a mighty handy oracle

I'm sick (it's depressing, in retrospect, to think of how many posts in the last year have said this). Mostly getting over it, though, which is good. I finished Victoria Hanley's The Light of the Oracle tonight, in my quest to find new female fantasy authors. It was a mishmash of the usual: teens save the day, traces of Anne McCaffrey, and an overworld suspiciously like Marion Zimmer Bradley's. The SO tells me that a bunch of authors have a similar idea, way back to Lovecraft, but I think it's more like MZB.
Then I read the first book in Kate Brian's new series, Private. It was cracktastic: a mix between a boarding school story, Gossip Girl, and Harrison's Clique series. Much better than M. Apostolina's Meri Strikes Back, which I read this week, but which didn't live up to Hazing Meri Sugarman. The sequel to Private comes out next month, yippee!
Forgive my fangirl chatter - I'm too sick, and tired, to come up with anything insightful tonight.