Godsgrave

core novel 2017 The Nevernight Chronicle

Record

First published	2017
Original language	EN
Work type	novel
Canon status	core
Reader rating	4.44 (51,071 ratings, collected 2026-08-24)
Page count	419
First-edition ISBN	9781250073037

Synopsis

Godsgrave follows the assassin Mia Corvere as she navigates her uneasy position within the Red Church while continuing to pursue revenge against those who destroyed her family years earlier. When her intended targets are announced to appear at brutal gladiatorial games in the city of Godsgrave, Mia defies the Church's own rules to enter the arena herself under a new identity, honing her supernatural shadow-manipulation abilities in the fights while making both new allies and dangerous new rivals among the other combatants. As she gets closer to her enemies than ever before, Mia must balance the demands of the arena with the Church's own expectations of her.

Where it sits

• Universe: The Nevernight Chronicle
• Series: The Nevernight Chronicle core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
• Author: Jay Kristoff

Awards (verified)

• Aurealis Award (Best Fantasy Novel), 2017: won

Notes

• From the series record (The Nevernight Chronicle): A single continuous trilogy following assassin Mia Corvere; a genuinely separate universe from Jay Kristoff's already-admitted Empire of the Vampire, sharing no setting, characters, or continuity.

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 The Nevernight Chronicle: position 2 of 3: previous Nevernight (2016) · next Darkdawn (2019)

Sources

• Nevernight Chronicle - Wikipedia
• https://www.jaykristoff.com/books/godsgrave/
• Aurealis Awards 1995-2017 compiled results (official)

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