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Accident of Stars: Book I of the Manifold Worlds
Accident of Stars: Book I of the Manifold Worlds | Foz Meadows
"Book I of the Manifold Worlds from Hugo-nominated author Foz Meadows." When Saffron Coulter stumbles through a hole in reality, she finds herself trapped in Kena, a magical realm on the brink of civil war. There, her fate becomes intertwined with that of three very different women: Zech, the fast-thinking acolyte of a cunning, powerful exile; Viya, the spoiled, runaway consort of the empire-building ruler, Vex Leoden; and Gwen, an Earth-born worldwalker whose greatest regret is putting Leoden on the throne. But Leoden has allies, too, chief among them the Vex'Mara Kadeja, a dangerous ex-priestess who shares his dreams of conquest. Pursued by Leoden and aided by the Shavaktiin, a secretive order of storytellers and mystics, the rebels flee to Veksh, a neighboring matriarchy ruled by the fearsome Council of Queens. Saffron is out of her world and out of her depth, but the further she travels, the more she finds herself bound to her friends with ties of blood and magic. Can one girl - an accidental worldwalker - really be the key to saving Kena? Or will she just die trying? "File Under" Fantasy"
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Love me some self-aware characters willing to acknowledge their faults and work on them.

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This is such a good intro to a portal fantasy. Like you know this book is gonna delve into topics portal fantasies don't generally bother with and it's gonna be good shit.

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shanaqui
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This took me so long to read and it's hard to put my finger on why. There's a lot that I liked about it, but most of the time I didn't feel a desperate need to know what happened next.

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AN ACCIDENT OF STARS is my favourite sort of fantasy: a story that takes all the elements that made Teenage Me fall in love with the genre and updates them for a modern audience. If you're after a portal fantasy brimming with politics and toothsome worldbuilding that challenges the white, hetero, patriarchal paradigm while it examines the darker realities of getting sucked into a magical world, you've gotta read this.

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I wanted to finish THE DARK FOREST tonight, so I did a bit of outdoor #audiocolouring before I dove back into AN ACCIDENT OF STARS.

TobeyTheScavengerMonk Have an unread copy of this sitting around somewhere... 6y
xicanti @TobeyTheScavengerMonk it's excellent as of the halfway mark. 6y
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Portal fantasies are not usually my thing but this one was great. I really enjoyed the magic and the world building, and it has my favorite fantasy thing- kick-ass teenagers! It was also nice to have the world-walking main character actually reflect on how her earthly biases and upbringing affect her interactions with the new world and new people around her.

wizard-rachel I will say though that the editing is not great, so if you're bothered by misplaced quotation marks and missing paragraph breaks for dialogue, maybe skip this one. There are a loooot of those kinds of errors. 6y
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shanaqui

I need to get back to reading this... maybe i'll join in #4in48readathon?? I do need to study, buuuut...

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Current mood. Because who needs healthcare anyways? 🙄🙄🙄 #booksandbooze

LouLouLane Rachel Maddow couldn't even make me feel better about this whole mess! Pour me one too. 7y
CouronneDhiver I'm all for it. My health care job kicked my butt today... 🍻 7y
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#currentlyreading 😊 really liking it so far!

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Look what dropped into my email this morning! I'm a big fan of Foz Meadows, both her writing and her social commentary. Definitely a deal to jump on. (And the sequel released at the beginning of the month!) #dailydeals #ebooks

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This is a seriously impressive fantasy.

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Saw this on Tor.com. #truth

kspenmoll All Littens!!!!😂 7y
diovival Hahaha! Yes. Exposing us all. 7y
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August was a pretty good month for reading, despite various IRL things + the complications brought about by Ghost Month :).

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kammartinez @Currysunshine IKR :D? That second book can't come out soon enough XD. 8y
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As I mentioned earlier, when I finished this book I had to bury my face in my pillow to mask my delighted, heartbroken screaming. In addition, I now grin like a loon every time I even just think about it. It's just THAT GOOD. Please read it everybody. I need to share my pain and happy with SOMEONE. Full review here: http://wp.me/p21txV-uY

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sherrynuts It took me awhile to be ok with being lost. I'm definitely happier now! 8y
kammartinez @Skiles @sherrynuts This book. Just. THIS BOOK. 8y
sherrynuts Added! I can't say no to that! 8y
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No review from me yet (my posts run on a schedule), but let me just say this: I finished this in three days (which is a rare feat for me nowadays), and when I was done I had to put my face into my pillow and just SCREAM. You folk will see why quite soon, but I just thought to let everybody know that this book broke my heart and I'd let it do that all day, everyday.

Trav I love when a book has the ability to do that to you. 8y
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I've been sitting on this for a while but I was knee-deep in Julie McElwain's A Murder in Time, and I wanted to finish that first :). So excited to read this; been a while since I read a really fun portal fantasy :D.

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Sneakybea

Read an amazing review on Tor.com and I must have it!

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After a slightly rocky beginning, really getting into this one. Has a Hundred Thousand Kingdoms with a splash of Otherbound vibe. One of the POV characters is a teenager, but it doesn't feel YA to me for some reason... The dynastic politics are maybe too complex.