Series
Quarters
Tanya Huff · 4 novels · 3 novelettes · 1 collection · 1994–2016
Sing the Four Quarters opens Tanya Huff's Quarters novels, set in a kingdom where certain Bards can channel one of the four elemental Quarters through music and magic. It follows a Bard drawn into a succession crisis and treason plot after using her gift to help a falsely accused prince. The four novels are loosely connected standalone stories sharing the same world and magic system, published across the 1990s and revisited decades later.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(2 editions)
Map
Quarters 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
- 1990s4
- 2000s2
- 2010s2
Shape
4 novels · 3 novelettes · 1 collection
1 author
reads like:fantasypolitical intriguesecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 40% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 8 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- No Quarterdarkest · calmest
- Sing the Four Quartersbrightest
- Death Ritesmost intense