Whenever a new King Arthur retelling releases, I trip over myself to read it. In the case of The Witch Below the Dreaming Wood, I was even more excited to read this one because it was written by H.G. Parry, the author of The Scholar and The Last Faerie Door, and The Magician’s Daughter. Parry always manages to create such uniquely magical experiences in her novels, so I was anxious […]
The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door is the second of H.G. Parry’s works that I’ve read, the first being The Magician’s Daughter. The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door had the same sumptuous magical setting as the author’s first work, but for me, surpassed the other novel in every other way. I was immediately sucked into the dark academic world, ensnared by the found family and their somewhat enmeshed […]
The Magician’s Daughter is a historical fantasy that takes place on a hidden and magical island off the coast of Ireland and sometimes in London. The island of Hy-Brasil is the only home Biddy has ever known, with Rowan the mage and his rabbit familiar, Hutch, the only family she’s ever had. Though she’s always wanted to venture into the world at large, Rowan has always claimed that it wasn’t […]