Series
Raybearer
Jordan Ifueko · 3 novels · 2020–2024
Jordan Ifueko's Raybearer follows Tarisai, raised in isolation and sent to compete for a spot among the emperor's council of magically bonded companions, only to discover she's been trained since childhood to kill the prince she's meant to protect. Redemptor continues her reign as empress, dealing with the political and spiritual fallout of the choices she made, while The Maid and the Crocodile follows a different protagonist in the same world. The trilogy draws on West African-inspired myth and court politics rather than the medieval-European default of much YA fantasy.
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Stats
By decade
- 2020s3
Shape
3 novels
1 author
reads like:fantasycoming of agesecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousyoung adult
Mood
Bright and intense: 67% 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
- Redemptordarkest
- The Maid and the Crocodilebrightest · calmest
- Raybearermost intense