Currently reading through A:TLA AU works of James Golen
Lots of world building - different style than Vathara but just as compelling with use of secondary characters as AU points and very deep character development.
Two series set in the same AU'verse with but with different diversion points:
Children of the War (A:CoTW): 'Butterfly wings' AU off the Canon series. Jeong Jeong never goes AWOL, Suki is a decade older and Ty Lee gets left behind on Kyoshi Isle by the circus a year before the Avatar shows up.
Book One: Water. Complete
Book Two: Earth. Complete
Book Three: Fire. Complete
Sequel to A:CotW - War of Flames. Six years after Sozin's Comet, Azula finally awakens from her madness, to find she is going to be used as a figurehead. But she has a nasty surprise in store for her puppet-masters. Complete.
I'm amending this recommendation. I completed the first series and it was good, although the Flames sequel started getting fairly surreal towards the end. Since it was Azula-centred I found that understandable.But the other series is set in a Avatar world where changes in the time stream have rendered the Characters very, left of centre, lets say - and there's a lot of focus on OCs. It's also very Grim-Dark. So despite the excellent writing, I'm not enjoying 'Three Families'. That's my personal taste showing though - I'm not a fan of Grim-Dark anything - others may like it.
Lots of world building - different style than Vathara but just as compelling with use of secondary characters as AU points and very deep character development.
Two series set in the same AU'verse with but with different diversion points:
Children of the War (A:CoTW): 'Butterfly wings' AU off the Canon series. Jeong Jeong never goes AWOL, Suki is a decade older and Ty Lee gets left behind on Kyoshi Isle by the circus a year before the Avatar shows up.
Book One: Water. Complete
Book Two: Earth. Complete
Book Three: Fire. Complete
Sequel to A:CotW - War of Flames. Six years after Sozin's Comet, Azula finally awakens from her madness, to find she is going to be used as a figurehead. But she has a nasty surprise in store for her puppet-masters. Complete.
I'm amending this recommendation. I completed the first series and it was good, although the Flames sequel started getting fairly surreal towards the end. Since it was Azula-centred I found that understandable.But the other series is set in a Avatar world where changes in the time stream have rendered the Characters very, left of centre, lets say - and there's a lot of focus on OCs. It's also very Grim-Dark. So despite the excellent writing, I'm not enjoying 'Three Families'. That's my personal taste showing though - I'm not a fan of Grim-Dark anything - others may like it.