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?

Comments

[(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.