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Not-Quite-Recommendations

I don’t believe in recommendations, as a good book for me might not be a good book for someone else, so I never consider a book to be something I’d recommend to everyone. These are the books that come closest to that, and I have them sorted into several categories. There can be category overlap, but at this point I am only placing a book in one categories

Resonance:

These are books that just really resonated with me, that touched on the things that always – or almost always – speak to me. Often, they are books that I like more the longer I think about them. They are liable to cross any genre I will read, even if it is one I will rarely take the chance on. Because of why and how I like these books, they might have other elements in them that I didn’t enjoy, or even disliked, but I still love them for how they resonated with me.

The Last Herald-Mage (Magic’s Pawn, Magic’s Promise, Magic’s Price) by Mercedes Lackey

The Stars Wait Not by Anne Wheeler

Wistful Ascending by JCM Berne

Children of the Nexus (Between Starfalls, Let Loose the Fallen) by S. Kaeth

The Coming of Áed (The Wild Court) by E.G. Radcliff

Persuader by Amy Campbell

The Birth of the Firebringer by Meredith Ann Pierce

Provocative:

These are books that stir challenging thoughts, that provoke considerations of things that interest me from angles that I might not have found on my own. There is generally a great deal of overlap between this and the previous category, with most Resonance titles having a touch of the Provocative, and most Provocative titles having some Resonance, but it is not a strict correlation. These books might even be almost opposed, in one way or another, to the general trend of my thought and world-view, but I enjoy them for the thought and feeling they hold. These, too, can be outside my usual genres.

Obsidian: Awakening by Sienna Frost

The Empire Series (Empire’s Legacy, Empire’s Bard, Empire’s Heir) by Marian L Thorpe

The Sword in the Street by CM Caplan

Demon Storm (The Birth of the Storm) by Valerie Storm

Escapist:

These are books I probably read more for a combination eye-catching and immersive world-building and immersive or vibrant characters, with some leaning more one way, some more another way! They can overlap to some degree with the other categories, but since these are “escapist” reads they won’t be very dark and they are unlikely to be very provocative. These are likely to be exclusively fantasy, with dragons being a recurrent theme.

Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey (Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, Dragondrums, Dragonflight, Dragonquest, The White Dragon, Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern, Dragonsdawn, Sky Dragons)

Dragon Spirits (The Iron Crown) by L.L. MacRae

Sovereigns of Bright and Shadow (Deathborn, Brightling, Sovereigns) by C.E. Page

That will do for now. There will be changes.

Reviews

Note: I sort by first name first, so look for authors by first name, not last.

Not-Quite-Recommendations

Resonance:

Provocative:

Escapist:

Reviews

Amy Campbell:

Anne McCaffrey:

Anne Wheeler:

ARK Horton:

Azshure L. Krauch:

Beth Hudson:

Bruce Coville

Bjørn Larssen:

CE Page:

C.J. Brightley:

C.M. Caplan:

EG Radcliff:

Erika McCorkle:

E.L. Haines:

G.K. Chesterton:

Hafsah Faizal:

JCM Berne:

Julia Witmer:

Julie Boglisch:

Laken Honeycutt:

L.L. MacRae:

Marian L. Thorpe:

Mckayla Eaton:

McKenzie Austin

Mercedes Lackey:

Meredith Ann Pierce:

Michelle Quirke:

P.L. Stuart:

Raymond E. Feist:

R. Ramey Guerrero:

Ryan Cahill:

Samantha Kroese:

Samantha Shannon:

Sienna Frost:

Susan McGee Britton:

S. Kaeth:

Thorarinn Gunnarson:

Timothy S. Currey:

T.A. Hernandez

Valerie Storm:

Yasmine Maher:

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