Maybe a lot has changed from the books.įor me the best part about Edie is the tae-kwon-do lessons she’s been taking they help her battle much larger (fanged, slavering) opponents and give her the presence of mind to pick up any tool and use it as a weapon. Kane does have a problem, however, and Edie knows how that story ends. She’s had romantic thoughts about being the right girl for Kane, but he doesn’t know her or need her, and she’s nothing to him. He lives in the Kingdom of Mithres and when Edie arrives, scared out of her wits and without any magic to fight off hellhounds, he does intervene but then dismisses her with the name ‘Cupcake’. In his own life, Kane is more of an antihero, who might kidnap a princess or rescue her if the pay is right. Kane the Traveler is not who Edie thought he was his story has been glamorised by a scribe in the real world. She never imagines she’ll fall into that story. Ever since, Edie has preferred to lose herself in a book series about a young wizard. She and their mum are supporting themselves since her father was confined for having dangerous hallucinations, is part of it. So what’s new about STORYBOUND? Edie Keller has a powerful personal backstory, which she gradually reveals.

The concept of the old bookshop or the story in a book becoming a hidden world, with young people from our normal world dragged into proceedings, is a familiar path for us fantasy readers. Young Adult | Young Adult Adventure | Young Adult Romance

'Hero or antihero, the young wizard of the story is real' Storybound

Storybound by Emily McKay