Series
Heir Chronicles
Cinda Williams Chima · 5 novels · 2006–2014
Cinda Williams Chima's Heir Chronicles begins with The Warrior Heir, in which sixteen-year-old Jack learns he has hidden magical, warrior ancestry and is drawn into training to fight enemy wizards he didn't know existed. The following books widen the cast to other magical bloodlines — wizards, dragons, enchanters, sorcerers — each heir navigating the same hidden system of guilds and rival houses operating alongside the ordinary world. It's a contemporary-set YA fantasy about inherited power and the factions that police it.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Heir Chronicles 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
- 2000s3
- 2010s2
Shape
Mood
Grim and intense: 60% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Dragon Heirdarkest · calmest
- The Warrior Heirbrightest
- The Wizard Heirmost intense