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Funny action/sci-fi/fantasy young adult book?

I have completely out of books to read and need help!

I'm a huge fan of anything sci fi or fantasy but I don't want to read anything too serious. Something with a lot of action, strong characters and fun would be great! Also a believable love story - as in one where the girl has a backbone and doesn't instantly fall in the love and the guy is actually decent - would be much appreciated!

Books that I've read:

Retribution Falls - Chris Wooding (something similar in a young adult setting would be good!)

The Study Series - Maria V. Snyder

Linger and Shiver - Maggie Stiefvater

Vampire Academy series - Richelle Mead

Kate Daniels series - Ilona Andrews

Graceling/Fire - Kristin Cashore

The Greyfriar - Clay and Susan Griffith (again, something similar would be brilliant. I'd recommend this book to anyone; it's epic)

Mortal Instruments series - Cassandra Clare

Any suggestions would be really helpful! Thank you :)

Update:

Thank you for all of your great suggestions so far! Definitely going to be looking them all up!

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    Why not move on up to books by Anne McCafferey - her Dragon Riders of Pern series has just about everything you want, they are adult (well late teen) and are an excellent read. The heroine is intelligent, beautiful and talented (you'd have to hate her but she is so good you can't) and the love interest is a true hero.

    Then there is Ursula le Guin - the Wizard of Earthsea series and loads of others.

    If you want side aching comdedy then the Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has to be on the list.

    What about Terry Pratchett? Start with the Colour of Magic - I can guarantee you will laugh until you cry but the books have a message too.

  • I LOVED THE STUDY SERIES!!! (sorry, just had to say that)

    I loved the Iron Fey series: Iron king, Iron queen etc. However, they used some characters from Shakepeare's Mid-summer night's dream which i didn't like because their personalities were altered rather drasticly in my opinion.

    There was also Hush Hush which i liked, but the first book was much more enjoyable than the second one.

    Prom nights from Hell was so entertaining! They are filled with short stories from some great authors. One of my favourites is by Kim Harrison who wrote a sequel called Once dead, twice shy (which i highly recommend).

    VAmpire Diaries is also a good read. It's (in my opinion) FAR better than the TV series, but just as good as the the show.

    Basically Iron fey is more on Faries, Goblins etc. While Hush HUsh is more of Fallen Angels, Prom nights from Hell...cover heaps of WAKY sci-fi stuff and Vampire diaries?...Well that's kind of obvious. hope i helped :)

    Source(s): Bookworm...
  • 1 decade ago

    Just started reading a series of books by Meg Cabot - they're going to be or have been reprinted this year by HarperTeen. (first published under the name Jenny Carroll)

    Really enjoying them - Jessica Mastriani, an ordinary 16-year-old girl is given extraordinary psychic powers after being struck by lightning. Her powers allow her to know the exact location of missing children; after seeing a picture of a person, they appear in her dreams.

    They're lighthearted and funny but also have plenty of adventure - I'd recommend them!

    When Lightning Strikes

    Code Name Cassandra

    Safe House

    Sanctuary

    Missing You

  • Nicola
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    I loved Across the Universe by Beth Revis.

    Description:

    Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.

    Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone-one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship-tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next.

    Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Have you tried anything by L.J. Smith? Or the House of Night Series by P.C. and Kristen Cast? I found a lot of those stories funny, action packed, and they are young adult sci-fi/ fantasy books. And super easy to read, but not so easy as you feel like your reading a child's book.

    Source(s): My bookshelf.
  • 1 decade ago

    All the Trudi Cannavan books are good

    Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori series

    Terry Goodkind's The Sword of Truth series

    All of these books have a lot of action, romance and sci-fi and fantasy mixed in. I've read all of them and they are all really good.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    If you want to show your small kid to see popular words that may probably come across and that are exceptions to standard phonetic rules then what you need is here https://tr.im/dun31 , Children Learning Reading program.

     Children Learning Reading is a phonetic centered studying system. Which means it first teaches your son or daughter the letters of the alphabet and the sounds they make. It then applies this knowledge to simply help your child find out phrases based on the looks the words make. The program is made to teach the fundamental "code" for studying initially. Just after it has been mastered are exceptions, problems, and modifications introduced.

  • 1 decade ago

    Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins

    Hold Me Closer, Necromancer - Lish McBride

    I Am Number Four (first book in the Lorien Legacies series) - Pittacus Lore

    that's all i can think of right now! they were great books.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The Hobbit

  • 4 years ago

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