Days of Blood and Fire
core novel 1993 Deverry
Record
| First published | 1993 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.12 (5,102 ratings, collected 2026-09-13) |
| Page count | 505 |
| First-edition ISBN | 0-246-13782-7 |
| First-edition date | 1993-06 |
| Internal chronology | 7 |
Synopsis
In the peaceful land of the Rhiddaer, a ratcatcher's son named Jahdo overhears a secret meeting between a city councilman and a mysterious, dangerous woman, and the discovery sets him on the road toward Deverry in the company of a blind bard. There he is swept into a much larger conflict: two sorcerers, one human and one elven, find themselves struggling against a goddess gone mad, whose growing cult threatens the fragile order of the kingdom. Armies both astral and physical begin massing for and against this goddess, Alshandra, as the mercenary Rhodry Maelwaedd and a dragon are drawn into the unfolding crisis at the besieged city that lies at its center.
Where it sits
- Universe: Deverry
- Series: Act Two: The Westlands core; position 3 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Katharine Kerr
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Act Two: The Westlands: position 3 of 4: previous A Time of Omens (1992) · next Days of Air and Darkness (1994)
- Internal chronology, within Deverry: position 7 of 16: previous A Time of Omens (1992) · next Days of Air and Darkness (1994)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deverry_Cycle
- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
- https://www.isfdb.org
- https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/91955/days-of-blood-and-fire-by-katharine-kerr/
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