Beasts Made of Night
core novel 2017 Beasts Made of Night
Record
| First published | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.26 (5,393 ratings, collected 2026-08-31) |
| Page count | 304 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780448493909 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Beasts Made of Night is set in the walled city of Kos, where corrupt mages can magically manifest people's sins as physical creatures called sin-beasts, and indentured child and teenage sin-eaters known as aki are trained to hunt and destroy them, absorbing the sin as a tattoo on their own skin along with the psychological weight of the crime they have consumed. Seventeen-year-old Taj is the most skilled aki in Kos, a talent that drives most of his peers toward madness but that he uses to support his family, even as it isolates him within a society that depends on his work while shunning him for it. When Taj is summoned to consume the sin of a member of the royal family, he is drawn into a dangerous conspiracy at the heart of Kos's government, forcing him to protect both a princess he has come to care for and his own survival.
Where it sits
- Universe: Beasts Made of Night
- Series: Beasts Made of Night core; position 1 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Tochi Onyebuchi
Awards (verified)
- Nommo Award (Novel), 2018: won; Nommo Award for Novel by an African, 2018.
Notes
- From the series record (Beasts Made of Night): Complete YA fantasy duology set in the walled city of Kos, where sin-eaters called aki draw the physical sins of others into their own bodies as sin-beasts. Confirmed a separate, unrelated universe from Tochi Onyebuchi's Harmattan Season.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Beasts Made of Night: position 1 of 2: next Crown of Thunder (2018)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Tochi Onyebuchi
- Reader database: Beasts Made of Night
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beasts_Made_of_Night
- https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/tochi-onyebuchi/beasts-made-of-night/
- Nommo Awards (African Speculative Fiction Society)
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