Two days later, I'm not torn. Mary's story, and her friends and family, relatively speaking, is small potatoes. I just don't care. ]]>
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Ciuture.Dior.Megan wrote:
>Crank Identical,etc. Have alot of sexual scenes (I >read it and am 14)
They do indeed.
What did *you* think of the sexual scenes?
I thought they were necessary for the books and not gratuitous.
But I haven't been 14 for many, many, many years.
As you wrote, it would be helpful to know the age/ grade and tastes of the original requester. ]]>
Bringing it back to Graceling, I liked that Po could only read minds when people were thinking of him. It means no government would find him useful as a spy, or any other use.
It's why his mother and grandfather kept it a secret, so he couldn't be used as Katsa was. ]]>
In Jennifer Roberson's Chronicles of the Cheysuli a multi-books series from maybe 20 years ago but was reprinted maybe 5 years ago may please you. In it, some of the characters are able to shapechange. In fact, that's the name of the first novel, Shapechangers.
Another you may like is a book of short stories where the characters are shapechangers, but not werewolves Otherwere.
Owl in Love is an interesting one.
Peter David wrote a book about a wolf that becomes a man on the full moon. Howling Mad is the title.
But none of these is about people/ beings who change into many shapes, I think...
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KatiKat,
>That's why I'm asking for books that still give you >the "WOW!" moment.
I'm thrilled that I've read a several bearing this description lately.
1. Graceling by Kirstin Cashore It's not UF but fanatsy. Katsa is an 18 year old who has been used by her uncle the king in a most horrible way (not sexual) since she was 8 years old. Because of this abuse she cannot trust, because the people of this world hold her at a distance, she trusts no one.Graceling
2. A Kiss Before the Apocalypse by Thomas E. Sniegoski This is UF, but it takes place in a Chicago that is familiar to readers of Hammet and Chandler. It's colored and charactered with loss, regret and aching pain.A Kiss Before the Apocalypse
3. New Amsterdam by Elizabeth Bear Is not UF but alternate history, mannerpunk, or some other mixed category. It's four short stories set in a New York that is still part of the British Empire, at the turn of the last century, with a vempire and a Detective Investigator who uses magic to solve crimes.New Amsterdam
4. The Enchantment Emporium by Tanya Huff Takes place in Calgary, AB in the world of the Keeper series -- so this is UF-- that I have yet to read, that is laugh out loud funny, very sweet and a lot of fun!The Enchantment Emporium
5. Impossible by Nancy Werlin The characters have no idea they are living in an UF world until 1/3 of the way through the book. Werlin, who does not typically write paranormal, wrote this as an answer/ antidote to the perfect vampire lovers in so many YA novels. It's terrific. Impossible ]]>