for me (trying to exclude obvious one..."

- I'm a HUGE Louis L'Amour fan. So yeah. Reilly's Luck and The Daybreakers and I also **really liked the trilogy feat. Kilkenny. :D
Silver Canyon also sounds familiar. I really SHOULD binge-re-read all of his stuffff

- Novak is already on my tbr. (not terribly high right now, because my tbr is toppling over hehe but yeah, it's up there ;)

- LOVED Mistborn.

- Code Name Verity has NO EQUAL in WWII war hist. fiction, imao ;)

- After reading those ND Wilson quotes and posting them up on my wall, yeah. He's also on my tbr.

- I both enjoyed and was confused by The Man Who Was Thursday, (as well as The Napoleon of Notting Hill, which I read at the same time since they were compiled in one volumn). I *probably should reread this one to gauge my ... um, older self's thoughts now xD

- Haven't heard of Neither Five Nor Three...? but I can say rn that the title SLAYYY



You really do always give me the best rec's. This Mllm. Tomato bows in thanks (or, rather, ROLLS across the table towards you, however you want to say it lol).

Elizabeth wrote: "That's a great question! I just finished Spindle by W.R. Gingell and it was pretty glorious! Not quite a five star read but SO MUCH FUN. You'd love it!"

Thanks, Elizabeth! I was absolutely awestruck by her City Between books, and I own the Two Monarchies series... but, being a mood reader AND short on time at the moment, I haven't read those yet. Many readers, Rebecca above included ;), have specifically rec'd Spindle to me as well.

Rebecca wrote: "Oh, I think the concept of GLORIOUS books (not necessarily objectively wonderful in every way but they wowed you too much not to love) is so interesting. A few for me (trying to exclude obvious one..."

@Rebecca:
PS -- I forgot to mention that Sitka, The Lonesome Gods, The Haunted Mesa, and The Last Half Breed are also my favorites (along with all the other longer novels I've read from him, but those are the ones that popped up to my mind ;)

CC wrote: "Rebecca wrote: "Oh, I think the concept of GLORIOUS books (not necessarily objectively wonderful in every way but they wowed you too much not to love) is so interesting. A few for me (trying to exc..."

Okay, Neither Five Nor Three is a Helen MacInnes novel. It's basically Communists in NYC in the 1950s? One main character is dating a guy who's moving up in the Communist Party (she doesn't know about that part of his life), and the other main character is her old flame, just back from Europe (he stayed in the Army after WW2 doing various stuff) and worried about her and also troubled to see how his city has changed and gone on from the war and just...it's such a fascinating look at the time, besides being a story that gripped me. I agree, the title is AMAZING. MacInnes's ability to quote Housman at the exact right time is uncanny. ;)

And ooohhh The Lonesome Gods!! I actually own that one. Ever since doing Tucker for the podcast, I've been in a huge L'Amour mood and have been meaning to read that one. It has become priority #1 now that I know it's a favorite of yours.

(And yes! Read Spindle! XD)

Rebecca wrote: "CC wrote: "Rebecca wrote: "Oh, I think the concept of GLORIOUS books (not necessarily objectively wonderful in every way but they wowed you too much not to love) is so interesting. A few for me (tr..."

O.O Okay. I'm SOLD on it. xD (really, though, any Cold War spy story that's well done/smart gets me haha)

Nice! I'm lucky to have family who owns almost all of his books. <33 It's EPIC. (And imao, The Lonesome Dove doesn't hold a candle to any of L'Amour's stories. period.)

(absolutely!!)