Appearances are always deceiving…
Fable has been cursed by what the people in her village call the Blight, a twisted enchantment that leaves her without a face of her own. To stay alive, Fable has to steal the faces of others, making her an outcast that no one trusts. When the fierce Blighthunter Vycorax comes to kill Fable to stop her curse from spreading, Fable narrowly escapes by fleeing into the thorny woods surrounding her small village.
The treacherous forest has been ruled by a demon-prince for centuries, a deadly place trapped in time. Fable—and her opinionated feline companion, Moth—is the first to dare enter in a very long time. There, she encounters a tediously chatty skull, dangerously meddlesome deities, and a beast so powerful it tears at the fabric of reality, leaving nothingness in its horrible wake.
Fable will soon discover that, in the Mirrorwood, nothing is quite like the stories say, and the perilous realm may be the only chance she has to break her curse and find her true self.
Out now from Atheneum/S&S! Available in hardback, ebook, and audio formats!
Praise for THE MIRRORWOOD:
The Mirrorwood is a finalist for the Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction!
The Mirrorwood is the winner of the 2022 Cybils Award for Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction!
“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.”
~ The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
“Starts as a fairy-tale retelling but goes somewhere cleverly original once in the enchanted wood.”
~ KIRKUS
“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
“Fagan’s (Nightingale) sinister, fast-paced fantasy adventure is elevated by Fable and Vycorax’s warm, slow-building friendship. This thrilling and unusual tale suggests that self-reflection—and self-acceptance—can be the difference between heroism and villainy.”
~Publisher’s Weekly
ISBN-10 : 1534497145
ISBN-13 : 978-1534497146
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An audiobook is available from Libro.fm and Audible, narrated by Jade Wheeler.
Looking for more? You can watch my chat about the The Mirrorwood at Odyssey Bookshop here.