Series
Black Jewels
Anne Bishop · 12 novels · 4 novellas · 2 novelettes · 3 short stories · 2 collections · 1998–2024
Anne Bishop's Black Jewels series is set in a matriarchal fantasy world ruled by hierarchies of magical 'Jewels,' beginning with the trilogy Daughter of the Blood, Heir to the Shadows, and Queen of the Darkness, for which Bishop won the 2000 Crawford Award. She continued expanding the world across more than a dozen further novels and story collections, including The Invisible Ring, Dreams Made Flesh, and The Shadow Queen.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(2 editions)
Map
Black Jewels 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
- 1990s2
- 2000s10
- 2010s6
- 2020s4
Shape
12 novels · 4 novellas · 2 novelettes · 3 short stories · 2 collections
1 author
reads like:dark fantasycourt intriguesecondary worldtimeless or unspecifieddarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book19 of 22 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Shadow Queendarkest · calmest
- The Queen's Bargainbrightest · most intense