Subject: Plugs for all the books I need to obsess over with someone.
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Posted on: 2015-10-29 05:08:00 UTC

First off, Brandon Sanderson. All of his stuff. All of it. I cannot stress how amazing his books are: everyone on here should read them. They are beautiful.

The Door Within Trilogy by Wayne Thomas Batson. This is where my handle came from; it's a Christian YA series, and it had a really deep impact on me. I heartily recommend the audiobooks. They're read by the author, and they're really immersive.

The Paper Magician by Charlie Holmberg. This has one of the most interesting magic systems I've seen, and a great story to boot. It's part of a series, which makes it even better. It centers around Ceony Twill, a young magician in the early 1900s (1901, I think) who is forced into learning paper magic, rather than steel, like she wanted. The love story moves a little too quickly, but other than that it's wonderful.

The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer. These are futuristic twists on the old fairy tales: now Cinderella is Cinder, a cyborg in a country where being a cyborg makes you second-class, at best, and the entirety of Earth has to deal with the Lunars, a race of advanced humans with terrifying mental abilities. These books are awesome, and the next in the series comes out next month! Yipee!!

Brandilyn Collins is another Christian author with some really interesting mysteries: Eyes of Elisha was very good, as was her Kanner Lake series. Oh, and Exposure. That one was awesome.

C.J. Hill, another YA Christian author, and her Slayers series. I also really enjoyed Erasing Time. The first centers around a group of kids who are descendants of knights imbued with special powers for the purpose of fighting dragons, the second is about twin sisters who are dragged forward in time to a dystopian city-state. Both could be better, but I enjoyed them.

Well, that's all for me. Oh, and if anyone cares, all of the books are fairly clean. Nothing egregious, anyway. If you read (or have read) any of these, tell me! I have almost no one to talk to about any of them.

-Alleb

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