My 12yo loves the Belgariad series by David Eddings. What would you recommend once they have finished it all?
Although they are 12, they have a mature personality and have never loved anything aimed at kids. This series has really hit the spot and I’d love to know what else is out there. Thanks!
I gave a friends daughter the Dragonspell/Daggerspell series by Katherine Kerr and she loved it.
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Head to Elenium next.
Then I hit some sci-fi. Foundation. The Way Station. 2001.
Mistborn. The King’s Blades. Symphony of Ages. Valdemar.
Once 14, then the Wheel of Time; Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn; Elric; Pern.
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The Obsidian Trilogy ^(The Outstretched Shadow, To Light A Candle, When Darkness Falls) by Mercedes Lackey is pretty good.
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I read the Mallorean, then onto DragonSong, DragonSinger and Dragon drums. Pretty sure I read the Thomas Covenent books too, but didn’t like them enough to recommend. Oh, and…Magic Kingdom: For Sale – Sold!
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Pern / McCaffrey has some sketchy sexual relationship stuff going on in the first two books especially though (Dragonflight and Dragonquest) (dragons mating makes their riders also mate dubious consent … I read them around 12 or so and it was just a thing I didn’t really pay attention to, but I re-read them a couple of years ago and it really stood out to me). So I am not saying don’t go to Pern, just, you know … it’s a thing. It’s not centrally expounded on, it’s just there – and quite central to the world building.
Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan saga might be a scifi series they might enjoy, and for fantasy, The Magician (plus sequels) by Raymond Feist?
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Terry Pratchett’s Discworld
LoTR
Most anything by Drew Hayes like Super Powereds or Fred the Vampire Accountant
The original Conan Series
Sherlock Holmes
Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Six of Crows
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I gave a friends daughter the Dragonspell/Daggerspell series by Katherine Kerr and she loved it.
Head to Elenium next.
Then I hit some sci-fi. Foundation. The Way Station. 2001.
Mistborn. The King’s Blades. Symphony of Ages. Valdemar.
Once 14, then the Wheel of Time; Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn; Elric; Pern.
The Obsidian Trilogy ^(The Outstretched Shadow, To Light A Candle, When Darkness Falls) by Mercedes Lackey is pretty good.
I read the Mallorean, then onto DragonSong, DragonSinger and Dragon drums. Pretty sure I read the Thomas Covenent books too, but didn’t like them enough to recommend. Oh, and…Magic Kingdom: For Sale – Sold!
Pern / McCaffrey has some sketchy sexual relationship stuff going on in the first two books especially though (Dragonflight and Dragonquest) (dragons mating makes their riders also mate dubious consent … I read them around 12 or so and it was just a thing I didn’t really pay attention to, but I re-read them a couple of years ago and it really stood out to me). So I am not saying don’t go to Pern, just, you know … it’s a thing. It’s not centrally expounded on, it’s just there – and quite central to the world building.
Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan saga might be a scifi series they might enjoy, and for fantasy, The Magician (plus sequels) by Raymond Feist?
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld
LoTR
Most anything by Drew Hayes like Super Powereds or Fred the Vampire Accountant
The original Conan Series
Sherlock Holmes
Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Six of Crows