The Twin Stars by Bridgette Dutta Portman

When she falls through a portal into her own abandoned fantasy novel, 16-year-old Olive finds herself in a world in peril. Double suns scorch the planet, the brutal Prince Burnash seeks supreme power, and her protagonist, Coseema, has gone into hiding. Bringing back her heroine might be Olive’s only hope of finding her way home, but when her attempt to summon Coseema goes horribly wrong, it’s Olive who must flee for her life. Together with her friends — a bold and powerful poet, a handsome but cursed musician, a renegade soldier with a troubled past, and an adventurous girl from the desert — Olive must face her deepest fears to escape Burnash’s tyranny and find the hero in herself.

The Twin Stars is an engrossing portal fantasy in the spirit of the Wizard of Oz and Narnia, with a dash of Star Wars and a sprinkling of Dune.

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Category: Fantasy – Coming of Age

After narrowly escaping Coseema with her life, Olive and her friends head for a distant planet in search of the legendary starship the Wave-Rider, which may be the only hope for the doomed people of Lyria. But the voyage there is littered with obstacles—the tyrannical ruler of a dying colony, a mysterious spacefarer, the ever-present threat of Coseema, and Olive’s own obsessive fears. Back on Lyria, Olive’s allies face obstacles of their own as they vie with the cruel emperor Burnash, while Burnash himself chafes under Coseema’s control. Olive, armed with her omniscient journal, finds comfort in reading along with her friends’ adventures. But when time runs out, she must embark on a risky collision course with her former heroine, one that may force her to give up what she treasures most.