Erika Johansen

Dec 11, 2023 | bradfordera.com | Erika Johansen

Ugh, now you've done it. You ate too much. And yet, there's still room for chocolate, caramel, marzipan, cookies, cake, candied almonds, or peppermints. Seriously, when was the last time you turned down something gooey and frosted because you were "full"? As in the new novel "The Kingdom of Sweets" by Erika Johansen, some things are beyond tempting. Anastasia, the cook, knew it. Everyone, it seemed, knew that Natasha Stahlbaum was in love with Conrad, the son of a minor aristocrat.

Dec 9, 2023 | bookreporter.com | Erika Johansen

Erika Johansen, the bestselling author of the Queen of the Tearling series, returns with her first stand-alone novel, THE KINGDOM OF SWEETS. And just in time, too, since this dark, atmospheric fantasy retells Tchaikovsky’s holiday classic, “The Nutcracker.”Born shortly after midnight on Christmas Day, Clara and Natasha Stahlbaum are identical twins whose bond is nearly severed when Godfather Drosselmeyer, a local sorcerer, bestows them with a terrible gift.

Dec 7, 2023 | apg-wi.com | Erika Johansen

Ugh, now you’ve done it. You ate too much. And yet, there’s still room for chocolate, caramel, marzipan, cookies, cake, candied almonds, or peppermints. Seriously, when was the last time you turned down something gooey and frosted because you were “full”? As in the new novel “The Kingdom of Sweets” by Erika Johansen, some things are beyond tempting. Anastasia, the cook, knew it. Everyone, it seemed, knew that Natasha Stahlbaum was in love with Conrad, the son of a minor aristocrat.

Dec 7, 2023 | ehextra.com | Erika Johansen

Ugh, now you’ve done it. You ate too much. And yet, there’s still room for chocolate, caramel, marzipan, cookies, cake, candied almonds, or peppermints. Seriously, when was the last time you turned down something gooey and frosted because you were “full”? As in the new novel “The Kingdom of Sweets” by Erika Johansen, some things are beyond tempting. kAmp?2DE2D:2[ E96 4@@<[ <?6H :E] tG6CJ@?6[ :E D66>65[ <?6H E92E }2E2D92 $E29=32F> H2D :? =@G6 H:E9 r@?C25[ E96 D@?

Nov 30, 2023 | culturefly.co.uk | Erika Johansen

I always wanted to be a writer. But you can’t really specialize in creative writing in America until the graduate level; studying English is as close as you can get. So I did. I took almost every literature course my high school offered, then majored in English Literature at college. But I never quite fit in. Most of the literature that was touted as “great”, either explicitly or by selection, bored me half to death. Oh, there were exceptions. I loved Faulkner and Steinbeck, those two American Lit.