Books To Read If You Love A Shocking Plot Twist. Here’s the thing: I read a lot of books. From Russia with Love Jill Stein Is Starting to Sound a Lot Like Donald Trump.After my cats, my. Starbucks barista who compliments my jacket — the. I order my noontime iced green tea, I. So needless to say, nine. I’m able to detect a good plot twist as it’s approaching; and most. I have some pretty reliable suspicions about where that literary detour. Don’t get me wrong — I love a book with a good plot twist as. RJ – thanks for your comment. I hope more people read them too, this is one of the reasons I wrote this spoiler free, so those who haven’t read them could listen. Here’s the thing: I read a lot of books. After my cats, my fave yoga instructor, and the Starbucks barista who compliments my jacket — the exact same one. It’s just that books don’t always surprise me as much. So, when a book does surprise me with a. I’m talking staying up all night to read even. I have to do things like go to work, run errands, and take my cat to the. Was there any part of you that was like, “We need to send the message that even though this is Season. Love, Timeless Information, Love, Timeless Reviews, Synonyms: Zhong Lou Ai Ren;. If you’re not caught up, make like the Girl of Steel and keep on flying. I totally love it. If you’re a sucker for a good plot twist, this list is for. Here are 1. 5 books to read if you love a shocking plot twist. Gone Girl by. Gillian Flynn. When Nick Dunne’s wife Amy disappears before their fifth. Nick. From Nick’s lies to his family, the media, and the police, to the. Amy’s diary, Gone. Girl will have you tangled up in one unexpected plot twist after another in. Featuring less of a plot twist than a surprise ending — because. Pacific Ocean, the opportunities. Life. of Pi is the perfect book if you’re the type of reader who loves having the. Ethnic and tribal tensions reign during the last years of. Afghan monarchy, when The Kite Runner’s. Amir and Hassan find their friendship is threatened by more. After Amir, who is a member of the ruling caste. Hassan unforgettably and unforgivably, he discovers — through one. Though not written with the pace of, say, a shock- filled thriller, The Dive from Clausen’s Pier is still rife with unexpected twists and a quiet storm of surprises. When 2. 3- year- old Carrie. Bell decides it’s time to change her life — by moving from her predictable Wisconsin. Clausen’s pier will change her plans forever. Just be warned: You’ll. Fight Club by. Chuck Palahniuk. If you’re like me and the thought of someone so much as. Fight Club — is the totally trippy plot. You might just have to find out yourself. Complete with several plot twists even I didn’t see. The title of We Were. Liars alone might lead you to suspect that this book has a few plot twists. The amnesia- afflicted Cadence Sinclair is the kind of unreliable narrator who will drive this novel’s suspense and have you. And her friends — liars — will have you wondering if you. And then end, well. You’ll just have to wait and see. Another novel with a quiet storm of plot twists — yes. The Book. of Unknown Americansmeets a Mexican family who has come to the United. States in order to provide their disabled daughter, Maribel, the educational. Mexico. But life in the United. States is more challenging than this family expected, and they have to learn to. It’s hard to write a good plot twist into a nonfiction. John Berendt has done just that in Midnight in the Garden of Good an Evil — a retelling of a. Savannah, Georgia, and the aftereffects that rocked. Lou Clark doesn’t like the unexpected, so it’s too bad she. Jojo Moyes novel, Me. Before You, where it’s all about encountering the unexpected. When one of. those surprises includes Will Traynor, who is grappling with the effects of a life- altering. Warning: Sometimes. Dolores Price is 1. Unfortunately, life has other. The twists and turns that Dolores’s coming- of- age story takes. You’ll be rooting Dolores on through every unexpected challenge. She’s Come Undone. Even as a non YA- reader — and especially a. YA- reader (I know, you hate me) I admit to. James Dashner’s The Maze Runner. This novel, which follows a group of memory- less. What is it about YA- novels and their unexpected plot twists? Looking for Alaska reminds readers. Like most teenagers, Anna is just trying to figure out who she. But there’s a problem: She’s always. Kate, who has suffered from leukemia her entire. And there’s an even bigger problem: Anna's life was never meant to be about. My Sister’s. Keeper is all about the hard turns some families must take together. Bernadette Fox is losing her mind — or is she actually the. Where’d You. Go Bernadette centers around this question, and of course also the question. Bernadette went in the first place. Hilarious and frustrating and just. Seattle to Antarctica and back. Image: Johnson d/Flickr. The Queen's Thief by Megan Whalen Turner . I read three to four books every week, sometimes more. I am very careful with what I choose to read which means that most of the books I read, I end up enjoying at least to some degree. But it is rare, extremely rare, to read a book that falls in that category of Books for Life. You know the ones: those that take over your heart and your mind, that even when you are reading you know that you are experiencing something unique, a connection with a story and its characters (that only serial readers can understand); those that you know will remain with you, forever. I experienced such rapture when I read The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss earlier in the year, and to my utter surprise and delight, again a few weeks ago when I finally read The Queen’s Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner. This series came under my radar only recently when Angie from Angieville started to blog about the books with not a little amount of excitement. From then on, I started to see more and more people talking about them with such fervor that I thought I should give them a try. And, HOLY GUACAMOLE. I am totally, irrevocably, head over heels in love with this series. I knew I would have to review these books eventually, I had hoped to do so during this YA Month but I also realised that I had a decision to make: I could either review each book in the series separately or I could review the series as whole. The former would naturally lead to spoilers being revealed and since these books cannot, should not be spoiled, I opted for the latter by writing an overall review of the series, spoiler free. This is what I am trying to do here – although I am fully aware that so far, I only managed to basically behave like a fan- girl. But it cannot be helped. I now completely understand the fervor, the excitement that this series inspire. As I was reading the books, as the pages were being turned I had only one thought in mind: this is why I read. THIS is why I read. THIS IS WHY I READ. And it all comes down to one word: Eugenides. Gen, Eugenides is a thief. He boasts that he can steal anything. That lands him in the King of Sounis’ prison where he spends a couple of months until he is offered, by the King’s Magus, his freedom but in return he has to steal something that people don’t even think really exists. This is how the whole thing opens, in The Thief and we are told about this expedition in search of the Gift, by Gen himself, a humorous narrator of this dashing adventure across the neighbouring countries of Sounis, Eddis and Attolia. This person, this ragamuffin, lazy, starved boy – can he really steal anything? But you see, Gen is extremely clever, a fact which the reader and his companions in the first adventure, come to slowly realise. Close to the end of that book, we learn something that is crucial to the entire series – that Gen is actually cleverer than anyone else. And there is something else too, something that makes him important. But that doesn’t matter to us here and now, because what really matters is how amazing Gen is. By the end of book 1, it is impossible not to like the guy or his “voice”. Then book 2 starts, and shock of the shocks. Gen is no longer the narrator – the narrative has shifted to third person with Gen’s, the Queen of Eddis’ and the Queen of Attolia’s Po. V. At first, it is almost painful to lose Gen’s narration but then somewhere in the middle of the reading it hits you with a certainty: OF COURSE the narrative has to change. Because this is a different book. It is still the same story but progress has been made. Because now, the destiny of countries is at stake, war is brewing in the horizon between Attolia, Eddis and Sounis. This is a more sophisticated book, it has political discussion , political intrigue, it discusses the role that the Gods play in the fate of men and nations. In the beginning of the series, Gen is a boy. A cocky, impetuous, adventurous, conniving boy. When book 2 starts, something terrible happens (did I say shock of the shocks before? Well, this is even more shocking) that shapes the man Eugenides becomes. A man who has now to steal more than a simple object: he is tasked to steal a man, a woman and peace. The way he does it, takes us back to more twists like in the first book. And we, once again, are surprised by how clever Eugenides is. Even if we expect it by now. Then book 3 starts. Once again, a shock. The book is entirely from the point of view of a character we never saw before. As the book progresses, the certainty hits once more: OF COURSE the narrative has to change. Because this time, this time we KNOW how clever Gen is. But no one else does. Including Costis, the narrator, a member of the Queen of Attolia’s Guard who commits the mistake of underestimating Eugenides. And this is the genius of Megan Whalen Turner because in book 3, we, the readers, are Eugenides’s accomplices. We sit back and wait for the coin to drop for everybody else as it has dropped for us in books 1 and 2. This is about pay- off, about Eugenides stealing respect and a kingdom. And what a story this is. This is a series of books that have deep meanings, hidden clues throughout the story. Where everything matters from the type of clothes someone wears, to the reason behind a pair of earrings being worn at a particular right time, to the declaration of love that the raising of one’s eyebrow is. And speaking of love: there is also romance in these books. It starts towards the middle of book 2 and it takes centre stage in book 3. But not in it a blatant way: the romance is subtle, almost private (especially in book 3) and I am not exaggerating when I say it is the most amazing romance I have read of late. It is unexpected and it is unusual. For starters, Eugenides is shorter and younger than the person he loves. But she is everything he ever wanted and he is everything she ever needed. Because of that, their dynamic is simply awesome and there is no other word for it. And what Eugenides is to his lady is aw- worthy at the same time that it is powerful. This is good stuff, plain and simple. To sum up: I was lost in the world of Attolia and Eddis and I did not want to get away from it. I would be remiss if I didn’t say one last thing: that the female characters in the series are extremely capable, intelligent, strong, and I admired both of then, the two Queens, as different as they were in their personalities, immensely. If you like unreliable narrators, cons, plot twists, political intrigue, character development, mythology, stories within stories, strong female characters and heart- warming romance and above all, a male protagonist that is all kinds of awesome, you should look no further than this series. It is not a perfect series by any means – there is change in pacing from one book to another, and the first book is clearly for a younger audience than the other two books. This is why, in my opinion, they should be read as a collection of books and not individually. I still love them though, flaws and all. At the end of book three, Eugenides has stolen: a gift; a man; a woman; peace; a kindgom. He has also stolen my heart. I still think you should find them out by yourself by reading the books, but if you want to know more you can read these reviews: Angieville’s: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia. One last word: book 4 in the series, A Conspiracy of Kings is coming out in 2. It is safe to say it my most anticipated book for 2. The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. Now you will have to excuse me, because writing this made me want to read these books all over again.
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