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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 2038678" data-attributes="member: 5171">Hey, MEM, question/request: Have you read Kristen Britain's "Green Rider"?  I believe that Kristen Britain was listed as one of the influences for the book, and, well, that's the first of her two books.  Having read and not been wowed by some Mercedes Lackey and Melanie Rawn, I gave Britain a chance without knowing that she was considered a romantic fantasy writer and really enjoyed her.  Of course, now that you know that she's arguably a romantic fantasy writer, that could color your perceptions and you'll be sick to death of it by page four. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />It's available at e-reader.com if you want to get it cheaper.  I'm sure it's in used bookstores, too.  If you do a lot of fantasy reading, I'd like to hear your take on this, as someone who dislikes romantic fantasy.  I thought it was pretty much a good light fantasy novel, with many of the usual tropes and a young adult female protagonist.  Not groundbreaking or life-changing for me, but a good read.  If Britain could write more than one book a decade, I think she'd have her own little marker on the bookshelf at Borders, like Rawn and Lackey do -- with the important difference being that I liked Britain...My point, in as much as I've got one, is that I think that if it was ever possible to say, "I don't like (genre)," it's getting to be less and less so now, if only because genre definitions have become so mixed.  It's like the rock & roll lovers who claim to hate country music but listen happily whenever "Desperado" gets played on the classic rock station.  I can no longer say that I hate country music, but am stuck with, "I generally dislike it, don't spend much time hanging out on the country music station listening for good stuff, and don't intentionally listen to much except that Garth Brooks double live album and Faith Hill's "Breathe", the former proving that Brooks, like Elvis and the Beatles, was born to perform live."It's complicated, being somebody who admits that the situation might be a bit fuzzier than wide sweeping generalizations would imply, but in the long run, it has its advantages.</blockquote>

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