Her experience as a young woman in her own world has included both unwanted and vulgar sexual advances, compounded by adult men in a position of power dismissing such behaviour as "boys will be boys". For example, the book deals exceptionally well in acknowledging the discomfort Saffron has at the prospect of having to be taught by a young, and confidently attractive man.
There are a range of wonderfully developed and diverse characters in the book, but what really stuck out for me was how very realistic and true to life they seemed. She is an average girl from a happy home and while of course she has some distant longing for adventure, she also misses her family. She has no special skills that will turn her into a key player, and she's not running away from trouble at home. What makes An Accident of Stars different is that, among other things, Saffron is not a Chosen One in the story. The other world is in the midst of political upheaval, and the main character, Saffron, gets drawn into this. The storyline is deceptively simple: teen girl follows another traveller into a portal that leads to another world. 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.Ĭan one girl – an accidental worldwalker – really be the key to saving Kena? Or will she just die trying?Īn amazingly rich portal fantasy, both in terms of story and characters.
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, chief among them the Vex’Mara Kadeja, a dangerous ex-priestess who shares his dreams of conquest.
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. When Saffron Coulter stumbles through a hole in reality, she finds herself trapped in Kena, a magical realm on the brink of civil war.
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