I'm so excited for this! I saw that the pilot is going to be showing at SXSW, so I hope I can see it there.

Isn't Gods of Egypt one of those movies set in the Middle East where the only people who aren't white are playing bad guys?

I just watched Suicide Squad last week because my sister said it "wasn't that bad", and I now no longer trust her to recommend movies. In addition to everything you mentioned, Leto was shockingly terrible as the Joker. Not even hammy, so much as just boring.

I love the Raven Boys! Hope you enjoy it :)

I enjoyed Peter David's New Frontiers Trek series. It's in a Next Generation time frame, but plays around with a lot of the wackier things from the original series adventures that current star fleet cadets mostly assume were made up.

Huh, I thought it was older than that. Or maybe Harry Potter is just a *lot* older than I remember. I think it's the latter, but I don't want to check to confirm.

Just thought of another one, because someone above was asking a similar question - The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson. A little cyberpunky, set in an enclosed community off the coast of Brazil in some far future. Slightly based on the Epic of Gilgamesh. A really neat mix of different influences (as you can…

Oh, I also really liked The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson - it's a slightly cyberpunky story partially based on the epic of Gilgamesh. The retelling aspect might make it a slightly easier sell, and while I loved both, it has the advantage of being a standalone (I think Shadowshaper is a series starter).

Maybe Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older, or Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor? Or, would you prefer contemporary, rather than fantasy?

The authors already mentioned were who sprang to mind first, but also Nalo Hopkinson. I've got a couple books of hers that I picked up here or there, but didn't get around to reading them yet.

Any preferences for genre or themes?

Personality-wise, I'd say she's more like Toph, except that she's in her mid-20's, so not a kid.

TV show, I think, but BBC, so probably a miniseries.

I just watched this last week, and I thought Leto's Joker was the worst thing about the movie. His acting was just laughably bad - every time he was onscreen, the energy of the movie just stopped dead.

Oh! Also, if you haven't read it yet, Good Omens - satirical book about the apocalypse by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, and one of my favorite books from high school. It's an excellent intro to both authors.

The first book is Magic Bites - I'm not that familiar with Atlanta myself, so I don't know how much they capture the setting, but it's a fun series with a kick-ass sword-wielding heroine.

I'm reading The 100 right now, because it was $1 on kindle, and I've been curious about it because of the TV show. Very fast paced read, but a little soap opera-y. I see why it makes for good TV.

When I was in grade school I wrote to Ann Rinaldi as a part of a school assignment. She was a historical fiction author I was really into at the time. She wrote back a nasty note about how she was far too busy to be writing personalized letters to every kid who's a fan of her books, which was not only unnecessarily…

Some really great stuff in there. Small Gods and Kushiel's Dart are both favorites, although not things that I normally see on a list together. Now that I think of it though, they both do interesting things with religion, albeit in very different ways.

I am a big fan of the Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews. Urban fantasy, with magic and sword fights and shapeshifters and things, set in a sort of postapocalyptic Atlanta. Not comedy, but has a good sense of humor and good banter between characters. I like all her other series too, but some are romance-y (which…