Series
Crowthistle Chronicles
Cecilia Dart-Thornton · 4 novels · 2004–2007
Cecilia Dart-Thornton's Crowthistle Chronicles begins with The Iron Tree, following Jewel, a young woman marked by a birth-curse, through a secondary world shaped by the author's dense, archaic prose and folkloric creatures. Over four books the sequence traces the consequences of that curse across more than one generation of the same family. It stands apart from Dart-Thornton's earlier Bitterbynde trilogy while sharing its ornate approach to language and Celtic-flavored fae lore.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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By decade
- 2000s4
Shape
4 novels
1 author
reads like:epic fantasypolitical intriguesecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 4 works carry a tone
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- Fallowbladedarkest · most intense
- The Iron Treebrightest
- The Well of Tearscalmest