Aleese Hughes

My Fascination with the Fantasy Genre

It all started when I was five years old. I don't even remember learning how to read—my mother always said I had an affinity for reading almost since the beginning. One of my first memories of picking a book to read was on a cold winter's day, just a month or two after my fifth birthday. When I close my eyes, I can still feel my fingers gliding across the worn spines of the books resting on my parents' bookshelf that day.