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[meganbmoore]

These are books that have ended up in the "to buy later" section of my Amazon cart, and I can't quite recall how.  i figure they're a combination of recs and things Amazon has  suggested when I've bought things.  Anyone want to offer opinions to help weed out duds? 

Wings: A Fairy Tale - E.D. Baker
The Etched City - K.J. Bishop
A Curse Dark as Gold - Elizabeth C. Bunce
Seed to Harvest - Octavia E. Butler
The Singer of All Songs (Chanters of Tremaris Trilogy, Book 1) - Kate Constable
My Soul to Keep - Tananarive Due
The Hollow Kingdom: Book I -- The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy - Clare B. Dunkle
Seven Tears into the Sea - Terri Farley
I, Coriander - Sally Gardner
Princess of the Midnight Ball - Jessica Day George
Eon: Dragoneye Reborn - Alison Goodman
In The Forest Of Forgetting - Theodora Goss
The Seer and the Sword - Victoria Hanley
Fly by Night - Frances Hardinge
Black Pearls: A Faerie Strand - Louise Hawes
Suite Scarlett - Maureen Johnson
Magic or Madness - Justine Larbalestier
Keturah And Lord Death - Martine Leavitt
The Swan Kingdom - Zoë Marriott
Mad Kestrel - Misty Massey
Fablehaven - Brandon Mull
The Pillow Book (Penguin Classics) - Sei Shonagon
Sisters of the Sword - Maya Snow
Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception - Maggie Stiefvater
Book of Shadows (Sweep, No. 1) - Cate Tiernan
This Earth of Mankind (Buru Quartet) - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
The Swan Maiden - Heather Tomlinson
The Assassins of Tamurin - S. D. Tower
In the Serpent's Coils (Hallowmere) - Tiffany Trent
Violet on the Runway - Melissa Walker
Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog (Magic Carpet Books) - Ysabeau S. Wilce
Dragon Keeper - Carole Wilkinson

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[keilexandra]

Let's see...

Bishop's ETCHED CITY is dark, gritty, not really my type but I remember admiring its aesthetics. Constable's Tremaris trilogy is YA fantasy with interesting worldbuilding and reads quickly. Ditto for Dunkle's Hollow Kingdom trilogy, although it's not secondary-world and so is necessarily more derivative. Have heard good things about Goodman's EON: DRAGONEYE REBORN, though I haven't read it myself. Goss's IN THE FOREST OF FORGETTING is on my shortlist; she wrote me a really great critique of worldbuilding once, and I also adored her short story "Singing of Mount Abora" (review) but I'm not hard to please when it comes to anything derived from "Kubla Khan" or "The Lady of Shalott." Maureen Johnson's name sounds familiar with positive mental attachments, although I don't know anything about SUITE SCARLETT. Many people have liked Larbalestier's Magic or Madness trilogy; I'm not really a fan, but they are good books. Sei Shonagon's PILLOW BOOK is going on my own list! Never read it, but I liked telophase's Yuletide story and loved MY NAME IS SEI SHONAGON (review) by Jan Blensdorf. Maggie Stiefvater's LAMENT was a great comfort read (flocked notes), YA Urban Faerie (minus the urban) with neat musical ornaments. Walker's VIOLET ON THE RUNWAY is on my TBR list as well; YA, sounds fresh and interesting. Wilce's FLORA SEGUNDA, I have heard much praise of but it doesn't seem like my kind of book. DRAGON KEEPER by Wilkinson also sounds vaguely familiar--I know it's YA, again.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I thought I remembered someone posting on lament recently.