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Review of If Looks Could Kill
If Looks Could Kill by Julie Berry High School Simon 448 pp. 9/25 9781534470811 $21.99 e-book ed. 9781534470835 $10.99 This expansive historical novel with Medusa-inspired fantasy elements features Jack the Ripper, Salvation Army missionaries, and new-made Gorgons in New York’s Bowery, 1888. With two principal viewpoints, Berry alternates between the...
Five questions for Julie Berry
Julie Berry’s work ranges from light middle grade and picture books to sweeping YA-to-adult crossover historical novels with fantasy elements. Her latest, If Looks Could Kill (Simon, 14 years and up), is one of those historical fantasy novels (with a vengeance — literally). Set primarily in New York’s Bowery in 1888,...
Review of Lovely War audiobook
Lovely War by Julie Berry; read by Jayne Entwistle, Allan Corduner, and various artists High School Listening Library Rev. 3/19 11 CDs 12.95 hrs. 978-1-9848-3826-1 $70.00 In a frame story, the goddess Aphrodite recounts a tale of true romance, expertly voiced by Entwistle, humanizing the tragedy of WWI and conveying...
Review of Lovely War
Lovely Warby Julie BerryHigh School Viking 471 pp.3/19 978-0-451-46993-9 $18.99When the Greek god of fire, Hephaestus, catches his wife Aphrodite, goddess of love, in 1942 Manhattan in a passionate affair with his brother Ares, god of war, Aphrodite defends her actions by showing the two gods what real love looks...
Review of The Emperor's Ostrich
The Emperor’s Ostrichby Julie BerryIntermediate, Middle School Roaring Brook 276 pp.7/17 978-1-59643-958-0 $16.99e-book ed. 978-1-59643-959-7 $9.99A beloved farm animal, a perpetually messy young man, a missing boy emperor, and a sturdy heroine are at the center of Berry’s lively literary fairy tale, a loving homage to Lloyd Alexander and his...
Julie Berry on The Passion of Dolssa
Photo: Bruce LucierIn our March/April 2016 issue, Horn Book Magazine editor Martha V. Parravano talked with Julie Berry about how she researched and evoked thirteenth-century Provincia. Read the starred review of The Passion of Dolssa.Martha V. Parravano: An astounding amount of research went into this book — and surely you...
Review of The Passion of Dolssa
The Passion of Dolssaby Julie BerryMiddle School, High School Viking 482 pp.4/16 978-0-451-46992-2 $18.99 gBerry (All the Truth That’s in Me, rev. 11/13) tells the story of (fictional) Catholic mystic Dolssa de Stigata after she escapes being burned as a heretic in 1241 Toulouse, France; mostly, however, it’s the story...
Five questions for Julie Berry
Photo: Bruce LucierJulie Berry’s 2013 book All the Truth That’s In Me (Viking, 14 years and up) is a dark, claustrophobic — and beautiful — novel set seemingly out of time and narrated (in her own head) by a young woman whose tongue was cut out by a captor she...
Review of The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place
The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Placeby Julie BerryMiddle School Roaring Brook 354 pp.9/14 978-1-59634-956-6 $15.99 gThis airy confection could not be more different from Berry’s most recent (and pitch-black) novel All the Truth That’s in Me (rev. 11/13). Part murder mystery, part girls’-school story, part dark drawing-room comedy (think Edwin...
Review of All the Truth That's in Me
All the Truth That’s in Me by Julie BerryHigh School Viking 274 pp.9/13 978-0-670-78615-2 $17.99 gBerry’s (The Amaranth Enchantment, rev. 5/09) novel is set in fictional Roswell Station, a village that in its appearance and claustrophobic atmosphere seems to resemble an early American colonial settlement. Bit...
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