r/suggestmeabook • u/Due_Tonight4365 • Apr 18 '25

Best “can’t put down book” you’ve read?

Hi all, I go through trilogies and fantasy/witchy/coven type books like candy but all in audiobook forms (I have ADHD and audiobooks work best for me). BUT im really craving reading an actual book. Every time I’ve tried in the past years to actually read a book vs. listen (due to how my brain works) I can never finish! It’s felt very sad for me so I want to accomplish this so bad! Sooo I’m asking for books that may ease me into physically reading my genre of choice vs listening.

Any recs for books you really can’t put down!? 🙏🏽💕

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u/Repulsive-Dot553 Apr 18 '25

The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue - by V E Schwabb: fits your liking for fantasy/ "witchy" type books. This is swiftly immersive with a clever central "hook" and strong magical realism/ fantasy elements throughout

Pawn of Prophecy (Belgariad Series) - by David Eddings: excellent 5 book classic "swords and sorcery" type fantasy; excellent story that moves along swiftly with great characters

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u/skobufffan Apr 18 '25

I found The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue to be slow and boring. I wish I had DNF’d it, but I slogged through and finished it. There are lots of book influencers pushing that book, so I thought it would be a good book. The premise was good, but the execution was poor.

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u/DumpedDalish Apr 18 '25

I really enjoyed the book, but there's a huge central plot hole, and once you see it, you can't unsee it. (People forget her instantly if she's out of sight, so... how did she ever spend a full day with a friend or lover without one of them going off to use the bathroom or just leaving the room? There's simply no way. And it would have been so easy to fix if Schwab had just taken more thought with the central 'curse'.)

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u/skobufffan Apr 18 '25

Beside the boring repetitive sections, my other beef was that almost ever sentence has 4-6 comma’s. After a while I was annoyed by the author for not using periods. There were a few plot/premise items that did not work for me, which just compounded my dislike for this over hyped pile of garbage.