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Obernewtyn Chronicles - Isobelle Carmody

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Fandom Name: The Obernewtyn Chronicles by Isobelle Carmody (book series)
Where to find the canon: it was concluded just over a year or so ago so should still be easily found in print at least.
What I love about it: Obernewtyn is a post-apocalyptic fantasy series with plenty of commentary on our present day society (the Beforetime) with a healthy dose of fantastical elements introduced through super human abilities and by upping the technology level of the present day prior to the actual apocalypse. There's also secret underground rebellions, (mentally) talking animals, the odd and the down trodden taking back control, grand quests, lots of found family, artificial intelligences playing god and getting strange outcomes, and the main storyline is about two women in different times who get to save the world together.

This series was one of the formative series of my childhood so I will always love it dearly, even if Isobelle developed a serious problem with editors towards the end of it. Books 1-4 are fantastic, and then the writing goes progressively downhill from there (though when you can look past that, the story and worldbuilding are still greatly enjoyable!) The downhill nature is more in the form of she took so long between books that she seemed to be convinced the reader needs lots and lots of backstory and exposition to remember previous events, so I generally find it bad in the easily skimmed through the bad bits kind of way. The series also works towards an ultimate arc with Elspeth's quest, but there's plenty of smaller arcs and conclusion points that could be a satisfying stop point if you wanted to just get the best bits out of it.

From a content notes perspective, the main good guys in this series are considered sub-human and lacking in full rights according to the dominant social system. There's also some violence, death, torture, and slavery at points, and we're talking about a post-nuclear war setting so life can be hard in various ways. Isobelle also fails pretty hard with the Romani/gypsies-as-a-fantasy-trope thing, and a few similar issues. If you need more specific information I'm always happy to answer questions