Soulstar
core novel 2020 The Kingston Cycle
Record
| First published | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.91 (2,791 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781250203571 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Soulstar closes out the Kingston Cycle in the immediate aftermath of the king's decree freeing Aeland's imprisoned witches, as hundreds of traumatized, disoriented survivors flood back into the streets of Kingston with nowhere to go. Robin Thorpe, a nursing student and dedicated Solidarity movement activist, hopes above all to reunite with Zelind, her childhood love who has spent nearly two decades unjustly imprisoned, and finds support from her friend Grace Hensley, whose political position continues to grow more precarious. When an act of violence thrusts Robin into a leadership role within the Solidarity movement for social equity and witches' freedom, she must navigate a political landscape rife with betrayals, falsified election results, spies, and corrupt officials, even as the king backslides on his promised reforms and deadly storms threaten Aeland's fragile path toward democratic change.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Kingston Cycle
- Series: The Kingston Cycle core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: C. L. Polk
Notes
- From the series record (The Kingston Cycle): The complete trilogy, published by Tor.com Publishing (2018-2020). A gaslamp/Edwardian-inspired secondary world recovering from a war modeled on WWI; a feminist, political narrative about the uprising of a repressed underclass, with a distinct queer romance and murder mystery in each volume. Internal chronology equals publication order; no dispute found. No companion short fiction or novellas set in this universe were found -- the trilogy is the entirety of the Core Canon.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Kingston Cycle: position 3 of 3: previous Stormsong (2019)
Sources
- The Kingston Cycle (Wikipedia)
- C. L. Polk (Wikipedia)
- Witchmark (Wikipedia)
- https://fantasyliterature.com/reviews/soulstar/
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