a question!
Hello everyone...I'm excited to have discovered this community!

I randomly checked out "Summers at Castle Auburn" from the library a few summers ago and read it in an evening. It's one of the few, really good books where I "forget" my surroundings, which prompted me to go to the bookstore and buy a copy to keep at home. It's definitely my favorite, followed closely by Mystic & Rider and the Thirteenth House. I'm particularly fond of Kirra as her name is the same as mine, minus an extra r---though I suppose that's a bit of a fifth grade reason to favor a character :)

Ah, anyway, I have a bit of an embarassing confession: I haven't read the Samaria trilogy yet because I generally abhor science fiction....for some reason, it just doesn't capture me the way all other genres do( I do not mean this offensively, so I hope it isn't coming across in a negative fashion!) I definitely plan on giving these books a try---but as I'm a starving college student, I can't decide whether to spring for it or check it out from the library. I have a long plane trip coming up, a budget big enough for about one or two books to read en route, and I'll go mad if I don't have a good book to keep me company. Though I can always reread Summers at Castle Auburn :)

So, my question(s): how much of the first Samaria book is science fiction and how much is fantasy? If any of you guys aren't crazy about science fiction either, what was your opinion of it?

I'd go poke around on amazon.com book reviews, but lately I've been burned by people who can't seem to restain blurting out the key plot points/ending/characters deaths/etc.