Previous SFF Author: Rhoda Belleza
(1958- )
Hilari Bell used to work as a reference librarian, but she now writes science fiction and fantasy for kids and teens from her home base in Denver, Colorado. Ms. Bell’s favorite activity is camping, when she spends all her time reading and hiking. She says, “Camping is the only time I can get in enough reading. Well, I take that back — when it comes to reading, there’s no such thing as enough.”
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You might have a hard time swallowing much of Navohar, the debut of Denver author Hilari Bell. But Bell produces easygoing, accessible writing that gives her book a degree of light-reading appeal. If only the whole affair weren’t so pat and predictable.
Navohar is set towards the end of this century, after the people of Earth have thwarted an invasion by ruthless slave-trading aliens by knocking them out H.G. Wells-style with a horrid genetically-engineered virus.
Thomas M. Wagner (guest)´s rating: 2 | Hilari Bell | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Fall of a Kingdom by Hilari Bell
Let the two of us end this war…
Fall of a Kingdomis the first book in the FARSALA trilogy, followed by Rise of a Hero and Forging the Sword, all set in a pseudo-Arabian land called Farsala which is attempting to resist the invasion of an ever-growing empire that bears more than a few similarities to the Roman Empire. Known as the Hrum, these invaders are committed to fighting any conquerable land for a year before negotiating for peace;
Rebecca Fisher´s rating: 3.5 | Hilari Bell | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
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