

Bonus: this series has weird magic, accidental travel to other worlds, friendships, and a very prosaic romance. I love Tremaine, one of the two protagonists for this series, a lot she reminds me in some ways of Julie Beaufort-Stuart, but if Julie was deeply depressed and didn’t like people all that much even though she also cares about them.


Or, if you’d rather, you can try The Wizard Hunters, the first in the Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy. Maskelle is a middle-aged woman who is jaded and weary but also very competent and appealingly snarky. Let us begin where I did, with The Wheel of the Infinite, a secondary world fantasy featuring a protagonist who really would prefer not to.
