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Twelve-year-old Happenstance awakens in a cave with no memory of who he is or how he came to be there. Soon a mysterious trio arrives to take him away: the explorer Umber, the shy archer Sophie, and Oates, whose strength and honesty are both brutal. Hap and his new acquaintances narrowly... read more
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Catanese (the Further Tales Adventures) dazzles in the first of the planned Books of Umber series by wittily subverting genre tropes. Happenstance, a boy with strange green eyes, wakes up in a cave with no memories of who he is or anything about the...
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First Sentence
The boy felt as if he'd emerged, fully conscious and wholly formed, out of nothing. Not out of darkness, or chaos, or mist or murk. He was sure he'd sprung from nothing, and now he was lying in a strange place with rough stone pressing against the back of his skull.
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Series
This is book 1 in the Books of Umber series.
Authors & Contributors
- P.W. Catanese (Author)
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