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⌈ Secret Post #2216 ⌋

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Comments

[isa_lyxces]

I would say try reading Brandon Sanderson, Mercedes Lackey, and Patricia Briggs, if you really like female characters. All three of them are very well thought of fantasy writers. Brandon Sanderson in particular has the traditional 'high fantasy' feel with a twist.

On the other hand, I do really like David Eddings. Admittedly, he's been writing the same characters over and over again with different backgrounds, but the banter in his books is just awesome.

[agentcthulhu]

+1 Brandon Sanderson

[(Anonymous)]

Fucking right. His female characters make me so happy (I can actually relate to them! Holy shit!).

[agentcthulhu]

IKR? I still have to read his non-Mistborn books but yeah, Vin is amazing. The rest of the main characters in the books are great too and I wish there are more hours in a day so I can READ ALL THE BOOKS!

TIME TO GUSH ABOUT THE WOMENS

[(Anonymous)]

Sarene, the main female character of Elantris, is this crazy cool woman who's like "fuck convention." The ladies of her new court are all, "let's embroider things" and she's like, "I think I'm going to teach you to fence," and they're like, "but...embroidery?" and she's like, "NO. FENCING, DAMMIT." So pretty soon you've got a whole bunch of sword-fighting women who are starting to think outside the box and it's awesome. Meanwhile, Sarene's uncovering and foiling plots and in general being fabulous. (This is his weakest book, mind, because it was his first, but it's still very creative and has compelling characters).

Jasnah in the Way of Kings is a world-renowned atheist scholar who bitchslaps a priest with logic. Her student, Shallan, is a female Shardbearer, and it's foreshadowed that she's gonna tear shit up later on in the series. As it is, she's very intelligent and cunning. Not all of her actions are precisely...justifiable, ha, but you still root for her.

Siri and Vivenna in Warbreaker are...it's actually kind of hard to describe them. Vivenna starts out somewhat dislikeable because she's so rigid in her dogma, but she goes through a trial and comes out of it kind of a badass (honestly, the best part about her is the way her character develops and changes over the course of the book). It's hard to say anything about Siri without giving plot points away, but she's instrumental in changing the fate of a kingdom and its king.

I LOVE THEM ALL, GODDAMN.

Re: TIME TO GUSH ABOUT THE WOMENS

[agentcthulhu]

Damn they all sound so badass WHY ISN'T THERE MORE TIME???
Seriously, Brandon Sanderson has been on my reading shortlist since he started writing the WoT books and I've only finished the first three Mistborn books since then. Sarene sounds like someone I'd really like, too...

[(Anonymous)]

+ Mercedes Lackey. I've been rereading the Vows and Honor Series books I have and dayum the Lady Badassery was delicious.

[(Anonymous)]

Why Hello Anon, so have I! I bought them recently and hoylshit why didn't i read these before

[(Anonymous)]

Yay Sanderson. I really love his Mistborn series (not so much the Alloy of Law) but I related so much to Vin and I loved her character growth throughout the trilogy.

I enjoy his world building too. Warbreaker wasn't too bad but it ended a bit abruptly and felt rushed towards the end as well. I'm currently reading The Way of Kings so I'll let you know how that goes. =)

Also someone else mentioned Lois McMaster Bujold and I enjoyed her Sharing Knife series (I wasn't able to finish it since I moved) but it has an interesting magic system and characters too.

[(Anonymous)]

The Way of Kings, dude...holy shit. That book grabbed me and would not let me go. The second I finished it, I desperately wanted to read it again. Hopefully you'll experience the same level of enjoyment!

[(Anonymous)]

I hope so. It actually started out a bit slow for me but I'm into Part Two now and it's picked up a bit. I like that he's going back and forth with characters and even had an interlude, so now that I know that it's going to flow this way, it's easier for me to read.

I was so used to how Mistborn was written, and his other stories up until this point, that this new series was a bit jarring, what with pictures and detailed maps and the like.

I'm enjoying this world so far though. The magic armor is really cool, I hope to see more of it soon and the magic system, what little I've read, is neat too. It's supposed to be a 10 volume epic so I hope he's able to finish it soon-ish and not have it drag on like the other great fantasy authors.

[(Anonymous)]

Just not the Founding series for Mercedes Lackey. I read that, then went back and read her earlier stuff, and... ack... when did her strong female characters turn weepy and dramatic and silly? Everything up until then though, she's fantastic at.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I agree with you on Eddings being repetitive - I saw it after the Tamuli finished (I read the Elenium before the Belgariand/Mallorean). It's the same basic quest: hero and a varied band of friends (including at least one father figure and a wise motherly magic-using female) go on a quest that spans across a whole continent, searching for a magic gem, then going to fight an evil god. Then a few years later they have to go defeat another evil god with the help of the magic gem.

Even Althalas had that basic pattern, though the macguffins were books and a knife, and there was history re-writing time travel (which I didn't mind so much in that book but in the Elder Gods it came as such a deus ex machina - practically literally given the character who did it).