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    Feeling Lost? These 3 Fantasy Novels Will Help You Be The Hero Of Your Own Story

    Sometimes books can be a literal escape, not just a figurative one. Our critic Alethea Kontis recommends three fantasy novels that helped her along the way as she escaped an abusive relationship.
    by Alethea Kontis Jul 31, 2021 4 minutes
    Source: St. Martin's Griffin

    As someone who virtually grew up in the publishing industry — and someone whose mentors include Andre Norton and Jane Yolen — it's difficult to admit that I read almost no books for pleasure in the last decade. Instead, I escaped an abusive relationship and spent those years rebuilding my life.

    Wow. Amazing to see it so concisely summed up like that. Living that single sentence was far more complicated than you can possibly imagine.

    But a few titles did manage to slip through the cracks, fantasies that I was hesitant to pick up at first — but that pulled me in so quickly I could not put them down. You may not have heard of these books, or

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