Title: Wilde's Fire, DarknessFalls, Book One Author: Krystal Wade Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press Genre: YA contemporary fantasy Wilde’s Fire is a young adult fantasy that crosses, via a portal in a cave, from our known world to another reality. It’s a classic coming-of-age tale of a girl’s journey to find herself, her previously unknown powers and her place in a new world. This is a common underlying theme for young adult fantasy, but so long as authors keep coming up with new takes on it (as Krystal Wade has here), it never grows old, because it’s an analogy for every teenager’s life as they move from the known life as a child to the unknown life of an adult. All teens have inner resources they know nothing about until they are tested, and Katriona Wilde is tested when she inadvertently leads her sister and best friend through a portal into a world she’s dreamed of for six years, but had no idea was real. She enters a nightmarish world embroiled in a war with lethal monsters, … [Read more...]