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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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Poor Nick and his cousin the leather chick. I hearted them both.

The leather girl with the motorcycle? She was my favorite of the witches. I remember her flavor was lemon-scented candles... that still strikes me as a cool flavor.

Did you read all three books? It ends well.

I've never been able to find SC fanfic. I tried once, but couldn't. There seemed to be some Nightworld fanfic out there, but I could never keep the characters of that series sorted out in my head.

[leslina.livejournal.com]

Yeah I did read of all of 'em through but I wasn't satisfied with the conclusion. As you may well know it doesn't take much to get that reaction from me *snerk* and once an author has put me off it makes it harder for me to go back and read anymore of their work. Although I wasn't completely takenw ith the Vampire Diaries either -- I was ok with how it all ended so I ventured to read SC. I finished the SC trilogy out of principal, but I wasn't happy with the Jenny/Adam crap. I cried for Nick. I through the book across my room and never read another LJ Smith book again.

Some of my favorite Young Adult Horror/Supernatural writers are Annette Curtis Klaus; she wrote the incredibly heart breaking Vampire novel Silver Kiss. She's written a werewolf novel also but if you can get your hands on Silver Kiss -- oh man. Lovely lovely book. I also heart hear Ann Hodgman's Children of the Night Werewolf Trilogy. Sadly they're out of print, but if you're interested they're trackable. Although authors are categorized as young adult/teen authors these books will speak to all adults. One last series of books that I would recommend for any supernatural/horror fan are the Diane Tregarde novels by Mercedes Lackey. Dinae Tregarde is a kick ass psychic investigater that's a little bit Buffy (BtVS) and a little bit Sara Pezzinni (Witchblade) with a hottie Vampire lover, not a Spike or Arucard but still charming and appealing. These series of books are also hard to find but if you can -- snatch em up. Mercedes Lackey -- that sell out bitca -- discontinued the series because they weren't making her any money. God I just want to bitch slap her. At any rate. Those are some of my recs. Definately worthwhile if you can locate them.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Hm. I'll look for those. Need to add them too my list.

Did you ever read the Everworld books by K.A. Applegate? That's a YA series that was written for the older half of teenagers, I can tell you.

[leslina.livejournal.com]

Did you ever read the Everworld books by K.A. Applegate?

Hmm doesn't sound familiar -- I read a lot of R.L. Stine when I was in middle school. Richie Tankersley Cusick is another of my favorite upper Young Adult bracket authors. She wrote the novelization of the Buffy movie way way back. Her books are def not kiddy teeny boppy grade.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I hihgly reccomend them, though I admit I haven't read all. If you scroll down the responses, I gave a sort of summary about the Everworld books to Stakebait's reply.

[leslina.livejournal.com]

Kk -- what about the series where the heroine chooses the Spike character -- I just might be inclined to read that. Was that LJ Smith or Applegate?

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

That was Smith. Dark Visions trilogy. You'll adore it-- my favorite of her books,. Psychic kids, mind-links, telepathy, precognition, romance, love triangle. There's three books, starting with The Strange Power. Gabriel was my favorite of her characters. All dark and mean and angry and sexy.

Most of Applegate's books are for the younger of the YA set... the Animorph books, for example, and Young Jedi. But her Everworld books are a step up, for the older teen crowd, where there's a lot more violence, heavier implied sexuality, more complex character relationships, and the 17 year olds actually act like 17 year olds instead of stereotypical book teens.