[danyl]

-tries to swing back on topic as is slightly scared of Bridie. . -

and was it just me, or did people find Kitty slightly irritating in the second one? and maybe a bit of the third? lol.


























*I'm not really scared of Bridie. . .

[kelly bee]

woohoo!! i have now started re-reading them!! nearly finished the first one and have finally got into them at last!!:D about time too:rolleyes: he he, me likey!!

keep smilin xx

[xElednorx]

I've only read the first in the trilogy! Shame on me!

Has anyone read any fantsy with a female lead and a bit of romance? They seem so hard to find nowadays!

I noticed that Fantasy are mostly set in Medieval times like all of you. I wonder why?

[Ree123]

I noticed that Fantasy are mostly set in Medieval times like all of you. I wonder why?

It's the swords :)

and the meanness of the medieval times (I think they were mean times)

why do you think it sounds like mediEVIL

[xElednorx]

I love swords in a fantasy book! It makes it!

medieval times were mean, but I don't know why...:confused:

[danyl]

Has anyone read any fantsy with a female lead and a bit of romance? They seem so hard to find nowadays!



The Kushiel books by Jacqueline Carey are amazing. But do center around sex. I would reccomend them but only if you do mind reading about it :)

[Sirkana]

Has anyone read any fantsy with a female lead and a bit of romance? They seem so hard to find nowadays!
Yes, the Cup of the World by John Dickinson, though it is only partly fantasy.

[danyl]

Then there's the
Abhorsen trilogy by Garth Nix,
Poison by Christopher Wooding,
The Sevenwaters Trilogy by Juliet Mariller,
The Black Jewels by Anne Bishop [haven't read these but want to]

um.

[Dena]

^Sirkana, I just read te Cup of the World and I HATED THE ENDING. >.> Actually I hated the whole background idea because it made me want to cry ;__; It was a good book though.

And I love the Abhorsen Trilogy.

I wrote a book about a female heroine, and she's very strong, and her male companion (not lover at first!) is not very strong. The idea, however, is that that isn't a good thing. He comes as a slave from a matriarchal society, and she comes as a princess from a patriarchal society, and basically my point is that completely patriarchal (something that may respect women but doesn't value them as leaders) society doesn't work, and a matriarchal society really doesn't work. xD She is a natural leader, being royalty, and knows how to lead. He has never led anything in his life, and is used to women telling him what to do.

By the end of the book, however, Dena (my character's name, hence my username on the internet :D) begins to realize that leadership isn't just about being in control, and love isn't just about liking. Feran's seeing that he can be a leader despite his upbringing and that being royalty isn't so much better than being a slave!

...when I get it published someday (*sigh*) you all can read it. xDDD

I think that women in fantasy can tend to be like comic book characters when men write them, but I don't think they have to be or that even they generally are. I think most of that stays in comic books. Most of the writers I've read, male and female, portray their characters as real people with real problems, and some of them just as mundane as the ones we face. Some of the badly-written fantasy/sci-fi/horror novels I've read [Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, for example] are all about atmosphere and not so much about plot. Her later books are a tad better, but still not my favorites.

Alison, I think it's pretty safe to say you're my favorite author ever. :D :D Garth Nix is my all-time favorite male author...he's awesome!

[Sirkana]

I really like Garth Nix but the Abhorsen trilogy doesn't have much romance in it, really, so if that's what you want...