![]() ![]() (Which btw, is a complete conflation of gifted education with holistic gifted development/child raising, very reductive, and also ignores the next-door-to-gifted ‘advanced’ group both common but jarring errors. Maybe that’s not ordinary enough? This comes out very clearly in “Go Fetch”, where the human in question, with a highly weaponisable mind, opines that fellow kids with IQ over 140 need a like mind adults ‘on deck’ from age five, normies not until 16/the SATs. I would give a caveat on Laurenston, in that every non-fantastical major character I’ve ever read in her books comes across to me as gifted/asynchronous, usually profoundly. That’s male protagonist, though.Įmily Rodda may have some others for all I know which better fit the remit. I think the ‘Rowan of Rin’ novels were like this, magical problems that had to be solved using nothing but logic. Magic lady saves the day at the end.īook 11- Snow White – Normal girl and 7 nobles defeat evil (and shyness). ![]() A forest ranger heroine is steadfast enough to break a curse on the elf prince. Cinderella’s special skill is being a cash poor landowner.īook 4 – Rumpelstiltskin – Magic man falls in love with a girl who is good at sewing.īook 5 – The little Selkie, not my favorite heroine.īook 6 – Puss in Boots – Magic cat and normal girl defeat bad guys with guts and luck.īook 7 – Swan Lake – Normal girl turned into a swan and perseveres to overturn the curse.īook 9 – The Frog Prince – normal girl defeats evil with cleaning suppliesīook 10 – The 12 dancing princesses – My favorite of the series. Not my favīook 3 – Cinderella & the Colonel – Highly recommend this one, can read as a stand alone I think. All in KU.īook 1 – Beauty & the Beast – Heroine’s special skill is being stealthy (no magic, just skill)īook 2 – Wild Swans – Heroine’s superpower is being good at math and economics. Shea’s Timeless Fairy Tales series have a number of books that fit this rec league (and they are some of my favorites (book 3 and 10)). Another thing my cynical little heart loved is that it was a heist story and it ends with a glow of optimism *not* “we saved the world and everything is perfect now.” It’s really about a team of people that all have to work together. There is one heroine who has magical powers (and she gets more powerful as the book gets on) but the book is not about one person. The rest of the series (which I haven’t read in a long time) goes in a slightly more “blood destiny” route and are not my fave, truthfully.Īnother one that I liked was “Six of Crows”/”Crooked Kingdom” by Leigh Bardugo. They’re for kids, but A Wrinkle in Time/Wind Through the Door by Madeline L’Engle are told from the perspective of Meg Murry, who is very bright, but doesn’t really have any special abilities and usually ends up rescuing her super genius brother with “ordinary human” skills like love. I’m very excited to see what people recommend. It’s such a fantasy staple that it is made it a bit leery of the whole genre. ![]() Others say that "the borderline between fantasy romance and romantic fantasy has essentially ceased to exist, or if it's still there, it's moving back and forth constantly".I don’t have any perfect recommendations off the top of my head, but put me down as another person who is sick of the “chosen one” trope. Some publishers distinguish between "romantic fantasy" where the romance is most important and "fantasy romance" where the fantasy elements are most important. Romantic fantasy has been published by both fantasy lines and romance lines. One of the key features of romantic fantasy involves the focus on relationships, social, political, and romantic. Others say that "the borderline between fantasy romance and romantic fantasy has essentially ceased to exist Romantic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy fiction, describing a fantasy story using many of the elements and conventions of the romance genre. ![]() Romantic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy fiction, describing a fantasy story using many of the elements and conventions of the romance genre. ![]()
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