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Suggestions for novels?
I am looking for suggestions for fantasy novels to get my 17-year-old niece for Christmas. (I actually already got her a couple things, but no books, and since I always have given her books in the past it feels wrong not to this year). I've been giving her the Claudia Gray vampire novels the last few years, which she really liked, but I'm pretty sure I've exhausted those. I know she hates Twilight, and while she's pretty into anime (Naruto, Hetalia, Death Note, Inuyasha, and Fruits Basket) I don't want to buy her manga because I have no idea what she does and doesn't own.
I was thinking she might like some halfway decent vampire novels since she liked the other ones, but I don't know what's good--are the Vampire Diaries (the books) any good? Other suggestions? I could just go with some of my favorites, which I may very well do (it's always good to get other people hooked on your favorite authors), so that might be something by Robin McKinley or Tanya Huff or Diane Duane, but I'd be interested in hearing other people's suggestions.
I was thinking she might like some halfway decent vampire novels since she liked the other ones, but I don't know what's good--are the Vampire Diaries (the books) any good? Other suggestions? I could just go with some of my favorites, which I may very well do (it's always good to get other people hooked on your favorite authors), so that might be something by Robin McKinley or Tanya Huff or Diane Duane, but I'd be interested in hearing other people's suggestions.
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Carrie Vaughn has an entertaining werewolf series. The protagonist is awesome but the books don't pretend to be more than they are.
Hmm, Maureen Johnson's In the Name of the Star has excellent world building and spookiness to it.
Justin Cronin's The Passage is atmospheric, intense and pretty much the best vampire novel (okay, vampire and vampire-zombie, there are both in this series. now I am getting off track) I can recall reading. If she likes horror, Justin Cronin is the place to start.
Of course, if she likes high fantasy, nothing can beat ASOIAF. I read the first book when I wasn't much older than her so I have no qualms about including it. Don't let her be intimidated by the long length, it reads fast.
Anyway, that is where I would start. If none of these would suit, tell me and I will rec other books.
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How about 'Across The Nightingale Floor'? Again, not vampires, but terrific & unusual fantasy fare - ninjas, samurai, true love, magic, war, vengeance etc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across_the_Nightingale_Floor
Along with Carrie Vaughn's likeable werewolf series I'd rec Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan books - she's a witch, but there are vampires& werewolves & pixies.
OH! Hang on - The Morganville Vampires! They''re pitched more at teens; slender wee books, and they read like standalone episodes of a TV show, if that makes any sense. Rachel Caine. Plotty, romance but it's not the whole focus, not Twilightish. I've only read the first 4.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Morganville_Vampires
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