If you like "Graceling" by Kristin Cashore...

Hello!  If you loved "Graceling", you may enjoy the following titles:


Little, Big

by John Crowley

One of my all-time favorite books - big, romantic; with plotlines following many characters:

"Edgewood is many houses, all put inside each other, or across each other. It's filled with and surrounded by mystery and enchantment: the further in you go, the bigger it gets. Smoky Barnable, who has fallen in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, comes to Edgewood, her family home, where he finds himself drawn into a world of magical strangeness."


Gifts

by Ursula K. Le Guin

"When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"--a violent talent shared by members of his family--he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own."-catalog summary


Savvy

by Ingrid Law

"Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident."-catalog summary


A Shadow in Summery

by Daniel Abraham

"Gesture and posture convey as much information as spoken words in Abraham's impressive first novel, a fantasy set in a world where poets create and bind powerful shape-shifting creatures called "andat." The Empire hangs on, literally, by a thread; the cloth industry depends on the ability of andat Seedless to magically remove seeds from cotton plants to keep commerce flowing and the barbarians in check. Seedless ... aims to drive his poet-creator, Heshai-kvo, mad with grief."
(Publisher's Weekly)

 
For more suggestions, please take a look at the list: "If you like a mix of fantasy, romance, female leads..." at http://www.librarypoint.org/bm_fantasy_female_leads


I hope these books fit the bill for you.  If not, please let me know and I can look for more suggestions!

 

Yours,

Mary M. Buck

Reference Librarian

Porter Branch