Foz Meadows has created an epic adventure unlike any I've read before." -Fran Wilde, Nebula- and Norton-nominated author of Updraft and Cloudbound "A portal fantasy for grownups, with grit and realism, and characters I loved from the first page." -Trudi Canavan, author of the Black Magician trilogy "Fantasy readers who appreciate strong characters and excellent worldbuilding will immerse themselves in this tale." - Publishers Weekly, starred review "It's quite lovely. To enter Kena and the surrounding lands is to be irrevocably and powerfully changed.
I can't wait to read the next book." -Martha Wells, author of The Books of Raksura and The Murderbot Diaries " An Accident of Stars ' interwoven, beautifully rendered cultures are filled with rich details, complex family bonds of all kinds, and deeply layered politics. The main character falls out of our world into a life-changing adventure, with compelling characters and a fascinating world. "This is the portal fantasy I've spent my whole life waiting for." -Liz Bourke for Tor.com "So this was basically all the things I'd enjoyed about portal fantasies as a younger reader, with the dubious gifts the suck fairy might have bestowed either questioned or removed." -Ann Leckie "I very much enjoyed this. Can one girl-and an accidental worldwalker at that-really be the key to saving Kena? Or will she die trying?
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. 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. But Leoden has allies, too, and chief among them is the Vex'Mara Kadeja, a dangerous ex-priestess who shares his dreams of conquest. It's there that 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. compelling characters and a fascinating world" (Martha Wells, author of The Murderbot Diaries) When Saffron Coulter stumbles through a hole in reality, she finds herself trapped in Kena-a magical realm on the brink of civil war. Portal fantasy grows up in this immersive series kickoff featuring "a life-changing adventure.
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