10 Books to End Your Reading Slump [cc]

But it is YA thrillers series about a teenage girl called Pip in the UK, although I think the US editions have the books set in the US as well, who ends up embroiled in solving a cold case related to her hometown. And they are so well plotted, the narrative is so compelling, and there is mystery upon mystery that keeps you turning the pages.

And it is so relatable, that sort of fed up with the world, fed up with humanity state of mind, just wanting to get caught up in a story, to travel to another world that you’re not even a part of and watch the lives of characters unfold. I’m sure it’s something a lot of us are familiar with and may be exactly what you need to read about when you’re in a reading slump.

But for such a short book there are quite a few twists and turns in there which I think is fantastic and it doesn’t take long for you to become very emotionally invested in the characters' lives.

And I love giant days because it again is it in the contemporary world, and it’s a completely contemporary story about three friends to meet in their freshers week at university and their journey as university students together in the UK, in Britain.

One of those that I have read over and over and over again is going postal by Terry Pratchett. Obviously it’s my familiarity with this book that makes it such a good book to end a reading slump for me.

So this is book one in the series and I’m currently listening to the audiobook of book three, absolutely loving it, it’s exactly what I need and I would say that for the series as a whole thus far.

But equally I think these are such unique, interesting retellings of traditional fairy tales that it can become quite consuming, that it becomes very compelling as an entity in itself and there is a loose thread tying each story together which helps make it that whole. Plus absolutely stunning writing and that never hurts.

This is about a young woman in 1800s London who is approaching thirty and she is seen as a bit of a spinster, she is sort of seen as put on the shelf and passed the marriageable age and a little bit dower and uninteresting and uninspiring, which honestly is everybody else problem because she is absolutely phenomenal.

And what is so interesting about this novel was that often I forgot about the coma side plot, I forgot where we were going because I was so absorbed in the moment, I was so fascinated by this family, by these characters and the little mysteries of this book, that it would almost take me aback every time I was reminded that there was this whole other storyline and that for me was very compelling.

Because this is a book when I picked up that I literally find myself cackling from page one and yes I do mean cackling. I only had to read a few paragraphs of this book to find myself laughing out loud.

This is actually quite a chunky novel and it’s quite a dense novel so it may not immediately strike you as something that may be good for a reading slump. But some of us, depending on what kind of reading slump we are currently experiencing, need a dense absorbing epic kind of book that we are just going to spend a lot of time with, that’s really going to wrap it up in it and is not going to be over super quickly.