Stormlord Rising
core novel 2010 The Watergivers
Record
| First published | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.92 (3,274 ratings, collected 2026-10-09) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780732289300 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
The last Stormlord is dead, and war has come to the cities of the Quartern: the violent nomadic Reduners have put to the sword every rainlord they could find, and the cities of the Scarpen are left without hope. Shale, who has great power but is no stormlord, at least not yet, has been betrayed, drugged and left at the feet of his greatest enemy, and must decide whether to work with those who plotted against him or let thousands of the waterless die. Terelle has escaped the Scarpen in search of her homeland and her people, the mysterious Watergivers, but a desperate message will send her back to find Shale and face her worst fears, while the rainlord Ryka is held captive among the Reduners. The second book picks up directly where the first left off.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Watergivers
- Series: The Watergivers core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Glenda Larke
Awards (verified)
- Aurealis Award (Best Fantasy Novel), 2010: nominated; Finalist.
Notes
- From the series record (The Watergivers): Glenda Larke's desert fantasy of the Quartern, a land kept alive by stormlords who bring rain from the distant seas, and of Shale, an outcast with the power to become the next stormlord, and Terelle, a fugitive slave apprenticed to a painter whose art is a magic of water. Also called the Stormlord trilogy.
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 The Watergivers: position 2 of 3: previous The Last Stormlord (2009) · next Stormlord's Exile (2011)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Glenda Larke
- Hachette Book Group (publisher)
- Hachette Book Group (publisher)
- Fantasy Literature (review)
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