I'm very fond of Mercedes Lackey's 'Last Herald Mage' trilogy (Magic's Pawn, Magic's Promise, Magic's Price). Lackey has recently started churning out books with a view to quantity rather than quality, and some people don't think any of her stuff is much good, but these are early books and I think they stand up well. And they certainly fit the pretty hero, angst, h/c bill.
I also like, though these may be harder to find, Diane Duane's 'Door Into' series, starting with 'The Door Into Fire'. There are three of them, and she's been planning to write the fourth for over a decade I think, but they stand alone well enough, especially the first one.
Let's see. The above are overtly slashy, or well, gay really. But there's plenty of stuff that's slashy in the sense of slashable. Hmmn, for pretty heroes, angsting and h/c Judith Tarr is pretty good, as is pretty much anything by Nancy Springer, especially 'The Silver Sun'. Doubtless I'll think of other things later, but I'd better stop for now. And you could borrow any of these from me if you like ;-)
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I also like, though these may be harder to find, Diane Duane's 'Door Into' series, starting with 'The Door Into Fire'. There are three of them, and she's been planning to write the fourth for over a decade I think, but they stand alone well enough, especially the first one.
Let's see. The above are overtly slashy, or well, gay really. But there's plenty of stuff that's slashy in the sense of slashable. Hmmn, for pretty heroes, angsting and h/c Judith Tarr is pretty good, as is pretty much anything by Nancy Springer, especially 'The Silver Sun'. Doubtless I'll think of other things later, but I'd better stop for now. And you could borrow any of these from me if you like ;-)