MLH... Love both those authors... Great books.. Have them on reserve at library! What other authors are you into?
Oh were to start! I have many....I started out a reader hater, then my DB handed me LOR....which I loathed and refused to read, so he handed me Sword of Shanara by Terry Brooks....the rest was history. I bought books instead if music tapes..... I read mostly Fantasy and little SF all through high school. Then all my favorite authors kinda petered out or took sabbaticles (?) in that genera so I moved over to Romance. That was an interesting genera to read since it is very very fad driven. Historical romances were the thing in my day then eventually paranormal. I eventually got into YA and Youth books when the Romance genera was filled to over flowing with the same old tired re written paranormal drivel. Don't get me wrong, I still have favorites in that category but it's still the same old same old so I'm pickier then I used to be.
One day I was desperate and ended up in the youth section of the book store, feeling all skeevy for being there, trying to find anything to read while I was in a dry spell author wise. This little boy comes running down the isle I was in and was shouting that "his" book was in! I was like "Hunh?" He then chattered that "this is
the book" he wanted to spend his allowance on. So I figured, young boy spending money on a book? Right on! I asked him what book was sooooo cool. He proudly showed me Brandon Mulls Fable Haven series. Well the second book on the series anyway! So with his 30 minute stellar endorsement in mind and the book sounding interesting, I grabbed up the first book in the series and got hooked....hook line and sinker hooked! Thus started my journey into YA and Youth book. The authors are fresh and new and the plots are easy to follow and enjoy. Sometimes adult authors like Laurell K Hamilton whom I used to love btw, get all lost in their plots and it gets laborious to remember who did and said what. plus sadly there seems to be a number of them that start off with these huge series planned and then come to hate writing said series half way through them, so they get all convoluted and hateful toward their characters and take that out on them and hence the readers.
Anyway, like I said, I have many authors I like. My newest beloved favorite is Julie Kagawa and her Iron Fey series and her brand spanking new Blood of Eden series. I just finished the first book of that series and am in loooooove! Plus she has chickens!
I also like Amanda Hocking (Tyrelle and My Blood Approves series) Rachael Hawkins, Hex Hall series, Suzanne Collins and her Hunger Games series, JR Ward, Gena Showalter, Sherilyn Kenyon (although she is getting rather redundant), Jeannine Frost, Carrie Vaughn, C.C. Hunter. Those are just a few! All the new ones anyway.
I also have "vintage" authors that I love like Anne McCaffrey and Raymond Feist just to name a few! LOL!
I'd best wrap this up before all the peeps here tell me to shush and start to toss eggs at me! I'll have to get my list together and email it to you.....
Sorry to ramble everyone!!!
