Some Books I Recommend

With time on our hands right now I thought I would share some of my recent favourite books that I highly recommend. Most of these books are part of a series so this list shall keep you busy for the foreseeable future.

1. Wolf by Wolf

This is a book I read many years ago, and still I hold it near the top of my favourite books. Based in the year 1956 under the rule of the Third Riech and Imperial Japan Rule. A victorious Hitler and Emperor Hirohito created an Axis tour, a motorcycle race across the continents. It follows the story of Yael, a former death camp prisoner and part of the resistance, a character I grow to love. She possess five wolf tattoos representative of people she has lost. She is given the task to win the Axis Tour and murder Hitler. Yael is no ordinary girl, she has the ability to skin shift, a side effect of her tortures, giving her the ability to complete her task impersonating last years Axis tour champion, Adele Wolf. People of Adeles past present challenges for Yael as she grows ever closer to her fellow competitors. This book follows her journey in her assassination attempt of Hitler and her struggle to decide what is right for her.

2. Throne of Glass

This series is truly encapsulating and I have a love for Sarah J. Maas' work. It follows the life of a former prisoner in Endovier, 18 year old assassin Celaena Sardonthien. She is offered release by the Prince Dorian, on the condition she is to be his champion, in a contest to find the new royal assassin. Should she win, she will be granted freedom after 4 years service as assassin for the crown. One by one rounds of the contest are completed and one by one contestants end up dead. This book follows Celaena dealing with life outside Endovier and her life in court, amongst deadly situations she finds herself in. This is the first book in a mesmerising series.

3. A Darker Shade of Magic 

Kell is a traveller and the last of his kind, he serves the Maresh Empire as an ambassador, though behind closed doors he is a smuggler moving between Red London and dull Grey London. His luck runs out as a transaction goes awry, he escapes Grey London running into Delilah Bard, a cunning thief. She robs him only to them save his life from a known enemy, in return she wants adventure. Little do the two know, darkness is around the corner as magic is on treacherous grounds.

4. An Ember in the Ashes 

Inspired by Ancient Rome in the Martial Empire, defiance leads to death. Those who do not give themselves to the empire face blood and death. Laia a slave girl, lives in this world, her and her family do not challenge the empire. Though one day her brother is arrested and so things change. In promise of saving her brother Laia promises to spy on the court within the military academy for the rebels. There she meets Elias, a talented, secretly unwilling soldier. He longs to be free just like Laia and so it appears there destinies become intertwined, as they both question the Empires rule.

5. Travellers in the Third Riech

A bit of a different read for me, though I still couldn't put it down. This book describes the history of the rise of the Nazi's to power from first hand accounts of all types of people. These accounts help you relive a three dimensional German world. This book gave me a sense of despair for the people involved as they tell their accounts of what their lives were like in a time so tragic.