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‘Why ‘Forbidden River’ is One of the Finest Fantasies We’ve Read in Years

The Forbidden River

By Lili Cyr-Robillard (Kenos Publishing, November 2025)

Genre: YA/Fiction – Fantasy

Pages (print): 304

Via: Author request

Note: We received a complimentary copy of this book for honest review.

What happens after we die? What’s on the other side?

Up to his shackled ankles in corpses, at the lip of the Pit of the Forgotten, twelve-year-old Glaguel wants to know the answers to these questions. And more. You will too in Lili Cyr-Robillard ambitious and absorbing new fantasy, The Forbidden River.

It’s one of the finest fantasies we’ve read in years. Here’s the 4-1-1:

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