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[meganbmoore]

 Can anyone give me their opinions on any of the following?  Some Amazon has recced to me (but then, it also put every Twilight book in my Gold Box today...) some were in lists.  A few I saw in the bookstore but wasn't sure about. Some are recs where I forgot who recced them and what they said.  Most are YA fantasy.

Wings: A Fairy Tale by E.D. Baker
The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
A Curse As Dark as Gold by Elizabeth Bunce
Dragon's Keep by Janet Lee Carey
The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of "The Arabian Nights" by Cameron Dokey
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue
Bewitching Season by Marissa Doyle
The Hollow Kingdom by Clare B. Dunkle
Seven Tears into the Sea by Terri Farley
Shadow Spinner by Susan Fletcher
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Nobody's Princess by Esther Friesner
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George
The Rest Falls Away by Colleen Gleason
In The Forest Of Forgetting by Theodora Goss
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
The Princess and the Hound by Mette Ivie Harrison
Black Pearls: A Faerie Strand by Louise Hawes
The Rose Bride: A Retelling of "The White Bride and the Black Bride" by Nancy Holder
Heart of Light by Sarah A. Hoyt
Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson
The Faerie Path by Frewin Jones
Ophelia by Lisa Klein
Magic or Madness by Justine Larbalestier
The Swan Kingdom by Zoë Marriott
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club by Kim Newman(ed.)
Aurelia by Anne Osterlund
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
Larklight by Philip Reeve
Senrid and Inda by Sherwood Smith
Sisters of the Sword by Maya Snow
The Swan Maiden by Heather Tomlinson
The Assassins of Tamurin by S. D. Tower
In the Serpent's Coils by Tiffany Trent
Steampunk by Ann VanDermeer(ed.)*
The Night Dance by Suzanne Weyn
Snake Agent: A Detective Inspector Chen Novel by Liz Williams

*Yes, I linked to a post on it earlier this week, but I'm wondering if anyone else has read it, or seen posts/reviews of it.

Of course, most people won't even see it for a couple hours, and half the f-list is busy liveblogging the Avatar finale...

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[fivil.livejournal.com]

Snake Agent: A Detective Inspector Chen Novel by Liz Williams
This was pretty interesting, though I only got like 3/4 way through. My problem wasn't so much with the novel but the rec of it I was given.. I'll elaborate if you want.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Yeah, do, because that's an interesting problem.

[fivil.livejournal.com]

A slasher recommended it to me based on well, slashiness and when I began reading I realized I shipped main character/his wife more and anyway, I really can't slash married guys at all. I kept reading but then I began to suspect the slashiness was author-backed.. then I just kind of tuned out of the novel altogether. In the end I'm pretty sure it was just that I shouldn't have gone in expecting to ship something and not really the fault of the novel.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have problems with that myself. Regardless of the gender combinations involved, if a character is in a committed relationship(or even we're just supposed to clearly read it as the character is madly in love with someone), and the author seems to take the track that it's "more interesting" if the lead also has a major thing for someone else, I just get really thrown out of something.* I mean, if you can't make the character and relationship interesting without wishywashyness and/or infidelity, then, unfortunately, you don't have a lot of my esteem. It's why so much Urban Fantasy annoys me.

*Exceptions made for Cantarella, Angel Sanctuary, and Clamp...Clamp and Cantarella do more "OT3 of Doom" and Angel Sanctuary has an interesting spin on it in that the guy himself is only 100% about the girl, but the other guy was in love with the person he's a reincarnation of, and they're still bound together. Plus, the other guy would take it very, very badly if you messed with the lovers. Which is why I root for Setsuna and his past self to somehow become separate beings!