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⌈ Secret Post #2651 ⌋

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Comments

[loracarol]

Patricia C. Wrede's "Enchanted Forest Chronicles"! And Tamora Pierce's books. Her earlier books are a little rough, but there's still pretty good. :3 Personally I like the Kel Quartet and the Emelan books best, (haven't read the last book though), but all of them have pretty awesome ladies!

[dreemyweird]

Definitely seconding Patricia Wrede.

[loracarol]

I would have rec'd all of them, but there are some pretty problematic elements in the Magical Wild West books wrt Native Americans, and while I still like the books, I don't want to rec them without first making mention of that fact, just in case that's a huge turn-off for the OP.

They are pretty good, though, and their treatment of women is pretty good imo, but I'd still be slightly more cautious, because there are issues.

also, Diana Wynn Jones is pretty good, at least, I think so of what I've read. And OP, if you like manga/anime, I think Kimi ni Todoke is pretty good too? It's a shoujo manga, so romance, but it also deals with girl-girl friendships and gives them as much weight an importance as the romance angle (IMO, and up to book 12, I think? I don't think I've read far beyond that).

[dreemyweird]

> Diana Wynn Jones is pretty good

mte. Although the romance might be a turn-off.

[loracarol]

Yeah, if the OP doesn't like romance, that could be a problem, though I personally felt like the romances were handled well in what DWJ books I've read.

[(Anonymous)]

She does seem to have some element of romance in most of her books, but it's less front-and-center in some... most of the Chrestomanci books don't have a ton of romance, and I'd especially recommend Witch Week for those seeking great female characters. A Tale of Time City and Dogsbody didn't particularly either - well, aside from a couple relationships that are open to interpretation, I guess.

But I suppose most of my favorites of hers do involve some romance - Hexwood, Fire and Hemlock, Deep Secret... but if you're not turned off by that aspect, the women in those books are amazing.

[loracarol]

Exactly! :D

[othellia]

Kel series was definitely my favorite too. And kind of her peak, IMHO. Don't know what happened but she slowed down a lot and everything she wrote after that I was kind of "meh" on.

[loracarol]

I don't know when the Emelan books came out, but wrt to the Tortall books, I agree; I wasn't super fond of any of the Tortall books post-Kel, though I am interested in the Numair book, when it comes out, just because Numair. >_____>;;

The Emelan books, I like the first quartet, and then the second quartet, but I wasn't fond of the Circle Reforged book, or Melting Stones. I'm not really sure how those fit in, though, compared to the others. ^^;

[othellia]

Yeah, I think part of it might do with her shift away from quartets. She ended up doing that with both Emelan and Tortall.

[greenvelvetcake]

Or Battle Magic. I loved the interactions between Briar, Rosethorn, and Evv, because they are the best family of stubborn mules, but the plot and pacing felt really off. Everything was wrapped up in, what, a month? From Will of the Empress, I got the impression that Briar had been there for years.

[loracarol]

I honestly haven't read it yet. ^^; But if that's the case, I'm going to be confused as well, because I thought at least a year, myself, reading Empress. :/