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Post by Tesla Ranger on Feb 12, 2016 1:53:56 GMT
I hear a lot about "YA Fiction" since I'm married to a Children's Librarian. It seems that these days it's a catch-all term more than it's own genre. If a piece of speculative fiction doesn't contain a blatant sex scene (it can have sex, just can't be graphic about it), then the publisher is likely to categorize it as YA. If that's the case, it seems tantamount to a rating label ("YA" for "PG-13"). I'm not sure it's a particularly helpful label in that case. I can, at least in my head, somehow draw a clear line between Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Romance but it would be difficult for me to define YA in definitive terms. It's sort of become a "meta-genre" that overlaps the other genres.
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Post by dmxtrordinari on Feb 17, 2016 7:21:53 GMT
I've read most of the Drizzt books multiple times, and the two trilogies that stand out to me as by far the best were the Dark Elf Trilogy that Vulash mentioned earlier, and the Hunter's Blade trilogy which primarily deals with Obould and his war against the rest of Faerun. Your going to get a lot of specific lore relating to the characters, and some offhand lore relating to Faerun in general.
If your interested in reading books relating to drow specifically, I suggest the War of the Spider Queens series. Each book is written by a different author, and while the 'voice' of each book is somewhat different I feel their similar enough and each author brought something unique to the table in regards to the characters.
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