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[meganbmoore]

To cleanse my brain and remind myself that Cassie Edwards is not representative of the entire genre, I shall read a couple of good romance novels next. Well, Loretta Chase and Elizabeth Thornton usually write good books, so I shall assume the recent book by each that I have is good. Uhm...seriously...most things would look good right now. After that, I shall return to epic fantasy because...uhm...it's all, novelwise, I seem to really be inthe mood for the last couple months. Due to yesterday's infusion, I have...a wide selection. The first 4 are continuations of series I'm already reading. The others, as far as I know, are the first books of their series. If I am wrong, I feel I should be told.

[Poll #1126501]

And, since I am in the mood, fantasy vids.

This one cracks me up because of the song choice(yet, I can't 100% say it's inappropriate)

And, because nothing says "love" like an abducted, injured woman...

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[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Well, this will be my first west, so we'll see.

Fresh Bait

[estara.livejournal.com]

OH! Well then there's a sort-of prequel duology of her world around, Hunter's Oath and Hunter's Death, but The Broken Crown is the start of her main opus which she's still working on (there ought to be something new released this year, I believe). There are six books of it so far, it comes down to two or three protagonists and they can be read stand-alone but they work best read in sequence.

This is really epic fantasy, with strong females, who are the main characters - and a fascinating take on gods and magic. I've been collecting her since the duology and recently got her very first four books fantasy series (written as Michelle Sagara West) when it was reissued: that has a very dark setting though, so most of the three books after the first one are on the TBR pile still.

She's on lj as msagara, but she doesn't write much. All her books can be viewed here: http://www.sfsite.com/lists/msw.htm
The most uptodate newssite is here, though:
http://www.sff.net/people/Michelle.Sagara/

Re: Fresh Bait

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...do I need to get the prequel duology first, then?

Re: Fresh Bait

[estara.livejournal.com]

You'll get more enjoyment out of it, as some side characters in Broken Sword are people 15 years after the duology, but they're not the main characters so it's just an in-joke kind of thing.

It's nice but not necessary.

Re: Fresh Bait

[estara.livejournal.com]

There are short descriptions of the plot on the sfsite.com link, you might check out if the connection is important enough for you to try and get those books.