What do I need to read?

[kennahijja]

My f-list is wise and perceptive and well-read, so here's the problem:

I'm badly out of good books. That, and my birthday isn't all that far off, so I would have an excuse for hitting Amazon. But as it is, I'm even out of books I know I desire madly. Hence, I'll ask you. What would you rec? What excited you recently?

What *do* I like? Fantasy, horror, SF if it's character-driven and not technology-heavy. Slashy, dark, unusual, stylistically beautiful, erotic. Other genres if the themes fit.

Examples that rocked my world... Carey's 'Kushiel' series, Friedman's 'Coldfire', McMaster Bujold's 'Miles Vorkosigan' series, McKillip's 'Riddlemaster' trilogy. General fondness for MZB, Guy Gavriel Kay, C J Cherryh, Octavia Butler... Storm Constantine, apart from the undisciplined plots. Liked Lynn Flewelling's 'Nightrunner' series for the slash, but otherwise it's too cliched for me... Not much into the Tolkien clone type stuff...

Suggestions will be lovingly huggled! :)

And if anyone ever stumbled across a list of homoerotic fantasy novels, I'd so love to see that :).

Comments

[hinotori.livejournal.com]

I absolutely agree with the Administration-- opened the post to reply with exactly that. I read them at the website, and it took me the better part of... two weeks, I think. Every free minute (and some of them weren't technically free, either *coughs*). I also own the first book (and have ordered the other two, only to Germany, not to Japan *facepalm*). So worth the money.

The series can be found at the Mannazone, in case you want to take a look before ordering.

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

I'll have a look first, but if I take to it, I think I'll want the book rather than read online. It lacks the curl-up-in-bed factor :).