Series
Damar
Robin McKinley · 2 novels · 1 novella · 3 novelettes · 1982–2002
Robin McKinley's Damar novels are set in a desert kingdom threatened by invasion from the north. The Blue Sword follows Harry Crewe, an orphaned outsider drawn into the Hillfolk's magic and their war; The Hero and the Crown, a Newbery Medal-winning prequel, tells how the earlier book's legendary dragon-slayer Aerin earned her place in Damar's history. The two novels can be read in either order and were written eight years apart.
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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Damar 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
- 1980s5
- 1990s0
- 2000s1
Shape
2 novels · 1 novella · 3 novelettes
1 author
reads like:fantasycoming of agesecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousyoung adult
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 6 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Hero and the Crowndarkest · most intense
- The Blue Swordbrightest · calmest