Series
Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell · 3 novels · 2023–2026
Katherine Rundell's trilogy opens with a boy, Christopher, discovering a hidden Archipelago where mythical creatures long thought imaginary still survive, guarded from the wider world by people who can perform an old magic. He teams up with Mal, a girl with a coat that lets her fly and a secret that makes her a target, to protect the Archipelago as its magic begins failing. The Poisoned King and The Neverfear continue their fight to save the hidden world from the forces working to destroy it.
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The order the books came out.
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Impossible Creatures 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
- 2020s3
Shape
3 novels
1 author
reads like:fantasyquestssecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousmiddle grade
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Impossible Creaturesdarkest · most intense
- The Poisoned Kingbrightest
- The Neverfearcalmest