Rec request

[kmunson779]

A friend of mine is looking for elf books.  She's read Lackey's "Elvenbane" series, and I just handed her "Bedlam's Bard", but I'm coming up surprisingly short on other suggestions.  Any good elf authors I should know about?

p.s. wish me luck on the final I haven't studied for yet.  It's in 2.5 hours.

Comments

[phaedrusdeinus]

Meta-recommendation: gnod's literature map.

[osirusbrisbane]

Opinions differ, but I remember enjoying R.A. Salvatore. (Presuming she doesn't mind her elves Dark.)

[minyan]

A friend just recommended Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon, which involves Kit Marlowe and the Queen of the Sidhe... haven't read it, but with a cast like that....

[stealthmuffin]

The Last Hot Time, can't remember the author. Elves and Prohibition-era stuff.
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, though that's more fairyland than elfland. Same with Little, Big and Snow White and Rose Red. (And several others -- let me know if fairyland is to her taste.)
Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett, only the elves aren't quite the same as other elves. Nastier.

I would recommend Laurell K. Hamilton's Merry Gentry series, which is all elves and sex, but...well... the plot is an afterthought and even the sex gets boring after a while. There's only so many faeorgies that one can take.

[schreibergasse]

Things like Raymond Feist´s Midkemia novels, or Guy Gabriele Kaye, INCLUDE elves, though I´m not sure how far one can describe them as elf novels.
Pratchett´s /The Wee Free Men/ is also really more about fairies, but another very good read.