Action and adventure fiction is the epitomy of escapist reading. Browse all our articles, starting with the most recent, featuring books that contain elements of action and adventure, whether it is travel, charting new frontiers, hunting down others or being hunted themselves. Often there is some sort of peril to evade, mystery to solve and/or justice to deliver.
Recent stand out reads in this genre for us include The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang, Stuart Turton’s The Devil and the Dark Water and TJ Newman’s Falling, and then of course you can’t go wrong with the iconic bestsellers Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy. All these novels are guaranteed to entertain. There is a book to satisfy everyone’s quest for adventure from the safety and comfort your favourite reading chair.
Today Booklover Book Reviews is hosting the TLC Book Tour for Blood Zero Sky by J Gabriel Gates. Blood Zero Sky Synopsis Unprofitables are banished to work camps to pay off their credit. Other tie-men and women look on apathetically. Fair…
The Coral Thief Synopsis Paris, 1815. Napoleon has just surrendered at Waterloo and is on his way to the island of St. Helena to begin his exile. Meanwhile, Daniel Connor, a young medical student from Edinburgh, has just arrived in Paris…
“At its heart, Suzanne Joinson’s A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar celebrates the gifts that travel into far-off cultures confers: the displacements that throw into resilient relief our transcendent human connections” – National Geographic Traveler, Book of the Month A Lady Cyclist’s…
No Remorse Synopsis Lee McCloud (Mac) has a reputation as a loose cannon. So when a secret agency operating outside the law recruits him for his special operations skills his team leader Tally, a tough, attractive computer genius, is ordered to…
SNAP New Talent Synopsis In the second book of the SNAP Kandesky vampire series, Maxie Gwenoch, media-savvy editor of the multinational celeb gossip magazine SNAP, is pummeled in Paris and kidnapped in Kiev as the Huszars ramp up the race to…
Mr Something Synopsis Isaac Ward knows that a man should obey the law, protect his country, do what’s right. But when an improbable corpse leads to an impossible device, these duties collide head on – and only one can win. Dreaming…
The Shekinah Legacy Synopsis In this controversial Amazon best-selling thriller, international cable TV journalist Charlotte Ansari and her Asperger’s son are caught literally in the crossfire of history when terrorists, the CIA, Mossad and the Vatican all converge in a pulse-pounding…
Adam Johnson’s The Orphan Master’s Son is one of the most intelligent and thought-provoking novels I have read. Read on for my full review. The Orphan Master’s Son Synopsis Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother—a singer “stolen”…
Today Booklover Book Reviews has the great pleasure of hosting the TLC Book Tour for John Verdon’s latest thriller Let The Devil Sleep. Let The Devil Sleep Synopsis In this latest novel from bestselling author John Verdon, ingenious puzzle solver Dave…
Love Synopsis Love is a collection of short stories, ranging from Elsewhen, in which an alternative Muslim Ireland is the home to a doomed love affair, to Wolf and Water, a Stone Age adventure, to And the Green Sea Ebbs Away, among colonists and…
Mockingjay (Hunger Games Book 3) Synopsis Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she’s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she’s still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants…
Catching Fire is the second book in Suzanne Collins’ ground-breaking Hunger Games trilogy. But is it as good as the first novel? Read our full review. Catching Fire (The Hunger Games Book 2) Synopsis After winning the brutal Hunger Games, Katniss…
The Golden Scales by Parker Bilal features colourful characterisation and a complex and thrilling mystery that kept me guessing. The Golden Scales Synopsis A lost child. A missing hero. A bitter rivalry. In Cairo the ghosts of the past are stirring… Makana…
Graven Images Synopsis 2005 – the year of the London terrorist bombings. A young Cambridge biologist, Owen, penetrates a sinister pagan group while seeking to avenge the death of his archaeologist girlfriend, whom he believes was killed to halt her research…
Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens was a Library Journal Best Book of 2014: Historical Fiction. Bitter Greens Synopsis Charlotte-Rose de la Force has been banished from court by the Sun King, Louis XIV, after a series of scandalous love affairs. She is comforted…
A Partial History of Lost Causes Synopsis In Jennifer duBois’s mesmerizing and exquisitely rendered debut novel, a long-lost letter links two disparate characters, each searching for meaning against seemingly insurmountable odds. In St. Petersburg, Russia, world chess champion Aleksandr Bezetov begins…
