I do like teen novels, and have been reading them even more than normal because I've decided I want to write them, too, in addition to my preferred genre (supernatural adventure stories), so now it's all about research as well as enjoyment.
You know, I didn't realize Peters had written Luna, too. I'm definitely going to have to pick up more of her books, because Secret was so good.
Are you a fan of sci fi/fantasy? Pierce writes a lot of that (all right, she writes it exclusively), and she makes the characters really compelling.
The lesbian character is in The Will of the Empress, as I said, which follows two sets of quartets: Circle of Magic and The Circle Opens. She'll be in the teen fiction of Barnes & Noble, right outside the children's section unless they've changed it since I left the store. (They may have, it's been a year now.) Circle of Magic could actually be in juvenile fiction, it seemed to be aimed at younger readers more, but The Circle Opens was older, and Empress is definitely for teen readers.
She has another series, too, set in Tortall, and there are a number of books in it, three quartets and a duet: The Song of the Lioness, The Immortals, and The Protector of the Small quartet, and then Trickster's Choice and Trickster's Queen.
Both series have a lot of magic in them, and they are in semi-medieval settings. They are a lot of fun, and have really interesting and strong characters. The main characters are almost always women, which I love.
If you like boarding school books, I'd recommend Tyne O'Connell's Pulling Princes, Stealing Princes, and some third one I haven't read yet and don't know the title. They're funny, and light hearted, all about this American girl going to boarding school in England. My best friend lives in England and I love all her stories about school there, so reading books about boarding schools is just the next step.
I'm bisexual, though I lean a little more toward the female side of the spectrum. I'm also a very liberal feminist. (I used to do poetry readings with a local writing group [I don't even know if it still exists] called Prescription Strength Poetry, and talked often about tits and hips and ass. The last year I was in it, there were only three active women, and we used to play off each other with our wording and the way we were raunchier than the men.) That aside doesn't really have anything to do with being a bisexual liberal feminist, but it's where my thoughts went.
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Date: 2006-02-09 02:37 pm (UTC)You know, I didn't realize Peters had written Luna, too. I'm definitely going to have to pick up more of her books, because Secret was so good.
Are you a fan of sci fi/fantasy? Pierce writes a lot of that (all right, she writes it exclusively), and she makes the characters really compelling.
The lesbian character is in The Will of the Empress, as I said, which follows two sets of quartets: Circle of Magic and The Circle Opens. She'll be in the teen fiction of Barnes & Noble, right outside the children's section unless they've changed it since I left the store. (They may have, it's been a year now.) Circle of Magic could actually be in juvenile fiction, it seemed to be aimed at younger readers more, but The Circle Opens was older, and Empress is definitely for teen readers.
She has another series, too, set in Tortall, and there are a number of books in it, three quartets and a duet: The Song of the Lioness, The Immortals, and The Protector of the Small quartet, and then Trickster's Choice and Trickster's Queen.
Both series have a lot of magic in them, and they are in semi-medieval settings. They are a lot of fun, and have really interesting and strong characters. The main characters are almost always women, which I love.
If you like boarding school books, I'd recommend Tyne O'Connell's Pulling Princes, Stealing Princes, and some third one I haven't read yet and don't know the title. They're funny, and light hearted, all about this American girl going to boarding school in England. My best friend lives in England and I love all her stories about school there, so reading books about boarding schools is just the next step.
I'm bisexual, though I lean a little more toward the female side of the spectrum. I'm also a very liberal feminist. (I used to do poetry readings with a local writing group [I don't even know if it still exists] called Prescription Strength Poetry, and talked often about tits and hips and ass. The last year I was in it, there were only three active women, and we used to play off each other with our wording and the way we were raunchier than the men.) That aside doesn't really have anything to do with being a bisexual liberal feminist, but it's where my thoughts went.