First of all let me explain a bit about this tag in case you don’t know about it. It’s a tag created by Samantha from Toughts on Tomes and Lainey from Ginger Reads Lainey and is a weekly book meme were a topic or theme is chosen and each week you have to choose five books/series/tvshows that fit the description. If you want to check it out here’s the Goodreads group.
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#T5W: Books That Aren’t Set In/Inspired By The Western World
“I know this is a long title, but I couldn’t figure out how else to word it and still get the point across. Talk about books that are set outside of the Western World (so outside of North America and Western Europe) or if they are SFF, books that aren’t inspired by those places (so no medieval setting fantasy!)”
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Long title, but message clearly received! That’s one thing, the other thing… if we take the western world out, technically not only North America but America in itself, western Europe and I am guessing also Western Africa and I am left pretty much empty. I can only think about a book set in Russia and I would guess that’s it! Unless some minor Aussie action counts too.
Without further ado, here are my picks for this week (in no particular other):
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1. Blood Promise (Vampire Academy #4) by Richelle Mead: This one, doesn’t have as much action as you might expect, but certainly does have much more drama. The truth is with all of that in this one we take a long overdue trip through the most remote Russia, and I LOVED it! It made the whole story and the series escalate another level, at least for me. It certainly made me want to travel to that remote Siberia like crazy!!
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2. The One by John Marrs: I am taking things with pins. This is narrated by 5 different people and although most of the storylines take place in England, one of them crosses to Australia and develops from a story I didn’t care for to a story I feel for. I would have liked this story to have been more present especially the Aussie ranch and lifestyle side of it. That part brought me a lot of peace, especially comparing it to the other stories.
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3. The Grishaverse by Leigh Bardugo: I don’t know if this actually counts… It’s fantasy , medieval but also more inclined to the Russian archetips than to the western world so I guess you could count these series in. Certainly the Russians vibes were all over the place and not only when talking about the names.
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4. Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson: Ok, I haven’t read these yet (but finally acquired them
