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   By Konran on Thursday, May 20, 2010 - 12:34 pm: Edit Post

Ashley, if you enjoyed the Kushiel series, you may want to look for Carey's other fantasy project. She has a duology called Banewreaker and Godslayer, which is a loose retelling of Lord of the Rings, but from the bad guy's point of view.

   By Mark Stephen Kominski on Friday, May 21, 2010 - 07:49 am: Edit Post

I'd almost picked up Kushiel's Dart several times; hearing good things about it might make me do it next time! ;-)

3 quarters thru Shadowrise, and the myriad different sub-plots are converging....final book is due out in October, as is Stephen Donaldson's next Covenant Book, Against All Things Ending. All adds up to a nice end to the year with IT in that timeframe, but so much re-reading to do (I was almost lost in Shadowrise, and actually needed the synopses this time!).

   By Konran on Friday, May 21, 2010 - 08:04 pm: Edit Post

Definitely give Kushiel a try; Carey is excellent at politics. D: I knew the new Donaldson book was coming out this year... but we really have to wait till October? *cry* Also, for Temeraire fans, word is that the new book in the series is coming out in July....

   By Raelene Monahan on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 02:26 am: Edit Post

If this has not already been said, (and there is a very long archive list i'm not looking at :-) ) I would definetly recomend reading the valdemar books by Mercedes Lackey. You could start with Arrows of the Queen as the first she wrote, or the latest series's book Foundation, or indeed just about any trilogy along the way. There are over 30 books in the valdemar series alone and every one is a delight to read. She also has lots of other series including respinning classic fairytales like cinderella, the swan princess, beauty and the beast etc with lots of fun, and a wonderful two trilogy's with James Mallory the Obsidian Trilogy and the enduring flame trilogy. All really great reads to tide us over till IT!

   By Auna on Saturday, September 04, 2010 - 07:59 am: Edit Post

I recently became a Brandon Sanderson addict. It's really quite funny - I was pondering whether to buy the final Robert Jordan books and decided to check this guy out who was writing the ending (never heard of him before). Anyway, read a chapter snippet from one of his published books and immediately got hooked. Now he is on my short list of authors I buy everything of without even reading a preview first.

Of course this got me into trouble this week when I got a delivery, it was a pre-ordered book of his, went whoop!, delved in, and 1000 pages, two days later and a query on a book 2 timeframe realized it was his epic 10 book series. Why do I do this to myself? Waah. The book was super good though and didn't leave off badly fortunately :-) Can't wait for more of his stuff!

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