Series
Bard's Tale
Holly Lisle, Mercedes Lackey, Aaron Allston, Josepha Sherman, Mark Shepherd & Ru Emerson · 8 novels · 1992–1998
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Bard's Tale 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.
Stats
By decade
- 1990s8
Shape
8 novels
6 authors
reads like:fantasypolitical intriguesecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 38% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
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this series · the catalog · one dot = one book8 of 8 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Prison of Soulsdarkest · calmest
- Fortress of Frost and Firebrightest
- Wrath of the Princesmost intense