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What are some of your most and least favorite of the juvenile and young adult fantasy novels published in the last year or so? Harry Potter is on the list, of course, but this is all beyond Harry Potter.

To start the ball rolling, here are some off the top of my head.

Tamora Pierce The Will of the Empress, a book which follows two quartets, Circle of Magic and The Circle Opens.

Jenny Nimmo Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors, book four of the series The Children of the Red King. The first book very much reminded me of Harry Potter, but as the series progresses, it has grown and changed. I actually like parts of it much more than Harry Potter.

Christopher Paolini Eldest, sequel to Eragon. I have to admit, I haven't read either of them, because I started Eragon and was so disgusted by the writing style I couldn't make it more than a couple chapters in. Weak, weak writing and very derivative.

Eoin Colfer The Opal Deception, book four of the Artemis Fowl series. I loved the first two books to this, but haven't read the later ones. I really should, before Wiscon.

Eoin Colfer Half-Moon Investigations, about which I know absolutely nothing. Has anyone read this?

Jonathan Stroud Ptolemy's Gate, book three of The Bartimaeus Trilogy. I haven't read any of these, and I probably should.

Angie Sage Septimus Heap, Book Two: Flyte. I haven't even heard of this author. Anyone?

Okay, let's get the discussion going. Any thoughts? Favorites? Most hated? Why?

Date: 2006-05-17 03:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lionessvalenti.livejournal.com
Oh, good. I'm not the only one who was annoyed annoyingly by Eragon. I got about a quarter of the way through. It's still sitting with a bookmarker in it on the shelf in our living room.

I haven't read book #4 of Artemis Fowl yet, but I have to say that #3, The Eternity Code, is by far the best of the original three.

Oh, I would have been so much better at this a year ago. I spent nearly all my money on this stuff.

There's a series called Pendragon, by D.J. MacHale. Some of the writing, especially the mostly-journal format its in, is very juvenile, always recapping things that real people wouldn't be recapping, I think, underestimating even the 10-13 audience its aimed at, but the stories are good, the characters are really cool. It runs through alternate dimensions, and those are all very interesting, and I think, well done. I don't know how many books are out right now, I have the first five, and, yeah, they're good.

Eoin Colfer's The Wish List is also good. The best way I can describe it is Good Omens for kids. It sort of have the same humor about it, but it's on a much smaller scale than GO.

My sister loves the Bartimaeus Trilogy. I couldn't get through the first one. Maybe someday?

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