recommendations!
I just finished A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin (which is the pseudonym of Catherine Webb), and it got me wondering if anyone has any recommendations for fantasy/sci-fi written by women. I'm really interested in how female authors use fantasy, since it's so incredibly dominated by the "lord of the rings, burly Strider-type saves little woman
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I love Naomi Novik, and Robin McKinley (Sunshine is actually maybe my favorite book, and whenever I am faced with shelves and shelves of depressingly awful vampire books for teenagers -with pouty girls on the cover, uncannily enough- i just want to wave the book around shouting "no, it can be done well!"), and I actually read "the privilege of the sword" years ago, and loved it. The other authors sound FANTASTIC too, and I'll definitely be haunting my library shelves like crazy. Thank you so much! Again!
I'm also a big fan of the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs. Mercy's a great protagonist, and the series covers some serious issues while weaving some really great worldbuilding with vampires and werewolves and fae stuff. It's frustrating how saturated a lot of the magical realism stuff is with terrible work, because I really love stuff like that (not written by a woman or starring one, but I love the Dresden Files).
I'm definitely going to check these out! Also I just finished the sequel to "A Madness of Angels", and it's JUST as good, which is GREAT because I was so nervous that the sequel wouldn't be able to come close to the wonderful wonderful first novel. But it's fantastic!
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