The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Gathering

Robin Brown ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Story/Plot 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By C. J. Tudor ,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked The Gathering as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

THE BESTSELLING QUEEN OF HORROR TURNS HER HAND TO VAMPIRES . . .

WELCOME TO DEADHART. ALASKA. POPULATION 673. LIVING.
'Britain's female Stephen King' Daily Mail
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A boy is found with his throat ripped out,
the blood drained from his body. It's not the first
such killing, and the town knows who to blame:
the vampyr colony in the mountains.

But out-of-state detective Barbara Atkins think the evidence
doesn't stack up. People are lying.
And Deadhart has a history of dark secrets.

The snow keeps falling, but so do the victims.
Time is running out for Barbara.
Is she…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Ring

Robin Brown ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Story/Plot 🥈 Originality
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Koji Suzuki , Robert B. Rohmer (translator) , Glynne Walley (translator)

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked Ring as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Stunning Japanese thriller with a chilling supernatural twist. The novel that inspired the cult Japanese movie and the Hollywood blockbuster of the same name.

Asakawa is a hardworking journalist who has climbed his way up from local-news beat reporter to writer for his newspaper's weekly magazine. A chronic workaholic, he doesn't take much notice when his seventeen-year-old niece dies suddenly - until a chance conversation reveals that another healthy teenager died at exactly the same time, in chillingly similar circumstances.

Sensing a story, Asakawa begins to investigate, and soon discovers that this strange simultaneous sudden-death syndrome also affected another two…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Foundling

Robin Brown ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Immersion
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Stacey Halls , Patrick Knowles (illustrator) , Lucy Rose Cartwright (illustrator)

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked The Foundling as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The captivating Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Familiars

Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything . . .

London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known. Dreading the worst, that Clara has died in care, Bess is astonished to be told she has already claimed her. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has taken her little girl - and why.

Less than a mile from Bess's lodgings…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Vampire Metropolis

By Robin Brown ,

Book cover of Vampire Metropolis

What is my book about?

Hi, I’m Caiden, I look nineteen but I’m actually a two-hundred-year-old vampire… and I’ve just been kicked out of a plane and dropped into a walled-off prison city for the world’s fantasy creatures. Welcome to Vampire City! A sprawling metropolis of segregated boroughs, desperate poverty and tyrannical vampire overlords who feed upon their lowly subjects to lay claim to them.

In my time here, I’ll work with a courageous leader of rag tag elves, an ambitious warrior vampire looking to climb the hierarchy, street-wise goblins only after a quick buck, a hapless halfling who has found themselves up a certain creek without a certain paddle, and finally a young and headstrong vampire girl called Alma, who doesn’t feel like a vampire, and who incredibly can’t be fed upon by those tyrannical vampire overlords I mentioned earlier.

She might just be the key to changing this modern, run-down, unjust and cruel metropolis into a better place for everyone. Or she might not. Depends on what I do next, I suppose.

Book cover of The Gathering
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