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MC|1375463564|3495360 said:aviastar|1374430419|3487308 said:How funny that this thread should pop up again today- I just finished a book I wanted to share and was going to dig it up again!
I haven't tried any Georgette Heyer, yet, any particular titles to start with, ladies?
I've finished several enjoyable, fluffy, little fantasy books over the last few weeks. Castle in the Air, a companion novel to Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynn Jones; always a nice read, but I still love Howl the best. The Selection and The Elite, by Keira Cass; super light, fluffy, easy reads. Technically dystopian, but princess dystopian; I'll read the last book in the series when it comes out next year and gave them solid 3 stars each on Goodreads.
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oooh, Princess Dystopian...I've never heard of that genre before... lol Is it worth trying one of those stories out?
I'm pretty sure I just made that genre up! But those books are, literally, about a dystopian society after the collapse of North America that has reinstated monarchies. The monarchies sit atop a caste system and when the heir is a Prince they hold a Selection- a 'random' drawing of one girl from each region, so the Prince can choose a wife from among them, regardless of caste. So, a Dystopian Princess Academy meets The Bachelor.
I just checked and you can sample them on your Kindle; I think they're worth checking out for pure entertainment value. They are not deep, or thought provoking, or even particularly intelligent (although I definitely wouldn't class them as dumb, either). Fluff, pure fluff. But enjoyable, vacation from reality, fluff that I will pick up again when the last book is published.