…Book With A Green Cover
Guys, I can’t tell you how ecstatic I was when Shanyn from Chick Loves Lit announced that she was starting this awesome meme. Recommend A… is finally giving me the chance to cater to my inner nerd for specificity and randomness!! AND I LOVE IT. So props to Shanyn, who is fab for starting this up. I’m looking forward to giving some attention to books that might have missed everyone’s radar for one reason or another. Woo hoo!
The Lost Conspiracy by Frances Hardinge. This book has a green cover because it takes place in a JUNGLE! Holla! But seriously, this is one of the better, cleverer, more imaginative, completely unique fantasies I can remember reading, all because Frances Hardinge did something that I almost never see: set a fantasy world in a steamy, lush, dangerous tropical jungle. The result is pretty effing awesome. I wouldn’t recommend this to people who don’t usually like fantasy or who are just dipping their toe because it’s pretty in depth and sometimes hard to follow. But still, AWESOME.
Fablehaven: Fablehaven #1 by Brandon Mull. Keeping it with the fantasies this week! FABLEHAVEN is the incredibly solid beginning to one of my favorite middle grade series about secret magical preserves that safeguard fairies and other magical creatures good and evil, until the shizz hits the fan. Conspiracies, lies, traitors, and dangers lurk at every turn as siblings Kendra and Seth must try to save everything they know, and the people they love, from the bad guys. SO. STINKING. GOOD.
Steve has almost read those Brandon Mull books a few times! I had no solid recommendations that I could offer him, but it looks like now I do 🙂 Thanks for participating again, so glad to have your enthusiasm!!
Oh he totally should!! They’re so fun. Definitely MG, though, in case that’s not usually his thing. But they’re great. I like the Fablehaven books just a little bit better than Brandon Mull’s next series, The Beyonders, too. Just a little bit. Those are more traditional fantasy, and good as well. Yay Steve!
And I LOVE participating! So much fun, and such a great idea 🙂
These are some great recommendations and I love the covers! I haven’t read either of these but I’ll have to look into them as I do like to dive into the fantasy realm at times. Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Here’s my Recommend A… post!
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Wendy @ Escape Into Fiction
Hi Wendy!! Thanks for stopping by, new friend! I hope you get a chance to read these two on one of your fantasy adventures. They’re both super. YAY!! 🙂
The Lost Conspiracy looks so Fern Gullyish! Awesome.
My students LOVE Fablehaven but I have yet to pick them up. I actually haven’t heard of The Lost Conspiracy but it looks pretty sweet, I might have to delve in!
I loved Fablehaven. I need to finish the series — I have only read the first two books but I hear they get better and better!
I read Fablehaven a couple years ago, and really liked it. I have never heard of the first one though but it looks and sounds good. Great green cover picks!
I have never heard of either one. The first one make me thing of Fern Gully—that’s a good thing.
Safari Poet
Both of these sound awesome! I love this new meme too. It’s giving me the chance to recommend books that I haven’t had the chance to talk about on the blog yet! Off to go look these books up on goodreads..
Damn you! I am not familiar with EITHER of these, and they both look AWESOME.
Btw it just took me 10 tries to successfully type awesome so if I’m found dead of a stroke you shouldn’t be surprised.
This meme is awesome and I am hopping on. Because my blog doesn’t have enough weekly memes yet O_o
Ohhh this meme sounds really cool…*goes to check it out*