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

[randomchris.livejournal.com]

For obvious homoerotic fantasy, the Mercedes Lackey series "Magic's Pawn", "Magic's Promise" and "Magic's Price" was many readers' first experience of a homosexual main character who is not all about being gay.

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

I fell totally in love with Mercedes Lackey's 'Diana Tregarde' series way back, but never picked up any of her others... no, scratch that, there were one or two 'elves in modern America' ones that were fun, but... Dunno why I never read any others - probably grumping that it couldn't possibly be as good. I might get lucky with those in one of the second hand bookstores? *makes note*