Fortune's Fool
core novel 2007 Five Hundred Kingdoms
Record
| First published | 2007 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.87 (9,562 ratings, collected 2026-09-12) |
| Page count | 368 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780373802661 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Fortune's Fool follows Ekaterina, the seventh daughter of the Sea King, who works as a spy for her family while maintaining her royal status among the Five Hundred Kingdoms, guided as always by the pervasive force known as the Tradition that pushes people toward familiar fairy-tale roles. Sent as an emissary to investigate curious developments in a neighboring kingdom, she takes particular interest in Sasha, the seventh son of the king of Belarus, suspecting that his reputation as a harmless fool conceals real depth and competence beneath the surface. Her mission goes badly wrong when she is trapped in a castle at the mercy of a possessive jinn, leaving Ekaterina to rely on her wit and resourcefulness to survive captivity and find a way free before anyone realizes she is even missing.
Where it sits
- Universe: Five Hundred Kingdoms
- Series: Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms core; position 3 of 7 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Mercedes Lackey
Notes
- From the series record (Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms): A completed 7-book sequence of standalone fairy-tale-retelling novels sharing one meta-fictional secondary world ("The Tradition", a narrative-causality force that pushes real lives toward familiar fairy-tale shapes), published 2004-2012 by Luna/Harlequin.
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 Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms: position 3 of 7: previous One Good Knight (2006) · next The Snow Queen (2008)
Sources
- Rating-platform listing: Five Hundred Kingdoms series
- Reference listing: A Tale of the Five Hundred Kingdoms
- https://thelibraryofthegodmothers.fandom.com/wiki/Fortune's_Fool
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