Date: 7 Jul 2015 06:02 pm (UTC)
thisbluespirit: (Northanger reading)
I've really gotten hooked by the Chrestomanci series, though! It also amuses me to realize that it was written way before Harry Potter. Where are the Chrestomanci movies? Why isn't this a blockbuster franchise?

LOL. I think a lot of people have asked that, and I really don't know. It's not even that HP had the hype - the first book was published by Bloomsbury, who were (pre-HP) a pretty small publisher comparatively & it spread by word of mouth. Another factor was that all of the Chrestomanci series were published by different publishers, and not obviously a series until after HP, when HarperCollins snapped them up and marketed them as a series properly (hence the Chronicles of Chrestomanci, which still seems weird to me, because they had no over-arching series title when I read them). Someone should definitely make some films, though. Christopher/Chrestomanci would be a fun character to bring to life, especially his elaborate dressing gowns!

I don't know what to make of Deep Secret myself yet, and it's actually a sequel to A Sudden Wild Magic, so I think you should keep on as you are. As I said, I am lot less comfortable with her adult novels for some reason, so I'm not the best person to ask, as a lot of people like them. If you want to try them, the Tough Guide and The Dark Lord of Derkholm are linked, and Derkholm is my favourite of her adult books. Otherwise, keep on with Chrestomanci! And then her wonderful one-offs like Dogsbody, The Time of the Ghost, Archer's Goon, Fire & Hemlock, A Tale of Time City, Homeward Bounders, and The Ogre Downstairs. For my money, those are the very best of her & include my favourites. I'm less keen on the adult novels and all the outright fantasy ones, like the Dalemark Quartet. (But again - a lot of people like them. To my mystification, they're always getting nominated in exchanges!) I think one of the things with her is that her books do tend to be quite different, even though her style's recognisable throughout, that almost everybody has at least one of her books and/or series that they really react against. You'll have to see if that happens to you and which one it is, if it does!
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