Series
The Red Queen's War
Mark Lawrence · 3 novels · 1 novella · 1 short story · 2014–2020
The Red Queen's War follows Prince Jalan Kendeth, a cowardly, charming minor royal from Mark Lawrence's Broken Empire world, dragged unwillingly across the continent alongside the fearsome Norse warrior Snorri ver Snagason on a quest neither of them really wants. It leans into dark comedy and reluctant heroism as a counterpoint to the grimmer tone of the earlier Broken Empire trilogy set in the same shattered post-apocalyptic Europe. The trilogy runs from Prince of Fools through two further novels.
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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 Red Queen's War 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.
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By decade
- 2010s4
- 2020s1
Shape
3 novels · 1 novella · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:epic fantasysecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 50% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Liar's Keydarkest · calmest
- Prince of Foolsbrightest · most intense