User talk:Hisana456/@comment-4475299-20130816115015/@comment-4475299-20130818065544

It is my experience that people shift from fiction to non-fiction, as they age. Can't really tell you why, but tastes change, as people engage in new activities and develop new interests. Most of what I'm reading now is history, whatever cuisine-related I can find (from recipe books and technical manuals to history and sociology of food habits) and biographies, generally of scientists and explorers.

However, as far as fantasy goes, there is something I'm reading: one is the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, which comprises 14 published novels (15 in December), plus an anthology and a couple of loose stories or three; then I can offer the Alex Verus series by Benedict Jacka, which will have 4 published books in September.

Even if it has a fairly strong romance thread in it, Dresden Files is a hard-boiled PI/urban fantasy about the only wizard listed in Chicago's phone book and his associates. It freely pillages european folklore, likely because that's both more freely available to Butcher and more appealing to readers. It's quite noir, and more than a little violent - I suspect it appeals more to boys than to girls. If you're curious, I'd suggest you to read the "Side Job" anthology first.

Alex Verus is another urban fantasy, this time set in London, about Alex Verus, a diviner who manages to extricate himself from any sort of trouble thanks to his quick wits and his ability to navigate his magical capabilities. It also probably appeals more to boys than to girls, and you might wanto to visit Jacka's site to learn more about it.

A third one, which I did not really like, is the Courts of the Feyre by Mike Shevdon. It's now a four-boook series about a Niall Petersen who finds he's a half-fey/half-human capable to express his full fey potential and his rise in the fey society. I thought it was overblown and overstretched, but these books may appeal to you more than they did to me. For this, I can only suggest you to google it.

Amazon carries plenty of other fantasy series, many of them by women authors and featuring a chick-in-chainmail protagonist - after the first couple of books I've discovered I was not really interested in them.