Series
Lightlark
Alex Aster · 6 novels · 2022–2025
Alex Aster's Lightlark saga is set on an island where six realms, each bound by an old curse, converge only once a century for a deadly game that could break their curses for good. It centers on Isla Crowe, ruler of a realm cursed with a monstrous secret, as she navigates rival rulers and a dangerous bond with the Wildling ruler Grim. The main sequence continues across further novels alongside companion novellas set in the same world.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(3 editions)
Map
Lightlark 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
- 2020s6
Shape
Mood
Grim and intense: 83% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.