![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Twenties era book recs
Oct. 14th, 2012 06:02 pmIf you are in the mood for some seriously creepy YA set in the 1920's in New York, check out Libba Bray's The Diviners. (Be careful not to get the wrong The Diviners, for if you end up with Margaret Laurence instead, you are in for rather a different reading experience of the classic Can Lit variety.) It IS the start of a series, but the first one is reasonably satisfying and more of the intriguing sort of future possibilities ending rather than a giant cliffhanger.
If you would rather a period detective sort of story, I am enamored lately of the Phryne Fisher books. It is set in 1920's Melbourne, and is about a glamorous lady detective who dashed about, solving murders and sleeping with pretty young men. A tip for those of you in Alberta--your local public library should have all nineteen books as ebooks, via the slightly fiddly Freading ebook database, due to the magic of province-wide consortia licensing. Out of province types, you might have it too if your library subscribes, or in print, but I can't say for sure... I am not usually a big mystery reader, but I'm thoroughly enjoying them. There's also a thirteen episode TV series adaptation that's full of fabulous costumes and what, after the first five episodes, looks to be like an additional spin added in the form of an overarching plot.
If you would rather a period detective sort of story, I am enamored lately of the Phryne Fisher books. It is set in 1920's Melbourne, and is about a glamorous lady detective who dashed about, solving murders and sleeping with pretty young men. A tip for those of you in Alberta--your local public library should have all nineteen books as ebooks, via the slightly fiddly Freading ebook database, due to the magic of province-wide consortia licensing. Out of province types, you might have it too if your library subscribes, or in print, but I can't say for sure... I am not usually a big mystery reader, but I'm thoroughly enjoying them. There's also a thirteen episode TV series adaptation that's full of fabulous costumes and what, after the first five episodes, looks to be like an additional spin added in the form of an overarching plot.
