The Untold Tale
Book One of The Accidental Turn Series
by J.M. Frey
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Pub Date Dec 08 2015 | Archive Date Dec 20 2015
Description
Forsyth Turn is not a hero. Lordling of Turn Hall and Lysse
Chipping, yes. Spymaster for the king, certainly. But hero? That’s his older
brother’s job, and Kintyre Turn is nothing if not legendary. However, when a
raid on the kingdom’s worst criminal results in the rescue of a bafflingly blunt
woman, oddly named and even more oddly mannered, Forsyth finds his quaint,
sedentary life is turned on its head.
Dragged reluctantly into a quest he never expected, and fighting villains that
even his brother has never managed to best, Forsyth is forced to confront his
own self-shame and the demons that come with always being second-best. And,
more than that, when he finally realizes where Lucy came from and why she’s
here, he’ll be forced to question not only his place in the world, but the very
meaning of his own existence.
Smartly crafted, "The Untold Tale" gives agency to the unlikeliest of
heroes: the silenced, the marginalized, and the overlooked. It asks what it
really means to be a fan when the worlds you love don't resemble the world you live
in, celebrates the power of the written word, challenges tropes, and shows us
what happens when someone stands up and refuses to remain a secondary character
in their own life.
Advance Praise
“INSANELYAMAZING! The Untold Tale tears apart the tropes of
heroic fantasy and gives back what we need: true heroes, true love, and the
astonishing realization that yes, real people are magical.”
--Julie Czerneda, Author of A Turn of Light, A Play of Shadow and
25 other books; Prix Aurora award winner
The fictional world = real world trope isn't the only one
Frey twists, however. She also plays with the ideas of the hero and heroic
adventure, feminism, gender roles, and the role of the narrative itself,
in innovative – and occasionally cheeky – ways. This novel has the potential to
appeal to a great many readers, across genres. Think Robert J. Weirsema's Bedtime
Story.
-- Violette Malan, The Dhulyn and Parno Adventures
This superb novel grabbed me from the opening sentence, and never let go. The very best fantasy stories show us fresh new settings in which deeds and events matter—but first and foremost, they give us colorful, captivating characters we fall in love with, or love to hate, or are fascinated by. Untold Tale does all of this, and more. We see someone from a world we know plunged into a world that is strange to us, through the eyes of that unfamiliar world. And we care what happens to her, and to everyone we meet in Untold Tale’s pages. And the whole tale is several clever twists on the oh-so-familiar fantasies we’ve read before. I want more. Books more”.
--Ed Greenwood, Forgotten Realms
“John Scalzi did Redshirts. He poked fun at a beloved symbol of geekdom, and we loved it. Frey has done the same for the sacred fantasy tropes and it's fantastic. An empowered woman of color, thrown into the chauvinistic world of the epic fantasy today's geeks were weaned on, serves as the perfect narrator for a critical and wonderful look at fantasy in the modern world.”
-- Leah Petersen, author of The Physics of Falling series
“J.M. Frey's Untold Tale is a rare balancing act: a gripping adventure
reflecting on both the joys and frustrations of classic fantasy in modern
times. Born of an obvious love for the genre and tempered by Frey's wry
sense of humor, Untold Tale inverts high fantasy tropes to weave a tale
that's just as grounded in the charm of its characters as it is in the
controversies of speculative fiction today. It's sincere yet subversive;
as sexy as it is sexually progressive. “
--Jason Grabher-Meyer, Media Manager of TCGPlayer.com
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781942111283 |
| PRICE | $19.99 (USD) |
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