Novel recommendations

[norwich36]

Computer update, for those who care: it's still somewhere in the bowels of FedEx, and supposedly will be delivered to a facility near me tomorrow. Maybe. I think the computer gods are trying to tell me something, really.

Anyway, I am once again asking my flist for suggestions, this time for sci-fi and fantasy novel recommendations, since I have to put something on my amazon wishlist under $50 for a family gift exchange, and I don't honestly have any good ideas, since when I see a novel I want to read I either buy it or get it at the library. So--read anything good lately?

(I already have the latest two Connie Willis books, and I'm not getting the new Robin McKinley, since I've heard it ends on a cliffhanger and she never does write sequels of things. That pretty much exhausts my knowledge of "recent things I'd want to read in scifi/fantasy.")

Comments

[rsadelle]

Off the top of my head:

The Andrea Cort novels by Adam Troy Castro. (Don't be deterred by the male author: I loved them. Also, I got the rec from a transwoman at a panel on bisexual characters in sci fi.)

Naomi Kritzer has a duology I love and a trilogy that was also quite good that are both lesbian fantasy novels. (Or at least the duology - I think the triology also has lesbian characters.)

The Kitty series by Carrie Vaughn is one that's compelling enough to get you to the third book where she really learns to write. (I have issues with something plotwise that happens in it, but you might not have the same issue.)

I also love the Elantra novels by Michelle Sagara, and one of them turned out to be unexpectedly femslashy.

Lyda Morehouse's AngeLINK series is right up your alley, but they may be out of print.

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

Everyone is reccing these long series! I know I'm going to read the first novel and then get hooked, so I have to get careful. I looked at the amazon descriptions of these and am amused at how the covers of the Kitty series look like every single urban fantasy series I'm addicted to. And I see both Morehouse and Kritzer have religious themes, which you know I always love. You are very good at predicting things I will like! Though holy crap, someone wants $125 for an out of print Morehouse. I think I'll try interlibrary loan for those. Unless the local library has them?

[rsadelle]

Hee! I always say I don't read long series but then I actually do. The Kitty series definitely fits in with the other urban fantasy series. I reread the Kritzer duology recently, and found the religious stuff even more interesting than I remember it being. The local county library used to have at least one of the Morehouse books, but it looks like they don't anymore. ILL might be your best option!