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Bookwyrm ([personal profile] rabid_bookwyrm) wrote in [personal profile] sholio 2023-12-20 04:56 am (UTC)

The dog in Grey King is the only thing I really recall from these books - that they have a beloved dog and then the antagonist dog? wolf? fox? canid, like, pretends to be/looks like the protagonist dog and kills a sheep, setting up the protag dog to be killed by the farmer? There was some real horror in them seeing what was happening and not being able to turn events.

I tried rereading Prydain a few months ago and bounced off hard, I'll warn you. I remember really liking them when I was younger, but I no longer have patience for how young they are pitched. I haven't tried L'Engle since middle or maybe highschool - my middle school library had a ton of her work, which is how I learned there were more books outside of the Wrinkle/Wind/Tilting trilogy.

Other suggestions for young-me books you might also have read - the Enchanted Forest chronicles (which do hold up, except the last one), the early Tamora Pierce quartets, Patricia McKillip, Robin McKinley, Jane Yolen, or Monica Furlong.

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