How to Make Me Care Part 2: Stand-Alone Books
Check out my first post on this topic: How to Make Me Care Part 1: Big Series with Immersive Worlds in which I explored some series works and tried to pick out the things that made me invested in those worlds and made me read more than one book in the series, eagerly awaiting the next installment if it was not yet out. In this post I want to explore some great stand-alone books that made me care and pulled me in. I think stand-alone books are a little different because you're getting one complete story and the author has less time to show you around the world, but at the same time, thinking back on the stand-alone books I loved they often have extremely rich world-building that rivals long series! It's also interesting to note that this list is much more self-pub focused than my last one. There are a couple of reasons for this. First of all, for the past few years I've been reading much more self-pub stuff than trad published, and second of all, I think the tendency i...