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At the end of a long day, or long work week, we all look for some means of escape. Some people watch their favorite sitcom re-runs to relax. Some people go to the movies. With small children, I am housebound in the evenings, and I prefer to pick up a book.

When I pick up a book, I want to sink into a world that will tune out my own. Sometimes I reach for well worn volumes that I have already read several years past, and I escape into another world, peopled by characters that are as familiar to me as my own family. The books that I prefer tend to have strong heroes or heroines: sometimes extraordinary people with magical powers, sometimes ordinary people whose actions make them extraordinary.

When I find an author that I like, I tend to read ALL of their work. When I am finished, I search high and low for other authors that can take me to other worlds on other adventures. On this site, I list the authors that I have discovered and their books that I most recommend. If you can recommend other authors, please do!! Send me your opinions, please.

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Trickster

Junior High and up

This is the story of Alanna's daughter. It is a good read, though slightly less engaging than the others, especially the second story. The plot is full of intrigue, but things fall into place a little too patly, and although the heroes are likeable, it does not have the depth of some of her other books. Here is Amazon's review:
At the center of each of these books is always a strong and resourceful young woman who masters the arts of swordplay and knightly warfare in the magical medieval country of Tortall. Alianne, or Aly, daughter of the warrior queen Alanna the Lioness, has all these skills, but also a delicious sense of humor, which serves her well when she is chosen by the trickster god Kyprioth to serve as his secret agent and a slave for a year in the embattled Copper Isles. There the dark-skinned natives, or raka, have been conquered and crushed by the laurin, light-skinned people from the mainland. The burning raka resentment is fueled by prophecies of a twice royal queen who will free them, aided by the "wise one, the cunning one, the strong one, the warrior, and the crows." Just how each of the colorful characters and Aly herself fit into this prophecy and Kyprioth’s tricky plan keeps readers guessing.

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Trickster's Choice
Trickster's Queen

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Bardic Universe

Young Adult and up

The heroes of these tales by Mercedes Lackey are street musicians, gypsies and magical creatures. The stories are detailed and engaging. Each of the books tells its own tale focusing on characters that we've met in previous narations. The evil villains tend to be the powerful and power-hungry while the heroes are the down-trodden, but within this framework the stories are entertaining and a fast read.

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Lark and the Wren
Robin & the Kestrel
Eagle and the Nightingales

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