I have read a couple of good books this year where the hero is somehow transported to a fantastic realm by mysterious and magical means. It’s an angle I like as a reader. I like the magical and fantastic landscapes, but it’s nice when the...

White Plains by Rebecca Perkin is a good fantasy tale for young adult readers. I like stories where someone from our version of Earth is taken to another world. The connection to our place and time makes the protagonist’s actions and reactions understandable, but the...

Don Gutteridge has done it again! In a wonderful follow up to Summer's Idyll, the book that first introduced his readers to protagonist "Billy" or "Junior," this second work, Winter's Descent, continues this lovely story and will certainly keep readers enthralled from beginning to end....

Walpajirri: The Legend of an Easter Bilby is a wonderful, educational Dreamtime-style narrative written by M.E. Skeel. The history of the animals of Australia (as well as the Indigenous peoples) is discussed before the introduction of Jinda and Jirri – two bilbies which make up...

World of the Beasts by Kaitlyn Deann is a young adult science fiction sequel to the first book in this series, The Witches’ Sleep. Sea-Anna and Tuck are two were-tiger slaves that have been enslaved unto witches for the past twenty years. When they get...

Wilhelmina and the Willamette Wig Factory: The Willy and Tommy Adventures, Book 1 is a young adult and pre-teen paranormal fantasy novel written by Whitney Dineen. Wilhelmina Snodgrass is most definitely not impressed by her parents’ decision to move from their home in Mason, Illinois,...

We Journey No More is a sci-fi time travel adventure by author Sahara Foley. A teenage couple tear away from society at the opening of this young adult novella near Albuquerque, New Mexico, only to find that fate has handed them a powerful and problematic...

Warrior Born (Book One of the Katana Series) by Kathrine Leannan is an extraordinary tale of medieval times, about the ancient legends of the Japanese gods in the celestial Kingdom of the Samurai and their interaction with humans on Earth. The tale starts with Imperial...