Discussing other good fantasy, I made this comment:
A friend of mine got me Garth Nix's Abhorsen series for my birthday, which are young adult fantasy books. She totally sold me on them by telling me about the library that turns up in the second book Lirael. They are very different to Tolkien, intentionally so, with no elves or dragons, but people with magical abilities. If you don't mind young adult -- very much not children -- literature, I would recommend you try them. They have some dark and deep themes about duty -- and death -- and when I got them I read all three of them in a week I so wanted to know what would happen. Then I was very sad that I had read them all and that there wasn't more adventures to go on!
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Date: 2012-10-07 12:22 pm (UTC)A friend of mine got me Garth Nix's Abhorsen series for my birthday, which are young adult fantasy books. She totally sold me on them by telling me about the library that turns up in the second book Lirael. They are very different to Tolkien, intentionally so, with no elves or dragons, but people with magical abilities. If you don't mind young adult -- very much not children -- literature, I would recommend you try them. They have some dark and deep themes about duty -- and death -- and when I got them I read all three of them in a week I so wanted to know what would happen. Then I was very sad that I had read them all and that there wasn't more adventures to go on!