The Dawn Palace

This book had a huge impact on my life and I am not sure I can tell you why. First of all, Hoover was one of my favorite authors as a child. I read every book of hers the library had. Her books featured intelligent, strong, female characters and this book was no exception. It takes the story of Medea......more

Children of Morrow was a favorite when I was younger. It’s a post-apocalypse YA novel about two mutant children who flee the murderous intentions of their village’s mayor and his henchman. I reread it about a decade ago and found that it held up rather well. It was thus that when I resolved to read......more

This a retelling of the ancient play about Jason and the Argonauts originally written by Euripides. Hoover has taken all of the myths and went down a center line with what she thought was logical for the geography of the land and what is known about that time. The story features Medea, daughter of K......more

Having recently read Euripides' Medea, I was very much pleased by this author's alternate telling. The author's note is especially interesting. In the note, she references Robert Graves' scholarly work, The Greek Myths, which tells that Euripides was paid by the citizens of Corinth to write the play......more

The only thing I knew of Madea was seeing some of Zoe Caldwell's masterful performance that was shown on PBS years ago. As someone who is interested in both witches and magic, I found this telling of the Madea myth well detailed and at times exciting. Though I was expecting the hard, revengeful, Med......more