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Crown of Thunder

core novel 2018 Beasts Made of Night

Record

First published2018
Original language EN
Work typenovel
Canon statuscore
Reader rating3.56 (1,202 ratings, collected 2026-08-31)
Page count303
First-edition ISBN9780448493930
Internal chronology2

Synopsis

Crown of Thunder picks up after the events of Beasts Made of Night, with Taj having escaped the city of Kos and the control of the mage Karima, but far from safe as a fugitive. Karima remains a persistent and ruthless threat, willing to hurt innocent people to get to Taj, and has turned his former best friend Bo against him, adding personal betrayal to the danger he already faces. Traveling with fellow aki and allied mages, including Aliya, Taj discovers a community called the tastahlik, where sin-eaters are treated with respect and have refined their abilities far beyond anything possible under Kos's system, even as he continues to wrestle with guilt, survivor's remorse and uncertainty over how to use his powers. The novel follows Taj as he is pulled between self-preservation and the pull of fighting for the people, aki and otherwise, that Kos left behind.

Where it sits

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 2 of 2: previous Beasts Made of Night (2017)

Sources

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