The Call of the Rift Flight [Hardcover]

A rebellious heroine faces a colonial world coming unstitched in Jae Waller's stunning debut fantasy

Seventeen-year-old Kateiko doesn’t want to be Rin anymore — not if it means sacrificing lives to protect the dead. Her only way out is to join another tribe, a one-way trek through the coastal rainforest. Killing a colonial soldier in the woods isn’t part of the plan. Neither is spending the winter with Tiernan, an immigrant who keeps a sword with his carpentry tools. His log cabin leaks and his stories about other worlds raise more questions than they answer.

Then the air spirit Suriel, long thought dormant, resurrects a war. For Kateiko, protecting other tribes in her confederacy is atonement. For Tiernan, war is a return to the military life he’s desperate to forget.

Leaving Tiernan means losing the one man Kateiko trusts. Staying with him means abandoning colonists to a death sentence. In a region tainted by prejudice and on the brink of civil war, she has to decide what’s worth dying — or killing — for.

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-The Call of the Rift: Flightis the first book in a new young adult epic epic fantasy series that replaces castles with cabins, and the well-worn paths of medieval Europe with the lush rainforest and mountains of North America's colonial-era Pacific Northwest. Think Philip Pullman meetsAvatar.

- Original, well-wrought fantasy is a rare and wonderful thing. Waller creates a completely believable world peopled with great characters and tons of compelling action. The plotting and writing are assured.

- We come to care deeply for Kai and the people she loves, and we root for her even as her own recklessness makes bad situations worse. She is a great heroine, full of teen anger and rebelÃD