Half a Soul
core novel 2020 Regency Faerie Tales
Record
| First published | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.04 (87,023 ratings, collected 2026-08-27) |
| Page count | 305 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780316462709 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Half a Soul opens the Regency Faerie Tales series in Regency-era England, where Theodora "Dora" Ettings has spent years unable to feel or express most emotions after a faerie lord stole half of her soul when she was a child, leaving her with heterochromatic eyes and a reputation for coldness. When she moves to London to stay with her aunt, uncle and cousin Vanessa for the social season, she is introduced to Elias Wilder, England's eccentric royal magician, who takes an interest in her unusual curse and offers to help investigate a way to break it. Their arrangement draws Dora into Elias's other ongoing case: a mysterious sleeping plague spreading among children confined to London's workhouses. As Dora accompanies Elias through the city's poorer districts, she begins uncovering unsettling connections between the plague, the faerie world, and the circumstances of her own lost half-soul.
Where it sits
- Universe: Regency Faerie Tales
- Series: Regency Faerie Tales core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Olivia Atwater
Notes
- From the series record (Regency Faerie Tales): Core Canon: the complete trilogy, a lighthearted Regency-set series about faerie curses and bargains in and around Regency-era London society; originally self-published, later reissued by Orbit Books.
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 Regency Faerie Tales: position 1 of 3: next Ten Thousand Stitches (2020)
Sources
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