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

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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.