Fantasy?

[daemonluna]

Okay, I'm drawing a blank here. One of the teen "regulars" at my library branch is a big fan of fantasy with a strong romantic element. I'm trying to come up with some stuff from the adult sf/f that she hasn't read and I just can't think of specific titles.

We've already been through Tamora Pierce, Mercedes Lackey, and tried Ann McCaffery. She doesn't like SF or epic stuff. Anybody got any favourites with lots of smooching that's not too graphic? (She's only fourteen so Anita Blake is out.) I looked through my own bookshelves, but I'm not big on romance in my fantasy--unless it's girls smooching. heh.

Comments

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

I always had a special spot in my heart for The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause. :)

[daemonluna.livejournal.com]

The Silver Kiss is perfect but y'know what? She's read it already. *g* Same with Blood and Chocolate. And, I think, Companions of the Night by Vivian Vande Velde. And Sirena by Donna Jo Napoli. Etc. etc.

Now I know what I put my school librarian through when I was in jr high...

[florence-chan.livejournal.com]

hahaha... i started on Anita Blake at age 12.


I'd recommend Goodkind's Sword of Truth series, but that too is quite heavy and epic. Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Dart/Kushiel's Chosen/Kushiel's Avatar books are quite good, but again they may be going a little too deep into romance for her age, as they are rather graphic as well. Tanya Huff's Vickie Nelson books are a nice precursor to Anita Blake and they aren't particularly graphic (along sexual lines, at least).

That's all I can think of right now <:(

[daemonluna.livejournal.com]

Okay, I just don't want to be the one to GIVE her Anita Blake to read. *g* I think she wants more romance-fantasy than horror-fantasy. And, er, yeah, same goes for Kushiel's Dart. *I'm* thoroughly enjoying it, but I'm no longer fourteen. (Though I do recall reading Jean Auel and Robert Heinlein's To Sail Beyond the Sunset with *very* wide eyes when I was in jr high...)

I thought of Tanya Huff, but we only have the Vicki Nelson books as uncatalogued paperbacks. Grrr. Anyhow.

[viedma.livejournal.com]

Would Ursula Le Guin work? Some of her stuff written for teens has a romantic tinge-- i'm thinking it was Very Far Away From Everyone Else, but I could be wrong.