Series
Cities of the Weft
Alex Pheby · 3 novels · 1 short story · 2020–2025
Alex Pheby's Cities of the Weft trilogy is set in a world where reality itself is woven from a substance called 'weft.' It begins with Mordew (2020), continues through Malarkoi (2022), and concludes with Waterblack (2025).
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Cities of the Weft 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
- 2020s4
Shape
3 novels · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:fantasycoming of agesecondary worldtimeless or unspecifieddarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Mordewdarkest · calmest
- Waterblackbrightest · most intense


