Love me some self-aware characters willing to acknowledge their faults and work on them.
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An Accident of Stars: Book I of the Manifold Worlds | 
Love me some self-aware characters willing to acknowledge their faults and work on them.
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.
pickThis 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.
pickAN 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.
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.
pickPortal 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.
I need to get back to reading this... maybe i'll join in #4in48readathon?? I do need to study, buuuut...
Current mood. Because who needs healthcare anyways? 🙄🙄🙄 #booksandbooze
#currentlyreading 😊 really liking it so far!
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
This is a seriously impressive fantasy.
August was a pretty good month for reading, despite various IRL things + the complications brought about by Ghost Month :).
pickAs 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
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.
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.
Read an amazing review on Tor.com and I must have it!
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.
