soul .gc December 4, 2007 Share soul .gc Member December 4, 2007 Alright - I said it - Female Authors haha. Yes, I have been on a kick lately of reading good female authors with strong female leads. These mostly center around occult/fantasy/horror books. Kim Harrison - The Deathly Hallow series - I love this series and cannot wait for another book to come out this Spring. Kelley Armstrong - These are great - make sure to start at the beginning with Stolen - they are sets of two but the characters pop in and out of future books and make it very entertaining. I have several more but will see if the topic goes anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroDamage December 4, 2007 Share ZeroDamage Member December 4, 2007 Female author with a great series but not necessarily a female lead. Mercedes Lackey with two great series: "Joust" (4 books) and "The Outstretched Shadow." Both are on the top of my list of great books; I own both series in hard cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playaa December 4, 2007 Share Playaa Member December 4, 2007 my favorite female author by far (though she's not occult, she's just fantasy) is Robin Hobb. Her Liveship trilogy and her Assassin trilogies have some of the most realistic characters of any books I've read in years. If you like good female characters then you MUST read the Liveship trilogy as there is one character in that book that just astounded me. You hear alot about characters growing and changing in literature...but no character I have ever read has undergone such a drastic and yet, realistic, change as a certain one in those books. her other series as Robin Hobb (she also writes as Megan Lindholm) are worth reading (though her latest is her worst). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bewildered December 4, 2007 Share Bewildered Member December 4, 2007 Rosemary Sutcliff The shield ring is just recently back in print, probably because of the movie Beowulf. I have my dads copy, read it many times. Great book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soul .gc December 7, 2007 Author Share soul .gc Member December 7, 2007 Hey guys - good to see this section is still alive haha. I have read Robin Hobb - I liked the Liveship traders but could not get into the assassin series. She does a great job of character development but I thought she went too far in-depth for my tastes. They are very well written books though. I will have to check out the Shield Ring Bewildered - sounds interesting. ZD - I have read some Lackey, she always writes a good book that I consider an "in-between" book....something to fill the time between books haha. Someone go read Kim Harrison so I can talk about those books - they are great!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brew December 14, 2007 Share Brew Member December 14, 2007 im half way through this chick's book... it has a female lead... and its pretty damn good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playaa December 14, 2007 Share Playaa Member December 14, 2007 yeah, see...I never quite figured out what was so amazing about Atlas Shrugged...it just bored me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmerisme December 14, 2007 Share farmerisme Member December 14, 2007 I thought it was pretty good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfsblood January 26, 2008 Share Wolfsblood Member January 26, 2008 Caitlin R. Kiernan. Start with Five of Cups if you can find it. Also good are Threshold and Low Red Moon, but read Threshold before Low Red Moon. Style: horror, but with excellent character development, and not cheesy horror. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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