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I read to relax and for escapism. My ideal book is one that's well written with believable characters and an absorbing plot.
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Megan Whalen Turner: "The Thief" and the sequels. The culture is more or less ancient Greek, the technology is early renaissance, and the characters and plot are fantastic.
Sarah Rees Brennan: "Unspoken" (beginning of a triology, part two is coming any time now): A gothic story taking place today, in a small English town.
"Demon's lexicon" and the two sequels. Urban fantasy, very dark and very funny.
Brennan is one of my favourite authors these days, see
http://sarahreesbrennan.com/extras/ for some samples, but stay away from most of the Demon's Lexicon short stories -- all of the are very spoilerish, except "
Quiet in the house", which is a very good sample of that universe.