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[mamculuna]

Can't begin to say how much I love R.A. MacAvoy. I just finished the first two novels in the Lens of the World series, and she is just excellent. Love her world, her characters, her style, the meandering and the suspense. I can see that she's read Gene Wolfe and Ursula LeGuin, but she's definitely her own thing. Especially love how she works not with made up science of the future but with clearly-understood details of a technology that fits her times--and also like the time she chose to use as the basis for her world. And can't say I've read too many fantasy novels where the hero and heroine both used meditation as a natural part of life.

Can't wait to read the last in the series, but in a way I hate to finish it. But fortunately I haven't read Tea with the Black Dragon so I still have something to look forward to when this is done.

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[ngakmafaery.livejournal.com]

...I only read Tea... by her, and really loved the main (dragon)character...maybe I'll revisit it, and see if I can find secondhand copies of the ones you recommend...thanks!

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I love those books too. They're not like anything else I've ever read, and have an admirable willingness to leave some questions open, haunting and unresolved, such as the nature of the wolf-dog.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Indeed, and also the Red Whip sorcerer, though maybe there'll be more about him in the last book.

[fresne.livejournal.com]

I also quite enjoyed her Damiano series. Which plays with some very interesting medieval concepts. Plus, the Black Dragon is a character in one of the books.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

OK, next on my list--means buying, but think she's worth it.

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

This series is part of my short list of desert island books. And TwtBD also. Will you post when you finish, if you can? The third book of tLotW is my favorite but keeping a spoiler free zone here. :)

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

I'm reading the third book now--they just keep getting better. I'l do a post with spoiler warnings when I get TwtBD.