Just finished a series I would recommend. I found myself very engaged, and read the entire trilogy in a week. (Granted, it was during the week after I had surgery, so I had a lot of time for reading.) The Sevenwaters Trilogy, by Juliet Marillier, including Daughter of the Forest (a beautiful retelling of the Celtic swans myth), Son of the Shadows, and Child of the Prophecy. They reminded me of Shannon Hale's Bayern series and Megan Whalen Turner's Thief of Attolia series, only for grown-ups, as there is a little more reference to sex (but not in any gratuitous or offensive way.) If you enjoy that type of fantasy, you will enjoy these books. I found out as I was poking around on the Internet today that Ms. Marillier wrote a couple of stand-alone follow-ups to the series, Heir to Sevenwaters (2008), and Seer of Sevenwaters (2011). These, of course, will be next on my reading list, but I always worry when authors finish a story and then come back to it years later. Often this doesn't seem to work out well. I'll let you know.
I just finished Heir to Sevenwaters. Randomly saw it at the library & decided to try it. Now I want to read the trilogy.
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