kid & adult magic books

[timepiececlock]

So who read/ used to read L. J. Smith? I loved her "Secret Circle" books.

How about Lloyd Alexander's books: The Book of Three; The Black Cauldron; the High King?

Ursula LeGuin's Wizard of Earthsea books?

The Redwall books with the talking animals of which there's 50 million and I only got through ten?

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[octopedingenue]

I never read L.J. Smith, but I LOVED the Prydain Chronicles (a few months ago I got the whole series collected in a hardback) and The Tombs of Atuan, which I think is the best of the Earthsea books. I liked some the Redwall books until I realized that the mice/rabbits/badgers/whatnot would ALWAYS be good characters and the ferrets/weasels/minks/whatnot would ALWAYS be evil characters, and since I rather like ferrets and such, it made me feel bad and I stopped reading. In retrospect it reminds me of the view on "Buffy" that "all vampires are eeeevil", including Spike, "just because they're vampires".

awww... now I'm getting all nostalgic

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

liked some the Redwall books until I realized that the mice/rabbits/badgers/whatnot would ALWAYS be good characters and the ferrets/weasels/minks/whatnot would ALWAYS be evil characters, and since I rather like ferrets and such, it made me feel bad and I stopped reading.

I just got bored after they all started to blur together and I kept forgetting the names of crucial timeline characters from other books because they all sounded alike.

I never read L.J. Smith

Girl, you are missing out on a valuable source of teenage angst, romance, and life-threatening situations!

You should read the Dark Visions tirlogy first, because that was the first series of hers I read. It has psychic kids that are brought to this special "school" that actually is much more threatening. Plus, one of love interests is this totally Spike-ish dude who can never decide which he wants more: being evil or getting the girl.

Then, you should read Secret Circle trilogy. It's all about this coven of witches. This girl gets initated into them, but it people start dying and there's spells and fights. I didn't like the love interest in this one as much, he's more goodygoody, but the main girl was cool, and the subcharacters were cool.