Sightwitch

expanded novella 2018 Witchlands

Record

First published	2018
Original language	EN
Work type	novella
Canon status	expanded
Reader rating	3.97 (8,040 ratings, collected 2026-08-25)
Page count	224
First-edition ISBN	9781250183521

Synopsis

Sightwitch, a companion volume in the Witchlands series, follows Ryber Fortiza, an acolyte in a secluded convent of prophetic Sightwitches who lacks the gift of Sight herself; when all the sisters who do possess it vanish into the mountain, Ryber must venture underground to find them, encountering an amnesiac military captain along the way.

Where it sits

• Universe: Witchlands
• Series: not part of a registered series (standalone work within its universe)
• Author: Susan Dennard

Notes

• An illustrated prequel novella commonly bundled with the main sequence. Its present-day narrative is set one year before Truthwitch, per the official publisher description; it also contains framing journal entries from an ancient Sightwitch Sister set roughly a thousand years earlier.

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 Witchlands (standalone work): position 3 of 6: previous Windwitch (2017) · next Bloodwitch (2019)

Sources

• https://susandennard.com/books/the-witchlands/
• https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/575648/sightwitch-by-susan-dennard/9780525633372/
• https://susandennard.com/books/the-witchlands/sightwitch/

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