Soulstar

Written by C. L. Polk

Narrated by Robin Miles

Shortlisted for the Aurora Award for Best Novel

A Reader's Digest Top 25 Best Fantasy Series Ever Written

With Soulstar, C. L. Polk concludes her riveting Kingston Cycle, a whirlwind of magic, politics, romance, and intrigue that began with the World Fantasy Award–winning Witchmark. Assassinations, deadly storms, and long-lost love haunt the pages of this thrilling final volume.

For years, Robin Thorpe has kept her head down, staying among her people in the Riverside neighborhood and hiding the magic that would have her imprisoned by the state. But when Grace Hensley comes knocking on Clan Thorpe’s door, Robin’s days of hiding are at an end. As freed witches flood the streets of Kingston, scrambling to reintegrate with a kingdom that destroyed their lives, Robin begins to plot a course that will ensure a freer, juster Aeland. At the same time, she has to face her long-bottled feelings for the childhood love that vanished into an asylum twenty years ago.

Can Robin find happiness among the rising tides of revolution? Can Kingston survive the blizzards that threaten, the desperate monarchy, and the birth throes of democracy? Find out as the Kingston Cycle comes to an end.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Feb 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781980011620

C. L. Polk

C. L. Polk is the author of the World Fantasy Award winning novel Witchmark, the first novel of the Kingston Cycle, and the Nebula Award winning novella, Even Though I Knew The End. After leaving high school early, they have worked as a film extra, sold vegetables on the street, and identified exotic insect species for a vast collection of lepidoptera before settling down to write fantasy novels. Polk lives near the Bow River in Calgary, Alberta, in a tiny apartment with too many books and a yarn stash that could last a decade. They spend too much time on Bluesky.

Reviews for Soulstar

[Jennie Davis · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The story is twisty and interesting. Characters are complex but easy to love. The narration had me swooning at points. A gorgeous end to an incredible series.

[Mariha · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Robin Miles couldnt have been any more PERFECT to narrate this book! I was in tears all chapter 25! Such an amazing series. I am a suckers for integrity and love, this one is a ringer!

[fiverivers_1 · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Unfortunately what started out to be a brilliant beginning to Polk's Kingston Cycle trilogy came to a stuttering and struggling conclusion in this last novel. The problems which arose in the second novel of superficiality, lack of focus, and a general sense of insincerity ballooned here, to the point it became a labourious chore just to slog through. Utterly disappointing.

[rivkat_2 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Conclusion of Polk’s trilogy about a fantasy England where the aether got shut off because the lives powering it were freed, and how the revolutionary democrats struggle with freeing the witches, securing broader democratic representation, and navigating both political peril and personal drama with estranged family and long-lost spouses. It’s got a lot of happy ending but there’s clearly been a lot of work to get there, so if you enjoyed the rest of the series, this will probably satisfy.