![]() ![]() Saffron Coulter just wants to thank Gwen Vere for sticking up for her, but winds up accidentally following her through a magical portal into Kena. Throughout the book, it is the depth and likeability of her characters, and her commitment to these characters’ emotional journey, that make this such a satisfying read. Meadows explores the psychological fallout of the events of her story in depth, examining the physical and emotional trauma resulting from armed conflict, the guilt at having made a decision that has affected the lives of many, or the difficulties with being taken out of one’s own world, undergoing a profound transformative experience then being sent back to one’s everyday life. The book is effortlessly diverse, containing characters from a variety of backgrounds, genders and sexualities. The novel avoids both the moral simplicity of traditional epic fantasy and the bitter cynicism of the worst excesses of grimdark, to portray a fictional world full of well-rounded characters and peoples with conflicting interests and agendas. However what sets An Accident of Stars apart is Meadows’ commitment to capturing humanity in all its complexity. The book contains all the magic, adventure and excitement in a land far removed from our own that characterises the best fantasy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Keep fighting.”Īn Accident of Stars (2016) is the new portal fantasy by Foz Meadows and the first book in the Manifold Worlds sequence. ![]()
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