kid & adult magic books

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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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[(Anonymous)]

Eee! I was addicted to L. J. Smith's 'Nightworld' series and read it more times than I can count. Until I got over the whole soulmate, forever-love thing. Saying that, I still glance in book shops every now and then for the 10th book that was supposed to appear years ago. Sigh.

I read a few Redwall books, but in the end it just got so confusing because there were so many of them.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I read the ones they had, but it never seemed like she had finished it. There was no conclusion. LJ Smith is big into the whole 'soulmates' thing, I noticed.

I read a few Redwall books, but in the end it just got so confusing because there were so many of them. That's why I stopped.

[(Anonymous)]

The soulmates thing didn't bother me as much as the fact that she would always write about strong girls who I could relate to, then she would turn them into wimpering victims as soon as their 'soulmates' turned up.

It never seemed like she had finished it.
It certainly felt like unfinished mythology. I don't know why she never continued writing.

[leslina.livejournal.com]

The soulmates thing didn't bother me as much as the fact that she would always write about strong girls who I could relate to, then she would turn them into wimpering victims as soon as their 'soulmates' turned up.

Thank you ANON!! That's exactly what I meant by cookie cutter plots. And that's why I grew to dislike Jenny in Secret Circle and "what's her face" in Vampire Diaries. Potentially strong characters were watered down by their over bearing, tragic soul mates -- ugh. Give it rest. I found that I enjoyed LJ Smith's secondary characters so much more than the whiny love struck couples that lead the story.