Mount Emily Revisited

Mount Emily #2

by Low Ying Ping, Chee Jia Yi, Ying Ping Low

Patsy and her best friend Elena travel back to 1987 again to save Charlotte and her mum, who have been kidnapped by a member of the Midnight Warriors cult. As their adventure plays out, Patsy discovers she may also be a Keeper of Time!

Mount Emily Revisited is the second in a series of books which centre on two time-traveling 13-year-old students at Mount Emily Girls’ School. The books feature time travel with a strong focus on female teen friendship whilst exploring the girls’ family backgrounds and how they deal with their very different problems.

Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy

186 pages, Paperback

Published July 1, 2016

About the author

Low Ying Ping is the author of two middle grade fantasy series, Mount Emily and Prophecy of the Underworld. She has also written a three-volume English adaptation of the Chinese classic, Journey to the West, for younger children. Her books have won the Singapore Book Awards and were shortlisted for the Hedwig Anuar Children’s Book Award and the Popular Readers’ Choice Award. A short story has also won second prize in the British Fantasy Society’s short story competition. She will be making her U.S. debut with the middle grade novel, Song of the Yellow Dragon, in 2026.

Reviews

[evelina]

A bit less entertaining than the first one but still good!

[Josh Ang]

In the second book of the Mount Emily series, Low takes the reader back into Patsy and Elena's time-travelling adventures, this time, back to 1988 with an important mission that sees Patsy take on a treacherous Midnight Warrior head on. But that's not the only challenge Patsy needs to face. Enters love interest Wuji, and Patsy's already tenuous friendship with bestie Elena that saw them stumbling back into the past in the first place, faces another obstacle as Patsy struggles with her insecurities, loyalty to Elena, and her own raging hormones.

The introduction of teenage crushes and broken marriages up the ante in this brilliant second book of the series, grounding this character-focused fantasy in real-life growing up issues that sets it apart from other YA adventure stories. Low's nuanced portrayal of Patsy and Elena, complete with the seemingly minute-by-minute fluctuating and contrary feelings Patsy, the main focaliser, has towards Elena, gives the relationship the moving authenticity of teenage friendships.

Lastly, already not a series to shy from the brutality of life-and-death scenarios, Patsy and her friends, some of whom are from her mother's time as teenagers, face mortal danger, as the reader turns the pages frantically to find out what happens next, and if anyone in this expanding cast of characters would be the next fatality.

A riveting fantasy adventure series that keeps getting more exciting with each installment. Bring it on, Book 3!

[thachika]

Its very interesting . And there is adventures in this book where you can time travel through crystal of time. Its very addictive . Once you start reading you can't put down the book

[Skye]

Was curious about how a time travel story could work within a Singapore context!