This is why I keep a books read list . . .

[realityanalyst]

This evening, I began reading Jessica Day George’s Dragon Slippers. I was more than a hundred pages into the hardback when I began feeling increasingly uncomfortable déjà vu. Although I had no memory of reading the book before, certain things were familiar. I knew what was going to happen. It had the mudslide feeling of inevitability: I didn’t

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[alias_amy]

Thanks! Dragon Slippers was recommended to my daughter, and she stopped after a few chapters and just said she didn't like it; from your description I can see why. She prefers light-hearted fantasy (like me, I suppose) and she's struggling to find books that don't get too scary or intense. I'll look at Tuesdays in the Castle.

[realityanalyst]

I can also recommend Jinx by Sage Blackwood. It just, a couple of days ago, came out in paperback. It does take place in a forest where monsters try to eat you all the time, but I never found that as scary or intense, just humorous (as it was meant to be, I believe). Quite lighthearted.