Request #296 From Oliver

1) This was a relatively thin book, a YA fantasy. if I remember correctly reviews on the back compared it to a wrinkle in time, or called it a sequel in spirit. It features a young girl as the protag, shes got a pair of older brothers who are twins. One treats her horribly the other is really nice. She ends up developing these strange psychic powers and is trained by an elderly woman. I vividly remember a scene in the beginning of them catching snakes in sacs, all these kids competing to have the most snakes in their bag, the girl caught a large one which ended up having babies and she won.

2) this one was a series I believe, of YA fantasy. It’s really hard to find a distinction between each one and the memories have blurred together. It was about a fantasy world where wizards are normal, and how its learned from master to apprentice. The story had followed a few different characters who were interconnected; like the adventures of the master in his youth alongside the story of the apprentice. The master had disobeyed his own master and done some form of interdimensional travel. He was married to a woman named Millie (I believe it was) who in the flashbacks ended up being some form of ancient god with multiple arms and had only picked the name because it was cute. The apprentice often described him as bland or boring and straitlaced which was funny given his adventures in his youth. I think it’s also in the same series as another story where a wizard has to make a “interactive haunted house experience” using magic and pretends to be some dark overlord that the people overthrow in the haunted house as part of the experience. Its basically just wizard stuff but in a world where its mundane and normal and not seen as bizarre.

3) this is a YA fantasy novel for sure. this story had a demon named lovelace? He was very much against humans but in his past had made friends with a human that was in a contract with him i believe. The perspective changes between the demon and other human characters. The only strong memory i have of this book is when a girl goes into the demon realm to talk to him. The place is a constant whirlwind of energy with no corporeal formations. The demon criticises her and other human’s need to define themselves with a physical form because she keeps trying to give herself shape with all the particles around them while in the realm and he easily made a shape for himself and even a house while he criticized her.