Favorite Books and Current Reads

[Kinokokao]

[Maxine MagicFox]

[Kinokokao]

Oh, yeah! It was originally an English fantasy release that was only recently translated and released as light novels in Japan. I believe Bantam is the publisher of the North American releases. They came out in.... gosh, late 90s? She's written the 3 Nightrunner books (Luck in the Shadows, Stalking Darkness, Traitor's Moon) followed by the Tamir Triad (Bone Doll's Twin, Hidden Warrior, Oracle's Queen) and just last Spring released book 4 of the Nightrunner series, Shadow's Return. White Road, her newest book, is due out this fall.

SYNOPSIS!
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The Nightrunner series is about young Alec of Kerry, who is rescued from a dungeon by the mysterious Seregil. Seregil trains the boy in the art of being a Nightrunner -- doing odd bits of espionage, thievery and the like for the Skalan nobility. Alec and Seregil also assist the great wizard Nysander and serve the crown as Watchers -- loyal to Skala and the Oreska (the wizard's enclave).

Skala is a country friendly to magic -- the great Oreska serves as a house for wizard's and a school for learning. Skala is ruled by Queens as determined by a prophecy... the crown inheritance is strictly matrilinear. Women serve proudly in the army, as well, and the Queen and her heir are both grand generals. Skala is a society friendly to both women and homosexuality -- Seregil is openly gay. (>_> Told you there was canon slashy fun!) Flewelling puts a lot of energy into creating the people, culture and government of her world. Her writing is top-notch, too.

The real crux of action, however, is Skala's ongoing war with Plenimar, a fearsome country filled with necromancers and slavery. I won't give much of the plot away, but it's a grand "save the world" adventure with a gut-wrenching twist.

<3
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The first 3 Nightrunner books are being re-issued with new covers, actually, I believe later this year. You can still find the old covers in bookstores, however. Or, quite cheap on

[Maxine MagicFox]

[Kinokokao]

[Maxine MagicFox]

[Kinokokao]

[noodles]

in a month or two I will be reading the Haruhi light novels

and it will be glorious

seeing as I have read almost the whole series alread in trfffanlation. The translation was awful but the story is just so powerful that it consistently overpowered the crappy diction. Yuki's emotions oozed off the computer screen. I had to get a towel.

[Rain]

I'm currently reading q&a, the novel that inspired Slumdog Millionaire. Good book so far, very different from the movie though.

We're also reading Frankenstein in class.

[Kinokokao]

I finished both Luck in the Shadows and Stalking Darkness. I'm a little over a third of the way through Traitor's Moon right now. I forgot why I didn't care for the 3rd book that much, and now I remember -___-;;

It's still good, just not AS good. But it's really fun getting to re-read these, since there are so many little details that only make sense in reflection of what ends up happening.

Oh, and I've been reading Yellow, too, which is a new yaoi series I bought for myself.

[noodles]

[Seniwac]

[Maxine MagicFox]

Yay for reading time!

[Onigiri]

Rereading the first series of Saga of the Noble Dead. After that, I'll start on the new one.

[Seniwac]

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