/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11871346]

Did anyone else read the Deltora Quest books when they were younger? Is it just my faulty memory, or were they really dark for fantasy targeted towards children?

[Anonymous No.11871357]

I read the first 3 and remember really enjoying them

[Anonymous No.11871438]

I remember being really in love with them, waiting for a movie... heard something about it vaguely, there was a little video game that I played the crap out of, then nothing happened ... it was a p sweet story

[Anonymous No.11871485]

>>11871346
That cover looks familiar.

[Anonymous No.11871523]

I read the first two, must have been popular in japan since it got an anime and a ds game.

I thought it was pretty interesting especially how the typical fantasy protag grows up and is replaced in the first book as the world has turned to shit.
I remember the second book sort of dipping in quality though, there was some reason I never read on but I can't recall...

[Anonymous No.11871653]

loved reading these books as a kid. didn't like the direction they eventually went, but the original series was lots of fun

[Anonymous No.11871754]

*barda cursed under his breath*

[Anonymous No.11871766]

Remember loving it but not a damn thing else about it.

[Anonymous No.11871827]

Very weird seeing this today, completely forgot about this book, thanks

[Anonymous No.11871839]

I think my brother had this book, way back, but I never tried it myself

[Anonymous No.11871892]

I really liked them, pretty based fantasy adventure books. They were indeed very dark at times, and fairly well written as far as YA literature goes.
Artemis Fowl is the superior YA book series, though, nothing I've read as a preteen compares to it.

[Anonymous No.11871904]

>>11871892
animorphs is the GOAT ya lit

[Anonymous No.11871911]

What was so dark about it?

[Anonymous No.11871919]

>>11871346
Oof
That's nostalgic

[Anonymous No.11871922]

>>11871754
Classic

[Anonymous No.11871956]

>>11871346
Yeah, I still have the entire series somewhere in my closet.

[Anonymous No.11872305]

>>11871346
When I was 13 I went and jacked off to a scene in one of them where the main character went barefoot in the forest next to the lake or something.

[Anonymous No.11872920]

>>11871346
>realizing that the gems spelled out DELTORA

[Anonymous No.11872928]

I read them in middel-school. Pretty good YA desu

[Anonymous No.11872948]

>>11871346
Was there a Deltora's Belt series or some such?

I seem to remember this vaguely. Something I got at a book fair as a kid..

God, book fairs were so fucking sweet growing up.

[Anonymous No.11872964]

i really loved these as a 4th and 5th grader, they were my introduction to fantasy literature and i used to love drawing all the covers

[Anonymous No.11873007]

>>11871346
I read the the first one when I was ten and that's what made me love to read.
I have the collection of the original eight books in one tome on my bookshelf. It's fun to look through it for the puzzles.

[Anonymous No.11873010]

>>11871754
fuck, reading that just took me back a decade

[Anonymous No.11873348]

>>11871346
Every Australian did

[Anonymous No.11873477]

>>11873007
Likewise. I read the book when I was really young, and devoured the whole series rapidly. I still hold onto the books on a side shelf; I have the whole series and the spin-offs (15 books total).

>>11873348
It reached me in Canada.

[Anonymous No.11873884]

>>11871346
I reread them all as an adult on a whim. They hold up better than some other children's books I've read, probably because there's so little humour. The constant puzzles being inserted into the text is neato, especially the monsters that talk in reversed text.

Also Shadow Lord is unironically a great villain. He isn't even defeated at the end of the whole thing, just goes back to waiting.

[Anonymous No.11873902]

>>11871892
Artemis Fowl is the iamverysmart of YA fiction. Chronicles of Ancient Darkness is for red-blooded young men

[Anonymous No.11874386]

>>11871346
this was the first book i ever read on my own

[Anonymous No.11875481]

Had all but forgotten about these books, read them (translated to Norwegian) when I was 8 or 9. I remember loving them, and they scared me shitless at the time. Stuff like when they went into the dirty cottage and found the skeletons of what they thougth was the parents of the protagonist, with a little baby skeleton in the arms of the mother really kept me up at night.

[Anonymous No.11875490]

>>11872920

>Lief has all the gems
>puts them in the belt
>the belt still doesn't work
>he actually has to spell DELTORA with the gems

[Anonymous No.11875517]

>>11873902
Fuck I've been trying to remember the title of Wolf Brother for ages. I can't say I particularly enjoyed it but it's definitely stuck with me far more than most of the YA shit I read when I was younger

[Anonymous No.11875525]

These books were what motivated me to learn how to read properly by myself.

The cover art was so awesome for ~5 y/o me that I'd just go to school bookshelf (too small school for a library) and stare at them, trying and inevitably giving up on reading them, then trying again next time. Eventually struggling through first book over a few weeks.

Then I got box set of all of them for Christmas, plus the art book and read them over and over

[Anonymous No.11875639]

These books are great.

[Anonymous No.11875783]

I loved these books when I read them about a decade ago. Do they still hold up?

[Anonymous No.11875804]

>>11875525
Made me smile :)

[Anonymous No.11875809]

>>11871346
Ah shit i read these when i was younger, picked it out at the book fair that came to school. It was one with a Serpent or something on the front but i did read the others. I recall nothing though

[Anonymous No.11875866]

>>11871346
the epitome of australian literature

[Anonymous No.11876068]

Yeah I was obsessed with them read all 3 series and loved it all. Don't remember the stories though lol

[Anonymous No.11876120]

>>11873477
That's a surprise, I thought it wouldn't have spread any further than New Zealand like most things we produce here.

[Anonymous No.11876127]

>>11873884
>especially the monsters that talk in reversed text
That was the fucking shit. That whole thing was so unsettling. The puzzles really enthralled me as a child. I remember trying to work out the 'turn eleven sticks into nine' one for hours before reading on.

[Anonymous No.11876135]

>>11871346
Kids at my school used to buy the books so they could rip the covers off and have the picture.

[Anonymous No.11876138]

I discovered I had a femdom fetish when reading the second series. There was a part where they came across a laboratory in the Shadowlands or something where they were doing something to their brains to make them obedient or something to that effect, it might have involved a slug like in Wrath of Khan. Anyway, the idea of being bound and experimented on fascinated me and I used to lie down in my bed and imagine it was happening to me, all while I had a raging hard on. I would have been 9 at that point if I had to guess and well off puberty so I didn't really understand what was going on.

[Anonymous No.11876139]

>>11876135
test

[Anonymous No.11876140]

>Get given a set of 1 book from each series because family friend thought that was how the series was structured
>Read them totally out of order and don't get it
>Eventually realise how they were supposed to be read
>Actually enjoy it now
GOAT series

[Anonymous No.11876249]

*Blocks your path*

[Anonymous No.11876337]

>>11876249
Edge chronicles are fucking great

[Anonymous No.11876704]

>>11876249
oh fuck yes I loved the world these were in

[Anonymous No.11876707]

>>11875783
They are for young adults and very much feel that way

[Anonymous No.11877162]

>>11873902
Excellent taste

[Anonymous No.11878430]

>>11876249
Shit yea, these books were great. Wish there was a good TRPG system for them.

[Anonymous No.11878477]

>>11875517
I liked it because it was actually dark as fuck but in a non-edgy way; it was like all the darkness was being seen through the eyes of a 13 y.o, yet they were able to keep their heads because they were survivalist nomads who knew their shit. More like the raw indifference of nature, but then with a twist with things like the evil shamans bending nature to their will.
And then Thiazzi straight up threatened to rape Renn, the qt redhead-archer-tsundere-tomboy. Shit got tense.

[Anonymous No.11879372]

Remembering the climax of the series when he has to put the belt on the true heir and he thinks it’s the chick but it’s actually him.

Also no radzeer

[Anonymous No.11880212]

>>11871346
I had the original 8 in paperback, the 3 shadowlands series, and the 4 dragons. I gave my original and shadowlands to the town library once i got the hardcover collections for them. I hope some kids discovered them.

She also wrote Rowan of Rin, which I read all 5 but they were kinda shit. The door trilogy is way better though, brings back scary critters and puzzles.

[Anonymous No.11880709]

>>11876249
when i saw that cover, the fucking nostalgia hit me like a damn flood. a real i m p a c t. shit a brick, made me inhale

[Anonymous No.11880869]

was Emily Rodda hot?

[Anonymous No.11880923]

>>11876249
I bought the whole series recently because I loved them as a kid but I was poor so I only got to read the 3 that the school library had. The illustrations are so nice but fuck I feel like a sperglord reading them now

[Anonymous No.11880926]

>>11880869
She looks like an elderly lesbian

[Anonymous No.11881247]

>>11880923
I was thinking about re-reading them but are they pretty bad? It has been so long

[Anonymous No.11881498]

>you now remember fapping to this series

[Anonymous No.11881529]

>>11871346
I liked these books as a kid, but every single climax was shit. Like that knight in the pic dies because a goddamn tree falls on his head. There's also no buildup to his reveal. And like the bird animal buddy just magically kills the second one. And they don't even defeat that worm from the purple book. Anticlimax after anticlimax. I was even disappointed as a kid.

Magic tree house was ten times better.

[Anonymous No.11881535]

>>11881247
They're, uh, not good.