I made a post a couple of days ago asking for easy reads to palate cleanse after having read a bunch of grimdark books, and got a lot of good recs
However, I realized that what I ACTUALLY want is some kind of ya-ish book.
In the vein of the scholomance series or the red queen series, with a clearly overpowered main character (preferably a girl), maybe even a chosen one archetype, and a decent enough plot to keep me intrigued
It doesn’t necessarily have to be a ya series, these traits just seem more common in ya
I read a lot, so anything very obvious I have already read. Some notable ones (in no particular order or reason but mostly to just avoid people’s favorite recs):
Harry Potter (which I do not f with anymore for terf reasons)
Almost all of the Sanderson books (man can’t do wrong imo)
Cradle
Red rising
Kings dark tidings
Malazan
Gideon the 9th and the rest of that series
Robin hobb
The expanse
Licanius trilogy
The faithful and the fallen
Wayward children
A few different Jim butcher series (hate this guy’s books tbh)
Magician by Feist
Cassandra Clare
Middlegame and its sequel
Most of Ve schwab (not that I particularly loved any of them either)
Most naomi novik
Nk Jemisin (almost all of hers)
Phillip Pullman (his dark materials is the only one that interested me)
Stephen king (do not like any of his stuff unfortunately)
Fourth wing
Acotar and her other series with the assassin ho
RF Kuang
Sabaa Tahir
Reign of mist
The emperium trilogy
Ash princess trilogy
Holly black (I hate her books, sorry)
The black witch
Leigh bardugo’s books
Laini Taylor’s books
The raven king and the related spin offs
Hunger games and the prequel
I’m fine with almost any subgenre, but I usually don’t like middle grade, humor, urban fantasy, or romance. (Not that I don’t like books WITH these things, I just usually don’t like them as a major genre in the books)
Tia for recs!
by vintagelego
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Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones.