3. The Novice by Trudi Canavan

Second in the Black Magician trilogy. Light fantasy with a female protagonist. Zipped through this one but the story was good - it pulled me through the 400 or so pages. A twist I didnt see coming and a third potential love interest for Sonea, who becomes much less pathetic and starts being a much more enthusiastic heroine. This is the sort of stuff I hope my daughter will read (well when she can read!) to counteract all that bloody awful passive princess claptrap marketed to girls.

Am now on the final book of the series The High Lord. Half way through and its very good, taken a whole new direction, just hope she can pack in all the expected action in the last half of the book.

Considering making it 120 books a year instead of 80, after all thats only 10 books a month, eminently doable I think. Pondering....