5 Fast-Paced Adventures to Get Lost In
Any book that we read can take us on an adventure. And each genre can take readers on a ride of great imaginative proportions. There are some adventures that have stayed with readers over time because of how lost you become in their world. Stories that are filled with adventure can cross genres and that’s the beauty of storytelling. Some can be science-fiction others can be fantasy, and you can always find those recommendations here at MBC.
Here are five novels that are filled with some great adventures to add to your TBR!
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive. But Mark isn’t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills — and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit — he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next.
While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols. As Langdon and gifted French cryptologist Sophie Neveu sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci — clues visible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.
One snowy night a famous Hollywood star slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time — from the actor’s early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theatre troupe known as the Travelling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains. This novel connects the fate of five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor’s first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Travelling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet.
The dark and riveting story about three down-and-out Americans hunting for gold in Sonora. Two American men in 1920s Mexico join an older American prospector in search for gold.
In the land without magic, where the king rules with an iron hand, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She comes not to kill the king, but to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three killers, thieves, and warriors in a competition, she is released from prison to serve as the king’s champion. Her name os Celeana Sardothien.
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