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Mine will typically be in the urban fantasy/fantasy scene, though.

Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson! Don't be fooled by the covers...they really aren't indicative of the books. Also, don't think it's really a love triangle. It isn't.)

Illona Andrews (Kate Daniels specifically)

Melina Marchetta has some good fantasy and realism works.

Kristin Cashore's Graceling series can be very cool and sad.

I really liked Carol Plum-Ucci as a teenager. Not sure how it aged.

Some of Holly Black's work is good. My favorite is Curse Workers.

The Matthew Swift series, which has some very interesting takes on urban magic, is penned by Kate Griffin.

Dark Life by Kat Falls I remember liking

Cinda Chima Williams was immensely popular among my cohort in middle and high school.

As was Sarah Dessen, whose books might have romance, but also focus on heavier things.

On the manga side of things, the author/artist of Fullmetal Alchemist is a woman. So are the creators of D.Gray-Man, Yamada and the Seven Witches (this one surprised me!), and Blue Exorcist.

I recently reread some of Carol Plum-Ucci's books and the only ones I still liked were the Christopher Creed ones. Sarah Dessen's books were a hit and miss upon rereading. The Truth About Forever was still fun, but not Dreamland or This Lullaby.

I remember liking the She

I've tried to read the sequel to Christopher Creed and couldn't get into it.

I think The She is the only one of her YA books that I didn't read because my local library didn't have it. I should check to see if they have it now.

I liked the sequel to Christopher Creed more than the first book and I'm not sure why. It might've been the revelation about Christopher since I do remember reading the first book and wanting to know what happened to him.

I used to love the Lani Garver book and desperately wanted a sequel for that one. I'm kinda sad it didn't hold up for me.

I'm gonna second Patricia Briggs--Mercy is awesome!

I've read all of the Mercy Thompson series as well as some of the other books, and I kinda have an issue with how she treats female characters who aren't Mercy/gender. Like they seem really stereotypically catty and often out to get Mercy, who is perfect. And I had major issues with the rape in the Mercy series and with consent issues in Alpha and Omega. I don't think she's a horrible author (I couldn't read more than a bit of A&O, but as I said I have read all the Mercy ones), but I really am wary of her and of recommending her to others.

I really can't read the sister series. Mostly because of the reasons you said. I don't really care for the overall dynamics.

I'm trying to think of significant woman that are catty. I guess the ex-wife of the love interest and the wife of Bran. I never found their characterizations too over-the-top to be believable, but you're right that theirs a lack of other, positively portrayed female characters.

My RL book club has recently picked a couple of Patricia Briggs books (Moon Called and Cry Wolf), and I did not think they aged well AT ALL. Like, Moon Called's opening page has a line about how Mercy isn't as strong as a strong man DESPITE BEING A FUCKING WERECOYOTE WITH A MAGICAL BABY-MAKER THAT MAKES EVERY FEMALE WEREWOLF IN THE BOOK HATE HER, and being a mechanic and like, a purple belt in whatever martial art it was she studied. :\ And in Cry Wolf, Anna's tragic backstory is super focused on how her old pack raped her because she was an Omega (and everyone is else is like "GASP but omegas are so special!!1!"). The pacing of the B Plot in that book was weird to me, too

I don't remember much about the first books. Also there's the fact when you read a lot of female lead stuff, you encounter that. I think that's why I wasn't bothered when I really should have been. But I still enjoy the world and later things.

I don't disagree that those things are very common in older female-led novels, and I probably didn't mind as much when the books first came out ten years ago (I was IN LOVE with the Anita Blake vampire hunter series and the Women of the Underworld series back in the day, after all, plus the Lioness Rampart books), they're just things that I find really cringey now, hence why I don't think the Patricia Briggs books aged well.

Edited 2018-04-11 18:20 (UTC)

Aw, thanks for the recs!

I'mma check these out, thank you nonnie!

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