Amongst many others.

He wrote good omens? ! Interesting I'll have to check it out

Any time!

That's it! The book read as if I already knew the characters.

Audible’s just going off what you have previously bought and/or clicked on. The algorithm won’t change until you start looking and buying other types of books.

So you’re looking for higher stakes but not overly serious in tone, like still with adult themes but with teenage MCs? Dystopian future, no ‘woke’ subject matter? Good worldbuilding, wilful lead?…try Mark Lawrence’s trilogies starting with The Broken Empire trilogy and if you like that, the rest of his trilogies.

It's not new; it's just something that you happen not to have come across before. It's a relatively commonplace technique, although technically tricky to pull off well, not least because each narrator needs to be interesting enough for the reader to spend time with. But books with multiple narrative viewpoints date back to at least The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, published in 1859.

Terry Pratchett?

Cover sounds like Lore by Alexandra Bracken?

Adhd probably

Also that's not my preferred escapism I guess. there's a bigger chance of coming across inappropriate adult content that I don't care to encounter. I don't generally like reading from the mind of an adult. I'm rooting for the people of like the future. Something so cool about I dunno a powerful generation. And there's something earnest about being young naïve but passionate. And more reason for dramatic growth. The weight of becoming adult or facing adult situations in the in between stages of no longer being a child and starting to become an young adult. It's a super specific feeling. The writing about having the weight on a young protagonist shoulders. They have opportunities to be more creative with there problem solving. Does love defeat all. Is it the power of friendship. Is it facing sacrifice for the first time in your life. Is it a silly situation where being young and simple minded immature aids to bring the one strong trait that rises above the hardships. Idk

Had to read twice. Thought you found reading the game rules amazing :)

Yes, i understand this feeling so so much!!!

Trying this out!!!

Maybe The Maidens by Alex Michaelides?

I hated audiobooks before, now it’s the only way I “read”. I do not have the time or energy to sit down and read anymore (two small kids etc.) like before when I could read for hours. My first audiobook was the Harry Potter series, and Stephen Fry is amazing when he reads. A few years ago I started “audiobooking” for real. The narrator is everything though.

I listen to audiobooks when I walk, do the laundry, cook, clean and when I play Minecraft or do some jigsaw puzzlexD I need to do something mundane while I listen, or else my brain floats.

It took me some time to get used to listen, but now I love it

I always felt that it was more then a moral code pushing her away. I know she says that she forgave Rochester immediately and that she loves him but she also acknowledges how he talks about his former lovers with disdain and feels like that could be her. She couldn't be with Rochester because of how dependent she was on him and how controlling he wanted to be. Which is why he needed basically devine intervention to help him change his ways.

I second this. All the way! I never thought of the comparison being to show Rochester listens and respects Jane in a way that St John doesn't. But Mr Perfect Christian is always right, right? Right?!

I'm told reading about heresy is, to no surprise, heretical.

My professor said something similar but I disagreed. I thought it really holds the novel together. St. John is a controlling and abusive dick kind of like how Mr. Rochester was in the previous volume but he absolutely is not willing to give Jane any credit. At least Rochester somewhat respected Jane. So he makes Rochester look better in hindsight because of how controlling he is but he cannot be criticised because he is a good Christian right? I disagree he goes off and dies in India while everyone else live rich and fulfilling lives.

Look at how Rochester changes completely after his 'fall'. Rochester is capable of both respecting Jane and changing to not being controlling while St. John can only see one way. He is similar to Rochester but in the end he is a foil that redeems Rochester by being so terrible.

I rather like the entire St John storyline, mainly because it does show more that Jane is not going to follow someone blindly. Yes, the family cares for her and helps when she is left with nothing, but that doesn't mean she's going to turn missionary with St John.

I think it shows a lot of Jane's depth. Though she ran from Rochester because of her moral code and the pushy way he insisted on being with her despite the secret in the attic, she ends up in a similar situation with St John.

Many victorian romances would have her running off to be a missionary and forgetting about Rochester.

Though I agree that the religious tone in volume 3 is a sharp left, I think it's her faith is the only thing she has left when she is forced by that moral code to abandon her great love. She leans on it because without it, she is utterly alone. Again.

Just my two cents. Jane Eyre is one of my absolute favorite books!

Thank you so much!

I could be looking in the wrong places but I logged into audible today and my first recommendation was looking for Alaska. How dated for one. And just not my jam. Then all the other books are teen romance or something idk. but I am in a weird limbo where I find adult books to generally be kind stiff. You can't be as free with adult protagonists sometimes because they are adults. There's not much room for lacking common sense. Or to make errors or to be seen as an underdog. And sometimes the head space is so serious and bleak feeling. I dunno I might be looking at the wrong books.

Literally at the fault of Harry Potter. The whole market use to be just different bizarre fantasy novels all competing to be the next big thing. And I feel like when there was an influx and push for those books it was kinda fun. Yah you had your copy cats with witches or vampires to mirror twilight.. but there was a huge sense of being different and there where so many different Types of fantasy settings to be lost into. World building was a huge focus. High stakes with passionate characters. Who has unusual aspects of their respective worlds.

This may be super duper left field here but when I say " woke culture" I mean the subject matter of most YA books has heavily shifted from dystopian future and fantasy to more real things.. like school and conflicts with abusive parents and relationships. Which is more real world. Now there's more of a push to have heavy subject matter of representation of the marginalized. Which is wonderful and can be cool and is very much needed. I think the market has become over saturated and uncreative. Sometimes too serious and sometimes too sticky sweet. Just not my jam

Oh and Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo is pretty good.