{"id":23835,"date":"2014-02-15T23:10:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T03:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=23835"},"modified":"2014-02-15T23:33:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T03:33:51","slug":"2013-stand-out-authors-juliet-marillier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=23835","title":{"rendered":"2013 Stand-out Authors: Juliet Marillier"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last year, after posting my Sonderbooks Stand-outs<\/a>, I did a series on Stand-out Authors<\/a>, and I’m going to do it again. I will highlight people whose books are Sonderbooks Stand-outs this year, and not for the first time.<\/p>\n

This year, there was only one author who appeared more than once — and she appeared four times! Last year,\"\"<\/a> Juliet Marillier had a total of six Sonderbooks Stand-outs to her name<\/a>. This year, she has ten!<\/p>\n

I already featured her earlier books<\/a>, so let’s just look at the four I read this year.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>She had #2 and #3 in Fiction with further books in the Sevenwaters<\/em> series, The Seer of Sevenwaters<\/a><\/em> and Flame of Sevenwaters<\/a><\/em>. (I couldn’t really decide which one was better, so I just put them in order!)<\/p>\n

In Teen Fiction, she had #5, Raven <\/a>\"\"<\/a>Flight<\/em>, the sequel to last year’s Sonderbooks Stand-out, Shadowfell<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

After reading those, I decided it was high time I catch up on the books she’d written before I discovered her. Now, lately I spend most of my reading time reading books written in the current year. But Juliet Marillier’s Heart’s Blood<\/a><\/em> was well worth making an exception for, and ended up #6 in Fiction.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So not only did Juliet Marillier end up with the most Sonderbooks Stand-outs this year, she’s got twice as many total as the person with the next most.<\/p>\n

I definitely need to start calling her one of my favorite authors. And I’ll be seeking out more of her backlist this year, so I have a feeling her name is going to be prominent among 2014 Sonderbooks Stand-outs as well.<\/p>\n

Which of her backlist should I read next? Please let me know in the comments!<\/p>\n

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