Spindle
core novel 2016 A Thousand Nights
Record
| First published | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.36 (1,937 ratings, collected 2026-11-01) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781484722282 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Generations after the Storyteller Queen drove a demon out of a king, the demons remain locked beneath the mountains between two rival kingdoms, Kharuf and Qamih. One of them has spent the years plotting, and the prison is weakening. When a princess named Zahrah, called the Little Rose, is born, the demon curses her so that she must either give up her soul or bring about the ruin of her own people. Yashaa, a spinner and fighter who tells the story, joins three friends to carry the princess away from danger. Together with exiled spinners they try to break the curse before the demon can rule over human beings, while the two kingdoms move toward war.
Where it sits
- Universe: A Thousand Nights
- Series: A Thousand Nights core; position 2 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: E. K. Johnston
Notes
- Also published in the US as Kingdom of Sleep in some editions.
- From the series record (A Thousand Nights): Two linked retellings in one desert-and-mountain world, set generations apart.
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 A Thousand Nights: position 2 of 2: previous A Thousand Nights (2015)
Sources
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