Me, Complaining: My Favorite Murderer Was Murdered

Me, complaining: My favorite murderer was murdered—

Anyone else who doesn't know probably: So? How is that a valid complaint?

Me: He partly deserved it, but also, he had redeeming qualities and I loved seeing him be terrible! That was the point!

Got any book recs? Not a specific genre or anything, just some of your favorites.

Most of these are YA and middle grade fiction. I probably suffer from nostalgia and recency bias in some cases.

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In no particular order:

The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge by Eugene Yelchin and M.T. Anderson

The Someday Birds by Sally J. Pla

Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

The Penderwicks series Jeanne Birdsall

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty

The Land of Stories series by Chris Colfer

A Tale of Magic prequels by Chris Colfer

Dead Wednesday by Jerry Spinelli

The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict by Trenton Lee Stewart

The Glittering Court by Richelle Mead

The Line Tender by Kate Allen

The Siren by Kiera Cass

Divergent series by Veronica Roth

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Valkyrie by Kate O'Hearn

Texting the Underworld by Ellen Booraem

The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee

Grounded: The Adventures of Rapunzel by Megan Morrison

The Princess Tales series by Gail Carson Levine

The Thirteenth Goldfish duology by Jennifer L. Holm

The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin

The Don Tillman trilogy by Graeme Simsion

The World Ends in April by Stacy McAnulty

The Next-Great Paulie Fink by Ali Benjamin

Counting by 7’s by Holly Goldberg Sloan

A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass

Any classic fairy tales

Anything written by Roald Dahl

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

Quiet by Susan Cain

Best parts of your day?

Reading and/or writing, usually. They keep me sane. /hj

I swear Rafal is the most versatile character. He can be the savior, victim, autocrat, and prisoner through it all and I wouldn't bat an eye as long as he's characterized accurately.

Disregarding the Fall identity retcon for a moment—I was or likely still am the most cowardly person upon this earth and have never watched horror films, so how did my brain decide that the literal necromancer in SGE would be my favorite character? I mean, the irony?

The accent color on your page is green. So I’m Wondering if that’s a TLEA green or Rafal’s Eyes green?

TLEA green. I believe I must've been thinking about the fairy lights of the cover. Also, I liked the color before I started to associate it with Fall Rafal's eyes—it just happened to be yet another thing that went to him because, er, symbolism purposes? (For instance, with birds, I always loved them when I was younger, my interest waned for some stretch of time, and then, I started to observe them in the context of The Bird Motif, and that jump-started, nay resurrected, some resurgence of my old interest in them again. His fault. No longer surprised. I'm likely becoming predictably transparent, even to other people, if not myself, ofc.)