Shadow Scale

Author Rachel Hartman
Narrator Mandy Williams, W. Morgan Sheppard
Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
Publish Date 28 July 2016
Run Time 18 hours and 10 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy.

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What to expect

As Seraphina travels the Southlands in search of the other half-breeds to help in the war effort, the dragon General Comonot and his Loyalists fight against the upstart Old Guard - with the fate of Goredd and the other human countries hanging in the balance.

The gripping sequel to the bestselling Seraphina.

Critics Review

[A] worthy and wholly satisfying continuation of Seraphinau2019s tale

Publishers Weekly

Intricate plotting, clever surprises (including the identities of Goreddu2019s Saints), and lovely prose make this a worthy conclusion for all of Hartmanu2019s big-hearted characters.

Booklist

Hartman continues to expand her world with enough history and detail to satisfy even the most questioning of readers, doing it all so naturally that it's hard to believe this is fiction. Dragon fiction has never flown higher.

Kirkus

Full of enticing characters, both good and evil . . . rife with danger and adventure.

Quill & Quire

This book's villain is one of the most terrifying I've encountered . . . I also loved, with a passion verging on the desperate, the fact that this fantasy world contains people of color, trans characters, gay characters, and languages that acknowledge multiple genders . . . Shadow Scale demonstrates that all these other ways of being are present and accounted for in the magnificent tapestry of its world.

NPR Books (US publication)

Hartmanu2019s prose is delicate, complex and gorgeous, and the world of these books is lushly articulated . . . [a] deeply wonderful, attention-deserving offering that should be picked up, and soon.

The Globe and Mail (Canadian publication)

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