Recent content by AmyPenthesilea

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Hello, I am on the search for bigger and better things within the Fantasy realm, it seems like this forum has a lot of Sci-Fi as well, which I am sure I could learn to appreciate. I am new to this site, but all of my old haunts are leading me in circles and I need to get my hands on something...

I have read the first two and will read the third, but I found myself disappointed with the second. Cery only made one appearance, and if he doesn’t have a big part in the third I will be really upset. I was also bored with Dannyl's story, not only do I in general prefer girls as heroines but it...

Califia's Daughters by Leigh Richards Fahrenheit 451 by Rab Bradbury Heart of Gold by Sharon Shinn Although these aren't utopian societies like the Giver was supposed to be set in, the first two are imagined futures for our society, in Califia's Daughters, society has been decimated by...

It sounds alot like the movie "Constantine", perhaps there was a book that inspired it? I hope you find your book, it sounds interesting.

I liked C.S. Friedman's In Conquest Born, although the reveiwers on the back of the book call it "space opera," I think it was pretty militaristic. Though I can't really say I know what I am talking about.

Robin McKinley is one of my favorite authors, I've read all of her books but the short stories(anybody reccomend those?). My tip top favorites were Sunshine, Deerskin and her two Beauty and the Beast novels. But for some reason I REALLY did not like The Blue Sword! Perhaps I should give it...

When I was in second grade my favorite book was The Ordinary Princess, I still reread it often. What is really wonderful is that I have discovered that the same author who wrote my favorite as a seven year old also has written for adults. And now I am reading the Far Pavillions and I can enjoy...

"Rose Daughter" and "Beauty" are two versions, both written by Robin McKinley. McKinley also wrote "Sunshine" which has a little of the Beauty and the Beast story in it as well. All three are highly recomemnded. Though I wish I could find another version of BatB written by someone else, it's my...