Joust

If you want a fresh (and more fantasy instead of sci-fi) update to the Pern series, you probably won’t find anything closer than Mercedes Lackey’s Dragon Jouster series. They are decent, though not spectacular reads.

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Best Dragon Fantasy Books

One subgenre that hasn't really formally been defined is “dragon fantasy” – those books in which dragons feature as a major part of the book, even being cast as one... Read more

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Exile's Honor

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If you want a fresh (and more fantasy instead of sci-fi) update to the Pern series, you probably won’t find anything closer than Mercedes Lackey’s Dragon Jouster series. They are... Read more

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Lackey tends to write short series of books, trilogies and such. This is the fourth book in her Bardic Voices series. Tal Rufen, the local constable, begins to notice a... Read more

By The Sword

By the Sword is full of kickass women. Kerowyn is the granddaughter of the sorceress Kethry, daughter of a noble house, runs the family keep, loves hunting and training horses.... Read more