Series
A Tale of Magic
Chris Colfer · 3 novels · 2019–2021
A Tale of Magic... opens Chris Colfer's trilogy of the same name, a prequel to his Land of Stories series. It follows Brystal Evergreen, a young woman in the repressive Southern Kingdom who discovers she can perform magic, illegal almost everywhere, and is recruited by Madame Weatherberry into a royally sanctioned school of magic. A Tale of Witchcraft... and A Tale of Sorcery... continue Brystal's story across the rest of the trilogy.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
A Tale of Magic at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 2010s1
- 2020s2
Shape
3 novels
1 author
reads like:fantasymagic schoolssecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousmiddle grade
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- A Tale of Witchcraft...darkest · most intense
- A Tale of Magic...brightest · calmest