Series
The Bitterbynde
Cecilia Dart-Thornton · 3 novels · 2001–2002
Cecilia Dart-Thornton's trilogy follows an amnesiac, disfigured servant known only by cruel nicknames, who cannot speak and remembers nothing of her own past, as she is driven out into the wider world of Erith. Across The Ill-Made Mute, The Lady of the Sorrows, and The Battle of Evernight she crosses a medieval-flavored landscape thick with Celtic-derived folklore - unseelie wights, wraiths, and eldritch creatures - in search of who she really is. The trilogy is written in a dense, archaic style drawing heavily on real-world balladry and legend.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
The Bitterbynde 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
Shape
Mood
Grim and intense: 67% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Battle of Evernightdarkest · most intense
- The Lady of the Sorrowsbrightest · calmest