Author: Mercedes Lackey

[marbleglove]

It had been a while since I read any Mercedes Lackey so I've been going back to read and/or re-read some of her books. Particularly since Methos as a Herald of Valdemar continues to pester me. Anyway, her books are a lot of fun even if they don't have particularly sophisticated plot or character development. However, the one thing that suddenly struck me was that here is a mainstream writer who has canonical slash. Is that not cool? I can't, off the top of my head, think of any other book or series that has it so casually in place, where the book is still plot driven and, oh yes, the love interest happens to be same-sex as the main character. Lackey has written a lot of books and sometimes they're slash, sometimes they're het, sometimes they're gen, but they're always no more than PG-13. I just thought that was very cool. If you can think of any other author who writes like this, let me know.

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If you have not read, I rec this:

[pollyparks.livejournal.com]

if you are still interested, have you read the nightrunner series by Lynn Flewelling? her other books are fascinating as well.

Re: If you have not read, I rec this:

[marbleglove.livejournal.com]

Cool. I've seen these books and they looked interesting but not particularly compelling, so I never got around to reading any of them. With your rec, I'll add "Luck in the Shadows" to my to-read list. Thanks.