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.
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
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 draws her identity from the instrument she plays in Don Vivaldi’s famous orchestra. She’s haunted… Keep Reading