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[oyceter]

I've got a friend who recently read Juliet Marillier's Sevenwaters Trilogy and loves Mists of Avalon who's looking for good fantasy, preferably of a Celtic bent, with strong female characters. Any suggestions? Heh, I've found I generally read more Asian and fairy-tale influenced fantasy, so I've probably missed this entire vein.

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And because I'm a dork who hit "post comment" instead of "preview", let's try to finish my original post now, hmmm? :P

One of the few Charles de Lint books that I'll recommend is the Jack of Kinrowan duology (Jack the Giant Killer and Drink Down the Moon). It's entertaining with a pretty good female lead character.

And while the main character in the books is a boy (Will), Susan Cooper's series The Dark is Rising also features Jane along with her brothers, Simon and Barney, in Over Sea, Under Stone and they also show up in the last two books of the series, Silver on the Tree and The Grey King. As I recall, Jane was part of the action in all those books.

Plus, there are always the women of George R. R. Martin's books... (and I still remember your caution to some of your friends: "Not happy! Not fluffy!" *G*)

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I might have to dig up the Kerr series myself now ;).

Oooo, The Dark is Rising!! Love love love that series. I think she might have read it, but I'll ask just in case (it's a childhood read for me, and it seems sort of odd thinking that someone has not read it).

Hee, George R. R. Martin definitely needs the angst warning. I told you about that one friend who was traumatized when the dire-wolf was killed in book one? I was just thinking, heh, heh, yeah, just you wait...