Celebrate Lit / March 8, 2025

The Unraveling of Emlyn DuLaine

About the Book The Unraveling of Emlyn DuLaine

Book: The Unraveling of Emlyn DuLaine

Author: Lindsay A. Franklin

Genre: YA Fantasy

Release date: February 4, 2025

A shattered heart, a fate foretold.

The world undone by tales of old.

Emlyn DuLaine just wants to know what happened to her sister, Camille, seven years ago on the fateful day she vanished—literally. Emlyn witnessed Camille unravel and disappear, but no one believed her. Since they think she’s crazy, the least the cops could do is solve Camille’s case.

Is a little closure too much to ask?

But Emlyn’s life is upended when she is pulled through a portal into the fantasyland of her childhood imaginings—a magical library holding the story worlds of every story ever published. And trouble is brewing in the land of Rivenlea. Rogue characters threaten their plot lines, and broken classics are beginning to crumble, but Emlyn only wants to find Camille.

As she searches for her sister, Emlyn begins to learn the reality of Rivenlea and her own origins. A nefarious plot is afoot, and the line between fact and fiction is becoming hopelessly blurred. The truth threatens the storyworlds, Rivenlea, and Earth—the fabric of creation, itself.

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My Thoughts on The Unraveling of Emlyn DuLaine

The Unraveling of Emlyn DuLaine is a sweet fantasy novel for young adults that is a wonderful read for young and old alike. I’m definitely past the years of young adult but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Imagine a world where your sister just disappears one day. She’s there and then she disassembles and is gone. And now imagine a world that’s made up of your imaginings and writings. Almost like everything you thought is suddenly coming to life.

That is unreal to me. I’m a thinker. There are so many scenarios that go through my brain. I have lots of conversations in my head and sometimes forget that I haven’t had them in real life. But this is very different.

I loved the creativity of the author. She created a wonderful world and I can’t wait to get back to it for another novel. The characters felt so real! I really really felt like they were real and might meet me in the yard when I walked outside with the dog. I highly recommend this for adults and young adults alike. My teens definitely approved of it and cannot wait to get the whole series.

I have voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book which I received from Celebrate Lit. All views expressed are only my honest opinion. I was not required to write a positive review nor was I compensated in any other way. All opinions expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the FTC regulations.

About the Author of The Unraveling of Emlyn DuLaine

Lindsay A. Franklin is the Carol Award-winning author of The Story Peddler, ECPA best-selling author of Adored, and Managing Editor of Enclave Publishing. She would wear pajama pants all the time if it were socially acceptable. Lindsay lives happily among the rain and evergreens of the Pacific Northwest with her scruffy-looking nerf-herder husband, their three (nearly) grown geeklings, and three demanding thunder pillows (a.k.a. cats).

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“It’s always been broken.”

Those were the words God put on my heart when I cried out to him in 2020 as I tried to plot The Unraveling of Emlyn DuLaine. My cry and the fact that I was plotting a novel were not exactly connected at first–though outlining does usually result in some weeping and gnashing of teeth for me. But I released my last novel in 2020 and happened to be working on my new series, The Rivenlea Sphere when the world was suddenly thrown into chaos.

Being creative in the midst of a global pandemic and significant social unrest is not easy.

In fact, I found it impossible.

I stared at my unfinished outline, asking myself and God, “Why is everything so messed up? Why is this world so broken?” I know the theological answer to that question, but sometimes, the soul aches. Sometimes, it feels like the whole world is falling apart in a way it never has before.

When God reminded me that this world has, since the fall of man, always been broken, he also reminded me that he’s always been in the business of rescuing us, giving us hope, and pointing us toward a better future–one that is complete and holy. One that is fully redeemed.

Over the next two years, an underlying brokenness that begs for a solution wove itself into my story. The Unraveling of Emlyn DuLaine is intentionally whimsical and fun, filled with references to beloved classics and packed with wry humour. There’s a magical library, a sassy dragon, a fish-out-of-water protagonist determined to dodge every YA trope being thrown her way. But underneath it all is the idea that this world isn’t what it was originally designed to be–and there is hope on the horizon.