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

[sylvanwitch]

Ever read any Tanya Huff? She herself is a lesbian, and her plots tend to have homoerotic elements if not outright homoeroticism. Her "Blood" series is good, her "Shadows and Ashes" series (might have that a little wrong--it's a spin-off from "Blood") even better, in my opinion.

I'm very fond of Charlaine Harris (anything by her, but you'd probably like her Sooky Stackhouse stories; she has a more recent series about a most unusual pair of "siblings"--they all have "grave" in the title and are delightfully wicked and twisty).

And Kimberly Harrison is amazing! Her "Witch" books are contemporary fantasy at its hot best. Two of her main characters are in almost eternal UST of the lesbian variety. Very hot.

I don't know if any of these are what you're interested in, but I enjoy all three authors and have never been disappointed by their writing.

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

I've seen Tanya Huff's novels, but never picked one up. Didn't hear of the others, but will go and have a look!