Any Fantasy Adventure/Sci-Fi/Other creatures readers out there

[Amaye]

I love love fantasy adventure series - have been reading them for years now. One of my favorite authors is David Edddings. I have read everything he has written. Also loved the Dragonlace series by Margaret Weiss and Tracey Hickman.

I am now getting into the whole vampires/werewolf world too - Laurell Hamilton (even though her latest Anita books suck!) & Charlaine Harris are authors l really like.

Does anyone else have the same taste in books? If so, l would have to get some recommendation on a new series to read. I have been trying some new authors but nothing has really caught my interest so far.

Thanks! :D

[Carrie K]

I like Sci Fi/Fantasy, but it's not my main genre. Ever read anything by Kage Baker? She has a series I like about.....argh. I always explain books so that they sound unbearably boring, but they're not! Here's the link at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0765311321/qid=1121997273/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_sbs_2/002-5664062-0560035?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Oh my. I hope that turns out to be an actual link. It looks wonky.

[maxandmolly]

Yes, the last couple Anita Blake books HAVE sucked! Although, the last one wasn't quite as bad. Have you read her Merry Gentry series? It's pretty much all sex and magic, but she started with it that way, so it doesn't feel like you're being robbed of a plot line as much as with Anita.
Now, CA, how did I know one of the first threads you'd turn up in would be a book thread?!?

[Amaye]

Yep - l have read the Merry Gentry series too. As you said, it's all sex and magic but it's been like that since the beginning so l am not upset at anything.

As for the Anita series, l am so tired of the "ardeur" and the 50 million men she now has to hump to get it under control. The last book kinda annoyed me because so many story lines from Cerulan Sins where left totally open and all of a sudden 30million new characters emerged. l dunno....l went back and read all the books again and it's such a difference from the beginning. Ok ok enough complaining.

Carrie K Nope, l have never heard of Kage Baker. l will definitely be checking her out.

For anyone interested in Vampires,etc, 2 series l recommend are the "Dead as ..." Series by Charlaine Harris and one by Kim Harrison. Very interesting!

[maxandmolly]

Supposedly, she's said even SHE hates the ardeur now, and it will play a smaller role in future books. Like, hump everybody you want, but must we read about every. single. little. detail?!? The thing that drove me bugnuts in the last one was all the typos, though! It was so darned destracting....I mean, why pay $20 for a hardcover book when they can't even be bothered to proffread the darn thing?