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Originally Posted by peachiekene
Given the above content requests, I'm going to highly recommend NOT going with The Sword of Truth.
It's an okay series and I know many who like/love it (though I've lost my taste for it) - but "innocent escapism" it is not.
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Hmm. Well, LOTR is
hardly "non-violent," no matter how you try to overlook it. It certainly has no graphic sexual references, that's true.
What about the big Melanie Rawn series that she DID finish? The Sunrunner's Fire series, I think it was called? Started with "Dragon Prince?" It then had a sequel trilogy--"Stronghold," I think. I don't believe she ever finished that other one--"Exiles" trilogy (that wasn't)--the Ruins of Ambrai was the first one, so don't read THAT one. I remember reading the first two (books in that purported, to-be trilogy) and being frustrated as hell when the third one just NEVER materialized, and I mean, NEVER, over a decade or more, IIRC. More like two decades, almost?
What I remember vividly about the Dragon Prince trilogy and its successor was that it had a lot of "family" moments. Families with kids playing, focus on that sort of thing--extremely unusual in fantasy and sci-fi. It was something my own mother, now passed, really liked.
Just a thought.
Hitch