More new fantasy fiction!
Are you sensing a trend here? Yeah, a little fantasy fiction is a good way to pass the time during a hurricane watch! A hurricane watch where we had both power and internet access. It was a LITTLE scary to pull up the weather radar and see a Category 5 hurricane sitting 90 miles from us (sorry Bahamas), so reading scary stories was a good thing for me to do! The first one feels like a folk tale. It's called Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack. It's about Anya who is an only child. She lives with grandmother and her mother. Her dad has been conscripted by the army and they aren't sure where he is. The town magistrate is threatening her mother-either pay their taxes right away or move out of their house and out of the town. Anya really wants to help but she's been seeing weird things as she's out and about doing her chores. She makes a new friend, Ivan, who has come to town with his dad and the rest of his family. ...