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Of the Stars
Publication Date: September 2023
Genre: Dark Urban Fantasy
You must choose: forsake your darkness or fight for it?
Norah Kestrel, a burned out mental health therapist in her late twenties, finds solace in helping others at Corvid’s Hospital while locking away her own haunting wounds within the spare room of her Gothic home.
Magical happenstance introduces her to her newest friend and colleague, Dexteras Doe, an elderly man with amnesia and a fading sense of existence. Their captivating connection sparks an insatiable curiosity for their untold pasts.
Drawn into an underground fight club promising long-sought answers for spilled blood, Norah and Dex unravel the mysteries of their identities and the enigmatic beings lurking beneath the club’s crimson neon. But as they confront their forgotten traumas, a chilling question arises: is their bond destined by the alignment of much darker stars?
Embark on a modern, fantastical journey that showcases the found-families who teach us to fall in love with healing ourselves, and the found-families best left unfounded. Experience a psychological narrative that cares for its readers and empathizes with the tired and self-aware who go to therapy on behalf of the generations before them who did not. New and established adult audiences will find confidants in neurodiverse and disabled characters and a father-daughteresque duo learning to craft their identities from scratch while overcoming complex intergenerational curses, grief, and loneliness.
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Review:
Of the Stars follows Norah, a mental health therapist, and elderly colleague, Dex, who is suffering from amnesia. This is a dark urban fantasy story, and the tone is set for a plot of uncovering secrets and healing old traumas. Norah is my favorite character, I love how well she was written. As we learn more about her and Dex, all the while discovering more secrets in the story, I am so happy to have read this. The father-daughter duo of these characters was great to read about! I look forward to reading more from this author.
About the Author
A.M. Alcedo is a MSW, CSW, and licensed therapist with specialty training in trauma recovery. She adores the mental health field and the sacred space she’s permitted to hold for her clients. Her debut Of the Stars orbits vulnerable characters and a raw hope that A.M. Alcedo very much needed when she was young, and is written as a love letter in solidarity for those who have survived loss and isolation. It’s to remind them that they are not alone, they are not forgotten, and that they and their voices matter.
Ava Mae is a wife to the kindest man in the galaxy and a mother to Pancake the calico and countless house plants. She is a lover of Puh’erh tea, anything matcha flavored, birdwatching with binoculars, illustrating, hiking to waterfalls, and getting new tattoos. Above all else, she feels her Purpose is to hold space for the sacred stuff of others.
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