Series
Pellinor
Alison Croggon · 5 novels · 2002–2016
Maerad has spent most of her life enslaved on a remote farm, until the wandering Bard Cadvan recognizes in her the Gift -- a rare and powerful magical ability -- and takes her from captivity into training. Alison Croggon's Books of Pellinor follow Maerad across the world of Edil-Amarandh as she's drawn into a prophecy naming her the only one who might stop the Nameless One, an ancient and corrupting sorcerer, while she also searches for her lost family. The series runs through The Gift, The Riddle, The Crow, The Singing, and the later prequel The Bone Queen.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Pellinor 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
- 2000s4
- 2010s1
Shape
5 novels
1 author
reads like:epic fantasyquestssecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousyoung adult
Mood
Bright and intense: 80% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Bone Queendarkest · calmest
- The Giftbrightest
- The Riddlemost intense