When invading Gyndilians tear through the kingdom of Klinhun and murder her sister, Adelaide mounts a peasant rebellion against the king who failed to ... read more
Emma Fox
Author and Reviewer of Young Adult Fantasy and Historical Fiction
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Recent Posts
SON OF THE DEEP: An Interview with K.B. Hoyle
I grew up with a whole collection of Hans Christian Andersen fairytales. My dad often read them aloud in the evenings to my sisters and me. But there ... read more
The Dragon’s Mark: An Interview with Taryn Frazier
A willful young man with an ache to prove his worth. A street girl who's trying to find her place in a world of magical wardens and lehrlings. Rumors ... read more
Death Be Not Proud: THE DOOR ON HALF-BALD HILL
You’d think that a book about a dying land would be the last place to turn for encouragement in the midst of a global pandemic. And in fact, I did put ... read more
A Matter of Life and Death: K.B. Hoyle’s Breeder Cycle
In these days of COVID-19, it feels both strange and somehow right to review a series in which a global pandemic plays a major role. But K.B. Hoyle's ... read more
Fantasy: The Great Escape?
This was my first blog post as a new author, posted 3 years ago. But with COVID-19 raging around the world, it's been very much in my mind lately. ... read more
“Survival is Resistance”: K.B. Hoyle’s HUNTER
Daniel Cohen starts the school day hoping he's got the guts to ask his friend Emma to prom. But when his entire town of Amherst, Virginia is destroyed ... read more
PULL: Author Interview with Anne Riley
What if you could pull back time just enough to make bad things come untrue? When Rosie Clayton travels to London to be with her dying ... read more
K.B. Hoyle’s Gateway Chronicles, Part 3: The Scroll and The Bone Whistle
As a writer, I like to study other authors’ books and try to figure out how they cast their magic (or why the spell fails to stick). The downside of ... read more
Darkness to Light: K.B. Hoyle’s Gateway Chronicles Part 2
It’s possible that you might finish Book 1 of the Gateway Chronicles —The Six— and not continue on. And I suppose that, by sheer force of will, you ... read more
Darkness to Light: K.B. Hoyle’s Gateway Chronicles, Part 1
Last summer, I briefly overviewed K.B. Hoyle's fantastic Gateway Chronicles. However, it's difficult to do justice to a six-book series in one post! ... read more
Why the World Needs Another Good Book, Part 2
In the previous post, we considered two major reasons why the world needs another good book. We looked at how books encourage us to slow down and ... read more
Why the World Needs Another Good Book
I love my local North Shelby Library. I admire the patient librarians who track down and check out the hefty tower of books that my children and I ... read more
Water, Wood and Words: Shannon Hale’s Books of Bayern, Part 2
In last month's blog post, I featured the first two novels in Shannon Hale's Books of Bayern series. This month, I'm honing in on the other two ... read more
Wind and Fire: Shannon Hale’s Books of Bayern, Part 1
Have you ever struggled to express your ideas in words, while others seem to speak with such ease and authority? Have you ever set out to do something ... read more
Vivaldi’s Venice: An Interview with Author Kim Cross Teter
Isabella dal Cello doesn't know her given name. Like many of the other orphan girls at the Ospedale della Pietà in 18th-century Venice, Italy, she ... read more
Two Deep-Winter Fantasies
I love to discover new fairytale retellings! Hunted and The Bear and the Nightingale top my favorite recent releases. These young adult novels move ... read more
Andrew Peterson’s Wingfeather Saga: 4 Characters You’ll Never Forget
The Wingfeather Saga, by Andrew Peterson (who's also an accomplished singer-songwriter), is a rollicking read that tweens and young teens will ... read more