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2024 Challenge Hybrid Creatures
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Books fitting this category:Centaurs The Song of Achilles
Gorgons: Stone Blind
Minotaurs Ariadne; The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
I'm looking for recommendations on gryphons/griffins and sphinx.
I read Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung and LOVED IT. A beautiful and haunting retelling of the women of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Full of imagery and feminine rage. Check TW!
Is this the category where the Lamia dwells?Or is the Lamia a shifter?
This one's proving more challenging than I expected! I just read Mindtouch, which has various sorts of animal people and one of the protagonists is a lion/skunk/centaur person... but it's sci-fi, so everyone is genetically engineered as opposed to mythical. Hoping I'll stumble across something that's a better fit by the end of the year!
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1. Monkey King and the World of Myths: The Monster and the Maze, which has a minotaur. Monkey King might count, too.
2. Unico: Awakening (Volume 1): An Original Manga, has a Sphinx in it. It's a tertiary character though.
I enjoyed both.
I'm planning on reading a third, but haven't chosen anything yet.
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For me too! I still haven’t read anything for it yet!
The Minotaur is in the supporting cast of Dark of the Moon by Tracy Barrett, a YA Ariadne retelling from 2011. That's when I read it, so I'm not certain there's enough Minotaur to matter, but Barrett does portray him as Ariadne's half-brother, and I seem to recall a lot of focus on that at least in the early part of the book.
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I read this book some years ago. I remember liking it, but not much else. If I remember correctly the Minotaur isn’t one in the true sense rather he has a deformity. I don’t remember!
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Jalilah, mermaids would count for hybrid creature. I haven't read these books, but here are a few:Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen
Chlorine by Jade Song
The last book may or may not have an actual mermaid, but I'd still count it for this challenge.
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Hmmm I am not usually a short story fan but I did like Spinning Silver quite a lot!
Ozsaur wrote: "Jalilah, mermaids would count for hybrid creature. I haven't read these books, but here are a few:
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
The Deep b..."
Good point that mermaids also hybrid creatures!
I read The Deep, Mermaid of Black Conch and The Little Mermaid
If you read them this year, Jalilah, then you're all set! If not, there are tons of mermaid books out there...
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I think you would enjoy most of the stories in the collection, and a few you would not. Most of the stories are the type of historical fantasy you enjoy. But one or two are high fantasy, and one is sci-fi.
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Has anyone read it?
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I haven't read that one.
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I decided to reread several of Charles de Lint’s books that take place in the desert. If I remember correctly they feature a jackalope, a mythical animal of North American folklore that is a jackrabbit with antelope horns. I believe they are The Painted Boy and The Wind in His Heartl in any case I own both books so it’s worth a try
Oh yeah! A jackalope would totally fit Hybrid Creatures. Jackalope Wives and Other Stories by T. Kingfisher would also work.
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Thank you! I keep seeing this author mentioned! I did to check them out!
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This book would also work for shapeshifters
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Examples: centaurs, fauns, gorgons, Griffiths, sphinx, the minotaur, and more.