PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Deva Fagan writes fantasy and science fiction for kids, teens, and adults. She lives in Maine with her husband and her dog. When she's not writing, she spends her time reading, doing geometry, playing video games, hiking, and drinking copious amounts of tea. She is the author of Rival Magic, Fortune's Folly, The Magical Misadventures of Prunella Bogthistle, Circus Galacticus, Nightingale, and The Mirrorwood. You can find her online at DevaFagan.com.
Realistic fans will have plenty to appreciate, as the girls' slowly building friendship and their struggles to find their own cores independent of family influence or enchantments feel just as vital to the novel as the magic. -- BCCB Starts as a fairy-tale retelling but goes somewhere cleverly original once in the enchanted wood. -- Kirkus Reviews The author excels in setting expectations and then subverting them: the Withering offers advice; the demon prince turns out to be nice; a blessing given to the true prince turns out to be a curse. Fable's twist ties in to themes of identity and self-confidence with gratifying neatness as the novel unfolds in unexpected directions through Fable's and Vycorax's competing motivations and pushes through multiple complications to a highly satisfactory conclusion. -- The Horn Book
