What are you reading right now? (possible RotE spoilers)

[Farseer]

Chrischa I like the idea of books set in other worlds, like those from video games. Although I've never actually got around to reading one!!!

There are quite many good books based on the games by blizzard entertainment (Diablo, Warcraft & Starcraft). These beings would recommend reading those books.

That's interesting to know, 'thul. My boys are WOW addicts and, although I don't play it myself, I do find the world, its characters and the storyline etc all very fascinating (I have even managed to choose a side...go Alliance!), and have often thought that a novel based on them would be a worthwhile read. At the very least it would encourage even more animated discussions at the dinner table! Will have to look into them, thanks.

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Not enough time to dip into a book for myself (though that doesn't include RotE/SS re-reads...there are lots of small pockets of time to dip into those, even if they ARE at 3am in the morning!), but I have been reading my daughter 'The Cavern of the Fear', the first book of the second series of Deltora Quest by Emily Rodda.

I have spoken about it elsewhere on thePlenty but it really is just a wonderful fantasy series for kids (and their parents!). It is filled with it all...good vs evil, riddles, codes, royalty, quests, gems, maps, life-or-death battles, love, magic and, of course, dragons...!

One of the characters died today and what a mess we both were ...it was the first time through for my daughter but I'd already read the thing at least six times with my sons! In my defence, it is so much harder to keep the emotion locked inside when you're reading aloud!

So far the story is covered in fifteen books (spanning three series), with six other add-on books. I doubt there will ever be others but who knows what the Shadow Lord will do next...after all, "to its anger and envy a thousand years is like the blink of an eye" ! If you've got kids or nephews or nieces around the ages of 8 to 10, give them the first book 'The Forests of Silence' and a decade from now they'll have graduated to Robin Hobb and be chatting with you about all of your favourite RotE and SS books!