What I'm Reading

Last week I had the chance to read YA author Karen Healey's Guardian of the Dead ahead of both Worldcon and The Press Christchurch Writers' Festival where Karen and I are going to be in a number of events together. And I have to say that I found Guardian a fun read—an intriguing mix of urban fantasy in not just a New Zealand, but a Christchurch setting, woven together with Maori legends of the patupaiarehe (fairies) and taniwha, as well as the myth of Hine-nui-te-Po, the Goddess of Death.

But ...