It’s Friday again, and it’s time for #Fangirling on Friday, where we get to fangirl over our favorite stories (of course, if you could fanboy or fanperson if you wanted too). Today’s topic (hosted by Books in the Skye is Animal Sidekicks or Shapeshifters). I can’t think of any animal sidekicks in books I’ve read about recently. I used to read a lot of horse books like The Black Stallion, but I don’t even remember very much about the books, so I’m going with Shapeshifters today.
The Fey of Throne of Glass and A Court of Thorns and Roses
I can’t really think of too many shapeshifting books either, but at least I know of some. The first books that came to my name were the Throne of Glass books by Sarah J. Maas. The fae in her books all have the ability to shapeshift into some other form. In Aelin’s case, she transforms between fae and human, however, another fae in the book can transform between fae and a bird (I almost gave away a spoiler there, oops).
The fae of A Court of Thorns and Roses can also shapeshift, but I’ve only read the first book in the series, so I can’t tell you much about their abilities, but Ms. Maas has said that the characters are both from the same universe, so it’s not that difficult to believe.
Shadowhunters
The only other shapeshifters that I can think of are the werewolves in Cassandra Clare’s Shadowhunter books. Just like Ms. Maas’s books are plentiful and long, so are Ms. Clare’s. If you only read The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices, and The Dark Artifaces, you’re reading 12 books! Some of them are 700/800 pages long. Then there’s also several companion books and The Red Scrolls of Magic. I’ll be reading Ghosts of the Shadow Market, which comes out on June 4th.
Can you think of any shapeshifting books or books with animal sidekicks?
Next week’s Fangirling on Friday topic is “First Series” and I’m not sure whether that is supposed to be “First books of series” or “First series by a debut author”. I’ll probably write about the former.