Author and Reviewer of Young Adult Fantasy and Historical Fiction
When invading Gyndilians tear through the kingdom of Klinhun and murder her sister, Adelaide mounts a peasant rebellion against the king who failed to protect them. Accompanied by her hawk Cyr, Adelaide sets out across Klinhun to secretly gather as… Keep Reading
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 were a few stories that I returned to on my own, again… Keep Reading
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 of darkness infecting the land and of men turned into monsters. And a horrific dragon that doesn’t really exist…or does it? Taryn Frasier’s fantasy The Dragon’s Mark, released this winter as a serial podcast, pulls listeners in with all this and more.
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 off reading The Door on Half-Bald Hill — for… Keep Reading
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 Breeder Cycle doesn’t stop there. This YA dystopian series will make your… Keep Reading
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. When it feels like the world is falling apart, is reading–especially… Keep Reading
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 in minutes–leaving only himself, Emma and their friend Crispin as survivors–Daniel must… Keep Reading
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 grandfather, she stumbles on a band of teenage crime-fighters who are striving to do… Keep Reading
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 all that analysis, however, is that it’s hard to turn… Keep Reading
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! With Hoyle’s revised, re-released volumes hitting bookstores this fall, I decided it was time for a more… Keep Reading