Series
Phèdre Trilogy
Jacqueline Carey · 4 novels · 1 novelette · 2001–2023
Jacqueline Carey's Phedre trilogy (Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, Kushiel's Avatar) is set in Terre d'Ange, an alternate-history France where a religious tenet of 'love as thou wilt' shapes both court politics and the story's central character: Phedre, a courtesan and spy marked as an anguissette, someone who feels pain as pleasure. The 2023 novel Cassiel's Servant retells the same trilogy's events from the perspective of Phedre's protector and companion Joscelin. It's political fantasy built on intrigue, sexuality and a distinctive alternate-Europe setting.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Phèdre Trilogy 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
- 2010s1
- 2020s1
Shape
4 novels · 1 novelette
1 author
reads like:fantasypolitical intriguesecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedemotionaladult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% 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
- Cassiel's Servantdarkest
- Kushiel's Dartbrightest · most intense
- You, and You Alonecalmest