by Jane Harris
First published 2018
Seventeen-year-old Emily has built the Seven Kingdoms, a fantasy world where she escapes when trauma becomes unbearable. After surviving years of abuse, she found balance between her imagined realm and protecting her younger siblings. Now her mother returns from rehab and her father announces plans to reunite the family. Emily knows she must break her silence to shield her siblings from the horrors she endured. She retreats into her fantasy world for strength, but the Seven Kingdoms have fallen into chaos. The Champion remains missing while precious time slips away. Emily faces an impossible choice: complete her quest in the crumbling fantasy realm or return to confront her father before he destroys everything she has fought to protect. Her siblings depend on her courage to speak the secret she has guarded so long. This second book in the My Myth trilogy follows Emily as she navigates between her created world of myth and magic and the brutal reality of family trauma, searching for the power to save those she loves most.
Genres: abuse, fantasy, contemporary, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Seven Kingdoms
Period: Seventeen
355 pages · Kindle Edition
Content warnings: abuse, child-abuse, emotional-abuse, physical-abuse