(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best teen fantasy books

The Fire Ignites is the first book in my middle-grade fantasy series, The Tenth Dimension. I have also released the second and third books of the series. Here are the links:

The Wild Lands

The Dark Assembly

I only just published the books (the eBook versions will be available soon), but I am super excited to have my writing available on Amazon.

Thanks so much for taking the time to check it out! Any feedback, positive or negative, would be greatly appreciated.

You might try the Cecilia and Kate books, Sorcery and Cecilia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician. Light romance, but it's definitely present. The trilogy bound together was on sale yesterday and goes on sale every once in awhile for a few dollars, but today it's back to $17.99 on Amazon. Still slightly cheaper than buying the books individually. https://smile.amazon.com/Cecelia-Kate-Novels-Sorcery-Magician-ebook/dp/B00NVZPCUE/ref=pd_sim_351_7?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=AEYNYN9GP2C3HRZV60GC

On the heavier/darker romance side, if you don't mind your Victorian leaning way Steampunk, you could check out Bec McMaster's London Steampunk series. Book 1 is Kiss of Steel - https://smile.amazon.com/Kiss-Steel-London-Steampunk-Book-ebook/dp/B007ZI06FE/ref=la_B00CGU3DKQ_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1500919906&sr=1-8 . I read the first 2 in the series and enjoyed them. I didn't realize the series went out to 5 books now!

Hi /u/RruinerR, thanks for the plug!

My book, The Dinosaur Four, is an adult sci-fi thriller about ten everyday people trapped in the past. It's meant to feel sorta like an '80s horror movie. Have a look and see what you think. (If you like audiobooks, I recommend the audio version. Nick Podehl's performance brings the story to life and audible has a great return policy if you decide it isn't for you after a few chapters.)

Raptor Red, by paleontologist Robert Bakker, tells the story of a Utahraptor running around 120 million years ago. It's a really fun read.

As ForgotToKnock mentioned, Jurassic Park and The Lost World are both worth a read and they're quite different from the films.

Ray Bradbury's collection Dinosaur Tales has some neat stories, including the classic, "A Sound of Thunder."

Finally, I recently published a story in a dinosaur anthology called Prehistoric. I haven't read the other stories yet, so I can't vouch for any in particular, but if you find one you like, look up the author's work. I believe they have all written dinosaur novels.

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Best,

Geoff Jones

Author of The Dinosaur Four

I would suggest reading up on Cassandra Claire and The Draco Trilogy first.

The Draco Trilogy, despite having been revealed to have been heavily plagiarized from Pamela Dean's book The Secret Country, spawned heavily used HP fan tropes like Draco in Leather Pants, as well as the Draco/Ginny 'shipping pairing. The Cassandra Claire plagiarism controversy also resulted in the founding of popular Harry Potter fanfiction site FictionAlley.

Cassandra Claire has since removed The Draco Trilogy from FictionAlley due to her becoming a published author, as well as recycling some scenes from The Draco Trilogy into her first published book, City of Bones. She also changed her penname to "Cassandra Clare", and has since become known as a YA author for her series The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices.

Here is also a [very] in-depth and long account of what exactly happened with Cassandra Claire and plagiarism in The Draco Trilogy.

As for advice on writing Harry Potter fanfiction, I would highly suggest checking out /r/HPFanFiction! Good luck with your ideas!

Currently reading The Ripple Trilogy - I picked it up on a whim because it was so cheap. They call it a trilogy, but honestly - each book is so short that all three in their entirety equals out to a single book imo.

It's about a girl with a genetic mutation that allows her to turn invisible; she meets a guy with the same genetic mutation, and then they discover that this nazi scientist from WW II did experiments on people like them, and is still experimenting and trying to eliminate anyone with the mutation that isn't under his control. I'm only about halfway through, so that's as far as I've gotten :)

It's not bad, but it annoys me that half the narrative is about the protagonist's crush on the guy, and how sad she is because she thinks he only wants to be friends. The story part is really well done and intriguing, but the romance angle is bullshit, awkward, and poorly executed. It feels so forced, like the author thought she had to include romance for whatever reason - because that's the way things are done? I dunno. It's stupid, and it's really taking away from my enjoyment of the book otherwise.

Debbie Reese's blog is focused on children's literature, but she has a long list here of Native writers and illustrators on Twitter. Personally, I've enjoyed books by Daniel Heath Justice and Rebecca Roanhorse. There's also a nice short story collection called Walking the Clouds (though if you get bogged down in the first section about non-linear narratives, I suggest skipping ahead to the other stories, which are more straightforward).

On my to-read list: Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia, Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice, The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline, The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf by Ambelin Kwaymullina.

It may be cliche to say and I will anyways. I am fortunate to be married the most dedicated woman I could ever have asked our God for. In between giving her time every single day to enrich our son's learning, preparing us for every day, and taking care of us every single way that she can.. She writes. She writes to help us escape from this daily grind I know many people, not just us, are all too familiar with. She just finished her first novel set in a parallel world of magic, assassins, and a bloodthirsty Elf queen hellbent on the eradication of anyone that stands up to her authority. A forbidden love that is crushed in it's desperation for survival. A mother that is left no other choice but to abandon her Court and escape into our world. If you like elemental magic and dark fey, please check out Feylin: Inner World Prequel.

Also, watch out for Book 1 which will be published on September 27th.

Princess of the Elves: A Fairytale Portal Fantasy (The Inner World Book 1)

This is for you R.L. Medina :)

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I did a contest just like this one in the past! Happy birthday :) and thanks for the contest.

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>Do you think fairy tales can still affect today social issues?

Oh, absolutely. They already are. Fairy tales and fairy tale retellings have immense cultural relevance and cultural staying power in modern society, and honestly to both my delight and horror the US media has been in somewhat of a fairy tale adaptation revitalization period; it seems like every time I turn around there's another book or television show or movie based on a fairy tale coming out (which means lovingly faithful adaptations, epic historical dramas, updated and period piece retellings, dark reimaginings, and just plain fun adaptations....and on the flipside, nonsense like this and this).

Many of the stories are universal in their themes and are just as applicable to modern-day life as they were hundreds of years ago. Why do you think we keep retelling them? They still hold an incredible amount of appeal to people despite their age.

I think that the way we tell and retell fairy tales in today's society speak to the social issues that we still find relevant to examine and revisit. Beauty and the Beast retellings have had a minor bump in the past decade in a way that completely flips the original points and purposes of the BATB narrative on its head (in that the 'Beast' figure is often a man who is very physically attractive but is a jerk or someone with a lot of Issues™), and I think it speaks to the way in which we as a society have a thing for "bad boys" that just "need a little love" to become Good Boys right now. The way a culture views and retells fairy tales and folklore is very indicative of the ways that culture is trying to grapple with certain Big Issues, and that's no less relevant to us than it was to people hundreds of years ago.

My family has been waiting for The Book of Dust for years. We are huge fans! A really fascinating and richly imaginative series I read a while back is Clive Barker's Abarat: http://www.amazon.com/Abarat-ebook/dp/B0040GJDNK. Not Pullman, but then again he is unique. I also humbly submit my new novel, The Hundred, in case it might interest you. A couple of early reviewers have likened it to Pullman...which just about means I am over the moon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Hundred-Wents-Jennifer-Prescott/dp/1492842222.

Immortal Series by Gillian Shields

Old Magic by Marianne Curley

Half Bad Trilogy by Sally Green

Blue is for Nightmares Series by Laurie Faria Stolarz

Beautiful Creatures Series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

Sweep Series by Cate Tiernan

Once a Witch Series by Carolyn MacCullough

Balefire by Cate Tiernan

Gallows Hill by Lois Duncan

Immortal Beloved Series by Cate Tiernan

Time of the Witches by Anna Myers

The Secret Circle Series by L.J. Smith

Cursed Trilogy by Lynnie Purcell

Maybe under this category: Runes Series by Ednah Walters

Sorry for the format, I'm on the mobile app. I wish I could've gotten better links for some of them but at least the ones I included have a small description. Hope you enjoy!

Edit: Adding books I forgot.

> So You Want To Be a Wizard by Diane Duane. It's kid-friendly stuff, surprisingly serious, and really amazingly cool. There are digital editions of the 9 book set around for relatively cheap. These books are great.

There's also a tenth book now, as well as a book of three novellas that take place between the ninth and tenth books.

Cape High

a light read but still very good, it alternate between characters each book, but still maintain a overall plot

The Indestructibles

really nice too

Kid Sensation

Rise of the Renegade X

Please don't tell my parents i'm a supervillain

Wearing the Cape

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I've long thought Shadow of the Red Moon was one of the more overlooked YA fantasy novels, not necessarly because of its great story (it's actually pretty lackluster) but because the sparse nature of the text lends it some great style.

So I found this on Amazon. Hopefully cheaper than your firstborn son, although I'm not sure how you set a price for that. Is it by weight? Or is it, like, how many diapers he's gone through (assuming he's not potty-trained)?

Anyways, it is hardback, which is the only version I could find, unless you read German. I'm not sure they sell paperback copies, I know my copy of Inheritance is hardback. I'll continue my search...

EDIT!: Ok, so I also found this on Amazon, which is paperback, although they're all used, in various conditions. Not sure if it's exactly what you want, but I hope it helped.

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